Organizational Supports to Sustain Intensive Family Preservation Programs

1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 463-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty J. Blythe ◽  
Elizabeth M. Tracy ◽  
Avis Kotovsky ◽  
Selma Gwatkin
Keyword(s):  
Family Preservation ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Organizational Supports ◽  
Ongoing Training ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Over Time

In response to increased funding for programs to avoid unnecessary out-of-home placements, family preservation programs are being implemented by private and public agencies. The authors identify the organizational supports that are required to sustain family preservation programs over time. These supports include ongoing training, a broad view of supervisory responsibilities, and careful attention to maintaining relationships with referring and other agencies. Future issues facing family preservation programs also are discussed.

scholarly journals Lost in Translation? Ethics and Ethnography in Design Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Z. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Naturalistic Inquiry ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Anthropological Field Work ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
Translation Ethics ◽  
Over Time

It has long been the case that ethnographic techniques have been appropriated by other disciplines. In particular, designers have employed ethnography and naturalistic inquiry in research for private and public sector client projects. As ethnographic methods have diffused to other fields questions have been raised about whether the ethical concerns that have become engrained over time in anthropological field work have carried over along with the methodology. This article explores how ethical considerations are addressed (or not) in ethnographic-style research, specifically within the field of design. A review of secondary sources and interviews with three practicing designers provide insight as to the shifts that have occurred over time within design and how these changes have impacted design research and practice, specifically in relation to ethical issues.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Staniland
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
Conflict Outcomes ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Empirical Record ◽  
Hard Place

Ethnic insurgents sometimes defect to join forces with the state during civil wars. Ethnic defection can have important effects on conflict outcomes, but its causes have been understudied. Using Sunni defection in Iraq as a theory-developing case, this article offers a theory of “fratricidal flipping” that identifies lethal competition between insurgent factions as an important cause of defection. It examines the power of the fratricidal-flipping mechanism against competing theories in the cases of Kashmir and Sri Lanka. These wars involve within-conflict variation in defection across groups and over time. A detailed study of the empirical record, including significant fieldwork, suggests that fratricide was the dominant trigger for defection, while government policy played a secondary role in facilitating pro-state paramilitarism. Deep ideological disagreements were surprisingly unimportant in driving defection. The argument is probed in other wars in Asia. The complex internal politics of insurgent movements deserve careful attention.

scholarly journals Learning from prices: information aggregation and accumulation in an asset market

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Berardi
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Dynamic Properties ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Aggregation ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Private Signals ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Can prices convey information about the fundamental value of an asset? This paper considers this problem in relation to the dynamic properties of the fundamental (whether it is constant or time-varying) and the structure of information available to agents. Risk-averse traders receive two potential signals each period: one exogenous and private and the other, prices, endogenous and public. Prices aggregate private information but include aggregate noise. Information can accumulate over time both through endogenous and exogenous signals. With a constant fundamental, the precision of both private and public cumulative information increases over time but agents put progressively more weight on the endogenous signals, asymptotically disregarding private ones. If the fundamental is time-varying, the use of past private signals complicates the role of prices as a source of information, since it introduces endogenous serial correlation in the price signal and cross-correlation between it and innovations in the fundamental. A modified version of the Kalman filter can still be used to extract information from prices and results show that the precision of the endogenous signals converges to a constant, with both private and public information used at all times.

scholarly journals ISLAM IN AND OUT: COSMOPOLITAN PATRIOTISM AND XENOPHOBIA AMONG MUSLIMS IN CÔTE D'IVOIRE

Africa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Miran-Guyon
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
National History ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTThe nativist ideology of ivoirité of the 1990s generated brutal discriminatory policies against those labelled as ‘strangers’, especially Muslims. Reversing that perspective, this article focuses on the interface between religion and national identity in twentieth-century Côte d'Ivoire from within Muslim society. The argument is divided into two parts. The first puts forward the counter-hegemonic, patriotic-cum-cosmopolitan narratives that a new Muslim leadership formulated in order to write Islam into national history. The second focuses on grass-roots, demotic, day-to-day realities. It explores Muslim takes on belonging and alienation in practice, paying careful attention to the community's internal diversity. It shows how, over time, Ivorian Muslims have showcased varying degrees of cosmopolitan patriotism but also of their own, local xenophobia. The concluding section returns to the new Muslim leadership and its multifaceted endeavours to reconcile Muslim lived experiences with their cosmopolitan patriotic aspirations. The article ends with a short epilogue surveying the violent armed conflicts of the period 2002 to 2011 and how Muslims were a part of them.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Private/Public Divide in the Times of Covid-19: How Economydriven Policies Are Reshaping the Concept of Social/Physical Distancing in Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Ivana Stepanović
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Times ◽  
Over Time

The evolution of social/physical distancing narratives throughout the COVID19 pandemic has left the concept itself ambiguous and vague while cutting through the borderlines between private and public. In the case of Serbia, economy-driven policies have shifted the focus from isolation, solitude and remote work during the first and the only lockdown towards the idea of physical distance in public spaces and work environments. This paper aims to analyse how social distancing narratives in Serbia were construed over time through governmental policies as well as companies’ regulations, and how they redefined the concept of privacy during the pandemic.

Privacy and the Workplace: Technology and Public Employment

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don A. Cozzetto ◽  
Theodore B. Pedeliski
Keyword(s):  
Drug Testing ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Employee Privacy ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
And Control

One of the most interesting, yet controversial, areas concerning public personnel is employee privacy. What limits are there to employers' intrusions into, and control over, employees' behaviors and personal properties. Claims of privacy abuse come against an employer's prerogatives in establishing workplace standards, and ensuring the efficiency of administration. There are five major areas which trigger privacy matters in the area of public sector employment: background checks, cognizance of off duty conduct and life styles, drug testing, workplace searches, and monitoring of workplace activity. Of these, the fifth, monitoring of employees in the workplace, has raised a range of new conflicts between employer and employee. The problems are particularly acute as technological advances change the nature of work, communication, and supervisory functions in private and public agencies. These conflicts open anew the basic questions as to what is private, what is proprietary, what legal rights an employee possesses, and what an employee's obligations and responsibilities are within the sphere of public employment.

Institutions, Elites, and Technological Change in France and Germany

1995 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Nicholas Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Telecommunications Network ◽  
Public Strategies ◽  
Over Time

Most comparative studies of public strategies for competitiveness focus on the links between public agencies and industrial sectors. This paper argues that the professions—or knowledge-bearing elites—that animate these organizational links are equally significant. For public policies to promote technological advance, the visions and self-images of knowledge-bearing elites are particularly important. By examining administrative and technical elites in France and Germany in the 1980s, the paper identifies characteristics that enable these elites to implement policy in some cases but not in others. France's “state-created” elites were well positioned to initiate and implement large technology projects, such as digitizing the telecommunications network. By contrast, Germany's state-recognized elites were better positioned to facilitate framework-oriented programs aimed at the diffusion of new technologies throughout industry. The linkages between administrative and technical elites also explain why French policymakers had difficulty adapting policy to changing circumstances over time, whereas German policymakers managed in many cases to learn more from previous policy experiences and to adapt subsequent initiatives accordingly.

scholarly journals Introduction to Crumbling Cultures: Deindustrialization, Class, and Memory

2013 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Strangleman ◽  
James Rhodes ◽  
Sherry Linkon
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Industrial Change ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

AbstractIn this introductory essay we review key themes in the scholarly literature on deindustrialization over the last twenty-five to thirty years. While the term deindustrialization has been in use since the early 1980s, more careful attention needs to be brought to bear on the cultural significance of industrial change over time, including on how individuals and communities reinterpret deindustrialization through the lens of memory. This essay highlights contributions that reflect multiple disciplines and approaches, including interdisciplinary work. We also argue that cultural representations such as photography, literature, the media, and personal narratives offer especially useful insights into the continuing significance of deindustrialization, giving us access to the ways people are drawing on and constructing their memories of industrial work and of the process of deindustrialization itself. This essay and the wider special issue suggest that taking a long view—from the perspective of more than two decades after major shutdowns—and examining documentary, personal, and creative representations provides important insights into the meanings and consequences of the experience of deindustrialization for individuals, communities, and nations.

scholarly journals Comparing the resident populations of private and public long-term care facilities over a 15-year period: a study from Quebec, Canada

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 2039-2052 ◽  
Author(s):  
GINA BRAVO ◽  
MARIE-FRANCE DUBOIS ◽  
NICOLE DUBUC ◽  
LOUIS DEMERS ◽  
DANIÈLE BLANCHETTE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Resident Populations ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTIn the province of Quebec, Canada, long-term residential care is provided by two types of facility: privately owned facilities in which care is privately financed and delivered and publicly subsidised accredited facilities. There are few comparative data on the residents served by the private and public sectors, and none on whether their respective population has changed over time. Such knowledge would help plan services for older adults who can no longer live at home due to increased disabilities. This study compared (a) the resident populations currently served by private and public facilities and (b) how they have evolved over time. The data come from two cross-sectional studies conducted in 1995–2000 and 2010–2012. In both studies, we randomly selected care settings in which we randomly selected older residents. In total, 451 residents from 145 settings assessed in 1995–2000 were compared to 329 residents from 102 settings assessed in 2010–2012. In both study periods, older adults housed in the private sector had fewer cognitive and functional disabilities than those in public facilities. Between the two study periods, the proportion of residents with severe disabilities decreased in private facilities while it remained over 80 per cent in their public counterparts. Findings indicate that private facilities care today for less-disabled older adults, leaving to public facilities the heavy responsibility of caring for those with more demanding needs. These trends may impact both sectors' ability to deliver proper residential care.

scholarly journals Preference of farmers towards private and public extension services

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 659-663
Author(s):  
Jasvinder Kaur ◽  
Joginder S. Malik ◽  
P. S. Shehrawat ◽  
Sushila Dahiya ◽  
Quadri Javeed Ahmed Peer
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Extension Agencies ◽  
Tick Mark

The main purpose of this study was to know the preference of farmers for different services provided by private and public extension agencies. In recent times involvement of private extension agencies has been increased in agricultural sector and up to some extent it has sidelined the public extension agencies, but public extension agencies have potential to do better and to reach farmers at their best. In view of this, present study was undertaken to find out the farmers’ preference towards public and private extension services in Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Hisar and Fatehabad districts of Haryana state. From each district two blocks were selected randomly and from each block two villages were selected. A manageable size of 10 farmers was selected from each village thus making total sample size of 200 farmers. Various aspects related to agricultural services provided by both public and private agencies were identified and response were obtained by putting a tick mark as per farmers’ preference for private and public agencies. On the basis of statistical tools like rank and mean score, results showed that farmers had great preference for ‘Input supply’ in private extension as compared to public extension followed by ‘Infrastructure facilities’. While for ‘Consultancy and diagnosis services’, ‘Information’ and ‘Technical services’, public extension was preferred as over the private extension.

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