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Nov 25 2008

With Bush leaving: Losing excuses in political rhetorics?

Published in welfare, rhetoric, political strategy, political activity, political, Blog by Jaakko Aspara | Comment (0)

Why the Europeans will miss Bush? An Obama presidency will be greeted in Europe with enthusiasm, but as some Europeans have put it to me, "We realize that we won't have the excuse of George Bush."... [Obama is] going to want Europe to stand up and do more... And Europeans will have a problem, in that they will embrace him, and they will not be able to say: "Well, this is the Bush administration. We have to resist."

The use of academic research results in (political) strategies

Published in welfare, strategy, scientific research, political strategy, political activity, media, Blog, academic research by Jaakko Aspara | Comment (2)

You do not have to spend much time in the USA to note how effortful companies (and sometimes also authorities, parties, and media) are in using academic research results in their political activities. Since political strategies of corporations are a topic of major research interest in GloStra (see e.g. the research area on Corporate Strategy & Society as well as Lamberg et al.'s article, and Mantere et al.'s article) let me present an illustration, an example which I ran into tonight.

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