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Public Policy and the Neo-Weberian State

Public Policy and the Neo-Weberian State

The neo-Weberian state constitutes an attempt to combine the Weberian model of administration with the principles laid down during the retreat from the bureaucratic management paradigm (new public management and public governance). The concept of neo-Weberian state involves changing the model of operation of administrative structures from an inward-oriented one focused on compliance with internal rules into a model focused on meeting citizens’ needs (not by resorting to commercialisation as is the case with new public management but by building appropriate quality of administration). This book discusses the context of the neo-Weberian approach and its impact on the processes of societal transformation. Further it identifies and systematises the theoretical and functional elements of the approach under consideration. This volume includes comparative analyses of the neo-Weberian state and public management paradigms. In the empirical part of the work its authors review selected policies (economic innovation industrial labour territorial urban management and health) from the perspective of tools typical of the neo-Weberian approach. This part also includes a critical scrutiny of changes which have taken place in the framework of selected policies in recent decades. The study assesses the appropriateness of the neo-Weberian approach to the management of public affairs regarding countries which have modernised their public administrations in its spirit. One of the aims of this analysis is to answer the question whether the application of neo-Weberian ideas may result in qualitative changes in the context of public policies. The final part of the book covers implications for public management resulting from the concept of neo-Weberian state. Public Policy and the Neo-Weberian State is suitable for researchers and students who study political economy public policy and modern political theory.

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Literary Criticism: A Short History Neo-Classical Criticism

Literary Criticism: A Short History Neo-Classical Criticism

First published in 1957 Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world. Divided into four volumes each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical theories but also in vital dialectic with the creative literature of its own time. Volume Two focuses on Neo-Classical criticism and covers Medieval themes the Sixteenth Century English Neo-Classicism late seventeenth-century themes rhetoric and Neo-Classic wit poetry as pictures genius emotion and association and Samuel Johnson. | Literary Criticism: A Short History Neo-Classical Criticism

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Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture Immersions and Revisitations

Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture Immersions and Revisitations

This book provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken fascination with the histories technologies and achievements as well as the injustices and atrocities of the nineteenth century. They also reveal that in many ways contemporary identities are constructed through a Victorian mirror image fabricated by the desires imaginings and critical interests of the present. Providing analyses of current negotiations of nineteenth-century texts discourses and traumas this volume explores the contemporary commodification and nostalgic recreation of the past. It brings together critical perspectives of experts in the fields of Victorian literature and culture contemporary literature and neo-Victorianism with contributions by leading scholars in the field including Rosario Arias Cora Kaplan Elizabeth Ho Marie-Luise Kohlke and Sally Shuttleworth. Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture interrogates current fashions in neo-Victorianism and their ideological leanings the resurrection of cultural icons and the reasons behind our relationship with and immersion in Victorian culture. | Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture Immersions and Revisitations

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Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson

Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson

Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson both iconic Cambridge economists were highly influenced by the economic theory of Karl Marx and integrated important elements of Marx’s economic system into their theories. This book argues based on published and unpublished documents that the work of Sraffa and Robinson can in fact be considered as essentially post-Keynesian neo-Marxist. The first part of the book reviews the intellectual development of several key thinkers to this neo-Marxist current in economic thought: Kalecki Steindl Baran and Sweezy. Part One and Part Two separately examine Robinson and Sraffa’s works and questions how they fit into this specific neo-Marxist current either building on it (in Robinson’s case) or following another direction (in Sraffa’s case). Part Three observes Robinson’s theory of economic growth and its relationship to the views of Marx and Kalecki. Overall Cuyvers demonstrates how their thought processes share characteristics with neo-Marxist key ideological ideas such as stating or implying the labour theory of value as either redundant or wrong emphasising the role of class struggle in the distribution of income and rejecting Marx’s falling rate of profits. Following on from ideas briefly introduced in Cuyvers’s Economic Ideas of Marx’s Capital (2017) this book will particularly appeal to readers interested in the history of economic thought the work of Sraffa Robinson and Marx post-Keynesian economics and neo-Marxism. | Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson

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Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis Volume 2: Urban Neo-liberalisation

Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis Volume 2: Urban Neo-liberalisation

The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has facilitated in urban contexts. Recent developments such as intensified economic investment and exposure to aggressive strategies of banks hedge- funds and investors and long- term processes of market- and state- led urban restructuration have produced uneven urban geographies and new forms of exclusion and marginality. These strategies have no less transformed the governance of cities by subordinating urban social life to rationalities and practices of competition within and between cities and they also heavily impact on city inhabitants’ experience of everyday life. Against the backdrop of recent austerity politics and a marketisation of cities this volume discusses processes of urban neo- liberalisation with regard to democracy and citizenship inclusion and exclusion opportunities and life- chances. It addresses pressing issues of commodification of housing and home activation of civil society vulnerability and the right to the city. | Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis Volume 2: Urban Neo-liberalisation

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Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature

Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature

This book explores the relationship between a scientifically updated Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nature. It features original contributions by some of the best scholars engaging with Aristotelianism in contemporary metaphysics philosophy of science and philosophical theology. Despite the growing interest in Aristotelian approaches to contemporary philosophy of science few metaphysicians have engaged directly with the question of how a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of nature might change the landscape for theological discussion concerning theology and naturalism the place of human beings within nature or the problem of divine causality. The chapters in this volume are collected into three thematic sections: Naturalism and Nature Mind and Nature and God and Nature. By pushing the current boundaries of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics to recover the traditional notion of substantial forms in physics reframe the principle of proportionality in biology and restore the hierarchy of being familiar to ancient philosophy this book advances a metaphysically unified framework that accommodates both scientific and theological knowledge enriching the interaction between science philosophy and theology. Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics philosophy of science natural theology philosophical theology and analytic theology. Chapters 1 2 and 7 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

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Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics

Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics

First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in compositional semantics and what a syntax/semantics map which incorporated such objects might look like. | Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics

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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science

The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence as well as the ontological status and indispensability of dispositions and powers in science. Despite these recent trends few Aristotelian metaphysicians have engaged directly with the philosophy of the specialised sciences. Additionally the relationship between fundamental Aristotelian concepts—such as hylomorphism substance and faculties—and contemporary science has yet to receive a critical and systematic treatment. Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science aims to fill this gap in the literature by bringing together essays on the relationship between Aristotelianism and science that cut across interdisciplinary boundaries. The chapters in this volume are divided into two main sections covering the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of the life sciences. Featuring original contributions from distinguished and early-career scholars this book will be of interest to specialists in analytical metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

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Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper) tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a felt-bodily communication with all perceived forms and their affective-bodily resonance in us Being a Lived Body integrates and critically assesses the leading theories of embodiment while presenting a new approach to the body. It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy social theory and anthropology with interests in phenomenology and embodiment. | Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

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Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in epistemic bad faith in light of what psychology tells us. After all the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting ego-threatening thoughts à la Freud. It also indicates that we are ignorant of even our ordinary thoughts—e. g. reasons for our moral judgments of others (Haidt 2001) and even mundane reasons for buying one pair of stockings over another! (Nisbett & Wilson 1977) However reflection on one’s thoughts requires knowing what those thoughts are in the first place. So if ignorance is the norm why attempt self-reflection? The activity would just display naivety about psychology. Yet while respecting all the data this book argues that remarkably we are sometimes infallible in our self-discerning judgments. Even so infallibility does not imply indubitability and there is no Cartesian ambition to provide a foundation for empirical knowledge. The point is rather to explain how self-reflection as a rational activity is possible. | Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

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The New Review Economy Third-Party Review Sites Reputation and Neo-Liberal Public Relations in the Digital Age

The New Review Economy Third-Party Review Sites Reputation and Neo-Liberal Public Relations in the Digital Age

This book examines third-party review sites (TPRS) and the intersection of the review economy and neoliberal public relations in order to understand how users and organizations engage the 21st century global review economy. The author applies communication and digital media theories to evaluate contemporary case studies that challenge TPRS and control over digital reputation. Chapters analyze famous cases such as the Texas photographer who sued her clients for negative reviews and activists using Yelp to protest the hunt of Cecil the Lion to illustrate the complicated yet important role of TPRS in the review economy. Theories such as neoliberal public relations digital dialogic communication and cultural intermediaries help explain the impact of reviews and how to apply lessons learned from infamous cases. This nuanced and up to date exploration of the contemporary review economy will offer insights and best practice for academic researchers and upper-level undergraduate students in public relations digital media or strategic communication programs. | The New Review Economy Third-Party Review Sites Reputation and Neo-Liberal Public Relations in the Digital Age

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Life Trajectories Into and Out of Contemporary Neo-Nazism Becoming and Unbecoming the Hateful Other

Life Trajectories Into and Out of Contemporary Neo-Nazism Becoming and Unbecoming the Hateful Other

This book provides the first comprehensive sociological study of the contemporary National Socialist movement in Sweden including how it has developed since the 1990s until the present. It covers the ideas and political aspects of the movement as well as the subjective and very personal stories told by young men and women who in some cases have left the movement and in others remained. Through a large number of detailed stories of the movement’s violence hatred and ideology as well as stories of the life plans and dreams involved in re-entering society the study on which the book is based provides knowledge hope and new directions for studies on the National Socialist movement. Additionally the book provides innovative research on the relation between the life trajectories of National Socialists and their significant others allowing us to establish better and more scientific strategies for preventing radicalization and promoting de-radicalization. The book is aimed at students of sociology social science and researchers studying hate movements and violent extremism. It is also meant for professionals such as teachers social workers and youth workers who may encounter radicalization in their work as well as being a vital contribution for policymakers within the field. | Life Trajectories Into and Out of Contemporary Neo-Nazism Becoming and Unbecoming the Hateful Other

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Bibliography On Holocaust Literature Supplement

Bibliography On Holocaust Literature Supplement

In this second supplement to their Bibliography on Holocaust Literature the authors have compiled 4000 new entries to keep pace with the outpouring of literature on the subject. Readers' attention is directed to new materials and to items newly available including books pamphlets and journal articles many of which are catalogued for the first time. There is a new section on Soviet anti-Semitism and expanded coverage of neo-Nazism/neo-fascism. | Bibliography On Holocaust Literature Supplement

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Skinhead History Identity and Culture

Skinhead History Identity and Culture

Skinheads go beyond the societal stereotype of hate mongers bigots and Neo-Nazis. The community of skins also includes traditional skins (those that adhere to the original philosophy of the British movement in 1969) Skinheads Against Racial prejudice (SHARPS) and gay skins female skins and Neo-Nazi or Racist/Nationalist skins. Skinhead History Identity and Culture covers the history identity and culture of the skinhead movement in Europe and America looking at the total culture of the skins through a cross-sectional analysis of skinheads in various countries. Authors Borgeson and Valeri provide original research data to cast new light into the skinhead community. Some of the data is ethnographic drawing on face-to-face interviews with skins of all kinds while other data is compiled from the Internet and social media about various skinhead groups within the United States Europe and Australia. The book covers the history of the subculture; explores the unique cultures of female gay and Neo-Nazi skins; and explores manifestations of the culture as represented on the Internet and in music. The work discusses how skinheads derive their values and morals and how they fit into the larger social structure.

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The Political Economy of Communications International and European Dimensions

The Political Economy of Communications International and European Dimensions

First published in 1990 The Political Economy of Communications explores the central theme of the relationship between politics and markets in policy development. The contributors show how governments have been drawn into increasing interdependency by technological and market developments with international institutions like the European Community becoming more important in these policy areas. They argue that neither government ideologies nor market and technological forces offer an adequate account of the processes of change in communications policy. These conclusions lead to a critique of central theories of international political economy notably neo-liberalism and the authors advocate instead a neo-pluralist perspective for the study of political economy of communications – an approach that takes institutions much more seriously as a central unit of analysis. The book will be of interest to students of international relations European studies and media and telecommunication studies as well as to political scientists and economists concerned with public policy. | The Political Economy of Communications International and European Dimensions

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Nationalism and the Body Politic

Nationalism and the Body Politic

This volume aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are considered too extremist rather than their underlying frame of interpretation. Governments across Europe have adopted anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility towards 'others' is on the rise along with appeals to Tradition and Security. 'Cultures of fear' are linked with fantasies of fusion or 'imagined sameness'. Alongside the image of the nation as a mother and/or father Reich (1933) called attention to the fantasy of the nation as a body echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939) characterization of 'group hypochondria' in connection with the burning of witches and heretics. | Nationalism and the Body Politic

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EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality Turkey and Beyond

EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality Turkey and Beyond

This volume draws on a Foucauldian understanding of governmentality to explore how EU civil society funding policies depoliticise civil society organisations. It questions whether international civil society funding always depoliticises civil society organisations as the literature on governmentality and international civil society policies argues. The author examines how the liberal and neo-liberal rationalities of EU funding have both politicising and depoliticising effects on the human rights organisations funded and demonstrates that whether the effects help or prevent the politicisation of human rights depends on how legitimate or contested the issue is domestically and how the civil society organisations act in this political context. These themes are explored through an in-depth analysis of the case of Turkey and EU funding of organisations working in the fields of women LGBT and Kurdish rights. Unpacking liberal and neo-liberal governmentality in EU democracy promotion and civil society funding this insightful contribution to the literature will be of interest to scholars of International Relations Middle East Studies European Studies and democracy promotion. | EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality Turkey and Beyond

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The Darkest Sides of Politics I Postwar Fascism Covert Operations and Terrorism

The Darkest Sides of Politics I Postwar Fascism Covert Operations and Terrorism

This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably constitute the most noxious extreme terrifying murderous secretive authoritarian and/or anti-democratic aspects of national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore these dark sides of politics however unpleasant they may be since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The first volume in this two-volume collection focuses on the history of underground neo-fascist networks in the post-World War II era; neo-fascist paramilitary and terrorist groups operating in Europe and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s; and the manipulation of those and other terrorist organizations by the security forces of various states both authoritarian and democratic. A range of global case studies are included all of which focus on the lesser known activities of certain secular extremist milieus. This collection should prove to be essential reading for students and researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and contemporary politics. | The Darkest Sides of Politics I Postwar Fascism Covert Operations and Terrorism

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The Far Right in America

The Far Right in America

This book collects Mudde's old and new blog posts interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the 21st century the Tea Party and Donald Trump. Primarily aimed at a non-academic audience the book explains terminology clarifies the key organizations and people and their relationship to (liberal) democracy. | The Far Right in America

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Islam and Evolution Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm

Islam and Evolution Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm

This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual from the medieval period. By understanding al-Ghazālī as an Ash’arite theologian a particular strand of Sunni theology his metaphysical and hermeneutic ideas are taken to explore if and how much Neo-Darwinian evolution can be accepted. It is shown that his ideas can be used to reach an alignment between Islam and Neo-Darwinian evolution. This book offers a detailed examination that seeks to offer clarity if not agreement in the midst of an intense intellectual conflict and polarity amongst Muslims. As such it will be of great interest to scholars of Science and Religion Theology Philosophy of Religion Islamic Studies and Religious Studies more generally. *Winner of the International Society for Science & Religion (ISSR) book prize 2022 (academic category)* | Islam and Evolution Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm

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Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation. The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier (1960) gave rise to the idea that a secret society with wide powers the Thule society was the hidden and ignored centre of Nazism. The influence of this very real small group is however only a fantasy a myth. The author a historian specializing in neo-Nazism looks back on this speculative construction its origins its ideological tinkering and the practices which have succeeded in forming a sort of radical and sulphurous counterculture which has created a fascination with esotericism and Nazism and the SS. To better understand it he also paints a portrait of some of the authors who contributed to this extremist subculture such as the Italian esotericist Julius Evola the Argentine anthropologist Jacques-Marie de Mahieu Chilean neo-Nazi Miguel Serrano and the writer Jean-Paul Bourre. This book will appeal to scholars researchers and activists as well as general readers with an interest in the history of Nazism and the occult. | Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

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Managerial Decision Making

Managerial Decision Making

This book originally published in 1975 is an attempt to bridge the gap between economic theory and business practice by relating the tools of economic analysis to the decision making process itself. It is written from a decision making systems analysis viewpoint. This approach enables the reader to perceive the integrative nature of the subject matter in relation to the functioning of the business enterprise. Although the unifying theme of ‘decision making’ is at the heart of the book where necessary some of the theoretical underpinnings of traditional neo-classical theory of the firm are covered. | Managerial Decision Making

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