The Politics of the Pill: Looking Forward

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Rachel VanSickle-Ward ◽  
Kevin Wallsten
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
To Come ◽  
In The Beginning

Chapter 10 synthesizes the empirical evidence presented in preceding chapters and explains the significance of these findings for women’s voices in political debate more broadly. More specifically, this chapter marshals the data described in chapters 2 through 9 to answer the three central questions posed in the beginning book: Who speaks? What do they say? Does it matter? This chapter argues that the presence or absence of female politicians, reporters, activists, and judges has dramatic consequences for the timing, tone, and trajectory of public debates and policy outcomes on birth control. Additionally, this chapter considers how lingering debates over contraception coverage, and the persistent disparities in who speaks and who is heard, will inform our expectations about gender and politics in the years to come.

3. Professor Forbes then read the following Letter from Professor Gordon, of Glasgow, on the subject of the Viscous Theory of Glaciers.

1851 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 19-20
Author(s):  
Lewis Gordon
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
In The Beginning

When you requested me to give you a memorandum of what appeared to me to be thevery glacier-like motionand appearance of Stockholm pitch flowing from a barrel, I considered my observation to have been too casual to be worth writing, and having foreseen that I could arrange an experiment at Gateshead in the beginning of the year, I delayed giving you the memorandum you wished. I had hoped to have been able to inspect and report on my experiment about this time; but I cannot go to Gateshead for some time to come, nor have I had any report of the progress of my pitch glacier since the 6th January, when I was informed it had not moved since the day after I left it, on the 28th December. Your note of yesterday induces me to offer you the following still perfectly vivid impressions of the analogy betweeniceandStockholm pitch.

scholarly journals What’s to Come of All This Tracking “Who We Are”? The Intelligence Example

2021 ◽  
pp. 096372142110538
Author(s):  
Wendy Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
New World ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
To Come

Increasingly, we are required, encouraged, and/or motivated to track our behavior, presumably to improve our life “quality.” But health and life-satisfaction trends are not cooperating: Empirical evidence for success is sorely lacking. Intelligence has been tracked for more than 100 years; perhaps this example offers some hints about tracking’s overall social impact. I suggest that Huxley’s Brave New World offers a relevant long-term extrapolation and that popular recent tracking activities will accelerate “progress” in that dystopian direction.

scholarly journals POTENSI BUBUR ASE SEBAGAI DAYA TARIK WISATA KULINER JAKARTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Lila Muliani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Soy Sauce ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
To Come ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Year 2000

Food and tourism can not be separated. Travellers will always need food to fill his stomach. However, trend of culinary tourism which begun to be popular in the beginning of the year 2000 has come to the definition that food is not only something to satisfy someones’ hunger. Traditional food of one destination could become an attraction to motivate tourists to come.Jakarta as the capital city that never stop welcoming tourists – domestic and abroad - to come, has many potential culinary attractions. Unfortunately,until today, traditinal food of Betawi - Jakarta people – that is known by people are very limited in number. The delightfull of Betawi cuisine is not yet being tourist attractions.This study was conducted to analyze Bubur Ase, one of Betawi cuisine, to become a culinary attractions for tourist to come. This special dish is very unique since it is a mixture of porridge, beef stew in sweet soy sauce, and vegetable pickles. The taste is different from another porridge that is already famous. This qualitative research uses primary data from observations, FGD, and in depth interview with Betawi culinary experts. SWOT analysis is used to get a whole picture of internal and external factors that is affected Bubur Ase.The resulf of the study shows that Bubur Ase is potential to become an attractiom for culinaru tourism in Jakarta. The uniqueness and harmonization of taste, historical stories, cultural values and philosophies in a bowl of Bubur Ase are the strenghts that can be developed and promoted. Some weaknesses and threats could be overcome if this dish is already popular.

scholarly journals A Seat at the Table or a Power Seat: The Impact of Simple Representation Versus Power Representation of Women in Government on Funding for Primary Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p48
Author(s):  
Pearl E. Sullivan ◽  
Cassandra E. DiRienzo
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Federal Spending ◽  
Simple Representation ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Impact

Scholars have repeatedly shown that female politicians focus more on common good issues such as health care and education than their male counterparts. When men hold the majority of positions of political power these issues may not be raised for debate within government even if women are present. Using a cross-country dataset, this research examines the impact of women in government on public spending on primary education. Specifically, it explores whether it is enough for women to be represented in government, or if they must have a position of power to effect policy outcomes. The analysis results indicate that both women’s simple representation and power representation are significantly positively correlated with increases in federal spending on primary education; however, when women hold positions of political power there is a greater impact on funding than when they simply hold a seat in the legislature.

The Word ‘Palstave’

Antiquity ◽  
1931 ◽  
Vol 5 (19) ◽  
pp. 322-329
Author(s):  
T. D. Kendrick
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Base Word ◽  
The Public ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
To Come ◽  
Good Word ◽  
In The Beginning

I Suppose we are all agreed that ‘Celt’ is not a particularly brilliant name for a stone or bronze axe, even though we continue to use it. It survives, of course, not on its merits, but because we really do need a word other than ‘axe’ to denote these narrowedged prehistoric tools, and ‘Celt’ is at present the only substitute we have. We might, I mean, abolish the name Celt if only Celts looked a little more like axes; but we cannot, because there are many people in this world who do not like an axe to be called an axe unless it is the sort of axe they are accustomed to; whereas if you call a not easily recognizable axe a ‘Celt’ and make rather a fuss about explaining that you mean by this a prehistoric axe, then these same people will probably thank you very much indeed and say that it is all most interesting. In other words we keep on talking and writing about Celts because the public like the word; it is, after all, short and sweet, easy to remember, and devastatingly incomprehensible to the uninitiated. I feel that it is necessary for us to put up with ‘Celt’, and I am only remarking here that we know it is a base word of miserable, mistaken coinage. I ask simply that we do not pretend to ourselves that it is a good word on the grounds that it is oldestablished and familiar; it was a bad word in the beginning and it always will be a bad word, despite its now considerable antiquity and frequent use. Lots and lots of blacks do not make a white, not even if the oldest black is 18th century black.In addition to this name ‘Celt’ which we apply to most of our stone and bronze axes, we also have the group-name ‘palstave’ to distinguish the members of a particular species of the Celt genus. It is a very useful word and I do not think we could do without it, for though we can talk about ‘flat Celts’, ‘flanged Celts’, and ‘winged Celts’, no one has yet succeeded in substituting a snappy descriptive name like these for the palstave-variety of Celt. I should not dream, therefore, of suggesting that we get rid of ‘palstave’ and, indeed, I have myself a considerable affection for this curious word; but as so few of us know what it means or why it is the name of the prehistoric implements concerned, something may profitably be said about its history. That the word happens to come rather badly out of the enquiry is not, of course, my fault.

scholarly journals The Marginal Voter’s Curse*

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helios Herrera ◽  
Aniol Llorente-Saguer ◽  
Joseph C McMurray
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Rare Event ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Knife Edge ◽  
Equilibrium Behavior ◽  
Marginal Impact

Abstract The swing voter’s curse is useful for explaining patterns of voter participation, but arises because voters restrict attention to the rare event of a pivotal vote. Recent empirical evidence suggests that electoral margins influence policy outcomes, even away from the 50% threshold. If so, voters should also pay attention to the marginal impact of a vote. Adopting this assumption, we find that a marginal voter’s curse gives voters a new reason to abstain, to avoid diluting the pool of information. The two curses have similar origins and exhibit similar patterns, but the marginal voter’s curse is both stronger and more robust. In fact, the swing voter’s curse turns out to be knife-edge: in large elections, a model with both pivotal and marginal considerations and a model with marginal considerations alone generate identical equilibrium behavior.

Apollo at the Back of the North Wind

1925 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rendel Harris
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Primeval Forest ◽  
The North ◽  
North Wind ◽  
Unexplored Area ◽  
To Come ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Eastern Baltic

There are not many of the occupations of primitive man in Europe that have continued to the present day. The beasts that he hunted have, for the most part, disappeared: the elk and the mammoth are in the museum; the weapons which he employed in his pursuit of them must be sought for in the same quarter; if we were suddenly to come upon him in some unexplored area, his speech would be almost as unintelligible to us as the cry of a monkey, or the shriek of a sea-bird. But there is one primitive pursuit that is still being carried on almost unchanged. On the shores and in the shallows of the Eastern Baltic sea men are still searching and dredging for the exudations of the primeval forest which go under the name of amber. It was ornament and amulet in the beginning, it is a desirable decoration to-day; at one time almost an equivalent of the precious metals, and perhaps in earlier esteem than they, and not destitute of magical influences, as well as of commercial worth; it stands now, as then, with coral and with pearls, as a thing greatly to be desired.

scholarly journals At komme til magten - magt, køn og kønnede aktører i det politiske felt

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Lis Højgaard
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Political Hierarchy ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Praxis ◽  
Gender Specific

Obtaining Power – power, gender and gendered actors in the political arena The gendering of politics in Denmark is no longer manifested in large differences in representation in important political positions or in unambiguous gender specific ways of doing politics or of climbing the political hierarchy. A discourse analysis of interviews with top male and female politicians shows that gender and political are woven together in multifarious ways, while revealing gendered patterns in discursive practices. There are no sharp differences in male and female politicians’ discourses on doing politics, on obtaining top positions in the political hierarchy or on gender and politics. Gendered patterns appear in the way male and female politicians combine discourses on how to get power and in their discourses on the meaning of gender in politics. The interviews revealed three discourses on how to get power: the fight, the party community and the personal stake. These represent distinct ways of characterizing the processes involved in becoming politically powerful. The interviews also revealed two main discourses on the meaning of gender: gender as an explicitly important dimension of political praxis, and gender as unimportant in relation to political praxis. The gendered agents combine these discourses in different ways, which opens different spaces of action and nego-tiation as well as different possibilities for positioning in the political field, possibilities that are reflected by a meta-discourse expressing processes of inclusion and exclusion in the field of politics.

scholarly journals How can Europe tackle the three employment challenges: the digital, the climate and the pandemic transition?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Kenneth Abrahamsson ◽  
Allan Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Content Quality ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Transition Mechanism ◽  
To Come ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Climate Transition

Abstract Never before in modern times has Working Europe been faced with such a fundamental and far-reaching transition pressure. We are in the beginning of two powerful transition processes, the innovation-driven digital transformation, and the policy-driven climate transition. On the top of these processes we are now facing a pandemic-driven restructuring of important sectors of our economies. Are our labour market regimes and policies fit for these challenges? Are we finally witnessing “the end of work” and an extended period of being Left Behind? Or can we build up capacities to deal with these three fundamental challenges? In this paper the authors discuss these issues based on the most recent labour market research and statistics and present some preliminary conclusions on the new forms of transition mechanism, and the scaling-up of European and national labour market transition policies as part of the Next Europe recovery strategy. It is not easy to predict the content, quality and volume of a skill development needs caused by the triple challenge of climate change, digitalisation, and Covid-19. We suggest, however, that the EU Commission should develop a transition capacity indicator corresponding to at least one fifth of the labour force and to recommend new springboards and bridges to work for the next years to come. We are convinced that this is the most productive and profitable investment Europe can do. Keywords: Digitalisation, climate change, green deal, Covid-19, just transition, skill gap

Does the Universe Suggest Design, Purpose, Goodness, or Concern?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Steane
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Random Fluctuation ◽  
Design Purpose ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Claim ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Universe

This chapter tackles the question of whether or not the natural world presents us with a picture empty of purpose or good or evil or concern. No empirical evidence can entirely refute the claim that random fluctuation is the complete truth about the origin of all things, but it follows that this is not a scientific claim. Therefore it is a question of forming a reasonable judgement. It appears that the natural world has a depth and richness that exceeds what would be necessary for thinking brains to come to be realized in it. Also, notwithstanding the pain of the world, it is a project that merits our engagement and commitment, and occasionally the transcendent breaks in. We are not competent to make an overall judgement, but we can join in with the creative process of the world and find our role.

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