Violence, desecration, and urban collapse at the Postclassic Maya political capital of Mayapán

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 63-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth H. Paris ◽  
Stanley Serafin ◽  
Marilyn A. Masson ◽  
Carlos Peraza Lope ◽  
Cuauhtémoc Vidal Guzmán ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Capital ◽  
Postclassic Maya

Combast with SARS-COV-2 Virus, COVUID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Facilities ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Biological Chemistry ◽  
The World

Department of Biological Chemistry, Ariel University, 40700 Ariel, Israel. The currently roaring corona pandemic can be seen as a leading event in the deadly outbreak controlling the various health facilities and hospitals for years. The nosocomial microbial epidemic kills thousands of people every year in Israel around the world. Hygiene is the culprit for these fatal diseases [1]. And now it seems that the politicians, in macup to take care of the eradication of the disease-causing microbe, are taking advantage of the situation for the purpose of accumulating political capital and additional economic power. There is no escape from fighting the virus and tanning that bring about its reproduction, strengthening and transformation.

Political Capital vs. Constraint: Evidence from CEO Turnovers in Chinese Private Firms

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Cao ◽  
Xiaofei Pan ◽  
Meijun Qian ◽  
Gary Gang Tian
Keyword(s):  
Political Capital ◽  
Private Firms

Leadership Capital

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Jentges
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Analytical Potential ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Core Concepts

The Leadership Capital Index utilizes the conceptual terminology of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. This chapter presents the groundwork for the LCI as it clarifies Bourdieu’s key concepts and traces the evolution from political capital to leadership capital. With an overview of Bourdieu’s three core concepts of economic, cultural, and social capital, plus the more elusive symbolic capital, the chapter assists with an appreciation of the analytical potential of the concept of political capital. The notion of leadership capital integrates many (but not all) aspects of Bourdieu’s field-specific notion of political capital and the LCI succeeds in translating his complex conceptualization into a manageable set of ten indicators. The chapter explains how together Bourdieu’s political sociology and the approach suggested through the LCI create numerous synergies and are promising and useful endeavors in the analysis of political leadership.

scholarly journals Spending Political Capital*

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Incentive Contracts ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Alternative Mechanism ◽  
Team Size ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Number Of Individuals

Abstract An important task for organizations is establishing truthful communication between parties with differing interests. This task is made particularly challenging when the accuracy of the information is poorly observed or not at all. In these settings, incentive contracts based on the accuracy of information will not be very effective. This paper considers an alternative mechanism that does not require any signal of the accuracy of any information communicated to provide incentives for truthful communication. Rather, an expert sacrifices future participation in decision-making to influence the current period’s decision in favour of their preferred project. This mechanism captures a notion often described as ‘political capital’ whereby an individual is able to achieve their own preferred decision in the current period at the expense of being able to exert influence in future decisions (‘spending political capital’). When the first-best is not possible in this setting, I show that experts hold more influence than under the first-best and that, in a multi-agent extension, a finite team size is optimal. Together these results suggest that a small number of individuals hold excessive influence in organizations.

Entertainment publics in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2098596
Author(s):  
Anna Cristina Pertierra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Media ◽  
Entertainment Television

Since the late 1980s, Filipino entertainment television has assumed and maintained a dominance in national popular culture, which expanded in the digital era. The media landscape into which digital technologies were launched in the Philippines was largely set in the wake of the 1986 popular movement and change of government referred to as the EDSA revolution: television stations that had been sequestered under martial law were turned over to family-dominated commercial enterprises, and entertainment media proliferated. Building upon the long development of entertainment industries in the Philippines, new social media encounters with entertainment content generate expanded and engaged publics whose formation continues to operate upon a foundation of televisual media. This article considers the particular role that entertainment media plays in the formation of publics in which comedic, melodramatic and celebrity-led content generates networks of followers, users and viewers whose loyalty produces various forms of capital, including in notable cases political capital.

Vicarious Warfare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Waldman
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Special Forces ◽  
Extreme Form

America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military's exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase. Important strategic decisions are taken with minimal scrutiny or public engagement. This book charts the historical emergence of this distinctive tradition of war and explains the factors driving its contemporary prominence. It argues that vicarious warfare is an extreme form of strategic alchemy, and contemporary America is its most enthusiastic guild. In simple terms, vicarious warfare refers to the prospect of war on the cheap, fought at a reduced price in blood, treasure or political capital relative to ambition. The book contrasts the tactical advantages of vicarious warfare with its hidden costs and potential to cause significant strategic harm.

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