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The political environment in post-independence Zimbabwe has been very hostile for interest groups, particularly since 2000 when civil society actions and opposition political activity formidably
. This methodological combination allows me to parse the political debate within different phases of the EU policy process to gain insights into how automotive lobbyists were able to shape the final ... to shape the final legislation in accordance with their interests and which political decision-makers empowered them to do so. Surprisingly, the party affiliation of Members of the European Parliament
a legitimacy deficit, expelled from the political scene because of the Revolution (1910–1921), and how they managed to grow and create powerful companies and organizations that allowed them to ... -first century at the top of the power, not only economic, but also political. It examines the political participation of business to face the growing interventionism of the State in the economy during the
communities, working in opposition to powerful actors (corporate landlords, property managers, etc.), and navigating complex and sometimes hostile local political institutions (city councils, mayors, rent ... organizations. We assess the origins of such organizations, how they are structured, and how they pursue political change. In doing so, we offer a rich descriptive account of phenomena that have largely escaped
This paper explores the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an element in a corporation’s political action repertoire. Previous research has studied lobbying and CSR as a distinct means ... 2 0 Department of Political Science and Political Sociology, University of Stuttgart , Breitscheidstraße 2, 70174 Stuttgart , Germany 1 Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Concordia University
experiences and outlook. This directed her to lowland South America. While Jackson had initially considered working in northwest Brazil, the political situation there at the time created significant barriers ... Mitú and Bogotá, CRIVA faced many challenges and contradictions that particularly involved the disconnects between more traditional Tukanoan and non-Indigenous models of governance and political
position among sources of inspiration for a political philosophy that chooses «the commons» as an alternative principle both to privatistic individualism and to statism (Dardot and Laval, 2017 [2014 ... does not separate it from culture, nor reduces it to a resource. For this reason, the conceptual and political convergence of these populations directly impacts the project to completely commodify life
to facilitate the objectives of a merican domestic policy . This is a philosophy that dates back to Machiavelli, aptly summed up by Jackson and s ørensen: “The supreme political value is national ... background of the events, and understand how the u nited s tates, iran and other powers in the region perceived s oleimani’s political role . While those perceptions were often contradictory, one thing
Police unions raise issues of great importance for political scientists. Yet, the field has neglected them. This essay argues that political scientists should see police unions as important interest ... police unions important interest groups are described. The important political questions that arise once we consider police union as interest groups are examined. The existing research on police unions
The article focuses on populism, a phenomenon topical in the socio-political life of many countries. While it has a significant influence on the politics of countries with relatively little ... institutions, populism is quite clearly visible also in the modern political space of old democracies . There is a distinct link between exacerbation of socio-economic problems and increasing attractiveness of
Eloquent, wise, generous; in short, “exemplary,” Kisêdjê political leaders are also said to be “animal-like” dangerous beings. For Anthony Seeger, this “ideological ambivalence” expresses the ... analysis (belonging and not-belonging, inclusion and exclusion, interior and exterior, example and exception), the refined political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben (2010) —famed for this thoughts on the
aggregated data on organizational densities and their political activity. We also reflect on potential uses for the data, before wrapping up the article with a self-critical assessment of what could have been ... anti-communist political parties in the roundtable discussions 1 The project has been generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG—German Research Foundation) and Narodowe Centrum Nauki
political structures such as the native federation and local government. Overall, the project succeeded in broadening the definition of health to include ideas of well-being, ‘living well’ and conservation as ... , political, spiritual, and physical well-being of the individual and community, as well as, indeed, the environment (Alexiades 1999).1 One’s body is first and foremost a social body that interacts with visible
-governmental organizations forward. We argue that the advocacy group effects on global governance institutions are best understood by examining how groups use and shape domestic and global political opportunity ... articles examine how, when, and why domestic and global political opportunity structures shape advocacy group effects in global governance, across global institutions, levels of government, advocacy
Interest groups play a key role in the political economy of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Their support for or opposition to a planned PTA tends to be crucial in determining the fate of PTAs ... , they try to influence trade policy outcomes with campaign donations (Drope and Hansen 2004) or the provision of political and technical information (Hall and Deardorff 2006) . At the international
in health service issues and dialoguing with and supporting families in therapeutic itineraries that include various medical traditions. In addition, they have become political actors in the new ... the collective political project that seeks to maintain and improve Munduruku well-being, a broad notion of health related to territorial occupation and affirmation. Consequently, any evaluation of the
institutions, most of whom were agricultural technicians with political considerations high in their minds, determined the outcome.? Unswayed by the case for preserving native livelihoods, INCRAE approved only
fifty years. Their activities and ideas about hunting are situated within the territorial context, which has undergone accelerated ecological and political transformations over recent decades. In relation ... conflicts between humans and animals must necessarily (for theoretical, ethical, and political reasons) be treated as encounters between complete/true (but not necessarily always human) subjects that produce
work by Fisher and others, I review the value of political ecology approaches to answering such questions. I argue that political ecology must be informed by a broad notion of politics, one that centers ... end of the Cold War, this task of examining the meaning of such juxtapositions became a central preoccupation among anthropologists who responded with a variety of new approaches, such as political
at least second to the year he had recently spent as a visiting professor in Rio de Janeiro. He was an extraordinary intellectual force in LSE anthropology at the time—not a political heavyweight or ... writing such a joy to read. He seemed to have read everything, but was determined not to let Continental philosophy or the latest theoretical fad in North American anthropology take center stage in his work
