Logics Of Hierarchy

Author : Alexander Cooley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801466397

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Logics of Hierarchy by Alexander Cooley Pdf

Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its various elements along the lines of administrative functions, whereas the M-form governs its periphery according to geography and territory. In Logics of Hierarchy, Alexander Cooley applies this model to political hierarchies across different cultures, geographical settings, and historical eras to explain a variety of seemingly disparate processes: state formation, imperial governance, and territorial occupation. Cooley illustrates the power of this formal distinction with detailed accounts of the experiences of Central Asian republics in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, and compares them to developments in the former Yugoslavia, the governance of modern European empires, Korea during and after Japanese occupation, and the recent U.S. occupation of Iraq. In applying this model, Logics of Hierarchy reveals the varying organizational ability of powerful states to promote institutional transformation in their political peripheries and the consequences of these formations in determining pathways of postimperial extrication and state-building. Its focus on the common organizational problems of hierarchical polities challenges much of the received wisdom about imperialism and postimperialism.

Author : Edward O. Laumann,Paul M. Siegel,Robert William Hodge
Publisher : Markham
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002613987

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The Logic of Social Hierarchies by Edward O. Laumann,Paul M. Siegel,Robert William Hodge Pdf

Author : Peter G. Hinman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781107168244

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Recursion-Theoretic Hierarchies by Peter G. Hinman Pdf

The theory set out in this book results from the meeting of descriptive set theory and recursion theory.

Author : Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521417792

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The Logics of Social Structure by Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos Pdf

A new approach to the study of social structure, drawing on recent developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences.

Author : Ph.G. Herbst
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781468469455

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Alternatives to hierarchies by Ph.G. Herbst Pdf

Giving on occasions a talk on the subject of this book, one of the queries raised was, 'surely, what you mean are flat hierarchies'. This, I think, gives an indication of how difficult it can be to conceive of organizations which do not have a hierarchical structure. A rather similar response was obtained when, in the 1950's, an account was given to a manager of the British Coal Board of an autonomous composite team of more than 40 miners, who had taken over complete responsibility for a three-shift cycle, and divided the income obtained among themselves. His comment was that this could not possibly work. The new mode of work organization which had been evolved by the miners in several pits in the Durham coal fields was, at the time, well ahead of the prevailing concepts and philosophy of both management and the Trade Union. It did not help matters very much that the detailed accounts were presented in an academic and scientific form (Trist et aI. , 1963; Herbst, 1962). I think that we felt that all the backing of systematic research and data analysis would be needed to present the case for modes of organization, which deviated from conventional practice. However, something was learned from this experience. When at the beginning of the 1960's the Norwegian Work Democratization Project was started, a number of demonstration sites were set up which people could look at, and which could function as centers for diffusion.

Author : Daniel McCormack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319939766

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Great Powers and International Hierarchy by Daniel McCormack Pdf

Hierarchical relationships—rules that structure both international and domestic politics—are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements both respond to domestic politics within weak states and structure the specific forms that hierarchy takes. Second, it deduces three sets of hypotheses about hierarchy maintenance, construction, and collapse during the post-war era. By offering a coherent theoretical model of hierarchical politics within weaker states, the author is able to answer a number of important questions, including: Why does the United States often ally with autocratic states even though its most enduring relationships are with democracies? Why do autocratic hierarchical relationships require interstate coercion? Why do some hierarchies end violently and others peacefully? Why does hierarchical competition sometimes lead to interstate conflict and sometimes to civil conflict?

Author : W. Clapton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137396372

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Risk and Hierarchy in International Society by W. Clapton Pdf

The English School of International Relations has traditionally maintained that international society cannot accommodate hierarchical relationships between states. This book employs a unique theoretical and conceptual approach challenging this view and arguing that hierarchies are formed on Western states' need to manage globalised risks.

Author : Margaret Stout
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466575738

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Logics of Legitimacy by Margaret Stout Pdf

The discipline of public administration draws predominantly from political and organizational theory, but also from other social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, and even theology. This diversity results in conflicting prescriptions for the "proper" administrative role. So, how are those new to public administration to know which ideas are "legitimate"? Rather than accepting conventional arguments for administrative legitimacy through delegated constitutional authority or expertise, Logics of Legitimacy: Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis does not assume that any one approach to professionalism is accepted by all scholars, practitioners, citizens, or elected representatives. Instead, it offers a framework for public administration theory and practice that fully includes the citizen as a political actor alongside elected representatives and administrators. This framework: Considers both direct and representative forms of democracy Examines concepts from both political and organizational theory, addressing many of the key questions in public administration Examines past and present approaches to administration Presents a conceptual lens for understanding public administration theory and explaining different administrative roles and practices The framework for public administration theory and practice is presented in three traditions of main prescriptions for practice: Constitutional (the bureaucrat), Discretionary (the entrepreneur), and Collaborative (the steward). This book is appropriate for use in graduate-level courses that explore the philosophical, historical, and intellectual foundations of public administration. Upon qualified course adoption, instructors will gain access to a course outline and corresponding lecture slides.

Author : Grahame Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019877527X

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Between Hierarchies and Markets by Grahame Thompson Pdf

"This book conducts a survey into the ways in which the word 'network' has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular, it offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organization (as well the idea of a 'network society' or a 'network state', for instance), broadly conceived to also include the political aspects of networks."--BOOK JACKET. Book jacket.

Author : Vasco Brattka,Hannes Diener,Dieter Spreen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614519409

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Logic, Computation, Hierarchies by Vasco Brattka,Hannes Diener,Dieter Spreen Pdf

Published in honor of Victor L. Selivanov, the 17 articles collected in this volume inform on the latest developments in computability theory and its applications in computable analysis; descriptive set theory and topology; and the theory of omega-languages; as well as non-classical logics, such as temporal logic and paraconsistent logic. This volume will be of interest to mathematicians and logicians, as well as theoretical computer scientists.

Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199556267

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Hegemony in International Society by Ian Clark Pdf

A major re-thinking of the concept of hegemony in international relations. On the basis of historical examples, Ian Clark presents an innovative scheme for rethinking hegemony, and applies it to the US role in international organizations, in East Asia, and in the policy on climate change.

Author : Leslie F. Sikos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319540665

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Description Logics in Multimedia Reasoning by Leslie F. Sikos Pdf

This book illustrates how to use description logic-based formalisms to their full potential in the creation, indexing, and reuse of multimedia semantics. To do so, it introduces researchers to multimedia semantics by providing an in-depth review of state-of-the-art standards, technologies, ontologies, and software tools. It draws attention to the importance of formal grounding in the knowledge representation of multimedia objects, the potential of multimedia reasoning in intelligent multimedia applications, and presents both theoretical discussions and best practices in multimedia ontology engineering. Readers already familiar with mathematical logic, Internet, and multimedia fundamentals will learn to develop formally grounded multimedia ontologies, and map concept definitions to high-level descriptors. The core reasoning tasks, reasoning algorithms, and industry-leading reasoners are presented, while scene interpretation via reasoning is also demonstrated. Overall, this book offers readers an essential introduction to the formal grounding of web ontologies, as well as a comprehensive collection and review of description logics (DLs) from the perspectives of expressivity and reasoning complexity. It covers best practices for developing multimedia ontologies with formal grounding to guarantee decidability and obtain the desired level of expressivity while maximizing the reasoning potential. The capabilities of such multimedia ontologies are demonstrated by DL implementations with an emphasis on multimedia reasoning applications.

Author : Petr Cintula,Carles Noguera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030856755

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Logic and Implication by Petr Cintula,Carles Noguera Pdf

This monograph presents a general theory of weakly implicative logics, a family covering a vast number of non-classical logics studied in the literature, concentrating mainly on the abstract study of the relationship between logics and their algebraic semantics. It can also serve as an introduction to (abstract) algebraic logic, both propositional and first-order, with special attention paid to the role of implication, lattice and residuated connectives, and generalized disjunctions. Based on their recent work, the authors develop a powerful uniform framework for the study of non-classical logics. In a self-contained and didactic style, starting from very elementary notions, they build a general theory with a substantial number of abstract results. The theory is then applied to obtain numerous results for prominent families of logics and their algebraic counterparts, in particular for superintuitionistic, modal, substructural, fuzzy, and relevant logics. The book may be of interest to a wide audience, especially students and scholars in the fields of mathematics, philosophy, computer science, or related areas, looking for an introduction to a general theory of non-classical logics and their algebraic semantics.

Author : Didier Dubois,Henri Prade,Erich Peter Klement
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401716529

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Fuzzy Sets, Logics and Reasoning about Knowledge by Didier Dubois,Henri Prade,Erich Peter Klement Pdf

Fuzzy Sets, Logics and Reasoning about Knowledge reports recent results concerning the genuinely logical aspects of fuzzy sets in relation to algebraic considerations, knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning. It takes a state-of-the-art look at multiple-valued and fuzzy set-based logics, in an artificial intelligence perspective. The papers, all of which are written by leading contributors in their respective fields, are grouped into four sections. The first section presents a panorama of many-valued logics in connection with fuzzy sets. The second explores algebraic foundations, with an emphasis on MV algebras. The third is devoted to approximate reasoning methods and similarity-based reasoning. The fourth explores connections between fuzzy knowledge representation, especially possibilistic logic and prioritized knowledge bases. Readership: Scholars and graduate students in logic, algebra, knowledge representation, and formal aspects of artificial intelligence.

Author : John Child
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351697668

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Hierarchy by John Child Pdf

EURAM's Book of the Year in 2020, Hierarchy takes readers on a journey which traverses how this idea has evolved, is understood in various disciplines, and is applied in practice. Referring a wide range of sources, the book provides an inspirational introduction to understanding what is perhaps the key idea in business and management. As a fundamental organizational principle, hierarchy is everywhere. Perhaps because of its ubiquity, the significance of hierarchy has become under-analyzed in view of the growing strains on society imposed by organizational inequality. This book analyzes the advantages and disadvantages that hierarchy brings as a form of organization, providing an accessible overview of this fundamental idea within both business and society. This concise book provides a useful overview of existing research, for both students and scholars of business.