...This chapter focuses on Marianne Moore's Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics (1966). The book performs a rare act: these poems and brief essays supply another part in the definition of a structure, accurate and personal. In this, her fourteenth book, the objects...

...This chapter examines the reception-oriented project of Czech literary historian Felix Vodička and his conception of the various structural units of literature as all equally subject to aesthetic evaluation and reception by readers and writers, critics and historians. It evaluates the link between...

... in corruption for their organization. It also discusses the two main drivers of such behavior: corrupt organizational culture and personal dependencies embedded in the organization's power structure. communism and communist legacy corrupt organization phenomenon democracy in postcommunist countries...

... in the popular press. From there, the chapter unfolds a more comprehensive picture of who the Chinese police are, to whom they answer, and what they do on a daily basis. It then addresses common misconceptions about issues such as police funding or the command structure. frontline police in China journals...

... Jean-Galbert Salvage (1772–1813) on the anatomical structure of the so-called Borghese Gladiator. The chapter investigates the settings of his work — and the ideological, aesthetic, and gendered assumptions that guided him. Ever since the Gladiator was first dug up...

...This chapter examines the US Army's pursuit of a learning mental health system. The transformation of the Army's behavioral health clinics started with the creation of a leadership structure that stretched from the system to the clinic level. The Behavioral Health Service Line incorporated all...

... culture in general. It also identifies historians that see the political structure of Russia as essentially oligarchical, with power shared in a mutually beneficial way among various layers of the nobility and the government. The chapter presents autocracy in the relatively stable political culture from...

... highlights that the process of negotiation reflected a coherent strategy to weaken ethnic minority groups and retain Bamar-centric state control over Myanmar's future political structure. It considers the various points of engagement between ethnic minority groups in the state, from the continued civil war...

... on their endowment of natural resources. Climate also affects prospects for economic growth as well as patterns of disease and susceptibility to extreme weather events. A second factor is the profile of the population within the territory controlled by the state. A third factor is the structure of the economy...

...This chapter discusses the impact of the rise of China on the great power structure and the gradual transformation of the international system from post-Cold War U.S. unipolarity to U.S.–China bipolarity. It develops a hedging framework for analysis and argues that whereas hedging had characterized...

...This chapter analyzes the impact of the rise of the Chinese economy on the international economic structure. While looking at the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, analysis reveals that China has yet to challenge the United States as the anchor of the global financial system: the renminbi...

... approach to the problem of agency and structure. It also considers how bike messengers play in (and with) urban space and compares the relationship of bike messengers to traffic with that of bicycle commuters and recreational cyclists to traffic. It argues that the play of work and the effervescence...

... unification. It then discusses the effects of industry structure and trade exposure on employers association density, along with the impact of density on collective bargaining. It also explores divergences in the forms of social partnership in key sectors of the German economy and the larger implications...

...This book examines fascist activism in Romania during the interwar period by focusing on the Legion of the Archangel Michael. Drawing on the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte), it explores how historical actors “reproduced and transformed” social structures and ideologies...

...This chapter analyzes the roots of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) regime's learning curve in managing popular contention and the mechanisms that have enabled the regime to develop its authoritarian structure and practices. It first defines Hong Kong's hybrid regime in terms...

...This chapter applies the structural arguments of International Relations theorists in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace by making use of Tolstoy's argument against the influence of great men in history. The “structure” here create the larger forces generated by political institutions...

... continues to be one of the few strong prohibitive norms that exist internationally. Hence, the cases when the political salience of organizations does not lead to a political salience of ideas, and vice versa. This shows why the organizational structure of NGOs is important. human rights International...

...This chapter pursues a microcomparative study of the makeup of state security apparatuses in two regions across Tajikistan. These regions—Khatlon Province and Rasht Valley—exemplify how resource structure and patronage have embedded different state security outcomes within the country's territorial...

... government agendas, the Chinese state is able to at least partially compensate for the problematic principal-agent challenges stemming from a fragmented market structure. The book also discusses the policy implications of its findings for China, particularly with regards to its political economy and its rise...

...This chapter describes the transformation of the Chinese employment structure following thirty years of economic reform (1978–2008). Notable among these changes is the dramatic growth in informal employment. Informal here refers to employment that is not stable or secure, lacks a written agreement...