Liberalism, Community, and State Borders

Globalization, neo-liberalism and community psychology.

A longitudinal analysis (1984-2005) of media language in Norway is presented, demonstrating how the current globalized capitalist market ideology is now permeating this long-established Scandinavian welfare state. This ideological shift carries powerful implications for community psychology, as traditional welfare state values of equal services based on a universalistic principle are set aside,...

Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance: A State-Theoretical Perspective

Democracy, Tradition, and the Local Community I. the Philosophical Roots of Modern Liberalism Iii. Macintyre's Critique of Contemporary Liberalism

Both Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeffrey Stout are concerned social critics who lament many of the features of contemporary life and political and ethical discourse. They both see the global market and government bureaucracies as institutional arrangements that often rob their citizens of the capacity to hold reasoned debates about important matters and lead virtuous, meaningful lives. And both want...

Actors without Borders: Amnesty for Imprisoned State

In concurrent systems, some form of synchronisation is typically needed to achieve data-race freedom, which is important for correctness and safety. In actor-based systems, messages are exchanged concurrently but executed sequentially by the receiving actor. By relying on isolation and non-sharing, an actor can access its own state without fear of data-races, and the internal behavior of an act...

The community context of species’ borders: ecological and evolutionary perspectives

Species distributional limits may coincide with hard dispersal barriers or physiological thresholds along environmental gradients, but they may also be influenced by species interactions. We explore a number of models of interspecific interactions that lead to (sometimes abrupt) distribution limits in the presence and absence of environmental gradients. We find that gradients in competitive abi...