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THE INFLUENCE OF FARMERS ON PUBLIC POLICY HAS OFTEN BEEN ANALYSED BY MEANS OF A PRESSUREGROUP PARADIGM. HERE THE PARADIGM IS INTEGRATED INTO A MORE GENERAL THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK WITH FOCUS ON THE CONTENT OF AGRICULTURAL POLICY. DIFFERENCES IN AGRICULTURAL POLICIES ARE FIRST OF ALL EXPLAINED BY THE CONSENSUS-MAKING CAPACITY OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS. CRUCIAL HERE IS THE AGRICULTURAL PROFILE OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES, AND HOW FAR THE COST OF INCREASING FARM INCOME IMPINGES ON THE INTEREST OF OTHER SOCIAL GROUPS.

Chapter 1 -- Approaching Public Sector TrustChapter 2 -- Trust Paradigms in Public ManagementChapter 3 -- Trust and PowerChapter 4 -- Social Capital and the Gift EconomyChapter 5 -- Relational Trust and Social Capital in PracticeChapter 6 -- Trust, Leadership and Technology: Old Conundrums and New Openings

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I: Motivation and key concepts -- 1. A humanistic approach -- 2. What do we mean with ethics? -- 3. Is technology a neutral tool? -- 4. Value, wellbeing, and economics -- 5. The problem with the 'Trolley Problem' -- 6. Privacy is about more than 'privacy' -- 7. What is your responsibility? -- Part II: Different ethical perspectives -- 8. Software for self-driving cars -- 9. Consequences and outcomes -- 10. Cameras in public spaces -- 11. Duties and rights -- 12. Smart devices in our homes

1 Grundlegung eines Forschungsparadigmas: Tiere und Linguistik – Tierlinguistik -- 2 Theoretische und methodologische Prämissen zur Mensch-Tier-Kommunikation -- 3 Zentrale Aspekte tierlinguistischer Analysen -- 4 Fallstudie: 'Kontaktzone' Zoo -- 5 Schlussbemerkungen: Tierlinguistik als posthumanistische NaturKultur-Linguistik.

Trust, Power and Public Sector Leadership: A Relational Approach provides a critical theoretical treatment of trust in the realm of public management and governance. The public trust agenda is an antidote to rampant bureaucratic control and, in particular, the marketization and instrumentalization associated with New Public Management. The book approaches trust from a relational perspective that draws on insights from trust research, modern sociology and organization and management theory, while lending support to developments in New Public Governance. It provides a theoretical framework that distinguishes between institutional, economic, moral and relational trust and shows how a relational perspective is able to incorporate insights from the other paradigms in an inclusive approach to trust processes. Apart from providing a theoretical reading of the workings of trust in public organizations, the book addresses how trust relates to power and control along with notions of debureaucratization, post-bureaucratic organization and post-heroic leadership. It also shows how the trust agenda, in theory and practice, is related to social capital and thus efforts to strengthen social relations and collaboration in and around public organizations. Speaking of practice, the book takes its empirical point of departure in the Danish public sector. However, the aim of the book is not to promote the "High trust" Danish case as a benchmark or best practice. The aim is to theorize and help make sense of this particular experience by applying general theory to it and extracting general insights - with broader application - from its particular manifestations and outcomes. There is a need for more elaborate theorizing about trust and power in a public sector setting, and the Danish experience is useful as a starting point for this ambition.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Connections between family and organization -- 2. The Oedipus complex - now with siblings: Lines of argument -- 3. Digression: myths, fairy tales and metaphors: Parental power - the cost of solidarity -- 4. Promoted siblings and temporary parents: About democracy and psychodynamic in Lewin and Winnicott -- 5. The foreman's ghost - sibling rivalry in self-managing teams -- 6. Systems psychodynamics and subsystems: Family or organization, tyranny, democracy, crowd, market and panic -- 7. Gender -- 8. Role analysis -- 9. Mergers -- 10. Innovation -- 11. Globalization and modernization -- References -- Index.

Published in 1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. In order to put the elites in perspective the author has also conducted opinion surveys asking some of the same questions among representative samples of the populations in the three countries. Comparing these three rather similar states gives possibilities for singling out conditions for specific national developments in elite structure and policies.

Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical landslide, however, the wide range of nonverbal metaphor and its processing has neither been empirically investigated on the same scale nor with the same rigour as metaphor in language. The overarching goal of this book is to report on the findings of a research program aimed at exploiting the vast cognitive linguistic and psycholinguistic expertise on metaphor in language for a new, behaviourally founded approach to the structure and processes of metaphor in one of these nonverbal manifestations, namely static visuals. The book presents concepts and methods for the identification and analysis of metaphor in document structure as well as new approaches to the study of visual metaphor processing. Its results are intended to further the development of an encompassing and robust cognitive-scientific theory of metaphor by including visual metaphor while also enriching our understanding of the communicative possibilities and effects of visual metaphor in multimodal discourse