Patron-Client Politics and Governance System in Nepal
... Applies rules with partiality and some citizens get preferential treatment Effective in implementing the decisions of government ...
... Applies rules with partiality and some citizens get preferential treatment Effective in implementing the decisions of government ...
Chapter 4 - Researching Media Audiences
... When asked what distinguishes culture, a Chinese person will usually point to the Chinese language, even though their place of residence may be Hong Kong, Taiwan or other parts of the Chinese diaspora spread around the world. But an Englishspeaking Westerner will seldom say that English is what dist ...
... When asked what distinguishes culture, a Chinese person will usually point to the Chinese language, even though their place of residence may be Hong Kong, Taiwan or other parts of the Chinese diaspora spread around the world. But an Englishspeaking Westerner will seldom say that English is what dist ...
Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
... do not heed this basic point, they end up using the term ‘culture’ as if it were co-terminous with ‘nation’ and/or ‘ethnicity’ (e.g. ‘Thai’, ‘American’, ‘Chinese’ or ‘Egyptian’ in the examples above). If researchers use predefined cultural categories that are salient to them as the basis for their i ...
... do not heed this basic point, they end up using the term ‘culture’ as if it were co-terminous with ‘nation’ and/or ‘ethnicity’ (e.g. ‘Thai’, ‘American’, ‘Chinese’ or ‘Egyptian’ in the examples above). If researchers use predefined cultural categories that are salient to them as the basis for their i ...
Course Outline: Public Policy Analysis
... Incremental Model: Budgeting is at the heart of all public policy making. All public interest policies need budgets. Budgets review public policies in terms of their cost assessment and available financial resources. Government budget decides which public policies and programs need to be increased, ...
... Incremental Model: Budgeting is at the heart of all public policy making. All public interest policies need budgets. Budgets review public policies in terms of their cost assessment and available financial resources. Government budget decides which public policies and programs need to be increased, ...
Moral Competence in the Practice of Democratic Governance
... forbearance, even when their views are ill-founded or confused. We need not believe they are always right to recognize that practices and social norms based on shared experience, reflecting shared sentiments, have a presumptive validity. The presumption is rebuttable, of course, but the official who ...
... forbearance, even when their views are ill-founded or confused. We need not believe they are always right to recognize that practices and social norms based on shared experience, reflecting shared sentiments, have a presumptive validity. The presumption is rebuttable, of course, but the official who ...
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... as the basis for their investigations, they can only reproduce the discourses available to them (i.e. those circulating in society at large), rather than analyzing those discourses critically. It is therefore unsurprising that culture oftentimes gets equated with nation and/or ethnicity, because the ...
... as the basis for their investigations, they can only reproduce the discourses available to them (i.e. those circulating in society at large), rather than analyzing those discourses critically. It is therefore unsurprising that culture oftentimes gets equated with nation and/or ethnicity, because the ...
Policy Networks
... legislative institutions, and governmental executive agencies that engage in setting agendas, formulating policies, gaining access, advocating positions, organizing collective influence actions, and selecting among proposals to solve delimited substantive policy problems, such as national defense, e ...
... legislative institutions, and governmental executive agencies that engage in setting agendas, formulating policies, gaining access, advocating positions, organizing collective influence actions, and selecting among proposals to solve delimited substantive policy problems, such as national defense, e ...
Telenovelas, Culture and Social Change
... the growing international trend of entertainment-education which has its roots in the Latin American tradition of telenovelas but which since has become a globalized strategy for both promoting particular behaviors, advocating rights of specific social groups and working to articulate social change ...
... the growing international trend of entertainment-education which has its roots in the Latin American tradition of telenovelas but which since has become a globalized strategy for both promoting particular behaviors, advocating rights of specific social groups and working to articulate social change ...
the public role model in public relations: an integrated approach to
... marketing practices to identify the traits and behaviors of individuals who hold greater influence than others within social networks. (Elliott, 2007) What type of person takes on the role of personifying an organization? What traits and determinants predict the extent an individual has personal inf ...
... marketing practices to identify the traits and behaviors of individuals who hold greater influence than others within social networks. (Elliott, 2007) What type of person takes on the role of personifying an organization? What traits and determinants predict the extent an individual has personal inf ...
Monologue or Dialogue. Challenges of Communication in Latin
... For more information about communication ‘tools’, see Fraser and Villet (2004), Voces Nuestras (2006:17) or World Bank ...
... For more information about communication ‘tools’, see Fraser and Villet (2004), Voces Nuestras (2006:17) or World Bank ...
Representations, identity and resistance in communication
... What is the relationship between representation and communication? Social representations are “systems of values, ideas and practices with a two-fold function: first, to establish an order which will enable individuals to orient themselves in their material and social world and to master it; and se ...
... What is the relationship between representation and communication? Social representations are “systems of values, ideas and practices with a two-fold function: first, to establish an order which will enable individuals to orient themselves in their material and social world and to master it; and se ...
Abstracts Thursday, Nov. 21 - ICA Political Communication Division
... The 2012 U.S. elections witnessed a rise in national discourse about gender politics, the likes of which had not been seen in years, and the eventual election of more women to the U.S. Congress than ever before in American history. The 2012 election cycle also saw the rise of Twitter as a hothouse o ...
... The 2012 U.S. elections witnessed a rise in national discourse about gender politics, the likes of which had not been seen in years, and the eventual election of more women to the U.S. Congress than ever before in American history. The 2012 election cycle also saw the rise of Twitter as a hothouse o ...
Good governance and legitimacy
... officials with good reputation and honorable authority and it requires officials at all levels to love and treat their subjects like the way parents treat their children,,with no selfishness and bias. However, speaking more abstractly and broadly, the elements of good government are essentially simi ...
... officials with good reputation and honorable authority and it requires officials at all levels to love and treat their subjects like the way parents treat their children,,with no selfishness and bias. However, speaking more abstractly and broadly, the elements of good government are essentially simi ...
... sector, World Business as the second sector and the third sector are the organizations as a volunteer. As a third sector, NGOs serves as an intermediary institutions that become the bridge between government and society. These third-party involvement, ie farmers, governments and NGOs is very importa ...
Introduction to the themed issue. Corporate power: Agency
... This special issue of Critical Social Policy opens these issues up for analysis in an attempt to mainstream them in social policy scholarship. It builds on recent work in the field that has focused on the role of business in social policy (Farnsworth, 2004, 2006a, 2006b, 2008; Farnsworth and Holden, ...
... This special issue of Critical Social Policy opens these issues up for analysis in an attempt to mainstream them in social policy scholarship. It builds on recent work in the field that has focused on the role of business in social policy (Farnsworth, 2004, 2006a, 2006b, 2008; Farnsworth and Holden, ...
The Myth of Impoverished Signal
... interpersonal communication was comparatively small, probably numbering in the thousands. One history of the Internet indicates that in 1981, there were 213 host computer servers connecting to ARPANET. A decade later, that figure had grown to a million.6 By 2007, over 50 million active server sites ...
... interpersonal communication was comparatively small, probably numbering in the thousands. One history of the Internet indicates that in 1981, there were 213 host computer servers connecting to ARPANET. A decade later, that figure had grown to a million.6 By 2007, over 50 million active server sites ...
Communication without Agents? From Agent-Oriented to
... the driving force of communication. The primary task of modeling consists in representing which agent authors a message (sender) and which agent interprets that message (receiver). Related design question are: What is an agent's intention and how is it encoded in a message? However, in large-scale c ...
... the driving force of communication. The primary task of modeling consists in representing which agent authors a message (sender) and which agent interprets that message (receiver). Related design question are: What is an agent's intention and how is it encoded in a message? However, in large-scale c ...
Full Text - Sacha Journal of Human Rights (SJHR)
... systems in the modern age”. It is hard therefore to think of a time under any political system, where politicians and political activists as well as political actors have not had the duty to persuade the voters and potential voters or other groups in society to support them, often as opposed to riva ...
... systems in the modern age”. It is hard therefore to think of a time under any political system, where politicians and political activists as well as political actors have not had the duty to persuade the voters and potential voters or other groups in society to support them, often as opposed to riva ...
The Role of Citizens in Democratic Governance
... This paper seeks to answer the question as to why some governments are more stable, efficient, innovative and well-managed than others. It locates the answer in the shift of paradigm from a governance model in which citizens were mostly passive to one in which they are provided with power and avenue ...
... This paper seeks to answer the question as to why some governments are more stable, efficient, innovative and well-managed than others. It locates the answer in the shift of paradigm from a governance model in which citizens were mostly passive to one in which they are provided with power and avenue ...
Media Romanticism: The New Public Sphere
... the phases of this growth was that it was not created by institutional media and communication channels, but spontaneously within social networks as a form of setting and exchanging the concept. That might be the reason behind new media being a part of the social interaction in more than one level, ...
... the phases of this growth was that it was not created by institutional media and communication channels, but spontaneously within social networks as a form of setting and exchanging the concept. That might be the reason behind new media being a part of the social interaction in more than one level, ...
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... scholars with high mobility are tempted to overestimate (in the “hotel thesis”) the role of such transnational media, because they are available to them (but relatively few others) in their narrow and privileged travel circles.1 Hafez provides a needed empirical evaluation of related phenomenon with ...
... scholars with high mobility are tempted to overestimate (in the “hotel thesis”) the role of such transnational media, because they are available to them (but relatively few others) in their narrow and privileged travel circles.1 Hafez provides a needed empirical evaluation of related phenomenon with ...
The (Surplus) Value of Scientific Communication Gerhard Fröhlich
... multifarious, multi-leveled and often opaque manner, mutually interdependent - not least importantly on the basis of a division of labor or functional differentiation: Behind concepts, theories, research designs and results are people or human groups engaged in interaction with one another. Power is ...
... multifarious, multi-leveled and often opaque manner, mutually interdependent - not least importantly on the basis of a division of labor or functional differentiation: Behind concepts, theories, research designs and results are people or human groups engaged in interaction with one another. Power is ...
Revisiting the Concepts of Mass Communication, the Audience
... Such an approach to the concept of mass communication highlights the changing nature of the media audience. And while scholars have devoted a substantial amount of attention to the ways that the new media environment is recasting the notion of the audience (see, e.g., Cover, 2006; Livingstone, 1999, ...
... Such an approach to the concept of mass communication highlights the changing nature of the media audience. And while scholars have devoted a substantial amount of attention to the ways that the new media environment is recasting the notion of the audience (see, e.g., Cover, 2006; Livingstone, 1999, ...
The Case for Communication in Sustainable Development
... realisation of human rights, freedom and security; improved choices, selfdetermination and power to influence one’s own life and conditions; and sustainability. Achievement of these goals entails changes at every level: within households and communities, in societies, states and businesses, and in i ...
... realisation of human rights, freedom and security; improved choices, selfdetermination and power to influence one’s own life and conditions; and sustainability. Achievement of these goals entails changes at every level: within households and communities, in societies, states and businesses, and in i ...
Ubuntu and Intercultural Communication: Power, Inclusion and
... race) may live and work where (bantustans, ‘white’ South Africa etc.). Thus, if signs have a ‘material’ basis (Volosinov, 1973, p. 11) and are produced within an historical material context (Volosinov, 1973, p. 21), then apartheid was more than just racism (see Louw & Tomaselli, 1991). It was, in fa ...
... race) may live and work where (bantustans, ‘white’ South Africa etc.). Thus, if signs have a ‘material’ basis (Volosinov, 1973, p. 11) and are produced within an historical material context (Volosinov, 1973, p. 21), then apartheid was more than just racism (see Louw & Tomaselli, 1991). It was, in fa ...