Michael L Smith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3629957 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael L Smith |
| PRENOMES | Michael L |
| SOBRENOME | Smith |
| ASSINATURA | SMITH M L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6379-8338 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 270 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
A Time Series Analysis of Herd Investor Behavior Using Online and Social Media Data
We examine the relationship between market performance of leading cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin and Ethereum), meme-stocks (AMC, GameStop), and subjects of corporate boycotts (Bud Light) using weekly market price and volume data along with social media data of weekly mentions (which total 337 million in this dataset) and net sentiment. Using vector autoregression (VAR) time series analysis along with Granger causality testing and structural breaks, w…
Gender Differences in Intergenerational Occupational Persistence and Mobility in Central Europe
How Much of a New Agenda? International Structures, Agency, and Transatlantic Order
This article focuses on the links between transatlantic relations—a structured array of markets, hierarchies, networks, ideas, and institutions—and broader elements of international structure and world order. It argues that the changing state of transatlantic relations reflects changes in the structure of the relations themselves, but also structural change in the global and domestic arenas and how such change shapes or reflects the actions of a …
Gender gaps in educational pathways in the Czech Republic
De-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making
This Conclusion poses a number of cross-cutting questions, and explores the ways in which the Special Issue has addressed them. The questions are: (1) Is de-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making simply an ‘internal’ process? (2) Is de-Europeanisation a tactic or a trend? (3) Is de-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making just ‘politics’? (4) Is de-Europeanisation about capacity, or about legitimacy? (5) How does de-Europeanis…
Concise survey measures for the Big Five personality traits
The European Union and the Global Arena
This article explores the issues faced by the EU in developing its international roles post-Brexit, using a combination of discursive analysis and role theory to investigate the development and performance of roles in a number of linked arenas. Central to this analysis is the assumption that whatever form Brexit takes, the EU and the UK will remain closely entangled, and thus that the post-Brexit role assumed by the UK will shape the evolution of…
Educational Pathways and their Role in Occupational and Class Attainment in Czech Society
This article introduces a new approach to the study of the association between education and socio-economic outcomes in the Czech Republic: educational pathways, which are the primary channels of study involving at least two educational transitions with qualitatively different tracks. Based on Czech Household Panel Study data, I operationalise Czech educational pathways between secondary and tertiary education and examine the role of eight differ…
The EU and the Global Order
Politicians, diplomats and analysts commonly assume that commitment to multilateralism and liberal norms is part of the EU’s very DNA. Increasingly, however, the EU’s commitment to the liberal global order is more selective. We demonstrate the shift to a more contingent liberalism by examining the EU’s recent record in relation to four different challenges: international trade; US leadership; Russian actions in the eastern neighbourhood; and secu…
Returns to cognitive skills
This study examines the role of cognitive skills on labor market outcomes in 14 developed countries. In contrast to standard Mincer-type regressions, we utilize a structural modeling approach that can take into account different types of skills on different economic outcomes. The results, based on data from the OECD PIAAC project, provide strong evidence that the income returns to adult cognitive skills are substantially large across the OECD, ne…
Does the Flag Still Follow Trade? Agency, Politicization and External Opportunity Structures in the Post-Lisbon System of eu Diplomacy
This article focuses on the past and present of the European Union’s system of diplomacy, and asks whether the changes initiated by the Lisbon Treaty have really transformed that system. The Lisbon Treaty promised to transform the situation in which ‘the flag followed trade’ and give a primary role to the diplomacy of politics and security. Using arguments based on the location of agency, the politicization of economic diplomacy and the logic of …
The geopolitics of the EU’s partnership diplomacy
Structural embeddedness of students’ professional expectations
We compare the role of gender, socioeconomic background and measured ability on students’ secondary school placement and professional expectations in Taiwan and the Czech Republic, two countries that have experienced substantial reforms in their educational systems in the context of political change and economic development. Using data from the international PISA 2006 survey of 15-year-olds, our analysis reveals that Czech academic upper-secondar…
The role of basic values and education on women’s work and family preferences in Europe
Purpose Consistent with dual-process models of behaviour, Miles (2015) has shown that Schwartz’ basic values can provide a valuable framework for empirically analysing the role of values and cultural contexts in driving human behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this line of research by distinguishing individual values from macro-level values, as well as from other micro- and macro-conditions, in order to test whether individu…
Inglehart's scarcity hypothesis revisited
Inglehart's theory of postmaterialism hinged on the scarcity hypothesis, according to which the spread of postmaterialist values depends on the degree of individuals' and societies' existential security, rooted in macro-level economic conditions. But does a country's level of economic development systematically shape individuals' existential security, and thus postmaterialism? In this article, the authors revisit this question by utilizing 2010-2…
Families, Schools, and Student Achievement Inequality
This article examines inequality in different dimensions of student academic achievement (math, science, and reading) by family background and school context in three East Asian (Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea) and three Western (United States, Germany, and the Czech Republic) nations. Building on Hauser (2009), we develop a novel multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) model with a two-level hierarchical linear modeling specification, which al…
EU Diplomacy and the EU–China strategic relationship
This article focuses on the development of the EU's strategic relationship with China, by exploring the balance amongst three key mechanisms mobilized by the EU: framing, negotiation and management. The article outlines these issues in general, relating them to relevant conceptual and theoretical concerns, and then applies them to the EU–China strategic relationship. Through an examination of the framing ideas embodied in key documents, the devel…
Are boys that bad? Gender gaps in measured skills, grades and aspirations in Czech elementary schools
This article examines gender gaps in academic performance (grades in mathematics and reading) between boys and girls of ninth-grade elementary schools in the Czech Republic. Our analysis is based on 2003 data from the Programme for International Student Assessment, encompassing the academic performance and family background of ninth-grade pupils. Similar to research on other countries, we find that girls strongly outperform boys in grades in Czec…
Conclusions
This Conclusion revisits the key ideas put forward in the Introduction, examines the evidence presented in the articles as a whole, and identifies some avenues for further exploration. It focuses on four areas: first, the extent of agency evident in EU development policies at the level of the EU itself; second, the mediating factors that can modify, reinforce or undermine EU policies at the national or the global level; third, the variable impact…
Foreign policy and development in the post-Lisbon European Union
The European Union (EU) has a long tradition of involvement in development policy and can claim to be the world's most influential donor when the activities of its member states are aggregated. Recently, however, this position has been challenged by the rise of new donors and models of development assistance, by the changing needs and positions of recipients and by institutional change within the EU itself. This article explores these issues by f…
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Explaining Strategic Theory
The word strategy is an over-used and much misunderstood term. M.L.R. Smith and John Stone show how strategic theory should be conceived as an analytical method. In the process they demonstrate how strategic theory offers a mind-opening and intellectually liberating path that is able to clarify complexity
Civic initiatives in the context of legal uncertainty
In this article, we analyse initiatives organized by groups outside of formal politics that involve political confrontation with elected officials, and the need for recourse to the courts. We show that a civic initiative submitted by a proposer gives the voter not only the option to constrain the mayor but also the possibility of learning the mayor’s type from the signals conveyed in the legal contest over the validity of the initiative. We show …
Ideology, Networks and Political Religion
It has become orthodoxy in terrorism studies that the survival or durability of the organization or network is central to the terrorist mission. From this perspective, its ideology or political religion is subordinated to the core purpose of the group, which is understood to be survival for its own sake. Through a case study that examines the evolution, development and degradation of the Southeast Asian jihadist organization Jemaah Islamiah, this…
Continuity and Change in Beliefs about Distributive Justice
The article analyses changes in beliefs about distributive justice in the Czech Republic from 1991 to 2009 in an international comparative perspective. Based on previous analyses and published work, the article formulates the hypothesis that the process of crystallisation of the two main ideologies or norms of distributive justice, namely meritocratic and egalitarian ideologies, which was confirmed in analyses carried out from 1991 to 1995, conti…
The European Union and a Changing Europe
This article seeks to explore the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the changing European order, with particular respect to the ways in which the EU structures and shapes the boundaries between itself and the broader European arena. It evaluates a range of available international relations theories, and adopts a ‘critical neoliberal‐institutionalist’ approach to the problem. It applies this approach by assessing the EU's boundary‐c…
Western Europe's presence in the contemporary international arena
Western Europe's status and impact within the contemporary international arena is a matter of contention and debate, reflecting its often elusive and intangible nature. On the one hand, enthusiasm for the notion of a ‘European foreign policy’ and for the idea that Western Europe can play a constructive role in the world is evident both in academic analysis and in the pronouncements of West European political leaders. On the other, there is often …
Asean’s imitation community
Making Process, Not Progress
Since the Asian financial crisis of 1998, regional scholars and diplomats have maintained that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) represents an evolving economic and security community. In addition, many contend that what is known as the ASEAN process not only has transformed Southeast Asia's international relations, but has started to build a shared East Asian regional identity. ASEAN's deeper integration into a security, economi…
External Policy Developments
Two Decades of Value Change
Perceived corruption, distributive justice, and the legitimacy of the system of social stratification in the Czech Republic
This article examines the relationship between social justice norms and the perceived legitimacy of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic. Despite the fact that meritocratic values have remained the dominant part of ideology in the Czech Republic throughout the transformation process, those values have played only a very minor role in fostering evaluations of system legitimacy, such as perceptions of system closure and widespread…
De-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making
This Conclusion poses a number of cross-cutting questions, and explores the ways in which the Special Issue has addressed them. The questions are: (1) Is de-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making simply an ‘internal’ process? (2) Is de-Europeanisation a tactic or a trend? (3) Is de-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making just ‘politics’? (4) Is de-Europeanisation about capacity, or about legitimacy? (5) How does de-Europeanis…
Foreign policy and development in the post-Lisbon European Union
The European Union (EU) has a long tradition of involvement in development policy and can claim to be the world's most influential donor when the activities of its member states are aggregated. Recently, however, this position has been challenged by the rise of new donors and models of development assistance, by the changing needs and positions of recipients and by institutional change within the EU itself. This article explores these issues by f…
Inglehart's scarcity hypothesis revisited
Inglehart's theory of postmaterialism hinged on the scarcity hypothesis, according to which the spread of postmaterialist values depends on the degree of individuals' and societies' existential security, rooted in macro-level economic conditions. But does a country's level of economic development systematically shape individuals' existential security, and thus postmaterialism? In this article, the authors revisit this question by utilizing 2010-2…
The European Union's commercial policy
This article deals with the forces operating on the European Union's (EU's) commercial policy (defined in an inclusive sense as a form of international collective action) with the aim of identifying the coexisting influences leading to coherence and fragmentation. It begins by locating the question of coherence and fragmentation in terms of the EU's roles in the world political economy, and by reviewing recent literature which has explored a numb…
EU Diplomacy and the EU–China strategic relationship
This article focuses on the development of the EU's strategic relationship with China, by exploring the balance amongst three key mechanisms mobilized by the EU: framing, negotiation and management. The article outlines these issues in general, relating them to relevant conceptual and theoretical concerns, and then applies them to the EU–China strategic relationship. Through an examination of the framing ideas embodied in key documents, the devel…
Creating a New Space
The European union, foreign economic policy and the changing world arena
This article assesses the extent to which the European Union (EU) can be said to have developed a 'foreign economic policy' in the light of arguments about such policies in traditional state‐centric analysis. From this general evaluation, questions are derived about the effectiveness of EU policies and about the ways in which they reflect the changing nature of the world arena. It is concluded that the EU represents tendencies towards multi‐layer…
Families, Schools, and Student Achievement Inequality
This article examines inequality in different dimensions of student academic achievement (math, science, and reading) by family background and school context in three East Asian (Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea) and three Western (United States, Germany, and the Czech Republic) nations. Building on Hauser (2009), we develop a novel multiple-indicator multiple-cause (MIMIC) model with a two-level hierarchical linear modeling specification, which al…
The Re-stratification of Czech Politics
This article examines the development of class voting in the Czech Republic, 1992- 2010. While many Western countries have been experiencing declining or stable associations between class and electoral choice, we hypothesize that the trend in class voting should be quite different in the Czech Republic, and by extension, in other post-communist countries. We theorize that if a country is undergoing a process of re-stratification - the process in …
Constructing communities
The prevailing scholarly orthodoxy regarding recent diplomatic initiatives in the Asia-Pacific assumes that East Asia is evolving into a distinctive regional community. The orthodoxy attributes this development to the growing influence of the diplomatic practices espoused by the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN) and its related institutions. However, a paradox remains, namely: despite the failure of ASEAN’s distinctive practice to ful…
Determination of College Expectations in OECD Countries
Renowned international experts in higher education fi nancing have argued that, owing to large government defi cits, tertiary education will not be able to open up and meet growing demand unless cost-sharing principles and effi cient student fi nancial aid programmes are introduced. Opponents of cost-sharing in higher education object that introducing tuition fees will raise inequality in access to higher education. Drawing on OECD data, and focu…
A Question of Escalation - From Counternarcotics to Counterterrorism
A question of escalation - from counternarcotics to counterterrorism: Analysing US strategy in colombia
Modification of concept identification performance in older adults
A sequential training procedure combining operant and cumulative learning hierarchy principles was found effective in reducing the decrement in concept identification performance typically observed in older adults. Subjects aged 63 to 83 years were given a pretest and posttest, each involving a three-category unidimensional concept identification problem. The training and reinforced training subjects were given three training sessions between pre…
Does the Flag Still Follow Trade? Agency, Politicization and External Opportunity Structures in the Post-Lisbon System of eu Diplomacy
This article focuses on the past and present of the European Union’s system of diplomacy, and asks whether the changes initiated by the Lisbon Treaty have really transformed that system. The Lisbon Treaty promised to transform the situation in which ‘the flag followed trade’ and give a primary role to the diplomacy of politics and security. Using arguments based on the location of agency, the politicization of economic diplomacy and the logic of …
Are boys that bad? Gender gaps in measured skills, grades and aspirations in Czech elementary schools
This article examines gender gaps in academic performance (grades in mathematics and reading) between boys and girls of ninth-grade elementary schools in the Czech Republic. Our analysis is based on 2003 data from the Programme for International Student Assessment, encompassing the academic performance and family background of ninth-grade pupils. Similar to research on other countries, we find that girls strongly outperform boys in grades in Czec…
Explaining Strategic Theory
The word strategy is an over-used and much misunderstood term. M.L.R. Smith and John Stone show how strategic theory should be conceived as an analytical method. In the process they demonstrate how strategic theory offers a mind-opening and intellectually liberating path that is able to clarify complexity
China Engages Asia? Caveat Lector
July 01 2005 China Engages Asia? Caveat Lector Nicholas Khoo, Nicholas Khoo A Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Michael L.R. Smith, Michael L.R. Smith Reader in War Studies, King's College, University of London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar David Shambaugh David Shambaugh Director of the China Polic…
The European Union and the Global Arena
This article explores the issues faced by the EU in developing its international roles post-Brexit, using a combination of discursive analysis and role theory to investigate the development and performance of roles in a number of linked arenas. Central to this analysis is the assumption that whatever form Brexit takes, the EU and the UK will remain closely entangled, and thus that the post-Brexit role assumed by the UK will shape the evolution of…
Trainability assessments for apprentice selection in shipbuilding
Trainability assessments were designed for predicting apprentice performance in four skills in the shipbuilding industry. The results showed that the assessments were successful in predicting performance after a three‐month period in the skill for which they were designed. They were less successful, however, after a 12‐month period and no one assessment predicted performance for all skills. It is suggested that trainability assessments may be bes…
Modification of concept identification performance in older adults
A sequential training procedure combining operant and cumulative learning hierarchy principles was found effective in reducing the decrement in concept identification performance typically observed in older adults. Subjects aged 63 to 83 years were given a pretest and posttest, each involving a three-category unidimensional concept identification problem. The training and reinforced training subjects were given three training sessions between pre…
A Global Approach to National Policy
Journal Article A Global Approach to National Policy Get access A Global Approach to National Policy. By Richard A. Falk. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press under the auspices of the Center of International Relations, Princeton University. 1975. 320 pp. £7.50. Michael Smith Michael Smith 1Lanchester Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 4, Octob…
Biopolitics, political psychology and international politics
Journal Article Biopolitics, political psychology and international politics: towards a new discipline Get access Biopolitics, political psychology and international politics: towards a new discipline. Edited by Gerald W. Hopple. London: Pinter. 1982. 195pp. Index. £14.75. Michael Smith Michael Smith 1Coventry Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 1983,…
Europe, the United States and the Middle East
Air-Conditioned Daydreams
The Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy, 1981—1985
The Reagan administration's foreign policy from 1981 to 1985 provides an intriguing test of a central problem faced by foreign-policy-makers: the need to cope with uncertainty in policy formulation and implementation. This article sets out to explore the problem and to formulate propositions about the ways in which policy-makers might respond to it. The argument has three stages: first, it identifies some sources and manifestations of uncertainty…
Pacific Visions
Journal Article Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1830–1913. By Michael L. Smith. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xi + 243 pp. $26.50.) Get access Samuel P. Hays Samuel P. Hays University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 263, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908415 Published: 01 June 1989
Space Colonization
Pacific Visions
Journal Article Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment. 1850–1915 Get access Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment. 1850–1915. By Smith Michael L.. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. ix + 243 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $26.50.) Richard White Richard White University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volum…
Pacific Visions
Western Europe's presence in the contemporary international arena
Western Europe's status and impact within the contemporary international arena is a matter of contention and debate, reflecting its often elusive and intangible nature. On the one hand, enthusiasm for the notion of a ‘European foreign policy’ and for the idea that Western Europe can play a constructive role in the world is evident both in academic analysis and in the pronouncements of West European political leaders. On the other, there is often …
The European Community in the New Europe
Single-System Research Design Content in the Doctoral Curriculum
Single-system methodology in social work practice has gained momentum in recent years. This article explores the role of this research method in doctoral education. The authors present results of a survey of 47 social work doctoral programs in regard to single-system methodology in doctoral curricula and its use m dissertations
Under Western Skies
Journal Article Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West Get access Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. By Worster Donald. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ix + 292 pp. Notes, index. $27.50.) Michael L. Smith Michael L. Smith University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 2, May 1993, Page…
The European union, foreign economic policy and the changing world arena
This article assesses the extent to which the European Union (EU) can be said to have developed a 'foreign economic policy' in the light of arguments about such policies in traditional state‐centric analysis. From this general evaluation, questions are derived about the effectiveness of EU policies and about the ways in which they reflect the changing nature of the world arena. It is concluded that the EU represents tendencies towards multi‐layer…
The European Union and a Changing Europe
This article seeks to explore the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the changing European order, with particular respect to the ways in which the EU structures and shapes the boundaries between itself and the broader European arena. It evaluates a range of available international relations theories, and adopts a ‘critical neoliberal‐institutionalist’ approach to the problem. It applies this approach by assessing the EU's boundary‐c…
Asian forms of the nation
Susan Strange Obituary
Advance Australia—anywhere
Negotiating new Europes
This article investigates the roles played by the European Union (EU) in the negotiation of 'framework agreements' for the emerging European order of the 1990s, starting from a recognition of the contradictions in the EU's performance and questions about the EU's capacity to shape the 'new Europe'. It outlines a number of key elements in the changing European order, and identifies the central importance of three types of negotiating milieu, chara…
The European Union's commercial policy
This article deals with the forces operating on the European Union's (EU's) commercial policy (defined in an inclusive sense as a form of international collective action) with the aim of identifying the coexisting influences leading to coherence and fragmentation. It begins by locating the question of coherence and fragmentation in terms of the EU's roles in the world political economy, and by reviewing recent literature which has explored a numb…
Is there a Sovietology of South-East Asian studies
This article provides an indictment of the study of South-East Asian international relations by confronting head-on the problems that have arisen within this field, in particular the way in which Western academics ended up colluding with deeply illiberal regimes in the area, which excluded dissenting opinions, often by deliberately denouncing these opinions as ‘polemical’. This study uses the discipline of Sovietology to explore the reasons why S…
The future of American hegemony in the Asia-Pacific
(2002). The future of American hegemony in the Asia-Pacific: A Concert of Asia or a clear pecking order? Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 65-81
Asean’s imitation community
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