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Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity covers a range of viewpoints and issues which can be applied to various organizational agency structures. These perspectives examine how social and political risk can impact an agency, and what recommendations are made to adapt, mitigate, and strengthen the organization against political risk. Accessibility to personnel and agencies via social media, the internet and public exposure compounded with political and social societal shifts have led many agencies in a constant spin to assuage and sustain viability and relevance publicly.

Public disenchantment with government is at an all-time high & for good reason. In this revolutionary book published by Palgrave/Macmillan, Jeanne argues in order to understand why the government seems paralyzed & what can be done to fix it, we need to look beyond the red/blue divide & understand both the structure of our system & the intent behind it. 

A practical, hands-on introduction to the logic of social science research. This text offers step by step instructions on how social scientists use SPSS to analyze large data sets. It also takes readers through basic types of univariate, bivariate, & multivariate analysis using the latest GSS data. 

 People seem to find lists irresistible. There is also something almost unseemly or dangerous about them. This text uses both —the appeal and problems of “rank orders”—as a pedagogical tool to help readers learn more about American government & politics.

How seriously these risks of cyber-attacks being taken by the energy sector? Using an unobtrusive observation measure - visualization via the creation of content clouds - this study examines if and how these risks were addressed in the 10-K filings of a sample of electrical companies. This segment of the energy sector was chosen because it has long been defined as a uniquely critical sector to the extent that it enables most of the other critical sectors. 

The standard narrative in literature on the partition that defines the affected minority as pro‐partition and the majority as anti‐.  "No Shades of Views, No Variation of Opinion," argues that this is not only reductionist & ahistorical, but it represents a sort of ‘historical stereotyping’,’ one which continues to have a lasting impact on politics, society, & diplomacy today. 

Many nations have a short list of celebrated founders, while the contributions of others are lost.  An intriguing example of this narrowcasting of founders is Pakistan, where the  tendency has been to attribute the nation’s founding to a the Quaid-i-Azam. In "Pakistan's Forgotten Founders," Jeanne argues that Jinnah's important legacy should not overshadow contributions of his contemporaries, including the "James Madison" of Pakistan, Sikander Hyat-Khan.

 Studies show that metaphors are a useful way to help people understand new or difficult concepts. The research is largely silent, however, when it comes to the question of whether it is beneficial to ask students to go “beyond transference” by engaging in metaphoric critique and construction. In "Beyond Transference," Jeanne focuses on the pedagogical benefits of using metaphoric critique in the classroom.

John Rawls suggests that the preservation of self-respect is at the core of any theory of justice. It is precisely his conception of self-respect, however, that Jeanne argues in "Self-Respect and Rawlsian Justice" which creates serious problems for his theory as a whole. It not only opens him up to charges of inconsistency, but it underscores his failure to deliver on the promise of equality.

On the Need for Reasoned Structural Reform

Is the US Truly Polarized or Is the Division by Design?

Making Madisonian Government Work is a Sisyphean Task

Our Governmental System was Designed to Fail, & has worked spectacularly