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In recent years there have been numerous calls for making the operations of international organizations more “transparent”. One element in these demands involves the idea that international negotiations should be open to the same level of outside scrutiny that is presumed to prevail with bargaining in domestic contexts. While transparency of this sort may have clear benefits by facilitating attempts to hold officials accountable, scholars have made less effort to consider whether making international bargaining more public might also have detrimental effects. I develop a game-theoretic model that provides four hypotheses about the relative benefits of open-door versus closed-door bargaining, and about the preferences of different actors with regard to this type of transparency. This model, which can be applied to both international and...
This paper puts forth the thesis that the management of non-profit organisations is often ill understood because we proceed from the wrong assumptions about how these organisations operate. Based on this premise, this paper develops a model of the non-profit form as a conglomerate of multiple organisations with multiple bottom lines that demand a variety of different management approaches and styles: a holistic conception that emphasises the diversity of orientations within and outside the organisation; a normative dimension that includes not only economic aspects but also the importance of values and politics; a strategic-developmental dimension that sees organisations as evolving systems encountering problems and opportunities that frequently involve fundamental dilemmas; and an operative dimension that deals with the everyday functi...
In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid 'servicing' occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions, feminist scholars have argued that new class and income inequalities are opening up between women as growing numbers of highly credentialised women enter full-time, permanent employment and others are restricted to casualised, low-paid work. However, it is also argued that working women's interests coincide because of their continued responsibility for domestic obligations and still-evident g...
La photographie a fait le tour du monde de nombreux magazines. On y voit une mère indienne d’âge mûr ; vêtue d’un sari chatoyant et les cheveux sagement tirés en un chignon rehaussé de fleurs, elle est parée de traditionnels bijoux de mariage. Tournée sur sa gauche, elle regarde sa fille : celle-ci, cheveux au vent, toute de vinyl moulant caparaçonnée, offre au regard un généreux décolleté, toisant l’objectif d’une moue fardée un rien provocante. On a beaucoup glosé sur l’image ainsi présentée aux lecteurs avides d’exotisme. Les temps changent, l’Inde n’est plus ce qu’elle était. Ce n’est pas seulement l’Inde qui a changé ; c’est aussi son statut dans l’imaginaire occidental. Ou plutôt, la multiplicité des registres auxquels il fait appel, entre les deux pôles convenus de « tradition » et « modernité ».
