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Smart Urban Energy Districts and Energy Policies
2018
The deployment of smart cities appears a strategic factor for reducing environmental impact and increasing competitivity of economic systems across the world. Although terminology is similar worldwide, the different political assets and social enviroments largely affect the development models. Drivers indeed are quite different, such as the speed at which transformations take place. As a result, implementation of measures is carried out differently and realizations of smart city projects can be strongly different. Europe, China and U.S.A. approaches are compared in this paper to provide the reader with a broader view about different smart city implementations, with a focus on the electricit…
Professionalization as Status Adaptation: The Nobility, the Bureaucracy, and the Modernization of the Legal Profession in Finland
1991
In contrast to Anglo-American lines of professional development, the central agent of professionalization in many Continental countries was the state bureaucracy. However, this article proposes that an understanding of the class structure of traditional society is also needed to explain the privileged position of lawyers. An historical study of lawyers in the 19th century, after Finland was annexed by Russia, demonstrates that the legal profession provided the nobility an important medium of adaptation to the new society. The importance of the legal profession initially to the state bureaucracy, and subsequently to the nobility, explains its social prominence and its future development. An …
The social embeddedness of hydraulic engineers in the regulation of water and infrastructure in Peru
2019
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Majes-Colca watershed in Peru, this article explores some of the questions posed by Wittfogel regarding the management of hydraulic infrastructure and its eff...
How to study bureaucracies ethnographically?
2019
We propose a short epistemological and methodological reflection on the challenges of doing ethnographical research on public services (‘bureaucracies’) from the inside. We start from the recognition of the double face of bureaucracy, as a form of domination and oppression as well as of protection and liberation, and all the ambivalences this dialectic entails. We argue that, in classical Malinowskian fashion, the anthropology of bureaucracy should take bureaucrat as the ‘natives’, and acknowledge their agency. This means adopting basic anthropological postures: the natives (i.e. the bureaucrats) must have good reasons for their seemingly ‘absurd’ (or arbitrary) practices, once you underst…
L'evolució històrica de la psicologia del treball i de les organitzacions
2010
El món organitzacional ha esdevingut l'eix vertebrador de la Psicologia del treball, des del sistema gremial al sistema fabril, que reunia les característiques de veritables organitzacions industrials. Les notes que caracteritzen el procés són: la mentalitat racional, la mecanització de la fabricació i la utilització del vapor com nova energia aplicable a la indústria. A més, la mecanització tindria efectes sobre l'organització del treball, en l'extremar la diferenciació de funcions i la divisió de tasques. Taylor, des de l'enginyeria, introduí una organització científica del treball per millorar els sistemes i els llocs laborals. Amb el mateix objectiu, orientat a millorar l'administració …
Cittadinizzazione e policy migratorie nella Sicilia occidentale : Progettare servizi innovativi rafforzando le Pubbliche Amministrazioni in attuazion…
2021
L’accesso ai servizi della pubblica amministrazione è spesso, per la popolazione migrante, un cercare la chiave giusta fra un numero spropositato di chiavistelli. Evidenziare come l’inserimento di alcuni servizi innovativi, fra i quali gli sportelli Mi.Main (Migration Mainstreaming) progettati e implementati da giovani laureati all’interno degli uffici della P.A., abbia di fatto favorito processi di “cittadinizzazione”, è stato lo scopo di questo volume. Preliminari ad ogni processo di inclusione sono infatti gli “atti di cittadinanza” che attraversano e ancorano l’universalità dei diritti umani al riconoscimento dei bisogni e delle priorità della persona. Questo volume, descrive come due t…
The necessary integration between public management approaches and democratic participatory processes. The case of #ontinyentparticipa
2016
Este artículo tiene por objeto el estudio de #OntinyentParticipa, un proceso político innovador enmarcado en los presupuestos participativos de la localidad valenciana de Ontinyent (España). Describiremos el dispositivo y su contextualización, y analizaremos el papel desempeñado por colectivos, movimientos vecinales y asociaciones implicadas. Además, se tendrá en cuenta la intervención de la administración pública como actor principal del proceso participativo. Para abordar las relaciones entre ciudadanía, Administración y sus enfoques teóricos, se utilizará la tradición del republicanismo contemporáneo con su énfasis en consolidar una democracia más participativa e inclusiva. This article …
Sobre la ?normalidad? de Auschwitz
2020
Resumen: Partiendo de la hipótesis, avanzada por Horkheimer y Adorno, de que Auschwitz era una posibilidad inscrita en la racionalidad instrumental de la civiliza- ción moderna, el artículo analiza algunos mecanismos de la estructura de empresa heredada del industrialismo que pudieron contribuir a ‘normalizar’ lo anormal en el Holocausto nazi. Esta argumentación se desarrolla mediante la articulación de la concepción weberiana de la burocracia moderna con la teoría de la moral de colaboración de Günther Anders.
 Abstract: Starting from the hypothesis, advanced by Horkheimer and Adorno, that Auschwitz was a possibility inscribed in the instrumental rationality of modern civilization, th…
Global Public Sector and Political Communication
2019
Public and political organizations exist to maintain societies in more or less democratic settings. Both political and public sector organizations have traditionally been blamed for several ills in society including inefficiency, bureaucracy, serving their own needs above others’ and corruption. Though each public sector and political organization is a product of its own time and environment, there seem to be certain global trends that challenge them: rapid change, use of social media, citizen diversity, and novel forms of citizen activism for example question the more traditional means of communication. How public entities and politicians communicate with citizens and publics is of strateg…
Opera houses as cultural white elephants? The effect of the creative city model, bureaucratic mismanagement and lack of accountability in Valencia's …
2020
Cultural institutions are growing in importance as tools of cultural policy and for promoting the city brand. Moreover, these major cultural institutions devour the lion's share of public subsidies...