Download or read book Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance written by R. A. Wicklund and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1976, Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.

Download or read book The Elements of Confederate Defeat written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Why the South Lost the Civil War, four historians considered the dominant explanations of southern defeat. At end, the authors found that states' rights disputes, the Union blockade, and inadequate southern forces did not fully account for the surrender. Rather, they concluded, the South lacked the will to win. Its strength sapped by a faltering Confederate nationalism and weakened by a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism, the South withdrew from a war not yet lost on the field of battle. Roughly one-half the size of its parent study, The Elements of Confederate Defeat retains all the essential arguments of the earlier edition, forming for the student a book that at once follows the events of the war and presents the major interpretations of its outcome in the South.

Download or read book How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people—Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others—and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a “Cold War rationality.” Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.

Download or read book The Art and Science of Psychological Operations written by American Institutes for Research and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Policy Making Reexamined written by Yehezkel Dror and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies. Although it caused much controversy when it was first published for its systematic approach to policy studies, the book is acknowledged as a modern classic of continuing importance for the teaching and research of public policy, planning and policy analysis, and public administration. The paperback includes a new introduction updating and supplementing many of the author's original ideas.Professor Dror combines the approaches of policy analysis, behavioral science, and systems analysis in his examination of the reality of public policymaking and his suggestions for its reform. Actual policymaking is carefully evaluated with the help of explicit criteria and standards based on an optimal model approach, resulting in detailed proposals for improvement. He applies a scientific orientation to the study of social facts and theory.

Download or read book Unleashing Change written by Steven Kelman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publication This is a hopeful account of the potential for organizational change and improvement within government. Despite the mantra that "people resist change," it is possible to effect meaningful reform in a large bureaucracy. In Unleashing Change, public management expert Steven Kelman presents a blueprint for accomplishing such improvements, based on his experience orchestrating procurement reform in the 1990s. Kelman's focuses on making change happen on the front lines, not just getting it announced by senior policymakers. He argues that frequently there will be a constituency for change within government organizations. The role for leaders is not to force change on the unwilling but to unleash the willing, and to persist long enough for the change to become institutionalized. Drawing on the author's own personal experience and extensive research among frontline civil servants, as well as literature in organization theory and psychology, Unleashing Change presents an approach for improving agency performance from soup to nuts—mixing theory with practice. Its analysis is innovative and empirically rich. Kelman's conclusions challenge conventional notions about achieving reform in large organizations and mark a major advance in theories of organizational change. His lessons will be of interest not only to scholars interested in improving the performance of the public sector, but for anyone struggling to manage a large organization. "Steve Kelman's creative research, augmented by his own considerable experience as a reform-minded federal official, gives this book unusual depth and authenticity."—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

Download or read book Technical Report written by Human Resources Research Organization and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Quest for a General Theory of Leadership written by George R. Goethals and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a most robust look at the study of leadership while representing multiple disciplines in a quest to find agreement about leadership and theory. Russ Volckmann, International Leadership Review In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the conclusions and questions that arose from it. The early chapters describe how, in order to discuss an integrative theory, the group first wrestled with the nature of theory as well as basic aspects of the human condition that make leadership necessary and possible. They then tackle topics such as: the many faces of power woven into the leadership fabric; crucial elements of group dynamics and the leader follower relationship; ethical issues lying at the heart of leadership; constructivist perspectives on leadership, causality, and social change; and the historical and cultural contexts that influence and are influenced by leadership. The book concludes with a commentary by Joanne Ciulla and an Afterword by James MacGregor Burns. The contributors thorough coverage of leadership, as well as their approach to this unique undertaking, will be of great interest to leaders, students and scholars of leadership.

Download or read book What Lies Beneath written by Steven Cohen and published by Now Found Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some say truth is relative...some say truth doesn’t exist...However, there is something that holds all things secure, stronger than any support structure we could manufacture, more reliable than any knowledge we could gain: TRUTH. That standard can only come from one place and it’s not us, our experiences, or anyone else’s opinion of who we are.What Lies Beneath is designed to help us explore what lie or lies exist beneath beliefs, emotions, and experiences and how they affect us. Join speaker and teacher, Steven Cohen, on this transformational journey from lies to Love as we find What Lies Beneath.

Download or read book Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan written by Margaret McKean and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Download or read book Re examining Development written by Sun-Ki Chai and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Department of the Army Pamphlet written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Development written by Norman T. Uphoff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1964 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Download or read book The Law of the Spirit written by John Anthony Bertone and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul's explication of the relationship between the Spirit and Law in Romans 8 has been the subject of protracted scholarly debate. In Romans 7:6 Spirit and Law are set in opposition to each other. However, in Romans 8:4 they appear conjoined, operating in a more harmonious manner. With the use of cognitive dissonance theory, this book proposes that Paul perceived a state of dissonance between covenantal nomism and his post-Damascus cognitions on the Spirit. As a result, he attempts to reduce the qualitative distinction between these two clusters of cognitions by establishing cognitive overlap between them and by striving to achieve social validation for his cognitions within his own fictive family of Roman believers with whom he shared the experience of the Spirit.

Download or read book Attitude Psychology and the Study of Public Opinion written by Forrest P. Chisman and published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical analysis of political behavior studies has prime importance for students of social and behavioral science--as well as journalists and politicians--in view of the enormous influence of such studies. The author finds studies that attempt to combine attitude psychology with traditional ideas about public opinion seriously wanting because of their neglect of the impact of issues as individual voters perceive them. Public opinion researchers have failed to identify motives for votes largely because they have assumed that each citizen's choices must be determined by attitudes toward matters of general concern. "They do not consider the possibility that votes might be determined by attitudes toward a variety of different matters, each of concern fairly few people." The relationship of public opinion to government decision making also is unexplained, Dr. Chisman holds, because of the assumption that "correspondences between government decisions and public views must be due to the influence of public opinion, transmitted by members of the public elite, upon members of government." Neglected is the reverse possibility: " these correspondences might be due to the influence of government and the elite upon public opinion."