Transformational Leadership Without Equality Is Neither: Challenging the Same Old System
This paper reports on my experience in the 2004/2005 University of New Brunswick sponsored 21 Leaders initiative, on the presentation of the initiative by me and a colleague at an international conference - Women as Global Leaders - and on the capacity of 21 Leaders to contribute to transformation in New Brunswick. Resume Cet article rapporte mon experience en 2004/2005 a l'occasion de l'initiative 21 Leaders, parrainee par la University of New Brunswick, sur la presentation qu'une collegue et moi avons faite sur l'initiative lors d'une conference internationale -W omen as Global Leaders - et sur la capacite de 21 Leaders de contribuer a la transformation au Nouveau-Brunswick.
Women's Struggle for Legislative Power: The Role of Political Parties
This paper presents an overview of the literature on aspects of the electoral process that prevent women from being elected to public office in greater numbers. It focuses on Canada, discussing the barriers that women encounter during the candidate recruitment and selection processes, particularly those related to political parties and constituency-level executives.
The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation?
Information and its technologies facilitate the exercise of what has been called “soft power,” a concept that differentiates information from the conventional dimensions of “hard power,” which is mainly associated with military force and economic influence. Soft power, according to Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, means that “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries want to follow it, admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness. In this sense it is just as important to set the agenda in world politics and attract others as it is to force them to change through the threat or use of military or economic weapons.”1