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This paper attempts to compare and contrast the public-service-provision paradigms during the Ottoman era and the post-2001 crisis, i.e. the Justice and Development Party (AKP) period in Turkey with a focus on social supports. Regarding the social services/supports targeting the lowest-income population, the legacy of vakıf has been re-interpreted in the latter period with the increase in the service capacity of the two vakıf-related entities (the Social Assistance and Solidarity Vakıfs and the Directorate General of Vakıfs). However, this paper argues that these vakıf institutions per se cannot provide credible commitment for social insurance during the economic depressions although the quality of political commitment has strenghtened over the last decade.
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This paper traces the incorporation of Islam in the administration of Malaysia/ Malaya before, during and after British rule. It concludes that Islam has indeed contributed to Malaysia’s administration and its political thinking but with a few qualifications. First, the infusion of Islamic values in local administration, in the precolonial period, was tempered with the need to incorporate the Malay idea of Kerajaan where the Raja (the King), not the Malay race or an Islamic Umma was the key object of loyalty. Second, even when British law and administration became vehicles for the Islamization process of the Malayan polity the incorporation of Islamic values in public administration had to be reconciled with the demands of an increasingly plural Malayan polity. Finally, instead of legislating Islamic behavior and punishing non-conformance, post-independent Malaysia has chosen a more subtle option of making Islamic behavior readily achievable by invoking a moderation ethos like Islam Hadhari and Wassatiyah.
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This paper explores the approach, structure and content of a graduate Public Administration curriculum suitable for an Islamic Arab state, focussing on the United Arab Emirates, but which may have broader implications for other Islamic states as well as for international dimensions of multicultural non-Islamic states. The approach draws on Weberian comparative historical sociology, Habermasian concepts of legitimacy, domination and colonisation, comparative management, post-colonial critiques and Islamic administrative scholarship. There are three main sections to this paper: 1) the nature of the problem including a discussion of globalisation, a critique of international, comparative, development, internationalised and indigenous public administration, and expatriate academic labour and their recolonising effects; 2) general curricular principles upon which an appropriate curriculum can be built, including internationalisation and programme criteria that include indigenous content; and 3) a course level discussion that includes course criteria and examples of more appropriate content.
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In 1959, in the provincial town of Opole, Poland, population 50,000, sixty miles from Auschwitz, Jerzy Grotowski (to be referred to, henceforth, simply as Grotowski) was named director of Teatr 13 Rz" dow, the Theater of Thirteen Rows. Traveling a conventional route in terms of training and experience, he drew from it the fullest benefit and advantage to be named to this position. Here, at the age of 26, Grotowski was to begin to push to its limits, both the socialist principle of total state subsidy, and the utopian vision of theater formulated by Stanislavsky and others of a "spiritual naturalism."
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In this short essay I am attempting to explore the part that the location - the spatial and geographic situatedness, in as much as real and/or material - plays within the mechanisms and the dynamics of subjectivization. Here I am referring to a complex/complicated historico-politico cultural/national Subject, and more specifically to the Balkan (or/and the Southeast European) Subject with respect to the European Subject.
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