Daniel Zirker
Biographic Data
| ID | 258602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Zirker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Zirker |
| SIGNATURE | ZIRKER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9281-0689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historical corruption in a ‘non-corrupt’ society
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconsider, from a historical perspective, New Zealand’s reputation as a country largely without corruption, with particular reference to the colonial government’s confiscation of Māori land in the 19 th century and beyond. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on published historical commentary. Findings The findings are that much of the Māori land confiscation was rendered legal for illegitimate…
Setting the Agenda
Este artigo examina a produção aparentemente seletiva de narrativas políticas pelos três principais jornais brasileiros a partir do uso de estatísticas econômicas. Empregamos análises de conteúdo para entender pelo menos três fenômenos: (i) os altos níveis de convergência da mídia impressa brasileira; (ii) o uso crescente e seletivo de estatísticas nacionais específicas; (iii) anomalias na produção de notícias envolvendo o uso dessas estatísticas…
Cablegate and the continuing US penetration in Brazil
Jan Black outlined the US penetration of Brazilian politics in the 1960s and 1970s, including the linkages with military and business elites, revealing their compromise on national sovereignty. Based on cables released by WikiLeaks, this study shows a renewed emphasis by the US government to manipulate Brazilian domestic and foreign policies in the late 1990s and 2000s
"Cablegate" e a intervenção continuada dos EUA no Brasil
Jan Black delineou a penetração estadunidense na política brasileira nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, seus vínculos com elites militares e comerciais, apontandopara o comprometimento da soberania nacional. Este estudo mostra uma ênfase renovada dos EUA para manipular as políticas doméstica e externa do Brasil nofinal dos anos 1990 e 2000, com base em telegramas divulgados pelo WikiLeaks
Brasil e Nova Zelândia na Segunda Guerra Mundial
Brasil e Nova Zelândia enviaram tropas numerosas para lutar na Itália ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Para os soldados menos aquinhoados, essa guerra representou uma chance de obter o direito de cidadania. No caso da Nova Zelândia, predominaram os maoris,; no brasileiro, os recrutas eram, em sua maioria, nordestinos. O artigo examina fatores comuns aos dois exércitos em uma campanha na qual ambos se distinguiram com grande coragem e muitas pe…
"Estratégia de Segurança Nacional" dos EUA e pensamento militar brasileiro
Este trabalho analisa as Estratégias de Segurança Nacional dos EUA, de 2002 e 2006, visando compreender o impacto de alguns de seus elementos sobre o pensamento militar brasileiro, entre eles, a doutrina de "Guerra Preemptiva". Ao enfocar artigos reveladores produzidos por intelectuais militares brasileiros, e reexaminar as implicações jurídicas internacionais das Estratégias, o autor conclui que as ameaças implícitas nestes documentos à soberani…
Corruption vs. corruption scandals in New Zealand
New Zealand has experienced a plethora of political corruption scandals over the past several years. Newspapers have increasingly featured the term ‘corruption’ to describe a wide range of allegedly ostensibly scandalous activities. Are corruption and corruption scandals related? Is New Zealand developing a culture of political scandals? What are the long-term political implications of this trend, given that New Zealand has arguably been one of t…
Corruption scandals, scandal clusters and contemporary politics in New Zealand
While New Zealand enjoys a widely held view that it symbolises the qualities of a corruption-free democracy, over the past several years corruption scandals have increased markedly in number and intensity. It appears that corruption is becoming a part of the language of politics in New Zealand in a new way. This article explores this proposition with a particular focus on the incidence and character of corruption scandals during politically signi…
Novelas and the development of a democratic culture in Brazil
Latin American novelas, or soap operas, have a unique, socially emancipatory character, and are popular world-wide. Despite their sponsorship by elite broadcast networks, they tend to focus upon the everyday struggles of the poor and lower middle class, for market reasons. One such Brazilian dramaturgy 'Voc Decide', a popular television programme on the Brazilian national TV network Rede Globo between 1992 and 2000, offered viewers the chance, in…
The Military as a Distinct Ethnic or Quasi-Ethnic Identity in Developing Countries
Culture, identity, and ethnicity are central to understanding political behavior and the complex questions of military behavior in developing countries. Drawing on distinctive military periods in Fiji, Pakistan, and Uganda, each of which exemplifies, respectively, the main elements of the three schools of thought regarding ethnicity-primordialist, instrumentalist, and constructivist-this study argues that the fundamental behavior patterns associa…
Nationalism, National Security, and Amazônia
The end of the Cold War had profoundly affected Brazilian military thought, and, consequently, military planning and development, by the late 1990s. Recent evidence suggests that the Brazilian military is increasingly concerned with threats to national sovereignty putatively posed by international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the most industrialized countries. Moreover, the Brazilian military sees such threats as likel…
The Brazilian Military Under Cardoso
In Brazil, an era of military confusion and dissatisfaction that followed the end of the Cold War has largely dissipated since the mid-1990s. Despite scarce federal resources under current economic policies, the Cardoso government has managed to eliminate the most immediate budgetary causes of military unrest. Military authoritarian influence remains, moreover, in areas such as Amazônia. The military's own efforts, the president's moral and econo…
José Nun's "Middle-Class Military Coup" in Contemporary Perspective
Military dictators in Latin America have long been likened to men on horseback. S. E. Finer (1962), Edwin Lieuwen (1965), and others addressed this culturally specific image in their works, and Samuel P. Huntington (1957) suggested that professionalization of the military would ultimately discourage such military intervention in politics. It was not until such diverse observers as Morris Janowitz (1964), Juan Linz (1970), Alfred Stepan (1971), an…
The Political Dynamics of Presidential Impeachment in Brazil
The impeachment of the president of Brazil, Fernando Collor de Mello, in 1992 has been widely acclaimed as Brazil's democratic coming of age. Subsequent events suggest that Brazil may once again be regarded as a political model, this time one of democratization. Nevertheless, the idiosyncratic character of the Collor impeachment requires further examination in this regard. Factors such as a fluid political party system, and, particularly, its ong…
Books in review
Brazilian Foreign Policy and Subimperialism During the Political Transition of the 1980s
Some observers in the 1960s and 1970s, principal among them the Brazilian sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini, argued that Brazil had achieved a kind of local economic and political power, albeit with fundamental structural limitations, that was analogous in some respects-while subordinateto the hemispheric economic predominance of the United States. Speaking from a Marxian perspective, Marini dubbed this situation subimperialism (1965; 1969; 1972; 1973…
Amazonia
Continuing control over the political and developmental policies of Amazonia has become perhaps the last best hope of the Brazilian military establishment, which has seen its principal raisons d'etre-the threats traditionally thought to be posed by foreign enemies and internal subversion-disappear in recent years. Alfred Stepan has clarified the unusually high level of 'military prerogatives' exercised in the post-1985 Brazilian political system,…
The Military Ministers and Political Change in Post-Authoritarian Brazil
One important barrier to the democratization process in Latin American countries has been the persistence of military-institutional structures, often at the very heart of the national polity. In the case of Brazil, these structures evolved during a period of protracted military dictatorship, and have depended for their survival after 1985 upon the pivotal role of the military ministers in the presidential cabinet. An examination of the striking c…
Democracy and the Military in Brazil
Brazil returned to civilian government in 1985 after 21 years of military dictatorship, during which the armed forces directed and participated in such extreme forms of coercion as kidnapping, torture, and 'liquidation.' The permanence and thoroughness of the withdrawal of the military establishment from the national political process remain questionable, and the redress in cases of torture is a paramount example. The amnesty decree of 1979, whic…
Political Transition and Regionalism in Brazil
Many analyses of Brazil's recent development have seen the explanation of the country's political problems, and in particular the military régime of 1964–65, as lying in the weakness of the national bourgeoisie and the heterogeneous nature of the dominant class. This class configuration would imply a pronounced relative autonomy of the State, expressed in an authoritarian, interventionist régime, within the limits imposed by dependence on interna…
Brazilian Development
Recent works on the politics of Brazilian development point to yet another process of reevaluation in this field, as the weakening of the "Brazilian miracle" since the mid-and late-1970s suggests the existence of a significant and long-lasting pattern. 1 Indeed, nineteen years of military dictatorship in Latin America's largest country have led to the synthesis of a political and socioeconomic system that has evoked a broad spectrum of critical a…
The Military as a Distinct Ethnic or Quasi-Ethnic Identity in Developing Countries
Culture, identity, and ethnicity are central to understanding political behavior and the complex questions of military behavior in developing countries. Drawing on distinctive military periods in Fiji, Pakistan, and Uganda, each of which exemplifies, respectively, the main elements of the three schools of thought regarding ethnicity-primordialist, instrumentalist, and constructivist-this study argues that the fundamental behavior patterns associa…
The Brazilian Military Under Cardoso
In Brazil, an era of military confusion and dissatisfaction that followed the end of the Cold War has largely dissipated since the mid-1990s. Despite scarce federal resources under current economic policies, the Cardoso government has managed to eliminate the most immediate budgetary causes of military unrest. Military authoritarian influence remains, moreover, in areas such as Amazônia. The military's own efforts, the president's moral and econo…
José Nun's "Middle-Class Military Coup" in Contemporary Perspective
Military dictators in Latin America have long been likened to men on horseback. S. E. Finer (1962), Edwin Lieuwen (1965), and others addressed this culturally specific image in their works, and Samuel P. Huntington (1957) suggested that professionalization of the military would ultimately discourage such military intervention in politics. It was not until such diverse observers as Morris Janowitz (1964), Juan Linz (1970), Alfred Stepan (1971), an…
Brazilian Foreign Policy and Subimperialism During the Political Transition of the 1980s
Some observers in the 1960s and 1970s, principal among them the Brazilian sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini, argued that Brazil had achieved a kind of local economic and political power, albeit with fundamental structural limitations, that was analogous in some respects-while subordinateto the hemispheric economic predominance of the United States. Speaking from a Marxian perspective, Marini dubbed this situation subimperialism (1965; 1969; 1972; 1973…
Corruption vs. corruption scandals in New Zealand
New Zealand has experienced a plethora of political corruption scandals over the past several years. Newspapers have increasingly featured the term ‘corruption’ to describe a wide range of allegedly ostensibly scandalous activities. Are corruption and corruption scandals related? Is New Zealand developing a culture of political scandals? What are the long-term political implications of this trend, given that New Zealand has arguably been one of t…
Nationalism, National Security, and Amazônia
The end of the Cold War had profoundly affected Brazilian military thought, and, consequently, military planning and development, by the late 1990s. Recent evidence suggests that the Brazilian military is increasingly concerned with threats to national sovereignty putatively posed by international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the most industrialized countries. Moreover, the Brazilian military sees such threats as likel…
The Political Dynamics of Presidential Impeachment in Brazil
The impeachment of the president of Brazil, Fernando Collor de Mello, in 1992 has been widely acclaimed as Brazil's democratic coming of age. Subsequent events suggest that Brazil may once again be regarded as a political model, this time one of democratization. Nevertheless, the idiosyncratic character of the Collor impeachment requires further examination in this regard. Factors such as a fluid political party system, and, particularly, its ong…
Amazonia
Continuing control over the political and developmental policies of Amazonia has become perhaps the last best hope of the Brazilian military establishment, which has seen its principal raisons d'etre-the threats traditionally thought to be posed by foreign enemies and internal subversion-disappear in recent years. Alfred Stepan has clarified the unusually high level of 'military prerogatives' exercised in the post-1985 Brazilian political system,…
Democracy and the Military in Brazil
Brazil returned to civilian government in 1985 after 21 years of military dictatorship, during which the armed forces directed and participated in such extreme forms of coercion as kidnapping, torture, and 'liquidation.' The permanence and thoroughness of the withdrawal of the military establishment from the national political process remain questionable, and the redress in cases of torture is a paramount example. The amnesty decree of 1979, whic…
Brazilian Development
Recent works on the politics of Brazilian development point to yet another process of reevaluation in this field, as the weakening of the "Brazilian miracle" since the mid-and late-1970s suggests the existence of a significant and long-lasting pattern. 1 Indeed, nineteen years of military dictatorship in Latin America's largest country have led to the synthesis of a political and socioeconomic system that has evoked a broad spectrum of critical a…
Political Transition and Regionalism in Brazil
Many analyses of Brazil's recent development have seen the explanation of the country's political problems, and in particular the military régime of 1964–65, as lying in the weakness of the national bourgeoisie and the heterogeneous nature of the dominant class. This class configuration would imply a pronounced relative autonomy of the State, expressed in an authoritarian, interventionist régime, within the limits imposed by dependence on interna…
Democracy and the Military in Brazil
Brazil returned to civilian government in 1985 after 21 years of military dictatorship, during which the armed forces directed and participated in such extreme forms of coercion as kidnapping, torture, and 'liquidation.' The permanence and thoroughness of the withdrawal of the military establishment from the national political process remain questionable, and the redress in cases of torture is a paramount example. The amnesty decree of 1979, whic…
The Military Ministers and Political Change in Post-Authoritarian Brazil
One important barrier to the democratization process in Latin American countries has been the persistence of military-institutional structures, often at the very heart of the national polity. In the case of Brazil, these structures evolved during a period of protracted military dictatorship, and have depended for their survival after 1985 upon the pivotal role of the military ministers in the presidential cabinet. An examination of the striking c…
Brazilian Foreign Policy and Subimperialism During the Political Transition of the 1980s
Some observers in the 1960s and 1970s, principal among them the Brazilian sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini, argued that Brazil had achieved a kind of local economic and political power, albeit with fundamental structural limitations, that was analogous in some respects-while subordinateto the hemispheric economic predominance of the United States. Speaking from a Marxian perspective, Marini dubbed this situation subimperialism (1965; 1969; 1972; 1973…
Amazonia
Continuing control over the political and developmental policies of Amazonia has become perhaps the last best hope of the Brazilian military establishment, which has seen its principal raisons d'etre-the threats traditionally thought to be posed by foreign enemies and internal subversion-disappear in recent years. Alfred Stepan has clarified the unusually high level of 'military prerogatives' exercised in the post-1985 Brazilian political system,…
Books in review
The Political Dynamics of Presidential Impeachment in Brazil
The impeachment of the president of Brazil, Fernando Collor de Mello, in 1992 has been widely acclaimed as Brazil's democratic coming of age. Subsequent events suggest that Brazil may once again be regarded as a political model, this time one of democratization. Nevertheless, the idiosyncratic character of the Collor impeachment requires further examination in this regard. Factors such as a fluid political party system, and, particularly, its ong…
José Nun's "Middle-Class Military Coup" in Contemporary Perspective
Military dictators in Latin America have long been likened to men on horseback. S. E. Finer (1962), Edwin Lieuwen (1965), and others addressed this culturally specific image in their works, and Samuel P. Huntington (1957) suggested that professionalization of the military would ultimately discourage such military intervention in politics. It was not until such diverse observers as Morris Janowitz (1964), Juan Linz (1970), Alfred Stepan (1971), an…
Nationalism, National Security, and Amazônia
The end of the Cold War had profoundly affected Brazilian military thought, and, consequently, military planning and development, by the late 1990s. Recent evidence suggests that the Brazilian military is increasingly concerned with threats to national sovereignty putatively posed by international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the most industrialized countries. Moreover, the Brazilian military sees such threats as likel…
The Brazilian Military Under Cardoso
In Brazil, an era of military confusion and dissatisfaction that followed the end of the Cold War has largely dissipated since the mid-1990s. Despite scarce federal resources under current economic policies, the Cardoso government has managed to eliminate the most immediate budgetary causes of military unrest. Military authoritarian influence remains, moreover, in areas such as Amazônia. The military's own efforts, the president's moral and econo…
The Military as a Distinct Ethnic or Quasi-Ethnic Identity in Developing Countries
Culture, identity, and ethnicity are central to understanding political behavior and the complex questions of military behavior in developing countries. Drawing on distinctive military periods in Fiji, Pakistan, and Uganda, each of which exemplifies, respectively, the main elements of the three schools of thought regarding ethnicity-primordialist, instrumentalist, and constructivist-this study argues that the fundamental behavior patterns associa…
Novelas and the development of a democratic culture in Brazil
Latin American novelas, or soap operas, have a unique, socially emancipatory character, and are popular world-wide. Despite their sponsorship by elite broadcast networks, they tend to focus upon the everyday struggles of the poor and lower middle class, for market reasons. One such Brazilian dramaturgy 'Voc Decide', a popular television programme on the Brazilian national TV network Rede Globo between 1992 and 2000, offered viewers the chance, in…
Corruption scandals, scandal clusters and contemporary politics in New Zealand
While New Zealand enjoys a widely held view that it symbolises the qualities of a corruption-free democracy, over the past several years corruption scandals have increased markedly in number and intensity. It appears that corruption is becoming a part of the language of politics in New Zealand in a new way. This article explores this proposition with a particular focus on the incidence and character of corruption scandals during politically signi…
Corruption vs. corruption scandals in New Zealand
New Zealand has experienced a plethora of political corruption scandals over the past several years. Newspapers have increasingly featured the term ‘corruption’ to describe a wide range of allegedly ostensibly scandalous activities. Are corruption and corruption scandals related? Is New Zealand developing a culture of political scandals? What are the long-term political implications of this trend, given that New Zealand has arguably been one of t…
Cablegate and the continuing US penetration in Brazil
Jan Black outlined the US penetration of Brazilian politics in the 1960s and 1970s, including the linkages with military and business elites, revealing their compromise on national sovereignty. Based on cables released by WikiLeaks, this study shows a renewed emphasis by the US government to manipulate Brazilian domestic and foreign policies in the late 1990s and 2000s
"Cablegate" e a intervenção continuada dos EUA no Brasil
Jan Black delineou a penetração estadunidense na política brasileira nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, seus vínculos com elites militares e comerciais, apontandopara o comprometimento da soberania nacional. Este estudo mostra uma ênfase renovada dos EUA para manipular as políticas doméstica e externa do Brasil nofinal dos anos 1990 e 2000, com base em telegramas divulgados pelo WikiLeaks
Brasil e Nova Zelândia na Segunda Guerra Mundial
Brasil e Nova Zelândia enviaram tropas numerosas para lutar na Itália ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Para os soldados menos aquinhoados, essa guerra representou uma chance de obter o direito de cidadania. No caso da Nova Zelândia, predominaram os maoris,; no brasileiro, os recrutas eram, em sua maioria, nordestinos. O artigo examina fatores comuns aos dois exércitos em uma campanha na qual ambos se distinguiram com grande coragem e muitas pe…
"Estratégia de Segurança Nacional" dos EUA e pensamento militar brasileiro
Este trabalho analisa as Estratégias de Segurança Nacional dos EUA, de 2002 e 2006, visando compreender o impacto de alguns de seus elementos sobre o pensamento militar brasileiro, entre eles, a doutrina de "Guerra Preemptiva". Ao enfocar artigos reveladores produzidos por intelectuais militares brasileiros, e reexaminar as implicações jurídicas internacionais das Estratégias, o autor conclui que as ameaças implícitas nestes documentos à soberani…
Setting the Agenda
Este artigo examina a produção aparentemente seletiva de narrativas políticas pelos três principais jornais brasileiros a partir do uso de estatísticas econômicas. Empregamos análises de conteúdo para entender pelo menos três fenômenos: (i) os altos níveis de convergência da mídia impressa brasileira; (ii) o uso crescente e seletivo de estatísticas nacionais específicas; (iii) anomalias na produção de notícias envolvendo o uso dessas estatísticas…
Historical corruption in a ‘non-corrupt’ society
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconsider, from a historical perspective, New Zealand’s reputation as a country largely without corruption, with particular reference to the colonial government’s confiscation of Māori land in the 19 th century and beyond. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on published historical commentary. Findings The findings are that much of the Māori land confiscation was rendered legal for illegitimate…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Democracy (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Brazilian cultural history and politics (5 works) · Democratization (5 works)