Leadership as a Continuum Model. he leadership continuum theory places all leadership styles along a continuum based on the balance of authority and freedom that exists between the leader and subordinates.

What is Leader Decision Making? How does leader decision making fit into behavioral leadership study?

What is the Positive Deviance Model? Positive deviance is an asset-based improvement approach. At its core is the belief that solutions to problems already exist within communities, and that identifying, understanding, and sharing these...

Material covered:Words ending with a 'shn' sound, Fashion, Ancient,Column,Muscle,Awkward

Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how his invocation of the model of religious economy for Islam gives benefits to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how the model of religious economy explains both the evolution and diversity of organized religion, and some of the benefits of applying it to Islam.

Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how aspects of British colonialism in India led to the exportation of various types of Islam to Japan and the United States.

Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses some of the differences between science and politics.

Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes the strengths and weaknesses of different governmental advisory bodies.

Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein relates how, by making false assumptions about the nature of the social world, most social scientists are running a serious risk of squandering the impressive model-building possibilities that...

James Robert Brown, University of Toronto, describes how, despite our impressive knowledge about the biomechanics of our brains and sense, how we produce our corresponding belief about the natural world is just as mysterious as how a...

Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein describes how key aspects of his philosophical views of the social world can be directly applied to politics, explaining that to understand politics, it is vital to consider what led people to...

UCSD Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth describes how the standard view that “America is democratic and China isn’t”, while hardly entirely incorrect, doesn’t really bear up under careful scrutiny.

Tufts University philosopher Brian Epstein describes how carefully developing a model of bureaucratic corruption can lead to identifying key factors that traditional social science models will necessarily overlook.

UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay contrasts the political domain with the scientific one, explaining that it’s important to recognize that the two are distinct, believing it would be a very bad idea to try to recreate politics in the...

Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts) uses the example of electoral control models to highlight problems with model-building.