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The 2021 G20 and Italy: keeping our dreams alive?
2022
Italy’s presidency of the G20 defied the odds and resulted in costly commitments by the members on a range of issues: global health, climate change, a minimum global tax, and the crisis in Afghanistan. How can we explain this success? Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, and his extensive prior experience and widespread respect was certainly a factor. The global context was also important, with the new Biden administration in the US leading a group of countries seeking multilateral solutions to pressing international problems.
The economic causes of the failure of the "socialist" system
1994
Le but de ce travail est de démontrer pourquoi les pays qui se prétendaient socialistes n'ont pas atteint leurs deux principaux objectifs: justice sociale et démocratie. En ce qui concerne le premier, dans ces pays, l'organisation de la production et la détermination des prix, centralement planifiés, nepermettaient pas toujours de réaliser la production en fonction de l'utilité sociale. Cette façon de déterminer les prix engendre une demande sans offre qui se révèle être, d'une part, une cause de dysfonctionnement du système car le marché ne joue pas alors l'un de ses principaux rôles qui est detransmettre l'information aux responsables de la production, d'autre part, une cause d'insatisfac…
Principals’ views on changes in the provision of support for learning and schooling in Finland after educational reform
2019
Recently, the large-scale reforms of special education have been carried out in many countries. This study focuses on the latest Finnish reform of special education in compulsory education. As principals lead educational reforms in schools, their role in the implementation of reform is significant. The study explores principals’ views on the changes in support arrangements after the educational reform. We used latent class analysis to identify the subgroups of principals who share similar views. In addition, we examined the relationship between the subgroups and individual, school, and municipal level factors using multinomial logistic regression analysis. Four subgroups were identified: im…
Mariano Cabrerizo: literary initiatives and liberal energy in the time of Fernando VII
2018
La actividad del editor Mariano Cabrerizo ilumina el itinerario de la novela y la burguesía. El espíritu exaltado del Trienio lo condujo a la cárcel y al destierro, lo que supuso un duro golpe para la producción editorial y la economía familiar. Pero gracias a la inteligencia y al oportunismo pudo relanzar su negocio por medio de la Colección de novelas, poderoso instrumento en la difusión de la narrativa europea y española. Las suscripciones de los particulares, de las grandes instituciones y de las bibliotecas privadas ayudaron a consolidar las iniciativas comerciales y literarias de Cabrerizo. Los avatares personales condujeron al famoso editor a una nueva situación de bonanza económica …
Using Private Social Care Services in Finland : Free or Forced Choices for Older People?
2016
Use of private social care services among older people is increasing in Finland. This study aims to understand why older people choose private care in a comprehensive tax-subsidized social care system and examines whether people choose private service as a free choice or a forced choice as well as what factors contribute toward making these choices. Data for this study (N = 1,436) were gathered in 2010 from people aged 75 and above living independently at home in two Finnish cities: Tampere and Jyväskylä. Data were analyzed with several quantitative tests: chi-squared tests, multinomial regression analysis, and qualitative content analysis (for the open-ended responses from the survey quest…
Social Science Research in Southeast Asia : the Challenges of Studying Parliamentary Institutions
2019
This paper introduces the challenges of studying parliamentary institutions in Southeast Asia. My focus of research is in three countries’ institutions: national parliaments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. While in Southeast Asia, it is widely known that studying issues of politics and institutions face challenges – compared to studying culture, for example, this view is arguably no longer valid, however with certainqualification.The comparison of parliamentary tradition between three countries – based on observation of the plenary session - reveals that the effectiveness of parliamentary works is related to parliamentary procedure, and even to the culture of work in the countries. Pa…
La Investigación Acción Participativa (IAP) en el sector empresarial. Interviniendo desde lo local
2019
El artículo muestra el potencial de aplicación de las metodologías participativas de investigación y planeación social para una gestión participativa del conocimiento y el desarrollo de estrategias de intervención en el territorio. En este contexto se muestra una investigación realizada en base a metodologías de investigación acción-participación implementadas en una iniciativa empresarial de una localidad de la Comunidad Valenciana. Así, el carácter influyente y la capacidad de integrar saberes, conocimientos y aprendizajes de los diversos actores sociales e institucionales favorecen la promoción y el desarrollo de estrategias capaces de dar respuesta a las distintas problemáticas existent…
Análisis bibliométrico de la producción científica de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 1973-2001
2006
This article studies the scope of Polytechnic University of Valencia through the analysis of its scientific output since 1973 until 2001 based on the journal articles and conference papers available in the most relevant national and international databases. We analyze its productivity and time layout, according to the kind of document and language, as well as the scientific output by authors and departments, showing those most outstanding regarding productivity. On the other hand, we have researched the distribution and layout of scientific literature, pointing out the most used journals. The results show as the most relevant aspects a wide range of themes covered, the constant annual incre…
Emerging conceptualisations on professional agency and learning
2017
This chapter provides an evaluative summary of the major contributions from the first section of this book, comprising conceptualisations on professional agency and work-related learning. The evaluation focuses on the differences, similarities, and strengths of the approaches and conceptualisations touched on. The focus is, first of all, on how the core meanings of agency and the agentic perspective are understood. Secondly, the approaches are addressed according to their view of how the contextual aspects of working life relate to agency. Thirdly, attention is given to the practical conclusions deriving from different understandings of agency. The present chapter thus elaborates how these …
Binds of Professionalism: Attachment in Australian and Finnish Early Years Policy
2016
Attachment theory is often referenced in psychology, social work and early childhood care and education, and is ubiquitous in popular publications directed to parents, carers and educators of young children. It is considered as a ‘grand theory’ that explains “the growth of social relationships from infants’ experiences with their caregivers and the consequent social preference called attachment” (Mercer, 2011, p. 26). In this chapter, we understand attachment theory as a discourse and as part of the ‘psy-complex’, “the sprawling speculative and regulative network of theories and practices that constitute psychology” (Parker, 2002, p. 199). We focus on the operation of ‘attachment discourses…