These theorists observe that European liberal democracies, or at least their educated elites, are in the process of constructing a civic culture based no longer on nationality but on residence.
Today, the question of science's role in democracy is much more murky, as Mark Brown, a political theorist, observes in this timely exploration of the relationship between natural knowledge and political action.
MODERN warfare, as military theorists have observed, is increasingly "virtual"—fought from a distance (by America, at least) and transmuted through television cameras.
As Miroslav Hroch, the Czech political theorist, has observed, ethnic or religious nationalism easily become the "substitutes for factors of integration in a disintegrating nation".
In a 2008 talk called Gin, Television and Cognitive Surplus, the media researcher and theorist Clay Shirky observed that humanity in developed countries such as the United States and Europe has undergone a revolution in the amount of leisure time now available.
This type of coupling had been predicted by theorists, but never observed.
But I think I would object to private prisons especially were they more efficient.As the economist and legal theorist Bruce Benson has observed, it is important to distinguish between "privatisation" and "contracting out".
As Media theorist Friedrich Kittler has observed: 'Only the revolution replacing real numbers and their infinite number of places behind the decimal point with calculable quantities of whole numbers has been able to bring about the modern manipulation of images.î [nterview 1992].
Military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once observed that "no plan survives contact with the enemy".
This had been already found by organizational theorist J.A. Chilingerian, who observed the same type of executives we discuss here.
