February 2010

Basic concepts with Erol Gungor: Nationalism, culture-civilization, cultural shift and intellectual

  Erol Gungor is one of the important persons in Turkish Sociology. It is well known that, in spite of having a short life time, he had a great influence on sociologists after his time. He reconsidered argumentive concepts in the Turkish sociology which began with Ziya Gokalp, and eliminated confusions and difficulties over thetehe concepts and made them much more clear and distinct.   Key...

Author(s): Ensar Yilmaz

February 2010

From entrepreneurial state to state of entrepreneurs: Ownership implications of the transformation in Mexican governance since 1982

  This paper aims to analyze the ownership implications of the transformation in Mexican governance since 1982. The turning point of the implementation of a new model of development was prompted by the Mexican State financial crisis of 1982, after a period of steady economic growth. The entrepreneurial State since then has been under the attack of new business elite, who are the direct beneficiaries of the...

Author(s): G. Jose Vargas-Hernández and Mohammad Reza Noruzi