#politology

[katarinamajerhold]

How does something unfold in the long run (longue durée) (speaking of 26 years)?

If you're young, capable, hard-working, productive and ambitious but you're not a pusher, don't belong to a certain group of people, you're not an activist and don't quarrel and destroy your opponents on your way to the position of the managing editor of the Leftist academic Journal you want?

With years passing by your opponents: 

a) get older and get better jobs with a better salary; 

b) grow tired of the position they wanted and acquired;

c) too little money to fight for therefore they go elsewhere;

d) In the end, there is no opposition but also almost no people to work with. That's how you get the position of managing editor. You work with two people and little money.

While I fought for this position in 2006 and in 2012 but got only it in 2023! I got the managing editor position in 2008 of the Andragogic Perspectives (https://journals.uni-lj.si/AndragoskaSpoznanja) and apokalipsa.si 2021 (apokalipsa.si).

It makes me sad that I became managing editor of the leftist academic and activist Journal (https://ckz.si/en/) only when almost no people wanted to work for the Journal.

That is the reality of this world regardless of the political orientation. 

The moral is: where is money, there is a crowd, quarrels, shaming, and fights!

And idealism is mostly for young people.

[permanentni-zavist-penisu]

Umberto Eco: Věčný fašismus (Il fascismo eterno)

„Ur-fašista“ – věčný fašista, člověk se sklony k fašismu či člověk ve fašistickém státě, jehož příznaky Eco v citované části popisuje.

„Machismus“ – [mačizmus], vysvětleno v citaci, mužský šovinismus

„Ersatz“ – německy náhrada, odškodnění

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[longsenlucks]

politics as a science also known as Politology

Preface and Acknowledgments 

These are the reflections of a professor who has had a lengthy career researching and teaching “the politics of others” – known in the profession as “comparative politics.” Always being on the outside looking in has its 

advantages – and disadvantages. It should make one less susceptible to presuming that the rules and practices of one’s own polity are normal and should provide the standard for observing and evaluating the politics of others. It also, however, means that the necessarily short exposure to other people’s politics – and it gets shorter and shorter as one gets older –

deprives the researcher of the depth of observation needed to capture the subtleties and secrets of their behavior. Of course, one can always take refuge in statistical manipulations of data that can be gathered at home without having to go to some exotic locale. My experience has suggested that there is no substitute for living among and talking with the subjects of one’s analysis – and preferably in their own language.

This lengthy essay makes no claim to being scientific. It contains no 

disprovable hypotheses, no original collection of data, no search for 

patterns of association and certainly no conclusive inferences about 

causality. It is self-consciously “pre-scientific.” Before one can do any 

science, but especially any social science, one must identify and label 

what it is that one is trying to understand or explain. Without the ‘right’ 

words (and the right theory surrounding them), the researcher could not 

even begin his or her task, much less gather the relevant data. In the case of political (or any social) research, “Que Dire?” comes before “Que Faire?” This indispensable first stage is called “conceptualization” in academic jargon. It is a sort of mapping process in which the researchertries to specify the goal of his or her trip, some of the landmarks that he or she is likely to encounter en route, and the boundaries that circumscribe the effort. Continue reading here

[io-pentesilea]

I social, il luogo dove temi delicati e complessi vengono affrontati con la stessa leggerezza - e prosopopea - da bar dello sport o circolo delle bocce.

I filosofi de noantri.

Buongiorno.

Barbara

[spacelessbian]

DWP AU idea

idea for Mirandy White House AU which I would love to read, but can't write because I haven't finished a fic in about million years and this one would need to be long and complex

I just need to get it out of my system before I start writing it and abandon it after seven pages as usual. But maybe it could inspire someone?

here goes...

Miranda Priestly is a senator with a little bit of a reputation among staffers in Washington. Basically everybody and nobody wants to work for her, because she is tough and mean on purpose, but if you endure, she will help your career. If you're competent, that is.

Andy Sachs studies law or politology (or something like that) and she ends up interning for senator Priestly's office during one of her summer breaks. She learns a lot but ultimately decides she never wants to work for or with Miranda ever again. She develops a little crush on her but it's just a summer thing, it will pass. And it does, for a while.

Three or four years later, Andy gets her first job in Washington. Because she doesn't come from a wealthy or connected family, she doesn't have many options, especially since she is not that great at networking, so she ends up working for and elderly senator, who everyone knows will retire sooner than later. Still, Andy appreciates the opportunity and embraces the whole thing.

Meanwhile Miranda Priestly is no longer a senator, but a recently elected vice president, currently not in a great position as she is going through a rather public divorce. Andy follows the whole thing way more thoroughly than she would admit.

Andy's boss announces his retirement about a year into Andy's employment and she goes to a bar to drown her sorrows. There she crushes into Serena and Emily. She met Emily during her internship and Emily, just like in the movie, doesn't like Andy very much. Serena is happy to socialize however and after hearing about Andy's job situation, she tells her there is an opening in Miranda's office staff. The office being in the White House, Andy jumps at the opportunity, especially after being told that she wouldn't actually interact with the veep directly much if at all.

This works for a while. Miranda is way too busy to notice Andy, or so Andy thinks. It seems that Miranda doesn't remember Andy at all, which Andy thinks is great news. Andy enjoys working with the rest of the staff and is soon noticed for being good at what she is given to do. She eventually gets a promotion to a different position - a position much closer to the veep than originally expected. This also turns out to be fine. Andy is not as clueless as she was in canon, so Miranda has less reason to berate her. In fact they start getting closer...

About a year into Andy working in the White House, there is a party. Maybe a celebration. What ends up happening is Andy and Miranda kiss. It is very mutual and it rocks Andy's world. And then, literally the morning after this monumental event, Andy wakes up to the biggest news: the president resigned and Miranda Priestly will take his place. Suddenly the impossible romance became even more impossible.

That's all, that's the pitch.

Additional idea: Nigel could be Miranda's friend (not her staff), maybe he hopes to become her veep, but she appoints the (absolutely American) rival politician Jacqueline Follet instead to keep her in check or something? That could be nice. Anyway. If anyone could write something like this for me, that would be great lol.

[ilpianistasultetto]

FANTAPOLITICA?

E' un lavoro lento, una bollitura a fuoco lento quello che i potentati politici-economici occidentali stanno facendo sulle loro popolazioni. C'e' un nemico a tre teste, un nuovo Hitler, un pazzo come Putin che ha un solo obiettivo: invadere e conquistare l'Europa a suon di cannonate. Quindi, poche chiacchiere, bisogna armarsi fin sopra i denti per respingere l'orco che viene dall'est. Un lavoro che sta diventando martellante, che chiama a raccolta esperti militari, politologi (di parte) e l'intero sistema gioralistico-mediatico occidentale: "la nuova stella polare? ARMARSI, non e' una bella cosa ma ne va delle nostre liberta'."

La difesa della liberta', ecco l'arma messa in campo dall'occidente per ammutolire le proteste della gente che se la passa sempre piu'male. Meno spesa per la sanita'? Meno spesa per l'istruzione? Meno salari?

"Cittadini, la priorita', adesso, sono le armi. E' in gioco la vostra liberta'"

E cosa c'e' di fantapolitica?

Una nuova guerra mondiale con milioni di giovani europei e russi morti. Insomma, lo sterminio di una generazione per soppiantarla, poi, da milioni di immigrati straccioni pronti a tutto pur di mangiare un tozzo di pane. A lavorare per i ricchi occidentali, per le multinazionali, per i paperoni mondiali, (quelli che la guerra non le combattono, ne'loro, ne' i loro figli) per rendere competitiva la nuova industria occidentale con paesi come India e Cina, nuovi futuri leader mondiali..

FANTAPOLITICA?

@ilpianistasultetto

[ohsalome]

Hi!

I was wondering.. I've been trying to find books to read on "why communism is shit" to have a more solid foundation to rebuke idiot tankies when they start flapping their mouths.. but Google loves to only return shit like "why Lenín had so many good ideas" and utter garbage about why the Russian empire was great.. but I thought there has to be some Ukrainian authors with thoughts on the subject, and that maybe you'd know of a few?

My kneejerk response was to say "read Communist Manifesto" XD

But hey, that's an interesting question.

I think most of the times, at least in the popular discourse, we in Ukraine go the historic route: focusing on the specific crimes USSR commited against its citizens and explaining how it is connected to its economical/political structure. For example, The Red Famine, although flawed, explains how Holodomor was tied to dekulakization and the plan economy, which are the basic bricks on which the soviet experiment was built. I am currently reading The Hungry Steppe and it has been crazy useful in showcasing how the party has been using hauntingly similar tactics in both of our countries.

Based on the annotations, Stanislav Kulchytsky's "Червоний виклик" sounds like exactly the book you're looking for, but unfortunately, it's only avaliable in Ukrainian, which is an issue you'll probably be often running into...

Intuitively I expect that there is a plenty of professional literature that offers critical approach to communism from the point of view of economics/politology/philosophy... But not being interested in either of those topics, I don't feel confident enough giving out recommendations, since I don't know which works are considered the baseline and which highlight marginal thoughts...

As a guess, I'd try looking into books published by ukrainian diaspora communities, especially in Canada. They have been criticising USSR since forever, and typically have published themselves in English. However, due to the Iron Wall, this school of thought had little impact on the development of ukrainian discourse. (I was looking for works of Peter Baley, who seems to have been writing criticism of marxism from a philosophical standpoint, but all I managed to find online is this magazine from 1979)

If we do not limit ourselves to ukrainian authors, I have found recommendations of Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom by Andrzej Walicki

Though I have to say, with marxism being an economical theory you'd expect that hard-logic economical arguments would be the most persuasive, but in my experience tankies don't understand even the basic concepts of economy, so idk why you'd bother trying to play on their ground. I'll give you credit that learning new information and practicing debate are excellent brain food; but ideology is an emotional beast, and there is close to a zero chance deradicalizing somebody through an argument. Hope you have fun tho!

Also leaving an open request for anyone who can suggest good literature on the topic

[missviolet1847]

Il mondo cambiato dai ragazzi | il manifesto

25 aprile 2024

Il mondo cambiato dai ragazzi

Il corteo a Milano - Ansa

DENTRO IL CORTEO. No, non farò la cronaca della manifestazione, di cui peraltro non so neppure chi siano stati gli oratori ufficiali, perché a piazza del Duomo, pur essendo stata presente per sei […]

Pubblicato 14 ore fa

Edizione del 26 aprile 2024

Luciana Castellina, MILANO

No, non farò la cronaca della manifestazione, di cui peraltro non so neppure chi siano stati gli oratori ufficiali, perché a piazza del Duomo, pur essendo stata presente per sei ore nel corteo, non ci sono neppure arrivata, tanta era la folla che aveva riempito mezza città. Della redazione del giornale a Milano ce ne erano tantissimi, tutti dietro lo striscione del manifesto, fieri di aver dato alla consueta celebrazione milanese del 25 aprile, come fu 30 anni fa, uno slancio particolare. Scrivere spetta a loro.

Certo raccontare mi sarebbe piaciuto, perché a un evento così non capita sempre di partecipare. È stata infatti una manifestazione non solo enorme, ma partecipata nella sua stragrande maggioranza da una generazione nuovissima, mai vista prima: dai 15 anni (tanti studenti medi) ai 25, proprio giovanissimi.

È davvero un fatto politico nuovo: in particolare sulla guerra, ma non solo, i ventenni tornano ad affacciarsi sulla scena. Credo sia perché avvertono che siamo ad un mutamento epocale del mondo e sono spinti a mobilitarsi. A modo loro, naturalmente. Sono allegri, lungo il percorso a migliaia hanno ballato al ritmo della formidabile musica installata sull’enorme carro dell’Arci e offerta dal suo famoso circolo La Magnolia.

Chi sono? Per chi votano? O meglio, vanno a votare? Non lo so, i più non erano nemmeno aggregati attorno a bandiere che esibiscono l’appartenenza, sciolti. A guardarli mi viene ancora più da ridere di quanta ormai me ne viene il lunedì sera quando La7 comunica i dati del settimanale sondaggio: Fratelli d’Italia +0,07, PD -0,02, 5S o Calenda cifre di analoga rilevanza. E poi nella settimana successiva tutti i politologi impegnati a spiegare i profondi mutamenti della società italiana a partire da quegli zeri, senza nessuno che ci informi davvero su cosa pensa il 60% di giovani che pure nella politica si impegna.

Scrivo, comunque, perché a questa giovane forza politica emergente, vorrei raccomandare due cose:

1) state attenti oltre che al fascismo ufficiale, anche all’antifascismo sbandierato da chi se ne serve come copertura per proprie assai simili magagne. Non faccio nomi, ma consiglio di fare attenzione.

2) credo sia utile ricordare sempre che la guerra partigiana italiana è stata assai diversa da quella di molti altri paesi occupati dai nazisti.

La più parte di loro, a cominciare dalla Francia e dalle monarchie nordiche, hanno combattuto con le spalle coperte dalla legittimità dei governi che erano stati sconfitti e in nome dei quali la Resistenza del paese combatteva. In Italia i nostri ragazzi sono andati in montagna senza sapere cosa davvero fosse la democrazia e l’antifascismo, e senza nessuno che coprisse loro le spalle. Un azzardo incalcolabile. Ecco, oggi ce ne vuole altrettanto per fare quanto è indispensabile: cambiare il mondo. È difficile, lo so. Ma stasera sono così ottimista che penso ce la potranno fare.

( senza se e senza ma... con gli studenti che hanno manifestato)

# manifestazione 25 aprile 2024 Milano

#Giovani studenti

# Luciana Castellina

[amymbona]

Well, it's definitely literature! Only if you have a good teacher, because some teachers just discourage you from wanting to read. 🫡

Well, I think you are more of a humanitarian type, so something else connected with this. I'm not sure about history, but i must say it was one of MY favorite subjects!! We had a kind teacher, and my family taught me about it, so

Actually I have to say I don't know if you have such a lesson, or rather what you call it. It's about society in detail, family, friends, social groups, economics and the like.

In general, it is possible that it is ur native language, but if I am wrong, please write, I'm really interested to know.

It seems you know me really well, and you're partially right. I'd say my number one was art, because I enjoy both being creative and learning about the history of arts as well (that's my uni major, after all).

Number two would be the czech language, which is often divided into literature, writing and grammar in czech schools. Literature and writing were definitely my favourite parts.

And then for number three I'd say either history or social studies (divided into politology, econonomy, law, sociology, psychology and philosophy). I find both of these subjects so interesting but unfortunately, the teachers were assholes, which took away from all the enjoyment.

[7ooo-ru]

Политолог назвал две основные задачи Белоусова на посту министра обороны

Перед предложенным на должность министра обороны России Андреем Белоусовым стоят две основные задачи. Их назвал российский политолог Сергей Марков в Telegram-канале.

«Первая задача Белоусова — это борьба с коррупцией. А вторая задача Белоусова — сделать армию России максимально инновационной, быстро развивающейся. Такова официальная позиция Кремля», — написал Марков. По его мнению, Белоусов должен заставить генералов по-новому вести боевые действия.

Военный аналитик Игорь Коротченко ранее заявил, что опыт решения задач, который есть у Белоусова, поможет достичь победы в СВО. По его словам, предложенная президентом Владимиром Путиным кандидатура на должность главы Минобороны — удачное решение.

Путин 12 мая предложил Совфеду назначить бывше��о вице-премьера Андрея Белоусова министром обороны. Накануне стало известно, что Белоусов покинет свой пост в кабмине — на его место предложили назначить главу Минпромторга Дениса Мантурова. Как объяснил официальный представитель Кремля Дмитрий Песков, назначение гражданского человека главой оборонного ведомства повысит открытость Минобороны для инноваций и передовых идей.

Нынешний министр обороны Сергей Шойгу покинет свой пост. Путин назначил его секретарем Совбеза страны. Шойгу будет заместителем президента в комиссии по военно-промышленному комплексу (ВПК), а также начнет курировать работу Федеральной службы по военно-техническому сотрудничеству (ФСВТС).

Подробнее https://7ooo.ru/group/2024/05/13/757-politolog-nazval-dve-osnovnye-zadachi-belousova-na-postu-ministra-oborony-grss-307328028.html

[kebriones]

I wonder what does your modern au Alcibiades study

law? politology?

He's some type of political science/law post-graduate or phd student.

[korrektheiten]

Migration und Multikulti: Das große Experiment

Ansage: »Anfang 2018 war Deutschland in Aufruhr. Der Politologe Yascha Mounk hatte in den ARD-“Tagesthemen” von einem „Experiment“ gesprochen: Die monoethnische Gesellschaft wandele sich zur multiethnischen, wobei es zu ��Verwerfungen“ komme. 

Aber wer hatte dieses Experiment in die Wege geleitet und wie würden die Verwerfungen aussehen?
 
In seinem Buch „Das große Experiment“ gibt Mounk die Antwort. […] The post Migration und Multikulti: Das große Experiment first appeared on Ansage. http://dlvr.it/T3RRGk «

[sodomyaspraxis]

“Once more, the asymmetrical and the unequal come to the rescue of the perfect fluidity of the market democracy! Which prompts a question: Should one take seriously those economist-politologists who hunt down any viscosity capable of curbing politico-economic equivalence and seek the convergence toward the fixed point that turns out to be endlessly evasive, even and above all in the ideal conditions of a mathematical model? For it has been shown that, in a world where all entrepreneur-politicians act rationally, an equilibrium only emerges if consumer-citizens act irrationally. Equally, mathematical politology shows that a democratic government necessitates an asymmetry of information and that, in a two-party system, the irrational vote—the vote that is stirred up by vague and ambiguous programmes—must be encouraged in order to force the decision.

It straightforwardly follows from all of this that the citizen who wants to optimise his time, but who has no contact with lobbyists and information sources, will have to give up on informing himself: for him, therefore, apathy and conformism are rational behaviours!”

—Gilles Châtelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: the Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies, trans. Robin Mackay (1998)

[fabiansteinhauer]

Regierung schulen

Die Bouler sind immer schon vor Dir da. Immer wenn irgendetwas anfängt, dann fängt auch Recht an. Wien fängt an und will wieder einmal Paris, ENA, und Berlin, Speyer, nur eben wienerisch, quasi hot dogmatisch.

Wen haben Sie eingeladen, um ihnen beizuraten: Nicht einen Witz, einen Haufen Witze: Maren Lehmann, Soziologin, Peter Becker, Historiker, Benno Wagner, kafkaesker Politologe und Herausgeber der amtlichen Schriften von Kafka, Anna Tuschling, Medienwissenschaftlerin sowie schließlich den mosaischen Dackelführer, Herr Rechtswissenschaftlerdouble Fabian Steinhauer.

Gute Idee! Wenn in Wien etwas wird, dann wienerisch. Hier alles meteorologisch nebulöse Nebenbouler, professionelle Nebenbouler, die alle raten: Haufenbildung als Strukturprinzip. Man sieht die Probleme vor lauter Lösungen nicht. Echt ÖD, öffentlicher Dienst. Danke Ritter! Nichts zu danken, Schnitter!

[prussianmemes]

Do you really think social sciences are a joke? Like that there's no worth to psychology, sociology, politology, social anthropology, media studies, cultural studies etc?

I absolutely do believe they're valuable, incredibly so, but there is such an incredible lack of rigour or peer review in anything that gets published that it turns it into a laughing stock. The Sokal affair and the Grievance studies affair are the best examples of this, and it's devastating.

A failure to properly maintain discipline within your specialty leads to a complete loss of credibility. Certain social sciences suffer from this issue FAR less than others, like anthropology and history, but others are completely infested by it to the point that they've become complete jokes, like the fields of cultural studies and politology.