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Rajneeti Vigyan B.A. First Year - M.P. University: राजनीति विज्ञान बी.ए. प्रथम वर्ष – एम. पी. यूनिवर्सिटी
by J. Shyamsundram C. P. Sharmaराजनीति विज्ञान विषय की यह पुस्तक बी.ए. प्रथम वर्ष के लिए है, जिसे नये यू.जी.सी. के विभिन्न विश्वविद्यालयों के लिए एकीकृत पाठ्यक्रम के अनुसार तैयार किया गया है। यह पुस्तक अन्य पुस्तकों की तुलना में कई दृष्टियों से भिन्न है, पुस्तक पूर्णतया नये विभिन्न विश्वविद्यालयों के एकीकृत पाठ्यक्रम पर आधारित है। पुस्तक की विषय-सामग्री को आवश्यकतानुसार घटा-बढ़ाकर नया रूप दिया गया है। अध्ययन सामग्री को सन्तुलित रखा गया है, अर्थात् न बहुत अधिक और न बहुत कम। पुस्तक में उस समस्त सामग्री का उपयोग किया गया है, जो इस पर प्राप्त है।
Rajneeti Vigyan B.A. First Year Sem-I - M.P. University
by Pukharaj JainRajneeti Vigyan text book According to the Latest Syllabus for B.A. First Year Sem-I from M.P. University in hindi.
Rajneeti Vigyan B.A (CBCS) Sem-III -Ranchi University, N.P.U
by J. C. Johari Rashmi SharmaRajneeti Vigyan text book According to the Latest Syllabus based on Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for B.A Sem-III from Ranchi University, Nilambar Pitambar University in hindi.
Rajneeti Vigyan B.A (Hons.) Sem-IV (Core 8, Core 9 & Core 10) -Ranchi University, N.P.U
by B. L. FadiyaRajneeti Vigyan text book According to the Latest Syllabus based on Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for B.A (Hons.) Sem-IV (Core 8, Core 9 & Core 10) from Ranchi University, Nilambar Pitambar University in hindi.
Rajneeti Vigyan B.A (Hons.) Sem-V (Core Course 11, & Core Course 12) - Ranchi University N.P.U: राजनीति विज्ञान बी. ए. (ऑनर्स) (पंचम-सेमेस्टर) कोर-11 और कोर-12 – रांची युनिवर्सिटी, एन.पि.यू.
by B. L. Fadiyaराजनीति विज्ञान बी. ए. (ऑनर्स) प्रस्तुत पुस्तक रांची विश्वविद्यालय, रांची के बी. ए. (ऑनर्स), सेमेस्टर V के नवीनतम संशोधित पाठ्यक्रम को आधार बनाकर तैयार की गयी है। पुस्तक में निम्नांकित दो प्रश्न - पत्रों को पाठ्यक्रमानुसार संक्षिप्त में प्रस्तुत किया गया है। इस पाठ्यपुस्तक में कोर-11 में नौकरशाही (BUREAUCRACY), कोर-12 में तुलनात्मक राजनीतिक विश्लेषण (COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ANALYSIS) इन मुद्दो को विस्तार में समजाया गया है।
Rajneeti Vigyan class 12 - RBSE Board: राजनीति विज्ञान कक्षा 12 - आरबीएसई बोर्ड
by Madhyamik Shiksha Board Rajasthan Ajmerराजनीति विज्ञान इस पाठ्यपुस्तक में अनेक विचारकों व विद्वानों के मौलिक कथन एवं विश्लेषण को शामिल किया गया है। राजनीति विज्ञान विषय के विभिन्न सिद्धान्तों व विचारों को शामिल किया गया है। पुस्तक के प्रथम खण्ड 'अ' में प्रचलित अवधारणाओं का वर्तमान वैश्विक परिदृश्य के संदर्भ में विश्लेषण किया गया है। पुस्तक में 'धर्म' जैसे शाश्वत प्रत्यय के अतिरिक्त वैश्वीकरण और आतंकवाद के नवीन स्वरूप को प्रस्तुत करने का प्रयास किया गया है।
Rajniti Siddhant Ki Rooprekha-An Introduction To Political Theory
by O. P. Gauba“राजनीति-सिद्धांत की रूपरेखा’ के सप्तम संस्करण के अंतर्गत जगह-जगह नए संशोधन-परिवर्धन किए गए हैं, और अद्यतन सामग्री का समावेश किया गया है। विवेच्य विषय के निरंतर विस्तारशील स्वरूप को ध्यान रखते हुए इसमें कई नए, महत्त्वपूर्ण प्रकरण जोड़े गए हैं। ‘विचारधारा की संकल्पना’ के अंतर्गत ‘नारीवाद’ (Feminism) का संक्षिप्त परिचय जोड़ा गया है। ‘राज्य का स्वरूप: विविध परिप्रेक्ष्य’ के अंतर्गत दो नए, विस्तृत प्रकरण जोड़े गए हैं: ‘नारीवादी परिप्रेक्ष्य’ (Feminist Perspective) और ‘बहुलवादी परिप्रेक्ष्य’ (Pluralist Perspective) फिर, ‘लोकतंत्र के समकालीन सिद्धांत’ के अंतर्गत यहां दो नए प्रकरण यथास्थान जोड़ दिए गए हैं: ‘विचारणात्मक लोकतंत्र का सिद्धांत’ (Theory of Deliberative Democracy) और ‘लोकतंत्र का विरोधाभास’ (Paradox of Democracy)। ‘न्याय की संकल्पना’ के अंतर्गत ‘समुदायवादी दृष्टिकोण’ (Communitarian View) से जुड़े प्रकरण का प्रचुर विस्तार किया गया है। इसमें समुदायवाद (Communitarianism) के मुख्य-मुख्य उन्नायकों के योगदान की चर्चा करते हुए ‘जॉन सल्स के न्याय-सिद्धांत की समुदायवादी समालोचना’ (Communitarian Critique of John Rawls’s Theory of Justice) पर विस्तृत प्रकाश डाला गया है।
Rajniti Vigyan Vishwakosh-Encyclopedia of Political Science
by O. P Guaba‘राजनीति विज्ञान विश्वकोश’ का प्रस्तुत संस्करण एक तरह से नया लिखा गया है। इसकी बहुत सारी प्रविष्टियां नई हैं, और अधिकांश प्रविष्टियां नए ढंग से लिखी गई हैं। इस संस्करण के अंतर्गत राजनीति विज्ञान की मुख्य-मुख्य शाखाओं से जुड़े विषयों पर स्वाधीन तथा विस्तृत निबंध सम्मिलित किए गए हैं। जहां प्रस्तुत लेखक के ‘विवेचनात्मक राजनीति विज्ञान कोश’ (Conceptual Dictionary of Political Science) का प्रयोग एक व्यष्टि-विश्वकोश या ‘माइक्रोपीडिया’ (Micropedia) के रूप में किया जा रहा है, वहां ‘राजनीति विज्ञान विश्वकोश’ को समष्टि-विश्वकोश या ‘मैक्रोपीडिया’ (Macropedia) का रूप देने का प्रयत्न किया गया है। वैसे ये दोनों कृतियां अपने-आप में पूर्ण और एक-दूसरे से सर्वथा स्वाधीन हैं।
Rajyashastra class 11 - Maharashtra Board: राज्यशास्त्र इयत्ता अकरावी - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneराज्यशास्त्र इयत्ता अकरावी हे पुस्तक महाराष्ट्र राज्य पाठ्यपुस्तक निर्मिती व अभ्यासक्रम संशोधन मंडळ, पुणे यांनी लेखन केले आहे तसेच श्री. विवेक उत्तम गोसावी यांनी हे पुस्तक मराठी भाषेमध्ये प्रकाशित केले आहे. पाठ्यपुस्तकामध्ये चार विभाग केले आहेत - राजकीय संकल्पना, तुलनात्मक शासनसंस्था, लोकप्रशासन आणि आंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंध, या प्रत्येक विभागाची सुरुवात त्या संबंधित विषयाच्या प्रस्तावनेने करण्यात आलेली आहे. या क्षेत्रांतील महत्त्वाच्या संकल्पनांची तोंडओळख करून देणे हा यामागील उद्देश आहे. या सर्व संकल्पना भारताच्या संदर्भात अभ्यासायच्या आहेत. अध्ययन अधिक सुलभ, रंजक व कृतीयुक्त होण्यासाठी तुम्हाला माहितीपर चौकटी, विविध कृती विषयाच्या प्रस्तावनेने स्पष्ट करण्यात आलेली आहे.
Rajyashastra class 12 - Maharashtra Board: राज्यशास्त्र इयत्ता बारावी - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड
by Maharashtra Rajya Pathyapustak Nirmiti Va Abhysakram Sanshodhan Mandal Puneराज्यशास्त्र इयत्ता बारावी हे पुस्तक महाराष्ट्र राज्य पाठ्यपुस्तक निर्मिती व अभ्यासक्रम संशोधन मंडळ, पुणे यांनी लेखन केले आहे तसेच श्री. विवेक उत्तम गोसावी यांनी हे पुस्तक मराठी भाषेमध्ये प्रकाशित केले आहे. बारावीच्या पाठ्यपुस्तकात जगातील इ.स.१९९१ पासूनच्या समकालीन घटनांचा निर्देश आहे. त्यात जगातील १९९१ पासूनच्या विविध घटनांचे स्थान तसेच जागतिकीकरणाच्या संदर्भात ज्या संकल्पना विविध चर्चेतून उदयाला आल्या त्यांचा परिचय करून देण्यात आला आहे. पर्यावरण, शाश्वत विकास, गरिबी आणि लिंगभावासारखे मानवी प्रश्न इत्यादींचा या पाठ्यपुस्तकात समावेश आहे. त्यासोबतच राष्ट्रीय एकात्मतेसमोरील आव्हाने तसेच त्याबाबतची चिंता आणि त्याचे महत्त्व भारताच्या संदर्भात अभ्यास करणार आहोत.
Rajyashastra Digest class 11 - Maharashtra Board Guide: राज्यशास्त्र डाइजेस्ट इयत्ता 11वी - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड मार्गदर्शन
by Shri Navneetराज्यशास्त्र इयत्ता 11वी चे पुस्तक नवनीत एज्युकेशन लिमिटेडने मराठी भाषेमध्ये प्रकाशित केलेले आहे, या मार्गदर्शकाची (१) राजकीय संकल्पना, (२) तुलनात्मक शासन आणि राजकारण, (३) लोकप्रशासन आणि (४) आंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंध या चार विभागांत विभागणी करण्यात आली आहे. या मार्गदर्शकातील प्रत्येक प्रकरणात सुरुवातीला महत्त्वाच्या मुद्द्यांचे स्पष्टीकरण देण्यात आले आहे. प्रस्तुत मार्गदर्शकात वस्तुनिष्ठ, लघूत्तरी व दीर्घोत्तरी अशा सर्व प्रकारच्या प्रश्नांचा समावेश केलेला असून, त्यांची सुबोध भाषेत मुद्देसूद, समर्पक व आदर्श उत्तरे देण्यात आली आहेत. अभ्यासक्रमात आणि पाठ्यपुस्तकात नव्याने समाविष्ट केलेल्या उपयोजनात्मक प्रश्न व त्या प्रश्नांची समर्पक उत्तरे यांचा प्रत्येक प्रकरणात समावेश करण्यात आला आहे.
Rajyashastra class 11 - GSTB: રાજયશાસ્ત્ર ધોરણ ૧૧ - જીએસટીબી
by Shri Patel Hema Jikadra Gajendra Shukla Baldev Agaja Pvt. Patelરાજયશાસ્ત્રને આપણે સામાજિક શાસ્ત્રો પૈકીના એક શાસ્ત્ર તરીકે ઓળખાવી શકીએ. સમાજનો અભ્યાસ કરનારાં વિવિધ શાસ્ત્રો જેવાં કે, અર્થશાસ્ત્ર, સમાજશાસ્ત્ર, માનસશાસ્ત્ર, ઇતિહાસ વગેરેની જેમ રાજ્યશાસ્ત્ર પણ આવું જ એક શાસ્ત્ર છે, ઓ બધાં સામાજિક શાસ્ત્રો મનુષ્યના સમાજ જીવનના કોઈ ને કોઈ પાસાને સ્પર્શે છે. તેથી જ તો તે સામાજિક શાસ્ત્રો કહેવાય છે, સમાજજીવનનાં જુદાં-જુદાં પાસાંનો વિશિષ્ટ અને સમગ્રતયા અભ્યાસ કરનારાં આ શાસ્ત્રોમાં રાજ્યશાત્રે આગવું સ્થાન ધરાવે છે, અંગ્રેજી ભાષામાં રાજ્યશાસ્ત્રને પોલિટિકલ સાયન્સ (Political Science) કહેવામાં આવે છે, પોલિટિકલ શબ્દ ગ્રીક ભાષાના ‘પોલિટી’શબ્દ પરથી ઉતરી આવ્યો છે, ગ્રીક લોકો પોતાના નગર અથવા શહેરને ‘પોલિટી’કહેતાં. આથી રાજ્યશાસ્ત્ર એટલે નગરજીવનની ચર્ચા કરતું શાસ્ત્ર એમ માનવામાં આવતું હતું. એ વખતે નગરરાજજ્યો હતાં, આજે એવાં નગરરાજ્ય રહ્યાં નથી અને તેનું સ્થાન નાનાં-મોટાં વિશાળ રાજ્યોએ લીધું છે તેમ કહી શકાય. પ્રસ્તુત પાઠ્યપુસ્તક માં 10 પાઠ આપેલ છે
Rally Point: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream
by Chris GibsonA smart and surprising political inventory for how America can reunite and revitalize in a time of crisis.Written by an admired leader of the Republican party, RALLY POINT: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream looks past the 2016 election, past the finger pointing and conventional political thinking, to focus on clear, primary principles that conservatives must debate and defend to protect the future of America.Raised in a working-class family in upstate New York, the first in his family to go to college, paid for in part by his service in the National Guard, Chris Gibson rose from Private to Colonel in the Army, including combat command in the storied 82nd Airborne Division. RALLY POINT is his story: what he's learned from the "School of Hard Knocks" and how he's applied those precious life lessons during his service in Iraq and in Congress.Drawn from a deep appreciation of history and American exceptionalism, Gibson provides incisive and frank analysis of the current political environment, including President Trump, and provides a roadmap based on time-tested Founding principles to help unite our country and revitalize the American Dream. RALLY POINT is a thoughtful, compelling, enjoyable read - a must for serious-minded Americans looking for answers in this challenging political environment.
Ramsey Milholland
by Booth TarkingtonIt all started when he was young -- all the rules and expectations that made him look stupid, and worse than stupid. Like the time Miss Ridgely ordered him to the blackboard, and tried to stimulate him with hints and suggestion -- Miss Ridgely, Ramsey knew, found him mere protoplasm, so far as knowing decimals went -- and so she summoned to the board little Dora Yocum, star of the class, and said, "You stand still, Ramsey. Stay right where you are, and try to learn something from the way Dora does it. " The class giggled, and Ramsey stood, but learned nothing. His conspicuousness was unendurable, because all of his schoolmates naturally found more entertainment in watching him than in following the performance of the capable Dora. And it was like that, month after month . . . and then year after year. But he would make himself good in the eyes of the world. Ramsey knew he would. He "swore" he would. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, wrote such keenly observed novels of American life as "Gentle Julia "and "In the Arena. "
Random Noise: Measuring Your Company's Safety Performance (The Business, Management and Safety Effects of Neoliberalism)
by Sidney Dekker Georgina PooleIn the realm of safety management, this book embarks on a profound exploration of how the political economy was reshaped in the last two decades. Much like privatization, deregulation, and financialization altered the economic landscape, this narrative unveils how safety management has been affected by the intertwined dynamics of asset underinvestment, privatization, self-regulation, workplace flexibilization, and market-driven policies.This book, the second installment of a thought-provoking trilogy on the consequences of neoliberalism, mirrors the political economy's promotion of the private sector's role in the economy. Just as neoliberalism amplified and accelerated the mechanisms of human-made disasters in complex systems, this narrative lays bare the heightened potential for safety misfortunes when governed by market-driven principles.As the story unfolds, the book delves into the concept of 'synoptic legibility' in safety management, akin to how the political economy distilled its essence into privatization and deregulation. The authors scrutinize the consequences of translating safety measures into rigid targets, unveiling how this shift can distort the integrity of safety metrics and inadvertently harm individuals. Drawing parallels with historical blunders such as England's window tax, the book contemplates the precarious nature of equating simplified metrics with safety achievements. Much like the political economy's 'acceptable risk' renegotiations, it examines how the pursuit of safety through metrics and surveillance can lead to 'manufactured insecurity,' eroding trust, autonomy, and professionalism.In Random Noise, Poole and Dekker extend this reach once again, writing for all managers, board members, organization leaders, consultants, practitioners, researchers, lecturers, students, and investigators curious to understand the genuine nature of organizational and safety performance.
Random Noise: Measuring Your Company's Safety Performance (The Business, Management and Safety Effects of Neoliberalism)
by Sidney Dekker Georgina PooleIn the realm of safety management, this book embarks on a profound exploration of how the political economy was reshaped in the last two decades. Much like privatization, deregulation, and financialization altered the economic landscape, this narrative unveils how safety management has been affected by the intertwined dynamics of asset underinvestment, privatization, self-regulation, workplace flexibilization, and market-driven policies.This book, the second installment of a thought-provoking trilogy on the consequences of neoliberalism, mirrors the political economy's promotion of the private sector's role in the economy. Just as neoliberalism amplified and accelerated the mechanisms of human-made disasters in complex systems, this narrative lays bare the heightened potential for safety misfortunes when governed by market-driven principles.As the story unfolds, the book delves into the concept of 'synoptic legibility' in safety management, akin to how the political economy distilled its essence into privatization and deregulation. The authors scrutinize the consequences of translating safety measures into rigid targets, unveiling how this shift can distort the integrity of safety metrics and inadvertently harm individuals. Drawing parallels with historical blunders such as England's window tax, the book contemplates the precarious nature of equating simplified metrics with safety achievements. Much like the political economy's 'acceptable risk' renegotiations, it examines how the pursuit of safety through metrics and surveillance can lead to 'manufactured insecurity,' eroding trust, autonomy, and professionalism.In Random Noise, Poole and Dekker extend this reach once again, writing for all managers, board members, organization leaders, consultants, practitioners, researchers, lecturers, students, and investigators curious to understand the genuine nature of organizational and safety performance.
Rang & Dale's Pharmacology E-Book: With Student Consult Online Access
by Humphrey P. Rang James M. Ritter Rod J. Flower Graeme Henderson David MacEwan Yoon Kong LokeWorld-renowned coverage of today’s pharmacology at your fingertipsKeeps you up-to-date with new information in this fast-changing field, including significantly revised coverage of CNS drugs, cognitive enhancers, anti-infectives, biologicals/biopharmaceuticals, lifestyle drugs, and more.Includes access to unique features, including more than 100 brand new chapter-specific multiple-choice questions and 6 new cases for immediate self-assessment.Features a color-coded layout for faster navigation and cross-referencing.Clarifies complex concepts with Key Points boxes, Clinical Uses boxes and full-color illustrations throughout.
Rang & Dale's Pharmacology E-Book: Rang & Dale's Pharmacology E-Book
by James M. Ritter Rod J. Flower Graeme Henderson Yoon Kong Loke David MacEwan Emma Robinson James FullertonRang and Dale's Pharmacology is internationally acknowledged as the core textbook for students of pharmacology, and has provided accessible, up-to-date information on drugs and their mechanism of action for more than 30 years. Now in its tenth edition, it has been updated to include important new drugs such as gene therapies, personalised medicines and the new wave of RNA drugs. However it has not lost any of the elements that have contributed to its popularity, such as color coding and illustrations, making it reader-friendly while comprehensively covering the depth of detail required. This essential book is recommended as the first-choice undergraduate text for science and medical students and junior doctors and will also be useful for students in other professional disciplines such as pharmacy, veterinary medicine and nursing. - Comprehensive information on drug mechanisms, basic physiology and biochemistry, and underlying pathophysiology of disease – suitable for students from many disciplines - Clear figures to aid understanding, including data figures as well as mechanistic diagrams, - Key points box summaries, clinical boxes and colour-coded chapters help to master difficult concepts - Emphasis on therapeutic drugs to help apply theory to practice - Over 150 questions and 12 clinical cases to test your knowledge - New chapters on drugs and the eye and the pharmacological management of headache - Revised information on biopharmaceuticals (including RNA drugs), antivirals (including Covid-19 therapies) as well as general principles of antimicrobial therapy. - A completely revised and updated chapter on lifestyle drugs - Recent advances in oxygen sensing and response to reduced oxygen tension - Expanded chapters on dementia and analgesic drugs
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David EpsteinThe ground-breaking and exhilarating exploration into how to succeed in the 21st Century.'David Epstein manages to make me thoroughly enjoy the experience of being told that everything I thought about something was wrong. I loved Range.' – Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers.From the ‘10,000 hours rule’ to the power of Tiger parenting, we have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization and many hours of deliberate practice. And, worse, that if you dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start. This is completely wrong.In this landmark book, David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly, juggling many interests - in other words, by developing range.Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates why in most fields - especially those that are complex and unpredictable - generalists, not specialists are primed to excel. No matter what you do, where you are in life, whether you are a teacher, student, scientist, business analyst, parent, job hunter, retiree, you will see the world differently after you've read Range. You'll understand better how we solve problems, how we learn and how we succeed. You'll see why failing a test is the best way to learn and why frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, Range shows how people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive and why spreading your knowledge across multiple domains is the key to your success, and how to achieve it.
Rank Hypocrisies: The Insult of the REF (PDF)
by Professor Derek Sayer"In crystalline text steeped in cold rage, Sayer takes aim at the REF’s central claim, that it is a legitimate process of expert peer review. He critiques university and national-level REF processes against actual practices of scholarly review as found in academic journals, university presses, and North American tenure procedures. His analysis is damning. If the REF fails as scholarly review, how can academics and universities continue to participate? And how can government use its rankings as a basis for public policy?" - Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics "Sayer makes a compelling argument that the Research Excellence Framework is not only expensive and divisive, but is also deeply flawed as an evaluation exercise. Rank Hypocrisies is a rigorous and scholarly evaluation of the REF, yet written in a lively and engaging style that makes it highly readable." - Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford Few decisions are as consequential for the funding and reputation of Britain's universities as those of REF panels. Not only do REF rankings determine the levels of research funding universities receive from the state. They equally affect institutions' ability to attract external grants, top-flight faculty, and graduate students. Whatever benefit the UK's periodic research assessment exercises may have brought to research productivity, the REF has been widely criticized for its enormous costs in taxpayers' money and academics' time, its discouragement of innovative (and especially interdisciplinary) research, and its negative effects on collegiality and staff morale. Derek Sayer extends these arguments, notably through his discussion of the questionable staff selection processes used in REF2014 within his own university. Where Rank Hypocrisies goes beyond previous critiques is in its open challenge to the REF's claim to provide 'expert review of the outputs' - the very heart of its legitimacy. Examining the composition and operation of REF disciplinary subpanels in forensic detail, Sayer paints a picture in which overburdened assessors assign vaguely defined grades in fields that are frequently not their own while ignoring all external indicators of the academic influence of the publications they are appraising, and then shred all records of their deliberations. Judged against international norms of peer review, the REF is an elaborate charade - and an insult to the core values of the academy.
Rank Hypocrisies: The Insult of the REF
by Professor Derek Sayer"In crystalline text steeped in cold rage, Sayer takes aim at the REF’s central claim, that it is a legitimate process of expert peer review. He critiques university and national-level REF processes against actual practices of scholarly review as found in academic journals, university presses, and North American tenure procedures. His analysis is damning. If the REF fails as scholarly review, how can academics and universities continue to participate? And how can government use its rankings as a basis for public policy?" - Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics "Sayer makes a compelling argument that the Research Excellence Framework is not only expensive and divisive, but is also deeply flawed as an evaluation exercise. Rank Hypocrisies is a rigorous and scholarly evaluation of the REF, yet written in a lively and engaging style that makes it highly readable." - Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford Few decisions are as consequential for the funding and reputation of Britain's universities as those of REF panels. Not only do REF rankings determine the levels of research funding universities receive from the state. They equally affect institutions' ability to attract external grants, top-flight faculty, and graduate students. Whatever benefit the UK's periodic research assessment exercises may have brought to research productivity, the REF has been widely criticized for its enormous costs in taxpayers' money and academics' time, its discouragement of innovative (and especially interdisciplinary) research, and its negative effects on collegiality and staff morale. Derek Sayer extends these arguments, notably through his discussion of the questionable staff selection processes used in REF2014 within his own university. Where Rank Hypocrisies goes beyond previous critiques is in its open challenge to the REF's claim to provide 'expert review of the outputs' - the very heart of its legitimacy. Examining the composition and operation of REF disciplinary subpanels in forensic detail, Sayer paints a picture in which overburdened assessors assign vaguely defined grades in fields that are frequently not their own while ignoring all external indicators of the academic influence of the publications they are appraising, and then shred all records of their deliberations. Judged against international norms of peer review, the REF is an elaborate charade - and an insult to the core values of the academy.
Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance: Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness
by Tero Erkkilä Ossi PiironenHigher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national attributes have been evaluated under international comparative assessment. Reflecting this general trend, the Shanghai ranking, first published in 2003, has pressured governments and universities all over the world to improve their performance in global competition. More recently, as global rankings have met criticism for their methodology and scope, measurements of various sizes and shapes have proliferated: some celebrating novel methodological solutions, others breaking new conceptual grounds. This book takes a fresh look at developments in the field of knowledge governance by showing how emerging indicators, innovation indexes and subnational comparisons are woven into the existing fabric of measurements that govern our ideas of higher education, innovation and competitiveness. This book argues that while rankings are becoming more numerous and fragmented, the new knowledge products, nevertheless, tend to reproduce ideas and practices existing in the field of global measurement.
Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence
by E. HazelkornUniversity rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, making an important contribution to our understanding of the rankings phenomenon.This book has also been published in Japanese.
Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence
by Ellen HazelkornUniversity rankings have gained popularity around the world and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This second edition updates Ellen Hazelkorn's first comprehensive study of rankings from a global perspective, drawing in new original research and extensive analysis. It is essential reading for policymakers, managers and scholars.
Rape: A Love Story
by Joyce Carol Oates'Rape: A Love Story gives us Oates at her darkly enthralling best.' -- Andrew Ervin, New York TimesTeena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose on hormones, rage and alcohol. A victim of gang rape, left for dead in the park boathouse, the once vivacious Teena can now only regret that she has survived. At a relentlessly compelling pace punctuated by lonely cries in the night and the whisper of terror in the afternoon, Joyce Carol Oates unfolds the story of Teena and Bethie, their assailants, and their unexpected, silent champion, a man who knows the meaning of justice. And love.