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Chapter 10: Public encounters and the role of citizens' impression management
Public encounters can be viewed as the communicative 'in-between' in which citizens and street-level bureaucrats define the situation in an orientation towards each other (Bartels 2013). Even although at first glance the interaction may seem highly unequal in terms of status and the ability of street-level bureaucrats to determine access to public services, citizens can strategically influence …
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Chapter 10: Gender equality in organizations: the dynamics of space
Gender equality goals have proven to be difficult for organizations to achieve. Management scholars attribute gender equality's intractability to decoupling: Organizations adopt structures, policies and programs that fail to deliver their intended outcomes. We present a conceptual framework that draws on recent developments in institutional logics, acknowledging that stakeholders are diverse an…
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Chapter 10: Gender and representation in local politics
The increased importance of local governance in relation to the provision of welfare services and citizen participation in democratic decision-making has thrust the difference between men's and women's access to positions of authority and power at the local level into the spotlight. In relation to this, the Council of Europe has identified gender equality as a condition for democracy and good g…
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Chapter 10: Common ownership and merger control enforcement
Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger-specificity of potential efficiencies but also it works against implementing tools and presumptions in merger practice such as concentration indices for screening ou…
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Chapter 4 Elements of an Evolutionary Approach to Comparative Economic Studies
This chapter delineates an evolutionary approach to the comparative analysis of economic systems and illustrates its usefulness via an exemplary application to recent developments in the European Union. The first part of the chapter describes the meta-theoretical foundations of the approach, i.e. its particular ontological and epistemological vantage points. This allows for an easier comparison…
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Chapter 4 Don’t be too WEIRD: Research for the Future of Writing Studies
This book invites readers to reconsider how writing studies researchers work with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on behalf of their communities and argues that engaging with IRBs during the research design process helps practitioners conduct research more quickly and effectively. Using empirical data from both writing studies and extra-disciplinary contexts, Dr. Johanna Phelps presents find…
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Chapter 10: Approaches to minimum-income protection in old age: comparing the…
This chapter offers a comparative study of the current minimum income protection schemes for old age pensioners in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The primary purpose is to describe and assess developments in the overall generosity of minimum protection provided through the pension system proper and other relevant instruments. It is shown that the Danish and Norwegian systems of minimum protection …
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Chapter 10 'You don't Need Proof When You've Got Instinct!': Gut Feelings and…
This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioethics as it is being supported and practiced by various disciplines such as philosophy, law, medicine, and the social sciences, applied to a wide ra…
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Chapter 10 Weltbürger Perspectives and Samhandling
"The chapter starts with a criticism of management and control concepts that have been rooted in economic or psychological theories and models, although society’s complexity and the pace of change will demand a broader and deeper foundation for the development of effective management systems in the future. Other voices need to be put forward. Immanuel Kant (1795/1991) argued for his idea of t…
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Building Common Ground
This volume examines the entanglements between contemporary art practices, ecology, and non-human subjects through contributions from scholars, art writers, critics, artist-researchers and designers. The collected essays reveal contemporary art’s potential to reorient epistemological and ontological coordinates amid ecological and existential crises, questioning human exceptionalism and the e…
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