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Evidence use from a political perspective -- The "what" - types of evidence used in the policy process -- The "who" - producers, entrepreneurs, and intermediaries -- The "how" - evidence use across stages of the policy process -- Adopting and implementing the common core at the state level: four comparative cases -- Evidence use in the children's health insurance program: a cross-sector case study -- Creating political incentives for the use of evidence.

Transitional justice and the visual politics of memory -- Disappearance : evidence and poetics -- Visible voices : testimony and justice -- The posttraumatic subject, plasticity, and testimoniality -- Erasures : the visibility of women -- Nomadic interruptions : the (in)visibility of violence against women -- The restitution of identity and the reencounter as intermittence -- Intersections : new generations, memory, and justice.

Due to its primacy in explaining issues of war and peace in the international arena, the discipline of International Relations (IR) looms large in analyses of and responses to ethnic conflict in academia, politics, and popular media - in particular with respect to contemporary conflicts in the Middle East. Grounded in constitutive theory, this book challenges how ethnic/ethno-nationalist conflict is represented in explanatory IR by deconstructing its most prominent state-centric models, frameworks and analytical concepts. As much a critique of contemporary scholarship on Kurdish ethno-nationalism as a detailed analysis of the most prominent Kurdish ethno-nationalist actors, the book provides the first in-depth investigation into the relations between the PKK and the main Iraqi Kurdish political parties from the 1980s to the present. It situates this inquiry within the wider context of the ambiguous political status of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, its relations with Turkey, and the role Kurdish parties and insurgencies play in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Appreciating these complex dynamics and how they are portrayed in Western scholarship is essential for understanding current developments in the Iraqi and Syrian theatres of war, and for making sense of discussions about a potential independent Kurdish state to emerge in Iraq. Iraqi Kurdistan provides a comprehensive and critical discussion of the state-centric and essentialising epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies of the three main paradigms of explanatory IR, as well as their analytical models and frameworks on ethnic identity and conflict in the Middle East and beyond.

Intro -- STATES OFLIBERALIZATION Redefining the Public Sector in Integrated Europe -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AS MARKET-MAKING -- 3. EXPLAINING EUROPEANIZATION -- 4. EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COMPETITION POLICY AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR -- 5. GOVERNMENT PURCHASING: THE PERSISTENCE OF PROTECTIONISM -- 6. DELAYED DELIVERY: POSTAL SERVICES LIBERALIZATION IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT -- 7. CHALLENGING THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY? EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COMPETITION POLICY AND GERMANY'S PUBLIC LAW BANKS -- 8. LIBERALIZATION AND ITS LIMITS -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Intense ethnic conflicts bring to the surface important paradoxes about the function of memory in politics. The capacity to remember is vital for political success, but too much memory, or the wrong kind of memory, stokes the fires of revenge. Successful political action demands both the capacity to remember and the capacity to forget. How and when each comes into play is difficult to formulate conceptually. A classic text in which the politics of memory plays a central role elucidates these issues and suggests central political dimensions of remembering and forgetting. This essay uses the story of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible to explore the politics of memory and to suggest factors that produce constructive and destructive results. It examines two principal forms: prudential and mythic, the qualities of which differ importantly. It concludes with an account of a third form: memory as a step toward political reconciliation.The conundrum of memory: Healthier to remember? Surely it is best sometimes to forget–though not to forget Kosovo now. Eventual obliviousness may equally free all sides from the hereditary obligation to hate. ... What's happening there now amounts to a religious war between the future and the past. Beware: in that place, the past is a black hole." –Lance Morrow1

This collection presents a political sociology of crisis in Europe. Focusing on state and society transformations in the context of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath in Europe, it observes a return of redistributive conflicts that correlates with a 'new politics of identity', nationalism, regionalism and expressions of Euroscepticism.

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The level of job interpersonal competence and social skills among local government personnel in the Municipality of Sara, Philippines during the year 2016-2017 as affected by the competence factors with initiating relationships, disclosing personal information, asserting displeasure with others, providing emotional support and advice, and managing interpersonal conflict and the skills factors with emotional expressivity, emotional sensitivity, emotional control, social expressivity, social sensitivity, social control, and social manipulation were determined. Employees perceived a very high level of interpersonal competence from competence factors. Managing interpersonal conflict gave the highest level of interpersonal competence while asserting disclosure with others gave the least competence. Analysis of variance however showed no significant difference among the levels of competence. The skills factors gave the high level of social skills to the employees. Emotional expressivity gave the highest level of skills while the social expressivity gave the least skill of the respondents. Analysis of variance on the data showed that there was no significant difference on the effect of the skills factors tested to the social skills of the employees. Positive correlation between interpersonal competence and social skills was found.