The literature on participatory practices in organizations has been less coherent and more limited to subspecialties than the literature on bureaucracy in organizations–despite a number of celebrated studies of participation in 20th century American sociology. Due to the practical nature of participatory reforms and the ambiguity of participation as a concept, attempts to review participatory k...

This article reviews the synergy between a number of differing academic disciplines with reference to the study of spatial cognition. It identifies three potential areas for future collaboration: understanding the relationships between the form of the physical world and mental representations, linking space to action, and creating alternative methods and approaches for studying environmental co...

Both major contenders in Peru’s 1931 presidential contest made populist mobilization a centerpiece of their political strategies. Never before had a candidate for national office so completely flouted traditional channels of political power and so thoroughly staked his political aspirations on the mobilization of support from non-elite segments of the population. This paper asks: Why did these ...

The political environment can be likened to an ecological system in that over time its structures undergo evolutionary patterns. Though originally described for ecological systems, C. S. Holling's (Gunderson and Holling 2001) notion of the adaptive cycle can be applied to particular political systems in an effort to elucidate facilitating or destabilizing behavioral mechanisms. This paper inves...

rights provisions are valuable even if their contours are not fully determined in advance. They shape the way that political actors understand and articulate the values inherent in the political system; they shape the beliefs of political actors about what they can and cannot do, what they are fighting for and what they are fighting against. But rights are less valuable, indeed not really valua...

In the wake of the Cold War era, America’s research universities became increasingly characterized by a tribal mentality among schools and departments, and among the various disciplines. The surge in research funding, and the tremendous growth rate among the major public universities in particular, fostered the idea of a “multiversity” that was becoming less communal, and less aware of its coll...

A historical assessment of the Leninist conception of imperialism is the necessary foundation for a theoretical periodization of capitalism, in which the current developments and rising globalization have led to a dialectical supersession of imperialism. The emerging new stage of capitalism is characterized as transnational or totalitarian capitalism. The structural characteristics and basic tr...

The “institutional turn” in contemporary development theory has emphasized the importance of facilitating the emergence of institutions that will improve citizens’ abilities to make choices. More important, it has suggested that the effectiveness of these institutions depends upon their ability to “work with the grain” of the local sociocultural environment. This article argues that community-b...

When the leader of an autocratic regime loses power, one of three things happens. Someone from the incumbent leadership group replaces him, and the regime persists. The incumbent leadership group is replaced by democratically elected leaders. Or the incumbent leadership group loses control to a different group that replaces it with a new autocracy. Scholarship exists on the first two kinds of t...

The problem addressed is how an elite group manages to trap recycle wealth intergenerationally through marriage strategies. Following Houseman and White's (1998b) definition of the core of a marriage network, we identify the core of the elite network of colonial Guatemala in the period 1640 and 1820 in structural terms, in relation both to the concept of marriage relinking (Jola, Verdier, Zonab...