One of the most important, but until now neglected, aspects of the new politics of welfare in western Europe concerns new nationally-negotiated social pacts, referred to in a previous article as ‘competitive corporatism’ (Rhodes 1998) to distinguish them from traditional forms of social corporatism and to signal their competitiveness rationale. These pacts, which have proliferated since the lat...

Ophiolitic rocks in the southeastern part of the Zagros Orogenic Belt can be separated from southwest to northeast, into two groups: the Neyriz ophiolites and the Naien–Shahrebabak–Baft ophiolites. The southeast sector of Sanandaj-Sirjan wasdelimited by the two nearly synchronous ophiolitic belts in its southwestern and northeastern margins. In this study, new ophiolitic formation models were u...

BACKGROUND Combination of radical surgery and radiotherapy is the standard management of head and neck malignancies. But due to considerable morbidity of surgery and associated cosmetic and functional deficiencies, often aggravated by adjuvant radiotherapy, many patients prefer only radiotherapy with its' decreased chance of survival. Proper surgical facilities are also not accessible to most o...

The central normative concern of this paper is the prospects of global democracy, examined from the point of view of poststructuralist theory. A particular empirical focus is on the recent Russian debate about democracy, sovereignty and relations with the West. In the first section I outline a poststructuralist approach to this notion, based mostly on the neo-Gramscian theory of discourse devel...

RAP MUSIC AND HEGEMONY: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF RAP'S NARRATIVES Jamar Montez Wheeler

Drawing from Antonio Gramsci’s ideas, a dialectic analysis of accountability change in a large, Bangladesh NGO – BRAC is conducted to investigate how BRAC extended accountability issues within society; and how hegemonic and counter-hegemonic dialectics changed accountability practices. The paper details how a functional accountability was transformed into a holistic social form as it interacted...