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Political Controversy (political + controversy)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	60%

Selected Abstracts

Cold War Illuminations of the Classical Past: ,The Sound and Light Show, on the Athenian Acropolis

ART HISTORY, Issue 4 2001
Elisabeth MarloweArticle first published online: 23 DEC 200
Drawing upon the text of ,The Sound and Light Show' and French and Greek newspaper coverage of the show's premier in 1959, this article uses the metaphor of the museum to consider the ways in which the show limits and controls the history that the Acropolis monuments are allowed to represent. I argue that the show's premise of a causal link between the defeat of tyrannical Eastern enemies and the flourishing of democracy and the arts is a product of the Cold War. This ideological backdrop can be traced through the dramatic events surrounding the show's star-studded, international premier and the richly nuanced political controversies that it reflected and in turn provoked. [source]

Can Administrative Measures Resolve a Political Conflict?

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 1 2008
Albert H. Teich
The current controversy over the politicization of science by the Bush administration is, by definition, a political controversy. As such, it must be addressed by political measures as well as the administrative strategies that Dr. Lambright suggests. The administration's actions go beyond the bounds of "business as usual" and reflect the interests of its powerful constituencies, as well as the unease of many citizens with some scientific and technological advances. Scientists need to engage these citizens and take their concerns into account in order to build trust between the scientific community and the public, as well as to impede unscrupulous politicians from distorting scientific information to suit their purposes. [source]

A Question of Morality: Artists' Values and Public Funding for the Arts

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 1 2005
Gregory B. Lewis
In 1989, the combination of art, religion, homosexuality, ana1 public dollars set off an explosive two-year battle and a decade of skirmishes over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. To promote artistic freedom and to avoid political controversy, federal arts policy delegates specific funding decisions to private donors and arts professionals. In an era of morality politics,hot-button issues driven by deeply held beliefs rather than by expertise,that strategy no longer works. Artists, donors, and arts audiences diverge widely from the rest of the American public in their attitudes toward religion, sexual morality, and civil liberties, as General Social Survey data show. Delegating funding decisions to them has naturally led to some subsidies of art offensive to important segments of the population. [source]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the Case of Papuan Asylum-Seekers

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 4 2006
David Palmer
It is perilous to look to history to provide guidance for the present. Nonetheless the political controversy surrounding the granting of temporary protection to forty-two asylum-seekers from West Papua in March 2006 needs to be understood in its wider, historical context. Papua has been a pebble in the region's political shoe since 1949. And national considerations are not new in shaping Australian policy toward asylum-seekers. Certainly in the 1960s and 1970s Australia played a tactical, often tough game with Papuan asylum-seekers in order to contain tensions with Indonesia. This article analyses the history of Australia's foreign and immigration policies towards Papuan asylum-seekers and describes the delicate balancing act that successive Australian governments have needed to perform in handling this issue. [source]

Intensive Hog Farming in Manitoba: Transnational Treadmills and Local Conflicts,

CANADIAN REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY/REVUE CANADIENNE DE SOCIOLOGIE, Issue 1 2003
JOEL NOVEK
L'exploitation intensive des porcheries a connu un essor rapide dans L'Ouest canadien. La croissance de L'agriculture industrielle porcine manitobaine est analysée comme une étude de cas d'un «tapis roulant de production transnational». La production et les exportation ont augmenté de façon considérable alors que L'industrie est devenue plus concentrée; mais des coûts environnementaux, entre autres des préoccupations quant aux odeurs et à la qualité de L'eau, sont devenus plus visibles. Les gouvernements provinciaux ont encouragé, par des politiques néolibérales, L'expansion de cette Industrie et ont hésitéà imposer des exigences réglementaires. Le processus d'approbation des porcheries a été en grande partie ramené au niveau des municipalités rurales. Il reste que cela s'est traduit en une controverse politique acharnée dans plusieurs collectivités locales, ce qui a forcé le gouvernement du Manitoba àétudier une réglementation plus rigoureuse dans ce secteur d'activité. Intensive hog operations have grown at a rapid rate in Western Canada. The growth of factory hog farming in Manitoba is analysed as a case study of a "transnational treadmill of production." Output and exports have increased dramatically and the industry has become more concentrated, but negative environmental externalities, notably odour and water-quality concerns, have become more visible.Provincial governments have promoted the expansion of this industry through neo-liberal policies and have been reluctant to impose regulatory restrictions. The hog barn approval process has been largely downloaded to the rural municipal level. However, this has resulted in fierce political controversy in many local communities, which has forced the Manitoba government to consider more active regulation of hog factory farms. [source]