The politics of meaning: Modern Chinese nationalists' efforts to redefine the English word "nation"
In: Asian journal of social science, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 100-106
ISSN: 2212-3857
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In: Asian journal of social science, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 100-106
ISSN: 2212-3857
In: IMF Working Paper No. 15/123
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In: Policy and society, Band 34, Heft 3-4, S. 165-171
ISSN: 1839-3373
AbstractAlthough policy capacity is among the most fundamental concepts in public policy, there is considerable disagreement over its definition and very few systematic efforts try to operationalize and measure it. This article presents a conceptual framework for analysing and measuring policy capacity under which policy capacity refers to the competencies and capabilities important to policy-making. Competences are categorized into three general types of skills essential for policy success—analytical, operational and political—while policy capabilities are assessed at the individual, organizational and system resource levels. Policy failures often result from imbalanced attention to these nine different components of policy capacity and the conceptual framework presented in the paper provides a diagnostic tool to identify such capacity gaps. It offers critical insights into strategies able to overcome such gaps in professional behaviour, organizational and managerial activities, and the policy systems involved in policy-making.
In: Zeitschrift für Metallkunde, Band 94, Heft 9, S. 1017-1020
In: Zeitschrift für Metallkunde, Band 94, Heft 2, S. 122-126
In: Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation: official publication of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Band 12, Heft 5, S. e33-e43
ISSN: 1556-7117
In: Materials & Design, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 103-109
In: Materials & Design, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 239-247
In: IMF Working Paper No. 13/165
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In: Materials & Design, Band 47, S. 731-736
In: IMF Working Paper No. 13/166
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Discussions on colonialism are pervasive in western scholarship but are hardly ever applied to the archeology of China. The present paper shows how concepts of colonialism and migration research can be successfully applied to understand Han imperial expansion into southwest China and how the Chinese material can in turn contribute to developing theories and methods of colonialism research further. Taking the Shamaoshan cemetery as a case study, the present paper combines archeological, textual, environmental, and isotope data to gain insights into strategies and processes of Han imperial expansion into southwest China. The insights gained here show that the long-accepted story-line of simple "Sinicization" and political control is far from accurate. Instead, it took over a century of cross-cultural exchange with immigrants and locals adopting each other's customs to varying degrees. While in the beginning the Han seem to have taken a top-down approach to "civilizing" the region through their elites, the present study suggests that in the end it was the lower levels of society that intermingled most intensively and helped integrate migrants and locals successfully. Moving away from the exclusive focus on exceptional graves and large sites, the present study thus shows the great value of approaching small, poorly equipped graves with new methods, combining isotope research with a nuanced analysis of burial remains. Evaluated together with the evidence from the well-known exceptional graves, lesser-known settlement material, and historical accounts, the Shamaoshan case study has made it clear that various types of contact, colonial and otherwise, play out quite differently within different social groups and historical situations. This study thus proposes a multisource, multimethod approach that moves away from a narrative dominated by the history-writing elite segments of the colonizing force to a multivoiced account integrating local and outside perceptions at various social levels, an approach that might ...
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In: Advances in applied ceramics: structural, functional and bioceramics, Band 115, Heft 7, S. 422-426
ISSN: 1743-6761
In: Materials and design, Band 215, S. 110491
ISSN: 1873-4197