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A conservative convergence? The differences and similarities of the conservat…
This paper compares and contrasts the conservative right in both the Czech Republic and Poland in its historical and contemporary contexts. It argues that the conservative right is strong in both these countries and that they share many similar political features. However, there are also numerous differences between the conservative right in these nations. The reasons for these dissimilarities …
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- Volume 16, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 189 - 207
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- Contemporary Politics
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The carcass of dead policies: lessons for Obama in dealing with Iran
The United States has spent 30 years clinging to variations of the same policy towards Iran, to no avail. 'Doing the right thing' has proved perplexing, complicated and, ultimately, elusive. In 1979, the United States struggled to come to terms with Iran's transformation from consort to adversary. Washington had difficulty fitting Iran into the hierarchy of regional and international priorities…
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- Volume 16, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 209 - 223
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Nuclear Revival in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Indonesia is planning to build a nuclear power plant to meet soaring demand for energy. Opposing this policy, an anti-nuclear alliance is emerging from grassroots groups driven by distrust of the government's ability to handle high-risk technology. This article explores the contemporary politics of Indonesia's nuclear power program.
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 265–286
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- 00044687
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- Asian Survey
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Agents of Taiwan-China Unification? The Political Roles of Taiwanese Business…
The political roles of Taiwanese business people (taishang) in cross-strait relations have been increasingly noteworthy under Hu Jintao's policy of "counting on the Taiwanese people." But contrary to widely accepted allegations, this paper argues that attempts by China to use Taiwanese business people as a means to gain political leverage over Taiwan will probably not pan out as a successful st…
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 287–310
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The Transformation of Mongolia's Political System: From Semi-parliamentary to…
This paper outlines Mongolia's regime transformation, focusing on its 2000 constitutional amendments that turned Mongolia into a parliamentary system, albeit with a popularly elected fixed-term president. The paper also emphasizes the prominence of institutional authority to form the executive in determining regime type, and makes an effort to clarify Duverger's second criterion of semi-preside…
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 311–334
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South Korean Strategic Thinking toward North Korea: The Evolution of the Enga…
Despite agreements in 2007 in the Six-Party Talks, the U.S. and South Korea have had trouble reaching consensus in dealing with subsequent nuclear crises spawned by North Korea. This study focuses on South Korean strategic thinking about and policy toward North Korea and Korean unification, and their changes since the 1990s.
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 335–355
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Private Equity and Asian Political Economy: "Domestic" Private Equity Funds a…
Private equity funds, particularly those headquartered in the U.S., have come under heavy attack internationally from civil society and regulators. At the same time, locally owned private equity funds have unexpectedly appeared in significant numbers across emerging markets. The analysis in this paper illustrates how actors that are only notionally domestic are introducing the neoliberal privat…
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 356–377
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Climate Change and Regime Perpetuation in North Korea
Climate change is a new variable that may weaken the Kim Jong-il regime by disrupting North Korea's agricultural sector, leading to greater food insecurity and erosion of the state's institutions. North Korea has limited capacity to adapt to climate hazards, which could exacerbate existing stresses and push the regime into terminal decay.
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 378–401
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India's Developing Relationship with South Korea: A Useful Friend in East Asia
The long-standing strategic disconnect between South Asia and the Korean Peninsula is breaking down. Driven by the changing balance of power in Asia, India and South Korea have developed a strong economic partnership, and taken small but significant steps toward a political and security relationship that refects their numerous shared strategic interests. This article explores the contours of th…
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 402–425
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Resources, Rent-Seeking, and Reform in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): The Econ…
This article examines the economics-politics nexus in Thailand and Myanmar in the context of rent-seeking, revenues from oil and gas resources, and possible political reform.
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- Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April 2010, Pages 426–448
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Metric Properties of the Neighborhood Inventory for Environmental Typology (N…
Objectives: Establish metric properties of the Neighborhood Inventory for Environmental Typology (NIfETy). Method: A total of 919 residential block faces were assessed by paired raters using the NIfETy. Reliability was evaluated via interrater and internal consistency reliability; validity by comparing NIfETy data with youth self-reported violence, alcohol, and other drug exposure and crime sta…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp.159-184
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Exploring Methods to Investigate Sentencing Decisions
The determinants of sentencing are of much interest in criminal justice and legal research. Understanding the determinants of sentencing decisions is important for ensuring transparent, consistent, and justifiable sentencing practice that adheres to the goals of sentencing, such as the punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation of the offender, as well as reparation for the vict…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 185-219
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The Cost-Effectiveness of NBPTS Teacher Certification
A cost-effectiveness analysis of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) program suggests that Board certification is less cost-effective than a range of alternative approaches for raising student achievement, including comprehensive school reform, class size reduction, a 10% increase in per pupil expenditure, the use of value-added statistical methods to identify effecti…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 220-241
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Measuring Law for Evaluation Research
Evaluations that combine social science and law have tremendous potential to illuminate the effects of governmental policies and yield insights into how effectively policy makers’ efforts achieve their aims. This potential is infrequently achieved, however, because such interdisciplinary research contains often overlooked substantive and methodological challenges. This article offers detailed g…
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- Vol. 34, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 242-266
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Principles for a Cultural Psychology of Creativity
This article focuses on a novel theoretical paradigm emerging in the study of human creativity: the cultural-psychological approach. It starts by differentiating between the long past of individualistic accounts of creativity (the lonely genius) and the short history of psychological understandings (the creative individual). The social and the cross-cultural psychology of creativity are both co…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 147-163
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Commentary: How can Creativity in a Social Context be Possible?
Glaveanu’s (2010) ‘We-paradigm’ creativity is related to culture and social context, especially due to his emphasis on the role of the community as a provider of criteria for evaluating creativity. In addition, he suggests five principles for studying this kind of creativity. In this article, I will apply these principles to study the Korean cultural phenomenon, Shinmyeong. The characteristics …
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 165-173
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The Interface Work of Narrative
The article explores further Lyra (1999) and Hermans’ (1999, 2001a, 2001b) glossing of complexity terminology within analysis of identity formation, taking a particular interest in differing uses of narrative within identity negotiations. Lyra (1999) draws attention to the importance of using an extended time frame to assess the power dynamics involved within any communicative exchange. The fra…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 175-194
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Commentary: Self-Narrative Reconstruction in Psychotherapy: Looking at Differ…
This commentary focuses on Cross’s (2010, this issue) work as an opportunity to elaborate upon how to study narrative-dialogical processes from the perspective of complexity. We start by elaborating on the notion that narrative development is a multidimensional activity that extends through several organizational levels and on the limitations of conventional research methods for narrative analy…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 195-212
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Culture as the Co-evolution of Psychic and Social Systems: New Perspectives o…
In this article we contribute a new theoretical perspective to the analysis of the relationship between individual and culture, and the person and the environment. Many hotly debated issues in cultural psychology, such as reification, the discourse of personality traits, and models of part—whole hierarchies are productively addressed. Taking a systems-theoretical approach following Niklas Luhma…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 213-241
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Commentary: Environment, Behaviour and Communication: The Definitive Answer o…
The attempt to create general theory in social sciences is not new. Reductionism is one of the main problems in this process. Here I analyze the relationship between human, environment, and culture, based on Luhmann’s systems theory and its implications for modern psychology as discussed in Thommen and Wettstein’s (2010) critique of the field. Distinguishing three types of system (biotic, psych…
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- Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 243-251
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