The International Boxing Union (1913–1946): A European Sports and/or Political Failure?

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (17) ◽  
pp. 2016-2030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Loudcher ◽  
Dave Day
Keyword(s):  
Political Failure

Rwanda: the Political Failure of the UN Security Council

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Ambassador Colin Keating
Keyword(s):  
Security Council ◽  
The Political ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Political Failure

This article discusses the role of the UN Security Council during the crisis in Rwanda in 1993/94. It focuses on the peacekeeping dimensions of the Council’s involvement. It is a perspective from a practitioner, rather than an academic. It also makes some observations about whether the Rwanda crisis has had an enduring influence on Security Council practice. It does not address the impact on practical aspects of peacekeeping or on the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

Self-deception as the root of political failure

Public Choice ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 124 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 437-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Cowen
Keyword(s):  
Political Failure

Global Warming and Political Failure

2006 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Peter McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Political Failure

A Natural Centre-Left Majority?

Politics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Robin Gray
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Core ◽  
Post War ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Failure

This article concerns the relationship between policy and voter elasticity on either side of the political spectrum as an explanation of the left's post-war political failure. The core contention is that left-oriented voters are more responsive to slight deviations in policy. This is used to explain partially Labour's post-war failure to dominate power even when the ‘left's vote’ was over 50 per cent.

Who has been a successful public intellectual?

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Collins
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Stringent Criterion ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Political Failure

A stringent criterion for a public intellectual is proposed: persons who are simultaneously major creative intellectuals, and successful political leaders. Using data from the careers of 2700 philosophers throughout world history, and social scientists in recent centuries, the article concludes that three kinds of political failure by intellectuals are prominent: (1) failure to attain political office; (2) failure while in office; and (3) failure of political influence from adoption of one’s ideas. On the whole, major intellectuals are not good at politics; and politicians do not make outstanding intellectuals. The skills and pressures of the two spheres are too different.

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