Grasping at the Whirlwinds of Change: Transitional Leadership in Comparative Perspective. The Case Studies of Mikhail Gorbachev and F.W. de Klerk

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-107
Author(s):  
Elaine MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Mikhail Gorbachev ◽  
Transitional Leadership

Attracting Investments and Companies: Federal Multi-Level Collaboration in Switzerland and Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renaud Vuignier
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Level System ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Multi Level

While tackling the issue of place attractiveness for companies and investments in Canada and Switzerland at large, this research focuses on federal multi-level collaboration with two case studies: Ontario and Western Switzerland. Based on empirical data gathered from semi-structured interviews ([Formula: see text]) and surveys ([Formula: see text]) as well as on secondary data, it provides an analysis of the perception of intergovernmental collaboration by economic developers and a mapping of the challenges identified in both the Canadian and the Swiss contexts. A comparative perspective, complemented by data regarding business decision-making ([Formula: see text]), allows us to draw lessons for economic developers in both countries, aiming at extending both academic and practitioners’ literatures. Findings show that the federal contexts in which attractive strategies occur cause specific challenges for economic developers. While judging that the system works well in general, the majority of Canadian economic developers interviewed mentioned different problems to solve, such as the confusion for companies generated by a federal multi-level system and the need for more business-oriented strategies away from political concerns. The majority of Swiss economic developers interviewed also acknowledged issues caused by the federal system and wished for improvements regarding coordination between federal entities and levels. In this regard, pragmatism is perceived as a crucial factor for the implementation of successful attractive strategies.

Using Comparative Perspective Rapid Ethnography in International Case Studies: Strengths and Challenges

Case Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 319-319
Author(s):  
Donna Baines ◽  
Ian Cunningham ◽  
Donna Baines ◽  
Ian Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Comparative Perspective

Late-Victorian Experiences with Italian Legislation: Stories of Sex, Madness and Social Commitment

Pólemos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-297
Author(s):  
Elisa Bizzotto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Law System ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
Artistic Heritage ◽  
Italian Legislation

Abstract Given their love for Italy, which often represented for them a second home country, it was not unusual for late-Victorian writers and intellectuals to have direct experiences with Italian laws. The article presents four “case studies” of late-Victorian authors living in Italy and analyses their reactions to such diverse issues as homosexuality, madness and artistic heritage in relation to the Italian law system and by providing a comparative perspective with English legislation. The contribution also considers these authors’ narratives of their responses to Italian laws in both published and private writings that cover a variety of genres and evidence cultural differences and conflicts, though not always in an expected way.

scholarly journals Property and the State or ‘The Folly of Torrens’: A Comparative Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fitzpatrick ◽  
Caroline Compton ◽  
Joseph Foukona
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
Social Orders

Australian lawyers often extol the virtues of the Torrens system as a means to secure property in land. Yet, the comparative evidence of benefits is mixed and context-dependent, particularly in terms of the nature, provenance and capacity of the state. This article analyses ways in which positivist land laws, including Torrens systems of title by registration, create legal understandings of property that are tied closely to projections or assumptions of state territorial authority. The intertwining of property and sovereignty constructs allodial conceptions of property based on possession or custom as subordinate, if not illegal, simply because they exist in social orders that lie beyond the administrative systems of the state. As a result, there is a chronic fragmentation of legal and social understandings of property in areas of the world with Torrens law and large numbers of informal settlements. The case studies include the Philippines and the Solomon Islands.

Ownership and the Articulation of Slave Status in Greek and Near Eastern Legal Practice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Legal Methodology

This chapter reviews the various approaches scholars have taken to defining slavery in a global perspective. It proceeds to set out a legal methodology for understanding slave status in comparative perspective. It engages with several critiques of this approach, showing how they are misplaced and reaffirming the importance of legal ownership to the definition of slavery. Two case studies are provided to give empirical confirmation of this theoretical approach, showing how this legal methodology aligns with slaving practices in Athens and Babylonia. It finishes with some general remarks on the importance of observing sociolegal practices empirically rather than beginning and ending with abstract definitions and formal statutes.

Sorcery in the Black Atlantic: The Occult Arts in Comparative Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Derby
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
History Of

Three recent volumes—Parés and Sansi (eds.), Sorcery in the Black Atlantic; Paton and Forde (eds.), Obeah and Other Powers; and Sweet, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World—set a new bar for scholarship about Caribbean and Latin American sorcery, stressing its contingency as well as its transnational and cosmopolitan aspects. Their richly contextualized case studies of African-derived practices related to illness and health, as well as the quotidian experience of slaves outside the plantation, challenge the most entrenched assumptions about sorcery and extend its use to a range of social actors, not just slaves. In the process, they serve to relocate the practice of sorcery in Latin America within a broad comparative framework that includes Europe and the Americas as well as Africa.

Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Chaisty ◽  
Nic Cheeseman ◽  
Timothy J. Power
Keyword(s):  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Regional Study ◽  
Party Support ◽  
Analytical Frameworks ◽  
Important Form

This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratizing and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it seeks to understand how presidents who lack single party legislative majorities build and manage cross-party support in legislative assemblies. It develops a framework for analysing this phenomenon, and blends data from MP surveys, detailed case studies, and wider legislative and political contexts, to analyse systematically the tools that presidents deploy to manage their coalitions. Paul Chaisty, Nic Cheeseman, and Timothy J. Power focus on five key legislative, cabinet, partisan, budget, and informal (exchange of favours) tools that are utilized by minority presidents. They contend that these constitute the ‘toolbox’ for coalition management, and argue that minority presidents will act with imperfect or incomplete information to deploy the tool or tools that provide(s) the highest return of political support with the lowest expenditure of political capital. In developing this analysis, the book assembles a set of concepts, definitions, indicators, analytical frameworks, and propositions that establish the main parameters of coalitional presidentialism. In this way, Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective provides crucial insights into this mode of governance.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: Foundations for Local Governance: Decentralization in Comparative Perspective (edited by Fumihaiko Saito)

2009 ◽  
pp. 151-152
Author(s):  
Randal Smith
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Research Findings

This is a rich collection of case studies and will be valuable to anyone seeking a wide range of examples of local governance and decentralisation in developing countries. It covers Indonesia, India (Kerala and Karnataka), Sri Lanka, Uganda, South Africa and Ghana. With the exception of Sri Lanka, all the countries have two chapters devoted to them by different authors, thus providing a broader perspective on both the context of decentralisation and research findings.

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