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Public Administration as an Interdisciplinary Field : Assessing Its Relations…
Public administration is an interdisciplinary field, building on a variety of disciplinary approaches and values. But how well does the field of public administration reflect those values and processes? In contrast to previous arguments regarding the degree to which the field does or should incorporate values and lessons from other academic disciplines, this study provides a systematic assessme…
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- Volume 71, Issue 1, pages 96–101, Jan/Feb 2011
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- 00333352
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- Public Administration Review
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Gendering Agricultural Aid : An Analysis of Whether International Development…
Gender-based inequalities constrain women’s ability to participate in efforts to enhance agricultural production and reduce poverty and food insecurity. To resolve this, development organizations have targeted women and more recently “mainstreamed” gender within their agricultural aid programs. Through an analysis of agricultural-related development aid, we examine whether funded agricultural p…
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- Vol. 25 no. 1, February 2011.pp. 48-74
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- 08912432
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- Gender & Society
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Why Democracies Survive
As an analysis of recent electoral results shows, the world’s emerging democracies are weathering the global economic crisis surprisingly well. Yet they remain under an even sharper threat from their own failures to deliver good governance.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011, .pp. 17-30
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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From the G-8 to the G-20
The financial crisis did not deal a fatal blow to any democracies, but it did hasten an erosion of the influence of the West. In the future, the balance of power among competing regime types may be decided by the emerging-market democracies.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011. pp.31-38
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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Latin America’s Growing Security Gap
Striking the right balance between freedom and security is hard, especially in Latin America. Hybrid forces combining military and police elements may be the best means for meeting security challenges without imperiling freedom.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011.pp.39-53
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- 10455736
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Hong Kong’s Democrats Divide
For the first time ever in the history of Hong Kong, local democratic leaders and Chinese officials have forged a pact on limited democratic reforms. That may have marked a step forward for the cause of democracy in Hong Kong, but it has also led to a sharp split in the democratic camp.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011.pp. 54-67
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- 10455736
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Arab Islamists : Losing on Purpose?
In most Arab countries, Islamist groups are the only ones with the popular support needed to win free and fair elections. Yet Islamist parties have shown an ambivalence about and in some cases even an aversion to seeking power via the ballot box.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011.pp. 68-80
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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Building Democracy While Building Peace
Why are peacebuilding operations rarely able to establish postconflict democracies, and are there other strategies that would yield more successes?
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- Volume 22, Number 1,January 2011, pp. 81-95
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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Constraining Government Power in Africa
African politics is often characterized as a realm of “informality,” but formal rules and institutions actually loom large, especially with regard to overweening executive power and the reforms that may help to rein it in.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011,pp. 96-106
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- 10455736
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A Surge to the Center
The left-right ideological divide has begun to narrow in Latin America as citizens and leaders increasingly choose a pragmatic approach to politics and embrace the rules of the democratic game.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011.pp. 107-121
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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A Setback for Chávez
Hugo Chávez has been running a bounded competitive-authoritarian regime for some time, but its ability to compete is now slipping. Will this tend to make it less authoritarian—or even more so?
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011.pp. 122-136
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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Colombia After Uribe
Often thought of as a “nascent” democracy, Colombia actually has longstanding democratic institutions. In 2010, they were effective in determining who would succeed a highly popular, two-term president.
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- Volume 22, Number 1, January 2011.pp. 137-151
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- 10455736
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- Journal of Democracy
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The Locus of Racial Disadvantage in the Labor Market
Using a pooled sample constructed from recent installments of the Displaced Workers Survey, this study examines the racial disparities in postdisplacement outcomes while controlling for the predisplacement experience and earnings of individual workers. It finds no racial difference in the reemployment wage, but there is a large racial disparity in the chances of reemployment among workers with …
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- Vol. 116, No. 3, November 2010. pp. 909-942
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- 00029602
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- American Journal of Sociology
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A Model of Robust Positions in Social Networks
This article introduces a network model that pictures occupants of robust positions as recipients of diversified support from durably located others and portrays occupants of fragile positions as dependents on tenuously situated others. The model extends Herfindahl's index of concentration by bringing in the recursiveness of Bonacich's method. Using Newcomb's study of a college fraternity, we f…
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- Vol. 116, No. 3, November 2010. pp. 943-992
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- 00029602
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- American Journal of Sociology
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International academic knowledge creation and ba. A case study from Finland
Knowledge is created through discourse in ba that is the physical, mental and/or virtual arena of knowledge creation. This article studies ba in international humanist (H-group), technical (T-group) and scientific (S-group) research groups. These international groups consist of members originating from many countries. The empirical evidence is derived from interviews and discourse analysis of t…
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- Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2011.pp. 4–16
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- 14778238
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- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
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A study of knowledge management enablers across countries
Knowledge has been long cited as a strategic asset and a source of competitive advantage for organizations. However, the creation of knowledge is a complex process that is influenced by several factors beyond the typical practice of knowledge management (KM). In this research, we assess the effects of leadership, Ba (shared context in motion), organizational culture, organizational control, and…
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- Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2011.pp.17–28
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- 14778238
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- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
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Patterns of gaining and sharing of knowledge about customers : a study of an …
Knowledge sharing is an acknowledged pre-requisite for effective knowledge management. There is an extensive literature upon knowledge sharing practices and potential barriers. There is increasing recognition of the value of knowledge about customers within organisations. There are often several distinct avenues through which such knowledge is channelled. An assessment tool of knowledge flows i…
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- Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2011.pp. 29–47
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- 14778238
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- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
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Impact of learning culture and information technology use on knowledge sharin…
Knowledge is regarded as a strategic resource in organizations; thus the leverage of knowledge is a key managerial issue. Knowledge creation, sharing and dissemination are the main activities in knowledge management. This study examines the influence that social and technological factors, such as learning culture and IT use, could have on knowledge sharing among students of the King Fahd Univer…
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- Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2011.pp.48–57
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- 14778238
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- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
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An investigation into the factors affecting knowledge management adoption and…
Knowledge management (KM) is crucial for organizations to enhance competitive advantage. While the issues of KM have been widely discussed by numerous researchers, there is a paucity of studies pertaining to KM adoption and practice for the life insurance industry. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the main factors affecting the life insurance business in adopting and applying KM. An ex…
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- Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2011.pp.58–72
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- 14778238
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- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
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From group-based work to organisational learning : the role of communication …
This paper examines the role of group-based work as a knowledge sharing mechanism in fostering organisational learning. Relying on insights from communication research, the paper develops a set of propositions highlighting the role of communication forms in mediating the effect of group-based work on knowledge sharing. Our view on group-based work is grounded in the philosophical perspective on…
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- Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2011.pp.73–83
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- 14778238
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- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
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