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The critical problem in the relations of production for worker-owned and managed enterprises is not the exploitation of labor by capital, but processes homologous to free-riding on the collective provision of public goods. Market, constitutional and collegiality barriers fail to attenuate opportunism in such work relations because paradoxes in the logic of rational selfishness lead to contradictory applications for collective action. In order to be effective, symbols as safeguards to opportunism must operate within the actual work itself. One such safeguard, the symbol `help' performed as the willingness of workers to assist one another in their quotidian tasks in order to monitor each other's work performance tacitly, was found in three service sector worker cooperatives in Tokyo in 1993-4.

The Danish engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan has brought the country to the attention of sympathizers of the international salafi-jihadist network inspired by Al-Qaida. Thus, arguably an activist foreign policy must go hand in hand with a robust, flexible, and coordinated homeland security system. This working paper looks at ongoing Danish efforts to enhance civil-military cooperation in homeland security. Drawing on organizational theory and organizational change theory, the paper argues that civil-military cooperation depends on forging the right structures but also on the promotion of a culture of cross-governmental cooperation to reduce friction between civilian and military organizational cultures as well as battles of turf. It suggests that a targeted effort to promote a culture of cross-governmental cooperation through joint strategic level education and common exercising should be an imminent concern in order to make civilian and military agencies comfortable with new structures and requirements for cooperation. ; Danmarks engagement i blandt andet Irak betyder, at Danmark i stigende grad er kommet i søgelyset af tilhængere af den internationale Al-Qaida inspirerede salafi-jihadisme. En aktivistisk udenrigspolitik må derfor følges op af fleksibelt og velkoordineret hjemligt beredskab mod terrorisme. Dette DIIS Working Paper ser nærmere på den danske indsats for at fremme civil/militært samarbejde indenfor terrorberedskabet. Baseret på organisations teori og teori om forandringer i organisationer argumenteres der for, at effektivt civil/militært samarbejde er afhængigt af skabelsen af de rette strukturer, men også af styrkelsen af en organisations kultur hos såvel civile som militære aktører, der lægger vægt på samarbejde på tværs af sektorgrænser. Indlejringen af tvær-institutionel forståelse og koordinering i de respektive organisationskulturer kan søges fremmet via fælles træning og uddannelse på et strategisk niveau og kan medvirke til at gøre såvel civile som militære aktører mere trygge ved nye krav og strukturer rettet mod at sikre tættere samarbejde.

Examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'. Focusing on the agency of diasporic groups, rather than (forced or voluntary) dispersion and a continued longing for the country of origin, it analyses how a diaspora presence impacts relations between 'home' and host countries. Its central concern is the specific role that diasporas play in global cooperation, including cases without a successful outcome. Bridging the divide between diaspora studies and international relations, it will appeal to sociologists, scholars of migration, anthropologists and policy-makers.

Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record. ; Scholars have often criticized the government for relying on "cooperating" defendant/witnesses in obtaining convictions of other persons. Such scholars contend that cooperating witnesses are powerfully motivated to parrot information a prosecutor wants to hear and that as naturally biased advocates, prosecutors overlook and ignore signs that cooperating defendants are lying. This article asserts that defendants who "cooperate" with the government by substantially assisting in the prosecution of other crimes and criminals in exchange for a hope of receiving a more lenient sentence are invaluable crime prevention tools and should be encouraged. Nevertheless, the article recognizes the inconsistent manner in which prosecutors assess such witnesses, primarily because of the unfettered discretion prosecutors wield over cooperators. The law imposes no duty on prosecutors to deal critically or carefully with cooperating defendants. If prosecutors bear such a duty, and the article contends that they do, the obligation originates with a prosecutor's ethical duty "to do justice." The article explores a void in the legal and ethics literature regarding the federal prosecutor's ethical obligations around cooperating defendants. It discusses the nebulous nature of the duty to "do justice" in the context of evaluating, selecting or rejecting cooperation and ultimately concludes that the Department of Justice can further the prosecutor's ethical responsibility of dealing thoughtfully and thoroughly with cooperators by fostering an office culture in which critical and thoughtful assessment of such witnesses is rewarded.