The seventh withdrawal: has the US forces' journey back home from Korea begun?

This article analyzes the reasons that led to the six United States forces withdrawals from South Korea between 1947 and 2008 and the Republic of Korea's responses to these policies. The article discusses the local and global aspects of these forces' functions and tasks and attempts to understand why Korea has not prepared itself for the withdrawal of the US forces throughout the years. The art…

Affect, Relationality and the `Problem of Personality'

This article will consider the vitalist turn within sociology and social theory in the context of the emergence of the psychological sciences at the turn of the last century. One aspect of the revitalization of social theory characteristic of this 'turn' has been a renewed interest in the problem of affect, sensation and perception. The centrality of affect and perception is often framed throug…

That We Obey Rules Blindly Does Not Mean that We Are Blindly Subservient to R…

Wiigenstein's remarks on rule-following are rightly understood to be corrosive of the project iof cognitive science. They do not, however, therefore privilege sociology as a competitor discipline - despite the protestations of some sociologists. Rules are invoked as explanatory devices in social theory, and Wittgenstein is criticized for failing to offer a conception of rule-following amenable …

A Large Sample Investigation of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition: Eval…

Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) investigate differences in demographic and psychological variables between treatment completers and dropouts among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program and (b) evaluate the goodness of fit of a logistic regression model for predicting attrition developed on a 16-week program by applying that model to the 26-week program. Method:…

Estimating Effect Sizes From Pretest-Posttest-Control Group Designs

Previous research has recommended several measures of effect size for studies with repeated measurements in both treatment and control groups. Three alternate effect size estimates were compared in terms of bias, precision, and robustness to heterogeneity of variance. The results favored an effect size based on the mean pre-post change in the treatment group minus the mean pre-post change in th…

Historicizing and Contextualizing the Discourse on African International Law …

For the past 50 years or so, the media and intellectual discourses on African politics have general portrayed the continent as being in perpetual turmoil. The causes of such conflicts have been related, but not limited, to the outcome of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 in which some of the European powers carved up the region in a zigzag fashion with little or no concern for the ethnic complex…

The Empiricist Goose Has Not Been Cooked!

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Vol. 40, No. 1, Page 104-109

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On Value Differences Experienced by Sector Switchers

This article examines experienced differences in values between employees in the public and private sector. To elucidate them, the authors interviewed 30 employees of the public sector previously employed in the private sector and 30 employees of the private sector previously employed in the public sector, all of them in the Netherlands. The major conclusion is that the values of profitability,…

A Bottom-Up Perspective on Innovations: Mobilizing Knowledge and Social Capit…

The article focuses on a kind of innovation trajectory, based on the reemployment of assets that belong to the legacy of the past. Thus, it argues for the importance of utilizing know-how and social capital accumulated over the years in organizations' efforts to launch a new course. The concept of bricolage appears especially clarifying in throwing light on innovations emerging through bottom-u…

The Scholarship of Elegance and Significance: Expressive and Aesthetic Truth …

In this article, the authors examine the importance of expressive and aesthetic truth claims to public administration scholars, and present a model to aid them in making and evaluating such claims. Sincere expression adds credibility to an argument, and quality of expression can lend elegance to a truth claim. Expressive or aesthetic truth claims are not merely used to heighten emotions or enha…

Reconstructing Empirical Public Administration: Lutonism or Scientific Realism?

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Vol. 40, No. 3 Page 324-330

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Implementing Interagency Collaborations: Exploring Variation in Collaborative…

Collaborative mechanisms are increasingly being used to deliver public services in the United States, with many scholars seeking to understand the operation and impact of these ventures. This article contributes to this research by breaking apart interagency collaborations used to deliver services, demonstrating the variations that can occur within a single form of collaborative service deliver…

The Development of Public Institutions: Reconsidering the Role of Leadership

Some public organizations take on the qualities and characteristics of an institution. They become vessels for societal ambition, combining reliable performance with high levels of legitimacy. The functioning and effects of these highly institutionalized organizations are well researched. How these public institutions come about remains somewhat of a mystery, however. Empirical accounts of publ…

John Locke and Public Administration

John Locke, whose thought greatly influenced the American founding, makes an important contribution to contemporary public administration theory and to our understanding of the history of American public administration. Locke's theory gives an account of why it is legitimate for public administrators to sometimes perform functions that are legislative or judicial in nature and encourages public…

Beyond Empiricists Versus Postmodernists

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Vol. 40, No. 2, Page 211-219

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Decision Making in a Time of Significant Reform

This article utilizes three empirical studies to examine the organizational and policy context within which health managers find themselves today, asking three questions of extreme relevance for the area of health organizational reform in a period in which the pace and scope of change are intense: What strategies do public service managers employ to make sure they stay up to date with what is r…

Social Welfare Contracts as Networks : The Impact of Network Stability on Man…

This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They …

Researching "Back Home": International Management Research as Autoethnography

The challenges facing international management researchers conducting research in foreign contexts are increasingly well understood. However, for a growing group of researchers, the problem is very different: Rather than being foreign researchers researching in an unfamiliar context, they are insiders conducting research in their own cultural context for publication in international journals. I…

Persuasion through insult: the `f' word in Israeli media

This article is concerned with the rampant use of a particular cultural frame - freier (roughly "sucker") - in Israeli media. In this culture, the term is an unmitigated personal insult, and indeed has come to represent a threat to national identity. Nonetheless, it is widely used as a persuasive tactic in commercial, social and political rhetoric. The analysis of several hundred persuasive mes…

DAB: the future of radio? The development of digital radio in four European c…

In common with most media and consumer technologies, radio is migrating from analogue to digital operation. Europe was the first region of the world to develop a digital replacement for traditional analogue broadcast radio. The Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) project began in 1987 and the first domestic DAB broadcasts began in 1995. However, DAB has made less progress than originally anticipat…