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‘We’re a very normal family’: Representing the mundane in Channel 4’s…
In 1974 Paul Watson’s The Family pioneered the ‘fly-on-the-wall’ technique to build a picture of family life that also exposed inequalities contained in British society. Today, film-maker Jonathan Smith, has updated this format using technologies usually found in reality programming to focus on the mundane practices of family life, in Channel 4’s The Family (2008). However, instead of the meta-…
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- Vol. 34 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 21-35
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At the origin of a global industry : The TV format trade as an Anglo-American…
Many of today’s popular TV programmes are formats that are adapted for local audiences as they travel from country to country. It is an industry that was transformed in the late 1990s by four ‘super-formats’ (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Survivor, Big Brother and Idols) and that is today worth an estimated €3.1 billion per year. This article focuses on the evolution that explains the emergen…
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- Vol. 34 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 36-52
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The institutionalization of YouTube : From user-generated content to professi…
This article explores the institutionalization of YouTube: its transformation from user-generated content (UGC) – oriented as a virtual village – into a professionally generated content (PGC) video site, especially after being purchased by Google. YouTube has influenced the traditional media environment, but at the same time this new medium imitates the rules of the old media, including legally…
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- Vol. 34 no. 1, January 2012 ,pp. 53-67
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The double bind : Women, honour and sexuality in contemporary Ireland
Irish women are caught in contradictory sexual discourses which create a cultural double bind. The legacy of Catholic Church teaching, in which the sexual honour of women revolves around their innocence and subservience, still lingers. This is gradually being replaced by media messages and images which portray women as sexually equal and independent. However, the media also portray sexually ind…
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- Vol. 34 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 68-82
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Blogs, genes and immigration : Online media and minimal politics
This article explores the contribution of the concept of ‘minimal politics’ to understanding contemporary blogging. Politics is often used to refer only to state actions or to very rare ruptures to existing formations; citizens’ and social media are often only considered successful if they influence political leaders or lead to radical social change. The perspective adopted in this article, dra…
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- Vol. 34 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 83-100
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Culture, Cooperation, and the General Welfare
Solutions to social dilemmas require cooperation. Given that there are commonly multiple avenues for cooperation, sometimes social dilemmas require coordination of strategies in addition to sufficient cooperation to be successful. This study examines one social dilemma where such coordination is necessary: supporting the general welfare. Using World Values Survey data from 33 nations, we compar…
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- Vol. 74 no. 4, December 2011,pp. 341-360
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- 01902725
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Job Burnout and Couple Burnout in Dual-earner Couples in the Sandwiched Gener…
We use existential theory as a framework to explore the levels of and relationship between job and couple burnout reported by dual-earner couples in the “sandwich generation” (i.e., couples caring both for children and aging parents) in a sample of such couples in Israel and the United States. This comparison enables an examination of the influence of culture (which is rarely addressed in burno…
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- Vol. 74 no. 4, December 2011,pp. 361-386
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The Emergence of Embedded Relations and Group Formation in Networks of Compet…
This study examines how and when small networks of self-interested agents generate a group tie or affiliation at the network level. A group affiliation is formed when actors (a) perceive themselves as members of a group and (b) share resources with each other despite an underlying competitive structure. We apply a concept of structural cohesion to small networks of exchange and identify two dim…
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- Vol. 74 no. 4, December 2011,pp. 387-413
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Managing Emotional Manhood : Fighting and Fostering Fear in Mixed Martial Arts
Based on two years of fieldwork and over 100 interviews, we analyze mixed martial arts fighters’ fears, how they managed them, and how they adopted intimidating personas to evoke fear in opponents. We conceptualize this process as “managing emotional manhood,” which refers to emotion management that signifies, in the dramaturgical sense, masculine selves. Our study aims to deepen our understand…
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- Vol. 74 no. 4, December 2011,pp. 414-437
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Minnowbrook : Tradition, Idea, Spirit, Event, Challenge
This article sets the stage for the special issue by explaining the tradition, idea, spirit, event, and challenge of Minnowbrook.
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- Vol. 21, Issue supplement 1, January 2011, Pp. i1-
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Wrestling with Intellectual Diversity in Public Administration : Avoiding Dis…
Public Administration (PA) is a field characterized by great diversity in theoretical approaches and methodological tactics. This wide scope lends itself to potential epistemological and methodological fragmentation, which prevents scholars from adequately appreciating and building on each other's work. Although many scholars value PA's theoretical and methodological diversity, this intellectua…
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- Vol. 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i13-i28
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Public Administration in Dark Times : Some Questions for the Future of the Field
This essay identifies two problems that impede the ability of public administration to govern effectively in dark times. First, public administration has failed to adequately acknowledge itself as an arbiter of political conflict and as a discipline responsible for shaping societal affairs. Second, the field is entrenched in a bureaucratic pathology that limits its capacity to address complex p…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011,Pp. i29-i43
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The Case for Public Administration with a Global Perspective
Globalization has been challenging the theory and practice of Public Administration at an unprecedented level. Major policy issues cross national boundaries cannot be solved without international collaboration—even domestic issues will be better understood and addressed with a global perspective. To advance Public Administration theory building, we need to examine issues across national and eth…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i45-i5
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Globalized Public Management : An Interdisciplinary Design Science?
This essay complements that of Hou et al. (Hou, Yilin, Anna Ya Ni, Ora-orn Poocharoen, Kaifeng Yang, and Zhirong Zhao, 2011, “The case for public administration with a global perspective,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21[Supp 1]:i45-i51) on globalized public management. It focuses on public management as an interdisciplinary design science that reconnects with the themes…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i53-i5
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Advancing Social Equity in the Minnowbrook Tradition
The goals of valuing social equity and using it as a guide in managing public programs are firmly rooted in the Minnowbrook tradition. Although civil rights activists have long fought for equality, attendees at the Minnowbrook I conference in 1968 were among the first in the field of public administration to directly confront societal inequities by asserting that public administrators should, i…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i61-i7
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A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action : Using Empirical Research t…
This article advocates for a renewed emphasis on the use of empirical research on social equity. It argues that public administration research focuses too much on the differences between empirical and normative research and not nearly enough on how to integrate the two. This has been particularly problematic in research on social equity, where scholars tend to reiterate normative arguments inst…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i77-i8
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Focusing the Public Leadership Lens : Research Propositions and Questions in …
Although there is no shortage of general studies and theories of leadership, the same cannot be said for public leadership. This concern surfaced as a critical issue among scholars at the 2008 Minnowbrook III conference. Drawing from that discussion, this article calls for invigorating the study of public leadership within public administration (PA). We present the case for public leadership, t…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i83-i9
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Crossing the Divide : Building Bridges between Public Administration Practiti…
This article discusses the challenges of better connecting public administration (PA) scholarship to practice and recommends solutions to address those challenges in three areas—engaged scholarship, engaged teaching, and engaged faculty. To strengthen the connection between research and practice, strategies are proposed such as publishing summaries of research, creating open access online journ…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i99-i1
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Why Public Financial Management Matters
Public administration and management (PAM) scholars have long recognized that financial resources are the lifeblood of public organizations. Less appreciated is how the study of public financial management (PFM) can inform the theory, research, and practice of PAM broadly. In this article, we argue that PFM research brings a variety of conceptual, analytical, and empirical insights to bear on s…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i113-i
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Management, Law, and the Pursuit of the Public Good in Public Administration
The tension between managerialism and legalism in public administration has been a recurring theme at Minnowbrook conferences. This tension, increasingly evident in the literature, is couched in the often-conflicting values of efficiency and performance, on one hand, and legal and democratic values such as accountability, equality, and transparency, on the other hand. Building on conversations …
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i125-i
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