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COCTA-L conceptual and terminological analysis,
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DEMOGLO Democratization and Globalization List GLOBE-L
concepts of globalization,
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researchers on ethnicity,
Checklist of publications by Riggs, Comparative
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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
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.
For relevant Web Sites check out Public Administration
Chapter 3 of Autobiography deals with Comparative Public Administration and contains a check-list of papers and publications
2002. The Exceptional American Bureaucracy... paper for Van Riper Symposium at APSA conference, 23 March 2002
Globalization and Faith Paper for the ISA Conference in New Orleans, 23-27 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
draft: Past, Present and Future in Korean Public Administration a talk at Seoul Association for Public Administration, May 20, 2000
draft: The Globalization of Governance a postcard for an ASPA Symposium
draft: "Price Indeterminacy in a Meta-Prismatic (capitalist) Context" (Presented
at IPSA/Seoul Congress, Aug. 1997)
[] abstract || first part || second part [] See also an
earlier draft called: "Will it be Neo-Feudal? A Futurist Scenario"
First Draft
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
For relevant Web Sites check out Globalization and Democratization
Also: Libraries, international Associations and Organizations -- and papers by Riggs
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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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| INDEX OF ORGANIZATIONS | ETHNIC-L REGISTRY | CONTACT PERSONS |
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.
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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]
Organizational Information
Discourse on COCTA-L
1998. The Montreal Congress of the International Sociological Association and the Boston Conference of American Political Science Association
COCTA Documents for the Montreal panels:
Related Sessions at the Montreal Congress
For relevant Web Sites check out Terminology
Papers by Riggs Explaining the Paradigm
Documents by Riggs Illustrating the Onomantic Approach
For relevant Web Sites check out Terminology
For relevant Web Sites check out Governance and Democracy
Impeachment, Campaign Funding and Pork
For relevant Web Sites check out Governance and Democracy -- and view Globalization
1997. "Bureaucracy and Viable Constitutionalism." Abdo Baaklini and Helen Desfosses, eds, Designs for Democratic Stability: Studies in Viable Constitutionalism. Armonk, NY; London, UK: M.E.Sharpe. pp.95-125. This book contains papers from the COVICO conference, SUNY/CLD, Albany, New York
1995 "Presidentialism: A Problematic Constitutional System." Conquering Politico-Administrative Frontiers. A festschrift honoring Raul de Guzman, Ledivina V. Carino, ed. Guezon City, Phil: University of the Philippines Press. pp. 541-562. Revised version of a lecture presented in honor of Jose Abueva at the College of Public Administration, University of the Philippines, Jan. 1994.
1994. "Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective." Comparing Nations: Concepts, Strategies, Substance. Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil, eds. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp.72-152. A revised version of "Presidentialism in the U.S.: A Comparativist Perspective," a paper prepared for the conference on "Presidential or Parliamentary Democracy: Does it Make a Difference," held at Georgetown University, May 1989. A revised draft was distributed under the title, "Presidentialism: An Empirical Theory."
1988. "The Survival of Presidentialism in America: Para-Constitutional Practices." International Political Science Review. 9:4. pp. 247-278.
For background information see Riggs' Autobio Ch.6
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Curriculum Vitae, Biographical Note
Check List of Publications and of Files on WWW,
Family matters -- see Xmas Letters: 2002 || 2001 || 2000 || 1999 || 1998 || 1997
The Kuling American School Web Site -- with lovely photos of School, mountain scenes, and the reunion at Helen, GA, 2002.
The Frederick Family Tree -- Grace Frederick Riggs and relatives, by cousin Richard Frederick
See also The Frederick Family of Rural Albany County,
NY
Comments about Riggs' work:
For Web Site references to Riggs go to Northern Light and search on his name;
Kenneth J. Frederick, 1290 N. Western Ave. #312, Lake Forest, IL 60045. Tel.
(847)234-3034 ($12)
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Some printouts and reprints may be obtained from the author at: Fred Riggs Comments are invited.
a. "The Modernity of Ethnic Identity and Conflict" International Political Science Review Vol.19, no.3, July 1998. pp.269-288. This issue contains a symposium on "Ethnic Nationalism and the World Systemic Crisis," based on papers presented at the Conference of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 18-22, 1997. The symposium was edited by Riggs who also prepared a "Glossary of Terms used in this Issue" pp.311-330. See the draft which contains hypertext links to the texts cited in their original contexts of use. See the original draft of the Riggs paper, and find drafts for the other papers at Plan.
b. "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.
"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. The original draft was entitled "Para-Modernism and Bureau Power": [] abstract || first part || second part || notes and bibliography [] You may also see The original draft which was entitled "Para-Modernism and Bureau Power"
c. "Presidentialism vs. Parliamentarism: Implications for Representativeness and Legitimacy," International Political Science Review. 18:3, pp.253-278. See the original unabridged draft.
NOTE: Publications by Riggs for which copies are not available on this Web Site are listed on his Checklist
According to Chinese tradition, a teacher born in the year of the snake is naturally gifted with the ability to learn from mistakes. The snake is wise and astute and can easily turn the process of learning into an enjoyable experience. It can inspire great loyalty, create a happy atmosphere, and express its ideas with strength and conviction. (Kwok Man-ho, Snake. London, Kindersley, 1994).
In Western thinking, by contrast, the snake has more ominous portents. We are told, in Genesis, that the Lord God commanded: "Of every tree in the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it.... the serpent said unto the woman, 'Ye shalt not surely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as the gods, knowing good from evil."
A more somber rendition can be found in Greek mythology as interpreted by William Sheldon who equates the serpent with Prometheus, writing of him that "he carries the torch of inquiry to the outermost reaches of thought and the inner recesses of the soul" Prometheus looks to the future by contrast with Epimetheus who looks to the past and seeks to preserve established truth and morality. Instead, Prometheus "is the inventive genius of the human mind, but he is thereby always tempting the patience of morality, and so becomes the object of intense suppression." Psychology and the Promethean Will. (NY: Harper, 1936).
In the Greek version, the snake's quest for truth makes him a victim, while in the Chinese rendering, the snake turns the quest for knowledge into a wonderful adventure. I fear the Greeks were more realistic, but the Chinese vision is more pleasing and I can more easily live with it. And when I die, please put on my epitaph that I have learned from my mistakes and also truly enjoyed learning.
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