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On this Web page find personal information & materials on comparative public administration, constitutional democracy, ethnicity and nationalism, conceptual analysis, and globalization. I manage several e-mail lists with related home sites. If any links on this page don't work, please let me know. Substantive comments are also welcome: just write to Fred W. Riggs For further explanation see notes.
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Another way to find what's on this Page is to click on the site map of the FreeFind gadget. On this map there are three links: the most useful is called table and sorts by linked pages, each with its sub-pages; outline provides a somewhat alphabetical listing of all sites; and list seems to be a random array of files in no particular order. This gadget also offers a what's new list for 1999/00 that orders my more current in-house and external links by date, in reverse order.
The SEARCH window can help you find any document on this Home Page that contains your search terms. To find these terms in context, however, you must use your browser's FIND command after opening the linked document. Try something like "prism" to get an idea how the system works, but please disregard all the redundant "home page" links! Keyword matches must be exact and Boolean searches are not possible. The same search engines can be found on the SITES page. See also my Check-List of publications, my AUTOBIOGRAPHY page (with thematic biblio-data) and the ETHNIC-L site.
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COCTA-L conceptual and terminological analysis,
COVICO-L viable constitutionalism,
DEMOGLO Democratization and Globalization List GLOBE-L
concepts of globalization,
GLOCAL-L Global/Local Discourse, ETHNIC-L
researchers on ethnicity & RETIREES LIST.
Checklist of publications by Riggs, Comparative
Public Administration papers
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At the dawn of the 21st century, in the wake of accelerating globalization, there is a need for a "town/gown" discourse in Hawaii that will help academics and community members share their thoughts and experiences as they relate to local problems viewed in a global context. GLOCAL-L , an abbreviated form for Global/Local Discourse will not plan any meetings or activities in our own name. However, some subscribers are active in a congeries of relevant organized groups. They are invited to share experiences and disclose Web Sites to help all our members keep informed and sharpen their thinking. Each group that sponsors any activities or meetings has exclusive control over its own membership and invitation lists. Readers interested in learning more about a group or attending its meetings should contact the responsible officer whose coordinates are listed.
Our list of subscribers has evolved from the Gulbenkian Report Discourse (GRD-L) which was created some years ago to support cross-disciplinary communication within the social sciences at the University of Hawaii. The name was inspird by the report of Emanuel Wallerstein and others pointing to the essential parochialism of our disciplinary categories as products of 20th century Western hubris. As a new century dawns, we need to understand all our disciplines in a global context, and use our research and intelligence to help find solutions for the acute problems now facing Hawaii and the world.
For relevant Web Sites check out Globalization , Glocalization , Libraries. See also International Associations and Organizations
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Fred Riggs is best known for the prismatic model which he used to help explain the internal contradictions of countries like China, Thailand and India, or even the United States and Mexico, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Somaliland: they all link in mutually reactive tensions the traditional (fused) qualities of the Garden of Eden and the modern (diffracted) tensions of a world compartmentalized into rainbows of competing but complementary functionalities.
Although he could scarcely have imagined this construct during his early days in China, he now thinks, looking back, that he must have glimpsed, while still young, some of the deeper contradictions of a society undergoing convulsive transformations and the small but important role played by outsiders, including the missionaries in whose midst he grew up. In his autobiography he uses his own life-story as a prism through which, as someone born in China in 1917 (the year of the snake) he can view the cross-pressures and contradictions of a world in tumultuous change.
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For relevant Web Sites check out Public Administration
2006. Globalization and Comparative Public Administration January 2006, published as the "Conclusion" in Comparative Public Administration, a book of readings, edited by Eric Otenyo and Nancy Lind (Elsevier, 2006) pp. 917-967.
2005. Global Perspective on Comparative and International Administration
2003. "A Comparativist's Sojourn" in Comparative Bureaucratic Systems, Edited by Krishna K. Tummala. Lexington Books, pages 11-53.
2002. The Exceptional American Bureaucracy... paper for Van Riper Symposium at APSA conference, 23 March 2002
2001a. Administrative Culture for IPSA/RC48 Research Committee on Administrative Culture
2001b.Public Administration in America The Exceptionalism of a Hybrid Bureaucacy
2001c. Comments on V. Subramanian "Comparative Public Administration," International Review of Administrative Sciences 67:2 (June 2001) pp. 323-328. See the Draft .
2000a. Globalization and Public Administration Draft paper for an encyclopedia
1999. "Impeachment vs Harassment." Guest editorial in Public Administration Review. Jan. 1999. See draft
1998. "Public Administration in America: Why our Uniqueness is Exceptional and Important." Public Administration Review, 58:1, pp.22-31. See the abstract and the unabridged draft.
1997c. "Modernity and Bureaucracy." Public Administration Review, Vol.57/4, pp. 347-353. This is an abridged version of a paper presented at a symposium honoring Dwight Waldo, the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, July 1996. To see the original draft, go to Power
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For relevant Web Sites check out Globalization and Democratization
Also: Libraries, international Associations and Organizations -- and papers by Riggs
See also Concepts and Texts and Related Activities
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DEMOGLO: The Democratization and Globalization Project
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Anyone interested in joining the Globe-L project or willing to contribute information on relevant data, Web Sites, etc. is invited to contact Fred Riggs directly
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NOTE: These papers reflect a personal belief that although world wars on the scale of those experienced during the 20th century will not recur, endemic violence will become pervasive. It will take the form of angry protest movements, criminal violence and civil wars. Individuals who feel powerless in isolation can nevertheless band together to seek redress at the mass level, leading to ethnonational and liberation movements. At the elite level, military groups respond to anarchy and uprisings by seizing power and imposing arbitrary rule. Criminals and gangsters increasingly take advantage of widespread chaos to indulge their greed and to aggravate the contradictions reflected in synarchic violence. Thus despotism based on coercion competes with efforts to create or restore order. In this context, the best hopes for humanity rest on the ability of human beings to evolve democratic processes based on popular representation and the rule of law and personal freedom. The papers listed here elaborate on this and related themes.
For basic terms used in ethnic studies see Diversity Dictionary
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ETHNIC-L is an interactive list of organized groups, associations and centers interested in promoting research on ethnicity, nationalism, migration and related problems. Members share information in order to support liaison and cooperation between their groups. Although some discussion lists participate, this is not a substantive discussion list, but it can support discourse on organizational problems faced by members.
Pending construction of a response form for members of ETHNIC-L to record their own information, readers are invited to register with INCORE'S Virtual Library, and inform Fred Riggs if they want to make any changes in their entry or propose an addition to the list.
Panels Planned for ISA Congress in Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 July 2002
Papers prepared for the Montreal ISA Congress, July 1998
COCTA-L Membership List [continously under construction]
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