As vice president, Cheney, you could say, has acted like a great power seeking to maximize influence and quash any rivals, forging an alliance only with Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
While some other labor leaders, like Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, seek to endorse candidates early, believing that is the best way to maximize influence, Mr. Hoffa's strategy has been to hold off in the hope that candidates will make many promises and commitments to secure his endorsement.
The article demonstrates power relationships between the actors and identifies how resources are deployed to maximize influence while minimizing dependence on other actors.
More specific I will analyse power relationships between the actors in a Swedish procurement process and analyse how resources are deployed to maximize influence while minimizing dependence on other actors.
Indeed, Russia is behaving as every regional power in the history of human regions has always behaved, maximizing its influence over its neighbors — in this case, a neighbor with a large chunk of its ethnic countrymen.
Every element of the Bush agenda, from the tax cuts to the judicial appointments to the regulatory retreat, would minimize the federal government's help for people while maximizing corporate influence.
They reflect Qatar's calculation that it took tensions with other Arab countries too far during the Gaza war, endangering its strategy of maximizing its influence by preserving good relations with all countries.
"Everyone wants reform in Europe but without throwing away the advantages we get from permanent full access to Europe's single market and maximizing British influence in it," Peter Mandelson, a former cabinet minister and a former European commissioner, said in a statement.
Therefore, in this paper we propose a two level approach, designed based on Suspected-Infected (SI) epidemic model for maximizing the influence spread.
These interdependences constitute a set of formal and informal linkages, structured around shared interests in exchanging resources to achieve goals, maximizing their influence over outcomes, and avoiding full dependence on other actors (Rhodes 1996, 2007).
