In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services.
In a final twist, we see how dialectics shape the internal workings of the creative mind itself--how even the thinking of a solitary person is, in a sense, relational".
They have moved to re-shape the internal workings of the government to concentrate more power in personal authority at the top and less in written rules or in government bureaucracies.
Leaving it to the political class to decide the rules of the game, the shape and workings of our political system is not good enough.
The immediate reaction to the disease has been shaped partly by the workings of scientific discovery and partly by the culture and politics of dealing with rampant fear.
As you wisely pointed out, Judge Sotomayor, experience shapes position, and the workings of the human mind are often unconscious; thus the "record" would never show how your personal sympathies affected a case.
Outside the technical community, not many people know about the R.F.C.'s, but these humble documents shape the Internet's inner workings and have played a significant role in its success.
Indeed, explicating the workings of power shaping posting and transfer in different contexts will inevitably raise difficult political issues.
