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ROCHA, ANACÉLIA SANTOS. "DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL GOODS THEORY OF MICHAEL WALZER IN A BRAZILIAN COMMUNITY NOT HYPOTHETICAL LIVED IN A COUNTRY OF TOTALITARIAN REGIME IN 1980." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32397@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROESCOLA SUPERIOR DOM HELDER CAMARA
Justiça distributiva: uma análise prática da teoria de distribuição de bens sociais de Michael Walzer em uma comunidade brasileira não hipotética vivenciada num país de regime totalitarista em 1980 resgata a discussão entre as correntes liberalismo x comunitarismo, manifestas nessa mesma década. Essas correntes discutem propostas políticas mais igualitárias, buscando uma sociedade moderna mais justa. Sem o intuito de fazer um inventário dessas ideologias e se detendo na linha comunitarista de Walzer, a presente pesquisa objetiva refletir sobre a forma de distribuição dos bens sociais em um acampamento, uma comunidade particular e não hipotética. Transporta-se a análise de Walzer para o acampamento localizado no Iraque, na década de mil novecentos e oitenta. Sensações contrastantes faziam parte da vida da comunidade: externamente, havia a guerra, a destruição; internamente, a construção de uma rodovia, um consenso velado que justificava a presença de todos no local. Desenha-se, assim, o ápice da contradição: a destruição e a construção. A inspiração metodológica, bem como o marco teórico principal, foi a obra Esferas da Justiça, de Michael Walzer. O trabalho de abordagem descritiva e exploratória, sem a ambição de desenvolver um trabalho etnográfico, contou, ainda, com alguns trechos de depoimentos de brasileiros que habitaram o acampamento, obtidos por meio de entrevista semiestruturada. Nesse contexto, a escola, como um bem social, ganha destaque, por se considerar que a formação de pessoas com senso de justiça é um dos caminhos para a busca de uma sociedade mais justa e a educação, uma solução para essa formação. Pensar a igualdade complexa bem como as provisões comunitárias em uma comunidade moderna, particular, multicultural e plural, com sua diversidade de identidades coletivas torna desafiante qualquer tentativa de defender um único pensamento ou uma única teoria. Conclui-se que algumas categorias de análise de Walzer se aplicam às relações produzidas no acampamento e outras, não, bem como percebe-se a inconsistência de alguns de seus argumentos. Pensar em uma sociedade complexa como esta exige heterogeneidade do olhar, seja qual for o enfoque, filosófico ou político.
Distributive justice: a practical analysis of Michael Walzer s social goods distribution theory in a non-hypothetical Brazilian community in the 80 s in a totalitarian government country rescues the discussion between the liberalism x communitarianism currents that took place in that same decade. Those currents discuss more egalitarian political proposals in the search of a fairer modern society. Not having the purpose of making an inventory of those thought currents and stopping at Walzer s communitarian line, this research aims at reflecting on the form of distribution of the social goods in a camp, a private and nonhypothetical community located in Iraq. Walzer s analysis is transported to the camp located in Iraq in the 80 s. Contrasting sensations were part of life in the community: externally, there was war and destruction; internally, there was the construction of a highway, a veiled consent on the reason that justified the presence of all of them at that place. Thereby, the summit of contradiction is designed: destruction and construction. The methodological inspiration, as well as the main theoretical milestone was Spheres of Justice, a book by Michael Walzer. The descriptive and exploratory approach work with no ambition to develop an ethnographic work also counted on data collection by means of a semi-structured interview with some parts of the statements made by Brazilians who lived in the camp. In that context, the school as a social good went to the spotlight once it is thought that the qualification of people with a sense of justice would be one of the paths in the search for a fairer society and education would be the solution for that qualification. To think of the complex equality as well as the community provisions in a modern, private, multicultural and plural community with its diversity of collective identities makes any attempt to defend one only thought or one only theory challenging. The conclusion is that some of Walzer s analysis categories apply to the relationships that were produced in the camp and some do not, and it is also possible to notice the inconsistency of some of his arguments within that context. To think of such a complex society, it is necessary to have an heterogeneous look, whatever the philosophical or political current may be.
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Mahzoon, Alireza. "Manipulated Private and Public Spheres : The Use of Control Technologies by Totalitarian Regimes." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-4344.
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In my paper, I explore how totalitarian regimes use technology to break the borders between the private and public spheres, through the study of two fictional works. Reflecting how real regimes operate, these fictional totalitarian regimes apply technology to extend the sphere of public authority. Exploring the idea, I am going to compare two totalitarian regimes in different periods of time. The first one is the Republic of Gieald, which is depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale 1985 by Margaret Atwood, and the second one is the society presented in the movie The Island, directed by Michael Bay. By technology in my paper, I mean it in the most comprehensive sense of the term, modern invented technologies and institutions after 18th century in post Industrial Revolution era. In what follows, I am applying the concepts, which are the product of control invention. I will argue that the states penetrate into private sphere by imposing repressive rules for having sex or reproductivity. Moreover, I portray that the states use different forms of media and surveillance in private and public spheres, to enlarge the state.
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Barbulescu, Georgeta V. "The politics of media and information in countries emerging from totalitarian regimes: the case of Romania." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42627.
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This thesis problematizes the interplay of power and media institutions as a general difficulty in democratic societies and as a specific challenge in countries that are emerging from authoritarian regimes. Based on more comprehensive studies about power, dominance, compliance, resistance and information monopoly developed in the United States, the project approaches a particular case in modern history, namely Romania, during the period of transition following Ceausescu's overthrow, in December, 1989, and before the first free elections, in May, 1990. The bulk of the work concentrates on deconstructing political and media discourses developed throughout this period, while trying to address the role that the political and media environments had in reshaping post-communist Romania. My major argument is that, given a number of difficulties that have marked this period, ranging from economic setbacks, political ambiguities, and social confusion, the May elections have been monitored and orchestrated starting early in this period by the provisional authorities (a group of former communist bureaucrats), in tandem with a number of central media outlets. From this combination of power interests, the Romanian public was deprived of correct information on a number of issues that pertained to the future of the country and was trapped in the web of a carefully designed imagery that fostered a dissimulated totalitarian propaganda. The last part of the project advances these contentions and considers them in turn, while trying to capture how the specifics of the case inscribe themselves in larger patterns of dominance and compliance.Master of Arts
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Kashani, Mohammad Feghhi. "Exchange rate regimes and financial repression." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2467/.
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Griswold, Wendy. "Transformative learning in a post-totalitarian context : professional development among school teachers in rural Siberia." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/454.
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Choi, Myung Ju. "Import regimes and rent seeking : the case of South Korea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334092.
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Beuck, Niels. "Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-77.
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The Thesis analyzes the effecvtiveness of international environmental regimes. A case study of four of the most important river regimes in Germany - the Commissions for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR), Elbe (ICPE), Oder (ICPO) and Lake Constance (IGKB)- was conducted. The first part of the thesis explains the theoretical foundation the thesis rests upon. Neoliberal Institutionalism was the chosen theory, accompanied by aspects of regime and game theory. A definition of effectiveness was generated, taking into account a legal, a historical and a political perspective. The Thesis is a qualitative case study, which uses mainly sources from books, essays, newspapers and few in-depth interviews with people inside the Commissions. In the second part the International Commissions are analyzed. In the end the findings are compared to find out what constitutes an effective regime. All four regimes have made an significant impact though. An effective regime is - according to the findings of this thesis - characterized by different factors: a small number of actors, a strong legal basis for the daily work routines, similar background of the member states, favorable national conditions.
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Webb, Michael David. "Urban Revitalization, Urban Regimes, and Contemporary Gentrification Processes." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1383148654.
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Clunie, Gregor John. "From 'feral' markets to regimes of accumulation : the state and law in neoliberal capitalism." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6436/.
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The emergence between 1965 and 1973 of a crisis of over-accumulation and over-capacity, rooted in international manufacturing yet affecting the overall private business economies of the advanced capitalist countries, inaugurated a developmental context whose profound contradictions were brought home by the Great Recession of 2008-9 and the continuing Long Depression. The intervening period has seen profound economic, political and social crisis in the advanced capitalist world and has simultaneously been treacherous for under-developed economies forced to navigate rocketing energy costs and international commodity price and currency exchange rate turbulence under the continual threat of debt-levered expropriation. The struggle to locate the causes – proximate and ultimate – of the present crisis is at the same time a battle to map the basic economic and political coordinates of the continuing long downturn. In this connection it is contended that efforts have been undermined by the epistemological underdevelopment conditioned by a crisis of knowledge-formation which has unfolded in parallel with the long downturn. The dominance of neoclassical economics (‘unworldly’ since the marginal revolution) on the right and the displacement of Marxism on a structurally weakened and autodidactic left in the context of the ascent of postmodernism as an intellectual and cultural dominant has opened a space between the material and discursive realities of global capitalist development. This work is an attempt to deploy the method developed by the classical Marxist tradition to approach the significance of the state and law in the historically-conditioned reproduction of capitalist social relations. It is contended in the first place that the dualism which obtains between national and global spheres in much theorisation of neoliberal ‘globalisation’ obscures the dialectical interrerelation of state and world market – the institutional and regulatory environment of international trade, money and finance being both the creation of states and the developing context which frames their – necessarily path-dependent and reflexive – projects of domestic economy making. As against popular notions of state decline, following Gowan the state-political content of the centring of private financial markets in the mediation of international monetary relations is recalled, while the embeddedness of the state in circuits of capital accumulation is emphasised (Tony Smith), the concept of ‘regime of accumulation’ being deployed to capture the nexus of monetary, fiscal and regulatory policy which articulates historically-conditioned development strategies. In this respect, we depart from the work of the Bolshevik jurist Pashukanis, who despite significantly advancing the materialist analysis of the juridical form, identified in his most significant work a largely derivative role for the state. It is argued that the methodological weakness represented by Pashukanis’ disproportionate emphasis on commodity exchange – his failure to proceed from the basis of the capitalist economy as a contradictory unity of production and circulation – prevents him from fully apprehending the role of the state in the production and reproduction of capitalist social relations. As the discussion unfolds, there is developed in conversation principally with Gramsci an understanding of the state as the specific material condensation of a relationship of forces among classes and class fractions. Upholding the notion of the ‘integral state’ as a differentiated unity of civil society and political society upon which terrains the capitalist class forms alliances with proximate classes as the prerequisite for and correlate of its domination of labour, the developmental context represented by neoliberalism is conceived in terms of the transition of interest-bearing capital from leading to dominant fraction of the capitalist class in parallel with its tendential contradictory disaggregation from productive capital. Such a process has necessitated a transformation in the character of bourgeois political supremacy involving a dismantling of the civil rights and social protections accumulated during the period bookended by Americanism and the welfare state and increasing dependence upon an expanded machinery of coercion. Proceeding from this basis, it is considered how in specific developmental contexts the state by way of the legal form maps the social totality, achieving distinctive couplings (and de-couplings) of wealth production and social reproduction. There is asserted the second-order integration of public and private spheres in terms of the fundamental unity of capitalist reproduction, the first-order public/private metabolism being evaluated in view of the facilitation and rationalisation of social reproduction in the context of a productive economy structured around dissociated private producers. The legal form is further interrogated in view of its role in structuring the productive antagonism between capital and labour, a relation which on the basis of its form comes to expresses various contents – from consensual integration to casuistic assimilation – as domestic social relations are (in-)validated by the operation of the law of value at the level of the world market. In this connection, the unproductive theoretical polarisation obtaining between approaches which consider law to be epiphenomenal and those which pursue its relative autonomy is enriched by a historicised conception in terms of which law, concretising specific relationships of forces within particular regimes of accumulation, appears as ‘sword’, as ‘shield’ and as ‘fetter’. This framework is particularly useful for evaluating the opportunities for the deployment of legal strategies by labour and groups oppressed under capitalism – a question in relation to which Pashukanis, following Lenin, demonstrated a remarkable political astuteness.
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Kemnitz, Alexander, and Martin Roessler. "Economic Development, Democratic Institutions, and Repression in Non-democratic Regimes: Theory and Evidence." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-221345.
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This paper analyzes the utilization of repression and democratic institutions by a non-democratic government striving for political power and private rents. We find that economic development has different impacts on policy choices, depending on whether it appears in the form of rises in income or in education: A higher income level reduces democracy, whereas more education leads to both more democracy and more repression. These theoretical findings are corroborated by panel data regressions.
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Chew, Yen Shern. "Do exchange rate regimes affect countries' economic growth and inflation?" Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1354820480.
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Holmes, Christopher. "Economistic fallacies in contemporary capitalism : a Polanyian analysis of regimes of marketised social protection." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34555/.
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Karl Polanyi used the notion of economistic fallacy in order to flag up the way in which formal definitions of the economy – rooted in the assumption of economising, self-interested market behaviour – were routinely applied as universal and rational by economists, political scientists, policy makers and in general public discourse. This thesis is a critical re-application of the notion of economistic fallacy in theoretical, historical and contemporary perspective. I argue that, although Polanyi’s broad generalisations are unsuitable for contemporary analysis, the same basic type of fallacy can be observed in various specific policy settings. Roughly speaking, the thesis comprises two halves. In the first, I focus on theoretical matters, arguing for a consideration of Polanyi specifically as a political economist of ideas. This, I argue, gets us closer to some of Polanyi’s most interesting analytical intentions whilst freeing us from some of the apparent ontological contradictions latent in his various texts. From there, I develop Polanyi’s insights on the role of ideas in capitalist development, foregrounding the notion of economistic fallacy as a key conceptual device. In the second half of the thesis, I apply this analysis over three case studies, one on global financial regulation, one on climate change and one on welfare provision in the UK. These areas are chosen as contemporary reflections of the three ‘fictitious commodities’ that Polanyi identified as uniquely important loci of economistically fallacious logics, namely money, land and labour. In each case, I note how specific versions of economistic fallacy have guided policies that aim to deliver forms of social protection via market mechanisms and market actors – what I call ‘marketised social protection’. This is in distinction to the straightforward (often state-led) societal self-protection that Polanyi and latter-day Polanyians have typically focused upon. I argue that the policies discussed are economistically fallacious to the extent that they rely on unrealistic, overly rationalist assumptions about the nature of society, the natural environment and people, respectively. I show instead how the dynamics of capital accumulation that such regimes serve to legitimate and protect – dynamics that I refer to as forms of ‘market self-protection’ – act to continually undermine the success of such policy programmes. This, I argue, is a distinctive tension in the ideational and material landscape of contemporary capitalism.
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Hultell, Johan. "Cooperative and non-cooperative wireless access : Resource and infrastructure sharing regimes." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Kommunikationssystem, CoS, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-9680.
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Future wireless networks will combine multiple radio technologies and subsystems, possibly managed by competing network providers. For such systems it may be advantageous to let the end nodes (terminals) make some or all of the resource management decisions. In addition to reducing complexity and costs, increasing redundancy, and facilitating more timely decisions; distributed resource sharing regimes can decouple the individual subsystems. Decoupled subsystems could be desirable both because competing operators can be business-wise separated and because it allows new technologies to be added (removed) in a modular fashion. However, distributed regimes can also lead to “selfish” wireless nodes who only try to maximize their own performance. The first part of this dissertation studies if selfish nodes can make efficient use of wireless resources, using multiaccess and network layers as examples. The related problems are formulated as noncooperative games between nodes. To maintain tractability nodes are confined to simple strategies that neither account for future payoffs nor allow for coordination. Yet, it is demonstrated that selfish nodes can achieve comparable performance to traditional protocols. These results should be interpreted as an argument in favor of distributed regimes. The second part of this dissertation evaluates the effects of multi-provider network architectures where users can roam freely across all networks. From a supply side perspective the benefits are improved path gain statistics and the fact that different networks may have non-overlapping busy hours. Several network configurations are analyzed and it is shown that cooperation between symmetric providers can yield significant capacity gains for both downlink and uplink; even if the providers have nearly collocated sites. When the providers have different site densities the gains from cooperation are reduced and the provider with a sparse network always gains more from cooperating. This suggests that initially, voluntary cooperation may be limited to some special cases. Lastly, the architecture is analyzed in a context where the providers compete for users on a per session basis by offering access at different prices. Although such architectures currently only exist in a few special cases, they could emerge in domestic markets where the costs to switch and search for new networks are low. Based on a game theoretic formulation it is shown that a competitive market for wireless access can be advantageous for both users and providers. The results presented suggest that the advantages of cooperation of competing providers occur in more than just a few cases.QC 20100812
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Alfasi, Kawther Nuri. "Political agency and the symbolic legacy of authoritarian regimes : the case of Libya." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/101760/.
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This thesis examines the emergence of contentious forms of political agency during the Libyan uprising of 2011. The wave of popular protests known as the ‘Arab Spring’ challenged prevailing assumptions about the politics of the region. It was argued that, through their unfettered, claims making practices, Arab publics had undermined authoritarian structures of power, and become imbued with new, empowering self-understandings. Positioning itself within this literature on Middle East politics, the thesis sets out to analyse authoritarianism as a mode of domination, and to investigate the extent to which moments of radical contestation both transform authoritarian regimes and generate new political subjectivities. The analysis is centred on the Libyan uprising, which emerged under Qadhafi’s authoritarian Jamahiriya, yet witnessed widespread protests, civil activism and an armed conflict from February to August 2011. The thesis integrates multi-institutional politics theory with theories of contentious politics in order to conceptualise domination as located in social ‘institutions’ that are simultaneously material and symbolic. In turn, it understands agency as a strategic and symbolic representational practice that is capable of transforming institutional structures. Drawing on interviews with Libyan activists, and on the analysis of social movement discourses, the thesis advances three core arguments. Firstly, it argues that Qadhafi’s Jamahiriya embedded political agency into its system of domination by engendering complicity. Secondly, it argues that in 2011, Libyans undercut the Jamahiriya’s monopoly over meaning and practice by generating mobilising ‘collective action frames’, and by subverting its symbolic and classificatory schemas. Lastly, it indicates that representational practices ultimately struggled to transform authoritarian domination because they were bound up with the strategic logics of collective action, and because they re-inscribed the Jamahiriya’s definitions of power and collectivity. In proffering these arguments, this thesis generates a new body of empirical material on an understudied case, and critically applies, challenges and extends theories of authoritarianism and contentious politics.
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Kleine, Mareike [Verfasser]. "All roads lead away from Rome : a liberal theory of international regimes / Mareike Kleine." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1025489748/34.
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Swetnam, Tyson Lee. "Cordilleran Forest Scaling Dynamics And Disturbance Regimes Quantified By Aerial LiDAR." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311231.
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Semi-arid forests are in a period of rapid transition as a result of unprecedented landscape scale fires, insect outbreaks, drought, and anthropogenic land use practices. Understanding how historically episodic disturbances led to coherent forest structural and spatial patterns that promoted resilience and resistance is a critical part of addressing change. Here my coauthors and I apply metabolic scaling theory (MST) to examine scaling behavior and structural patterns of semi-arid conifer forests in Arizona and New Mexico. We conceptualize a linkage to mechanistic drivers of forest assembly that incorporates the effects of low-intensity disturbance, and physiologic and resource limitations as an extension of MST. We use both aerial LiDAR data and field observations to quantify changes in forest structure from the sub-meter to landscape scales. We found: (1) semi-arid forest structure exhibits MST-predicted behaviors regardless of disturbance and that MST can help to quantitatively measure the level of disturbance intensity in a forest, (2) the application of a power law to a forest overstory frequency distribution can help predict understory presence/absence, (3) local indicators of spatial association can help to define first order effects (e.g. topographic changes) and map where recent disturbances (e.g. logging and fire) have altered forest structure. Lastly, we produced a comprehensive set of above-ground biomass and carbon models for five distinct forest types and ten common species of the southwestern US that are meant for use in aerial LiDAR forest inventory projects. This dissertation presents both a conceptual framework and applications for investigating local scales (stands of trees) up to entire ecosystems for diagnosis of current carbon balances, levels of departure from historical norms, and ecological stability. These tools and models will become more important as we prepare our ecosystems for a future characterized by increased climatic variability with an associated increase in frequency and severity of ecological disturbances.
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Wael, Jundi. "Alternative exchange regimes in oil exporting economies : the case of the Gulf Cooperation Council." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4470/.
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During the period between 2004 and 2008 the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries witnessed high levels of inflation. This was largely due to the US dollar pegged exchange rate regime operating in these economies at the time, and the depreciation of the US dollar over other major currencies during the same period. This research explores alternative exchange rate regimes available for the GCC, taking into consideration their size, wealth and economic performance. It also evaluates the possible effects on the private sector if an alternative regime is adopted. Finally, it assesses the readiness of the GCC economies to move towards a single currency and compares the GCC proposed currency union with the Euro experience. Researchers supporting fixed exchange regime believe that it leads to a better inflation performance according to Ghosh et. al. (1996), Hausmann et. al. (1999) and Eichengreen et.al. (1999). Others, like Caramazza et. al. (1998) believe that this is not standard for all emerging economies and also Collins (1996) supports a fixed regime for economies with poor growth, which is not the case for the GCC. On the other hand, Duttagupta et. al. (2005) and Velasco (2000) support a floating regime for economies with technical knowhow and an international trading volume. The move to a more flexible regime will lead to fluctuation in the nominal exchange rate, which is expected to affect the stock market performance according to Frankel et. al. (2007), Tian et. al. (2010) and Dornbush et. al. (1980). Other researchers such as Bartram et. al. (2012), Nieh et. al. (2002) and Tsai (2012) are of the view that this relation between the stock market and exchange rate doesn’t exist. Taking into consideration the size of the combined GCC economy and the integration between these economies, this support the move to a single currency union as the GCC forms an Optimum Currency Area. This move is supported by researchers like Laabas et. al. (2002), Rose (2000) and Pisani-Ferry (2012) who believe that a single currency union will increase intra-trading, liberate reserves and increase the trust of the union economies. The methodology adopted in this research combines both empirical approach and informal approach and compares the outcome from both methodologies. Tests such as Unit Root Test to examine stationarity, Cointegration to examine long-run relationship between variables, VAR and ECM tests for short-run relationship test and Granger Causality tests to examine if a variable can be used to forecast another variable were used in this research. In addition to the above formal approach, a Mundell-Fleming theory was introduced to examine the relationship between stock market and exchange regime and an informal theoretical analysis was presented to assess the GCC readiness to form a currency union. The main findings of the research can be summarized as follow: 1. Analysis of economic indicators from the GCC supports the move towards a more flexible exchange rate regime. 2. The effect of nominal currency fluctuation on the private sector is expected to be minimal in the short-run and managabele in the long run. 3. GCC countries still have a long way to go if they are to form a currency union as the underlying infrastructure is weak. This research was conducted in the period between 2006 and 2015, which has witnessed an abnormal economic cycles, mainly the 2008 international financial crisis. This has led the author to eliminate some years following the 2008 crisis. Also, one of the main complications raised in this research was data collection, especially GCC related data. This has led to following different informal approaches to collect the required data for the research.
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Sola, Martin. "Essays on speculative attacks on fixed exchange rate regimes, speculative bubbles and endogenous switching regime estimation." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316309.
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Palleson-Stallan, Lisa. "The 'international gendered division of knowledge' : and the place of women in micro communities : the 'gender specific impact' of intellectual property regimes." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247017.
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Shin, Yoonghyun. "Neural Network Based Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Dynamic Regimes." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7577.
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Adaptive control designs using neural networks (NNs) based on dynamic inversion are
investigated for aerospace vehicles which are operated at highly nonlinear dynamic regimes. NNs play a key role as the principal element of adaptation to approximately cancel the effect of inversion error, which subsequently improves robustness to parametric uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics in nonlinear regimes.
An adaptive control scheme previously named composite model reference adaptive control is further developed so that it can be applied to multi-input multi-output output feedback dynamic inversion. It can have adaptive elements in both the dynamic compensator (linear controller) part and/or in the conventional adaptive controller part, also utilizing state estimation information for NN adaptation. This methodology has more flexibility and thus hopefully greater potential than conventional adaptive designs for adaptive flight control in highly nonlinear flight regimes. The stability of the control system is proved through Lyapunov theorems, and validated with simulations.
The control designs in this thesis also include the use of pseudo-control hedging techniques which are introduced to prevent the NNs from attempting to adapt to various actuation nonlinearities such as actuator position and rate saturations. Control allocation is introduced for the case of redundant control effectors including thrust vectoring nozzles. A thorough comparison study of conventional and NN-based adaptive designs for a system under a limit cycle, wing-rock, is included in this research, and the NN-based adaptive control designs demonstrate their performances for two highly maneuverable aerial vehicles, NASA F-15 ACTIVE and FQM-117B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), operated under various nonlinearities and uncertainties.
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Dunning, Emma Natasha. "The theory of reasoned action as a predictor of self-reported adherence to medical regimes in patients with hypertension /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsd924.pdf.
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Derqui, Pablo Marcos. "Da informação à categorização: a formação sistêmica dos conceitos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27151/tde-24112014-090640/.
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As teorias sobre a formação dos conceitos em Ciência da Informação carecem de uma abordagem mais profunda sobre o principal objeto desta disciplina: a informação. Esta pesquisa realiza uma reflexão sobre essa carência tendo como estratégia considerar o problema da definição de informação e conceito como interdependentes. Essa estratégia define o problema enquanto fenômeno (como a informação interage com a formação dos conceitos?) e não a partir dos diversos exercícios de tentar definir esses conceitos. O objetivo da pesquisa é pautado, portanto, pela compreensão do fenômeno nos domínios-chave onde a informação e os conceitos se desdobram e se complementam: o cognitivo, o social e o comunicacional. Essa compreensão requer, contudo, uma abordagem diferenciada para a questão da informação, na qual esta participe do processo de organização destes domínios, abandonando assim a perspectiva tradicional da informação como ocorrências comunicativas ou efeitos dos eventos sobre a mente. A hipótese da tese era que essa perspectiva tradicional, generalista, de informação, gera uma compreensão cognitivista da formação dos conceitos, amparada em um paradigma dualista da cognição sob a dicotomia objetivo/subjetivo. O objetivo da pesquisa foi, então, contrapor outro paradigma (não dualista) de informação, através da abordagem sistêmica, embasada nos autores Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, e para o fenômeno da informação Niklas Luhmann. Deste último autor, retiramos a concepção central da informação como diferenças que produzem mudanças sistêmicas, organizando-se como sistemas psíquicos ou sociais. Essa noção central foi aprofundada, a partir da ideia que a informação se organiza como regimes de aceitação de diferenças em cada um desses sistemas. Para os sistemas psíquicos, baseamo-nos em Giulio Tononi, para quem o emaranhamento entre complexos de informação integrada (criando regimes expansivos) permite a emergência de conceitos. À medida que esse regime permite a emergência de sistemas de consciência que regulam o foco sobre esses conceitos, sugerimos - baseados na abordagem ecológica dos conceitos de Liane Gabora, Eleonor Rosch e Diederik Aerts - que ele, então, passa a ser complementado por outro, redutivo, que abstrai e desvincula os conceitos de seus contextos imediatos, permitindo a imaginação. Esse corpo teórico foi então confrontado com os dilemas teóricos levantados na literatura do Corpus - composto por artigos que tratassem dos processos de categorização ou aspectos cognitivos da teoria dos conceitos em Ciência da Informação. Constatamos que, em CI, a questão da formação dos conceitos confirmava a hipótese: a área de organização do conhecimento opta por uma visão cognitivista e dualista em que os conceitos se formam a partir de um núcleo de representações invariáveis (de natureza perceptiva) e os aspectos contextuais ficam restritos a operações periféricas de identificação. Concluímos que o paradigma representacionista é, em geral, dominante e que a área de organização da informação e conhecimento (e também a CI) deveria se abrir para outras abordagens, e propusemos como uma alternativa a abordagem sistêmica da informação, que apresentamos nesta pesquisa.The theories about the formation of concepts in Information Science (IS) lack of a deeper approach on this discipline\'s main object: information. This research carries out a reflection on this lack adopting the strategy of considering the issues of information definition and concept as interdependent. This strategy defines this issue while phenomenon (how information interacts with the formation of concepts?), avoiding the departure from several exercises to try to define these concepts. Therefore, this research\'s objective is guided by the comprehension of that phenomenon in the key-dominions where information and concepts unfold and complete each other: the cognitive, the social and the communicational ones. However, this comprehension requires a differentiated approach for the issue of information, in which it participates of this dominions organization process, thus leaving the traditional perspective of information as communicative occurrences or event effects on mind. This thesis\' hypothesis was that this traditional and generalist perspective of information generates a cognitivist comprehension of formation of concepts, supported by a dualist paradigm of cognition under the dichotomy objective/subjective. This research\'s objective was to offer another (non-dualist) paradigm of information through the systemic approach based on the authors Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela and, for the information phenomenon, Niklas Luhmann. From this last author, we took the core conception of information as differences that produce systemic changes, auto-organizing themselves as psychic or social systems. This core notion was deepened with the idea that information organizes itself as regimes of differences acceptation in each of these systems. For the psychic systems, we used Giulio Tononi, for whom the tangling between complexes of integrated information (creating expansive regimes) allows the emergence of concepts. As this regime allows the emergence of conscience systems that rule the focus on these concepts, we suggest - based on the ecological approach of Liane Gabora, Eleonor Rosch and Diederik Aerts - that it is, now, complemented by other, reductive, that abstracts and detaches the the concepts from its immediate concepts, acknowledging imagination. This theoretical body was, then, confronted with the theoretical dilemma in the gather of Corpus literature - composed by articles that tackled the processes of categorization or cognitive aspects of concepts theory in Information Theory. We verified that, in IS, the issue of formation of concepts confirmed the cognitivist hypothesis: the area of knowledge organization chose the cognitivist and dualist vision in which concepts are formed by a nucleus of invariable representations (of perceptive nature) and the contextual aspects are restricted to peripheral identification. We concluded that the representational paradigm is, in general, hegemonic and that the areas of information and knowledge organization (and also IS) should open to other approaches, proposing the systemic approach of information as an alternative, which is presented in this research
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Broström, Emilia. "What a man can be, he must be : En kvantitativ studie i postmateriella värderingars påverkan på psykisk ohälsa i olika välfärdsstatsregimer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295696.
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In an economically developing world, the process of modernization has been proven to change people’s cultural and political values. Political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Wetzel’s revised theory of modernization shows evidence that people’s political and cultural values move along two dimensions in a predictable pattern. Economic development shift people’s values from traditional and survival toward more secular-rational and self- expressive. This rise in post-material values has unknown effects on people’s mental health. Using Esping-Andersen’s theory on welfare state regimes the aim of this study is to both examine what effect post-material values have on mental health and, furthermore, if this effect plays out differently in different welfare state regimes. This was done using regression analysis based on data from a large number of countries from all over the world. The results of the analysis show that a rise in post-material values is positively correlated with worse mental health. But when welfare state regimes were brought into the model the relationship between post-material values and mental health did not stay the same but varied in its effect across the different regimes. The conservative welfare state regime stood out as the regime in which post-material values generated the worst mental health. On the whole, results indicate that the relationship between post-material values, welfare state regimes and mental health is a very complex relationship that is in need of further examination.
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Burlac, Leonid, and Nikolaos Giannakis. "Benford’s Law: Analysis of the trustworthiness of COVID-19 reporting in the context of different political regimes." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-54560.
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In order for governments and demographers to, among other things, design policies and pensionplans, as well as for insurance companies to offer policies that serve general public, having reliable mortality data plays a crucial role. The academic world works actively in developing tools (models and methods) that can, based on collected mortality data, forecast future death rates in the observed population. Obviously, to be able to rely on the predicated data one needs a reliable source of existing mortality data. In the light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, reliability of certain death-case reporting has been questioned. In this thesis, the Benford’s Law is used to evaluate how well countries with authoritarian regimes (Azerbaijan, Belarus),and with democratic regimes (Greece, Serbia, Sweden), report their COVID-19 cases to theworldwide public. Statistical tests such as the Chi-squared test, mean absolute deviation, and the distribution distance were used to obtain the results needed to form our conclusions. During our testing, we found that countries with democratic regimes do conform better to the Benford’s law than the authoritarian ones.
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Tombul, Serdar. "A numerical study of the validity regimes of weak fluctuation theory for ocean acoustic propagation through random internal wave sound speed fields." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FTombul.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Engineering Acoustics and M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.Thesis Advisor(s): John Colosi. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82 ). Also available in print.
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Bryden, Alan C. "Examining the effectiveness of international landmine regimes. The interplay between design and implementation." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4905.
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Two international treaty frameworks ¿ Amended Protocol II (APII) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) ¿ have been developed to prohibit or restrict the use of landmines. However, reflecting a gap in current academic research, there is a lack of knowledge of their effectiveness in supporting the humanitarian goals that underpin both treaties. In order to address gaps in the existing literature, this thesis applies an analytical framework grounded in regime theory to develop new insights into the design, implementation and effectiveness of APII and the APMBC within the broader framework of international humanitarian law (IHL). Two main hypotheses are explored. The first considers the importance for regime effectiveness of the relationship between design and implementation processes. The second analyses the significance for the landmine regimes of regime interplay and nesting within wider IHL and mine action discourses. In addressing these hypotheses, design/implementation interplay, agency dynamics and normative considerations represent key themes that enable us to develop new insights to a specific issue area that also demonstrates important linkages to wider humanitarian, security and developmental agendas.
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Bryden, Alan Craig. "Examining the effectiveness of international landmine regimes : the interplay between design and implementation." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4905.
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Two international treaty frameworks - Amended Protocol II (APII) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) - have been developed to prohibit or restrict the use of landmines. However, reflecting a gap in current academic research, there is a lack of knowledge of their effectiveness in supporting the humanitarian goals that underpin both treaties. In order to address gaps in the existing literature, this thesis applies an analytical framework grounded in regime theory to develop new insights into the design, implementation and effectiveness of APII and the APMBC within the broader framework of international humanitarian law (IHL). Two main hypotheses are explored. The first considers the importance for regime effectiveness of the relationship between design and implementation processes. The second analyses the significance for the landmine regimes of regime interplay and nesting within wider IHL and mine action discourses. In addressing these hypotheses, design/implementation interplay, agency dynamics and normative considerations represent key themes that enable us to develop new insights to a specific issue area that also demonstrates important linkages to wider humanitarian, security and developmental agendas.
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Rumsey, Jessie G. "Aid and International Norms: The Effects of Human Rights and Counterterrorism Regimes on U.S. Foreign Assistance Pre- and Post-9/11." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1406245077.
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Thampy, Gayatri S. "INDIGENOUS CONTESTATIONS OF SHIFTING PROPERTY REGIMES: LAND CONFLICTS AND THE NGOBE IN BOCAS DEL TORO, PANAMA." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365428854.
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Karimi, Zarkani Mohammad. "Essays on Currency Crises." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20735.
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The topic of my thesis is currency crisis. Currency crises have been a recurrent feature of the international economy from the invention of paper money. They are not confined to particular economies or specific region. They take place in developed, emerging, and developing countries and are spread all over the globe. Countries that experience currency crises face economic losses that can be huge and disruptive. However, the exacted toll is not only financial and economic, but also human, social, and political. It is clear that the currency crisis is a real threat to financial stability and economic prosperity.
The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the determinants of currency crises for twenty OECD countries and South Africa from 1970 through 1998. It systematically examines the role of economic fundamentals and contagion in the origins of currency crises and empirically attempts to identify the channels through which the crises are being transmitted. It also examines the links between the incidence of currency crises and the choice of exchange rate regimes as well as the impact of capital market liberalization policies on the occurrence of currency crises.
The first chapter identifies the episodes of currency crisis in our data set. Determining true crisis periods is a vital step in the empirical studies and has direct impact on the reliability of their estimations and the relevant policy implications. We define a period as a crisis episode when the Exchange Market Pressure (EMP) index, which consists of changes in exchange rates, reserves, and interest rates, exceeds a threshold. In order to minimize the concerns regarding the accuracy of identified crisis episodes, we apply extreme value theory, which is a more objective approach compared to other methods. In this chapter, we also select the reference country, which a country’s currency pressure index should be built around, in a more systematic way rather than by arbitrary choice or descriptive reasoning.
The second chapter studies the probability of a currency exiting a tranquil state into a crisis state. There is an extensive literature on currency crises that empirically evaluate the roots and causes of the crises. Despite the interesting results of the current empirical literature, only very few of them account for the influence of time on the probability of crises. We use duration models that rigorously incorporate the time factor into the likelihood functions and allow us to investigate how the amount of time that a currency has already spent in the tranquil state affects the stability of a currency. Our findings show that high values of volatility of unemployment rates, inflation rates, contagion factors (which mostly work through trade channels), unemployment rates, real effective exchange rate, trade openness, and size of economy increases the hazard of a crisis. We make use of several robustness checks, including running our models on two different crisis episodes sets that are identified based on monthly and quarterly type spells.
The third chapter examines the links between the incidence of currency crises and the choice of exchange rate regimes as well as the impact of capital market liberalization policies on the occurrence of currency crises. As in our previous paper, duration analysis is our methodology to study the probability of a currency crisis occurrence under different exchange rate regimes and capital mobility policies. The third chapter finds that there is a significant link between the choice of exchange rate regime and the incidence of currency crises in our sample. Nevertheless, the results are sensitive to the choice of the de facto exchange rate system. Moreover, in our sample, capital control policies appear to be helpful in preventing low duration currency crises. The results are robust to a wide variety of sample and models checks.
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Dernbach, Rafael Karl. "Anticipatory realism : constructions of futures and regimes of prediction in contemporary post-cinematic art." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289021.
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This thesis examines strategies of anticipation in contemporary post-cinematic art. In the Introduction and the first chapter, I make the case for anticipation as a cultural technique for the construction of and adjustment to future scenarios. This framing allows analysis of constructions of futures as culturally and media-historically specific operations. Via anticipation, constructions of futures become addressable as embedded in specific performative and material economies: as regimes of prediction. The hypothesis is that cultural techniques of anticipation do not only serve to construct particular future scenarios, but also futurity, the very condition for the construction of futures. Drawing upon the philosophical works of, in particular, Vilem Flusser, Jacques Derrida and Elena Esposito, and the theory of cultural techniques, I conceptualize anticipation through the analysis of post-cinematic strategies. I argue that post-cinematic art is particularly apt for the conceptualization of anticipation. The self-reflexive multi-media interventions of post-cinematic art can expose the realisms that govern regimes of prediction. Three cultural techniques of anticipation and their use as artistic strategies in post-cinematic art are theorized: enactment, soft montage and rendering. Each of these techniques is examined in its construction of futures through performative and material operations in art gallery spaces. The second chapter examines strategies of enactment in post-cinematic installations by Neïl Beloufa. My readings of Kempinski (2007), The Analyst, the Researcher, the Screenwriter, the CGI tech and the Lawyer (2011), World Domination (2012) and Data for Desire (2014) propose that enactment allows for an engagement with futures beyond extrapolation. With Karen Barad's theory of agential realism, the construction of futures becomes graspable as a political process in opposition to a mere prolonging of the present into the future. The third chapter focuses on the strategy of soft montage in works by Harun Farocki. I interpret Farocki's application of soft montage in the exhibition Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010) as a critical engagement with anticipatory forms of organizing power and distributing precarity. His work series Parallel I-IV (2012-2014) is then analyzed as a speculation on the future of image production technologies and their role in constructing futures. The final chapter analyses the self-referential use of computer-generated renderings in works by Hito Steyerl. The installations How Not To Be Seen (2013), Liquidity Inc. (2014), The Tower (2015) and ExtraSpaceCraft (2016) are read as interventions in the performative economies of contemporary image production. I argue that these works allow us to grasp the reality-producing and futurity-producing effects of rendering as anticipatory cultural technique. My thesis aims to contribute to the discussions on a 'turn towards the future' in contemporary philosophy and cultural criticism. My research thus focuses on the following set of questions. What can we learn about the operations of future construction through encounters with post-cinematic art? How are futures and future construction framed in such art? What realisms do future constructions rely on? And how can anticipation as a cultural technique be politicized and democratized?
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Vranaki, Asma A. I. "Rethinking relations and regimes of power in online social networking sites : tales of control, strife, and negotiations in Facebook and YouTube." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a0872883-98b3-4215-b000-0974a80cad97.
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This thesis investigates the potentially complex power effects generated in Online Social Networking Sites (‘OSNS’), such as YouTube and Facebook, when legal values, such as copyright and personal data, are protected and/or violated. In order to develop this analysis, in Chapter Two, I critically analyse key academic writings on internet regulation and argue that I need to move away from the dominant ‘regulatory’ lens to my Actor-Network Theory-Foucauldian Power Lens (‘ANT-Foucauldian Power Lens’) in order to be able to capture the potentially complex web of power effects generated in YouTube and Facebook when copyright and personal data are protected and/or violated. In Chapter Three, I develop my ANT-Foucauldian Power Lens and explore how key ANT ideas such as translation can be used in conjunction with Foucauldian ideas such as governmentality. I utilise my ANT-Foucauldian Power Lens in Chapters Four to Seven to analyse how YouTube and Facebook are constructed as heterogeneous, contingent and precarious ‘actor-networks’ and I map in detail the complex power effects generated from specific local connections. I argue five key points. Firstly, I suggest that complex, multiple, and contingent power effects are generated when key social, legal, and technological actants are locally, contingently, and precariously ‘fitted together’ in YouTube and Facebook when copyright and personal data are protected and/or violated. Secondly, I argue that ‘materialities’ play key roles in maintaining the power effects generated by specific local connections. Thirdly, I argue that there are close links between power and ‘spatialities’ through my analysis of the Privacy Settings and Tagging in Facebook. Fourthly, I argue that my relational understandings of YouTube and Facebook generate a more comprehensive view of the power effects of specific legal elements such as how specific territorial laws in YouTube gain their authority by virtue of their durable and heterogeneous connections. Finally, I argue that we can extrapolate from my empirical findings to build a small-scale theory about the power effects generated in OSNS when legal values are protected and/or violated. Here I also consider the contributions made by my research to three distinct fields, namely, internet regulation, socio-legal studies, and actor-network theory.
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Araujo, Felipe Costa. "Métodos de análise multicritério e teoria dos jogos aplicados à escolha dos regimes alternativos para a exploração de petróleo e gás no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/96/96132/tde-13082018-145437/.
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O Brasil vem passando por um período de mudanças na regulação do mercado de exploração e produção (E&P) de petróleo e gás com o intuito de promover o seu desenvolvimento econômico, tecnológico e científico. Duas destas mudanças foram responsáveis por drásticas modificações no mercado de E&P brasileiro, sendo a primeira, a quebra do monopólio da Petrobras em 1997 com o início da utilização do regime de concessão e, a segunda, a utilização do regime de partilha de produção a partir de 2013 para as áreas estratégicas, especialmente o pré-sal. A busca por um regime regulatório adequado para o mercado de E&P é uma tarefa bastante complexa, porque cada agente envolvido busca defender seus próprios interesses e critérios, o que acaba por resultar em um problema em grupo. Neste trabalho pioneiro, uma nova metodologia é proposta, combinando uma abordagem de tomada de decisão multicritério (MCDM/A) e a teoria de jogos, com o intuito de compreender e analisar mais profundamente este problema e encontrar soluções de equilíbrio. Esta metodologia inovadora é uma das contribuições deste trabalho e propõe modelar a escolha de um regime regulatório mais adequado como um jogo de negociação, levando em consideração as diferentes preferências e perspectivas de todos os agentes envolvidos no mercado brasileiro de E&P de petróleo e gás. Três aplicações práticas do modelo foram realizadas, sendo que as duas primeiras aplicações foram realizadas com dados teóricos e a terceira a partir de coleta de dados com especialistas do mercado de E&P brasileiro. Como principal resultado, verificou-se que a lógica destas aplicações práticas se assemelham ao jogo clássico da Batalha dos Sexos, onde as melhores soluções acontecem quando os agentes coordenam suas ações, mesmo com interesses opostos. Esta dinâmica de conflito de interesses torna a busca por soluções desafiante, sendo improvável que os objetivos de todos os jogadores sejam adequadamente atendidos por somente uma opção, independentemente da alternativa escolhida.Brazil is facing a period of changes in its regulatory frameworks aiming to promote the economic, technological and scientific development of its entire oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) market. Two of these changes have drastically modified the Brazilian E&P market, which the first one was the utilization of the concession regime breaking the Petrobras monopoly after 1997 and the second one, the adoption of production sharing contracts (PSCs) after 2013 for all the strategic areas, especially the pre-salt. Finding a suitable regulatory framework for the E&P market is a quite complicated task, because every agent involved seeks to defend its own interests and criteria, resulting in a group problem. In this pioneering work, a new methodology is proposed by combining a multicriteria decision-making (MCDM/A) and a game theory approach, targeting to understand and analyze more deeply this complex problem in order to find equilibrium solutions. This innovative methodology is one of the main contributions of this work and proposes to model the choosing of an appropriate regulatory framework as a negotiation game, taking into account the different preferences and perspectives of all agents involved in the Brazilian E&P market. Three practical applications were performed, where the first two were carried out with theoretical data and the third one by using data collected with Brazilian E&P market experts. The main outcome identified that the logic behind these practical applications is similar to the classical game of Battle of sexes, where the best solutions happen when players coordinate their actions, even with opposing interests. This dynamic of conflict of interests makes the search for adequate solutions a challenging task, being unlikely that the objectives of all the players will be sufficiently accomplished by only one option, regardless of the alternative chosen.
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Laura, Messner. "Paratransit and Bus Rapid Transit Interaction Approaches and Corresponding Barriers." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-419917.
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Public transport in many Sub-Saharan African cities consists of paratransit, mini-to-medium-sized buses, which provide public transport and operate demand-driven and unscheduled. This form of public transport is often seen as less safe, less dependable, and environmentally unfriendly. One common intervention is the development of a Bus Rapid Transit system. A Bus Rapid Transit system is characterized by its bus-only lanes and offers a cheaper solution to rail transit systems. The development of such a BRT system changes the structure of the public transport system as BRT often takes over the areas in which paratransit previously operated. This leads to clashes between the stakeholders of the two modes of transport, which can threaten the success of the system as well as the livelihood of the paratransit workforce. This paper uses socio-technical transition theory, as well as stakeholder theory, to provide a clear picture of the entire land passenger mobility system. The focus of this thesis lies on firstly, analyzing the question why the development of BRT is favored over the optimization of paratransit. Secondly, it looks at different interaction approaches between the multi- regimes scheduled public transport (BRT) and paratransit, which can lead to a successful public transport system. Lastly, socio-technical barriers (political, technical, socio-cultural, and economic) are analyzed to understand which obstacles have to be overcome and what corresponding measures are. The results show that the development of Bus Rapid Transit is favored over the optimization of paratransit. Paratransit is seen as unsafe and unreliable, while Bus Rapid Transit offers an efficient, reliable, eco-friendly solution which also targets vulnerable groups. Out of the four different interaction approaches, competition between BRT and paratransit, a hybrid form between paratransit and BRT, the replacement of paratransit, and the prohibition of paratransit, the hybrid form is seen as most successful, as it allows both systems to contribute their strengths. Lastly, the actors involved in the socio-technical system, and socio-technical barriers and corresponding measures were analyzed. The biggest take-away when looking at the actors of the land passenger mobility system is that all stakeholders have to be involved, which includes paratransit drivers and people working on and off the vehicles. This paper has shown that when these stakeholders are not included, there might be resistance that might compromise the success of the BRT. The socio-technical barriers used were divided into economic, financial, infrastructural, and socio-cultural barriers. A successful paratransit / BRT interaction benefits from the move from a target system to a monthly salary for the paratransit driver. There should both be regulations and incentives so that paratransit acts as a reliable partner for the BRT system. It should be noted that a successful BRT / paratransit interaction cannot easily be replicated in another country without looking at the urban form preconditions. Bus Rapid Transit is a feasible solution for many Sub-Saharan cities. For an encompassing public transport system to be successful and to outcompete the car, it is necessary that all stakeholders work together and contribute with their strengths.
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Lima, Torrado Jesús. "The legitimacy of the theorical, systematic and practical study of Human Rights foundation." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118240.
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What this study proposes is, first, to state the essential questions the foundation of human rights. Secondly, we will answer to the problem of the theoretical, systematic and practical relevance of the foundation of human rights. It concludes with the idea of the need to base the rights from the ethics, philosophy of law, legal science and Sciences on the law as an instrument to consolidate the necessary link between theory and praxis and consequently as an instrument of guarantee rights.Lo que se propone este trabajo es, en primer lugar, enunciar las preguntas esenciales que plantea la fundamentación de los derechos humanos. En segundo lugar, responderemos al problema de la legitimidad teórica, sistemática y práctica de la fundamentación de los derechos humanos. Se concluye con la idea de la necesidad de fundamentar los derechos desde la Ética, la Filosofía del Derecho, la Ciencia Jurídica y las Ciencias sobre el Derecho como instrumento de consolidar la necesaria unión entre teoría y praxis y, consiguientemente, como instrumento de garantía de los derechos.
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Fermanian, Talita Dal Lago. "Relações Internacionais e os desafios ambientais. a posição do Brasil nas negociações multilaterais sobre as mudanças climáticas." Doctoral thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18112.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Relações InternacionaisO cenário ambiental está a sofrer alterações numa escala diferente de qualquer outra época. A crise do meio ambiente é agora questão global – ecológica, política, social e económica. Nesse contexto, as mudanças climáticas constituem uma problemática urgente e atual. Assim, o presente estudo visa investigar como as instituições e os regimes internacionais estão a cooperar para o desenvolvimento dos debates no combate às alterações do clima. Analisa-se, desse modo, a performance do Brasil ao nível doméstico, como espelho da sua tomada de decisões na esfera internacional. À luz da teoria da interdependência complexa, por meio da evolução do regime internacional e de seus atuais arranjos institucionais formais, faz-se um paralelo entre as normas internacionais e as políticas climáticas no Brasil. Internacionalmente, analisa-se a posição brasileira durante as diversas negociações multilaterais sobre mudanças do clima, bem como o seu papel na formação da compreensão sobre o impacto e as respostas ao aquecimento global. Finalmente, analisam-se as medidas adoptadas pelo Brasil no plano doméstico a fim de atingir os compromissos a que se propôs no cenário internacional. A tese evidencia a importância do soft power nas relações de cooperação transnacionais para o pós-Quioto e conclui pela necessidade de um maior envolvimento brasileiro em suas políticas ambientais.
The environmental scenario is changing on a different scale from any other time. The crisis of the environment is now a global issue – ecological, political, social and economic. In this context, climate change is an urgent and current problem. Thus, the present study aims to investigate how international institutions and regimes are cooperating in the development of debates in the fight against climate change. In this way, Brazil's performance at the domestic level is analyzed, as a mirror of its decision-making in the international sphere. In light of the theory of complex interdependence, through the evolution of the international regime and its current formal institutional arrangements, a parallel is made between international norms and climate policies in Brazil. Internationally, the Brazilian position is analyzed during the various multilateral negotiations on climate change, as well as their role in shaping understanding of the impact and responses to global warming. Finally, we analyze the measures adopted by Brazil in the domestic sphere in order to reach the commitments proposed in the international scenario. The thesis highlights the importance of soft power in transnational cooperation relations for post-Kyoto and concludes that there is a need for greater Brazilian commitment to its environmental policies.
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Uzun, Arzu. "Financial Dollarization, Monetary Policy Stance And Institutional Structure: The Experience Of Latin America And Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606739/index.pdf.
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Financial dollarization, defined as the substantial presence of foreign
currency denominated assets and liabilities in the balance sheets of the main
sectors of an economy, is a widespread phenomenon among developing
economies, especially in Latin America and Turkey. Since financial
dollarization often causes financial fragility and limits the effectiveness of
monetary policy, the causes and consequences of it and dedollarization
strategies have been placed at the forefront of policy debates especially in
developing countries. The purpose of this study is to analyse the
determinants of corporate sector asset and liability dollarization in ten Latin
American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) and Turkey for the period 1990-2001.
To this end, this study considers the effects of monetary policy stance
(exchange rate flexibility and adoption of a de facto inflation targeting
regime), institutional structure (governance) and macroeconomic stance
variables (volatilities of inflation and real effective exchange rates) on
financial dollarization. The results based on panel data estimations suggest
that high and volatile inflation and depreciation of domestic currency induce a
switch to dollar denominated assets and liabilities. Furthermore, exchange
rate regime flexibility appears to reduce liability dollarization and encourage
asset dollarization. Finally, the empirical analysis supports the hypothesis that adoption of inflation targeting regime and strengthening the institutional
structure are significant in decreasing the level of financial dollarization.
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Ramesh, Chandra D. S. "Turbulent Mixed Convection." Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/236.
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Turbulent mixed convection is a complicated flow where the buoyancy and shear forces compete with each other in affecting the flow dynamics. This thesis deals with the near wall dynamics in a turbulent mixed convection flow over an isothermal horizontal heated plate. We distinguish between two types of mixed convection ; low-speed mixed convection (LSM) and high-speed mixed convection (HSM). In LSM the entire boundary layer, including the near-wall region, is dominated by buoyancy; in HSM the near-wall region, is dominated by shear and the outer region by buoyancy. We show that the value of the parameter (* = ^ determines whether the flow is LSM or HSM. Here yr is the friction length scale and L is the Monin-Obukhov length scale.
In the present thesis we proposed a model for the near-wall dynamics in LSM. We assume the coherent structure near-wall for low-speed mixed convection to be streamwise aligned periodic array of laminar plumes and give a 2d model for the near wall dynamics, Here the equation to solve for the streamwise velocity is linear with the vertical and spanwise velocities given by the free convection model of Theerthan and Arakeri [1]. We determine the profiles of streamwise velocity, Reynolds shear stress and RMS of the fluctuations of the three components of velocity. From the model we obtain the scaling for wall shear stress rw as rw oc (UooAT*), where Uoo is the free-stream velocity and AT is the temperature difference between the free-stream and the horizontal surface.A similar scaling for rw was obtained in the experiments of Ingersoll [5] and by Narasimha et al [11] in the atmospheric boundary layer under low wind speed conditions. We also derive a formula for boundary layer thickness 5(x) which predicts the boundary layer growth for the combination free-stream velocity Uoo and AT in the low-speed mixed convection regime.
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Sauvêtre, Pierre. "Crises de gouvernementalité et généalogie de l’État aux XXe et XXIe siècles : recherche historico-philosophique sur les usages de la raison politique." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013IEPP0044/document.
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La thèse, composée de deux grands ensembles, explicite d’abord la trajectoire de la notion de « gouvernementalité » dans les cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France de 1976 et 1984 afin d’établir un nouveau cadre théorique d’analyse du conflit politique à partir de l’étude des rapports de réciprocité entre les pratiques étatiques et les contre-conduites. Dans un deuxième temps, elle met ce cadre théorique à l’épreuve d’ensembles empiriques afin de tracer une généalogie de l’État au XXème et XXIème siècles à partir d’une ethnologie du dire-vrai dans la pratique sociale. Sur des aires, des temps et des populations variables, elle identifie quatre régimes différents de véridiction/juridiction des pratiques gouvernementales logiquement articulés les uns aux autres par des rapports de réciprocité successifs :1 / le régime libéral social de la res socialis en France des années 1890 aux années 1960 ; 2/ le régime de la res nullius dans les comités d’action en France dans les années 68 ; 3/ le régime néolibéral de la res economica à l’échelle mondiale depuis les années 1970 ; 4/ le régime de la res communis dans la Coordinadora del agua et les comités de l’eau boliviens dans les années 2000. Chacun de ces régimes implique une expérience différente de l’État en termes de degré et d’espaces de gouvernementalité, d’effets des politiques étatiques sur le niveau des inégalités et la structuration des rapports entre classes sociales ou sur le degré de démocratisation de la vie publique. C’est donc à une évaluation historiquement différenciée de l’État qu’invite la méthode foucaldienne d’analyse des formes de véridiction sur lesquelles sont indexées les pratiques gouvernementalesThe thesis is made of two parts and analyzes at first the trajectory of the notion of “governmentality” in Michel Foucault’s courses at the Collège de France between 1976 and 1984 to develop a new analytical framework of political conflict through the reciprocal relationships between state practices and counter-conducts. Secondly, it puts this theoretical framework to the test of a series of empirical data to draw a genealogy of the State in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from the viewpoint of an ethnology of truth telling within social practices. On variable areas, times and populations, it identifies four different regimes of veridiction/jurisdiction for governmental practices logically articulated some in the others by successive and reciprocal relationships: 1/ the social liberal regime of the res socialis in France from the 1890 to 1960s; 2/ the regime of the res nullius for the action committees in France in the 1968s ; 3/ the neoliberal regime of the res economica at the global scale since the 1970s; 4/ the regime of the res communis for the Coordinadora del agua and bolivian water committees in the 2000s. Each of these regimes involves a different experiment of the State in terms of degree and spaces of governmentality, of effects of state policies on the level of social inequalities between classes or on the degree of democratization of public life. It is thus to a historically differentiated evaluation of the State that invites the foucaultian method of analyzing the veridictions to which are indexed the governmental practices
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Hedström, David. "Var känslor tar plats i mytteoretiska perspektiv : Nya frågor utefter känslornas historia." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100473.
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Myths are intimately connected with emotions, but what the nature of the relationship really means, what it is, and how it functions are in many ways vague and unspecified. This is an examination of how, when and where emotions are referenced in theories of myth. The purpose is to point in a direction of possible new questions for future research on emotions and myth. Three major themes, centered around three major theorists of myth, are examined. The first treats perspectives of, and inspired by, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. It is a theme based around views of myth as creating collective emotions. The second theme, centered around Bronislaw Malinowski, examines theories understanding myth as handling difficult emotions. The third theme deals with perspectives from Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structuralist theory of myth, where myth is seen as mediating contradictions, and thereby also mediating emotions of the contradictions. The three themes are then examined in relation to theories from the burgeoning history of emotions. New theoretical positions, such as the bodily and moral aspects of emotions, are examined and the result suggests that the central connection between myth and emotions could be found in humankind’s ever present concern to regulate, to discipline, and to form expressions of emotions.
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Bursian, Olga, and olga bursian@arts monash edu au. "Uncovering the well-springs of migrant womens' agency: connecting with Australian public infrastructure." RMIT University. Social Science and Planning, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080131.113605.
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The study sought to uncover the constitution of migrant women's agency as they rebuild their lives in Australia, and to explore how contact with any publicly funded services might influence the capacity to be self determining subjects. The thesis used a framework of lifeworld theories (Bourdieu, Schutz, Giddens), materialist, trans-national feminist and post colonial writings, and a methodological approach based on critical hermeneutics (Ricoeur), feminist standpoint and decolonising theories. Thirty in depth interviews were carried out with 6 women migrating from each of 5 regions: Vietnam, Lebanon, the Horn of Africa, the former Soviet Union and the Philippines. Australian based immigration literature constituted the third corner of triangulation. The interviews were carried out through an exploration of themes format, eliciting data about the different ontological and epistemological assumptions of the cultures of origin. The findings revealed not only the women's remarkable tenacity and resilience as creative agents, but also the indispensability of Australia's publicly funded infrastructure or welfare state. The women were mostly privileged in terms of class, education and affirming relationships with males. Nevertheless, their self determination depended on contact with universal public policies, programs and with local community services. The welfare state seems to be modernity's means for re-establishing human connectedness that is the crux of the human condition. Connecting with fellow Australians in friendships and neighbourliness was also important in resettlement. Conclusions include a policy discussion in agreement with Australian and international scholars proposing that there is no alternative but for governments to invest in a welfare state for the civil societies and knowledge based economies of the 21st Century.
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Pohler, Nina. "Collective Firms between Collective and Company." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22260.
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Diese Arbeit möchte verstehen, was es bedeutet gleichzeitig eine Gemeinschaft und ein Unternehmen zu sein, und welche Herausforderungen dadurch für die intraorganisationale Koordination entstehen. Wie vereinbaren alternative Betriebe unterschiedliche Menschen und Rationalitäten miteinander, ohne auf formale Hierarchien zurückzugreifen? In einer vergleichende Fallstudie von drei kleinen, direkt-demokratisch organisierten Kollektivbetrieben wird der Beziehung zwischen Koordination, Bewertung und Moralvorstellungen nachgegangen.
Die Arbeit nutzt hierfür Laurent Thévenots pragmatischer Soziologie des Engagements.
Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit liefern einen Beitrag zu drei Forschungsbereichen:
Die Arbeit liefert einen Beitrag zum Feld der „valuation studies“. Es wird gezeigt, dass die mit Bewertung verbundene Unsicherheit zu Prozessen führen kann, die mehr einer kollektiven Entdeckung, als einem Konflikt entsprechen. Darüber hinaus wird die zentrale Rolle von legitimen Differenzierungs- und Äquivalenzprinzipien für Kommensuration aufgezeigt.
Die Arbeit liefert einen Beitrag zur Forschung zum Verhältnis von Koordination, Bewertung und Moralvorstellungen in Organisationen. Sie zeigt, dass ein theoretischer Rahmen, der unterschiedliche Grade der Generalisierung von Koordination beachtet, wichtige Erkenntnisse für das Verständnis intraorganisationaler Koordination liefert.
Die Arbeit liefert einen Beitrag zur Forschung über Kollektivbetriebe und Genossenschaften. Indem die eingenommene Perspektive über die Analyse von Governance-Strukturen hinausgeht, wird die Dualität von Kollektivbetrieben als ein Problem der Balance zwischen unterschiedlichen Koordinationsmodi gerahmt. Aus dieser Perspektive ist die zentrale Spannung, die Kollektivbetriebe ausbalancieren müssen, eine zwischen auf Vertrautheit basierender Koordination und Koordination, die auf Generalisierung von Beziehungen beruht.This thesis wants to understand how alternative firms deal with the complexity of balancing different rationalities in their intraorganizational coordination, in the absence of formal hierarchies. In a comparative case study of three small, democratically governed collective firms, the relationship between coordination and morality is analyzed. The majority of research on collective firms focuses on democratic governance structures, which risks to underestimate the importance of coordination that is based on intimate knowledge and personal relations. This is especially important to understand collective firms, which are dependent on lateral accountability and cooperation between their members. Consequently, this work is informed by the work of Laurent Thévenot which allows to understand coordination based on different levels of generalization. The results of this thesis contribute to three different areas of research: First, contributions are made to the field of valuation studies, by further developing insights on the notion of the test. The thesis also points out the central role of legitimate principles of difference and equivalence for successful commensuration, and the tension between particularity and generalization in standardizing evaluation devices. Second, the study contributes insights for scholarship on coordination and morality in organizations. It demonstrates that considering coordination based on different degrees of generality yields important insights on intraorganizational coordination. Finally, this study contributes to scholarship on cooperatives and collectivist organizations. The often noted duality of collective firms is reframed as the need to balance and mediate different modes of coordination. The study develops a heuristic concept, the composite relation, which explains how collectives are held together despite their central tension between particular and collective goods.
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Berberovic, Adnan, and Alexander Eriksson. "A Multi-Factor Stock Market Model with Regime-Switches, Student's T Margins, and Copula Dependencies." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Produktionsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143715.
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Investors constantly seek information that provides an edge over the market. One of the conventional methods is to find factors which can predict asset returns. In this study we improve the Fama and French Five-Factor model with Regime-Switches, student's t distributions and copula dependencies. We also add price momentum as a sixth factor and add a one-day lag to the factors. The Regime-Switches are obtained from a Hidden Markov Model with conditional Student's t distributions. For the return process we use factor data as input, Student's t distributed residuals, and Student's t copula dependencies. To fit the copulas, we develop a novel approach based on the Expectation-Maximisation algorithm. The results are promising as the quantiles for most of the portfolios show a good fit to the theoretical quantiles. Using a sophisticated Stochastic Programming model, we back-test the predictive power over a 26 year period out-of-sample. Furthermore we analyse the performance of different factors during different market regimes.
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Tu, Chien-Hung, and 杜建宏. "The Analysis of Totalitarian Regime''s Rising in Germany(1924~1936)--From the Perspective of David Easton''s Political System Theory." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12441056046197772640.
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歐洲研究所碩士班
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The fields of totalitarian regime’s rising have been the subjects that many scholars interested in. Hannah Arendt called totalitarian politics was a newly risen phenomenon in the 20th century because of its specialty in human civilization. In this thesis, the author attempt to observe that from the perspective of David Easton’s political system, by the concept of “System Persisting” and “System Self-Transformation”, also by analyzing the interaction between environment change, policy output from political authority, and reaction of political members in Germany from 1924 to 1936, to explain the rising of totalitarian regime. The thesis mainly contains three stages of Germany between 1924 and 1936, including (1) The period of stability(1924-1929)：In this stage, the political system of Germany was remained stable under government of Weimar Republic. The people’s livelihood needs were fulfilled; also the support from the people could keep the regime operating well. (2) The period of transformation(1929-1933)：Due to the broke out of Great Depression, the political system of Germany went through a very difficult time during this period, which result in that the system was prompted to proceed a process of “Self-Transformation”. However, under the circumstance that Weimar Republic kept failing to deal with increasing pressure from environment, the people felt less and less supportive toward the government, also more and more unfulfilled with their livelihood needs. In order to survive under such a rugged time, the process of “Self-Transformation” was forced to become more violent, which eventually would bring about a new authority and regime—the totalitarian regime. (3) The period of restability(1933-1936)：Owing to the coercion policy output of newly risen totalitarian regime, the political system of Germany was restored to stable situation again, whether in politics or in economy. Also by achieving full employment in 1936, Germany officially ended the chaos which had been lasting since the breakout of Great Depression.
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Svoboda, Ladislav. "Srovnání československé II. a III. republiky z hlediska teorie autoritativních režimů Juana J. Linze." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328011.
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The diploma thesis deals with pair of domestic regimes known as the second and third | Czechoslovakian republic. The choice of these periods of the national history was conditioned by a relative absence of comparative political scientific works on these periods and by timelessness and topicality of the studying of domestic regimes, that refused the idea of a liberal democracy twice in ten years. The goal of the diploma thesis is to analyze, compare and categorize the second and the third Czechoslovakian republic in the framework provided by the theory of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes by Juan J. Linz. In the first part the thesis describes the theoretical framework of the theory of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes with stress on the theory of authoritarian regimes, as it is the assumption of the thesis, that both the second and the third republic were cases of authoritarian regimes. The other parts of theory which deal with totalitarian and sultanistic regimes are only briefly mentioned. In the second part of the thesis there is an analysis and comparison of both regimes based on three research questions. In this part the thesis deals with the relationship of both studied regimes with the first republic and their relationship with a liberal democracy, then it deals with the very analysis in...
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Ahmed, Saladdin. "A Philosophical Theory of the Politics of Space: Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Spatial Aura." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24092.
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The central argument advanced in this dissertation is that the production of totalitarian space relies on the systematic destruction of spatial aura. I begin by critically studying the term “totalitarian” with references to Hannah Arendt and Robert Conquest, and re-appropriating it based on relevant insights from Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Georg Lukács, and Slavoj Žižek. In the meantime, I introduce the Baath state in Syria and Iraq as an example of totalitarianism, and present a concise account of its ideological history. Here I also shed light on important aspects of Critical Theory, which will have a recurring role throughout the project. I then discuss spatial production by critically explicating Henri Lefebvre’s dialectical theory of the production of space, which claims that space is produced according to the dominant modes of production. However, despite its critical significance to my project, Lefebvre’s theory alone cannot account for totalitarian space. Therefore, after pausing on Lefebvre’s concepts of appropriated versus dominated spaces, I move to Michel Foucault’s work on the Panopticon as a major spatial technology of power and a generalizable formula in societies of control and discipline. I also introduce Foucault’s heterotopia and Gaston Bachelard’s poetic space as counter examples to totalitarian space. Indeed, I argue that Lefebvre’s appropriated space, Foucault’s heterotopia, and Bachelard’s poetic space all have something in common. Aura, with its inherent negativity, is precisely the concept to indicate such spatial uniqueness, the systematic elimination of which is definitive of totalitarian space. In addition to critically exploring Walter Benjamin’s definitions of aura and developing his secularized notion of it, I also focus on his claim that mechanically reproduced works of art lack aura. This then brings me to the last stage of my project where I argue that mechanically reproduced images are not just auraless; they also destroy the aura of space. Finally, by way of illustration, I turn back to the example of the Baath state and analyze the use of mechanically reproduced images of the leader as destroyers of spatial aura and thus crucial components of the production of totalitarian space.
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Wernerfelt, Birger. "Indirect Adjustment-Costs Under Alternative Coordination Regimes." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3546.
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The paper is a study of barriers to communication in terms of agents' incentives to search for and communicate complementary information. In particular, I look at the value of commitment by comparing game forms in which a contract is negotiated prior to, versus after, search and communication. I will use the names "firms" and "markets", respectively, for these two game forms. The comparison depends on three effects. (1) The bargaining power effect: Since the decision to communicate reveals information about preferences, it implies a loss of bargaining power when the players negotiate ex post. This hurts the incentives to communicate and therefore the incentives to search. (2) The incentive transfer effect: If the gains from adjustment accrue unevenly, ex ante negotiation may leave one of the players without incentives to communicate and search. With ex post negotiation, that player can bargain for a share of the gains. (3) The bargaining efficiency effect: The negotiation process itself may be more efficient ex post because more information has been revealed. The net effect depends on the magnitude of the gains and their accrual. If negotiation normally leads to agreement, it is better done ex ante in cases where adjustments yield smaller, more evenly accruing gains. When gains are larger and accrue less evenly, ex post negotiation implements more communication and search
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Chien-Chung, Chao, and 趙建中. "The Theory of Transferring Authority and Probe to China — a View of Post-Totalitarianism and Post -Totalitarian Authoritarianism." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26074461519773892743.
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政治研究所
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We never see like that a speedy growth of economic can been developed by fadeaway of totalitarian authority in the history of human. China carries out “limited reform” on economics but exclude from politics to maintain and control regime of authoritarianism. Faced many challenges in knowledge, the searchers, majored in Mainland China Study, want to know how to describe and explain the experiences of developing China? which theory can analyze and foresee the future China? Those existed different views that some points are sharply oppositions among this field, for example, China’s collapse theory, China’s rise theory, China threat theory, China chance theory and so on. Some argues that regime of China becomes into authoritarian regime, some categorizes to post-communist or post-totalitarian regime. From attitude of research, those methodologies do not only refer to use abstractive concept but also to understand, illustrate, and predict the future of China. The type of regime is an important element which to affect the trend of future and understand the transition in content of China study, but often been neglected. The motive and goal of this inquiry is to resort the model and approach of regime theory and to master the theory of transferring authority of China.
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Tanner, Evan C. "Exchange rate and reserve regimes theory and the Latin American experience /." 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23090186.html.
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Yu, Ching-Yun, and 于青雲. "The International Regimes and Non-international Regimes Dimensions of the Cross-Strait Search and Rescue Joint Exercise: A One-dot Theory Interpretation." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65uk46.
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海洋事務研究所
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The International Regimes and Non-international Regimes Dimensions of the Cross-Strait Search and Rescue Joint Exercise: A One-dot Theory Interpretation Abstract Lately, the relationship between Mainland China and Taiwan continued to flow positively, however some basic confrontations and conflicts still remain. Interestingly, since August 2010, both sides of the Taiwan Strait’s coast guard agencies had twice conducted the Cross-Strait Search and Rescue (SAR) Joint Exercise (hereinafter SARJE) which had been held at the sea between Quemoy and Xiamen waters. The joint action involved the people and vessels, and it mainly focuses on the SAR issues. Since the civil war in June 1946, it is the very first time for both side of maritime officers and crew member to perform such exercise at sea, suggesting the SARJE is a good topic to study from either political or international perspective. The topic certainly has academic value. The author applies the “one-dot theory” as put forward by my supervisor to describe, explain, and infer phenomena related to the SARJE. I embarked on writing the topic in October 2012. Since I am going to examine the SARJE from the dimensions of international regimes and non- international regimes, the following points shall be discussed: 1. The definition of international regimes; 2. The difference between international regimes and non- international regimes; 3. What proper mechanism and measures be applied to the SARJE? 4. By modifying the SARJE, can we sustain or maintain the international regimes?