Determinants of Collaborative Leadership: Civic Engagement, Gender or Organizational Norms?

This analysis attempts to unravel competing explanations of collaborative leadership styles of state legislative committee chairs. Specifically, the paper considers the influence of community or volunteer experience, gender, and institutional variables. The data show that women chairs are more likely than their male peers to cite as valuable the leadership skills and experiences that they gain through community and volunteer experience. Compared to their male colleagues, women committee chairs on average also report a greater reliance on collaborative strategies in the management of their committees. Prior community or volunteer experience has little or no direct effect on collaborative styles. In contrast, institutional factors have a much stronger and countervailing influence. Legislative professionalization produces a strong negative effect on collaborative style. Results suggest that conformity to institutional norms may be a more compelling influence than prior community experience. The analysis also points to the gendered nature of organizational leadership with men's and women's styles showing different associations to style depending on the number and power of women in a legislature.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Suono e Spettacolo. Athanasius Kircher, un percorso nelle Immagini sonore.

The Society of Jesus made great propaganda efforts throughout the seventeenth century and chose the images and the play as a privileged means to communicate and persuade. Athanasius Kircher, a key figure of the seventeenth century, he decided to dominate the wild nature of sound through Phonurgia Nova, which includes a gallery of powerful symbolic images for Baroque aesthetics. The essay, through the grant of the images from the Library of the Department of Mathematics "Guido Castelnuovo" Sapienza University of Rome, aims to understand, through the pictures offered by Kircher, the sound phenomenon and the spectacle that this produces. In Phonurgia Nova a process of dramatization sound effects takes place, often through machines and "visions" applied to the theatrical reality, as experimental and astonishing environment beloved in baroque. Kircher illustrates the sound through explanatory figures, so to dominate the sound through the eyes. Sound is seen, admired and represented: its spectacle not only takes place through the implementation of sound machines or the "wonders" applied to the theater, but even through images, creating create a sense of wonder in in the erudite person of the seventeenth century

The Professionalisation of Non-Denominational Religious Education in England: politics, organisation and knowledge

ArticleIn response to contemporary concerns, and using neglected primary sources, this article explores the professionalisation of teachers of Religious Education (RI/RE) in non-denominational, state-maintained schools in England. It does so from the launch of Religion in Education (1934) and the Institute for Christian Education at Home and Abroad (1935) to the founding of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (1973) and the British Journal of Religious Education (1978). Professionalisation is defined as a collective historical process in terms of three inter-related concepts: (1) professional self-organisation and professional politics, (2) professional knowledge, and (3) initial and continuing professional development. The article sketches the history of non-denominational religious education prior to the focus period, to contextualise the emergence of the professionalising processes under scrutiny. Professional self-organisation and professional politics are explored by reconstructing the origins and history of the Institute of Christian Education at Home and Abroad, which became the principal body offering professional development provision for RI/RE teachers for some fifty years. Professional knowledge is discussed in relation to the content of Religion in Education which was oriented around Christian Idealism and interdenominational networking. Changes in journal name in the 1960s and 1970s reflected uncertainties about the orientation of the subject and shifts in understanding over the nature and character of professional knowledge. The article also explores a particular case of resistance, in the late 1960s, to the prevailing consensus surrounding the nature and purpose of RI/RE, and the representativeness and authority of the pre-eminent professional body of the time. In conclusion, the article examines some implications which may be drawn from this history for the prospects and problems of the professionalisation of RE today

Good to be bad : should we be worried by the sharing economy?

We develop the notion of a legitimacy tipping point to demonstrate how informal economy practices are being utilized by innovative sharing economy ventures to gain a competitive advantage that is subsequently leveraged to reconfigure formal institutional arrangements. Companies who are able to scale rapidly can afford to contravene regulations, provided they have public support. When they reach a certain size, in terms of investment and customer numbers, regulators are forced into a reactive position where novel business models are legitimized. This raises an important question for regulators and entrepreneurs as to whether subverting business regulation is being viewed as a viable source of competitive advantage by scaling firms

Data for Undergraduate Political Science Courses: British Election Study, 2005

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Data for Undergraduate Political Science Courses datasets have been derived from three major public opinion studies: Eurobarometer 64.2: the European Constitution, Globalization, Energy Resources, and Agricultural Policy, October - November, 2005 (held at the UKDA under SN 5505); British Election Study, 2005 (BES) (held under SNs 5494-5496); and the British Social Attitudes Survey, 2005 (BSA) (held under SN 5618), for the purpose of teaching data analysis to undergraduates in political science. The datasets have been 'cleaned' in order to aid students using data for the first time. Some variables have been removed, many variable names have been changed to enable more substantive meaning to be taken from them, and new codebooks have been created for each of the three derived datasets. Further information may be found on the Development of Undergraduate Curricula in Quantitative Methods project web site, and the ESRC award web page.Main Topics:The study includes variables on British political behaviour and some basic demographic variables

Data for Undergraduate Political Science Courses: British Social Attitudes Survey, 2005

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Data for Undergraduate Political Science Courses datasets have been derived from three major public opinion studies: Eurobarometer 64.2: the European Constitution, Globalization, Energy Resources, and Agricultural Policy, October - November, 2005 (held at the UKDA under SN 5505); British Election Study, 2005 (BES) (held under SNs 5494-5496); and the British Social Attitudes Survey, 2005 (BSA) (held under SN 5618), for the purpose of teaching data analysis to undergraduates in political science. The datasets have been 'cleaned' in order to aid students using data for the first time. Some variables have been removed, many variable names have been changed to enable more substantive meaning to be taken from them, and new codebooks have been created for each of the three derived datasets. Further information may be found on the Development of Undergraduate Curricula in Quantitative Methods project web site, and the ESRC award web page.Main Topics:The study includes variables on British political attitudes and some basic demographic variables.<br