Classic analyses of system implementations view user participation as a key element for successful implementation. However, under some conditions, avoiding user participation offers an alternative route to a successful implementation; this is advisable especially when the user network is weak and aligning user needs with the technological capabilities will take too much resource. To illustrate ...

A representation of ideological point of view is articulated and a method for detecting the point(s) of view expressed in a news story is described. A version of the method, actor-role analysis, is encoded in a computer program, SpinDoetor, which can automatically detect the point(s) of view represented in some news tories. SpinDoctor is a computer program designed to detect ideological point o...

Actor–actor communication is an important part of the functioning of wireless sensor–actor networks and enables the actor nodes to take coordinated action on a given event. Owing to various reasons such as actor mobility and low actor density, the actor network tends to get partitioned. The authors propose to use the underlying sensor nodes, which are more densely deployed, to heal these partit...

Received: 29 March 2006 Revised: 24 November 2006 2nd Revision: 12 February 2007 Accepted: 1 March 2007 Abstract A number of models have been offered to help explain the trajectories of e-Government projects: their frequent failures and their rarer successes. Most, though, lack a sense of the political interaction of stakeholders that is fundamental to understanding the public sector. This pape...

Social capital is naturally embedded in social networks. In his famous work on the causal relationship between “bridging” social capital (e.g., associational life), trust, and civic behavior, Putnam [1993] did not investigate the structural aspect of such networks. Recently, the relationship between associational life and civicness of ethnic minority groups in Europe has been investigated [Fenn...

Legitimacy is central to nearly all human relationships and, in turn, to most social science theories. The concept was invented to help account for social order in large societies. Since it is too costly to attain order in the long run on the basis of sanctions (whether derived from incentives or naked coercion), it stands to reason that order must also rest, in part, on the consent of the gove...

Abstract There is increasing agreement that states and other political actors on the world stage sometimes achieve international authority. However, there less about nature functioning of authority relations. What determines whether an actor will be recognized as authoritative actor? And what are effects thereof? In this essay, we identify four distinct conceptions in study relations: contract ...

The military is emerging as an important actor in climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly when it comes to responding extremes. While not generally considered a “governance actor” scholarship on governance, militaries increasingly participate climate-related knowledge production, resource provision, decision-making. However, the nature degree of involvement these issues vary from...

Co-evolutionary learning of the iterated prisoner’s dilemma (IPD) has been used to model and simulate interactions, which may not be realistic due to assumptions of a fixed and symmetric payoff matrix for all players. Recently, we proposed to extend the co-evolutionary learning framework for any two-player repeated encounter game to model more realistic behavioral interactions. One issue we stu...