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Institutionalism: Intergovernmental Exchange, Administration-Centered Behavior, And Policy Outcomes In Urban Agencies, Herman L. Boschken
Institutionalism: Intergovernmental Exchange, Administration-Centered Behavior, And Policy Outcomes In Urban Agencies, Herman L. Boschken
Herman L. Boschken
This article inquires about the sufficiency of institutional exchange theory in explaining the impacts of intergovernmental power structure on agency policy making. Based on rational behavior, transactional exchange, and game playing, this so called new institutionalism points to the degree of autonomy held by an agency in its collaboration with other government jurisdictions as a principal determinant of a patterned bias in agency policy outcomes. The author first summarizes theory arguments and derives hypotheses about agency outcomes that are skewed to favor some interests over others. He then reports results of a multiple regression analysis of a sample of forty-two …
Global Shift In Container Traffic And Its Implications For Economic Development Along The American Land Bridge, Herman L. Boschken
Global Shift In Container Traffic And Its Implications For Economic Development Along The American Land Bridge, Herman L. Boschken
Herman L. Boschken
Since the “container revolution” in the 1970s, seaports on the Pacific Coast have been the engines of economic development, regionally, nationally and globally. But circumstances continue to change that threaten the long-term viability of the intermodal “land bridge” system that emerged from that revolution. These circumstances include railroads not maintaining rail lines critical to transcontinental container traffic and the shift in the locus of global production that raises the question of obsolescence for the existing infrastructure moving trade West to East from the Pacific Rim. The implications are enormous, especially for policy makers at the regional and local levels as …
Blick Zurück Auf Den Memex: Anmerkungen Zu Vannevar Bushs Aufsatz »As We May Think«, Michael Friedewald
Blick Zurück Auf Den Memex: Anmerkungen Zu Vannevar Bushs Aufsatz »As We May Think«, Michael Friedewald
Michael Friedewald
Vannevar Bush‘s essay »As we may think« published in July 1945 is one of the most frequently cited texts of modern technical literature. This article examines the seinen Grund in der Ikonen- historical background and the goal that famous analog computing pioneer and policy advisor Vannevar Bush pursued with it.
Erkenntnistheoretische Grundlagen Des Lernens: Lernen Als Verallgemeinerung, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Erkenntnistheoretische Grundlagen Des Lernens: Lernen Als Verallgemeinerung, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, ein Projekt der am Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik (IDM) in Bielefeld beheimateten Arbeitsgruppe Erkenntnistheoretische und semiotische Grundlagen des Mathematik-Lernens vorzustellen und in eine bestimmte Richtung mathematikdidaktischer Forschung einzuordnen, wie sie von Michael Otte vertreten wird, dem Leiter der genannten Arbeitsgruppe. Dabei geht es insbesondere um mögliche Beziehungen zwischen Philosophie und Mathematik-Didaktik.