scholarly journals The Political Structures and Subnational Government's Fiscal Behavior in Malaysia

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zafarullah Abdul Jalil
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Fiscal Behavior ◽  
Political Structures

Stuart Succession Literature

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
British Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Distinct Category ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Distinguished Group ◽  
Modern British Literature

Moments of royal succession, which punctuated the Stuart era (1603–1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefiting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.

The Exceptionality of Jordan and its Democracy in King Hussein’s Last Speech From the Throne

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ahmad El-Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Political Structures

The Late King Hussein’s last Speech from the Throne in 1997 was given amidst public outcry over the outcomes of the parliamentary elections which resulted the triumph tribal figures with regional affiliations after the boycott of most political parties. This brought to public debate the questions of maintain the long-established balance between the several socio-political structures in the political life in Jordan. While the speech can be perceived as a reflection of King Hussein’s vision about ‘Jordanian democracy’, it can also be interpreted as an elaborate scheme to construct the conventional understanding of the exceptionality of Jordan and its socio-political institutions; including democracy. This article discusses the representation of ‘Jordanian democracy’, the state, and the socio-political structures in Jordan as reflected in the Late King’s last speech from the throne (1997). The analytical framework follows a critical metaphor analysis perspective in which all instances of metaphors used to epitomise these issues are primarily acknowledged from there sociocultural context. Herein, the article focuses on revealing the aspect of metaphorical language by which the Late King Hussein legitimizes and, hence, constructs, the prevailing ideology pf the ‘exceptionality’ of Jordan.

Scriptural, Essenic, and Mishnaic Approaches to Civil Law and Government: Some Comparative Remarks

1980 ◽  
Vol 73 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 419-434
Author(s):  
Jacob Neusner
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Or Organization

Even when a division draws heavily upon the facts of Scripture, as does Mishnah's division of Damages, the framers and organi resort to Scripture's theory of what is to be done with those facts. The scriptural data, while essential, simply are incidental to the formation and theory of the Mishnaic system. In no way do the theories of substance or organization of scriptural law-codes impress the framers of Mishnah, who choose their own outline to make their own points. What is further to be seen is that, when we compare the systemic constructions of another Israelite group of approximately the same time and the same place, in this instance, the Essene community represented by the so-called Damascus Covenant, which provides considerable information on the political structures envisaged in its community, we gain a measure of insight.

‘Tumult among the Nations’ (Psalm 2:1)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Márkus
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Early National ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Psalm 2 ◽  
Christian Society

Following the collapse of Roman imperial rule in Britain, a considerable amount of romanitas remained in the local communities: there was some Latin writing and a degree of spoken Latin in some parts of Scotland; a sense among a now Christian society that their faith made them Romani. It is during this period that various polities begin to appear with more clarity. Bede – a hugely important source for our period – offers a picture of Gaels, Britons, Picts and Angles with their own languages and political structures, which he seeks to explain by reference to a ‘migration-and-settlement’ view of ethnogenesis. But closer examination reveals a much more complex, fragmentary and fluid pattern of ethnic and political identity. The chapter traces some of the key conflicts and alliances, defeats and conquests, and the political processes out of which early national entities emerged, and how some of these nations (particularly the Picts) identified themselves. Chief among the transformations of this period is the gradual Gaelicisation of eastern Scotland or Pictland.

Unrecognised Reality

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-275
Author(s):  
Laurence Broers
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Strategic Integration ◽  
Political Structures

This chapter examines the unrecognized entity, or ‘de facto state’, that has emerged and survived in Nagorny Karabakh since 1991. The chapter begins by examining the polarised portrayals of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) as either a vibrant self-determining state or the puppet of an occupying power. The chapter then examines the political structures and institutions of the NKR, before then examining its political economy. It argues that the NKR is a political formation characterised by strategic integration with Armenia and tactical expressions of independent sovereignty. The chapter then examines the scope of democratisation in the entity, and the challenges posed by its layered geographies and the emergence of new human geographies within them.

scholarly journals Pouvoirs locaux et organisation du territoire des cités pinéniciennes sous l'Empire perse achéménide

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josette Elayi
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Persian Period ◽  
Persian Empire ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
City States

Este articula trata de las ciudades fenicias y de la organizaciôn de sus territorios durante el Edad del Hierro lll/Perfodo Persa (del s. vi al s. iv a.C). Una descripciôn geogrâfica de las ciudades-estados fenicias es propuesta segûn la documentaciàn conocida actualmente. Las estructuras social-politicas de estas ciudades son estudiadas y caracterizadas en comparaciôn con los otros estados del Prôximo Oriente y con las ciudades griegas contemporâneas (poleis). Se trata también de la situaciôn de las ciudades fenicias en el cuadro politico del imperio perso, en particular de las relaciones entre el gobierno central y los gobiernos locales autónomos.This paper deals witfi the Ptioenician local powers and the organization of tfieir territories during the Iran Age lll/Persian Period (vith-ivth B.C.). A geograpfiical description of the Phoenician city-states is proposed from the présent state of documentation. The socio-political structures of thèse cities are studied and characterized in comparison with the neighbouring Near Eastern states and the contemporaneous Greek cities (poleis). The place of the Phoenician cities in the political framework of the Persian empire is aiso analysed, in particular the relations between the central power and the local autonomous powers.

The Reformation and the Establishment of Lutheranism in the Holy Roman Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Whaley
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
General Population ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
The Political ◽  
Charles V ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
The Church

Martin Luther was a subject of the Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire. His emergence as a reformer was made possible by the sponsorship he received in Wittenberg. He owed his survival to the protection afforded him by the Elector when Emperor Charles V outlawed him and ordered that the papal ban of excommunication be enforced in the empire. The audience to which Luther appealed was the general population of German Christians, both lay and ecclesiastical, who wanted a reform of the church and the reduction of the pope’s influence over it. That his appeal resonated so widely and so profoundly had much to do with a combination of crises that had developed in the empire from the 15th century. That his reform proposals resulted in the formation of a new church owed everything to the political structures of the empire. These facilitated the suppression of radical challenges to Luther’s position. They also thwarted every effort Charles V made over several decades to ensure that the empire remained Catholic. Lutheranism became entwined with the idea of German liberty; as a result, its survival was secured in the constitution of the empire, first in 1555 and then in 1648.

Macau martyr or Portuguese traitor? The Macanese communities of Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Portuguese nation

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (262) ◽  
pp. 754-768
Author(s):  
Catherine S Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
English Language ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Asian Community ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Print Capitalism

Abstract This article rethinks a Luso-Asian community that existing literature has termed ‘Portuguese’ or ‘Macanese’ by exploring the differences between the Macanese communities of Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It examines inter-port debates between 1926 and 1929 that triggered wide discussion in Portuguese and English-language newspapers regarding the political loyalty of the Macanese. Set against the framework of a burgeoning print capitalism and vibrant associational culture in Asia’s port-cities, the article argues that varying urban circumstances and political structures influenced the negotiation of the Macanese between imperial, civic and colonial identities to eventually construct three new imagined communities.

The Political Economy of Federalism

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 994-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Chubb
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Federal Grants ◽  
Federal Grant ◽  
White House ◽  
Grant Programs ◽  
Fiscal Behavior ◽  
Principal Agent Model ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Impact

This article introduces a theoretical framework and an econometric methodology for analyzing the increasingly important effects of the national government on the federal system. The framework is a synthesis of the dominant political and economic approaches to this issue: it attempts to capture key elements of the complex political and administrative processes that implementation research has identified in contemporary federalism, and to exploit formal models of local fiscal choice used to analyze the impact of federal grants on state and local spending and taxing. The vehicle for the synthesis is a principal-agent model which represents the federal system as a formal hierarchy extending from Congress and the president to subnational bureaucrats. An econometric analysis of two major federal grant programs in each state for the years, 1965-1979, demonstrates that 1) economic models alone cannot explain the effects of federal grants on subnational fiscal behavior; politics must be included, and 2) the political effects can be disaggregated into ideological and constituency-oriented demands made by Congress and the White House on federal grant agencies.

The Closing Triangle: Critical Notes on a Model for Peasant Mobilization in Latin America

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Singelmann
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Multiple Power ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Critical Notes

Students of contemporary campesino movements in Latin America have their analyses generally focused on two problem-complexes. One of these entails the macro-structural changes of the larger society within which campesino movements develop. Such changes are represented by the gradual imposition of the nation-state over the more remote regions of the countries, the concomitant decline in the geographic, political, and economic isolation of these remote areas, the emergence of ‘multiple-power domains’ within which ascending groups challenge the political brokerage monopolies of the traditional large landholders over the campesinos within their domains, and the development of clientelistic political structures within which campesino followings become attractive power resources for politicians at the regional and national level.

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