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Modernization theory
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this article, a historical and comparative analysis of modern Japan's epidemic of tuberculosis is presented, showing the links between such epidemics and the social changes that accompanied modernization, and examines the responses of states, private organizations and individuals to these epidemics.
Abstract: This work provides a historical and comparative analysis of modern Japan's epidemic of tuberculosis. It demonstrates the links between such epidemics and the social changes that accompanied modernization, and examines the responses of states, private organizations and individuals to these epidemics
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TL;DR: The authors argued that much of what the Chinese government, Chinese companies and individual entrepreneurs are doing today in Africa is an externalization of China's own modernization experiences in the past three decades, and major patterns of Chinese behaviour in Africa can be attributed to complex motivations and objectives of the actors involved.
Abstract: China's rapidly expanding role in Africa as an energy and resource extractor reveals much of the dynamics and complexities of its growing ties with the continent. Rather than studying the subject in the framework of bilateral interactions, as most existing literature does, this article explores the impact of China's domestic development process on the behaviour of Chinese foreign policy and business operations in Africa. Based on the author's extensive field research in Africa and China, the article argues that much of what the Chinese government, Chinese companies and individual entrepreneurs are doing today in Africa is an externalization of China's own modernization experiences in the past three decades. China's interactions with African countries are reflective of its own development contradictions, and major patterns of Chinese behavour in Africa can be attributed to complex motivations and objectives of the actors involved.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the cultural processes of attachment and identification that are formed in the spaces opened up in the differentiated polity of network governance are explored, and the authors explore the constitution of new subject positions as "transformational leaders" for senior public service managers.
Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that network governance is an increasingly significant feature of modern states.This article focuses on the cultural processes of attachment and identification that are formed in the spaces opened up in the ‘differentiated polity’ (Rhodes, 1997) of network governance. It explores the constitution of new subject positions – as ‘transformational leaders’ – for senior public service managers. The empirical data, drawn from interviews with senior public service managers in the UK, highlights tensions in the process of state modernization, and suggests ways in which ‘transformational’ identities might be influential in shaping the micro-politics of policy delivery.
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TL;DR: This paper presented a view of nations as dynamic, long-term historical collectivities that structure the forms of modernity and rejected dominant modernist models of nation-formation because they tend to conflate nation with nation-state, to regard nations as homogeneous societies, and to depict nationformation in linear terms as an outgrowth of modernization.
Abstract: This article presents a view of nations as dynamic, long term historical collectivities that structure the forms of modernity. It rejects dominant modernist models of nation-formation because they tend to conflate nation with nation-state, to regard nations as homogeneous societies, and to depict nation-formation in linear terms as an outgrowth of modernization. Nationformation in the modern world has an episodic character. By examining the ethnic character of modern nations in la longue duree , we can identify more convincing recurring causes of national revivals, the role of persisting cultural differences within nations, and the fluctuating salience of national identities with respect to other social allegiances. This analysis throws light on the vexed questions of relationships between national identity and globalization.
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07 Feb 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the problem of child abandoning from liberalism to fascism in Italy, from the perspective of charity, the state, and compassion, and the modernization of social values.
Abstract: Abbreviations Preface PART I: THE SOCIAL MISSION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIBERALISM Introduction: The Old Charitable Order and Promise of Good Government Reform and the Risorgimento State and Society in Liberal Italy, 1862-1890 PART II: STATE WELFARE UIN THE AGE OF THE MASSES The Rise of Giolitti's Insurer State Fascism's New Deal: Social Insurance under a Totalitarian State Racial Regeneration through Welfare: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy PART III: THE PROBLEM OF CHILD ABANDONMENT FROM LIBERALISM TO FASCISM Introduction: Charity, the State, and Compassion: The Modernization of Social Values Outcast Infants and the Liberal State Religion, Science, and Beneficence The Illegitimacy Campaign under Fascism From Public Beneficence to Public Welfare: The Roman Experiment, 1927-1938 An Italian Social Revolution? Bibliography Index
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