A critical assessment of the political preference function approach in agricultural economics

Respected as one of four ‘feuilles de qualité’ in nineteenth-century France, the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires published articles by some of the most talented writers/critics of its time. In ‘feuilletons’, large articles that ran across the bottom of the first and second pages, these authors gave perceptive critiques in high-quality prose and provided their readers with relief from the political news discussed on the page above. In January 1858 literary critic Hippolyte Rigault asserted that modern criticism communicated not just through forthright judgements but also through innuendo and nuance. A sophisticated readership could then be expected to take up the task of understanding the allusions and filling in the blanks. Like Rigault, Hector Berlioz (music critic of the Débats from 1835 to 1863) and Ernest Reyer (from 1866 to 1898) used both text and subtext to convey their assessments. This study, with the goal of examining how shades of approval and disapproval could be alluded to or directly revealed, traces how they wrote about their younger contemporary Georges Bizet in the years following Rigault's article.

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Never before seen in Brazil: Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's grand diplomacy

Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional ◽

10.1590/s0034-73292010000200009 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 160-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Security Council ◽

United Nations Security Council ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

The Political ◽

Foreign Service ◽

The United Nations

Critical assessment of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's diplomacy, which departed from the previous patterns of the Brazilian Foreign Service, to align itself with the political conceptions of the Workers' Party. This diplomacy has neither consolidated the position of Brazil as a regional leader, nor attained its declared goal of inserting Brazil into the United Nations Security Council, although it has reinforced Brazil's image in the international scenarios; but this was achieved much more through the personal activism of the President himself, than through normal diplomatic work.

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�The hastening that waits�: A critical assessment of the tangebility of unity within the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa

Verbum et Ecclesia ◽

10.4102/ve.v31i1.426 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rothney S. Tshaka ◽

Peter M. Maruping

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

Church Of Christ ◽

The Political ◽

Racial Categories ◽

Reformed Church ◽

Racial Lines ◽

The Church ◽

Church Tradition

The tale of the Reformed Church tradition in South Africa remains conspicuous with challenges also within the current democratic context. Whilst the political past of South Africa contributed towards a Reformed church divided along racial lines, a struggle continues for a genuinely unified Reformed church today. Conceding to the present discussions about the possibility of uniting all Reformed congregations that were divided along racial categories of Black, Coloured, Indian and White, this article aspires to delve into the intricacies pertaining to the already achieved unity between the �Coloured� and a huge portion of the �Black� Reformed congregations, that is to say, the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa. This article will argue that although it is fundamental that the church of Christ must be united, it is equally imperative that the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) waits and assesses whether it has already achieved tangible unity.

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Politieke voorkeur en antwoordgedrag van respondenten in politieke opiniepeilingen

Res Publica ◽

10.21825/rp.v36i2.18746 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 143-152

Author(s):

Geert Loosveldt

Keyword(s):

Latent Class Analysis ◽

Latent Class ◽

Latent Class Model ◽

Response Category ◽

The Political ◽

Class Analysis ◽

Background Characteristics ◽

Class Model ◽

Political Preference

In this article a typology of respondent's ability to participate in a survey interview is created by means of a latent class analysis. The indicators in the analysis are: the interviewer's evaluation of the respondent's ability, the use of the "don't know" response category and inconsistent answers. It was possible to fit a latent class model with three classes or types of respondents. The three types are clearly differentiated concerning ability. As expected, this typology is related to respondent's education and age. Ability to participate is higher for better educated and younger respondents. Given the fact that political preference is also related to these two background characteristics, there is a relationship between the respondent's typology and the political preference of the respondents.

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Statistical Parables

History of Political Economy ◽

10.1215/00182702-9414761 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 53 (6) ◽

pp. 27-52

Author(s):

Paul Burnett

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

The United States ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

Agricultural Economics ◽

Development Theory ◽

Agricultural Modernization ◽

Development Policies ◽

New Development ◽

The University

In the early 1960s, the agricultural economist Theodore W. Schultz issued a critical assessment of the prevailing tenets of development economics in Transforming Traditional Agriculture. Aimed at educated bureaucrats rather than academic economists, he proposed no new development theories. Instead, he drew inferences from statistics in case studies to argue that no special economic theory was required in the development space. He packaged these studies as statistical parables to provoke skepticism of development theory among those involved in direct technical assistance in developing countries. Drawing partly on their long experience with US and Soviet agricultural modernization, Schultz and members of his agricultural economics group at the University of Chicago used suggestive empirical evidence to stress the importance of investment in human capital in economic growth. By appealing to government administrators in both the United States and developing countries, Schultz helped shift development policies toward state-supported technical assistance, public education, and market-oriented policies for the agricultural sectors in the global South.

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Understanding Neoliberalism Regimes and the Operations of Global Corporations

Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry - Neoliberalism in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-6983-1.ch009 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 158-173

Author(s):

Sahidi Maman Bilan

Keyword(s):

Corporate Governance ◽

New World ◽

External Environment ◽

World Order ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

The Political ◽

New World Order ◽

Global Corporations ◽

Economic Ideology ◽

Global Strategies

The present-day political and economic ideology constitutes a veritable challenge—due to its complexity—for managers in charge of global corporations, especially when it comes to crafting global strategies. Therefore, an understanding of the neoliberalism system and the circumstances which led to the global dominance of corporations are crucial. The chapter evaluates the political and economic circumstances which led to the emergence of the new world order coined as neoliberalism. That means that the external environment of current global businesses will be discussed. Also highlighted is the new world order and how this is conducive to the free operations of global corporations. The chapter ends with a critical assessment of the entire neoliberal project and the corporate governance.

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