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The cultural psychology of Palestinian youth: A narrative approach
Contemporary Palestinian youth engage with a tragic master narrative of loss and dispossession supported by the social structure of ongoing intractable conflict and Israeli military occupation. This article illustrates a narrative and idiographic approach to research in cultural psychology, interrogating the relationship between constructions of personal identity and the master narrative of Pal…
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- Vol. 16 no. 4. December 2010.pp. 507-537
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- 1354067x
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- Culture Psychology
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The Origins and Restriction of Efficiency in Public Administration: Regaining…
This article is primarily a study in the history of the concept of efficiency. It is argued that efficiency originated in Aristotelian ideas about causality and acquired a broad, substantive meaning of “moving force.” This meaning of the term was dominant well into 20th-century studies of public administration. In the course of the 20th century, however, efficiency became predominantly understo…
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- Vol. 42 no. 7. November 2010.pp. 755-779
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- 00953997
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- Administration & Society
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Stimulating Entrepreneurial Practices in the Public Sector: The Roles of Orga…
Unlike the practices of contracting out and privatization, which reduce public sector involvement and responsibility in service provision, public entrepreneurial practices may be one of the best ways to improve government performance and meet citizens’ demand efficiently and effectively. This study examines the relationships between organizational characteristics and public entrepreneurship in …
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- Vol. 42 no. 7. November 2010.pp. 780-814
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- 00953997
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- Administration & Society
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The Bureau of Municipal Research and the Development of a Professional Public…
This article explores the professionalization of public administration in terms of its relation to the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. The formation of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research in 1907 served as the catalyst for the creation and expansion of a professional public service. Although public administration has failed to transform into a profession, this article shows that th…
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- Vol. 42 no. 7. November 2010.pp. 815-835
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- 00953997
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- Administration & Society
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Virtual Government–Citizen Relations: Informational, Transactional, or Coll…
Public administration theory and practice suggest that e-government, citizen participation, and government–citizen collaboration are contributing to a movement toward New Public Service—as opposed to Old Public Administration and New Public Management. We explore this by focusing on the relationship between the Washington, D.C., police and local residents via online discussion groups. We ask, H…
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- Vol. 42 no. 7. November 2010.pp. 836-858
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- 00953997
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- Administration & Society
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Into the Woods: A Cautionary Tale for Governance
In 2010, the state is not merely hollow but increasingly empty, and those of us in government have to find their energy and purpose in the process of rebuilding it. Our happy endings—the specific outcomes we claim to want—somehow come along with unexpected twists and losses. We’ve discovered that life and governance aren’t linear and predictable. In the 20th century, public administration (PA) …
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- Vol. 42 no. 7. November 2010.pp. 859-883
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- 00953997
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- Administration & Society
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Immigration and integration policy and the Austrian radical right in office: …
This article focuses on the radical right's influence on immigration and migrant integration policy by scrutinising the 6-year period in national government of the Austrian Freedom Party and Alliance for Austria's Future. Specifically, it investigates the radical right's influence on migration control, migrant integration, citizenship and asylum policy. While previous studies have often credite…
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- Volume 16, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 337 - 354
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- 13569775
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- Contemporary Politics
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Problems of political transition in Ukraine: leadership failure and democrati…
Democratisation and consolidation of a political system encompass a range of complex challenges, for which effective leadership is pivotal. However, the skills that a leader requires to break through and introduce change are not necessarily the same as those needed to maintain stability. This article examines the case of Viktor Yushchenko as president of Ukraine following the Orange Revolution.…
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- Volume 16, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 355 - 367
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- 13569775
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- Contemporary Politics
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Crafting democratic control of the military in South Korea and the Philippine…
This article explores how a military's organizational character (cohesion or lack thereof) shapes military officers' attitudes toward new civilian leadership in democratizing South Korea and the Philippines. It suggests that a factionalized military makes civilian control much more difficult and the route to democratic consolidation highly unstable and incomplete for three reasons. First, in th…
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- Volume 16, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 369 - 382
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- 13569775
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- Contemporary Politics
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Myanmar: analyzing problems of transition and intervention
Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council touts the 2010 elections as an important milestone on the roadmap to democracy. While the consensus among scholars is that the result is a foregone conclusion, these elections may also mark the beginning of a transition. As a transition from authoritarian rule may lead to internal chaos and result in calls for external intervention, the relevant dim…
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- Volume 16, Issue 4 December 2010, pages 383 - 401
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- 13569775
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- Contemporary Politics
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State crimes against democracy in the war on terror: applying the Nuremberg p…
This article asks whether, in waging war in the Middle East, the Bush-Cheney Administration developed and executed a conspiracy comparable to the one for which Nazi leaders were tried, convicted, and executed at Nuremberg after World War II. To meet the Nuremberg standards, such a conspiracy must include efforts to subvert the constitutional order. Today, scholars refer to these actions as 'sta…
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- Volume 16, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 403 - 420
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- 13569775
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- Contemporary Politics
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International financial governance in hard times: tracing the transformations
This article reviews the tenets of the intellectual consensus on how to organize the international financial system that came to crystallize at the end of the 1990s and the contestation of such a consensus in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-09. Illustrating the path of ideational transformation from the early 1990s until the present time, the article builds on recent constr…
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- Volume 16, Issue 4 December 2010 , pages 421 - 436
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- 13569775
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- Contemporary Politics
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Modularizing Small Group Theories in Sociology
This article asserts that it is beneficial to formulate theories using methods specifically designed to facilitate and promote integrations. Although it is written using illustrations primarily from sociology, the discussion is relevant to other fields to whatever extent their theories may be deemed informal (i.e., presented without explicitly defined terms, distinct propositions, or logical ca…
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- Vol. 41 no. 6. December 2010.pp. 664-687
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- 10464964
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- Small Group Research
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Modeling Ideational Creativity in Groups: Connecting Cognitive, Neural, and C…
Many creative activities take place in a group context, whether in short-term meetings, work teams, or by means of electronic interaction. The group creative process necessarily involves the exchange of ideas or information. Recent models of group creativity have focused on the cognitive underpinnings of this type of group creative process, primarily based on the group brainstorming literature.…
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- Vol. 41 no. 6, December 2010. pp. 688-724
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- Small Group Research
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A Multilevel Model of Transformational Leadership and Adaptive Performance an…
Using a multilevel framework, we hypothesized that (a) individual perceptions of transformational leadership and (b) team-level transformational leadership climate would be positively related to individual adaptive performance. We also hypothesized that a stronger climate for innovation would enhance the association between transformational leadership and adaptive performance at the individual …
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- Vol. 35 no. 6, December 2010.pp. 699-726
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- 10596011
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- Group Organization Management
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Friends in Need: The Protective Effect of Social Relationships Under Low-Safe…
Previous studies have explored the role of social relationships, mainly with the supervisor, in promoting a high organizational safety climate. Not much is known, however, about the effect of social relationships when the safety climate is low. This study explored whether high-quality social relationships could compensate for a low level of safety climate. Hypotheses were tested among 673 emplo…
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- Vol. 35 no. 6, December 2010.pp. 727-750
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- 10596011
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- Group Organization Management
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Team Self-Managing Behaviors and Team Effectiveness: The Moderating Effect of…
This study investigates the role of team members’ self-managing behaviors in regard to three dimensions of team effectiveness. Furthermore, this study examines the moderating effect of task routineness on these relationships. The sample consists of 97 work teams (341 members and 97 immediate supervisors) drawn from a public safety organization. Results show that team self-managing behaviors are…
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- Vol. 35 no. 6. December 2010.pp. 751-781
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- 10596011
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- Group Organization Management
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Effects of Team Size and Work Team Perception on Workplace Commitment: Eviden…
This study investigated the influence of production team size (small vs. large) and employees’ perceptions of their production work teams (negative, neutral, and positive) on their level of workplace commitment.Twenty-three production work teams composed of 205 employees (105 males, 100 females), drawn from two team-based private manufacturing organizations, participated in the study. They resp…
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- Vol. 41 no. 6. December 2010.pp. 725-745
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- 10464964
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- Small Group Research
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Deliberation and Diversity: Perceptions of Small Group Discussions by Race an…
One of the challenges facing public deliberation scholars and practitioners is to identify deliberative processes that address inequities in interaction and foster active participation among all members of ethnically or racially diverse groups. This study draws from cocultural communication theory and uses mixed methodology to examine the experiences of citizens assigned to racially/ ethnically…
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- Vol. 41 no. 6, December 2010.pp. 746-776
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- 10464964
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- Small Group Research
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Mitteleuropa in East-Central Europe : From Helsinki to EU Accession (1975-2004)
The aim of this article is to provide a description, an analysis and an explanation of Mitteleuropa and of other closely related concepts, such as East-Central Europe. The first section briefly addresses the broad historiographical issues. The second addresses the more strictly political and intellectual history of the concept in the period between 1975 and 1989 while the third section wi…
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- Vol. 11, No. 2, Page 219-235
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- 1368-4310
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- European Journal of Social Theory
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