In this article, Haugaard, Hayward and Heaney discuss Reed’s Power in Modernity, the author replies. The exchanges centres on question of whether power relations should be theorized via concepts rector, actor, other, project, roles performance agency power’s exercise. contributors several examples political crises modernity, including storming U.S. Capitol 6 January 2021.

In today's political realities there is a strong tendency for bargaining and negotiation policies. An inclusion of organisations and organised interests has taken place not only in western political decision making processes. In times of political, economic and social transformation in West Africa, conflicts of interests over natural resources, particularly between `farmers' and `herders', are ...

There is growing interest among IT practitioners and academics in Enterprise Architecture (EA) as an effective response to increasingly rapid business, economic, and technological change. EA has been proposed as a path towards better achieving and sustaining stronger business-IT alignment and integration, cost reductions, greater agility, reduced time to market, and other important objectives. ...

Empirical work by the IMP Group suggests that actor bonds are formed by trust and identity, yet no theoretical grounds have been offered for these conclusions. This paper proposes a specific definition of actor and actor bonds within contexts defined by time variance with regard to the object of interaction and the commanding capability of the actor. This perspective allows psychological and so...

Distributed actor garbage collection (GC) is a notoriously hard problem due to the nature of distributed actor systems — no common clock, no coherent global information, asynchronous and unordered message passing, autonomous behavior of actors, and counter-intuitive actor marking to identify live actors. Most existing distributed actor GC algorithms rely on First-In-First-Out (FIFO) communicati...

In this paper, I want to explore possible explanations of the ‘welfare state’. I am not here interested in defending the welfare state, or criticising it, or suggesting how it might be made more effective. I want rather to treat it as a political phenomenon, and to ask what kind of explanation (or explanations) the rational choice tradition of political theory might offer as to why the welfare ...

While the actor model of concurrency is well appreciated for its ease of use, its scalability is often criticized. Indeed, the fact that execution within an actor is sequential prevents certain actor systems to take advantage of multicore architectures. In order to combine scalability and ease of use, we propose Parallel Actor Monitors (PAMs), as a means to relax the sequentiality of intra-acto...

This paper addresses the problem of spatiotemporal localization of actions in videos. Compared to leading approaches, which all learn to localize based on carefully annotated boxes on training video frames, we adhere to a weakly-supervised solution that only requires a video class label. We introduce an actor-supervised architecture that exploits the inherent compositionality of actions in term...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...