The Comparative Study of Communist Political Systems

Slavic Review ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred G. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
The West ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Work Done

The intent of this article is to join in the slowly rising chorus of voices expressing dissatisfaction with the methods used so far in the analysis of Communist political systems. I shall argue, perhaps in rather circuitous fashion, that political scientists in the West have failed, by and large, to apply to the Communist world the rich store of concepts developed for the comparative study of political systems and that the concepts that have been used have been applied in ways that are objectionable. If, as is at times maintained, our discipline tends to be provincial or ethnocentric in its methods, this tendency has been most pronounced, perhaps, in the study of Communist systems. As a result, very little work done has been genuinely comparative. The discipline has failed to place the Communist world into any of the several systematic conceptual frameworks it has developed.

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IMAGE FILTERING ON VARIOUS NOISY PIXELS

2013 ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
SONALI R. MAHAKALE ◽  
NILESHSINGH V. THAKUR
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mean Absolute Error ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Image Filtering ◽  
Squared Error ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Work Done

This paper deals with the comparative study of research work done in the field of Image Filtering. Different noises can affect the image in different ways. Although various solutions are available for denoising them, a detail study of the research is required in order to design a filter which will fulfill the desire aspects along with handling most of the image filtering issues. An output image should be judged on the basis of Image Quality Metrics for ex-: Peak-Signal-to-Noise ratio (PSNR), Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Execution Time.

scholarly journals The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 370-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Arbib ◽  
Francisco Aboitiz ◽  
Judith M. Burkart ◽  
Michael Corballis ◽  
Gino Coudé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Great Apes ◽  
Last Common Ancestor ◽  
Road Map ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Brain Behavior ◽  
The Brain

Abstract We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on the last common ancestor of humans and monkeys (LCA-m) and chimpanzees (LCA-c) and the processes which guided the evolution LCA-m → LCA-c → protohumans → H. sapiens. Such research constrains and is constrained by analysis of the subsequent, primarily cultural, evolution of H. sapiens which yielded cultures involving the rich use of language.

Dominant and Subsidiary Modes of Political Legitimation in the USSR: A Comment on Christel Lane's Article

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Rigby
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Shared Understandings

Perhaps we political scientists and sociologists should have left ‘legitimacy’ to the constitutional and international lawyers. Such a view is certainly suggested by the present cacophany of our definitions, taxonomies and applications of the term. When the contributors to a book on political legitimation in communist states, representing by no means the full range of scholarly views on the social and political systems of these countries, can variously characterize the political legitimation of the USSR today as dominated by ‘goal-rational’, ‘traditional’ or ‘paternalistic’ legitimation, or as a combination of ‘heteronomous-teleological’ and ‘autonomous-consensual’ or of ‘overt’ and ‘covert’ modes of legitimation, we evidently have a long way to go before our shared understandings of political legitmation could be adequate for the comparative study of political systems or for analysing political change.

Federal Political Systems and Federal Societies

1968 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Stein
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
American Constitution ◽  
World War ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Regional Governments

Until these recent studies by Riker, Watts, and Wildavsky appeared, the theory of federalism was embodied largely in the work of K. C. Wheare. Wheare published the first truly pathbreaking book in the comparative study of federalism shortly after World War II. He defined federalism as that system of government in which the federal and regional governments are both coordinate and independent. In applying this definition, he stressed the sharp division in the powers and functions of two coequal sovereignties as a basis for classifying systems of government as federal. Wheare's definition was derived primarily from his analysis of die American Constitution and, in particular, its formally sharp division of powers between national and state governments.

scholarly journals The social dynamics of group offending

2021 ◽  
pp. 136248062110304
Author(s):  
Beth Weaver ◽  
Alistair Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The West ◽  
Rational Actor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rational Actor Models ◽  
The Comparative Study

Theoretical explanations of group offending have been hindered by a focus on rational actor models of social relationships. One consequence of this has been a neglect of the dynamics of social relations and their role in group offending and desistance. Drawing illustratively on two studies conducted in the West of Scotland, this article advances an integrated theoretical framework for the comparative study of group offending that moves beyond either individualizing or ‘gang’ frames dominating existing discourse, towards a thick understanding of situated social relations. By integrating Bourdieu’s concept of habitus with Donati’s relational realist framework, this article theoretically and empirically examines the dynamics of group offending relationships, what shapes them and the way they can, in turn, shape and affect offending and desistance trajectories.

Comparing Communist Nations: Prospects for an Empirical Approach

1968 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Shoup
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Comparative Study

The past decade has witnessed a rapid, but uneven, growth in comparative studies. While certain types of political systems have received the lion's share of attention, others have remained backwaters of comparative research, experiencing little or no development in the application of comparative techniques. The comparative study of communist states, until recently, fell into the latter category—relatively neglected and certainly not enjoying the reputation and prestige of work with newly emerging nations or Western political systems.Now this state of affairs is undergoing a change, or at least the promise of one. In the past several years, the possibility of developing comparative techniques in the study of communist political systems has become the object of growing interest and has provoked not a little discussion and debate.1The opportunities and the problems that face this field—especially in developing empirically oriented comparative analysis—are the subject of the present article.

scholarly journals Nicholas Belfield Dennys as a pioneer in the comparative study of Chinese folklore

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-211
Author(s):  
Aglaya B. Starostina
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Access To The Field ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Further Development

The scholarly study of Chinese folklore began in the middle of the 19th century. Pioneering research had been conducted by Europeans, who were familiar with current works in this area and gained access to the field, archival and book sources in different regions of China. Among the first people who embarked on the study of Chinese folklore was a British journalist and diplomat Nicholas Belfield Dennys. In 1876, he published the monography of Chinese folklore studies: “The folk-lore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic races”. His goal was to view Chinese folklore in a global context; for its implementation, he compiled the first elementary index of plots and motifs of Chinese folklore. The Chinese themselves commenced the academic study of the folklore of China several decades later, relying largely on the developments of their European predecessors. In the 1920s, the book by Dennys became known in China, however, it had little impact on Chinese folklore studies for the reasons as follows. The data the book comprised was for the most part not new to researchers in China, the method used to compile the index was known to them earlier, and comparative studies in the region were in their cradle at this time. In the West, up to the middle of the 20th century, Dennys’ book was often consulted in search of comparative Chinese material. Nevertheless, some of the author’s finds have never received further developed. The place of this work in the history of the comparative study of Chinese folklore also remained rather uncertain. This article describes the context in which “The Folk-Lore of China” appeared, examines the author’s methodological premises, as well as the role of his findings in the further development of folklore studies.

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