Research on Internal-External Control and Social-Political Activism: A Note and Bibliography

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 619-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen I. Abramowitz
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
External Control ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Motivational Constructs

Empirical inconsistencies in the locus of control and social-political action literature are noted and attributed, in part, to observers' tendency to overlook the potentially crucial role of the personal meanings of the actor's political involvement. Increased attention to these motivational constructs and to the development of techniques for assessing them is encouraged.

scholarly journals Optimize the Role of Commitment of Employees in Improving Accountability Office Report on Local Government Budget

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Siti Istikhoroh ◽  
Yuni Sukamdani
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Employee Commitment ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
External Control ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Local Government Budget

This study aims to analyze the factors that affect employee commitment so that its role in improving the accountability of budget reporting can be optimized. The study was conducted on 20 units of East Java Provincial Government Office in 2016. Data were collected by giving questionnaires to 268 respondents and analyzed using multiple linear regression method. Researchers establish organizational learning and locus of control as a variable that affects the commitment of employees. The results of the analysis prove that employee commitment can be optimized through organizational learning process with indicators in the form of thinking systems, mentality, personal skills, teamwork, and understanding of the vision of the organization. Meanwhile, locus of control measured by internal control and external control proved unable to increase employee commitment.

Contested Practice: Political Activism in Nursing and Implications for Nursing Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Buck-McFadyen ◽  
Judith MacDonnell
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Life History Study

AbstractCanadian nurses have a social mandate to address health inequities for the populations they serve, as well as to speak out on professional and broader social issues. Although Canadian nursing education supports the role of nurses as advocates for social justice and leadership for health care reform, little is known about how nurse educators understand activism and how this translates in the classroom. A comparative life history study using purposeful sampling and a critical feminist lens was undertaken to explore political activism in nursing and how nurse educators foster political practice among their students. Findings from interviews and focus groups with 26 Ontario nurse educators and nursing students suggested that neoliberal dynamics in both the practice setting and in higher education have constrained nurses’ activist practice and favour a technical rational approach to nursing education. Implications and strategies to inspire political action in nursing education are discussed.

scholarly journals After global governance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Neyer
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Disruptive Effect ◽  
Crucial Importance

AbstractTechnology is of crucial importance for understanding the recent crisis of global governance and concomitant practices of re-territorializing sovereignty. It is far more than an instrument for putting ideas and interests into practice; it is embedded in relationships of power, gives expression to normative decisions and shapes the conditions under which politics is conducted. Technology empowers some actors and disempowers others. It makes new forms of political action possible and others more costly. This crucial role of technology has been emphasized in many dispersed parts of the IR discourse since long. What has often been overlooked, however, is that technological innovation can have a disruptive effect on international institutions. This paper traces this disruptive effect in the administration of the internet by underlining the close nexus between technology, sovereignty and global governance. It finally discusses promising avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Change by Activism: Insurgency, Autonomy, and Political Activism in Potosí-Jerusalén, Bogotá, Colombia

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Juan Usubillaga
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
The One

Cities today face a context in which traditional politics and policies struggle to cope with increasing urbanisation rates and growing inequalities. Meanwhile, social movements and political activists are rising up and inhabiting urban spaces as sites of contestation. However, through their practices, urban activists do more than just occupy spaces; they are fundamental drivers of urban transformation as they constantly face—and contest—spatial manifestations of power. This article aims to contribute to ongoing discussions on the role of activism in the field of urban design, by engaging with two concepts coming from the Global South: <em>insurgency</em> and <em>autonomy</em>. Through a historical account of the building of the Potosí-Jerusalén neighbourhood in Bogotá in the 1980s, it illustrates how both concepts can provide new insight into urban change by activism. On the one hand, the concept of insurgency helps unpack a mode of bottom-up action that inaugurates political spaces of contestation with the state; autonomy, on the other hand, helps reveal the complex nature of political action and the visions of urban transformation it entails. Although they were developed at the margins of conventional design theory and practice, both concepts are instrumental in advancing our understanding of how cities are shaped by activist practices. Thus, this article is part of a broader effort to (re)locate political activism in discussions about urban transformation, and rethink activism as a form of urban design practice.

Istanbul sounding like revolution: the role of music in the Gezi Park Occupy movement

Popular Music ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Protest Music ◽  
Occupy Movement

AbstractThis article focuses on the role of protest music in the biggest social movement of recent Turkish history. It is the result of three years of fieldwork triangulating musical and cultural analysis with ethnographic methods. Motives of the protest, strategies of the movement, agency of musicians and participatory performances are investigated and contextualised in an analysis of Turkey's cultural changes. The function of music shifted from framing the protest to encouraging political action and fostering a sense of belonging to the collective identity of the Gezi Park movement. Music even became political activism. By underlining different functions played by music in the case of the Gezi Park movement, this article problematises the relevance of music for social movements.

Migration Policies and Uncertainty

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 28-45
Author(s):  
Jeanne Rey
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
New Perspective

Abstract This article addresses the role of migrant congregations as civil society players through the practice of prayer. By combining the notion of political activism and the theory of subjectivation, it offers a new perspective on Pentecostal practice and migrant congregations in Europe as a way of addressing uncertainty linked to migration policies and mobility regimes. In Switzerland, where conditions for migrants have become increasingly restrictive, political and social forms of exclusion are challenged by African Pentecostal migrants who engage in prayer that contests restrictions on mobility, assignation to subaltern positions, as well as other forms of discrimination. Yet, this ritual resistance rarely takes the form of a political action; neither does it formulate concrete claims towards immigration procedures and policies. Rather, it is expressed through prayer in the protective space of a religious community, allowing the migrants to reassess subjectivations and to imagine new subjectivities.

scholarly journals Activism as political action in Uganda: The role of social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Namasinga Selnes ◽  
Kristin Skare Orgeret
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Divide

The article discusses political activism in Uganda and the role of social media. It focuses on two specific cases, the 2011 ‘Walk-to-Work’ and the 2017 ‘Pads4Girls’ campaigns in order to contribute to better understanding of the ever-evolving dynamic between political activism and the media in such campaigns. A disputed presidential election in 2011 in Uganda prompted opposition politicians to call nationwide protests. The architects of the protests hoped this would eventually lead to the downfall of Museveni’s newly elected government. The ‘Pads4Girls’ campaign on the other hand, was spearheaded by a female academic activist and provoked unprecedented response from politicians across the political divide, activists and unaffiliated individuals who added weight to the campaign. The article’s discussions feed into a broader conversation on the interaction of media and politics in semi-democratic contexts such as Uganda, where attempts to curtail media freedom and freedom of expression are frequent.

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