scholarly journals The Ballad of Bourg-Madame: Memory, Exile, and the Spanish Republican Refugees of the Retirada of 1939

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharif Gemie
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Road

This paper analyses the experience of the Spanish Republican refugees who left Catalonia in the Retirada of January and February 1939. The first section – “the Road to Bourg-Madame” – considers issues of interpretation raised by the refugees' texts: it discusses historiography, the politics of memory, and political culture. In “Bourg-Madame”, the second section, the essay considers the refugees' experiences. It discusses previous patterns of Spanish migration, the decision-making process that preceded the refugees' journey, group identity formation during the Retirada, the gendered dimension of their experiences, the despair felt by many on arrival in France and the reception that the refugees met. The paper ends by discussing the surprising resilience of the refugees.

How did adoption become a dirty word? Indigenous citizenship orders as Irreconcilable Spaces of Aboriginality

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
Kahente Horn-Miller
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Indigenous Child ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Colonial Order ◽  
Community Decision

In the fall of 2016, the Kahnawà:ke Community Decision Making Process revised the Kahnawà:ke Law on Membership regarding adoption. It was decided that any non-Indigenous child adopted by a Kahnawà:ke family after 2003 would not be recognized as a Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawà:ke or an approved resident. Parents were committing an offense in adopting non-Indigenous children and would no longer be eligible to reside in Kahnawà:ke. This decision drew national and international attention, with some questioning the logic of targeting a practice so integral to many Indigenous legal orders. This article frames Rotinonhsiónni adoption, belonging, and identity formation beyond the confines of colonial thought. This might seem like a tall order given colonialism’s all-encompassing grasp on Indigenous minds and communities; indeed, we are all entangled in the colonial order. But there is a way to challenge this by moving beyond frameworks reliant on colonial control.

Political Culture and Legislative Gridlock

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONGRYN MO
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Korean Economy

This article argues that political gridlock in Korea was responsible for the defeat of many economic reform efforts before the economic crisis. Successful and timely economic reforms would have made the Korean economy less vulnerable to the economic crisis. The persistence of political gridlock can be attributed to the immature or unconsolidated nature of Korean democracy, including weak democratic institutions and traditional political values and practices. With a model of policy gridlock in the context of the Korean decision-making process, the article attempts to link Korean political culture and institutions to the occurrence of policy gridlock.

Network-Level Application of Roads Economic Decision Model in Nicaragua

2003 ◽  
Vol 1819 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Archondo-Callao ◽  
Douglas Méndez Talavera ◽  
Lubina Cantarero Zeas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Surplus ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Unpaved Roads ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
The Road ◽  
Low Volume Roads ◽  
Low Volume ◽  
Poverty Indicators

A network-level application of the Roads Economic Decision (RED) model in Nicaragua is presented. The RED model was developed by the World Bank to improve the decision-making process for development and maintenance of low-volume roads. The model adopts the consumer surplus approach to estimate transport benefits and is customized to the characteristics of low-volume roads, such as the high uncertainty in the assessment of the model inputs, the difficulties in characterizing the road condition of unpaved roads, and the need for a comprehensive analysis of generated traffic to clearly define all accrued benefits. The network-level application was designed to define a rational maintenance and improvement program for a network of secondary unpaved roads with particular attention to the alternative of improving the network by surfacing roads with concrete blocks and to include in the decision-making process not only economic considerations but also poverty indicators and priorities perceived by local administrators.

De invloed van de milieubeweging op het milieubeleid : Neo-corporatisme of culturele vernieuwing ?

Res Publica ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Marc Hooghe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
National Level ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Advisory Committees ◽  
The Public ◽  
Direct Pressure

An analysis of recent environmental legislation in Belgium (Flanders) shows that only small part of it originated from direct pressure by the environmental movement. Although in recent years environmental groups were admitted to a number of advisory committees, this did not really made them a more powerful politica!l orce. Four reasons can be given for this relative weakness: 1) like all new social movements, the movement bas a weak organisational structure; 2) it's focus is on local disturbances to the environment; 3) it's disruptive potential is limited, especially on the national level; 4) it has little format access to the decision making process. The main consequence of it's activities is an innovation of political culture. The movement is succesful in defining and constructing environmental problems, and forcing them on the public and political agenda, but it lacks the power to steer the decision making process on the issues it has created.

The Persistence of Political Community, 1795–1799

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Owen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Jay Treaty ◽  
The Right ◽  
Gubernatorial Election

This chapter analyses Pennsylvanian and American politics in the late 1790s, focusing particularly on the Jay Treaty debates, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Fries Rebellion, and the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1799 (a key precursor to the Adams–Jefferson election of 1800). In each episode, Pennsylvanians adopted a different set of political practices, all nevertheless predicated on some form of representative action. In all these episodes, Pennsylvanians argued the right of popular political engagement did not end at election time, but instead was a continuous factor that should shape the governmental decision-making process. The outpouring of popular political activism in a variety of forms underscored the importance of a participatory political culture that could be seen to represent the people as a whole.

Sectional mapping of local roads in Spain

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1200-1209
Author(s):  
Angel Ibeas ◽  
Hernan Gonzalo_Orden ◽  
Luigi Dell’Olio ◽  
Jose Luis Moura
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
The Road ◽  
Local Roads ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Low Volume ◽  
Road Segments

The management of any road network can be improved by gathering information about the different road segments that form it. Geographic information systems (GISs) can be used to map and manipulate the large amount of information collected. This helps managers in their analysis of the network and in the decision-making processes. This article explains the development and practical use of the latest mapping carried out on the local roads in the region of Cantabria in northern Spain. The aim of the current study was to perform a thorough analysis of the characteristics of each segment of the road network to update and restructure the existing mapping. A geographic information system (GIS) was used for consulting and analyzing the data obtained now and over previous years. Moreover, the ways this information could be used in the decision-making process were improved for a regional road network which has, in general, a low volume of traffic.

scholarly journals A INFLUÊNCIA DAS SOCIALIZAÇÕES NO PROCESSO DECISÓRIO DE MULHERES EMPREENDEDORAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Ananda Silveira Bacelar ◽  
Almiralva Ferraz Gomes ◽  
Weslei Gusmão Piau Santana ◽  
Robson Amaral Santos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Family

RESUMOA dinâmica identitária de gênero atrelada ao desenvolvimento crescente dos empreendimentos geridos por mulheres orienta a compreensão das mudanças comportamentais da contemporaneidade. Este trabalho, portanto, tem como objetivo analisar de que modo a formação identitária de empreendedoras que atuam no segmento de educação infantil, em Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, interfere no processo de tomada de decisões dessas mulheres. Considerou-se, portanto, as socializações que ocorreram ao longo da vida das gestoras. A partir de uma análise qualitativa, analisou-se o caso de dez empreendedoras através da realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas. O estudo demonstrou que a percepção das entrevistadas em torno da construção de suas identidades como mulheres foi marcada pela influência das socializações que tiveram, principalmente no âmbito familiar. Ademais, foi identificado um perfil de gestão feminino marcado por características como intuição, sensibilidade e flexibilidade de relacionamento. Desse modo, concluiu-se que as representações sociais de gênero definem padrões comportamentais para mulheres que influenciam a escolha do segmento de atuação e o processo decisório.Palavras-chave: Gênero. Identidade. Decisão. ABSTRACTThe gender identity dynamics linked to the growing development of enterprises managed by women guides the understanding of contemporary behavioral changes. This work, therefore, aims to analyze how the identity formation of female entrepreneurs working in the early childhood education segment, in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, interferes in the decision-making process of these women. Therefore, the socializations that occurred throughout the life of the managers were considered. From a qualitative analysis, the case of ten women entrepreneurs was analyzed through semi-structured interviews. The study showed that the interviewees' perception of the construction of their identities as women was marked by the influence of the socializations they had, especially in the family context. In addition, a female management profile was identified, marked by characteristics such as intuition, sensitivity and relationship flexibility. Thus, it was concluded that social representations of gender define behavioral patterns for women that influence the choice of the segment of activity and the decision-making process.Keywords: Genre. Identity. Decision.

scholarly journals Decision-Making Processes Underlying Pedestrian Behaviors at Signalized Crossing: Part 1. The First to Step off the Kerb

Safety ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pelé ◽  
Deneubourg ◽  
Sueur
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Temporal Discounting ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Risk Sensitivity ◽  
The Road ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Rule Breaking

Pedestrians are ideal subjects for the study of decision-making, due to the inter-individual variation in risk taking. Many studies have attempted to understand which environmental factors influence the number of times pedestrians broke the rules at road-crossings, very few focused on the decision-making process of pedestrians according to the different conditions of these variables, that is to say their perception and interpretation of the information they receive. We used survival analyses and modeling to highlight the decision-making process of pedestrians crossing the road at signalized crossings in France and in Japan. For the first pedestrians to step off the kerb, we showed that the probability to cross the road follows three different processes: one at the red signal, one just before the pedestrian signal turns green, and one after the signal has turned green. Globally, the decision of the first pedestrian to cross, whether he or she does so at the green or at the red signal, is influenced by their country of residence. We identify the use of cognitive processes such as risk sensitivity and temporal discounting, and propose new concepts based on the results of this study to decrease the incidence of rule-breaking by pedestrians.

The Road to Desert Storm

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raanan Lipshitz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Escalation Of Commitment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Operation Desert Storm ◽  
President Bush

Analysis of escalation of commitment is used to highlight the differences between two paradigms in the study of decision making. The rational paradigm proposes that escalation is a dysfunctional response to failure (Staw and Ross 1987). A single-option paradigm, developed in this paper, proposes that it is a necessary response to uncertainty which may, but not necessarily, result in failure. Analysis of the decision-making process of President Bush prior to Operation Desert Storm highlights the differences between the two paradigms and demonstrates how they provide different interpretations and evaluations of a given decision process.

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