The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
In: Theoria: a journal of social and political theory, Heft 112, S. 115-117
ISSN: 0040-5817
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In: Theoria: a journal of social and political theory, Heft 112, S. 115-117
ISSN: 0040-5817
In: Ebony, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 126-131
ISSN: 0012-9011
In: Environment and planning. A, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 95-111
ISSN: 1472-3409
A model based on social accounting techniques is used to quantify the relative importance of traditional and nontraditional elements of the economic base of rural areas. Empirical analysis is focused on the Western Isles, Scotland. The results highlight the importance of central government funding of public services. They also indicate that exogenous transfers of income direct to households support 8% of jobs and 7% of factor earnings in the region. It is argued that, in addition to industry structure and input–output linkages, rural economic-base multipliers depend on the demographic profile of the local population and the extent of interdependencies between local production and consumption.
In: Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, S. 283-312
In: Review of public personnel administration, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 20-36
ISSN: 1552-759X
The author surveyed how top management posts are filled in the 50 state governments. Below their direct patronage powers, governors and their political appointees have increasing influence over a netherworld of policy-involved exempt, unclassified, noncompetitive, management contract, senior executive services, and "at will employment" personnel classes. These "exempt managers" serve as a buffer between the top political appointees and the traditional protected civil service, and they are increasingly more career and merit oriented. Firings are rare due to the need for competence and continuity and the legal ambiguities of these employees' rights, but their ambiguous roles need more professional definition.
In: Review of public personnel administration, Band 8, S. 20-36
ISSN: 0734-371X
In: Review of public personnel administration, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 20
ISSN: 0734-371X
In: Environment and planning. A, Band 42, Heft 11, S. 2687-2704
ISSN: 1472-3409
A temporal structural path analysis of the Shetland Islands from 1971 to 2003 is used to describe the process by which two new sectors associated with the discovery of North Sea oil became integrated into the wider Shetland economy. The results confirm that it can take considerable time for incoming sectors to become integrated within an economy and that integration may increase when a sector is in decline. It is argued that structural path analysis provides complementary insights into the process of economic integration which are complementary to those gained from more standard multiplier techniques, and that both are useful to rural development analysts charged with maximising the benefits of incoming sectors and/or minimising the adverse effects of a sector in decline.
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 61-70
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Scientia Militaria: South African journal of military studies, Band 35, Heft 2
ISSN: 1022-8136
In: Politeia: South African journal for political science and public administration, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 89-103
ISSN: 0256-8845
In: Southern cultures, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 134-149
ISSN: 1534-1488
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 31, S. 156-165
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: Land use policy, Band 31
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 14, Heft 3-4, S. 359-360
ISSN: 1879-2456