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Power resource theory is a political theory proposing that variations among welfare states is largely attributable to differing distributions of power between economic classes. It argues that " working class power achieved through organisation by labor unions or left parties , produces more egalitarian distributional outcomes ".
In Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, Saba Mahmood offers an ethnography of the women's piety movement in Cairo, Egypt, which is part of a larger Egyptian movement of Islamic political revival and reform. Drawing on this ethnography, the book interrogates the liberal and secular epistemologies that inform dominant ...
In philosophy, political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the state that seeks to describe and explain power relations in society.In its contemporary form in the 21st century, elite theory posits that (1) power in larger societies, especially nation-states, is concentrated at the top in relatively small elites; (2) power "flows predominantly in a top-down direction from ...
Summary of Mozambican Refugee Accounts of Principally Conflict-Related Experience in Mozambique Report Submitted to: Ambassador Jonathan Moore Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs
The PIETY Study is a U.S. longitudinal study of Chinese families derived from the PINE Study. [ 1 ] [ predatory publisher ] It is the product of a synergistic collaboration between the Chinese Health, Aging, and Policy Program (CHAP) at Rush University , Northwestern University , and many community-based organizations and social service providers.
The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio.Weatherhead offers programs concentrated in sustainability, design innovation, healthcare, organizational behavior, global entrepreneurship, and executive education.
"for their empirical analysis of asset prices." [16] 2013 Lars P. Hansen: 1/3 "for their empirical analysis of asset prices." [17] 2007 Roger Myerson: 1/3 "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." [18] 2000 James Heckman: 1/2 "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples." [19] 1995 Robert Lucas ...
William T. Powers (August 29, 1926 – May 24, 2013) was a medical physicist and an independent scholar of experimental and theoretical psychology [1] [2] [3] who developed the perceptual control theory (PCT) model of behavior as the control of perception.