Migration politics and beyond: time to ponder

BEYOND IDENTITY POLITICS 1 Running Head: BEYOND IDENTITY POLITICS Beyond Identity Politics: Moral Psychology and the 2008 Democratic Primary

The two leading candidates for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, had very similar policy positions and yet demonstrated appeal to disparate populations. Much has been written in the press about demographic differences between supporters of these candidates, but little is known about these groups’ psychological profiles. We used standard persona...

Beyond Self Containment: On the Politics of Culture and Identity in a Glocal Society

As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. It draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, Foucauldian, an...

Load testing: Points to ponder

Testing of multi-user applications under realistic and stress loads remains the only way to ensure appropriate performance and reliability in production. The author outlines some issues to consider for performance testing of distributed business applications and presents the typical pitfalls from the practical point of view. While the original objective was to contrast load testing with functio...

Law and politics and migration research

Understanding Tradition in British Politics and Beyond

Please do not cite without permission The concept of 'tradition' is used in a range of different ways within studies of British politics. Despite this there have been only a few attempts to theorise notions of tradition within British political science. Furthermore the different concepts of tradition forwarded by conservatives, interpretivists and realists have each been contested. This paper e...