We examine whether individual differences in needs for security and certainty predict conservative (vs. liberal) position on both cultural and economic political issues and whether these effects are conditional on nation-level characteristics and individual-level political engagement. Analyses with cross-national data from 51 nations reveal that valuing conformity, security, and tradition over ...

Pieter Lemmens' neo-Marxist approach to technology urges us to rethink how to do political philosophy of technology. First, Lemmens' high level of abstraction raises the question of how empirically informed a political theory of technology needs to be. Second, his dialectical focus on a "struggle" between humans and technologies reveals the limits of neo-Marxism. Political philosophy of technol...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

Introduction: University students are of those valuable classes of society whom care for their needs on campus is of great importance. This study is aimed to investigate and prioritize several needs of medical students in variety of fields such as education, socio-political, cultural, religious, Literary, artistic and guild.Method: To achieve the goals of the study, a survey was conducted and q...

Needs analysis is a process for defining what kind of information or IT solution is appropriate to a particular organizational situation. It is a common practical approach to ensuring that effective IT solutions are adopted. The argument presented in this paper is that the process may appear rational, but it also takes place in a political context. In order to explore this area, an interpretive...

The paper covers the topic from an e-learning provider’s perspective on the basis of practical experience and discussions with corporate and SME partners. In this paper the author argues that blended learning is superfluous as a pedagogical concept. Its true context is company politics and the conflict between different factions involved in human resource development. Blended learning is a poli...