Local Matters

Author : Nugroho, Kharisma,Carden, Fred
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447348085

Get Book

Local Knowledge Matters by Nugroho, Kharisma,Carden, Fred Pdf

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledge-to-policy process means, who is involved and how different communities can engage in the policy process. Ten diverse case studies are used from around Indonesia, addressing issues such as forest management, water resources, maritime resource management and financial services. By making extensive use of quotes from the field, the book allows the reader to ‘hear’ the perspectives and beliefs of community members around local knowledge and its effects on individual and community life.

Author : Daniel A. Bell,Chenyang Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107470972

Get Book

The East Asian Challenge for Democracy by Daniel A. Bell,Chenyang Li Pdf

The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The result is the first book in decades to examine the rise (or revival) of political meritocracy and what it will mean for political developments in China and the rest of the world. Despite its limitations, meritocracy has contributed much to human flourishing in East Asia and beyond and will continue to do so in the future. This book is essential reading for those who wish to further the debate and perhaps even help to implement desirable forms of political change.

Author : Michael Esfeld,Dirk-Andre Deckert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351392174

Get Book

A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World by Michael Esfeld,Dirk-Andre Deckert Pdf

This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an ontology of the natural world that matches all of today’s well-established physical theories. We propose an ontology of the natural world that is defined only by two axioms: (1) There are distance relations that individuate simple objects, namely matter points. (2) The matter points are permanent, with the distances between them changing. Everything else comes in as a means to represent the change in the distance relations in a manner that is both as simple and as informative as possible. The book works this minimalist ontology out in philosophical as well as mathematical terms and shows how one can understand classical mechanics, quantum field theory and relativistic physics on the basis of this ontology. Along the way, we seek to achieve four subsidiary aims: (a) to make a case for a holistic individuation of the basic objects (ontic structural realism); (b) to work out a new version of Humeanism, dubbed Super-Humeanism, that does without natural properties; (c) to set out an ontology of quantum physics that is an alternative to quantum state realism and that avoids any ontological dualism of particles and fields; (d) to vindicate a relationalist ontology based on point objects also in the domain of relativistic physics.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Conflict of interests
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005949214

Get Book

Interpretative Rulings of the Select Committee on Ethics by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics Pdf

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000700205

Get Book

Littell's Living Age by Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell Pdf

Author : R. Millar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230504226

Get Book

Language, Nation and Power by R. Millar Pdf

Language, Nation and Power provides students with a discussion of the ways in which language has been (and is being) used to construct national (or ethnic) identity. It focuses on the processes by which a language can be planned and standardized and what the results of these processes are. Particular emphasis is given to the historical and social effects which nationalism has had on the development of language since the French Revolution. For students of linguistics, sociology and politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11636469

Get Book

The Law Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate commerce committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117905740

Get Book

Extention of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads by United States. Congress. Senate. Interstate commerce committee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Interstate commerce
ISBN : OSU:32435021274592

Get Book

Interstate and Foreign Transportation by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Labor-Management Services Administration,United States. Office of Federal Labor-Management Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : MSU:31293022289775

Get Book

Decisions and Reports on Rulings of the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor-Management Relations by United States. Labor-Management Services Administration,United States. Office of Federal Labor-Management Relations Pdf

Author : Michael Townsen Hicks,Siegfried Jaag,Christian Loew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192645999

Get Book

Humean Laws for Human Agents by Michael Townsen Hicks,Siegfried Jaag,Christian Loew Pdf

Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on the Humean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui generis metaphysical entities but merely particularly effective summaries of what actually happens. The most discussed recent work on Humeanism emphasizes the laws' usefulness for limited agents and uses pragmatic considerations to address fundamental and long-standing problems. The current volume develops and critically examines pragmatic Humean accounts, with innovative new work on the epistemology of laws and chance, the problem of induction, counterfactuals, special science laws, and a Humean account of essence. Taken together, the papers provide a roadmap for developing pragmatic Humeanism and connate views, setting the agenda for future research.

Author : Federal Management Improvement Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Executive departments
ISBN : UIUC:30112105080623

Get Book

Proceedings by Federal Management Improvement Conference Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCR:31210017700038

Get Book

Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCBK:C055616498

Get Book

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : Miro Haček,Simona Kukovič,Marjan Brezovšek
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498565363

Get Book

Slovenian Politics and the State by Miro Haček,Simona Kukovič,Marjan Brezovšek Pdf

Slovenia is regarded today as a free country and consolidated democracy, with some problems with corruption, independent media, and independent judiciary. Since its independence in 1991, Slovenia has put in place democratic institutions of state organization, undergone major capital rearrangements, and achieved both of the starting objectives of new international involvement by entering the EU and NATO. On January 1st, 2007, Slovenia was the first among former socialist countries to take on the common European currency. Slovenia has been subject to highly varying assessments during the construction of its democratic political system; it has been acknowledged as “a ripe democracy,” complete democracy,” or, alternatively, “apparent” or “virtual democracy.” The move negative assessments of the Slovenian political system are related to the persistence of authoritarian behavior patterns and manipulation of democratic institutions that have found its way into the structures of political parties. This book follows the Slovenian evolution from the second-smallest Yugoslav republic to one of the most successful post-communist countries in Central Europe.