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Nakamura reviews 'Anticompetitive Practices in Japan: Their Impact on the Performance of Foreign Firms' by Masaaki Kotabe and Kent W. Wheiler.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the effective mechanisms and positive experience of the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi State University of Education in the formation of social competences and the development of soft skills, which demonstrates the productivity of educational, scientific and cultural support of social processes in regional contexts, which affect the integration of participants in the educational process, teachers and students in the development of public movement to solve the difficulties and main problems of ethnic communities in the conditions of temporary occupation and war. The participation of the university in the implementation of such international projects of the Council of Europe "Intercultural cities" with the involvement of journalists, representatives of national and cultural communities "Implementation and involvement of cultural diversity at the international level" (2020, Melitopol, Ballarat, Australia), "Fighting rumors" (2021 year) in order to prevent fears, discrimination, as well as foster a sense of respect, mutual understanding, responsibility for one's own actions, contribute to the successful management of cultural diversity and expand the circle of international relations. It is asserted that within the framework of the implementation of the current Council of Europe Project "Strengthening the protection of national minorities, including Roma and minority languages in Ukraine" under the leadership of Zemfira Kondur, the scientific and pedagogical community of the universi ty is making maximum efforts to expand effective channels of mutual assistance for representatives of ethnic communities, internally displaced persons or forced migrants by implementing a number of initiatives regarding social, informational, legal, psychological, and humanitarian support aimed at strengthening dialogue, increasing the level of cohesion and intercultural interaction in the conditions of Russian aggression and temporary occupation.

Working with family members and other carers of mental health consumers is widely encouraged by clinical practice guidelines and by state and national government policies, however, in public mental health services, practices appear to be varied, evidence based programs are infrequent, and there is little systematic data available about the nature of contacts that do occur. This paper reports data on the extent and nature of contacts between clinical staff and family caregivers at five continuing care teams, just as a major program of implementation of evidence-based family work was about to commence. The patterns of contact show scope for incorporation of evidence-based family interventions. Variation in patterns of family contacts across teams may be influenced by caseload and demographic factors.

This essay engages in a debate with Nancy Fraser and Dorothy Leland concerning the contribution of Lacanian-inspired psychoanalytic feminism to feminist theory and practice. Teresa Brennan's analysis of the impasse in psychoanalysis and feminism and Judith Butler's proposal for a radically democratic feminism are employed in examining the issues at stake. I argue, with Brennan, that the impasse confronting psychoanalysis and feminism is the result of different conceptions of the relationship between the psychical and the social. I suggest Lacanian-inspired feminist conceptions are useful and deserve our consideration.

Curriculum reform urges teachers to constantly reflect on existing identities and develop probably whole new identities. Yet, in the wake of the poststructuralist view of identity as a complex matter of the social and the individual, of discourse and practice, and of agency and structure, teacher identity is a process of arguing for themselves and hence ethical and political in nature. Drawing on Foucault's notion of ethical self-formation and its adoption by Clarke (2009a) "Diagram for Doing Identity Work" in teacher education research, this 2-year-long case study explores how two Chinese English-as-foreign-language (EFL) teachers engaged in identity work in a changing curricular landscape. The analysis of narrative frames and semistructured interviews reveals the relations between the relative stable and the evolving elements of teachers' identity work, and the essential role of teachers' ethical agency based on reflective and critical responsiveness to the contextual reality and the dynamic power relations during the reform. The findings argue for the importance of nourishing teachers' reflective identity work and ethical agency during the turbulence of educational change.

This thesis examines how different welfare state regimes affect gender relations by examining variations in welfare regimes and outcomes for women between Western European countries. The research seeks to understand how the diverse systems of social provision affect women: particularly with regard to their position in the labor market and in their ability to balance occupational and domestic work. Using a comparative, qualitative approach, I compare three Western European welfare states (Germany, the United Kingdom, and Sweden) to evaluate gender-relevant welfare policy with female employment rates, unemployment rates, and wage differentials. Welfare states and labor market policies affect outcomes for women because these policies influence and structure womenÃ'Â's ability to enter paid labor and at the same time perform the majority of household labor and care work. To study the effect of welfare state variations upon women, I argue that a gender-focused model of welfare states is necessary. I borrow from Diane SainsburyÃ'Â's (1996) framework establishing two contrasting ideal-types and combine this with Pascal and LewisÃ'Â' (2004) gender equality model. Using this framework, I will assess whether my case studies vary around specific gender dimensions of variation including bases of entitlement, maternal and parental leave, pension, and the organization of care work. Preliminary findings align Germany and the United Kingdom with a male breadwinner gender model and Sweden with a dual-earner dual-carer model, although recent policy reforms in Germany and the United Kingdom oriented toward a Scandinavian welfare model may affect future gender outcomes. My research question hopes to uncover how welfare regimes and specific gender-relevant policies support or ignore womenÃ'Â's labor force participation by reconciling work and home for women through an evaluation of gender-relevant outcomes for women. Systematically looking at the structure of welfare state provision and outcomes through a gender-relevant framework enhances our knowledge of the ways in which the varieties of gender regimes accommodate or perpetuate womenÃ'Â's inequality in democracies. ; 2010-05-01 ; M.A. ; Sciences, Department of Political Science ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

Towards a new organisational structure for the provision of social security:Samenvatting in het engels. The large demand for social security provisions in The Netherlands can partly be ascribed to the complicated and fragmentedorganisational structure for the payments of benefits and the public employment offices. This article discusses a blueprint for a more comprehensiveorganisation, where in each region one office has both the responsibility for the payment of benefits and for public employment provision. The regionaloffices obtain their budget from the government and are allowed to supplement these budgets with the proceeds of work done by recipients of benefits.The incentives for the regional offices to (re)employ as many recipients of benefits as possible may lead to a decrease in the demand for socialsecurity and hence enhance labour participation in The Netherlands.

Karl Popper's methodology can be seen as the situational logic of research. Popper called his method "Epistemology without a Knowing Subject." It was dismissed as metaphysical by those who refuse to give up an ideal knowing subject (a perfect human inductive processor). This article surveys the failure of modem discussions of this ideal, from the earliest (the writings of Sir Francis Bacon) to the latest (Kripke). The knowing subject exits at last, but leaves behind interesting results. The ideal knowing subject embodied ideal rationality, outside culture and history. Giving up this ideal invites us to integrate science with its background, to grade rationality (from magic to science), and to integrate different degrees of rationality under one rule.

5. New Labour and clauses for conditionality: activating disabled citizensIntroduction -- New Labour, conditionality and the primacy of paid work -- Paid work, social inclusion and social citizenship -- Disability and a return to laissez-faire policies? -- Conclusion -- 6. Supporting disabled adults: new paradigms or new paternalism? -- Modernised adult social care: personalisation and self-directed support -- Fair Access to Care Services and Putting people first: rhetoric and reality -- Individual budgets -- Crossing provider boundaries -- Changing day services