1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451778303321

Autore

Mayhew David R

Titolo

Electoral realignments [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of an American genre / / David R. Mayhew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT, : Yale University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-281-72229-4

9786611722296

0-300-13003-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

The Yale ISPS series

Disciplina

324/.0973

Soggetti

Political parties - United States - History

Elections - United States - History

Party affiliation - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Realignments Perspective -- Chapter 3. Framing the Critique -- Chapter 4. The Cyclical Dynamic -- Chapter 5. Processes and Issues -- Chapter 6. Policies and Democracy -- Conclusion -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a science able to predict changes, and generations of students, journalists, pundits, and political scientists have been trained to be on the lookout for "signs" of new electoral realignments. Now a major political scientist argues that the essential claims of realignment theory are wrong-that American elections, parties, and policymaking are not (and never were) reconfigured according to the realignment calendar. David Mayhew examines fifteen key empirical claims of realignment theory in detail and shows us why each in turn does not hold up under scrutiny. It is time, he insists, to open the field to new ideas. We might, for example, adopt a more nominalistic, skeptical way of thinking about American



elections that highlights contingency, short-term election strategies, and valence issues. Or we might examine such broad topics as bellicosity in early American history, or racial questions in much of our electoral history. But we must move on from an old orthodoxy and failed model of illumination.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787316603321

Autore

Dana Leo Paul

Titolo

When economies change hands [[electronic resource] ] : a survey of entrepreneurship in the emerging markets of Europe from the Balkans to the Baltic states / / Leo Paul Dana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxfordshire, England, : Routledge, 2011, c2005

New York ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Routledge, , 2011, c2005

ISBN

0-203-04901-2

1-136-40224-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Disciplina

330.94/0559/091717

Soggetti

Privatization - Europe, Eastern

Entrepreneurship - Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Economic policy 1989- Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; When Economies Change Hands: A Survey of Entrepreneurship in the Emerging Markets of Europe from the Balkans to the Baltic States; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; THE CONTEXT FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP; METHODOLOGY; THE FORMAL ECONOMY: THE FIRM-TYPE SECTOR AND THE BAZAAR; THE PARALLEL ECONOMY: INFORMAL, INTERNAL, AND COVERT; Chapter 2 Land of the Perseritje Model; THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA; Chapter 3 The Former Yugoslav Republics; PLURALISM AND THE YUGOPLURALIST MODEL; AN INTRODUCTION TO YUGOSLAVIA; THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA

THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIATHE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (FYROM); THE STATE UNION OF SERBIA AND



MONTENEGRO; THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA; Chapter 4 The East Bloc of COMECON; THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA; THE CZECH REPUBLIC; THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (EAST GERMANY); THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY; THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND; THE REPUBLIC OF ROMANIA; THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC (SLOVAKIA); Chapter 5 The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS AND PERESTROIKA; THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS (WHITE RUSSIA); THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA; THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

THE UKRAINE (LITTLE RUSSIA)Chapter 6 The Baltic States; THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA; THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA; THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA; Chapter 7 Toward the Future; IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICYMAKERS; IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATORS; IMPLICATIONS FOR WESTERN MANAGERS AND INVESTORS; TOWARD FUTURE RESEARCH; TOWARD THE FUTURE; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the development of entrepreneurship across Eastern Europe Throughout Eastern Europe, post-Communist countries transitioning to market-based economies are obtaining a variety of results due to diverse policy approaches. When Economies Change Hands evaluates the nature of entrepreneurship in this region, the consequences of central planning, the reasons for internal subsistence activity, and the emergence of the sex trade in Eastern Europe. The wealth of information in this resource is clearly presented and includes thought-provoking policy presc



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Record Nr.

UNINA9911018759403321

Autore

Gottschalk Petter

Titolo

Corporate Conformance and the Social License : A Criminological Perspective / / by Petter Gottschalk, Christopher Hamerton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-95812-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Collana

Law and Criminology Series

Altri autori (Persone)

HamertonChristopher

Disciplina

364.4

Soggetti

Criminology

Crime Control and Security

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Conformance Beyond Compliance -- Chapter 2: Conformance and the use of Sanctions, Boycotts and Blacklisting -- Chapter 3: Stakeholders, Conformance Pressure and Social Recovery -- Chapter 4: Challenging Conformance: The Precarity of Social Licence -- Chapter 5: Regulatory Deviance and Social Conformity -- Chapter 6: Stakeholder Conformance Demands -- Chapter 7: Strategic Management of Conformance in the Media Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The principal focus of Corporate Conformance and the Social License: A Criminological Perspective is to enhance and broaden the criminological dialogue surrounding the role of and effect of corporate conformance as a key element in the maintenance of the social license to operate. The book posits that in recent years conformance has emerged as a key component in shaping corporate behaviour and informing corporate crises. With a series of widely publicised global scandals heightening awareness of extensive and serious repercussions, revealing severe financial and environmental impacts, operational issues, and even existential concerns. This has led to a growing body of research focusing on how such crises materialise, are perceived and might be strategically managed and prevented. The book foregrounds conformance as a proactive demonstration of adherence to contemporary ethical standards of globalized business practice, with



the authors offering a novel perspective that considers conformance and associated normative pressures within a criminological framework. Here, convenience theory is applied to analyse a series of important contemporary case-studies, with the research illustrating how corporations and their stakeholders have used conformance to manage, maintain and, following periods of crisis, attempt to regain their corporate license to operate. The book further explores differences in strategic conformance responses in terms of perceptions and reactions from the public, media and criminal justice system. Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Christopher Hamerton teaches and researches criminology and criminal justice in the School of Policy & Global Affairs at City St George's, University of London, United Kingdom.