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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise of American Influence in Greece -- 2. The United States and the First Abdication of Constantine -- 3. The Tripartite Loan of 1918 -- 4. Political Relations from the Fall of Venizelos to the Destruction of Smyrna, 1920-1922 -- 5. Constantine and the Forced Loan of 1922 -- 6. Political Relations from the Destruction of Smyrna to the Promulgation of the Greek Republic, 1922-1924 -- 7. Refugee Settlement: American Philanthropy in Action -- 8. The United States and the Establishment of the Refugee Settlement Commission -- 9. Financing the Settlement of the Refugees: The Refugee Loan of 1924 -- 10. Public Works in Greece and the Role of American Capital -- 11. The United States and the Refugee and Stabilization Loan of 1928 -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- A. The Tripartite Loan of 1918 -- B. Protocol Relating to the Settlement of Refugees in Greece -- C. Organic Statutes of the Greek Refugees Settlement Commission -- D. Members of the Refugee Settlement Commission -- E. Balkan Peace: The Influence of American Economic Participation via Greece -- F. Letter from Morgenthau to Hull -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

In this manuscript, we introduce a new measure of political influence in California. Leveraging a new dataset of candidate rankings of their own endorsements, we use the Bradley-Terry model to estimate influence for a broad array of officeholders, interest groups, and endorsing organizations who participate in California politics. We call this new measure of influence Clout scores. Our measure of a person's clout is based on how much candidates for office desire that individual's endorsement. Specifically, we measure a political actor's clout by estimating the extent to which that actor's endorsement is preferred to a baseline endorsement group. Our estimates provide an original, empirically-grounded portrait of the distribution of political capital in California and highlight which political elites have the greatest capacity to swing election outcomes.

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."

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.

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