Search results for "Elite"

Decentralization, the State and Conflicts over Local Boundaries in Northern Ghana

2006

Decentralization projects, such as that initiated by the Rawlings government in Ghana at the end of the 1980s, create a political space in which the relations between local political communities and the state are re-negotiated. In many cases, the devolution of power intensifies special-interest politics and political mobilization aiming at securing a ‘larger share of the national cake’, that is, more state funds, infrastructure and posts for the locality. To legitimate their claims vis-a-vis the state, civic associations (‘hometown’ unions), traditional rulers and other non-state institutions often invoke some form of ‘natural’ solidarity, and decentralization projects thus become arenas of…

Iscrizioni tardoantiche su materiali di reimpiego. Osservazioni sui notabili e le istituzioni civiche di Hierapolis nella Tarda Antichità

2017

Il contributo presenta l'edizione e il commento di alcune iscrizioni tardoantiche in lingua greca, rinvenute a Hierapolis di Frigia (Turchia) nel corso degli scavi della Missione Archeologica Italiana. L'attestazione di efebarchi, ginnasiarchi e stefanofori in un'epoca ormai tarda (IV-V sec. d.C.) offre l'occasione per una disamina delle istituzioni civiche di Hierapolis nella Tarda Antichità, in una fase storica caratterizzata da un avanzato processo di cristianizzazione.

Domestic Agencies in an Emergent European Executive Order

2011

Abstract This article poses the following question: who is in control of domestic agencies when they are handling domestic ‘EU affairs’ broadly speaking? The article demonstrates that domestic agencies are primarily steered by their parent ministry, being largely ‘single‐hatted’. This observation does not render ‘double‐hatted’ agencies implausible — as for example when domestic agencies practise EU legislation — generating a compound European executive order. The empirical analysis benefits from a large‐N elite survey among 1452 domestic agency officials. This article contests claims that the ‘agencification’ of domestic government systems as well as their involvement in an emergent Europe…

Journalistic practices of science popularization in the context of users’ agenda: A case study of „New Scientist”

2017

The article includes a discussion of two models which describe contemporary communication processes in journalism: agenda-setting and news value, indicating the need to expand their research tools to include qualitative methods, and merging the analyses of the reception and the message. It also includes indications as to the possibility, or even the social relevance, of the methods for applying those research perspectives to analysing journalism popularising science. Later, I present the results of an analysis of the content of a sample of 500 most read popular science texts available on the New Scientist website. I demonstrate which thematic areas were valued by the readers, and what value…

Corporate Networks and business influence in Panama, Costa Rica, and El Salvador.

2021

Objective/Context: This paper explores the relationship between corporate networks and business influence to figure out the conditions of state capture. Methodology: We analyze corporate networks through interlocking directorates in three Central American countries - Panama, Costa Rica, and El Salvador - using network analysis, and we pinpoint the relationship between the structure of the corporate network and two corporate political actions: contributions to presidential campaigns and revolving doors. Conclusions: Results show corporate networks were fragmented in the three Central American countries, except for a well-connected business cluster in Panama. The organization of business elit…

Interpretation of EXAFS in scheelite-type AWO4(A = Ca, Sr, Ba) compounds using molecular dynamics simulations

2013

In this work we successfully interpret the W L3-edge EXAFS spectra in scheelite-type AWO4 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) compounds using a combination of classical NVT molecular dynamics (MD) and ab initio multiple-scattering (MS) theory. The configuration-averaged EXAFS spectra show good agreement with our room temperature experimental data supporting the reliability of the developed force-field models. The contributions from all coordination shells up to 6 A are elucidated. The contribution of the MS effects into the total EXAFS signal in AWO4 compounds is small, being around 10%.

Career Paths in Institutional Business Elites: Finnish Family Firms from 1762–2010

2015

This article analyzes the career paths of family business executives in institutional business elites in Finland using an empirical database based on a Bourdieusian prosopographical approach. The results indicate that career paths became more complex but shortened in length toward the beginning of the twenty-first century. The early career paths of family executives changed from positions as assistants and salesmen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to governance, chief executive officer (CEO), and management positions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Compared with the founder generation, next-generation family members benefited from more rapid institutional business eli…

Yme Kuiper / Nikolaj Bijleveld / Jaap Dronkers (Eds.), Nobilities in Europe in the Twentieth Century. Reconversion Strategies, Memory Culture, and El…

2018

Símbolos de poder entre las mujeres mayas de la élite. Un análisis iconográfico de los ornamentos femeninos.

2016

La aplicación de la perspectiva de género al estudio del arte maya es relativamente reciente, por lo que, a pesar de que cada vez son más abundantes los escritos que centran su atención en la representación de la figura femenina, aún quedan muchos aspectos pendientes de investigar. Por este motivo, en este artículo nos remontamos a los primeros trabajos destinados a reflexionar en torno a esta temática y que han marcado las bases de las futuras investigaciones, antes de adentrarnos en el tema que nos ocupa: de qué manera los ornamentos, y más concretamente los que se colocaban en torno al cuello y sobre el pecho, contribuían a construir la imagen de poder de las antiguas mujeres mayas. Para…

From Spain to Sicily after the Expulsion: Conversos between Economic Networks and the Aristocratic Elite

2018

Abstract This article focuses on a group of conversos families from Spain, who established themselves in Palermo after the Expulsion of the Jews in 1492. There they supported financial activities of the Nazione Catalana and established strong relationships with the local aristocracy. Thanks to this alliance, they managed to avoid persecution by the Spanish Inquisition, “cleanse” their “impure” blood and reach high positions within politics and society: feudal titles, political and financial offices, habits of military orders, ecclesiastical appointments and sometimes even sainthood. Firstly, the paper will give a brief sketch of the phenomenon of conversos in Sicily as well as the activitie…