scholarly journals ALA Midwinter Meeting Highlights

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
GODORT Government Documents Round Table
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
Virtual Meetings ◽  
The Creation

Under old business there were two bylaws amendments passed by Steering that were presented to Membership. The first was to create the possibility for Interest Groups within GODORT. There was some concern about the make-up of Steering if all the task forces move to become interest groups. This motion carried. The second amendment was for the creation of a Virtual Meetings Coordinator position. This motion carried.

Survey of Interest Groups Influence in an Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Haris Nikolaos Papadakis ◽  
George Stelios Atsalakis
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Major Area ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Macroeconomic Impact ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mancur Olson

The role of special interest groups (SIGs) is a major area of research for economists, political scientists, sociologists and historians. The interest of economists mainly focus on the incentives that encourage the creation and development of these groups and the effect on domestic growth. In a pioneering book, “The rise and decline of nations”, Mancur Olson describes in-detail the macroeconomic impact of the activities of these groups. In this article, a survey is carried out with regard to the miscellaneous factors referred to in the bibliography which affect the formation of SIG's and their subsequent influence on the economy of each individual country. The aim is to underline all the variables that have been used in the literature to estimate how interest groups affect the domestic economy.

Russia in the Settings of Political Parties of the FRG

2014 ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
F. Basov
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Political Development ◽  
The Creation

This paper offers the analysis on Russia in the settings of German political parties. The author focuses on reactions of German political parties to the last trends in Russian social and political development. Parties’ influence on the creation of German policy towards Russia, and relations between the parties and interest groups (economic actors and human rights activists, which determine the policy towards Russia) are thoroughly examined in the article.

Majority rules, when systematists disagree

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Entwisle ◽  
Peter H. Weston
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Plant Systematics ◽  
Taxonomic Change ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
Australian Plant ◽  
Rules Of Thumb ◽  
Majority Rules ◽  
The Creation

The creation of Australia’s Virtual Herbarium forced the Australian plant systematics community to find a mechanism for deciding between alternative taxonomies. Following a workshop on the Orchidaceae and the publication of some simple draft guidelines, a set of ‘rules of thumb’ are presented here that we believe represent the view of most practising systematists. Not everyone will agree, and we have provided alternative views where possible. We include the need for monophyletic taxa, minimising taxonomic change, understanding that some taxa have strong ‘interest groups’, making it clear that ‘preferred name’ does not necessarily imply ‘best name’ on all criteria, avoiding epithets used in possible congeners, and the concept of ‘majority rules’ when states and territories have differing views.

scholarly journals Proposed GODORT Bylaw changes

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Government Documents Round Table
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Accurate Definition ◽  
Definition Of

In the accompanying document, text to be removed is indicated by strike though. Proposed new text is bolded and underlined.Purpose:To provide a clearer, more accurate definition of Task Forces, Interest Groups, and Discussion groups.To clarify the roles and differences between Task Forces, Interest Groups, and Discussion groups.To allow Interest Groups to have a voting member on steering.

The National War Labor Board and American State Building: A Response

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203
Author(s):  
Bartholomew H. Sparrow
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
State Building ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
American State

In his article “Creating the National War Labor Board: Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of State Building in the Early 1940s,” Andrew Workman argues for a revised “institutionalist” understanding of the creation of the National War Labor Board (NWLB). Specifically, Workman includes interest groups, networks of policy intellectuals, and intragovernmental relations in an institutionalist account of the origin of the NWLB. Existing accounts that focus on the government's dependence on labor unions (Sparrow) or partisan politics (Katznelson and Pietrokowski; Katznelson, Geiger, and Kryder) do not explain the complex origins of this key wartime board.

Internationale integratie als de vorming van een belangengemeenschap

Res Publica ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Frans Govaerts
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
International Integration ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Social Sectors ◽  
Group Interests ◽  
Integrative Processes

Comparisons between international integration and integrative processes on lower social levels or in other social sectors have rather been neglected in the recent development of integration theory. However, they might have taught something more about the dynamics of integrative processes in general. International integration here, is compared with the creation and development of multi-purpose or all-purpose interest groups. Both are viewed as dynamic social processes of increasing interdependence and interaction, which start from the recognition that individual interests might better be served by turning them info group-interests, through a process of successive compromises. Such social processes are accompanied by the creation of proper structures and by a shift of loyalty to the group or community-level.

Interest Groups and Policy Communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 423-445
Author(s):  
Iain MacLeod ◽  
Darren Halpin
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Scottish Government ◽  
Policy Communities ◽  
Policy Engagement ◽  
The Way

Devolution brought the potential for change in the way interest groups operated, the structure of policy communities, and the pattern of interaction with government. The creation of a Scottish Government represented a new site for lobbying and policy engagement. However, this change would not have a uniform effect across the board. This chapter examines the so-called ‘rise of the meso’ by comparing Scotland before and after devolution, but also comparing Scotland to other sub-state institutions around the world. We find that, whilst devolution certainly had an impact on how interest groups operate in Scotland, it is important not to overstate it. Indeed, the so-called ‘new politics’ that devolution was meant to espouse has to be used cautiously given the continued dominance of traditionally privileged groups to the policymaking process.

scholarly journals An Awareness of Asperger’s Syndrome Subcultures as an Answer to Surplus Suffering

INvoke ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Romanik ◽  
Benjamin Sperling
Keyword(s):  
Asperger Syndrome ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Mood Disorder ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Asperger's Syndrome ◽  
Asperger’S Syndrome ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
The Creation

Asperger Syndrome (AS) as a diagnosis and as a community has been heavily debated in its form across both medical and AS collectives. The cornerstone of many of these discourses has been around how stakeholders and special interest groups can work together to the benefit of the AS community at large. This paper sought to uncover the proper union of perspectives to promulgate the best outcome for those identified, or self-identified, under the AS label. By exploring both the medical and AS community perspective separately, a four-part argument was conceived showcasing the creation of AS as a recognized label; the subcultural groups born from this label; how discourses insensitive to theses varying groups can catalyze ‘surplus suffering’; and how subculture led discourses can bypass this surplus suffering. ‘The AS Mood Disorder Synthesis Loop’ was proposed as model of harm through which surplus suffering takes form.

scholarly journals Leaving Legacies Open-Ended: An Invitation for an Inclusive Debate on International Criminal Justice

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 205-208
Author(s):  
Eyal Benvenisti ◽  
Sarah M.H. Nouwen
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
International Law ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Tribunal ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
International Criminal Justice ◽  
International Criminal Tribunals ◽  
The Creation

As a response to the Symposium on the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda published by the American Journal of International Law on the occasion of the tribunals’ closure, this AJIL Unbound Symposium intends to broaden the debate on the “legacies” of those courts. The AJIL Symposium contains articles on the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR); the ad hoc tribunals’ jurisprudential contributions; and their extra-legal impacts and legacies. The concept of “legacy” is itself contested and the appropriateness of the courts’ own efforts to consolidate it may be questioned, especially as they have barely ended (or are about to end) their work. Nevertheless, their over two decades of existence does provide an occasion to assess all they have done and not done, and have affected, intentionally and unintentionally. Against that background, we have invited a group of scholars to respond to the AJIL Symposium and to reflect upon the work of the tribunals with a view to enriching the debate with more voices, from different regions, from different interest groups, and from different disciplines.

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