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Why Is Everyone Else Wrong?
Explorations in Truth and Reason
Häftad, 2010
552 kr
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Especially when there is a lot of political rhetoric in the air, those of us with strong political convictions are inclined to reflect on just why we hold certain views even as others who are basically like us hold very different ones. Social scientists and other thinkers struggle to explain it, …
Latin America's New Left and the Politics of Gender
Lessons from Nicaragua
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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The majority of Latin Americans now live in countries that are governed by democratically elected governments on the political left, which is unprecedented in that region. This book analyzes this occurrence by asking a question that up until now has been largely ignored in the literature on the …
Risk Regulation in Europe
Assessing the Application of the Precautionary Principle
Av Jale Tosun
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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The publication aims to familiarize students of public policy with the precautionary principle, which plays a vital role in the European Union’s approach toward regulating risks. The precautionary principle contends that policy makers should refrain from actions having a suspected risk of causing …
Balancing the Budget is a Progressive Priority
Häftad, 2012
508 kr
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Progressives need a balanced federal budget morethan Conservatives, because they believe that government has an important role toplay in modern life. Lack of a long term plan to move toward a sustainablebudget crowds out short term Progressive priorities: infrastructure spending,green …
Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R
A User’s Guide
Häftad, 2012
716 kr
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Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given social scientists a formal …
Terrorism and Violent Conflict
Women's Agency, Leadership, and Responses
Av Lori Poloni-Staudinger, Candice D. Ortbals
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism. We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and genocide. We investigate how …
Empathy Imperiled
Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain
Av gary olson
Häftad, 2012
590 kr
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The mostcritical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy’s revolutionarypotential and today’s empathically-impaired society is the interaction betweenthe brain and our dominant political culture. The evolutionary process hasgiven rise to a hard-wired neural system in the primal brain and …
China’s Road Ahead
Problems, Questions, Perspectives
Av Roland Benedikter, Verena Nowotny
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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This book provides a critical commentary on China's situation and future outlook from the perspective of the 2012-13 generational power transfer. In this power transfer, taking place against the background of an increasingly unstable domestic situation, an apparently outstandingly successful …
Universal Basic Income and the Reshaping of Democracy
Towards a Citizens’ Stipend in a New Political Order
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice? This book discusses these questions by analyzing the political logic of a basic income and its controversial political and scientific implications. The author studies the institutions, rules, and decision-making …
Open Data Politics
A Case Study on Estonia and Kazakhstan
Av Maxat Kassen
Häftad, 2019
607 kr
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This book offers a cross-national comparison of open data policies in Estonia and Kazakhstan. By analyzing a broad range of open data-driven projects and startups in both countries, it reveals the potential that open data phenomena hold with regard to promoting public sector innovations. The book …
America's Leaning Ivory Tower
The Measurement of and Response to Concentration of Federal Funding for Academic Research
Av Yonghong Wu
Häftad, 2019
537 kr
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This book will expand the body of literature on capacity-building in science and improve public understanding of the issues regarding geographical concentration of federal research funding. The federal government has been the primary sponsor of academic research in the U.S., and the peer-review …
Modern Iran in Perspective
Av Ali Pirzadeh
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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This book highlights fundamental, but often neglected, issues important for a better understanding of present-day Iran. It underlines the idea that the most effective means for a nation to meet challenges and practices of the modern era lies with the fundamental values and norms that resonate with …
Gender Equality in Politics
Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria
Av Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
880 kr
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This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures. Using a most similar case design and a mixed-methods approach, the authors draw attention to the ways in which …
Freedom, Peace, and Secession
New Dimensions of Democracy
Häftad, 2020
607 kr
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This book adopts a long-term perspective to consider political self-determination, peacekeeping and the creation of political meaning. It analyzes problems in the nation-state system and assesses current issues regarding separatism and secession movements. Drawing on extensive research in the …
End of European Security Institutions?
The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and NATO After Brexit
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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This book discusses Brexit’s implications for the two most important security institutions in Europe, the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). While Brexit is still unfolding, this book asks what it would mean for the future embedding of …
Liberal Democracy
Prosperity through Freedom
Av Max Meyer
Häftad, 2020
171 kr
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This open access book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people been so well off. However, prosperity is not a law of nature; it has to be worked for. A liberal economy stands at the forefront of this success – not as a …
Political Theory of Armed Groups
Social Order and Armed Groups
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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This Brief provides a comprehensive introduction to current research on armed groups and proposes a unitary political theory for their future analysis. Traditionally, theoretical and historical approaches to armed groups have focused on different categories of armed groups—insurgents, radical …
Democratic Decision-making
Consensus Voting for Civic Society and Parliaments
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions. By comparing the many voting procedures used in democratic decision-making, it explains why win-or-lose binary voting …
On the Measurement of Social Phenomena
A Methodological Approach
Häftad, 2021
662 kr
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This book explores the analysis of social phenomena, using a multidisciplinary approach while addressing statistical, economic, sociological, as well as psychological issues.The author presents a detailed account of the procedures and techniques used to gather, process, and analyze data. Topics …
Mind the European Gap
Reconciling National Politics and Supranational Policy-Making
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book presents a number of specific proposals that, if translated into political reality, could contribute to nurturing a Europeanisation of national public spheres. Having left Brexit behind, intellectuals and policy-makers throughout Europe are now passionately discussing how to move forward …
Social Revolutions and Governance Aspirations of African Millennials
Emerging from the Political Shadows of Strongmen
Av Adegbola Ojo
Häftad, 2021
662 kr
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This book discusses the role of millennials in political leadership and governance in Africa going forward. Africa is in the process of significant change. The nature of this change, dimensions, and what change might bring will depend on young people who now represent three quarters of the …
Futures of the Western Balkans
Fragmentation and Integration in the Region and Beyond
Av Marco Zoppi
Häftad, 2022
607 kr
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This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently …
Deepfakes
A Realistic Assessment of Potentials, Risks, and Policy Regulation
Av Ignas Kalpokas, Julija Kalpokiene
Häftad, 2022
607 kr
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This book examines the use and potential impact of deepfakes, a type of synthetic computer-generated media, primarily images and videos, capable of both creating artificial representations of non-existent individuals and showing actual individuals doing things they did not do. As such, deepfakes …
Republic, Secularism and Security
France versus the Burqa and the Niqab
Häftad, 2022
552 kr
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This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'être. It makes general arguments about France’s changing identity and specific arguments about the burqa and niqab ban. The book further explains how …
Glocal Governance
How to Govern in the Anthropocene?
Av Anja Mihr
Häftad, 2022
334 kr
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This open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multi-stakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic principles. It discusses glocal governance as part of an ongoing global transformation process that began in the 1990s, when …
Political Islam and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism
An International Comparison
Av Arno Tausch
Häftad, 2023
334 kr
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This open access book presents an international comparison of religiously motivated extremism in the Arab world and around the globe. Based on data from the Arab Barometer and the World Values Survey, it applies advanced statistical techniques to analyze how religiously motivated political …
Free Press, If You Can Keep It
What Natural Language Processing Reveals About Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong
Av Giovanna Maria Dora Dore, Arya D. McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
552 kr
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This Brief introduces a novel research approach to investigate freedom of the press in Hong Kong. The authors pair computational analyses from the field of natural language processing with qualitative content analysis of patterns of journalistic practice in volatile political settings. Together, …
Human Rights Dissemination in Central Asia
Human Rights Education and Capacity Building in the Post-Soviet Space
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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This open access book explores the field of human rights dissemination in Central Asia. Offering a comparative perspective on five post-Soviet Central Asian states—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, it examines compliance with international human rights standards in …
Researching Central Asia
Navigating Positionality in the Field
Av Jasmin Dall'Agnola, Aijan Sharshenova
Häftad, 2023
334 kr
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This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we …
Global Norms in Local Contexts
Examining Cases of Environmental Governance in France
Häftad, 2023
443 kr
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This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France. It provides a snapshot of how global-level environmental norms travel vertically across levels of governance, from the global to the local, and asks how global environmental norms are (re)interpreted …
