T his paper has two widely separate points of departure; hopefully these beginnings become less obtrusive as the discussion unfolds. These origins include a response, now very oblique it must be said, to Terry Marsden's comments (Marsden 2000) and, second, exploratory reading with the quixotic aim of finding common ground between labour process perspectives and actor-network theory (ant) in the...

Policy entrepreneurs are individuals who attempt to influence the policy process and its outcomes through their opportunistic or incremental actions. Their success in the policy-making process has been associated with the convergence of four factors: behavioural traits; institutional factors; network position and political capital. Policy entrepreneurs have received little study in low- and mid...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

Corporations have become the primary actors directing the structure and function of the global political economy and the influence of many of the largest transnational corporations exceed that of all but a handful of the most powerful nation-states. In the past decade, the power of transnational corporations has been consolidated through rapid capital accumulation, increasingly uniform producti...

Ontario and Quebec were the first two provinces to legalize midwifery, integrating the services into their respective healthcare systems. In both provinces, the pre-legislative periods were marked by intense debates between state-actors, medical health professionals, and midwifery supporters, debates which took place in discursive spaces which were shaped not only by the dominance of medical-sc...

ـــــــThis paper presents FISA Framework for Intelligent Situation Analysis. Specifically we present a software tool to solve political disputes. Such a tool can be used successfully to cross the gap between the looseness of political situations specifications and the tightness of formal logical methods. This adaptation is performed by making use of data mining to discover both relevant topics...