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Comparing Difficult Democratic Legacies: Institutional Continuity and State Formation in Spain and Mexico
Get PDFThis article offers a comparative analysis of Spain and Mexico’s institutional evolution to elucidate how history matters in very specific ways. The main argument is that Mexico and Spain shared certain similarities but also key differences in terms of institutional continuities and their attempts to consolidate a modern nation-state. Variances in these two evolutions help us explain the varying degrees of success of both transitions. Whilst Mexico’s entrenched institutional arrangement was supported by a relatively continuous evolution of extractive institutions since independence, Spain’s history was characterized by clearer institutional breaks. Furthermore, Mexico’s earlier and stronger process of state consolidation under authoritarianism led to a strongly unified elite. Such elite unity made the transition process a long and protracted one, whilst Spain’s weaker state unification allowed for a competition of different elite groups during its transition to democracy; which greatly explains many of the characteristics of Spain’s transition model
Using Sensitivity Analysis to select discrete Multiple Criteria Decision Making methods for management and engineering
No full textSelecting a discrete Multiple Criteria Decision Making method to decide on a corporate relocation
Get PDFThis paper considers a corporate relocation problem. The research considered an approach to decide on an appropriate Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method out of a subdivision of possible methods to rank five cities in the United States of America based on their suitability. Selecting the location of corporate real estate is key to optimizing an organization’s success. The new approach provides decision makers with a recommended group of potentially suitable methods. Sensitivity analysis is employed to explore the recommended group and to rate the robustness of their outputs when uncertainty and risk may be present. A suitable method is recommended that provides a robust solution. MCDM methods that can deal with a discrete set of alternatives were considered. A MCDM method was recommended based on a best compromise in the minimum percentage change required in both the evaluation criteria and performance scores of the cities with respect to the evaluation criteria to alter the ranking of the cities
Why don’t you play, seriously?
Get PDFChildren learn how to interact with the world and how to express themselves through playing. As we grow older, we can sometimes forget how to learn through play. LEGO Serious Play (LSP) is a powerful method to facilitate reflective thinking and learning for people of all ages through purposeful play
Towards Foolproof Democracy: Advancing Public Debate and Political Decision Making (Special Issue PART I)
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Structural selectivity of supported Pd nanoparticles for catalytic NH <sub>3</sub> oxidation resolved using combined operando spectroscopy
Get PDFThe Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition: Ideals and the Practice of Generosity in Medieval England, 1100-1300
No full textThis interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe. In assuming that medieval gift giving was shaped by oral 'folk models', historians have traditionally followed in the footsteps of social anthropologists and sociologists such as Marcel Mauss and Pierre Bourdieu. This first in-depth investigation into the influence of the classical ideals of generosity and gift giving in medieval Europe reveals to the contrary how historians have underestimated the impact of classical literature and philosophy on medieval culture and ritual. Focusing on the idea of the gift expounded in the classical texts read most widely in the Middle Ages, including Seneca the Younger's De beneficiis and Cicero's De officiis, Lars Kjær investigates how these ideas were received, adapted and utilised by medieval writers across a range of genres, and how they influenced the practice of generosity