Political Innovation Research Articles

Liberty, Equality, Slavery

Abstract: During the winter of 1789–90, contemporaries in Paris observed intense controversy over the future of the lucrative colonial slave trade. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, in proclaiming all men free and equal, raised questions about the legality of slaving. Both the abolitionist Society of the Friends of the Blacks and proslavery commercial lobbyists representing France’s chambers of commerce, influenced by developments in Britain and the United States, sought to force the slave trade onto the legislative agenda. Countering a consensus that the French revolutionaries never confronted the problem of the slave trade, this essay looks beyond the floor of the National Constituent Assembly to reveal the high-stakes debates that played out largely shielded from public view: in correspondence, in legislative committees, in the Jacobin Club, and in private meetings. This contest served as a proving ground for France’s new representative government and an engine for political innovation, engaging a broad cast of nonelected political actors in the process of lawmaking. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, revolutionaries voted overwhelmingly to reconcile liberty, equality, and slavery, establishing precedents for future regimes.

External policy of the European Union as a late-Westphalian political innovation

This article looks at the European Union’s external policy as a late-Westphalian political innovation. The article assumes that the external activity of the European Union goes beyond the classical framework of foreign policy, which is usually considered an attribute of the state, and the EU itself, as a hybrid entity, formulates and implements external policy. The latter has a normative and functional character, which means that the basis of the EU’s presence in the world is a set of specific rules, tools and organizational structures allowing for actions that not only complement the foreign policy of the member states but also go beyond its framework. European Union’s late-Westphalian external policy is based on three pillars – multilateralism, normative plasticity, and hybridism, which when considered collectively create an image of the EU’s activity beyond the model of classical diplomacy and interstate cooperation.

Ein Update zu digitalen Interventionen in der Logopädie/Sprachtherapie

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, digitalization in speech language therapy has progressed rapidly. Teletherapy, in particular, has become part of regular speech language therapy, as it has been reimbursed by German health insurance companies since March 2020. At the same time, political innovations such as the E-Health Act (E-Health-Gesetz, 2015), the Act to Improve Healthcare Provision through Digitalization and Innovation (Digital Healthcare Act – DVG, 2019), and the law on digital modernization of healthcare (DVPMG) (2021) offered new opportunities but also generate (future) tasks for speech and language therapists. For example, since the DVG was approved, applications (apps) can be prescribed by physicians and the statutory health insurance pays for them. In addition, speech language therapists are also to be connected to the telematics infrastructure starting in 2026. These and other digital innovations offer a variety of opportunities for improved care in speech language therapy but also incorporate new duties and responsibilities in the professional range of tasks of speech and language therapists. In order to be able to specify requirements and critically accompany (new) technological developments, it is highly relevant that speech language therapists acquire a critically reflected attitude towards digital technologies to acquire or expand digital competence. In addition, goal-oriented political frameworks and specifications are of enormous importance for successful implementation of digital technologies in speech language therapy Keywords: aphasia,

Uniqueness of the human person: Its implication on politics, Economy, Education and religion

The beauty of nature lies in uniqueness. Every created thing in the universe wears this cloak of uniqueness. In creation, the creator never creates two things with the same mould. This is to say that after creating a single entity the creator destroys the mould. No two things are of the same nature with another, even those in the same family or of the same species. Coming to the human family, the same uniqueness is applicable. No two human beings are the same, even between identical twins there are still always that marks of identification. This shows that every human being is meant to act himself, for he has no replica. Every human person has a unique content and container, meaning that any form of competition and comparison in one's life is stifles creativity and innovation. Hence, this work is out to liberate humanity from the aged long monster of squeezing individuals into a single mould. It will do a critical analysis and exposition on the power of uniqueness via creativity and innovation in politics, economy, education and religion. Hence, the clarion call “Give me chance to act myself, do not squeeze me in the same mould, I have no replica!”.

Research on Ideological and Political Innovation Path of Accounting Major in Higher Vocational Colleges from the Perspective of Aesthetic Education

From the perspective of aesthetic education, we should constantly attach importance to the ideological and political construction of the curriculum in the teaching of accounting, which requires students to have good moral quality. In the teaching of accounting major, we should integrate the study of ideological and political education into the curriculum, dissect the thoughts behind the study of accounting major, and ensure that students' thoughts can be cultivated during the study of accounting major to give full play to the role of ideological and political education of the curriculum. This paper introduces the significance of ideological and political education in accounting courses, and discusses how to use various teaching methods to achieve the integration of professional education and curriculum ideological and political education.

Digitalisasi Demokrasi dalam Penerapan E-Voting Pada Pilkades di Kabupaten Bantaeng, Sulawesi Selatan

This study aims to analyze the digitalization of democracy in the implementation of e-voting in Pilkades in Bantaeng Regency, South Sulawesi. This study is based on qualitative research by gathering data through observation, interviews and questionnaires. The results of this study indicate that, first, the implementation of e-voting policies as a political innovation is carried out by formulating policies, namely compiling regulation as the first step in the process of public policy innovation. Second, the process of implementing e-voting consist of several stages, namely the stages of the preparation, nomination, voting, final recapitulation and inauguration where the preparatory stage to the final recapitulation is not much different from the conventional Pilkades implementation (paper based). The difference lies more in the use of electronic systems. The form of using electronic application in voting through the direct electronic recording (DRE) system. Third, evaluation of the e-voting policy based on the five aspects evaluated related to the implementation of e-voting in village head elections, as a whole that the five aspects which include effectiveness, efficiency, fairness, adequacy and responsiveness can be stated that the process has been carried out properly in accordance with the indicators or standard e-voting implementation criteria in village head election. Furthermore, evaluation of fie aspects is also a concern for the government regarding improvement to the implementation of e-voting in village head election. With improvements in some of these aspects, it can be stated that the application of e-voting in village head election as a political innovation can be continued as part of the process of digitizing democracy.

Социальные ресурсы: понятие и детерминация в современной отечественной социологии

Introduction. The article discusses the content and research field of the concept of "social resources". The relevance of the study is due to the society's need for progressive development, which involves the accumulation of available social resources. The purpose of the work is to determine the research field for the concept of "social resources", which will determine the semantic basis of the modern research interest of domestic sociological science. Methods.The methodological basis of the study is a quantitative method of document analysis (content analysis) and a comparative approach. The empirical basis of the study was the data obtained on the RSCI website. The concept of "social resources" is defined as a semantic unit of analysis. The unit of account is a scientific publication. The analysis was based on the effect of conjugation of the concept of "social resources" with other concepts used together as key words in scientific publications of the RSCI. The analysis showed that such social phenomena as social capital has a significant impact on the development of social resources; human capital; social networks; youth; region; control; political innovations; civil society; confidence; personal resources; education; a family; social adaptation; social potential; economic resources; adaptation; the quality of life; resource potential; rural areas. At the same time, the semantic field of the concept of "social capital" implies the semantic field of the concept of "social resources". The obtained results are consistent with the opinion of such scientists as Yakovleva N.I., P. Bourdieu, Drozdova Yu.A., Dyatlov A.V., Zotov V.V., Prelikova E.A., Yadova M.A., Yadov V.A., Boyarinova I.V., Nachkebia M.S., Tikhonova N.E., Ildarkhanova Ch.I. Results and its discussion. It is summarized that social resources are closely related to social capital and territorial specificity. This is a multicomponent concept that has social and economic components (with dominance in the sociological field), including the totality of the entire resource base of social actors that are part of a specific territorial community.

“A spirit of strange meaning”: The Chinese Roots of Wordsworth’s Monism in The Ruined Cottage

ABSTRACT In both his life and poetry, The Ruined Cottage marked a decisive breakthrough for Wordsworth, which resulted from his daring adoption and sustained use of a monistic idea. Though hitherto mostly dismissed or construed as a derivative of Platonism, Stoicism, Christian mysticism, and/or other conventional English and European concepts and usually seen as part of his supposedly quietist retreat from radical politics, the philosophy of One Life which Wordsworth promoted was in reality a recognizably unconventional conceptual innovation, which indeed made possible his poetic and political innovations in The Ruined Cottage and beyond. In the larger context of ideas that extends well beyond England and Europe and involves in particular the Chinese cosmological belief in tianren heyi or humanity’s unity with heaven, this essay explores Wordsworth’s innovative use of monism in The Ruined Cottage and argues for a significantly different understanding of Wordsworth and the related rise of English Romanticism.

Obstacles to successful curriculum management in higher education and opportunities for improvement

Curriculum change is needed to achieve high-quality learning, resulting from economic, social, and political innovations. Therefore, effective curriculum management is a critical component of higher education. Previous literature reveals obstacles and opportunities regarding the curriculum management process. This paper reviews the resources implemented as a result of a survey conducted to assess the curriculum processes at a private university to remove barriers from the curriculum management process.

Luisa Capetillo and the Pedagogy of Unruliness

This essay studies how the writings and praxis of loud-reading in tobacco factories of the Puerto Rican anarcha-feminist Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) exemplifies what can be called a “pedagogy of unruliness.” This hypothesis is that unruliness is a teachable form of knowledge irreducible to the modern conceptualization of “power/knowledge.” The essay examines how in Capetillo’s writings knowledge, intelligence, and literature become something else through a pedagogical praxis, a “stealing” of knowledge from the institutions of power. It compares Capetillo’s praxis with the theoretical texts of Paulo Freire, Ángel Rama, Ivan Illich, and Jacques Ranciere. It also supports work on the increasing bibliography about Capetillo’s literary and political innovations.

قومی ریاست:علامہ محمداقبال اور مولاناحسین احمدمدنی کےافکارکاتنقیدی مطالعہ

In this paper, the thoughts of Allama Muhammad Iqbāl and Maulana Ḥussain Ahmad Madanī related to nationality, patriotism and national state have been discussed and their critical evaluation has been done. Europe was the initiator of the political innovation of nationalism and patriotism in the nineteenth century and it is an effective political weapon in the world. As a result, many national-states came into existence, the Muslim caliphate ended and the unity of Muslims was fragmented. Allama Iqbāl visualized this political consiperacy of Europe timely. He considered it allarming for Muslim ummah. He warned all the Muslims against the Western intrigues and political tantacles. It can be concluded that Allama Iqbāl gave the Muslims of the subcontinent the dream of a separate homeland and he was active in practical politics for it. But Maulana Ḥussain Ahmad Madanī was against the separate Muslim State and had the opinon that India was their homeland and all those who lived in it were one nation. They would not allow the homeland and the nation to be divided.

Deep Learning of Subject Context in Ideological and Political Class Based on Recursive Neural Network.

Ideological and political education is the most important way to cultivate students' humanistic qualities, which can directly determine the development of other qualities. However, at present, the direction of ideological and political innovation in higher vocational colleges is vague. In response to this problem, this study proposes a model based on HS-EEMD-RNN. First, the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) method is used to decompose the measured values, and then the recurrent neural network (RNN) is used to train each component and the remaining items. Finally, through the mapping relationship obtained by the model, the response prediction value of each component and the remaining items can be obtained. In the RNN training process, the harmony search (HS) algorithm is introduced to optimize it, and the noise is systematically denoised. Perturbation is used to obtain the optimal solution, thereby optimizing the weight and threshold of the RNN and improving the robustness of the model. The study found that, compared with EEMD-RNN, HS-EEMD-RNN has a better effect, because HS can effectively improve the training and fitting accuracy. The fitting accuracy of the HS-EEMD-RNN model after HS optimization is 0.9918. From this conclusion, the fitting accuracy of the HS-EEMD-RNN model is significantly higher than that of the EEMD-RNN model. In addition, four factors, career development, curriculum construction, community activities, and government support, have obvious influences on ideological and political classrooms in technical colleges. The use of recurrent neural networks in the research direction of deep and innovative research on the subject context of ideological and political classrooms can significantly improve the prediction accuracy of its development direction.

Research on the Model Construction of Foreign Language Ideological and Political Innovation Teaching Team Based on ‘Four Pairs and One Series’

Research on the Model Construction of Foreign Language Ideological and Political Innovation Teaching Team Based on ‘Four Pairs and One Series’

Firm-level political risk and corporate innovation: evidence from US listed firms

PurposeThe study examines the association between firm-level political risk and corporate innovation and also this study explores how financial constraint and growth level of a firm influence this association.Design/methodology/approach A sample of 14,140 firm-year observations of the US firms from 2003 to 2020 is used. Unlike prior studies, this study uses a firm-level measure of political risk recently developed by Hassan et al. (2019) and measure innovation by patent and patent citation data and a text-based measure. A regression technique is used for empirical testing.FindingsThis study finds that firm-level political risk is negatively associated with innovation and also document that firm-level political risk has a negative impact on innovation for financially constrained and high growth firms. The overall results are robust after addressing the issue of potential endogeneity using entropy balancing and two-stage least squares regression techniques. This study also documents qualitatively consistent results after using alternative measures of innovation as well as firm-level political uncertainty.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this study could help the managers to make better investment decision and improve economic efficiency through understanding the effect of firm-level political risk on innovation activities.Originality/valueThe study concentrates on firm-level political risk and innovation and presents new insights that political risk at the microlevel is an important determinant for investment in innovative activities.

Elite Transformation Towards Good Governance in Nigeria

ABSTRACT Understanding the scope of elite transformation towards good governance in developing countries’ polities is no doubt fastidious amid attendant context fluidity, institutional instabilities, and literature paucity. Nigeria’s post-colonial polity has witnessed various structural changes, especially in political regime and economic resources. Since the 1999 transition to democracy, no regime breakdown occurred. Curiously, the Nigerian polity has been experiencing spasmodic ethnic clashes, the onslaught of the menacing Boko Haram terror group, the economy disruptive Niger Delta insurgencies, and acute youth discontent with protests often countered with violence by state security agents. Moreover, social infrastructure provision for economic growth and development remains extensively precarious or non-existent. Most vexingly, systematic knowledge about the transformability of the policy decisive and often-critiqued political elite is deficient or sparsely jumbled. Much has been extolled about governance per se, yet context-relative and data-oriented knowledge remain scanty. To what extent is the Nigerian political executive elite composition transforming towards good governance since 1999? The article focuses on the Nigerian political elite transformability through good governance lenses and practices. It draws from relevant elite theories and governance approaches that underscore the methodology. It contends that the political elite innovation remains stagnant, despite relevant structural changes. The findings reveal insignificant elite dynamics towards good governance.

Emissions cuts take political and social innovation too

Emissions cuts take political and social innovation too

Research on the integration of curriculum ideological and political education, innovation and entrepreneurship education into professional curriculum system in higher vocational colleges under the new engineering background

Under the background of new engineering, the traditional curriculum can no longer meet the purpose of talent training in higher vocational colleges. The curriculum system, curriculum resources, teaching staff, etc. need to be improved, especially the curriculum system should keep pace with The Times. This paper mainly studies the integration of Curriculum ideological and political education, Innovation and entrepreneurship education into the construction of professional curriculum system in higher vocational colleges under the background of new engineering. It mainly includes the overall framework, basic content and research value of the research. It also has reference value for other related majors. It plays an important demonstration and radiation role in the integration of subjects in school and the extension of influence outside school, and steadily improves the construction and teaching quality of professional courses in higher vocational colleges.

К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ИННОВАЦИЯХ В ВЕНГЕРСКОЙ КОММЕМОРАТИВНОЙ НУМИЗМАТИКЕ

The article contains a characteristic of some of the innovations in the development of Hungarian numismatic products over the past decades. The author examines interesting trends in the production of commemorative coins, characterizes metal, size, weight and shape of products, indicates the circulation and thematic of the coins. Particular attention is paid to the combination of national traditions of Hungary in numismatic products and political innovations. The author underlines those trends and inventions that can be borrowed by other countries.

Research on the improvement of teachers’ “SiChuang” education and teaching ability in higher vocational colleges under the new engineering background

The cultivation of talents in the new engineering era has put forward new requirements for higher vocational education. The improvement of teaching ability of teachers in Higher Vocational Colleges plays an important role in the process of talent training. Teacher is the direct participants of teaching, and should coordinate with the orientation of cultivating new engineering talents. Teachers of traditional curriculum teaching content and teaching methods can’t meet the demand of the new talents cultivation, It is urgent to integrate ideological and political elements, innovation and entrepreneurship education elements into the curriculum. This poses a challenge to teachers’ ability of “SiChuang”. This paper mainly expounds the research on the improvement of teachers’ “SiChuang” education and teaching ability in Higher Vocational Colleges from the research background, research content and research significance. In the process of learning professional knowledge, students can subtly shape their correct core values, innovation and entrepreneurship consciousness, thinking and ability. Realize the goal of “Three-wide Education”and cultivating people with virtue.

The Politics of Clemency in the Early American Presidency: Power Inherited, Power Refashioned

AbstractThis article presents case studies of pardons in the presidencies of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. In doing so, the article moves away from the idea in existing scholarship that pardons of the past were largely noble acts of statecraft, untouched by ideological, partisan, or personal political motivations. Instead, it develops an account of how and why these pardons should be understood as both enabling presidents to achieve certain political objectives and, simultaneously, operating in an inherited environment in which presidents used existing resources to legitimate their pardons. In so doing, presidents refashioned those inherited resources and, thereby, created new resources for future presidents. The picture that emerges is of pardons as both sources of political innovation and political constraint.