http://hdl.handle.net/10453/74 2013-05-23T10:53:18Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17860 Aboriginal Australia and Democracy: Old Traditions, New Challenges Behrendt Larissa Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell When Europeans arrived in Australia to stay a little over two centuries ago, they did not appreciate the complex and consultative governance and legal structures that existed within the Aboriginal communities that they met. Instead, many Europeans saw a primitive race without developed technology and assumed them to be inferior. This Euro-centric assumption of superiority, eventually bolstered by theories of social Darwinism, would be used to support the doctrine of terra nullius, a legal fiction that saw Australia as though it was without a legitimate system of governance. Seen through Europeans eyes, it is not suqprising that many outsiders failed to understand the intricacies of our society, especially its complex system of laws and governance. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17861 The Positive Power of Character Strengths and Virtues for Global Leaders Rego Armenio; Clegg Stewart; Pina E Cunha Miguel Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer In a globalized world, transnational companies are implicated in power relations with many other organizations, including states, and are responsible for millions of people's lives and livelihoods. Building positive organizational performance and contributing to the creation of a better planet requires having global leaders with positive qualities in senior positions in these organizations. In this chapter, using Peterson and Seligman's (2004) framework, we explore how the character strengths and virtues of global leaders can make them more effective and better able to develop flourishing organizations and people within and around them in the contexts in which they operate. We also explore how global leaders with such positive qualities are more motivated to accept and/or look for global leadership development opportunities, and better able to learn from such opportunities. Some research directions are also considered. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17862 Power, Legitimacy and Authority Clegg Stewart G. Delanty and S.P. Taylor and J. Soderlund Any sociological discussion of the relations between power, legitimacy, and authority must start with Max Weber, and some vexed issues of translation, for it was Weber who first developed a systematic account of these tertns as the cornerstone of his social theory. The chapter will begin with an outline of Weber's views of power, legitimacy, and authority, and the interpretation of these in translation. It will then move to consideration of the functionalist theoretical context into which Weber was translated and its extension in Parsons' work. Finally, the chapter will address the recent centrality of dimensional analysis to debates about power in which it is argued that the most subtle and profound power relations are those where actors assume the legitimacy of systems of belief that do not represent their real interests. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17852 Aboriginality and the Land Watson Nicole Deborah Barnes 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z