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Reith Papers

by Peter Reith

Peter Reith was a senior cabinet minister under John Howard from 1996 to 2001. He was the face of the government's tough waterfront reforms and architect of sweeping industrial laws, a major contributor to the Fightback policy, a potential leader of the Liberal Party, a key player in the introduction of the GST, an influential republican in the 1999 referendum and Minister for Defence during the time that it was wrongly claimed that asylum seekers had thrown their children overboard.A relentless diary keeper, Peter Reith kept extensive records of those tumultuous years in over a hundred notebooks he filled with recollections of conversations with his colleagues, discussions in cabinet and his private views and predictions.The Reith Papers is the best of those diary entries from the heart of a government that changed Australia.

Reivindicación de la política

by Javier Solana Lluís Bassets

La política no es una mera gestión, no es administración, es mucho más que eso. Es que la gente te entienda y que sepa adónde vas. La política tiene que ser pedagogía y tiene que ser liderazgo. En parte es hacer presente el futuro, y para eso hay que tener una visión del futuro.

Reivindicación de la política: Veinte años de relaciones internacionales

by Javier Solana Lluís Basset

Un repaso a los retos del mundo actual a partir de la experiencia de 15 años en primera fila de la política internacional de Javier Solana. «Yo creo en la política... La política no es mera gestión, no es administración, es mucho más que eso. Es que la gente te entienda y que sepa adónde vas. La política tiene que ser pedagogía y tiene que ser liderazgo. En parte es hacer presente el futuro, y para eso hay que tener una visión del futuro.»Javier Solana Desde que en 1995 fuera nombrado secretario general de la OTAN, Javier Solana ha pasado quince años en primera fila de la política internacional. Han sido quince años repletos de acontecimientos: la disolución de la antigua Yugoslavia, la decadencia de Rusia, el auge de China, la aparición del terrorismo islámico, los años de Clinton, de Bush y la llegada de Obama, la expansión de la OTAN y de la Unión Europea, la globalización, la mayor crisis económica desde 1929... Gracias a su experiencia y en muchas ocasiones a su presencia en las cumbres y reuniones que definieron momentos históricos, Solana presenta, guiado por las inteligentes preguntas de un periodista de prestigio como es Lluís Bassets, un fascinante panorama del mundo actual, los retos a los que nos enfrentamos y cómo se hizo la transición del mundo estable de la guerra fría a las incertidumbres del actual. Dos ideas y un principio vertebran el libro: Occidente se ha impuesto a costa de perder poder frente a las potencias emergentes, como Brasil, China o la India; Europa se empezó justificando como reconciliación tras la guerra, luego estabilización tras la caída del Muro, pero ahora se fundamenta en la necesidad para no pasar a la irrelevancia. Y el principio es la inquebrantable fe en la política como la manera de conciliar intereses, alcanzar objetivos y evitar conflictos. Un libro esencial, plagado de anécdotas y de retratos de primera mano, por el español más importante en la escena internacional de los últimos tiempos.

Rejecting Compromise: Legislators' Fear of Primary Voters

by Daniel M. Butler Sarah E. Anderson Laurel Harbridge-Yong

Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and poverty usually require compromise. Yet national, state, and local legislators often reject compromise proposals that would move policy in their preferred direction. Why do legislators reject such agreements? This engaging and relevant investigation into how politicians think reveals that legislators refuse compromise - and exacerbate gridlock - because they fear punishment from voters in primary elections. Prioritizing these electoral interests can lead lawmakers to act in ways that hurt their policy interests and also overlook the broader electorate's preferences by representing only a subset of voters with rigid positions. With their solution-oriented approach, Anderson, Butler, and Harbridge-Yong demonstrate that improving the likelihood of legislative compromise may require moving negotiations outside of the public spotlight. Highlighting key electoral motives underlying polarization, this book is an excellent resource for scholars and students studying Congress, American politics, public policy, and political behavior.

Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century

by Amy Shuman Carol Bohmer

Many nations recognize the moral and legal obligation to accept people fleeing from persecution, but political asylum applicants in the twenty-first century face restrictive policies and cumbersome procedures. So, what counts as persecution? How do applicants translate their stories of suffering and trauma into a narrative acceptable to the immigration officials? How can asylum officials weed out the fake from the genuine without resorting to inappropriate cultural definitions of behaviour? Using both in depth accounts by asylum applicants and interviews with lawyers and others involved, this book takes the reader on a journey through the process of applying for asylum in both the United States and Great Britain. It describes how the systems address the conflicting needs of the state to protect their citizens from terrorists and the influx of hordes of unwelcome economic migrants, while at the same time adhering to their legal, moral and treaty obligations to provide safe haven for those fleeing persecution. Rejecting Refugees is an insightful and fresh evaluation of the obstacles asylum applicants face and the cultural, procedural, and political discrepancies in the political asylum process. This makes it ideal reading to students and scholars of political science, international relations, sociology, law and anthropology.

Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung jenseits vom Fall: Studien zum Interaktionsraum institutioneller Bildung (Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung #33)

by Thomas Wenzl

Gegenstand der rekonstruktiven Bildungsforschung sind klassischerweise individuelle Fälle. Mit diesem empirischen Fokus geht das Generalisierungsproblem einher, dass das Allgemeine im Besonderen aufgespürt werden muss. Allzu leicht verheddern sich Studien jedoch in der Individuation ihrer Fälle, ohne zu generalisierbaren theoretischen Aussagen, die über die Bildung von Realtypen hinausgehen, zu gelangen. Vor diesem Problemhorizont wird in dem Buch ein alternativer empirischer Zugriff vorgestellt, der für soziale Praxen typische, aber fallunspezifische Sprechakte ins Zentrum rückt. Durch die Analyse eines solchen Datenmaterials, so zeigt der Autor, kann der oftmals prekäre Generalisierungsanspruch der rekonstruktiven Bildungsforschung verlässlicher eingelöst werden. In verschiedenen Einzelstudien zum Interaktionsraum institutioneller Bildung in Schule und Universität wird dieser methodische Vorschlag elaboriert und material fundiert.

Relaciones Internacionales: Un Manual Sobre: Conceptos Básicos y Problemas Globales

by Shahid Hussain Raja

Este libro contiene 20 ensayos extensos, cada uno de los cuales trata sobre una de las cuestiones globales contemporáneas en varios campos. Los resúmenes de los 20 ensayos son los siguientes Capítulo 2- Globalización: compresión del tiempo y el espacio: la globalización es un fenómeno multifacético que representa la creciente integración de la economía, las comunicaciones y la cultura a través de las fronteras nacionales. Se habla mucho pero es un concepto controvertido; no hay consenso sobre su contexto, causalidad, dirección e impacto. Este ensayo examina este complejo tema desde diferentes perspectivas: la historia, los desafíos que plantea y cómo responder a ellos. En este proceso, he dividido la historia de la globalización en cinco fases, tomando cinco inventos cruciales de la humanidad como la esencia de esa época, así como la fuerza impulsora de la globalización, tales como: el fuego, la rueda, la imprenta, el vapor e Internet, respectivamente. Puede utilizar este marco para estudiar la historia global. Capítulo 3 a 6: Ideas que dan forma al mundo: los siguientes cuatro ensayos tratan sobre las ideas que han sido el centro de controversia durante décadas. En cada época de la historia hay uno o más intelectuales visionarios que se vuelven instrumentales, con sus teorías sobre el futuro, en la conformación de las percepciones de los formadores de opinión en las potencias mundiales dominantes. Las acciones tomadas por estos líderes mundiales dan forma al curso de la historia. En los tiempos modernos, hay varios nombres, pero hemos seleccionado cuatro que, en nuestra opinión, han jugado un papel muy importante en este aspecto. Ellos son George F. Kennon, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel P Huntington y Robert D. Kaplan. Estos cuatro ensayos resumen el contenido de los artículos que escribieron y cómo influyeron en la política mundial. Cada ensayo termina con su respectiva crítica. Capítulo 7- Terrorismo global: desafíos y respuesta: El te

Relating Indigenous and Settler Identities

by Avril Bell

This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize the way settler peoples think about and relate to indigenous difference.

Relational Egalitarianism: Living as Equals

by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Over the last twenty years, many political philosophers have rejected the idea that justice is fundamentally about distribution. Rather, justice is about social relations, and the so-called distributive paradigm should be replaced by a new relational paradigm. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen seeks to describe, refine, and assess these thoughts and to propose a comprehensive form of egalitarianism which includes central elements from both relational and distributive paradigms. He shows why many of the challenges that luck egalitarianism faces reappear, once we try to specify relational egalitarianism more fully. His discussion advances understanding of the nature of the relational ideal, and introduces new conceptual tools for understanding it and for exploring the important question of why it is desirable in the first place to relate as equals. Even severe critics of the distributive understanding of justice will find that this book casts important new light on the ideal to which they subscribe.

Relational Expertise of Teacher Educators: Theory and Practice (Critical Guides for Teacher Educators)

by Lorna Shires

A valuable text for teacher educators, including ECT mentors in schools, on the topic of relational expertise. It provides a critical analysis of current conceptions of the role of teacher educator and a theoretical basis for practice.This book provides a concise and clear cultural-historical perspective of the expertise of teacher educators. The theoretical framework of relational expertise draws upon what matters to both the teacher educator and beginning teacher as they work together on the complex problem of learning to teach. It provides a clear basis for their practice and for what happens in their practice, signalling a way of understanding how to undertake the role of teacher educator in terms of the professional learning of the beginning teacher. Concepts explored include relational expertise, relational agency, common knowledge, the double move, metacommentary, and second order practice, offering a critique of the deconstruction of the act of teaching into bite-size chunks to be memorised. Opportunities for critical reflection are also provided throughout the book, which speaks to teacher educators directly in terms of suggesting a clear theoretical basis for their expertise and how to enact this in practice.

Relational Liberalism: Democratic Co-Authorship in a Pluralistic World (Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations #24)

by Federica Liveriero

This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship. According to this proposal, democratic legitimacy depends upon establishing appropriate interactions among citizens who ought to ascribe to one another the status of putative practical and epistemic authorities. To support this relational reading of political liberalism, the book proposes a revised account of the civic virtue of reasonableness along with an investigation of the epistemic-specific dimension of political equality. By engaging with political epistemology and social theory, this book explores ways to address inherent tensions within the liberal paradigm, using the following strategies of addressing these tensions: first, it defends a twofold model of legitimacy that distinguishes the goals, methodologies, and justificatory tasks of both ideal and nonideal phases of the two-level justificatory framework; second, it contends that democratic legitimacy requires an engaged and contextual critical appraisal of the injustices that characterize our daily social lives, illustrating how structural forms of injustice represent a profound betrayal of the liberal ideal of democratic legitimacy.

Relational Political Marketing in Party-Centred Democracies: Because We Deserve It

by Helene P.M. Johansen

This book offers a critical re-thinking of the way in which traditional market logic - derived from mainstream economics and managerial marketing - has for decades commonly been applied in the theoretical understanding of democratic politics within influential quarters of political science and in later years also the relatively new but rapidly expanding field of political marketing. Such approaches are founded on the assumption that all markets are driven exclusively by exchange dynamics and this has in turn rendered the most basic workings of co-production and participation-oriented party-centred political systems theoretically invisible. The author starts by providing a thorough and wide-ranging critical assessment of the theoretical underpinnings of the contemporary political marketing literature and its market-based political science antecedents. Using a relationship marketing perspective the author goes on to offer a re-conceptualisation of these political spheres in terms of 'markets' which addresses the theoretical inadequacies of prior research. She closes by examining some of the most important practical implications that this alternative approach to party-centred politics may have for the marketing efforts of contemporary membership parties. This book is essential reading to all those interested in party-centred politics and political marketing, as well as democratic theorists and students of political theory in general.

Relational Psychoanalysis at the Heart of Teaching and Learning: How and Why it Matters

by Lissa D’Amour

This book introduces the insights of contemporary relational psychoanalysis to educational thought and uses them as the foundation for a comprehensive model for understanding and informing teaching and learning practice. The model integrates what we know about conscious thought, motivation, and the physical body and translates these understandings in ways that are meaningful and relevant to the circumstances of practicing teachers, school leaders, and teachers of teachers. It will be of great interest to them and to those educational scholars whose attentions turn to the exigencies of the current era. Echoing calls for inclusivity, the book stands against admonishing anyone on the right way to be a person. Instead it emphasises understanding and, in understanding, practicing well. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the nature of sense-making and awareness and of the practical implications of cognition as embodied, life forms as non-linear dynamic systems, and relationships as core to human development and classroom life. It was Einstein who, in a letter to Freud, once asked for an educational solution to the menace of war. Today’s urgencies – of nations divided, diminishing planetary resources, and certain ecological disasters – press for wisdom beyond our collective habit. Thankfully the once-elusive mysteries of life, mind, learning, and learning systems now yield in ways to help shape answers to Einstein’s question. Relational psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, educational theorists, teachers, and those who work with them will be intrigued by the convergences and heartened at the possibilities.

Relational Vulnerability: Theory, Law and the Private Family (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies)

by Ellen Gordon-Bouvier

This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of ‘relational vulnerability’ through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or ‘dependency-work’, in the context of the private family. Expanding on existing socio-legal scholarship on vulnerability and resilience, it charts how the state seeks to conceal the embodied and temporal reality of vulnerability and dependency within the private family, while promoting an artificial concept of autonomous personhood that exposes dependency-workers work to a range of harms. The book argues that the legal framework governing the married and unmarried family reinforces principles of individualism and rationality, while labelling dependency-work as a private, gendered, and sentimental endeavor, lacking value beyond the family. It also considers how the state can respond to relational vulnerability and foster resilience. It seeks to provide a more comprehensive understanding of resilience, theorising its normative goals and applying these to different hypothetical state responses.

Relational Well-Being in Policy Implementation in Mexico: The Oportunidades-Prospera Conditional Cash Transfer

by Viviana Ramírez

This book provides key insights into the nature of officer–recipient relationships and shows how they have non-negligible impacts on the way recipients feel and think about themselves and their lives using mixed methods and subjective and psychosocial well-being approaches. The importance of placing well-being at the heart of policy is widely accepted. Yet, it is far less clear how this can be translated into practice. Discussion has tended to focus on the outcomes of policy and particularly on the metrics to assess well-being. While these are important debates, they can obscure an equally vital dimension: the processes of policies and the effect that implementation can have on the experiences – and ultimately well-being outcomes – of the recipients. This is the subject matter of this book. By taking the world-renowned case of the Oportunidades-Prospera conditional cash transfer programme in Mexico, it provides an in-depth account of interactions between officers and recipients and how these influenced programme delivery and well-being outcomes. It particularly scrutinizes the implementation of the health conditionalities of Oportunidades-Prospera by physicians working in the health clinics of rural and indigenous localities.

Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy: The Connective Mindshift (Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society)

by Ali Fisher R. S. Zaharna Amelia Arsenault

Over the past decade, scholars, practitioners, and leading diplomats have forcefully argued for the need to move beyond one-way, mass-media-driven campaigns and develop more relational strategies. In the coming years, as the range of public diplomacy actors grows, the issues become more complexly intertwined, and the use of social media proliferates, the focus on relations will intensify along with the demands for more sophisticated strategies. These changes in the international arena call for a connective mindshift: a shift from information control and dominance to skilled relationship management. Leading international scholars and practitioners embark on a forward-looking exploration of creative conceptual frameworks, training methods, and case studies that advance relational, networking, and collaborative strategies in public diplomacy. Light on academic jargon and rich in analysis, this volume argues that while relationships have always been pivotal to the practice of public diplomacy, the relational dynamics are changing. Rather than focus on specific definitions, the contributors focus on the dynamic interplay of influence in the public diplomacy environment. That environment includes state and non-state actors, public and private partners, competitors and collaborators, new and old media, and is conditioned by power, ethics, and cultures. This book is an essential resource to students and practitioners interested on how to build relationships and transform them into more elaborate network structures through public communication. It will challenge you to push the boundaries of what you think are the mechanisms, benefits, and potential issues raised by a relational approach to public diplomacy

Relationality across East and West (Political Theories in East Asian Context)

by Jun-Hyeok Kwak Ken Cheng

This book explores how the concept of ‘relationality’ can offer a strong basis for cross-cultural dialogue between Western and non-Western traditions of moral and political philosophy.As addressed in this book, the implications of relationality go beyond a Eurocentric binary of Western individualism and non-Western collectivism. Instead, the contributors seek to establish an appropriate discursive stance for understanding and deliberating over relationality across cultural boundaries. Through an investigation of the theoretical and practical meanings of relationality across East and West, it offers possible frameworks for reconciling the emphasis on individual choice in modern Western social and political philosophy with the amorphous dynamics of relational morality in non-Western philosophical discourses.Examining relationality in practical forms and culturally-situated contexts, rather than positing an essentialist view of the relational self, this book will be of interest to scholars in political philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary political theory and Northeast Asian regional studies.

Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy (Elements in Public Policy)

by Raul P. Lejano Wing Shan Kan

This Element argues that relational policy analysis can provide deeper insights into the career of any policy and the dynamics of any policy situation. This task is all the more difficult as the relational often operates unseen in the backstages of a policy arena. Another issue is the potentially unbounded scope of a relational analysis. But these challenges should not dissuade policy scholars from beginning to address the theme of relationality in public policy. This Element sketches a conceptual framework for the study of relationality and illustrates some of the promise of relational analysis using an extended case study. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World (SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics)

by Chih-yu Shih

Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism, author Chih-yu Shih demonstrates, through a critical translation exercise, that Confucian themes enable both the critique and realignment of liberal thought, allowing all of us, including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order, to understand how we adapt to and coexist with each another. In the end, Confucianism not only informs the pluriversal necessity that all are bound to be related but also de-nationalizes China's internationalism.

Relations between Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives in Selected EU Member States (Routledge Advances in European Politics)

by Maciej Duszczyk Marta Pachocka Dominika Pszczó 322 Kowska

Written from a pan-European perspective, this book examines the decision-making processes in immigration and integration policies in Europe across decades, focusing on several key moments of Europe’s postwar history. The analysis of factors taken into consideration by states in key moments of immigration policy (re)formulation shows that Europe is moving away from rational, economic arguments towards more political ones. This book contributes to the theoretical and practical debate regarding immigration and integration policies by arguing that – contrary to assumptions – immigration policy should not be treated as having precedence before integration policy. It also reflects on the growing anti-immigration sentiments as well as the securitisation and criminalisation of migration issues that are fuelled by right-wing politics. This book will be of key interest both to students and scholars of migration, the European Union, European integration, social policy, public policy, international relations, European studies, law, economics, sociology and to professionals, policy-makers, think tanks and associations in NGOs, the EU and other IOs. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429263736, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Relationship between the Central Government and Local Governments of Contemporary China (Social Development Experiences in China)

by Feizhou Zhou Mingzhi Tan

This book examines the connection between central-local government relations and the transition of contemporary China, the urbanization process and social development. Based on empirical investigations and theoretical research, it argues that this is the key to understanding the transition of central-local government relations from the overall fiscal rationing system in the 1980s and the tax distribution system in the 1990s. The former system provided the incentive for local government to “set up a number of enterprises” and resulted in rapid local industrialization, while the latter system enabled the local governments to move from “operating the enterprises” to “operating the land and cities”. The book analyzes two aspects of the profound impact of the change in central-local government relations on the behavior of local governments: land quota acquisition and urbanization, thus providing valuable insights into the economic and social development of contemporary China.

Relationship-Based Social Work

by Edited by Gillian Ruch Danielle Turney Adrian Ward

Relationship-based practice is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be at the heart of all good social work practice. This book provides a thorough guide to relationship-based practice in social work, communicating the theory using illustrative case studies and offering a model for practice. Case examples cover the different service user groups including children, families, older people, refugees, people with disabilities and people with mental health difficulties. The book explores the ranges of emotions that practitioners may encounter, and covers working in both short-term and long-term relationships. It also outlines key skills for the individual such as how to establish rapport with the client and using empathy to build a relationship, and explores systemic issues such as incorporating service user perspectives and building appropriate support systems for practice, management and leadership. This book will be an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and post-graduate social work students, practitioners on post-qualifying courses and all social work and allied professionals.

Relationships Education for Primary Schools (2020): A Practical Toolkit for Teachers

by Jonathan Glazzard Samuel Stones

This book enables and supports teachers to deliver the content of the new statutory guidance for relationships education in primary schools, operational from 2020. It is case study rich and provides clear and practical advice for teaching the topics of the new framework, including addressing controversial and critical issues such as parental right to withdraw and how to tackle relationships education in faith schools. There is an emphasis throughout on inclusion and pupil well-being and on the importance of partnerships with parents.

Relationships and Sex Education for Secondary Schools (2020): A Practical Toolkit for Teachers

by Jonathan Glazzard Samuel Stones

This book enables and supports teachers to deliver the content of the new statutory guidance for relationships and sex education (RSE) in secondary schools, operational from 2020.It is case study rich and provides clear and practical advice for teaching the topics of the new framework, including addressing controversial and critical issues such as parental right to withdraw and how to tackle relationships and sex education in faith schools. There is an emphasis throughout on inclusion and pupil well-being and on the importance of partnerships with parents.

Relationships, Community, and the Restorative School: Lessons from Singapore (Contemporary Issues in Restorative Practices)

by James Lim Tyler Sim Enci Li Justin Mui Seow-Ling Kek

This book shares our journey with restorative practice and provides insight into how we developed a programme that impacts school culture – the Builders Project. It is a documentation of our experience of bringing restorative practice to primary school settings in Singapore, through a whole-school community building approach, to enable students to have a positive learning experience and to thrive. This contrasts with implementing restorative practice focusing on behavioural management. It is the first non-Western contribution to the field of restorative practices as a whole-school approach.This book shares Lutheran Community Care Services (LCCS) practice assumptions that underpin the need to build, strengthen, and restore relationships. It also illustrates the application of our restorative practice principles, which are drawn from our experience, values, and research, towards building effective relationships among the individuals in the school community. Stories and perspectives of practitioners, students, parents, teachers, and school leaders are shared to highlight how they experience voice, agency, and belonging through restorative processes. Most importantly, we hope that this book will inspire you to reflect on your journey with restorative practice in schools through the reflection questions posed in each of the substantive chapters.This book is for educators, school social work and mental health practitioners, educational policymakers, school administrators, principals, academics, researchers, and restorative practice practitioners. This book is also suitable for undergraduates or postgraduate students who desire to understand practice beyond the theories that they have learnt and gain insights on what the journey of practicing and implementing restorative practice looks like.

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