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Political Appointment and Tridentine Reforms: Giannettino Doria, Cardinal Archbishop of Palermo (1608–1642)
2018
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but also beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in three impressive volumes. In particular, the second one analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. Within this historiographical context, the aim of this chapter is to include the pastoral and reforming activities of Giannettino Doria, Cardinal from 1604 and Arch…
Between Harvard and Chicago: Jacob Viner and New Deal Banking Reforms (1933-1935)
2007
The Design and Execution of Performance Management Systems at State Level: a Comparative Analysis of Italy and Malaysia
2014
Performance management is maturing as an effective approach in public organizations around the world in improving public services. However, the existing models, based primarily on best practices of first-world nations, have limitations that must be addressed. One of which is the relative lack of attention to the context of performance management reform. This international comparative case study analyses the experience of Italy and Malaysia in the design and execution of performance management systems at the national level. It seeks to contribute to the comparative literature on performance management across national jurisdictions. Italy and Malaysia also offer a contrasting study given thei…
The Reform and Innovation as Rhetoric and Method
2018
We start from an observation from a well-known Swedish organisational analyst, Nils Brunsson, which reads like irony but feels like reality: the only guaranteed outcome of (organisational) reform is the next reform. What Brunsson calls ‘the reform of reform’ will be – all too – familiar to many readers, particularly those working in the public sector. Given repeated exposure to permanent reorganization – brought in under the mantel of reform and innovation – it is tempting to ascribe this permanent revolution to one or both of two causes: the failure of previous reform attempts and/or the need of senior managers to demonstrate their ‘transformative’ effects upon their organization in order …
Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces.
2015
In this paper, we develop a new way of understanding interactions in blended spaces. We do this by developing ideas about embodied semiotics and then apply these ideas to the analysis of interaction in mixed-reality blended spaces (where the physical world and digital world are blended deliberately to provide new forms of interaction). We discuss how blended spaces provide a new medium within which people have experiences. The semiotic analysis reveals how blended spaces are constructed across the physical and the digital, highlighting the ontology, topology, volatility, and agency present within them. It shows how people move between the physical and digital spaces through the objects and …
La influencia de la dimensión de género en el Trabajo Social
2006
Josefa.Fombuena@uv.es Esta investigación cualitativa explicita la influencia de la dimensión de género en la intervención de las trabajadoras sociales y las dificultades que han de atravesar, no sólo por ser mujeres que atienden a mujeres, sino debido a las categorías que desvelan las trabajadoras sociales participantes: la fragilidad del marco en el que realizan su práctica profesional, la existencia de un isomorfismo en torno a la queja de profesionales y usuarias, la posición de subordinación a la que han sido confinadas las mujeres en las instituciones públicas y la tensión entre derechos y cuidados. This qualitative research explains the influence of gender on the interventions of fema…
La visibilidad académica de la exclusión: descripción de un practicum desde la optatividad de Trabajo Social
2008
Jose.R.Bueno@uv.es tealos@alumni.uv.es El trabajo que presentamos tiene por objeto dar a conocer la experiencia académica que permite la oportunidad de realizar los créditos prácticos, de las asignaturas Psicología Social de la Inadaptación e Intervención Psicosocial, (módulos que forman parte de las materias optativas del plan de estudios de Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Valencia y son impartidos por el profesor José R. Bueno Abad), a través de un Practicum en centros institucionales, en concreto en la entidad Cáritas Diocesana de Valencia, mediante la presencia de los alumnos de Trabajo Social en diversos programas dirigidos a personas sin hogar, enfermos mentales, personas afectada…
El reto del conocimiento en la practica del Trabajo Social
2005
En el presente artículo se pretende subrayar la importancia de que desde el Trabajo Social y la Educación Social se profundice en el conocimiento y la utilización de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) como recurso y requisito para la intervención socioeducativa. Unas tecnologías que cada vez ostentan un mayor protagonismo en nuestra sociedad y ante las que, además, es preciso constituir una adecuada respuesta desde las entidades que habrán de asumir, tarde o temprano, la responsabilidad de atender las nuevas situaciones de exclusión a las que se podrán ver sometidos aquellos que no tengan posibilidad de acceder a ellas. En este sentido, se destaca la necesidad de que …
Il progetto di restyling delle società tra avvocati
2014
Reflections of systematic order on the project to redesign the company among the lawyers. The study addresses the issue of social reform among lawyers stressing the urgency in view of the lack of legislation in relation to its articulation in the form of corporations determined by the lapse of the period prescribed by art. 5 l. 247/12 for its implementation. The author offers insight on the problematic issues of the current regulations (Legislative Decree no. 96/2001), namely: i) the extension of the types of company that can be used and its impact on the nature of the problem is and the relationship between the relevant regulations and that of the selected type; ii) the boundaries of the s…
Rewards of reforms: Can economic freedom and reforms in developing countries reduce the brain drain?
2019
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of economic freedom on brain drain from developing countries to rich countries. Previous literature on brain drain has examined social, political and economic determinants. However, no study in the literature so far has studied this proposed relationship. We employ the Economic Freedom Index sourced from the Fraser Institute as a proxy for economic freedom and the rate of moderately skilled and highly skilled emigration functions as a proxy for brain drain. Our sample consists of 142 countries covering the period 1990–2010. We estimate the results using a two-way fixed effects regression estimator. The results show that an increase in…