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A Typology of Oppositional Knowledge: Democracy and the U.S. Peace Movement

Coy, Patrick G.; Woehrle, Lynne M.; Maney, Gregory M. - In: Sociological Research Online 13 (2008) 4, pp. 3-3

Institutionally privileged political discourses not only legitimate the policy agendas of power-holders, but also de-legitimate dissent. Oppositional discourses are social movement responses to these cultural obstacles to mass mobilization. Integrating discourse analysis and framing theory, we...

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\'The Callous Credit Nexus\': Ideology and Compulsion in the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Law, Alex - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 4, pp. 5-5

Many accounts of the rise and decline of neoliberalism forefront its ideological nature and capacity for hegemonic leadership. In contrast, I argue that outside of elite groups neoliberalism did not become hegemonic in Gramsci\'s sense of a \'national-popular\' force. Neoliberalism is a...

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La estrategia de los EE.UU. atenta contra la Humanidad y amenaza al planeta

Goransky, Jacob - Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI)

Es imprescindible analizar y comprender el proceso que llevó a los EE.UU. a erigirse en una potencia imperialista como nunca antes conoció la Humanidad. Asimismo comprender la conversión de una sociedad que privilegiaba sobre todo la Democracia y la participación en las decisiones en los...

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Ulger, Billur - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 2 (2002) 2, pp. 1-38

The connection which Confucius, the greatest philosopher and political theorist in Chinese history, made between social welfare and music production has been taken as the starting point of this paper. Beginning with the industrialization movements in 1950s, many rules, values and believes have...

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Empire, Hegemony, and Leadership: Developing a Research Framework for the Study of Regional Powers

Destradi, Sandra - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

range of foreign policy strategies in their region. Three ideal-typical regional strategies are identified: empire, hegemony … classifying hegemony and leadership. …

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Developing a Contextually Relevant Concept of Regional Hegemony: The Case of South Africa, Zimbabwe and “Quiet Diplomacy”

Prys, Miriam - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

hegemony in southern Africa. This article finds that this evaluation is founded on a misguided understanding of regional … hegemony, which is based on conventional hegemony theories that are mostly derived from the global role of the United States … after World War II. Alternatively, this article uses a concept of hegemony that, for example, takes into account the …

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Accounting textbooks: Exploring the production of a cultural and political artifact

Ferguson, John; Collison, David; Power, David; … - In: Accounting Education 15 (2006) 3, pp. 243-260

This paper explores the production of introductory financial accounting textbooks in the UK. Despite being a pervasive pedagogical device (see Brown and Guilding, 1993, Accounting Education: an international journal, 4(2) pp. 211-218), there has been little research carried out which examines...

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The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad

Büchs, Annette - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

This paper seeks an explanation for the resilience of the Syrian authoritarian regime under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad. It will be argued that this resilience is to a relevant extent caused by the fact that the regime’s “material” as well as “ideational” forms of power share a common...

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Crises, Hegemony and Change in the International System: A Conceptual Framework

Nabers, Dirk - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

) with the theory of hegemony developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, I will finally be able to show how hegemonic …

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Hobson's voice: American internationalism, Asian development, and global macroeconomic imbalances

Schwartz, Herman - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 25 (2002) 2, pp. 331-351

John Hobson's theory of Imperialism has remarkable relevance for contemporary relations between the United States and Asia/Europe. A reconstruction of his argument shows that whereas the Bretton Woods period presents Hobson's preferred non-imperial outcome, this outcome was not stable. Instead,...

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