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Citation: Drollinger, Della. Influence of expositions. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1902. ; Morse Department of Special Collections ; Introduction: It would not be easy to overestimate the educational value of the objects of beauty, monumental architecture, galleries of painting and sculpture, and museums that are found in some of the old European towns, for such things, stimulate the imagination, increase a thirst for knowledge, and awaken and educate the aesthetic faculties. Much of the marvelous beauty and wealth of public architecture and art in small European towns has been due to earlier political conditions. The town at some time probably was the seat of government of some small kingdom, but in these days of great empires those old time motives have passed away and something new must take their place. The tendency to create expositions is a valuable part of the outworkings of these new motives.

AbstractHow worried should we be about how impressionable we are—how susceptible we are to being influenced and even transformed by our encounters with one another? Some moral philosophers think we should be quite worried indeed: they hold that interpersonal influence is an especially morally dangerous way to change. It calls for additional moral scrutiny as compared with vectors of change that come from within the influencee's own psyche—their antecedent values, desires, commitments, and so forth—just because it has an external source. I argue that this heightened scrutiny of exogenous sources of change is unwarranted. Dramatic psychic changes do call for reflection and critical scrutiny, especially when they are sudden. But this scrutiny need not be concerned with the procedural issue of whether the impetus for the change came from inside or outside the changing person's antecedent psychology. We can just evaluate the substantive changes themselves.

Like any form of human interaction and communication it is possible to view Social Media as a means for the powerful to influence and control the less powerful. But what is power on social media, how might we measure or affect it, and does it translate to the real world? In this lecture we will look at the philosophical definitions of power, and explore how it has been analysed in social networks and social media systems. We will also look at the characteristics of social networks that impact on power, including Homophily, Heterophily, CyberBalkanization and Thresholds of Collective Action. Finally we will ask what evidence there is that power in social media can affect what goes on in the real world, and explore some real and fictional examples of protest to see what the consequences of social media actually are on sometimes violent political debate. Concluding that the power of social media often lies with those operating the network, or with access to the data, rather than the individuals using the system.

Although students of internat'l pot have a long tradition of power analysis, they have remained isolated from the literature on power generated by other soc sci'ts since 1950. This is undesirable for both groups. As a step toward linking internat'l power analysis with the work of other students of power, 3 tasks are undertaken: (1) the main foci of discussion in the power literature are reviewed in terms of the treatment they have received from selected students of internat'l pot; (2) a critique is given of D. Singer's model of internation Influence; & (3) Singer's model is revised in ways that increase its compatibility with power analysis outside the field of internat'l pot. AA.

"Amidst growing dissatisfaction with the state of government performance and an erosion of trust in our political class, Competing for Influence asks: what sort of public service do we want in Australia?
Drawing on his experience in both the public and private sectors – and citing academic research across the fields of public sector management, industrial organisation, and corporate strategy – Barry Ferguson argues the case for the careful selection and application of private sector management concepts to the public service, both for their ability to strengthen the public service and inform public policy. These include competitive advantage, competitive positioning, horizontal strategy and organisational design, and innovation as an all-encompassing organisational adjustment mechanism to a changeable environment.
But these are not presented as a silver bullet, and Ferguson addresses other approaches to reform, including the need to rebuild the Public Sector Act, the need to reconsider the interface between political and administrative arms of government (and determine what is in the 'public interest'), and the need for greater independence for the public service within a clarified role. This approach, and its implications for public sector reform, is contrasted with the straitjacket of path dependency that presently constricts the field."

Cover Page -- The Social Influence Processes -- copy -- Contents -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- 1. Power and Influence: An Introduction -- 2. The Construction of Social Reality -- 3. Power and Personality -- 4. Cognitive Complexity and Social Influence -- 5. Interpersonal Attraction and Social Influence -- 6. The Tactical Use of Social Power -- 7. The Exercise of Power and Influence: The Source of Influence -- 8. Influence, Decision, and Compliance -- INDEX

Dans le monde particulièrement complexe d'aujourd'hui, notamment caractérisé par la multiplicité des acteurs en diplomatie comme dans le domaine militaire, influencer l'allié est un nécessaire préalable à la mise en œuvre de toute stratégie en vue de vaincre, quel que soit le domaine considéré. La connaissance des nombreuses techniques qu'elles pourront utiliser au service de l'intérêt supérieur doit faire partie de la formation des élites, quelle que soit la puissance dont elles disposent. La liberté d'esprit et la marge de manœuvre permettant de peser dans toute négociation en dépendent, afin de gagner l'appui espéré de leurs alliés dans un intérêt idéalement commun.

This thesis is composed by three standalone papers. The first chapter is about opinion formation processes. Individuals influence each other according to the network structure. If the network is connected and satisfies other mild assumptions, the society will reach a consensus. Therefore, it is a matter of interest understanding when the network would be connected or not. Here, we develop a model where the network takes place endogenously, and agents update their opinions accordingly. We study general conditions on the initial distribution of opinions such that consensus will be reached. We provide sufficient conditions for connectedness. In the dynamic model we show that polarization both in the transition and the long run. This essay is a joint work with Paolo Pin (Bocconi University). The second chapter is about peer effects. I consider how social pressure affects the strategic network formation process. Agents choose their links subject to mutual consent, and then equilibrium behaviors are determined by an underlying game where agents choose their effort. I provide a characterization result for all pairwise Nash stable network, and use farsightedness to avoid cycles. As an application, I consider peer effects in the classroom. Results suggest that we could set optimal policies to improve outcome of low achievement students through targeted incentives schemes. In the last chapter I focus on the interaction between real and virtual life. To do so I propose a model of search where agents choose in equilibrium how intense is their on-line activity. The outcomes of the game depend on the network, which takes place through a semi-random process. I extend the standard random network formation allowing agents to hold a certain degree of choice. The model allows to track characteristics on the meeting environment and individual preferences that would make virtual and real life substitutes or complements.

An individual (the leader) with free access to information decides how much public evidence to collect. Conditional on this information, another individual with conflicting preferences (the follower) undertakes an action that affects the payoff of both players. In this game of incomplete but symmetric information, we characterize the rents obtained by the leader as a result of his control of the generation of public information. These rents capture the degree of influence exerted by a chairman on a committee from his capacity to keep discussions alive or call a vote. Similar insights are obtained if the leader decides first how much private information he collects, and then how much verifiable information he transmits to the follower.

This experiment concerned the generality of the discussion-induced shift toward pessimism found in some previous studies but not found in others. Male university students (N = 95) were presented with one of two fictitious situations in which a protagonist wanted to gain compliance from another person (an employee wants a promotion; a parent wants his child to study more). For each of 16 compliance-gaining behaviors (e.g., promise, warning, invocation of need) the subjects had to indicate, on a 7-point scale, the likelihood that the protagonist would be successful ("objective response mode') or they had to indicate how well they personally could perform the respective influencing behavior ("subjective response mode'). All subjects first made a success-expectancy estimate. In the group condition (24 triads) participants discussed the judgmental issue and then again made a private estimate on each of the 16 items in turn. For the subjects in the control condition (N = 23) group discussion was replaced by further individual thought and note-taking. Discussion-induced shifts toward pessimism were found in the group conditions (p<.01 and .10 in the subjective and objective conditions). Since there was a (modest) overall initial tendency toward the pessimistic pole, this shift can in part be considered as group polarization, thus attesting to the generality of the group polarization phenomenon. (Secondary analyses bearing on the explanation of this polarization are presented.) In addition, secondary analyses show that pessimistic shift also occurred in those discussion cases where there was no initial leaning toward pessimism. The theoretical explanation of these shifts is discussed.