561 research outputs found
Countering the Risks of Vocationalisation in Master’s Programmes in International Development (article pre-print)
No full textPre-print of article:
Denskus, T., & Esser, D. E. (2015). Countering the risks of vocationalisation in master's programmes in international development. Learning and Teaching, 8(2), 72-85. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2015.08020
From Stakeholder Management to Stakeholder Accountability
No full textConfronted with mounting pressure to ensure accountability vis-Ã -vis customers, citizens and beneficiaries, organizational leaders need to decide how to choose and implement so-called accountability standards. Yet while looking for an appropriate standard, they often base their decisions on cost-benefit calculations, thus neglecting other important spheres of influence pertaining to more broadly defined stakeholder interests. We argue in this paper that, as a part of the strategic decision for a certain standard, management needs to identify and act according to the needs of all stakeholders. We contend that the creation of a dialogical understanding among affected stakeholders cannot be a mere outcome of applying certain accountability standards, but rather must be a necessary precondition for their use. This requires a stakeholder dialogue prior to making a choice. We outline such a discursive decision framework for accountability standards based on the Habermasian concept of communicative action and, in the final section, apply our conceptual framework to one of the most prominent accountability tools (AA 1000). Copyright Springer 2006accountability standards, discourse ethics, Habermas, organizational accountability, stakeholder management, stakeholder dialogue,
Bonding analyses of unconventional carbon allotropes
No full textUtilizing first-principles electronic-structure calculations, we present the chemical-bonding analyses of hypothetical carbon allotropes based on tetrahedral structure motifs such as T-carbon, TY-carbon and T-graphene. While previous publications on these novel allotropes have dealt with ab initio phonon, band structure and DOS calculations, the focus of this work is the partitioning of the band-structure energy in terms of bonding, nonbonding and antibonding contributions. We re-evaluate the chance of making such allotropes by careful bond analyses and compare them to already known equivalents, namely diamond, graphene and the Buckminsterfullerene molecule. A synthetic route is proposed to a new compound, called TY-carbodiimide, that exhibits similar structure and bonding properties as TY-carbon
L'héritage de Marc-Antoine Jullien, de Paris à Moscou
No full textPierre de Vargas, The Legacy of Marc-Antoine Jullien, from Paris to Moscow.
The author produces a history based on the papers left by Marc- Antoine Jullien, a.k.a., « little Jullien », son of Convention member Jullien de la Drôme and protégé of Robespierre. These papers are split up between Paris and Moscow, where they are now accessible.
The papers permit one to appreciate the consistency of his life. Up till now, historians had been astonished by the contradiction between the adolescence of a young terrorist pursuing the federalists and the maturity of a notable, cantor of industrialization and philanthropy.Pierre de Vargas, L'eredità di Marc-Antoine Jullien, da Parigi a Mosca.
L'autore fa la storia delle carte lasciate da Marc-Antoine Jullien (1775-1848), detto « il piccolo Jullien », il figlio di Jullien de la Drôme (un membro della Convenzione), ed anche il protetto di Robespierre. Queste carte sono suddivise tra Parigi e Mosca dove possono ormai esser consultate.
La coerenza di una vita viene cosi chiarita, mentre fin qui, gli storici erano stati stupiti delle sue contraddizioni. Ancora quasi adolescente, M. A. Jullien era stato un agente del Comitato di Salute Pubblica che aveva applicato con un rigore estremo la repressione contro i federalist. All'età matura, diventò un notabile, cantore dell'industrializzazione, filantropo.Pierre de Vargas, L'héritage de Marc-Antoine Jullien, de Paris à Moscou.
L'auteur fait l'histoire des papiers laissés par Marc-Antoine Jullien, dit « le petit Jullien », fils du conventionnel Jullien de la Drôme et protégé de Robespierre. Ces papiers se trouvent répartis entre Paris et Moscou, où ils sont désormais accessibles.
Ils permettent d'apprécier la cohérence d'une vie, alors que jusqu'ici les historiens s'étaient étonnés de la contradiction entre l'adolescence d'un jeune terroriste pourchassant les fédéralistes et la maturité d'un notable, chantre de l'industrialisation et philanthrope.Vargas Pierre de. L'héritage de Marc-Antoine Jullien, de Paris à Moscou. In: Annales historiques de la Révolution française, n°301, 1995. pp. 409-431
Mediatization as a challenge: media logic versus political logic
No full textPolitical communication is a precondition of democracy, and democracy depends heavily on the infrastructure of the media system. The media and mediated communication are of central relevance for contemporary societies due to their decisive influence on, and consequences for, political institutions, political actors, and individual citizens. Political actors have learnt to accept that their behavior to a significant extent is influenced by the rules of the game set by the mass media. This transformation has been described as a shift to audience democracy (Manin 1995) or media democracy (Jarren 2008a). The idea of media democracy is an extension of the model of representative democracy. It refers to a development that at its beginning aimed to make politics more inclusive and transparent. In the process policy-makers have become accountable to an ever growing volume of interests and demands from the public - not only in the context of elections but in many phases of the policy process. The pressure on policy-makers to be responsive to public opinion in general and special interests in particular has increased the role of the mass media in many ways. Politicians have grown to rely on the mass media for gauging public opinion (using media coverage as a proxy for public sentiments), and for generating attention, acceptance, and legitimation of their actions (using media channels for public presentation of politics)
Mediatization effects on political news, political actors, political decisions, and political audiences
No full textWe define mediatization as the growing intrusion of media logic as an institutional rule into fields where other rules of defining appropriate behavior prevailed. Mediatization can lead to an enhancement, adaptation, obstruction, or even substitution of political functions by the logic of the media system. At its extreme it can lead to a state of ‘mediatized politics’ where politics ‘has lost its autonomy, has become dependent in its central functions on mass media, and is continuously shaped by interactions with mass media’ (Mazzoleni and Schulz 1999: 250). The professional, commercial, and technological production rules of the media - its operating logic - are important requirements which political actors must take into account if they are to receive publicity, public support, and legitimacy. Media logic provides an incentive structure that contextualizes, and often shapes, political processes - particularly those that are dependent on publicity and public support. From this it follows that - contrary to a priori assumptions of a fully transformed ‘media democracy’ - the concept of mediatization does not assume a complete ‘colonialization’ of politics by the media. Rather we expect that some institutions, stages, and activities in the political process will be mediatized more than others, depending on how media-compatible they are (Marcinkowski 2005)
A problemática da interpretação no pensamento de Josef Esser
No full textTHE AIM OF THIS PAPER IS TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERPRETATION IN THE JOSEF ESSER'S CONCEPTION AND THE INFLUENCE OF HIS THOUGHT IN THE CONTEMPORARY LEGAL CULTURE. FOLLOWING THE AUTHOR'S THOUGHT, THE SUBJECT'S APPROACH IS FOCUSED ON THE PROBLEM OF LAW'S INTERPRETATION/APPLICATION, THAT LEADS, EQUALLY, TO A REEVALUATION OF THE METHODOLOGICAL QUESTION. THEREFORE, THE STUDY GOES TO THE ANALYSIS OF SOME CONCEPTS USED BY ESSER, AS WELL AS TO THE METHODOLOGY DEVELOPED BY THE AUTHOR, INSTRUMENTS THROUGH WHICH IT DISCLOSES THE INTERPRETATIVE PROCESS HE CONSIDERED. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS APPROACH REFLECTED ON THE EXAMINATION OF THE JURISDICTIONAL ACTIVITY THAT GAINS RELIEF AT THE MOMENT THAT IT IS SEEN AS A CREATIVE PERFORMANCE, FOCUSED ON THE SOLUTION OF THE CONCRETE CASE, THAT IS, PARALLELY, SUBMITTED TO THE CONTROLS THAT ARE GUIDED FOR ATTAINMENT OF A FAIR DECISION. O OBJETIVO DESTE TRABALHO É INVESTIGAR A IMPORTÂNCIA DA INTERPRETAÇÃO NA CONCEPÇÃO DE JOSEF ESSER E A INFLUÊNCIA DESTE PENSAMENTO NA CULTURA JURÍDICA CONTEMPORÂNEA. SEGUINDO O PENSAMENTO DO AUTOR, A ABORDAGEM DO TEMA É FOCADA NO PROBLEMA DA INTERPRETAÇÃO/APLICAÇÃO DO DIREITO, O QUE CONDUZ, IGUALMENTE, A UMA REAVALIAÇÃO DA QUESTÃO METODOLÓGICA. O ESTUDO DIRIGE-SE, PORTANTO, À ANÁLISE DE ALGUNS CONCEITOS UTILIZADOS POR ESSER, ASSIM COMO À METODOLOGIA DESENVOLVIDA PELO AUTOR, INSTRUMENTOS POR MEIO DOS QUAIS SE DESCORTINA O PROCESSO INTERPRETATIVO POR ELE PROPOSTO. A IMPORTÂNCIA DESSA ABORDAGEM REFLETE-SE NO EXAME DA ATIVIDADE JURISDICIONAL QUE GANHA RELEVO A PARTIR DO MOMENTO EM QUE É VISTA COMO UMA ATUAÇÃO CRIATIVA, VOLTADA PARA A SOLUÇÃO DO CASO CONCRETO, ESTANDO, PARALELAMENTE, SUBMETIDA A CONTROLES QUE SÃO ORIENTADOS PARA OBTENÇÃO DE UMA JUSTA DECISÃO.
«Esser a se stessi la so libertà»
No full textThe paper provides a brief new reading of Giacomo Noventa’s poetry, which tries to systematize a poetic thought such unorthodox, by using in particular the prose reflections of the author on his poems
Economics of yellow mustard in the Pacific Northwest
No full textBulletin no. 826 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 2000-06-01. Author(s): Withers, Russell; Berglund, Steve; Esser, Aaron; Brown, Jack; Smathers, Bo
Democracy in the age of globalization and mediatization
No full textThis book provides a comprehensive overview over the models of contemporary democracy, its social, cultural, economic and political prerequisites, empirically existing varieties, and the two major challenges – globalization and mediatization – confronting established democracies today. As the boundaries of the national political communities increasingly dissolve, democracy as we know it is put into question. Similarly, as the role of the media in politics increases, the way established democracies function is being transformed. The book covers the transformation of established democracies, democracy's global expansion into new countries, as well as its spread into supranational polities such as the European Union. It confronts head on democracy's constantly changing nature; its diversity of institutions and practices; its repeated need to respond to exogenous challenges and, most importantly, its perpetually unsatisfactory quest to make 'real-existing democracy' conform better to 'potentially ideal democracy.
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