Is power central to our understanding of politics? In what way does Foucault’s concept of power alter conventional understanding of politics? The notion of power had a time honoured status in the history of political science. The concept of power has gained prominence in the recent times especially with emergence of Behaviouralism as a method of studying politics. It focuses on the study of politics as a process or activity with an interdisciplinary approach. The debate on the centrality of the
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Introduction: Motorcycles manufactured by India’s Bajaj Group have attained the top position in recent years in the country’s fast growing bike market beating the Hero Honda brand assembled and marketed by the state-owned Atlas Bangladesh Limited. Different brands of Bajaj have market shares of around 30 per cent‚ Hero Honda nearly 22 percent‚ Dayun brands‚ supplied by Runner Automobiles‚ 17 percent and the TVS motorbikes come to the fourth position in the market. Bajaj’s popular products are
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Predatory Lending In communities across America‚ people are losing their homes and their investments because of predatory lenders‚ appraisers‚ mortgage brokers and home improvement contractors who: Sell properties for much more than they are worth using false appraisals. They encourage borrowers to lie about their income‚ expenses‚ or cash available for down payments in order to get a loan and knowingly lend more money than a borrower can afford to repay. The problem has continued to get worse
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Public Administration & Management: An Interactive Journal 6‚ 3‚ 2001‚ pp. 87-90 Normative Theory and Policy Evaluation Stuart Nagel MKM-PSO-DSI Center and University of Illinois I. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS An interesting question concerns the ethical obligations of people who do policy analysis research. Such research often involves ethical dilemmas that relate to: 1. Whether one’s purposes should include prescription or evaluation‚ as well as prediction or explanation. 2. Whether or not
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IMPLEMENTATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANANGEMENT IN VODAFONE TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY TABLE OF CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION TO TQM 2. NEEDS OF TQM 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF TQM BY VODAFONE A. INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY B. CHARACTERISTICS C. ADVANTAGES D. PROBLEMS 4. CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION 5. ROLE OF TOP MANAGEMENT 6. MEASURING THE PROGRESS 7. FUNCTIONS PROVIDED BY THE TQM CONSULTANT 8. OPERATIONS 9. EMPOWERING/ MOTIVATING
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Is Government Good or Bad? “In Discussion: Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli’s view on Government” “The Master leads by emptying people’s mind and filling their cores‚ by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know‚ everything they desire‚ and creates confusion in those who think that they know.” (Page 19). This passage supports a number of readings. All of them centered on government. The definition of government is the organization‚ machinery‚ or agency
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“Say you want a revolution We better get on right away Well you get on your feet And out on the street Singing power to the people” * John Lennon Introduction Democracy‚ it is generally believed‚ had its roots in Ancient Athens. We know it spread its stems to most of Europe and later to parts of Asia by mid 19th century ‚ mostly in the form of parliamentary democracy. But in the context of this paper‚we are not interested in the histrocity of the idea or concept of democracy‚ but in the
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Abdullah Younus younus.abdullah@ymail.com EMN 502 PROJECT QUESTIONS 1. Why is service quality more difficult to define than product quality? -While service and production share many attributes‚ services have more diverse quality attributes than products. For example‚ product like a personal computer is typically evaluated on its merits‚ and it makes little difference to the user whether the person that assembled the computer was in a bad mood the day the computer was made. Service
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Cpk • Cp - see Natural Tolerance decreases with spec width - see Natural Tolerance • • decreases with spec width Cp = 1 for centered process - natural tolerance =spec width Cause and Effect Diagram - Fishbone Diagrams - Ishikawa Diagrams • • • • • • • • used to identify and organize potential root causes problem solving analysis done by brainstorming common categories - Measurement‚ Materials‚ People‚ Process‚ Equipment‚ Environment ask “Why?” 3 times to get to root
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Sociology emerged from enlightenment thought‚ shortly after the French Revolution‚ as a positivist science of society. Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge. Social analysis in a broader sense‚ however‚ has origins in the common stock of philosophy and necessarily pre-dates the field. Modern academic sociology arose as a reaction to modernity‚ capitalism‚ urbanization‚ rationalization‚ and secularization‚ bearing a particularly strong
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