Violence against women is a global problem of great magnitude. After laying out some sample data on violence against women, I argue that this violence, and its ongoing threat, interferes with every major capability in a woman’s life. Next, I argue that it is the capabilities approach we need, if we are to describe the damage done by such violence in the most perspicuous way and make the most he...

This paper points to the poor state of empirical measures of the quality of states, that is, executive branches and their bureaucracies. Much of the problem is conceptual, since there is very little agreement on what constitutes high-quality government. The paper suggests four approaches: (1) procedural measures, such as the Weberian criteria of bureaucratic modernity; (2) capacity measures, wh...

This article recovers the link between cultural and educational policy in Latin America to understand neoliberal state's discursive institution of culture as capital. It does so by studying form function Mexican Chilean bureaucracies. The calculability accountability incalculability Mexico's favor are but two sides one coin issued same state form. Both depend on (from above) capital labor human...

As key sites of governance and poverty management, service hubs are conspicuous inner-city clusters voluntary sector organizations that serve vulnerable urban populations, including people grappling with homelessness, substance abusers mental illness. In this paper, we frame as potentially embodying capacious commons on the one hand, meagre street-level bureaucracies other, reconstituting Lipsk...

The present study investigated young preschoolers' proportional allocation of rewards in 2 different work contexts. We presented 32 pairs of 3.5-year-old peers with a collaborative task to obtain rewards by pulling ropes. In order to establish differences in work input, 1 child's rope was not immediately accessible but had to be retrieved from the apparatus by means of a specific tool, while th...

In the paper study the possibility of tracking constant reference signals for a linear time-invariant dynamic system in the presence of state constraints. Resort to the theory of invariant sets due to its good capability of handling this kind of problem. Attention is placed on the determination of suitable sets for the attainable steady state values and of suitable control laws which guarantee ...

Excerpt] Increasingly, firms find themselves, either by circumstances or choice, operating in highly turbulent business environments. For them, competitiveness is a constantly moving target. Many, it appears, are satisfied to enjoin the struggle with patched up business models and warmed over bureaucracies. But some, convinced that this is a losing proposition, are aggressively exploring and ev...

Built on the administrative system of League Nations, since Second World War, United Nations has grown into a sizeable, complex and multilevel several dozen international bureaucracies. Outside brief period in 1980s, despite growing scholarship public administrations over past two decades, there have been few publications International Review Administrative Sciences evolution its many administr...