scholarly journals Identity, obedience and individual effort: virtues for a pandemic and an Olympic year

2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (7) ◽  
pp. 335-335
Author(s):  
Kamran Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Individual Effort

scholarly journals Efficiency Advantages and Incentive Mechanism of PPPs: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis under the Chinese Scenario

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Dong ◽  
Yali Du ◽  
Xianhua Wu
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
Allocation Efficiency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Effort ◽  
Bidding Process

Based on the PPP efficiency system which consists of allocation efficiency, process efficiency, and individual efficiency, we use qualitative comparison analysis of fuzzy sets to study the efficiency advantages of the public-private partnership under the Chinese scenario. The findings are as follows: (1) like public-private partnerships, Chinese-style PPPs have also failed to achieve cooperation. (2) High allocation efficiency can be achieved if competition in bidding processes can be ensured; when bidding procedures cannot be guaranteed to compete, alternatives to high allocation efficiency are either privatized or allocated directly to enterprises that can enable economies of scale; individual effort is a source of allocation efficiency. (3) Competition and economies of scale are necessary conditions for high process efficiency. The private sector’s ownership of assets is a sufficient condition for high process efficiency. (4) High individual efficiency can be achieved if individual efforts can be ensured, and high individual efficiency can also be achieved by the competition of bidding procedures or economies of scale when it is impossible to ensure high levels of individual effort. Privatization is the perfect incentive for high individual efficiency when the competition in the bidding process, individual efforts, and economies of scale cannot be guaranteed.

Telling a poormanhe can become rich: Reparative therapy in contemporary Poland

Sexualities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 44-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Mikulak
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
The Self ◽  
Reparative Therapy ◽  
Sexual Reorientation ◽  
Reorientation Therapy ◽  
Individual Effort

This article investigates the practice of sexual reorientation therapy, or reparative therapy (RT), in contemporary Poland. Focusing on three groups – Odwaga (Courage), Pomoc 2002 (Help 2002) and Pascha (Passover) – and informed by interviews with their past participants, it examines the ways in which RT in Poland is gendered, as well as investigating the individualizing and self-responsibilizing understandings of the self it rests on. This article then demonstrates how the neoliberal ideas of selfhood permeate the practice of RT, mobilizing the tropes of individual effort and responsibility for the reorientation of one’s sexual desire, obscuring the inherent inequality on which the practice is based.

Applications to Economics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob K. Goeree ◽  
Charles A. Holt ◽  
Thomas R. Palfrey
Keyword(s):  
Nash Equilibrium ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Price Competition ◽  
Quantal Response ◽  
Unique Nash Equilibrium ◽  
Common Effort ◽  
The Cost ◽  
All Pay Auction ◽  
Individual Effort ◽  
Applications To Economics

This chapter explores whether the equilibrium effects of noisy behavior can cause large deviations from standard predictions in economically relevant situations. It considers a simple price-competition game, which is also partly motivated by the possibility of changing a payoff parameter that has no effect on the unique Nash equilibrium, but which may be expected to affect quantal response equilibrium. In the minimum-effort coordination game studied, any common effort in the range of feasible effort levels is a Nash equilibrium, but one would expect that an increase in the cost of individual effort or an increase in the number of players who are trying to coordinate would reduce the effort levels observed in an experiment. The chapter presents an analysis of the logit equilibrium and rent dissipation for a rent-seeking contest that is modeled as an “all-pay auction.” The final two applications in this chapter deal with auctions with private information.

Riding a Line: Competition and Cooperation in the Sport of Bicycle Racing

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Albert
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bicycle Racing ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Individual Effort ◽  
Formal Rules

The subculture of bicycle racing provides a situation in which the relationship between formal rules and dominant sport ideologies, and the taken-for-granted informal structures produced by athletes during competition, may be observed. Ethnographic and interview data suggest that such structures as pelotons and pacelines create both the opportunity for and the requirement of cooperative efforts between opponents, standing in stark contrast to more conventional conceptions of sport in which only unambiguous conflict between competitors is seen as legitimate. Here the informal norms of cooperation are central to insider definitions of the social order and are accompanied by strong sanctions for noncompliance. This cooperative informal order is seen as especially problematic for novices, as it diverges from widely held beliefs in the independence of competing units and the importance of overcoming opponents through maximum individual effort. Media coverage of the sport, in disregarding cooperative efforts, both creates and perpetuates erroneous stereotypes, making socialization into the sport more difficult.

scholarly journals The Fear of Exclusion: Individual Effort when Group Formation is Endogenous

2007 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjell Arne Brekke ◽  
Karine Nyborg ◽  
Mari Rege
Keyword(s):  
Group Formation ◽  
Individual Effort

scholarly journals Avery Brundage and American Participation in the 1936 Olympic Games

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Marvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
International Olympic Committee ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
Amateur Sport ◽  
Individual Effort

Avery Brundage liked to say that revolutionaries were not bred on the playing field. That theme neatly expressed Brundage's distrust of any challenge to the established political and social order he cherished and garnished his speeches to countless audiences during the forty years in which he was the single most powerful figure in both the American and international Olympic movements, first as president of the American Olympic Committee (1929–1953), and then as president of the International Olympic Committee (1952–1972). Although the Iron Chancellor of amateur sport regarded himself as the last true defender of the strict separation of sport and politics, he also frequently insisted that more than the future of amateur sport was at stake in shielding sport from political manipulation. Upon sport for sport's sake depended the healthy psychological valuation of individual effort and excellence that was at the very heart of a democratic way of life. Moreover, fit bodies and competitive spirits were in Brundage's view essential for the continued success of American capitalism at home and abroad. Though he never acknowledged the political coloring of his vision of the Olympics, he regarded them as a kind of international mission for spreading democratic values in the continuing ideological battle between Communism and the American way of life.Because it dramatizes victory, defeat, struggle against nature and other competitors, sport is a potent symbol constantly under pressure to lend its emotional power to other causes.

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