Information-giving: an approach for contemporary practice

Scholars and practicioners of public administration have been skeptical of new theories that seem long on rhetoric but short on practical application. This essay examines coupling the theory of servant leadership with the contemporary practice of community policing. Its purpose is to reveal points of linkage, highlight places of conflict and dissension, and illuminate the praxis dilemma that often accompanies the convergence of ideas with the professional practice of public administration.

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Exhausted Commodities: The Material Culture of Music

Canadian Journal of Communication ◽

10.22230/cjc.2000v25n1a1148 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Will Straw

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Material Culture ◽

Economic Value ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Digital Information ◽

Contemporary Practice ◽

Flea Market ◽

Musical Styles

Abstract: The twentieth century ended with the widespread conversion of cultural artefacts into digital information. Less attention has been granted to the ways in which cultural artefacts accumulate in the form of "things"-tangible books, recordings, and other objects whose economic value has often withered. This article examines the question of cultural waste and looks at those commercial and social institutions (such as the flea market and garage sale) which have evolved in order to keep old cultural commodities circulating. The recycling of old musical styles within contemporary practice is examined as one means of retrieving and revalorizing cultural waste. Résumé: La transposition massive d'artefacts culturels sous forme digitale a marqué la fin du 20e siècle. En revanche, on a porté moins d'attention à l'accumulation de ces artefacts sous forme de «choses»-livres, enregistrements et autres objets matériaux dont la valeur marchande a fortement diminué dans bien des cas. Cet article examine la question de détritus culturels, et jette un regard sur les institutions commerciales et sociales (telles que le marché aux puces et la vente de garage) qui ont évolué afin de garder les vieux biens culturels en circulation. En outre, l'article examine le recyclage d'anciens styles musicaux dans la pratique contemporaine, à titre d'exemple de récupération et de remise en valeur de détritus culturels.

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Reason of State/State of Reason

10.1093/oso/9780198810223.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Loughlin

Keyword(s):

Legal Reasoning ◽

Modern State ◽

Political World ◽

Constitutional State ◽

Distinct Category ◽

Reason Of State ◽

History Of ◽

Constitutional Legality ◽

Fundamental Law ◽

Contemporary Practice

This chapter examines the history of political-legal reasoning. It suggests that this history begins in the Renaissance with the emergence of a doctrine of ‘reason of state’, a doctrine which was widely debated between the late-sixteenth and early-eighteenth centuries but remained contentious throughout. It argues that reason of state continued to exert an influence in the modern political world, but that that influence is complicated by changes in the nature and forms of government. Most importantly, the modern state presents itself as a constitutional state and once the constitution is established as ‘fundamental law’, whatever remains of reason of state discourse is subsumed under the idea of ‘constitutional legality’. Consequently, those elements of the doctrine that live on in contemporary practice no longer fall into a distinct category of reason of state; they have become a facet of the emergence of the modern ‘state of reason’.

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Part I: Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780198821946.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Tilman Rodenhäuser

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Civil War ◽

Basic Principle ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

International Humanitarian Law ◽

Humanitarian Law ◽

Laws Of War ◽

Connected Group ◽

The Individual ◽

Contemporary Practice

Analysing the development of the concept of non-state parties to an armed conflict from the writings of philosophers in the eighteenth century through international humanitarian law (IHL) treaty law to contemporary practice, three threads can be identified. First, as pointed out by Rousseau almost two and a half centuries ago, one basic principle underlying the laws of war is that war is not a relation between men but between entities. Accordingly, the lawful objective of parties cannot be to harm opponents as individuals but only to overcome the entity for which the individual fights. This necessitates that any party to an armed conflict is a collective, organized entity and not a loosely connected group of individuals. Second, de Vattel already stressed that civil war is fought between two parties who ‘acknowledge no common judge’ and have no ‘common superior’ on earth....

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Health, Illness, and Disease

10.1093/oso/9780199370818.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

J. Donald Boudreau ◽

Eric J. Cassell ◽

Abraham Fuks

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Practice Of Medicine ◽

Definition Of ◽

Contemporary Practice ◽

Illness And Disease ◽

Negative Sense

This introduction discusses traditional meanings of the following concepts: health, sickness, disease, suffering, and healing. The point is made that “disease” is an abstract phenomenon, albeit one that is critically important to the contemporary practice of medicine. Unfortunately, the term disease has often come to occupy the center of physicians’ preoccupations. Currently, health is considered in a negative sense, as an “absence of disease.” This chapter proposes a new and bold definition of sickness, one that revolves around the notion of function. This opens up possibilities for the goals of physicians and for medical education to be truly person centered.

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