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The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century
David Roberts
- Vol. 12, Iss: 4, pp 8-8
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The article was published on 1989-08-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Communism.read more
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Guanxi, Networks and Economic Development: The Impact of Cultural Connections
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the mechanics of guanxi in an organizational setting, focusing on the use of interpersonal relationships within Chinese firms to discover how firms initiate, build and use Guanxi networks.
Elite Status in the People's Republic of China: Its formation and maintenance
TL;DR: Chao et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the formation and maintenance of elite status in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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The implementation of the Bologna Process in Kazakhstan higher education: views from within
Abstract: In this thesis I examine the question: how do Kazakhstan academics respond to the reforms of higher education (HE) carried out as part of Europeanisation? I study the local academics’ accounts of the process of implementation of the Bologna Process and of wider Western education standards within local post-Soviet practice, since the beginning of the twenty-first century. This local policy implementation is examined within the framework of educational policy borrowing, grounded in works by Steiner-Khamsi, Silova, and Phillips. Thirty-eight interviews were conducted in four HE institutions in different regions of Kazakhstan and analysed through the application of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) based on work by van Dijk and Fairclough. Using the method of CDA, I explore how power relationships and abuses of power play out between the educational authority and the academics in the politicallydriven reform environment, and how academics respond to this in their views of the reforms. I found that participants overall are critical of the reform process. They respond with three discourses, identified as nostalgia and loss, progress and modernity and chaotic reform. While the discourse of nostalgia implicitly connects to the ‘better’ Soviet education, as an ideological belief inherited from the past, and the discourse of progress reflects the spread of the ideology of European modernity, they both appear in connection to the central discourse of chaotic reformation. I found that chaos, which is a prime characteristic of the reforms in Kazakhstan HE, is linked to clashes between political/educational motivations and Soviet/Western approaches. These findings support my main argument that the specific postSoviet context should be taken into account in studies of education in the ‘Second World’. These ‘context models’ are influential on how Western standards are implemented in the reality of post-Soviet education.
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Is Equality Good Medicine? Determinants of Life Expectancy in Industrialized Democracies
TL;DR: The authors found that low levels of income inequality are associated with shorter life expectancy and that as inequality increases so does life expectancy until a point is reached where further increases in inequality lead to decreases in life expectancy.
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Artistic ruptures and their 'communist' ghosts : on the post-communist condition as threshold experience in art from and in Eastern Europe
TL;DR: The post-communist condition captures an intense experience of being "undone" and how, with the abrupt breakdown of a communist order and a gradual return to a capitalist structure, the main pillars of modern subjectivities in Eastern European countries have been fundamentally disturbed as discussed by the authors.
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Guanxi, Networks and Economic Development: The Impact of Cultural Connections
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the mechanics of guanxi in an organizational setting, focusing on the use of interpersonal relationships within Chinese firms to discover how firms initiate, build and use Guanxi networks.
Elite Status in the People's Republic of China: Its formation and maintenance
TL;DR: Chao et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the formation and maintenance of elite status in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Dissertation
The implementation of the Bologna Process in Kazakhstan higher education: views from within
Abstract: In this thesis I examine the question: how do Kazakhstan academics respond to the reforms of higher education (HE) carried out as part of Europeanisation? I study the local academics’ accounts of the process of implementation of the Bologna Process and of wider Western education standards within local post-Soviet practice, since the beginning of the twenty-first century. This local policy implementation is examined within the framework of educational policy borrowing, grounded in works by Steiner-Khamsi, Silova, and Phillips. Thirty-eight interviews were conducted in four HE institutions in different regions of Kazakhstan and analysed through the application of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) based on work by van Dijk and Fairclough. Using the method of CDA, I explore how power relationships and abuses of power play out between the educational authority and the academics in the politicallydriven reform environment, and how academics respond to this in their views of the reforms. I found that participants overall are critical of the reform process. They respond with three discourses, identified as nostalgia and loss, progress and modernity and chaotic reform. While the discourse of nostalgia implicitly connects to the ‘better’ Soviet education, as an ideological belief inherited from the past, and the discourse of progress reflects the spread of the ideology of European modernity, they both appear in connection to the central discourse of chaotic reformation. I found that chaos, which is a prime characteristic of the reforms in Kazakhstan HE, is linked to clashes between political/educational motivations and Soviet/Western approaches. These findings support my main argument that the specific postSoviet context should be taken into account in studies of education in the ‘Second World’. These ‘context models’ are influential on how Western standards are implemented in the reality of post-Soviet education.
Journal ArticleDOI
Is Equality Good Medicine? Determinants of Life Expectancy in Industrialized Democracies
TL;DR: The authors found that low levels of income inequality are associated with shorter life expectancy and that as inequality increases so does life expectancy until a point is reached where further increases in inequality lead to decreases in life expectancy.
Dissertation
Artistic ruptures and their 'communist' ghosts : on the post-communist condition as threshold experience in art from and in Eastern Europe
TL;DR: The post-communist condition captures an intense experience of being "undone" and how, with the abrupt breakdown of a communist order and a gradual return to a capitalist structure, the main pillars of modern subjectivities in Eastern European countries have been fundamentally disturbed as discussed by the authors.