Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present

Browning, Gary L.; Halcli, Abigail; Webster, Frank

doi:10.4135/9781446218310

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“…In summary, if consent exists at all, it is ill-obtained consent. The economic paradigm shift has drawn nearly all countries into one trading practice of prioritizing private capital amidst the minimal role of the state in providing social goods (Browning, 2000). In the recipient countries, the situation is worse, although the prevailing ignorance and lack of choices make the world to still subscribe to the one-size-fits-all liberal economic model without contextualizing it to fit local peculiarities.…”

Section: End Of Polarity and De-facto Global Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

Asaka¹,

Oluoko-Odingo²

2022

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Today's interconnected crises -from environmental and climate change to global pandemics, and migration -are changing the security landscape. What previously was a multifaceted security arena, is today a single security space of interlocking challenges far beyond traditional state-based security. This book offers a new, alternative perspective on human security, offering a way to make sense of this interconnected world. Centered on the dignity, empowerment, and context of people's everyday life in East Africa, Jeremiah O. Asaka and Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo bring together an interdisciplinary set of Eastern African scholars and practitioners to explore human security challenges in the region in new light."

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Section: End Of Polarity and De-facto Global Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

Asaka¹,

Oluoko-Odingo²

2022

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“…In the changing and uncertain work environment, individuals want to establish their own sense of security and control, and the problems of trust and credibility will appear (Allan, 2013;Browning et al, 1999). According to Browning and his colleagues (1999), "thinking about others before being able to be with others is the first self-reality of individuals seeking credibility in today's workplace".…”

Section: Trust and Credibility Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Part does Middle Leadership Play in Higher Education?

2022

JERP

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The paper aims to analyzes what part does middle leadership play in higher education. Middle leaders in higher education include roles with represented administrative and management accountability. In China, roles of middle leaders are defined as formal leader, their accountability is managing and monitoring (Early & Bubb, 2004). The paper starts with leadership, and introduce the main part-middle leadership, includes reflection of middle leader, previous reflection of middle leadership and middle leadership as relational leadership. Maybe some limitations exist in this study, more development will be made in future.

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“…Rational choice in information-seeking behaviour Throughout our approach, we assume a baseline level of social cognition in political decision-making. We rely on the theoretical rationality of voters in a democracy (Scott, 2000) for whom decision-making is contingent on having relevant information about political choices (Popkin, 1994). In general, we argue that utility-maximisation is paramount to individual vote choice (Downs, 1957), but that reaching an optimal choice requires information about candidate pay-offs (Lau & Redlawsk, 2006).…”

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Wikipedia: a challenger’s best friend? Utilizing information-seeking behaviour patterns to predict US congressional elections

Salem

Stephany

2021

Information, Communication & Society

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Election prediction has long been an evergreen in political science literature. Traditionally, such efforts included polling aggregates, economic indicators, partisan affiliation, and campaign effects to predict aggregate voting outcomes. With increasing secondary usage of online-generated data in social science, researchers have begun to consult metadata from widely used web-based platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Trends and Wikipedia to calibrate forecasting models. Web-based platforms offer the means for voters to retrieve detailed campaign-related information, and for researchers to study the popularity of campaigns and public sentiment surrounding them. However, past contributions have often overlooked the interaction between conventional election variables and information-seeking behaviour patterns. In this work, we aim to unify traditional and novel methodology by considering how information retrieval differs between incumbent and challenger campaigns, as well as the effect of perceived candidate viability and media coverage on Wikipedia's predictive ability. In order to test our hypotheses, we use election data from United States Congressional (Senate and House) elections between 2016 and 2018. We demonstrate that Wikipedia data, as a proxy for information-seeking behaviour patterns, is particularly useful for predicting the success of wellfunded challengers who are relatively less prevalent in the media. In general, our findings underline the importance of a mixed-data approach to predictive analytics in computational social science.

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Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present

Cited by 50 publications

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Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

What Part does Middle Leadership Play in Higher Education?

Wikipedia: a challenger’s best friend? Utilizing information-seeking behaviour patterns to predict US congressional elections

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