scholarly journals Concluding reflections

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven S. Volk
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Popular Resistance ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Historical Memories ◽  
Pinochet Dictatorship

In October 2020, Chilean voters resoundingly elected to abandon the constitution left behind by the Pinochet dictatorship. A new charter will be written by a fully elected, gender-balanced, constitutional convention. Given that Chilean political leaders have floated the idea of jettisoning the 1980 constitution for the last 35 years, what accounts for their decisive step at this point? Summarising and reflecting on the contributions to this special issue, I argue that the October 2020 vote was, in a sense, the result of decades of popular resistance, nurtured and informed by rich and tragic historical memories and experiences. The October result demonstrated an understanding of how to mobilise and energise a huge and diverse base of popular support as well a keen awareness of how to prepare for the violence that inevitably was launched against it.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Federalism Reconsidered: The Case of the No Child Left Behind Act

2005 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth H. DeBray ◽  
Kathryn A. McDermott ◽  
Priscilla Wohlstetter
Keyword(s):  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Left Behind

Editorial Team’s Introduction: Special Issue on No Child Left Behind

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Hollingsworth ◽  
Margaret A. Gallego ◽  
D. Jean Clandinin ◽  
Peter Morrell ◽  
Pedro Portes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Left Behind

scholarly journals Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mary Elaine Hegland
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Leaders

People at the popular level often hold religious perceptions and engage in religious practices that make sense to them within their own existential situations, even if they fall outside orthodoxy. Although political leaders and religious authorities may attempt to mould people’s religious perceptions and practices according to their own ideas and interpretations of religion, people frequently find ways to evade or ignore such pressures, to rationalise their deviations or to continue to live and think according to their own self-generated religious frameworks. The authors of the articles in this special issue provide examples of how people’s actual practices and religious beliefs arise out of their own personal situations and histories though at odds with the pronouncements of religious specialists.

scholarly journals What is punitive populism? A typology based in media communication

Matrizes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-102
Author(s):  
Michelle Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Basic Definition ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Definition Of

Punitive populism refers to political leaders’ use of tough-on-crime rhetoric and policies to win elections and popular support. Yet, this basic definition does not capture the range of ways the practice manifests itself. Refining the concept, this article identifies three key types of punitive populism: authoritarian, conflicted, and accountable. The typology highlights the intersecting importance of media systems and political ideology to the definition of each type. Reflecting on over fifteen years of research on the topic, the article is centred on concept development, with illustrative examples from Argentina and Chile.

scholarly journals Questions from an analysis of ethnic distributions in the former Yugoslavia

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Hammel ◽  
Carl Mason ◽  
Mirjana Stevanovic
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Informational Entropy ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Interethnic Conflict ◽  
Bottom Upward

Ethnic diversity in the former Yugoslavia, measured as informational entropy increased in most regions at the level of the naselje, the opstina, and the region, 1961-1991 (no useful data for Slovenia, Macedonia, and Kosovo in 1991). Vojvodina is the most diverse region, Slovenia the least. An exception to the increase is Kosovo-Metohija, where diversity decreased 1961-1981 driven by already serious interethnic conflict. There is some diminution of the increase in diversity in some regions in 1991, possibly because of refugee flows in anticipation of the impending violence. This rather broad and steady increase in diversity leads to questions about the view that pre-existing ethnic hatreds among broad segments of the population led to the ethnic fracturing and collapse of Yugoslavia. Instead it suggests that this fracturing may instead have been the result of competition between political leaders, stimulated by serious economic difficulties, leading them to emphasize ethnicity in their search for popular support. From this the authors support the view that the collapse of Yugoslavia was from the top downward, not from the bottom upward.

scholarly journals Rallying round the flag of the Star of David during the first wave of Covid-19: Increased popular support for Netanyahu in the time of crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shingo Hamanaka
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Death Toll ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rally Effect ◽  
The Government

The new coronavirus epidemic was perceived as a national crisis, and Israel mobilized all its security agencies to formulate countermeasures. Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to have successfully capitalized on this national crisis to boost support for himself in the short term. Prime Minister However, as discussed below, even if the growing death toll from the outbreak was reversed, there were other countries whose successes did not translate into increased support for the government, one of which was Japan.This study analyzes the surge in support for the prime minister during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic in Israel within the framework of the rally effect. Israel was chosen as a case study for two reasons. First, the country was repeatedly polled during the first wave of infection. Second, a special policy that met the requirements for natural experimentation—a strict compartmentalized blockade limited to certain areas—had been in place for a while. These two conditions mean that a study of Israel during the first wave of the epidemic will allow us to make discoveries about the conditions under which a society supports its political leaders in the face of a national crisis.

UK ‘levelling-up’ agenda will likely disappoint

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Corporation Tax ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Successful Vaccine ◽  
The Government

Significance ‘Levelling up’ has always been an objective of UK governments, but the political pressure on this government is huge as the Conservatives looks to hold onto many of the ‘left-behind’ constituencies they won in the 2019 general election. Impacts Leveraging corporation tax to fund left behind regions may discourage investment in high-value services in London and the south-east. Concerns over the constitutional future of Scotland will further discourage the government from considering regional devolution. The opening of society in the coming months amid a successful vaccine rollout could give an important boost to Johnson’s popular support.

Bad Tests or Bad Test Use? A Case of SAT Use to Examine Why We Need Stakeholder Conversations on Validity

2013 ◽  
Vol 115 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhabi Chatterji
Keyword(s):  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Test Use ◽  
Nclb Act

Background Much is still unknown or unclear about how and where validity issues arise in high stakes testing situations in education, and ways by which we can rectify validity problems in practice and policy contexts. Purpose This paper is the Foreword to the special issue of the Teachers College Record, When Education Measures Go Public – Stakeholder Perspectives on How and Why Validity Breaks Down. Method The paper analyzes a recent case involving an application of the SAT to highlight tensions between validity and test score use in high stakes school accountability environments driven by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. It uses the case study as a vehicle to introduce the individual papers and authors in the section. Conclusions There are information and power gaps among those who set societal priorities for using tests for high stakes purposes, those who design and conduct psychometric research on tests and testing programs, and those who could eventually face consequences of assessment misuse. These gaps could be addressed through thoughtful exchanges among key assessment stakeholders, as this special issue shows.

scholarly journals Re-locating media production

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Helen Morgan Parmett ◽  
Scott Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Practices

It was arguably easier in the past to pin down media production in medium- or content-specific locales, such as the studio, the newsroom or the set. Contemporary processes of media convergence have dramatically opened up the ‘what’ and ‘where’ of media production to include all manner of quotidian practices and ephemeral places. This special issue, however, pushes back against the idea that contemporary landscapes of media production have been flattened. Each of the articles collected here accounts for significant transformations in media practices near to those that we would conventionally associate with media production, yet which are also potentially left behind in the rush to describe, theorize, celebrate and critique trends such as ‘produsage’, ‘prosumption’ and participatory media culture. Taken together, the articles in this special issue provide new insights into the locations and relocations of contemporary media production across new and under-researched liminal and peripheral geographies, and around new and unexpected objects.

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