Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Means-ends'

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-280). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3055725.

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This thesis examines, classifies and evaluates the tactics and organisational methods of British and Irish anarchist groups, which operated in the period 1984-1999 (although reference is made to groupings and events outside of this period). The thesis explains how class struggle anarchism, which was a minority trend even within the libertarian milieu, has developed into a significant and lively (anti-)political movement. This thesis examines recent groups through their own publications and their accounts of their recent actions. Previous studies have attempted to assess anarchist methods through either liberal or traditional Marxist categories. This thesis develops a mode of assessment that is consistent with the methods of evaluation used by anarchists themselves. This prefigurative ethic is used to build up an ideal-type of anarchism that is consistent with the main characteristics of libertarian theory. Anarchist prefiguration - which demands that the means must be synecdochic in relation to the ends - requires that the oppressed become the agents who bring about change. Oppression is irreducible to capitalism alone, but in most contexts, economic oppression will be a significant force in the creation of the oppressed agent's identity. Anarchists' preference for 'direct action' captures their commitment to the means being in accordance with the ends, and the primacy of the oppressed in resisting their oppression. The anarchist ideal is used as a standard to assess the operations of existing anarchist groups. Consistent with prefiguration, anarchist organisation and tactics have to be multiform and flexible, without strategic priority being given to any single organisation or structure. Anarchist tactics must also involve a variety of oppressed subjects, while undermining hierarchies of power. It will be shown that certain organisational methods associated with anarchism; such as old style syndicalism is incompatible with the prefigurative ethic. Similarly certain organisational structures, often dismissed as inconsistent with anarchist principles, such as temporary small groups carrying out selective propaganda by deed, can, under certain conditions, be consistent with anarchism. The growth of class struggle anarchism is shown to be a result of its prefigurative and multiform organisation and its corresponding diversity of tactics.

COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>O presente trabalho visa a apresentar a discussão sobre a natureza e o objeto da phronesis na Ética Nicomaquéia de Aristóteles, tomando como ponto de partida o célebre debate ocorrido na França há cerca de quarenta anos: nas ações humanas, a phronesis é essencialmente conhecimento dos meios para realizar os fins desejados, ou, ao contrário, é essencialmente o conhecimento destes fins? Primeiramente, apresentam-se os antecedentes deste debate, nas discussões a respeito da phronesis entre aristotélicos e neokantianos na Alemanha do final do século XIX e suas influências na interpretação de Jaeger. Em seguida, no capítulo central, apresenta-se o debate entre autores franceses. Para ilustrar os pontos de vista opostos, tomam-se, respectivamente, as posturas de Pierre Aubenque, para quem a phronesis é conhecimento somente dos meios, e do Pe. René-Antoine Gauthier, para quem ela é sobretudo conhecimento dos fins. Posteriormente, partindo da constatação de que a questão ainda permanece aberta após este célebre debate, são apresentados seus desdobramentos posteriores, a fim de oferecer o estado atual da questão, apresentando algumas soluções propostas nas duas últimas décadas, na linha de uma superação das oposições.<br>The following work strives to ponder on the nature and object of phronesis in Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics, using as a starting point the renowned debate staged in France around forty years ago: in human actions, phronesis is essentially the knowledge of the means necessary to attain the desired end, or is it on the other hand the knowledge of these ends? In first place the antecedents of this discussion are presented, concerning the debate on the concept of phronesis between Aristotelians and Neokantians in Germany towards the end of the XIXth century and its influences on the interpretations of Jaeger. Following that, in the second chapter, the debate among the French authors is presented. In order to illustrate opposing viewpoints, two exemplary postures are taken into consideration, those of Pierre Aubenque, for whom phronesis is essentially the knowledge of means, and that of Fr. René-Antoine Gauthier, for whom it is essentially the knowledge of the ends. Finally, taking into consideration that the debate is still open even after all arguments are presented, a follow-up is done taking into consideration some of the main proposals of the recent decades in order to have an idea of how the debate has evolved to its present state and with the intention of solving oppositions.

In this thesis I offer an alternative to the hyper–individualistic, hyper-performative means-end dynamic that dominates contemporary educational practice. I foreground dimensions of experience that possibilise an approach that is neither instrumentatlised nor instrumentalising; an approach I term (a) (more) just education. The thesis opens with an analysis of how the reduction of education to use-value is both dependent on, and perpetuating of, a conception of subjectivity that overlooks the facticity of embodied life. The prevalence of dualist assumptions in both liberal and critical educational thinking and the persistence of these assumptions despite explicit attempts to think otherwise is mapped out and I draw a link between these assumptions and the privilege accorded to displays of understanding. Alongside this analysis I propose that the seemingly all-pervasive Cartesian legacy might be circumvented by approaching the question of subjectivity from a kinaesthetic perspective. This kinaesthetic approach is outlined with reference to the somatic dance practice of Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT). The practice of SRT offers up three ‘kinaesthetic provocations’ that invite re-thinking both the dynamics of education and the dynamics of justice. Throughout the thesis I explore an interplay between these provocations and the work of Derrida and Deleuze/Deleuze and Guattari; and through this interplay I unsettle the dualisms of self and other, self and world, and self and work. By approaching the shaping of subjectivity from a bodily, kinaesthetic perspective I submit the bodies called teachers and students, the bodies of practice called teaching and learning, the bodies of knowledge called curricula and the ideal body called justice to processes of deterritorialisation. Untethering education from its ends in this way affords the possibility of approaching education as an experience of passage. I argue that an emphasis on passage offers up educational consequences that are shared in rather than shared out and that therefore escape the grip of performative categorising trends. Through this account the role of the educator becomes one of affirmation, rather than validation, and I conclude the thesis by examining the particular sensitivities that this demands.

Background: Occupational therapy (OT) plays an important role in providing early childhood interventions for children with developmental delay. While paediatric OT has long been guided by developmental principles, occupation-centred interventions have been promoted during the last decades, but no unifying definition exists about the core features. Aims/Objectives: The aim of this paper is to (a) identify and describe how occupation-based and occupation-focused interventions are demonstrated in paediatric occupational therapy for infants and young children with developmental delay, (b) identify which outcomes these interventions address and (c) analyse which outcome measures are used. Material and Methods: Eight databases and 15 OT journals were searched. Included studies were peer-reviewed primary sources published in English since 1999, selected based on the terminology proposed by Fisher (2013). Nineteen papers met inclusion criteria. Results: Eight occupation-based, two occupation-focused and nine occupation-based and occupation-focused interventions were identified. Outcomes related mainly to occupational and play skill acquisition as well as mastery of co-occupations. A limited number of occupation-focused outcome measures was implemented. Conclusions: Several occupation-centred interventions have been researched. Gaps in knowledge exist regarding measures taking into account (co-)occupational performance and young children’s perspective. Significance: OTs might want to expand their scope of practice to include all occupational domains and increase parent-delivered interventions in natural environments. Measures used should be relevant to occupational performance and take into account the parent’s and children’s view. Use of uniform terminology can aid identification of evidence and clear placement of OT among other professionals.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Defense Decision-Making & Planning))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Trinkunas, Harold ; Clunan, Anne. "December 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 16, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-81). Also available in print.

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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.<br>This research studies making an intelligent tutoring system in order to reduce pilot mistakes during inflight emergency, specifically the flight environment within an F-4 aircraft fuel system malfunction. The pilot emergency tutoring system consists of an expert system with knowledge of the F=4 aircraft fuel system and a tutoring system with strategy to teach students. The expert and tutoring systems use a means-ends analysis problem approach, The means-ends analysis approach reduces differences between the current state and goal state until the final state or an unsolvable state is reached. Through use of the program, pilots can learn to prevent decision-making errors and procedural errors. Consequently, the pilot can be freer to serve as aircraft commander during an emergency situation.

In recent years we have been able to witness a growing divide in the politics of democracy promotion, research in the field has taken a more critical turn and is proclaiming a legitimacy crisis of democracy promotion. Some of the most prominent critique comes from the field of postcolonialism where authors argue that the desire to intervene and democratise another society should be considered an imperial project. Others argue that the ‘unsatisfactory’ outcomes of democracy promotion should be attributed to an insufficient conceptualisation of democracy and its relation to liberalism. This thesis aims to engage with some of the critiques brought forward in the discussion on the legitimacy crisis of democracy promotion by focusing on EU policies, specifically concerning the envisioned relation and interaction with recipients of democracy promotion. To gain deeper understanding of this issue the study puts forward the question of what conception of democracy is promoted by the EU in order to understand what the EU brings into interactions with recipients of democracy promotion. This is then followed by the question of whether there any indications that the democracy promotion pursued by the EU may contribute to a relation of domination. Through the use of textual analysis and ideology critique, the conclusions present support to the claims that the EU’s conception of democracy promotes traditional liberal values, infused with a narrative of universalism to legitimise EU engagement. Further it is concluded that, variations in the EU’s way of phrasing its efforts indicates an ambivalence concerning the role of recipients. The findings of the thesis further support the perception that that the EU is pursuing a strategy to leverage its own normative and political power in the international arena. Examples of a neo-colonial narrative, combined with a lack of self-reflection concerning the EU’s colonial history and current position of power, further supports critiques concerning cultural imperialism. Still, it is also found that, on a policy level, citizens and civil society organisations in partner states are supported and empowered, going against the notion of domination.

The purpose of this study is to examine the status of technology in the new national core curriculum for basic education of Finland. The key factor involved is the opposition of means and ends in educational technology. This means that the study focuses on how technology is presented in the curriculum by considering how intrinsically or extrinsically it is treated in the context of education as well as the reasons given in the curriculum for the application of educational technology. The study also examines how the regulations in the curriculum change in accordance with different age groups of pupils. The study is based on a content analysis of the national curriculum, with relevant extracts analysed and discussed from the perspective of the research questions. Educational technology, information and communication technology (ICT) and multiliteracy are key concepts in this study. The study found that the use of technology in education is explained in the curriculum as a means of preparing pupils for a future where technology would always be present in their lives, especially in the field of employment. Technology is largely seen in the curriculum as something which is always present in our modern society. As for the matter of intrinsic and extrinsic values, technology is treated in the curriculum as something which can be very beneficial to education and the educational use of which has much potential and should therefore be developed further<br>Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on tutkia, millainen asema teknologialla on peruskoulun opetussuunnitelman uusissa perusteissa. Opetusteknologiaa tarkasteltaessa avainasemaan nousee tässä keinojen ja tarkoitusten vastakkainasettelu. Käytännössä tämä tarkoittaa sitä, että tutkielman keskiössä on ensinnäkin se, käsitelläänkö teknologiaa opetussuunnitelmassa välinearvona vai itseisarvona, ja toisaalta myös opetussuunnitelmassa annetut syyt teknologian opetuskäytölle. Tutkielma tarkastelee myös sitä, millä tavoin oppilaiden ikäluokat vaikuttavat opetussuunnitelman säädöksiin. Tutkielma perustuu opetussuunnitelman sisällönanalyysiin, jossa analysoidaan merkittävät katkelmat, joita käsitellään tutkimuskysymysten kannalta. Opetusteknologia, tieto- ja viestintäteknologia ja monilukutaito ovat tämän tutkielman keskeisiä käsitteitä. Tutkielman kautta selvisi, että teknologian käyttö opetuksessa perustuu opetussuunnitelman mukaan siihen, että oppilaita valmistellaan sellaista tulevaisuutta varten, jossa teknologia on jatkuvasti heidän elämissään läsnä, etenkin työelämässä. Teknologian koetaan myös olevan alati läsnä yhteiskunnassa yleisesti. Mitä tulee itseisarvoihin ja välinearvoihin, opetussuunnitelman perusteissa teknologia nähdään asiana, joka voi olla erittäin hyödyllinen osa opetusta ja sen opetuskäyttöä tulisi siksi kehittää edelleen

CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Dos fins aos meios, da história ao discurso: enquadramento e ampliação no Orçamento Participativo de Porto Alegre traça um panorama das lutas comunitárias e participacionistas em Porto Alegre até a gestão do prefeito Olívio Dutra, do Partido dos Trabalhadores (1989-1992). A partir do relato das experiências e projetos do movimento comunitário porto- alegrense, assim como da análise do discurso de promoção do Orçamento Participativo, chega-se a um processo em que os sujeitos e os sentidos da participação se transformam, o que, ao invés de abalar a hegemonia do grupo dirigente do movimento comunitário, a reforça.<br>From the Ends to the Means, from History to Discourse: framing and amplification on Porto Alegre`s Participatory Budget traces a panorama of community and participationist struggles in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, until the the Workers` Party mayor Olívio Dutra`s term in office (1989-1992) . From a report of the experiences and projects of Porto Alegre`s community movement, as well as from the discourse analysis of Participatory Budget promotion, the study reveals a process in which the subjects and senses of participation are transformed in a way that, instead of weakening the hegemony of the dominant group within the community movement, strengthened it.

The aim of this thesis is to create knowledge on processes of change in the contemporary organizing of Swedish voluntary sport and the systems of meaning at work in these processes. The thesis proceeds from the assumption that the contemporary public sport policy climate is characterized by a pressure on organized sport to change in order for sport to better serve as an implementer of non-sport goals. In attempting to capture the possible ramifications of this pressure on the organizing of voluntary sport, the thesis work relies on the argument that processes of change are best captured in instances where new and established ideas are confronted with one another. Following this argument and drawing upon the concept of theorization, the first research question treated in the thesis concerns how legitimacy is established for a new practice (reported in Article 1). The second research question addressed is how, why, and with what consequences new ideas on organizing are implemented in sport organizations (reported in Article 2 &amp; 3). In relation to this question, the concepts of translation and organizational identity are mobilized in the analysis. Empirically, these two questions are addressed using data from 29 interviews covering the emergence and organizing of organized spontaneous sport, so-called Drive in sport, in four Swedish municipalities. The analysis relating to these two questions shows that the same systems of meaning invoked to legitimize and specify Drive-in sport as a practice that has the potential to remedy problems being faced by both the Swedish society and the Swedish sports movement, also made Drive-in sport an unlikely developmental direction for the majority of implementing sport clubs. This process is understood with reference to a mismatch between the organizational identity of the clubs and the cultural material of the idea of Drive-in sport. This insight is brought into the formulation of the third research question treated in the thesis, which is concerned with sport clubs’ readiness, willingness, and ability to respond to policy changes (reported in Article 4). Building on data from short, qualitative interviews with representatives from 218 randomly selected sport clubs, 10 organizational identity categories are constructed. Between these categories, there is a variety of clubs’ core purposes, practices, and logics of action. The implications of this heterogeneity, in terms of sport clubs’ role as policy implementers, are discussed with reference to what clubs in each category might "imagine doing." The analysis provided in the thesis as a whole suggests that at stake in processes of change in the contemporary organizing of Swedish voluntary sport, is the very definition and meaning of sport.

This research adds to the understanding of how international means affect ends in the so-called political development phase of post-conflict democratic statebuilding. Through examining the role that implementation performance plays in Bosnia and Herzegovina's democratic political development outcomes across a variety of policy areas, the study maps out ways that performance factors appear to have significance on this sensitive phase of intervention. Drawing primarily on statebuilding and policy evaluation literature, the study identifies through key informant interviews how international performance in three broad implementation factors is linked to a variety of mid-level policy area efforts as part of the political development phase of democratic statebuilding in Bosnia. These are further detailed and corroborated by case studies of two of the policy areas where mapping showed particularly negative (police reform) and positive (auditing institution development) linkages. Implementation that is examined through a democratic governance lens, coherence and coordination lens, and conditionallity lens highlight a dozen ways that these three performance factors appear to affect outcomes for Bosnia and suggest that such linkages hold some explanatory significance when applied to other statebuilding efforts. Many of these linkages confirm current understanding of how these performance factors appear to affect outcomes in that positive performance is linked to having a positive effect on outcomes. The Bosnia research also illustrates the fallout from mixed and poor performance implementation. In the process it provokes a few questions that challenge and add to the understanding of how such implementation factors appear to work in the different policy areas. Overall findings offer policy guidance for considering how to more consistently focus implementation efforts on these particular positive manners of implementation or in the case of poor performance as a warning for how to avoid certain implementation performance traps. They also offer up considerations on the need to design evaluation practices to capture and track these processes.

An enduring issue in Christian bioethics is locating respect for human life between two extremes: an absolute valuation and a valuation entirely conditional on life's quality. This issue finds expression in the use of the ordinary-extraordinary means distinction (OEMD), a burden-benefit calculus employed by Catholic and Protestant ethicists to judge the appropriateness of available life preserving means in particular cases. With the increasing accessibility of new technologies and procedures for extending life, unique threats to the usefulness of the OEMD are posed. In particular, humans have the novel capacity to stabilize and sustain life indefinitely in grave and unprecedented conditions. Disagreements result within and between Christian communities over how far the possibilities for preserving life should be taken. The advent of the persistent vegetative state (PVS) has caused such a disagreement.<br>In examining the practical problem and its particular manifestation in the PVS, it is argued that reasonable measures for preserving human life are properly determined first of all in light of what is beneficial for the human being. Establishing what constitutes human benefit in the medical arena requires a philosophy of medicine reliant upon a substantive concept of the human being. A theological anthropology foundational for the OEMD and the ends of medicine is uncovered, underscoring the tension between given human ontological value and the possible realization of human ends without digressing into dualism.<br>This anthropology also attends to the undue influence of technology in the present day. Protecting the efficacy of the OEMD and remaining consistent with its underlying anthropology require that new technological means of preserving life not be assumed to provide benefit prior to a moral examination of such means undertaken in the practical context. Moral obligation must not be allowed to expand in direct proportion to growing technological capacities to preserve life. Rather, medicine is best understood as a species of care. As a specialized type of care, it remains subject to the ends of nonspecialized care. A proper application of the OEMD today reveals that medical means are not the only (or even always the most appropriate) way to care for the perishing human body.<br>Situer le respect de la vie humaine entre deux pôles extrêmes - une valeur absolue et une valeur entièrement subordonnée à la qualité de vie - est une problématique persistante en bioéthique chrétienne. Elle est exprimée, notamment, par l'utilisation dans le milieu des éthiciens catholiques et protestants d'une grille pour distinguer les moyens ordinaires des moyens extraordinaires de maintenir une personne en vie dans des situations particulières, basée sur un calcul fardeau-avantages. Suivant l'accessibilité croissante de nouvelles technologies et procédures, cette grille de distinction entre moyens ordinaires et extraordinaires (DMOE) et son utilité font face à des menaces uniques. Notamment, les humains ont dorénavant la capacité de stabiliser et de maintenir la vie dans des conditions graves et jamais vues auparavant. Ce phénomène donne naissance à des divergences au sein des communautés chrétiennes : jusqu'où doit-on étendre la possibilité de maintenir un humain en vie? Et l'avènement de l'état végétatif chronique (ÉVC) a provoqué divergences.<br>Dans l'examen de ce problème pratique et de sa manifestation particulière, l'état végétatif chronique, l'auteure fait valoir que les mesures raisonnables de maintien de la vie humaine doivent d'abord être déterminées à la lumière de ce qui est bénéfique pour l'être humain. Pour établir ce qui constitue un bienfait pour l'être humain dans la sphère médicale, il faut une philosophie de la médecine reposant sur un concept fondamental de ce qu'est l'être humain. Un fondement anthropothéologique sur lequel appuyer la grille DMOE et la finalité de la médecine est élaboré, mettant en relief la tension entre une valeur humaine ontologique donnée et la réalisation possible de la finalité humaine, et ce, sans digresser vers le dualisme.<br>Ce fondement anthropologique rend également compte de l'influence indue de la technologique de nos jours. Pour protéger l'efficacité de la grille DMOE et rester fidèle à son anthropologie sous-jacente, on ne doit pas supposer que les nouveaux moyens technologiques de maintien en vie engendrent nécessairement des avantages. Il faut d'abord procéder à l'examen moral de ces moyens mis en oeuvre dans une situation pratique. L'obligation morale ne doit pas s'étendre de façon directement proportionnelle à l'accroissement des capacités de maintenir un humain en vie. Plutôt, la médecine est mieux comprise comme une espèce de soins. En tant que catégorie spécialisée de soins, elle demeure assujettie à des buts non spécialisés de soins. Une application adéquate de la grille DMOE aujourd'hui révèle que les moyens médicaux ne sont pas la seule façon (ni toujours la façon la plus appropriée) de prendre soin d'un corps humain dépérissant.

Unlike major cities across the country, New Orleans did not have the power to expropriate property to engage in urban renewal projects after 1954. Yet city officials desperately sought to meet the ends of urban renewal, specifically through public claims of slum clearance and private motivation to speed along neighborhood segregation. Hamstrung in their efforts to move forward with taking residents' homes for private redevelopment, the city worked to reach its urban renewal goals by taking property for public works projects, including public housing. The city's decision to build the Guste and Fischer housing projects represents a case study of how officials, including Mayor deLesseps “Chep” Morrison, the City Planning Commission, and the Housing Authority of New Orleans, worked together to create a more racially separate city in the age of Brown v. Board of Education.

The notion of Mode 2, as a shift from Mode 1 science-as-we-know-it, depicts science as practically relevant, socially distributed and democratic. Debates remain over the empirical substantiation of Mode 2. In particular, our understanding has been impeded by the mutually exclusive framing of Mode 1/Mode 2. Looking at how academic science is justified to diverse institutional interests – a situation associated with Mode 2 – it is asked, “What happens to Mode 1 where Mode 2 is in demand?” This study comprises two sequential phases. It combines interviews with 18 university spinout founders as micro-level Mode 2 exemplars, and macro-level policy narratives from 72 expert witnesses examined by select committees. An interpretive scheme (Greenwood and Hinings, 1988) is applied to capture the internal means-ends structure of each mode, where the end is to satisfy demand constituents, both in academia (Mode 1) and beyond (Mode 2). Results indicate Mode 1’s enduring influence even where non-academic demands are concerned, thus refuting that means and ends necessarily operate together as a stable mode. The causal ambiguity inherent in scientific advances necessitates (i) Mode 1 peer review as the only quality control regime systematically applicable ex ante, and (ii) Mode 1 means of knowledge production as essential for the health and diversity of the science base. Modifications to performance criteria are proposed to create a synergy between modes and justify public investment, especially in the absence of immediate outcomes. The study presents a framework of Mode1/Mode 2 coexistence that eases the problem with the either/or perception and renders Mode 2 more amenable to empirical research. It is crucial to note, though, that this is contingent on given vested interests. In this study, Mode 1’s fate is seen through academic scientists whose imperative is unique from those of other constituents, thereby potentially entailing further struggles and negotiation.

This research explored the role of community-led initiatives in encouraging the uptake of more sustainable lifestyles within the social and physical context of remote rural Scotland. Participant observation with Arlen Eco Trust (AET) and Thriving Thornton (TT), two community-led sustainability initiatives funded by the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund (CCF), led to findings which challenge the common assumption that funding for community-led initiatives will be of net benefit at the local level. In line with the requirements of the CCF, both AET and TT define community in terms of geography. However, only a small minority of the members of the geographically-defined communities of Arlen and Thornton were found to be actively involved in the groups’ activities or objectives. Both Arlen and Thornton were observed to be segmented into multiple and diverse ‘communities within communities’ and, rather than representing ‘the community’, AET and TT can more accurately be understood as an example of sub-communities in themselves. This sub-division within the communities was found to be exacerbated by the fact that both the governance and management of AET and TT were observed to be undertaken primarily by individuals regarded as ‘incomers’ to Arlen and Thornton, which resulted in an ‘incomer’ identity being passed on to the group and its activities. Historic connotations with ‘incomers’ as disruptive to traditional ways of life were found to resonate with the suspicion and scepticism expressed by some ‘locals’ wary of ‘incomer’ groups that were actively trying to change local lifestyles. The groups’ ability to engage with the wider geographic community was also observed to be further weakened in several ways by the receipt of government grant funding. The short timescales and expected outputs associated with many funding schemes were found to be discordant with the long-term sustainability goals of the community groups studied, and participation in top-down funding programmes was found to reduce the time and resources available for ‘hands on’ community participation activities. Furthermore, the need for groups to adapt their ambitions and approach to align with top-down demands from funders is incongruent with the notion of a ‘community-led’ initiative. Together, these local conditions were found to have significant implications with respect to the impact and influence of AET and TT. The funding received by the groups was found to create pockets of social capital – rather than being distributed through the geographic community – which served to strengthen the group, but segment the wider population, implying that, rather than increasing local social sustainability, schemes such as the CCF may be undermining it. Overall, this thesis concludes that, whilst the CCF was observed to facilitate community as a means by which to reduce carbon emissions, ‘community’ was not being strengthened as a policy end. As such, it questions whether current mechanisms of central government funding for isolated, self-identified community-led groups to deliver finite, output-driven projects will inherently help to empower geographic communities to adopt more sustainable lifestyles.

Based on the limited outcomes and often failed implementation processes of annual employee surveys a new phenomenon for collecting people data has risen; the pulsed employee survey. This survey and its continuous way of measuring are by many providers and consultants stated to be an important tool that increases employee engagement. The phenomenon of the pulsed employee survey has so far received limited academic attention, despite its growing importance as a potential institutionalized practice. Therefore, this study aims at broadening the understanding of the phenomenon of the pulsed employee survey. How is it transformed into organizations during an implementation process and can the process be seen as coupled or decoupled from the institutionalized practice? Further, what explains the potential coupling or decoupling? To investigate this, a model based on decoupling theories by Bromley &amp; Powell(2012) has been used through a qualitative case study. The result shows that, even though the surveys are implemented into the organizations, means-ends decoupling can be found, whichmay be explained by the complexity of what is measured as well as the multifaceted expectations and perceptions at different organizational levels.

O presente trabalho examina o chamado problema da indeterminação jurídica, de maneira a procurar explicitar o tipo de questões teóricas que suscita e apreciar o alcance ou fecundidade das respostas que tais questões possibilitam, sobretudo sob o ângulo da discussão dos pressupostos institucionais subjacentes à organização das atividades de aplicação do direito. Nesse contexto, a tese central do trabalho é a de que a ideia de indeterminação do direito, restrita ao contexto jurisdicional e entendida como um fenômeno linguístico, esgotou seu potencial teórico, e que a percepção desse esgotamento deveria conduzir à exploração de formas pelas quais questões de indeterminação do direito podem ser mais produtivamente tratadas como questões sobre configuração institucional do que como questões sobre a natureza, ou defeitos, da linguagem. São analisadas abordagens paradigmáticas do problema - no pensamento de Hans Kelsen, H.L.A. Hart e Ronald Dworkin - e os pressupostos institucionais que as informam, assim como identificados pontos de partida, nos estudos de Lon L. Fuller voltados à avaliação de formas alternativas de organização social, para exercícios de inovação institucional. A possibilidade de tais exercícios é exemplificada, ao final do trabalho, com propostas específicas de inovação, elaboradas por autores contemporâneos, concentradas na função jurisdicional, dirigidas a enfrentar o reconhecido impasse entre propostas de expansão e contenção da atuação judicial no contexto de efetivação de direitos sociais de caráter distributivo.<br>This work analyses the so-called legal indeterminacy problem, in order to make explicit the kind of theoretical issues it engenders and to assess the scope or fecundity of the answers such issues make possible, especially in terms of the discussion of institutional assumptions underlying the organization of the adjudicative function. In this setting, the central claim of this work is that the theoretical potential of the idea of legal indeterminacy, limited to the adjudicative realm and understood mainly as a linguistic phenomenon, has been worn out, and that the acknowledgment of this result should lead to the investigation of ways in which ?legal indeterminacy? issues might be more productively treated as issues about institutional innovation than issues about the nature, or defects, of language. The exemplary works of Hans Kelsen, H.L.A. Hart, and Ronald Dworkin and the institutional assumptions underlying their thought, in connection with the indeterminacy problem, are reviewed, along with the writings of Lon L. Fuller dedicated to the assessment of alternative processes of social ordering, which are taken as a point of departure for exercises in institutional innovation. The possibility of such exercises is illustrated, at the end of this work, with specific innovation proposals by contemporary authors focused on the adjudicative job, dedicated to facing the theoretical deadlock between proposals for expanding and restricting the judicial role in the context of making welfare rights, of a distributive character, concrete

This thesis considers Kant's departure from moral naturalism. In doing so, it explores the relationship between ethics, naturalism, normativity and freedom. Throughout this exploration, I build the case that Kant's ethics of autonomy allows us to make better sense of ethics than Hume's moral naturalism. Hume believes that morality is ultimately grounded in human nature. Kant finds this understanding of ethics limiting. He insists that we are free - we can critically reflect upon our nature and (to an extent) alter it accordingly. This freedom, I contend, renders the moral naturalist's appeal to nature lacking. Of course, a Kantian conception of freedom - some form of independence from the causal order - is fairly unpopular in contemporary circles. In particular, a commitment to naturalism casts doubt on such a notion of freedom. I argue with Kant that such a conception of freedom is essential to the conception of ourselves as rational agents. The critical turn, unlike naturalism, warrants this conception of freedom, accommodating the point of view of our rational agency. It thus allows Kant's ethics of autonomy to better grasp certain key elements of morality - normativity and our agency - than Hume's moral naturalism.

The overall aim of this thesis is to present a model for rational goal-setting and to illustrate how it can be applied in evaluations of public policies, in particular policies concerning sustainable development and environmental quality. The contents of the thesis are divided into two sections: a theoretical section (Papers I-IV) and an empirical section (Papers V-VII). Paper I identifies a set of rationality criteria for single goals and discusses them in relation to the typical function of goals. It is argued that goals are typically set to enhance goal achievement. A goal that successfully furthers its achievement is “achievement-inducing”. It holds for each of the identified criteria that, ceteris paribus, improved satisfaction of a criterion makes a goal better in the achievement-inducing sense.Paper II contains an analysis of the notion of goal system coherence. It is argued that the coherence of a goal system is determined by the relations that hold among the goals in the system, in particular the relations of operationalization, means and ends, support, and conflict. Paper III investigates the rationality of utopian goals. The paper analyzes four arguments that support the normative criterion of attainability: that utopian goals are (1) too imprecise and (2) too far-reaching to guide action effectively, (3) counterproductive, and (4) morally objectionable. A tentative defence of utopian goal-setting is built on counter-arguments that can be put forward to weaken each of the four objections. Paper IV investigates the nature of self-defeating goals. The paper identifies three types of situations in which self-defeating mechanisms obstruct goal achievement: (1) situations in which the goal itself carries the seeds of its own non-fulfilment (self-defeating goals), (2) situations in which the activity of goal-setting contributes to goal failure (self-defeating goal-setting), and (3) situations in which disclosure of the goal interferes with progress (self-defeating goal disclosure). Paper V provides a brief description of the Swedish system of environmental objectives and a preliminary inventory of the management difficulties that attach to this goal system.Paper VI contains an investigation into the rationality of five Swedish environmental objectives through an application of the rationality criteria identified in Papers I-II. The paper identifies and discusses some difficulties that are associated with management by objectives and the use of goals in environmental policy. Paper VII analyses the rationality of the Swedish environmental quality objective A good built environment. Among the conclusions drawn in the paper are that some of the sub-goals to the objective are formulated in terms that are unnecessarily vague from an action-guiding standpoint and that others are problematic from the viewpoint of evaluability.<br>QC 20100715

Le risk management d’entreprise (ERM) est un ensemble de politiques, de structures et de pratiques infuses d’idéaux sociaux de bonne gouvernance et de contrôlabilité. Nous nous demandons ici dans quelles mesures le travail des acteurs permet l’adoption durable de l’ERM dans l’organisation. Dans le cas du Groupe La Poste, l’appropriation des pressions externes par les auditeurs internes a été cruciale. Une fois introduit dans l’organisation postale, l’ERM a d’abord été confronté à l’indifférence du management. Les contenus réglementaires et normatifs ont été adoptés sans être mis en œuvre. Des structures partielles d’ERM ont été peuplées de risk managers détenant les compétences nécessaires pour répondre aux attentes externes. Ces risk managers ont ensuite travaillé à légitimer et structurer le dispositif conformément aux « meilleures pratiques » en réalisant un travail de recouplage – action intentionnelle des individus visant à aligner le risk management organisationnel avec les traits externes et abstraits de l’ERM. L’étude du cas La Poste suggère ainsi une explication organisationnelle au fait que l’ERM ne puisse être révoqué une fois en place<br>Enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) is a set of policies, structures and practices infused with social ideals of good governance and controllability. In this research, we seek to know how actors’ work allows ERM lasting adoption in the organization. In La Poste, the enactment of external pressures by internal auditors turned out to be critical. When introduced in the postal organization, ERM first encountered management disregard. As a consequence, ERM regulatory and normative meanings and categories were adopted but not implemented in the business. Partial ERM structures were created and inhabited by risk managers who hold necessary skills to help organizational compliance with external expectations. Newly appointed risk managers worked internally to legitimize and structure the device consistently with external “best practices” performing what we named recoupling work - the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at aligning organizational risk management with external ERM abstract features. Thus, our case suggests an organizational explanation to the fact that risk management could not be rescinded after its initial settlement

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No<br>Although various firms adopt and implement multiple human resource practices as best practices (means), a substantial number of firms fail to realize their objectives (ends). The practices of firms are frequently decoupled from their intended outcomes. By leveraging the concept of means-ends decoupling, which refers to the gap between practices and outcomes, our research examines this important but underexplored phenomenon, which the traditional concept of policy-practice decoupling fails to fully account for. Hence, organizational agency is both conceptualized and measured as consistency and competence. The manner in which this variable affects the implementation and performance of human resource practices is tested with the effect of means-ends decoupling on firm performance. Our results add new evidence that organizational agency has an important role in the process of implementing practices and that it provides additional insights into the relationships between adoption and implementation, which are two distinct institutional dimensions of practices, as well as their different firm consequences.

Terrorism is a complex ancient problem. The attacks of September 2001 in U.S soil prompted a new strategic approach to its control. This thesis focuses on that new approach, the targeting of terror’s financial basis. This research considers the international dimensions of terrorism as well as Canadian terrorism. It discusses the ties between money and terror, and the Canadian regulation, the Anti-Terrorism Act, which seeks to sever those ties. Against this background, it offers an analysis of the effectiveness of the regulation of the financial aspects of terrorism in preventing new terror activities.

Western governments have focused increasing attention over the past decade on combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and associated means of delivery. However, there has been relatively little scholarly examination of their individual anti-proliferation strategies, and virtually no meaningful attempt at comparison. The extant literature on proliferation therefore fails to illuminate the national preferences among influential supplier states that presumably have shaped international efforts to curb proliferation. This gap in knowledge fosters assumptions about the 'likemindedness' of Western responses to proliferation that essentially remain untested. This dissertation promotes and contributes to a nascent research agenda focusing on responses to proliferation at the national level by comprehensively examining the policies of two pivotal members of the Western anti-proliferation coalition. It addresses the central questions of how and why two close strategic allies and dedicated anti-proliferation partners might disagree on the means by which to achieve common anti-proliferation goals. The study constructs an original analytic framework by which to categorise and examine national responses to proliferation. It then utilises this framework as the basis for discrete empirical investigations of the anti-proliferation policies of the United States and Australia since the mid-1980s in the areas of chemical weapons (CW), biological weapons (BW), and missiles. Using a structured, comparative case studies methodology, it yields comprehensive comparative findings and analysis. The study's major comparative finding is that the United States and Australia have favoured markedly different, and not entirely complementary, anti-proliferation approaches. This divergence has been consistent over time and across the various proliferation areas. Its comparative analysis then infers that, because the likely explanations for this finding include causal variables that also distinguish other key supplier states - e.g. differences in the perceived geopolitical threats posed by proliferation - similar national divergence almost certainly extends to other Western governments. This in turn suggests that the superficial appearance of Western unanimity in responding to proliferation is misleading. The study concludes by suggesting that significant fissures among the national policy preferences of Western supplier states has negative implications for their ability to advance common anti-proliferation goals effectively.

Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)<br>Corruption has always been an ambiguous phenomenon that has prompted continuing theoretical debate within economics. The purpose of this thesis is to find synergy within the current literature and to build an extended model of corruption. The first study explores the corruption literature through the application of a meta-analysis, which shows extreme heterogeneity and is likely the underlying reason for the divide and indefinite evidence presented throughout the literature. The second study presents an extended theory of corruption, providing empirical evidence to support the existence of two types of corruption that exist simultaneously and impact economic growth in opposing directions – rent seeking generated by greed or self-interest, and systemic corruption as solution to market failures. This analysis applies Structural Equation Modelling and employs both causal and indicative variables to test for existence of two types of corruption (as latent variables) in Latin American from 1980-2018. This study adopts insights from economic anthropology for the inclusion of cultures and social norms into the study of corruption. The thesis findings indicate that future economic research and policy applications need to be assessed at a more granular level for the eradication of corruption.

碩士<br>國立彰化師範大學<br>地理學系<br>100<br>Working holidays are a form of travel that incorporates volunteer service, making them a suitable option for travelers looking for more meaningful travel experiences. As such, the value propositions such travelers seek are different from those of ordinary travelers. This paper uses the Means-End Chain Theory to look at the experiences of travelers, making use of 60 one-on-one interviewees with working holiday participants in Taiwan to draw up hierarchical value maps. From the results, we discovered that the main variables considered with regard to working holidays are the nature and location of the volunteer activities, the diversity of lifestyle and culture, the novelty of the theme, and the available recreational opportunities. The outcomes of working holidays of this type include a deeper experience of the local lifestyle and culture, making friends with like-minded people, learning practical skills, enjoying nature, relieving stress, and enjoying greater opportunities for interpersonal interaction; the main values goals pursued by participants include broader interpersonal networking, concern for the environment, self-understanding, satisfaction, and values transmission. In addition to these findings, this research also found that: 1) “Diversity of lifestyle and culture—In-depth experience of local lifestyle and culture—Respect for differences in lifestyle and culture” is the most important value chain for work-oriented working holidays; 2) “Volunteer activity—making like-minded friends—broadening interpersonal interactions” is the most important value chain for service-oriented working holidays; and 3) “Novelty of theme—Learning practical skills—Concern for the environment” is the most important value chain for paid labor. We hope that these findings will serve as a valuable resource for future activities planning in relevant organizations.

Against the backdrop of repeated political violence between Israel and different belligerents in the first and second decades of the 21st century (2003-2017) and by employing a social-psychological theoretical framework, this dissertation explores the effects of political violence on Israelis ’ social and national identities. The findings support the discussion of the social consequences of political violence in Israel, be them increased cohesiveness among different social groups (ethnic minority and majority) or social fragmentation and increased polarization between other groups (rich vs. poor or political right vs. left). Whereas Social Identity Theory constitutes the theoretical base for the explored hypotheses, Israeli social place-making practices are also discussed. Topic Whereas a vast amount of literature has been dedicated to the effects of exposure to violence on individuals and groups for over a century, it mainly focuses on type, duration or location of such violence. Since the relevant literature seems to consider the occurrence of political violence a unitary phenomenon, it consistently fails to attend to a most important factor- the aftermath of such violence. By overlooking the discrepancy in violence’ aftermath and by neglecting any analysis derived from it, I argue that the comprehensive literature examining the social effects of political violence and post-conflict societies is missing a vital piece of the puzzle. Accordingly, the contribution of this dissertation to the conflict literature is twofold: first, it disaggregates the aftermaths of two common forms of political violence, wars and military operations and explores their effects on individuals, groups and the Israeli society as a whole. Second, it closely examines some of the central assumptions of Social Identity Theory, one of the most comprehensive theories of group relations in the context of concrete political violence. It does so while paying special attention to highly fascinating identity components and basic social building blocks: national identification, social trust and social rifts in Israel. Methods The dissertation employs various methodologies: First, a macro-level, statistical examination of the relationship between different war outcomes and socio-national identities was conducted using two web-based experiments. Second, a qualitative analysis of Zionism in Europe and in Israel’s early years complemented a discussion of Israeli narratives of belonging, memory politics, ingredients of national pride and contemporary social challenges. Third, a quantitative micro-level analysis of the effect of successful and unsuccessful military operation on the Israeli society was conducted. The latter utilized a unique, self-compiled database, following an extensive manual content analysis , alongside data originating in annual social surveys conducted in Israel by the Guttmann institute. Knowledge gained The first empirical chapter (chapter four) was set to establish the underlying assumption upon which the dissertation is based; Namely, that different outcomes of political violence have distinctive effects on individual identities. In this chapter, predictions derived from Social Identity Theory were put into an initial macro-level analysis through two original web experiments. The latter explored the effect of different war outcomes (distinguishing between victory, defeat, stalemate and a negotiated agreement) on social and national identities . Whereas the research supported the underlying hypothesis according to which distinctive war outcomes are associated with distinctive effects when national identification is concerned, no significant differences between war outcomes were found in relation to individuals’ social identities. These results are consistent with Social Identity Theory and the self-esteem protection/enhancement strategies derived from it (BIRGing and CORFing ); the significant differences between war outcomes (mainly between victories and defeats) are explained by individuals’ tendencies to share in the glory of a successful other (to BIRG) following a positively evaluated war outcome, and to distance themselves from an unsuccessful group (to CORF), following a negatively valued war outcome. The non-significant results concerning social identities are consistent with Simmel’s conflict hypothesis suggesting that conflicting interactions strengthen the internal cohesion of pre-existing groups. In this regard, it appears as though individuals react to the conflict itself whereas its aftermath did not play any significant role. The overall outcomes obtained thus laid the foundations for an extensive micro-level analysis of the effect of outcomes of political violence on socio-national identities among Israelis. Chapter five refocused the attention on the state of Israel and the Israeli society. It provided a historical analysis of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, rooted in the Zionistic movement in Europe in the late 19th century, which preceded the establishment of the state of Israel. The analysis centered on nation-building processes which took place in Israel’s first years, namely, the constructing of a new Jewish-Israeli identity by means of institutionalizing the Hebrew language as an official language, integration of new immigrants and the role of the Israeli defense force as a melting pot. The study of the origins of Israeli national pride, both in the country’s first years and in contemporary times, complemented the discussion as it is entwined with both Jewish and Israeli identities. The analysis suggests that while Israel was established as a democracy, it was never a space of ethnic diversity. As the national home for world jury based on a Zionist narrative and highly influenced by the Holocaust, no plurality of ethnic discourses existed in Israel in over 50 years. The research describes the way state-sponsored dominant Jewish and Zionist narratives morphed into a uni-dimensional Israeli identity. This, in turn, prevented Arab-Israelis, the largest ethnic minority in Israel, from being incorporated into the Israeli society. Recurrent political violence as part of the on-going Israeli Palestinian conflict further contributed both to the exclusion of Arab-Israelis from the original Israeli narrative and to the bonding of Jewish Israelis. It was only in the last decades and against the backdrop of significant changes endured by the Israeli society that place-making processes were put on the political and social agenda. Whereas nation and community-building processes are still prominent in contemporary Israel, they now exist side by side a vibrant and vocal discourse of post-Zionism, Jewish secularism and “Israelism” which is not based on Judaism but on an Israeli cultural narrative. Persistent political violence that contributed to social fragmentation in Israel’s first decades alongside cultural commonalities between Jewish and Arab Israelis now begin to serve as a common denominator in contemporary Israeli society. If those continue to resonate among Israelis, it is thus not implausible that they would eventually substitute Judaism and Zionism as social unifiers in the process of creating a “same boat” society. Under such circumstances and with diminishing boundaries between Arab and Jewish Israelis, the former will no longer be construed as an “out-group” by the Jewish majority in Israel. Nonetheless, drifting away from the original Jewish integrator and common factor of more than 75% of the country’s population may threaten the Jewish communities of Israel with social fragmentation. Consequently, the study of the effect of political violence on both Jewish and non-Jewish communities in Israel set forth in the upcoming chapters is of great importance for the future of Israel. Chapter six set out to examine the relationship between Israelis and their nation-state following different outcomes of Israeli military operations. Special attention was paid to changes in levels of national pride among Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis and new immigrants across a tempestuous ten-year period (2003-2013) and in conjunction with successful and unsuccessful conclusions of Israeli warfare, as perceived by the Israeli public. Using a regressing analysis of data originating in social surveys, the research tested the validity of predictions derived from Social Identity Theory in both the individual and the social levels. Results indicate that the effect of recurrent warfare on national identification among Israelis is highly mitigated by the perceived outcome of such warfare as well as by sub-group membership (ethnic/social majority vs. minority). Consistent with Social Identity Theory, an Israeli military success was highly associated with increased national identification for the general Israeli population. However, contrary to conventional wisdom and to the “minority hypothesis ”, the same effect was also registered among Israeli Arabs. While Israeli Arabs, the largest ethnic minority in Israel, might share neither the country’s collective Jewish narrative nor its Zionist ethos they are Israeli citizens who nonetheless feel a sense of belonging to the state of Israel . As such, they are a part of a larger in-group which shares personal and economic interests. Those are equally and existentially threatened when Israel is experiencing unsuccessful military operations. This positivistic evidence suggests that Israeli Arabs’ identification with the state of Israel lies in the area of “Israeliness that is beyond Jewishness”. The analysis also affirmed the existence of an “embedded identity effect” concerning national identification among Jewish Israelis; Israeli Jews, the majority ethnic group in Israel, maintained high national-identification levels regardless of the way the warfare was concluded. This finding is unsurprising considering Israel’s Jewish character and the circumstances of its creation. Whilst societies subjected to external threat may unite in the face of a common enemy, chapter seven sought to examine whether this is true in the Israeli context and if so, whether the outcomes of political violence mitigate the effect. Whereas a large scholarship examined the effect of violence on social cohesion and political tolerance in Israel, it mostly focused on Arab-Israelis and immigrant. The research presented in chapter seven studied the effect of discrepant outcomes of Israeli warfare on social cohesion, social tensions and trust between the various communities of Israel (both Jewish and non-Jewish). The research focused on the general level of social trust in society alongside six specific social rifts, prevalent in present-day Israel: the intercommunal rift (between the Israeli Jewish community and the Israeli-Arab community), the Jewish intercommunal rift (between Jews of Ashkenazi and Sephardic/Mizrachi origins), the religious rift (between orthodox and non-orthodox Jewish communities), the ideological/political rift , the socio-economic rift and the nativist tension (between native Israelis and new immigrants). Results revealed a highly significant effect of Israeli military success concerning all six social rifts and a very mild effect concerning social trust. For all but one rift (the Jewish inter-communal rift), successful termination of Israeli warfare was associated with an increased social tension between the different communities in Israel (though in different levels of significance). This unfortunate finding which points to increased fractionalization among the different communities in Israel following Israeli military successes is in line with several other studies examining the effects of political violence on political exclusionism in Israel. Whereas the literature supports the notion that in time of crisis social cohesion increases, it is not surprising to find increased tensions following military successes rather than failures. An exception to the observed rise in social tensions in Israel is the increased cohesion between Ashkenzi and Sephardic/Mizrachi Jews (the Jewish intercommunal rift). The results support the conclusion that the Jewish population, the majority ethnic group in Israel, is united behind the idea that Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people (and possibly a necessary refuge from rising anti-Semitism around the globe). A decrease in Jewish intercommunal tension following Israeli victories supports the cohesive potential of in-group pride and is consistent with the Jewish foundation and Zionistic narrative of Jewish Israelis and with the existence of an embedded Jewish-Israeli identity . As for the national level, a “rally around the flag” effect is a term used to describe the uniting power of common threats. An underlying motive for this surge in national unity is linked to patriotism, as individuals respond to threats by identifying with their in-group . However, when the crisis is over, politics and society quickly revert to normal and existing social rifts resurface. Whereas an unsuccessful termination of an Israeli military operation is likely to induce a “rally around the flag” effect, a military success demonstrates the opposite effect. Consequently, the seemingly rising tensions between various communities in Israel observed following an Israeli military success is consistent with a reverse “rally around the flag” effect and reflects the fractionalized nature of the Israeli society. Another explanation to the observed trend of increased social tensions following a successful warfare may be directly linked to the experience of in-group guilt or shame despite a successful outcome. Such gilt might lead to rising tension between those who are more/less supportive of the outcome, or perhaps feel that more should have been done to achieve a more solid outcome. Finally, the increased tensions may speak to the theorized dynamic at the heart of the present and similar works that reflects the more destructive side of pride and in-group glorification. According to that scholarship, out-group hate can even extend to people perceived to be “hostile minorities ”. Whilst the increase in intercommunal tension is expected and in line with the results of similar studies examining the effect of violence or stress on the relationships between Jewish and Arab Israelis, the increase in religious tensions, socio-economic tension and ideological tensions could be reflective of a second circle of out-group hate; Supporters of the political left alongside less observant and wealthier elements of the Israeli society , may experience in-group guilt and possibly shame despite the perceived successful outcome, thus distancing themselves from those experiencing pride at the outcome. The effect of education, in particular higher education, in reducing social tensions and increasing social trust emerges as another important finding of this research. Whether education provides a sense of optimism and control over one’s life that allows people to trust, or whether it provides opportunities for contact and networks’ creation with others, the study confirms the potential role of education in reducing social tension even in a highly diverse and conflict-torn Israeli society. Moreover, since social divisions may be exploited by political entrepreneurs, and since increasing social tensions might result in the erosion of social capital, raising the alarm would be the first step in directly addressing such important issues (for example, by policy making). Lastly, any serious peace negotiation with a Palestinian leadership would require difficult concessions to be made by both parties. As such, the way towards a peaceful conclusion of the Israeli Palestinian conflict would inevitably depend, among others, on the social strength and cohesion of the Israeli civil society.:Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Background and Motivation ................................................................................. 7 1.1.1 National Identification ............................................................................ 10 1.1.2 Social Trust ............................................................................................. 14 1.1.3 Focusing on Israel ................................................................................... 16 1.2 Prologue ............................................................................................................. 17 1.3 Contribution Scope ............................................................................................. 18 1.4 Overview of Aims and Chapters ........................................................................ 20 2. Theoretical Framework: Conflict Research, National Identification and Social Trust Part I: Conflict Research 2.1 Conflict Research ................................................................................................. 24 2.1.1 General Theory and Practices ................................................................ 25 2.1.2 Contemporary Trends and Challenges ................................................... 26 2.1.3 Looking Forward ................................................................................... 27 Part II: Belonging, Identity and the Nation 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Identity Formation ................................................................................................ 28 Social Belonging and Group Identification ......................................................... 29 The Sense of Belonging, Nationhood and Statehood .......................................... 30 2.4.1 What is a Nation? ................................................................................... 30 2.4.2 National Identification ........................................................................... 32 2.4.3 Hierarchies of National Belonging ........................................................ 33 2.4.4 The Nation State .................................................................................... 34 2.4.5 Nationhood and Statehood ..................................................................... 35 Conflict Patriotic Affinity: Conceptual Outlines ............................................................. 38 2.6.1 Between Patriotism and Nationalism ..................................................... 41 Coping With Threatened Social Identity ........................................................... 42 and Group Identification ........................................................................ 36 2 3 2.7.1 Social Identity Theory ......................................................................... 42 2.7.2 Basking In Reflected Glory ................................................................. 45 2.7.3 Cutting Off Reflected Failure .............................................................. 46 2.7.4 Self-Embedded Social Identity ............................................................ 48 2.7.5 National Identity of Ethnic Minorities ................................................ 50 Part III: Social Trust and Cohesiveness 2.8 Social Capital and Cohesion .............................................................................. 52 2.9 Unraveling the Riddle of Social Trust ............................................................... 54 2.9.1 Threats to Social Trust and Social Cohesion ....................................... 56 3. Methodology 3.1 Macro-level Analysis ......................................................................................... 60 3.1.1 Appropriateness ..................................................................................... 60 3.1.2 A Short History of Web Experiments .................................................... 61 3.1.3 Web Experiments: Advantages and Challenges .................................... 63 3.2. Micro-level analysis ........................................................................................... 69 3.2.1 Focusing on The state of Israel and Israeli Society ............................... 69 Contemporary Israeli Media .................................................................. 72 Military Censorship ............................................................................... 75 3.2.2 Episodes of High Intensity Political Violence ....................................... 75 3.2.3 Perceived Outcomes of Political Violence ............................................ 77 3.2.4 Relevant Issues Concerning the Use of Survey Data ............................ 78 Vague Concepts .................................................................................... 78 Categorizing Identities .......................................................................... 80 3.2.5 The Israeli Democracy Index ................................................................ 82 3.2.6 Control Variables ................................................................................... 83 3.3 Framing in Communication and Their Effect on Public Opinion ...................... 84 3.3.1 The Use of Emphasis and Equivalence Framing in Shaping Public Opinion .................................................................................................. 85 3.3.2 The Effect of Frames in Shaping Individual Perceptions ...................... 87 3.3.3 Assessing a Frame’s Strength in Political Settings ................................ 88 4. The Ending matters: National and Social Identification Following Discrepant War Outcomes 4.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 90 4.2 Experimental Study I ........................................................................................... 93 4.2.1 Procedure and Experimental Design ..................................................... 93 4.2.2 Measures ................................................................................................ 95 4.3.3 Results .................................................................................................... 95 4.2.4 Discussion .............................................................................................. 99 Seriousness Check ................................................................................. 99 National Identity .................................................................................. 100 Social Identity ...................................................................................... 102 4.3 Experimental Study II ......................................................................................... 103 4.3.1 Using video Vs. Text in Experimental Research ................................. 103 4.3.2 Procedure and Experimental Design .................................................... 104 4.3.3 Measures .............................................................................................. 105 4.3.4 Results .................................................................................................. 106 4.3.5 Discussion ............................................................................................ 109 Seriousness Check ............................................................................... 109 National Identity .................................................................................. 109 4.4 Limitations ....................................................................................................... 110 4.5 Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 111 5. Focusing on the State of Israel and Israeli Society 5.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 114 5.2 Jewish Nationalism and the Zionist Movement in Europe .............................. 114 5.3 Zionism, National Identity and Hebrew Culture Following the Establishment of The State of Israel ....................................................................................... 118 5.3.1 The Israeli Defense Forces .................................................................. 119 Serving in the Israeli Defense Forces .................................................. 120 Education, Socialization and Nation Building ..................................... 121 The Effect of the IDF on the Israeli Society ........................................ 123 5.3.2 Sport as an Integrative Tool for Shaping Israeli Collective Identity ... 129 5.4 The Jewish and Democratic Nature of the State of Israel ................................ 132 4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5 Current Challenges to Contemporary “Israeliness” ........................................ 134 5.5.1 Ethnic-religious Classification of Israelis- Between Citizenship and Nationality ........................................................................................... 136 5.5.2 Israeli Nationalist Particularism ........................................................... 137 Israeli Patriotism and Ingredients of Israeli National Pride ............................. 140 5.6.1 Tzedakah, Gemilut Hasadim and Tikun Olam ..................................... 141 5.6.2 Mashav ................................................................................................. 142 5.6.3 Operation “Good Neighbor” ................................................................ 144 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 148 6. Together We Stand? Perceived Outcomes of Political Violence and National Pride 7. 6.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 150 6.2 Hypotheses ...................................................................................................... 151 6.3 Data, Measures and Method ........................................................................... 153 6.3.1 Focusing on Israel .............................................................................. 153 6.3.2 Military Operations ............................................................................ 154 6.3.3 Survey Measures: National Identification ......................................... 155 6.3.4 Perceived Outcome of Military Operation ......................................... 157 6.3.5 Control Variables ............................................................................... 158 6.4 Findings and Discussion ................................................................................ 159 6.4.1 Preliminary Findings .......................................................................... 159 6.4.2 Disaggregating the Israeli Society ..................................................... 163 6.4.3 Interaction Analysis ........................................................................... 164 6.5 Robustness Checks ......................................................................................... 169 6.5.1 Israel’s General Situation ................................................................... 170 6.5.2 Proximity to the Center of Violence .................................................. 171 6.6 Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 172 In Us We Trust? The Effect of Military Operations on Social Cleavages and Social Cohesion in Israel 7.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 174 7.2 Hypothesis ....................................................................................................... 175 7.3 7.4 6 Data, Measures and Method ............................................................................ 179 7.3.1 7.3.2 7.3.3 7.3.4 The Israeli Society in Context ............................................................ 179 Military Operations ............................................................................ 181 Perceived Levels of Tension and Trust in the Israeli Society ........... 183 Perceived Outcomes of Israeli Military Operations .......................... 185 Control Variables .............................................................................. 185 7.3.5 Findings and Discussion .................................................................................. 186 7.4.1 7.4.2 7.4.3 Preliminary Findings ......................................................................... 187 The Effect of Individual Level and Country Level Variables on Social Tensions and Social Trust ....................................................... 189 Examining the Effect of Israeli Military Operation on Inter-group Tensions ............................................................................................. 193 Exploring the Rise and Fall of Social Trust ...................................... 197 7.4.4 Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 200 7.5 8. Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 203 8.1 Limitations ...................................................................................................... 210 8.2 Going forward: Ideas for Future Research ...................................................... 213 8.3 Final remarks/Epilogue ................................................................................... 215 9. References ................................................................................................................ 218 10. List of Figures .......................................................................................................... 254 Appendices A. The Evolution of Conflict Research in the 20th Century ................................. 255 B. Supplementary Material Chapter Four ............................................................ 268 B.1 Experiment I .......................................................................................... 268 B.2 Experiment II ......................................................................................... 274 B.3 Witnessing a Real Conflict as a Potential Covariate ............................. 287 C. Supplementary Material and Robustness Checks, Chapter Six ....................... 288 D. Supplementary Material and Robustness Checks, Chapter Seven .................. 308

abstract: Building computational models of human problem solving has been a longstanding goal in Artificial Intelligence research. The theories of cognitive architectures addressed this issue by embedding models of problem solving within them. This thesis presents an extended account of human problem solving and describes its implementation within one such theory of cognitive architecture--ICARUS. The document begins by reviewing the standard theory of problem solving, along with how previous versions of ICARUS have incorporated and expanded on it. Next it discusses some limitations of the existing mechanism and proposes four extensions that eliminate these limitations, elaborate the framework along interesting dimensions, and bring it into closer alignment with human problem-solving abilities. After this, it presents evaluations on four domains that establish the benefits of these extensions. The results demonstrate the system's ability to solve problems in various domains and its generality. In closing, it outlines related work and notes promising directions for additional research.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>M.S. Computer Science 2011

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2008.<br>Advisor: Timothy Chapin, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Feb. 11, 2009). Document formatted into pages; contains x, 196 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

What determines whether organizations with maximalist demands - those calling for regime change and increased political self-determination - employ violent or nonviolent tactics to make their governments acquiesce in political demands? More specifically, why do some organizations employ strikes and demonstrations whereas others employ guerrilla warfare/conventional warfare, and others still terrorist tactics, against their governments? I infer from bargaining theory that rational organizations should prefer to use nonviolent means of contestation to resolve conflicts of interests with target regimes because it is generally less costly than employing violent tactics. When nonviolent protest cannot be employed due to fear of lethal government repression, inability to mobilize enough participants to pose a military challenge, or inability to solve the information problem using nonviolent tactics, organizations are either deterred from using any tactic at all or they employ violent tactics. Whether they do the former or the latter, and which type of violent tactic they employ depends on organizations' ability to mobilize supporters to participate in contention, which in turn depends on popular satisfaction with the status quo. I argue that organizations' choice of tactics depends on two key factors: 1) Anticipated repression of nonviolent protest; and 2) Popular satisfaction with the status quo. I refer to this theory as mobilization theory. I evaluate the empirical support for this theory as well as the predominant theory in the existing literature, opportunity structure theory, by using statistics to analyze organizational choice of tactics in nine high state capacity countries in the Middle East and North Africa from 1980-2004 and 37 low state capacity countries in Africa from 1990-2010.

碩士<br>元智大學<br>資訊管理學系<br>107<br>This study uses Means-End Chain (MEC) analysis to explore the Chinese-speaking intentions of the Chinese-speaking region and to understand the motivations and behaviors of consumers traveling to Japan. Using MEC theory to measure the product attributes, usage results and personal value generated by traveling to Japan, and explain the attributes, results and values of Japanese tourism in three cities of Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China by means of specific content analysis. Keyword data mining of the website platform. The main purpose of this study is to explore the tourist intentions of tourists from three cities in the Japanese region, and to explore the value of tourists from different cities to Japan. According to the results of the study, 11 MEC components were found. Among the three components of Taiwan, the value was determined to be “convenience” and “comfortable life”. The value of the four components of Hong Kong was “comfortable life” and “convenience”. The value of the four components of mainland China is "convenience", "security" and "fun". The conclusions of the study are based on the value ladder diagram to find the differences between the preferences of the three cities. In terms of attributes, the “points of interest” are the first choice for the three cities, and Taiwan will prefer a place of comfort and relaxation. In terms of results, Hong Kong will prefer to save time. This factor, in the final value, shows that mainland China values "fun" and "security."

Organizations face increasing pressure to adopt socially responsible policies but often struggle to fully implement them and therefore perform decoupling, that is, they detach portrayed policies from internal practices in the effort to convey appropriateness to external stakeholders. In this study I investigate drivers of decoupling in the context of corporate social responsibility and effects in terms of stakeholder reaction through a single case study of the sustainability strategy of Unilever, one of the global players in the fast-moving consumer goods sector. My results suggest that Unilever engages not only in traditional policy-practice decoupling, but also in another, less investigated form of decoupling: in means-ends decoupling. Indeed, although the corporation has clear CSR objectives (ends), it struggles to implement them because employees struggle to understand how to operationalize these objectives in their daily activities (means). My findings also show that means-ends decoupling is an antecedent of policy-practice decoupling. Finally, although stakeholders generally respond negatively towards decoupling, my results revealed that this holds not true in the case of Unilever as the positive associations related to the organization’s efforts appear to outweigh. Indeed, stakeholders value the firm’s progress in terms of sustainability, its seriousness and trustworthiness as well as the ambitious goals of its sustainability agenda. In this way, my findings contribute to the literature of sustainability and decoupling, also providing useful managerial implications for corporations engaged in corporate social responsibility.<br>As organizações enfrentam pressão crescente para a adoção de políticas socialmente responsáveis, mas com frequência têm dificuldades de aplicação concreta, originando situações de dissociação. Separam as políticas enunciadas das práticas internas, num esforço de transmitir uma imagem apropriada aos ‘stakeholders’ externos. Este estudo explora causas de dissociação na área da responsabilidade social das empresas e efeitos em termos de reação de ‘stakeholders’ com um estudo de caso sobre a estratégia de responsabilidade social da Unilever, um dos maiores intervenientes mundiais no sector de bens de grande consumo. Os resultados indicam que a Unilever não só pratica a tradicional dissociação entre politica e prática, mas também outra variante menos investigada: a dissociação entre meios e fins. Apesar de a companhia ter objetivos de responsabilidade social (fins) bem definidos, tem problemas na implementação porque os colaboradores não sabem como operacionalizar essas politicas (meios). O estudo também sugere que a dissociação entre meios e fins antecede a dissociação entre politicas e práticas. Por último, apesar de os ‘stakeholders’, em geral, reagirem negativamente a situações de dissociação, isso não acontece na Unilever, onde o reconhecimento e apreço pelo esforço da companhia em adotar políticas de sustentabilidade superam os indícios de dissociação. Neste caso, os ‘stakeholders’ valorizam o progresso, a seriedade e o compromisso com a agenda de sustentabilidade. As conclusões deste estudo não só contribuem para a literatura sobre responsabilidade social e dissociação como também com podem servir como ferramentas de gestão uteis para companhias que procuram desenvolver politicas de responsabilidade social.

One of the greatest challenges facing the clothing industry worldwide, including South Africa is to provide well fitting garments to a broadly defined target population (Ashdown, Loker & Rucker 2007:1; Schofield, Ashdown, Hethorn, LaBat & Salusso 2006:147). Yu (2004:32) further states that from the consumers’ perspective, physical and psychological comfort as well as appearance play an important role in determining a well fitting garment and these are most likely to be shaped by the individual’s personal values. According to Kaiser (1998:290), personal values refer to standards or principles that guide an individual’s actions and thoughts that help to define what is important by guiding one’s choices or preferences of how the garment should fit. Hence garment fit and the subsequent appearance serves as a personal expression, communicating some personal values to others (Kaiser 1998:290) that can be achieved through the fitting of the garment. When female consumers encounter garment fit problems either through body shapes, garment sizing or garment size label communication, an emotional experience may result due to the failure to attain the personal values they are aiming to uphold or achieve. Cognitive appraisal theory of emotions is one of the theories among others that attempts to understand why people experience emotions. Lazarus (2001:55) defines cognitive appraisal theory of emotions as a quick evaluation of a situation with respect to one’s wellbeing. The answers to these evaluations directly cause the emotions experienced by a person. Since clothing can be used to express personal values to others (Kaiser 1998:146), the social standards appraisal dimension which can be one of the evaluative questions in the theory of cognitive appraisal concerning a situation, was the relevant evaluative component which this study focused on. This appraisal dimension evaluates whether the situation, in this case the negative experience of an ill-fitting garment affects what the consumer aspires to achieve socially through garment fit. Numerous studies such as Horwaton and Lee (2010); Pisut and Connell (2007) and Alexander, Connell & Presley (2005) on the garment fit problems from a consumer’s perspective have mostly been conducted in developed countries with limited research focusing on the consumers and their emotional experiences with garment fit. Understanding the factors that contribution to the garment fit problem currently being faced by female consumers in South Africa is an essential step in creating awareness of how this problem affects female consumers emotionally and the influence it has on their purchasing decisions. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to determine the female consumers’ personal values attributed to garment fit and to identify the emotions resulting from the perceptions of garment fit. This study predominantly employed an exploratory qualitative research approach. Data were collected from a purposive and convenient sample of 62 females from the UNISA – Florida Campus and King David High School in Victory Park in Johannesburg, South Africa through a self-administered questionnaire. Data on the demographic profile that included the ethnicity and age of the participants as well as data on the psychographic profile of the participants concerning frequently patronized clothing retailers, garment fit preferences and self-reported body shapes were collected through closed-ended questions. These data were analysed using the quantitative method of descriptive analysis. In addition to the psychographic profile of the most frequently patronized clothing retailer and garment fit preferences, participants were further requested to provide reasons as to why they mostly patronized the clothing retailer they ranked number 1, and to provide a reason for their preferred garment fit option. Content analysis, a qualitative method, was used to analyse the reasons provided by the participants for both these questions. Content analysis was also performed on additional information on body shape and garment sizing as well as data on garment size label communication. Furthermore, the means-end chain approach through the hard laddering exercises was used to explore and determine the female consumers’ personal values and emotions depicted through the perceptions of garment fit. Data from the hard laddering interviews on body shapes and garment sizing were carefully coded and categorized into attributes, consequences and personal values. Data were presented through the hierarchical value maps (HVMs) which were constructed through the software program Mecanalyst V 9.1. The analysis established that attributes such as quality of garments, various garment styles, availability of sizes, and fashionable styles directed female consumers’ most frequented clothing retailers. These attributes seemed to be aligned with their personal values they seek when shopping for garments. The findings also showed that most female consumers in this study preferred semi-fitting pants, a blouse and garments in general, a reasonable number of the participants preferred tight-fitting pants (31%), and some participants preferred loose-fitting pants, a blouse and garments in general. The specific personal values such as the comfortability of the garment, modesty, cover-up perceived body shape “flaws” and slimming effect which female consumers in this study desire to achieved through clothing also influenced their garment fit preference. With regard to the perceived self-reported body shapes of the participants, the study reflected that the majority of the participants were triangular body shaped. The study further found that female consumers in this study have expectations of how a garment ought to fit their body. Their expectations seem to be shaped by certain personal values such as “confidence”, “freedom” or “look good” which they aspire to achieve through clothing and garment fit. However, due to variations in body shapes, problems of garment sizing they encounter when purchasing ready-to wear garments and the incorrect information communicated on the size labels or the lack thereof, the majority of the female consumers failed to achieve their personal values. As a result mainly negative emotions such as “frustrated”, “sad”, “confused” and “depressed” were expressed by the participants. With regards to the effect of the perceived garment fit on the purchasing decision, the study found that fit of the garment is an important determinant of making a purchase. However, where female consumers in this study showed an interest of purchasing, while aware of some fit problems, the study found that exceptional conditions such as the possibility of altering the garments and design features such as colours that would conceal their perceived “figure flaws, made it easier for them to decide to purchase. The study further highlighted that some participants only purchased their ready-to-wear garment at certain shops where their needs were catered for and only when they had enough time to try-on the garment they intend to purchase instead of relying on the garment sizing and garment size label communication. Where participants indicated they would not purchase a garment with fitting problems, the study found that some female consumers in this study copied the designs of the garments in the clothing retailers and had someone reproduce it for them, whilst a few female consumers refused to purchase a garment whose size label was incorrectly communicated. Lastly the study also revealed that most female consumers thought that body shape, garment sizing and garment size label communication contribute to garment fit problems female consumers are currently facing in South Africa. It is, therefore, recommended that clothing manufacturers consider the various body shapes in their garment charts, know the needs of their target market and also use uniform sizing and size labelling systems that are easily understood by consumers that purchase ready-to-wear garments from retailers in South Africa.<br>Life & Consumer Sciences<br>M. Sc. (Consumer Science)