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Class analysis has undergone a 'cultural turn' in recent years, driven most notably by the growing influence of the work of Pierre Bourdieu. We seek to connect this perspective with organization studies via an analysis of the political, economic and cultural cleavages that exist within a sample of professionals, managers and executives – summarily, the UK professional class. The results show that significant cleavages exist within the UK professional class in terms of economic and cultural capital composition and political dispositions. However, the most significant differences observable are not related to classic materialist 'left' and 'right' perspectives as recent research elsewhere suggests, but on more epiphenomenal issues such as immigration, equal rights and the environment. In an era where the professions find themselves in crisis (Leicht, 2016), the results imply that professional groups should take politics more seriously and actively articulate how professional expertise can contribute to the common good.

"If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions." Following the premise of this quotation attributed to Winston Churchill, varying perceptions of the European crisis by academic economists and their structural homology to economists' positions in the field of economics are examined. The dataset analysed using specific multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) comprises information on the careers of 480 German-speaking economists and on statements they made concerning crisis-related issues. It can be shown that the main structural differences in the composition and amount of scientific and academic capital held by economists as well as their age and degree of transnationalisation are linked to how they see the crisis: as a national sovereign debt crisis, as a European banking crisis, or as a crisis of European integration and institutions.

This book presents a new method for measuring multidimensional poverty. The author critically analyzes various statistical approaches, and proposes a new way of applying a factorial technique, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, to poverty analysis. The core of this new approach rests on the identification of poverty types and on the construction of a Composite Indicator of Poverty, which objectively weights the multiple categories of poverty. Built as a two-step approach, Multiple Correspondence Analysis allows for the integration of unidimensional money-metric techniques. The author reflects o

Suffrage activities that take place in Panama every five years for defining new Government authorities reflected a high level of absenteeism by the younger population during the year 2009. As a response to these results, a research initiative was formalized to allow the description of the behavior, level of knowledge and commitment of young people within this range of age with regard to their civic duty of exercising their right to vote. The research presents a multivariate analysis in order to assess whether the instrument applied allows identifying the commitment of college students within 18 to 25 years old from the civic responsibility of voting since they should have participated in the 2009 elections. The multivariate techniques used to achieve better characterization, best level of reduction in dimensions and reach appropriate association in categories were the Factor Analysis, Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Principal Component Analysis with Categorical Data. The multivariate methods applied for this assessment allowed identifying that two groups explain the existence of commitment toward the responsibility of voting: (1) knowledge of civic and electoral education, and (2) citizen participation. ; Las actividades de sufragio que se realizan en Panamá cada cinco años para definir los cargos de elección popular reflejaron un alto nivel de abstencionismo en la población más joven durante el ejercicio efectuado en el período 2009. A consecuencia de estos resultados, se formalizó una iniciativa de investigación que permitiera describir el comportamiento, el nivel de conocimiento y compromiso de los jóvenes dentro de este rango de edades con respecto a su deber cívico de ejercer su derecho al voto. La investigación presenta un análisis de tipo multivariante con el objetivo de evaluar si el instrumento aplicado permite identificar el compromiso de los estudiantes universitarios entre los 18 a 25 años de edad ante la responsabilidad ciudadana del sufragio ya que debieron haber votado en las elecciones del año 2009. Las técnicas multivariantes utilizadas para lograr la mejor caracterización, el mejor nivel de reducción en dimensiones y alcanzar la adecuada asociación en categorías fueron el Análisis Factorial, el Análisis de Correspondencia Múltiple y el Análisis de Componentes Principales con Datos Categóricos. Los métodos multivariantes aplicados permitieron, de manera comparativa entre ellos, identificar dos grandes grupos que explican la existencia de compromiso de la muestra ante el sufragio: (1) conocimiento sobre educación cívica electoral y (2) participación ciudadana.

Quality assurance in higher education is one of the cornerstones of the Bologna agenda and the Lisbon strategy, which aims at establishing the world's most competitive knowledge economy. Extensive literature up to now has addressed quality assurance as a regulatory and policy mechanism and has presented quality assurance and market forces as antagonistic. However, what policymakers in the field fail to see is that the 'official' quality assurance processes also have implications in terms of competition. Indeed, higher education institutions are using the results of these, in principle aseptic, non-market-related evaluation processes, as a way to achieve competitive advantage. This paper analyses the case of higher education institutions in engineering in France. The institutional websites of 163 higher education institutions have been analysed through code-based content analysis techniques and Multiple Correspondence Analysis. This study shows that the analysis of institutional websites can be used as a tool to gauge the importance of the different dimensions of quality assurance for higher education institutions in a given national system. Furthermore, a clear association has been found between the ranking position of an institution and its communication behaviour. The results have been interpreted in the light of Neoinstitutional Theory and Porter's generic competitive strategies. Practical implications for quality assurance practitioners and managers at higher education institutions have been highlighted.

Ein in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in den Vordergrund tretendes Verfahren zur grafischen Darstellung und Analyse zweidimensionaler Kontingenztafeln ist die (einfache) Korrespodenzanalyse. Durch die Sichtung der entsprechenden Literatur zeigt der vorliegende Beitrag, daß die Grafiken oftmals nicht richtig interpretiert werden, weil ungleiche Punkte miteinander verglichen werden. Der Autor klärt, was bei der grafischen Darstellung von Kontingenztafeln in der Korrespodenzanalyse eigenlich gezeigt wird und welche Strukturen sich in den Grafiken widerspiegeln. (pmb)