Competing For Influence

Author : Barry Ferguson
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760462765

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Competing for Influence by Barry Ferguson Pdf

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.

Author : Burcu Baykurt,Victoria de Grazia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231551335

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Soft-Power Internationalism by Burcu Baykurt,Victoria de Grazia Pdf

The term “soft power” was coined in 1990 to foreground a capacity in statecraft analogous to military might and economic coercion: getting others to want what you want. Emphasizing the magnetism of values, culture, and communication, this concept promised a future in which cultural institutes, development aid, public diplomacy, and trade policies replaced nuclear standoffs. From its origins in an attempt to envision a United States–led liberal international order for a post–Cold War world, it soon made its way to the foreign policy toolkits of emerging powers looking to project their own influence. This book is a global comparative history of how soft power came to define the interregnum between the celebration of global capitalism in the 1990s and the recent resurgence of nationalism and authoritarianism. It brings together case studies from the European Union, China, Brazil, Turkey, and the United States, examining the genealogy of soft power in the Euro-Atlantic and its evolution in the hands of other states seeking to counter U.S. hegemony by nonmilitaristic means. Contributors detail how global and regional powers created a variety of new ways of conducting foreign policy, sometimes to build new solidarities outside Western colonial legacies and sometimes with more self-interested purposes. Offering a critical history of soft power as an intellectual project as well as a diplomatic practice, Soft-Power Internationalism provides new perspectives on the potential and limits of a multilateral liberal global order.

Author : Jonah Berger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476759739

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Invisible Influence by Jonah Berger Pdf

Explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make--from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat.

Author : MICHAEL J. MAZARR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977406424

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UNDERSTANDING INFLUENCE IN THE STRATEGIC COMPETITION WITH CHINA. by MICHAEL J. MAZARR Pdf

Author : Matthew R. Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : International relations
ISBN : 173200305X

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Patterns of Influence by Matthew R. Slater Pdf

"This book addresses applied strategic culture and investigates the usefulness of the concept to better understand how internal state dynamics form unique institutions, behaviors, and perspectives that impact their external interactions with other states. The strategic culture literature successfully provides the necessary intellectual underpinnings; this volume is more concerned with its practical application for policy makers and analysts. This is accomplished by comparing a diverse set of case studies, including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, and Kosovo, to see if they use strategic culture consistently, which provides useful insights despite differences in state size and degree of political and social order"--

Author : Ashley J. Tellis,Alison Szalwinski,Michael Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN : 1939131596

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STRATEGIC ASIA by Ashley J. Tellis,Alison Szalwinski,Michael Wills Pdf

Author : Tarun Chhabra,Rush Doshi,Ryan Hass
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815739173

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Global China by Tarun Chhabra,Rush Doshi,Ryan Hass Pdf

The global implications of China's rise as a global actor In 2005, a senior official in the George W. Bush administration expressed the hope that China would emerge as a “responsible stakeholder” on the world stage. A dozen years later, the Trump administration dramatically shifted course, instead calling China a “strategic competitor” whose actions routinely threaten U.S. interests. Both assessments reflected an underlying truth: China is no longer just a “rising” power. It has emerged as a truly global actor, both economically and militarily. Every day its actions affect nearly every region and every major issue, from climate change to trade, from conflict in troubled lands to competition over rules that will govern the uses of emerging technologies. To better address the implications of China's new status, both for American policy and for the broader international order, Brookings scholars conducted research over the past two years, culminating in a project: Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World. The project is intended to furnish policy makers and the public with hard facts and deep insights for understanding China's regional and global ambitions. The initiative draws not only on Brookings's deep bench of China and East Asia experts, but also on the tremendous breadth of the institution's security, strategy, regional studies, technological, and economic development experts. Areas of focus include the evolution of China's domestic institutions; great power relations; the emergence of critical technologies; Asian security; China's influence in key regions beyond Asia; and China's impact on global governance and norms. Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World provides the most current, broad-scope, and fact-based assessment of the implications of China's rise for the United States and the rest of the world.

Author : Maciej Bernatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108482837

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Populism and Antitrust by Maciej Bernatt Pdf

Populism and Antitrust examines the influence of populism on competition law and shows how populism can lead to illiberal changes.

Author : Jakob Tolstrup
Publisher : First Forum Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1935049933

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Russia Vs. the EU by Jakob Tolstrup Pdf

Do Russia and the European Union have any substantial influence over the political trajectories of post-Soviet states? Shedding new light on the interplay between domestic and external drivers of regime change, Jakob Tolstrup analyzes the impact of Russia and the EU on the democratization and autocratization processes in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Author : Jeffrey Reeves,Jeffrey Hornung,Kerry Lynn Nankivell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315436326

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Chinese-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex by Jeffrey Reeves,Jeffrey Hornung,Kerry Lynn Nankivell Pdf

This volume examines contemporary diplomatic, economic, and security competition between China and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region. The book outlines the role that Sino-Japanese competition plays in East Asian security, an area of study largely overlooked in contemporary writing on Asian security, which tends to focus on US–China relations and/or US hegemony in Asia. The volume focuses on Chinese and Japanese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, and regional security dynamics within and between Asian states/institutions since 2012. It employs regional security complex theory as a theoretical framework to view Chinese and Japanese competition in the Asian region. In doing so, the volume draws on a "levels of analysis" approach to demonstrate the value in looking at security in the Asia-Pacific from a regional rather than global perspective. The vast majority of existing research on the region’s security tends to focus on great power relations and treats Asia as a sub-region within the larger global security architecture. In contrast, this volume shows how competition between the two largest Asian economies shapes East Asia’s security environment and drives security priorities across Asia’s sub-regions. As such, this collection provides an important contribution to discussion on security in Asia; one with potential to influence both political and military policy makers, security practitioners, and scholars. This book will be of much interest to students of Asian politics, regional security, diplomacy, and international relations.

Author : Xiaotie Deng,Fan Chung Graham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540771050

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Internet and Network Economics by Xiaotie Deng,Fan Chung Graham Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2007, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2007. The contents were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on equilibrium, information market, sponsored auction, network economics, mechanism design, social networks, advertisement pricing, computational general equilibrium, network games, and algorithmic issues.

Author : Christopher Townley,Mattia Guidi,Mariana Tavares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198859789

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The Law and Politics of Global Competition by Christopher Townley,Mattia Guidi,Mariana Tavares Pdf

In its own words, the mission of the International Competition Network (the ICN) is to advocate the adoption of superior standards and procedures in competition policy around the world, formulate proposals for procedural and substantive convergence, and seek to facilitate effective international cooperation to the benefit of member agencies, consumers and economies worldwide. ICN members include nearly all competition authorities (NCAs) from around the world (over 100 of them). Since its inception, the ICN has also sought to enrich its discussions and outputs through the inclusion of non-governmental advisors (NGAs), principally large multi-nationals and the legal and economic professions. The ICN is a transnational network, set up by its members, largely without wider state input. This book hypothesises that the ICN's formally neutral structures provide powerful influence mechanisms for strong NCAs and NGAs, over the weak; and 'competition experts' over wider state interests, discussing the legitimacy of this from a political and legal theory perspective, analysing the ICN's effectiveness and efficiency, and suggesting ways that the ICN can improve all three. This study has important implications for the ICN itself, particularly as it launches its 'Third Decade Project', billed as a full self-evaluation. However, the story told here is also relevant to states and the wider regulatory community, due to the widespread use of transnational networks.

Author : Gianluca Passarelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030252861

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Preferential Voting Systems by Gianluca Passarelli Pdf

This book examines the effects of preferential voting on intraparty electoral competition and voting behavior. Using data covering 19 countries and over 200 elections, this study sheds light on a somewhat neglected aspect of electoral systems. The author demonstrates that the ability of voters to influence the selection and deselection of MPs under preferential voting systems is not as important as is often assumed. Instead, their ability to shape the election of a given candidate depends heavily on the balance between party power and voter power. In this way, this book advances the understanding of the effect of preferential voting on intra-party dynamics, parliamentary turnover, and voter behavior. Based on a rigorous, data-led methodological approach, the book contributes to both the theory and practice of the study of electoral systems, and should be read by scholars, students and practitioners interested in preferential voting systems.

Author : Michael E. Porter
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422155622

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On Competition by Michael E. Porter Pdf

For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," as well as new work on health care, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and CEO leadership. This collection captures Porter's unique ability to bridge theory and practice. Each of the articles has not only shaped thinking, but also redefined the work of practitioners in its respective field. In an insightful new introduction, Porter relates each article to the whole of his thinking about competition and value creation, and traces how that thinking has deepened over time. This collection is organized by topic, allowing the reader easy access to the wide range of Porter's work. Parts I and II present the frameworks for which Porter is best known--frameworks that address how companies, as well as nations and regions, gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part III shows how strategic thinking can address society's most pressing challenges, from environmental sustainability to improving health-care delivery. Part IV explores how both nonprofits and corporations can create value for society more effectively by applying strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V explores the link between strategy and leadership.

Author : Wen Xu,Weili Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030377755

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Optimal Social Influence by Wen Xu,Weili Wu Pdf

This self-contained book describes social influence from a computational point of view, with a focus on recent and practical applications, models, algorithms and open topics for future research. Researchers, scholars, postgraduates and developers interested in research on social networking and the social influence related issues will find this book useful and motivating. The latest research on social computing is presented along with and illustrations on how to understand and manipulate social influence for knowledge discovery by applying various data mining techniques in real world scenarios. Experimental reports, survey papers, models and algorithms with specific optimization problems are depicted. The main topics covered in this book are: chrematistics of social networks, modeling of social influence propagation, popular research problems in social influence analysis such as influence maximization, rumor blocking, rumor source detection, and multiple social influence competing.