But perhaps the reason the production was so shockingly bad was it represented the last gasp of uninhibited actor power in theatre.
In the years since the embargo was launched, we have done business with bad actor power abusers like Saddam Hussein and have courted the friendship of Saudis, whose money and sovereign soil gave sanctuary to most of the villains that attacked us on 911.
Actor power derived from possession of specialized skills and certain personal characteristics were also exercised (Gibson et al. 2005).
We need creative ways to capture rapid evolution in the nature of interventions, and the forces that have shaped this evolution, such as actor power, information exchange and market competition.
To apply two pillars of a framework (38) for global priority of health issues to a national stage, the alignment of actor power – the strength of those concerned with the issue, with the political context, enabled the political acceptance of the National Mental Health Policy and Strategic Plan.
"Bad actors" are a problem, but the deeper problem is the context that gives "bad actors" power.
What we are witnessing now is the emergence of a new social contract, in which individuals give the state (and, frequently, other actors) power over information in exchange for security and the conveniences of living in the modern world.
Mr. Hiltermann said that Iraq was "not falling apart into two or three parts; the country risks total collapse, with local actors — power brokers and militia leaders and sheiks — running areas limited in size with totally shifting boundaries, and with Shia often at odds with other Shia and Sunni at odds with other Sunni".
Lack of a preventive disease management culture, limited recognition of interdependencies among activities of actors, power inequalities, and top-down and linear approaches in information and knowledge sharing are identified as key structural problems that are underrated by the actors.
We examine the performance of water user associations (WUAs) and the role of actors, power relations, socio-institutional dynamics, and context in supplying water to poor urban and peri-urban neighborhoods of Malawi's two major cities.
The PAA starts from the assumption that policies and polity, such as the ones guiding the energy sector, can be described as a policy subsystem in which specific patterns of behaviours of actors, power relations and divisions of resources as well as rules of the game and discourses are - throughout the years - institutionalized into a specific arrangement.
