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  • Tweets from the Campaign Trail

    Researching Candidates’ Use of Twitter During the European Parliamentary Elections

    Series Book 11 - Bonner Beitraege zur Medienwissenschaft
    Hailed by many as a game-changer in political communication, Twitter has made its way into election campaigns all around the world. The European Parliamentary elections, taking place simultaneously in 28 countries, give us a unique comparative vision of the way the tool is used by candidates in different national contexts. This volume is the fruit of a research project bringing together scholars ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research

    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    In an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book explores whether and how it is possible to use arts-based methods for creating more horizontal and democratic research practices.In discussing both the transformative potential and limitations of arts-based methods, the book asks: What can arts-based ... Read more

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  • The EU Towards the Global South During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Series Book 49 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    The subject of the publication is the European Union's (EU) policy towards the countries of the Global South. The book focuses on the EU's external response to COVID-19 intentionally ignoring the topic of pandemic management in relation to Member States and the EU's single market. The publication aims to validate the hypothesis that the European Union has tapped into the pandemic to increase its ... Read more

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  • School is Stupid: Notes from the Classroom

    by Pen Donovan ...
    We pretty much know that we have to change how we’re educating our kids, right? Perhaps one of the reasons why we’re not doing what needs to be done is because the business of school is out of sight. We send our kids off to school believing that educators are educating our children. It’s time we all took a long hard look at what’s really going on, decide whether this is what we want and go for ... Read more

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  • Promoting Active Citizenship

    Markets and Choice in Scandinavian Welfare

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries.The chapters compare countries, service areas, and the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix of welfare providers, ... Read more

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  • A Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of Poverty Reduction

    by Louis Shalako ...
    This is the one they don't want you to read. It has been suppressed on the government website. A submission to the Government of Canada on the subject of poverty reduction and housing. No one is better qualified to consult with this government than Louis Shalako, a client of ODSP, (the Ontario Disability Support Program). A highly-trained Canadian journalist, Louis has been embedded in this story ... Read more

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  • Puppets of Political Propaganda--Time to Pull Our Own Strings

    We are continually being inundated by propaganda from capitalists and their captive legislators. Some propaganda is true, but the majority is lies, fake news, and rationalizations. We need to be able to see through the falsity, and find the truth! ... Read more

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  • Robotics, AI, and Humanity

    Science, Ethics, and Policy

    This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robotics ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the International Conference of Social Science and Education (ICOSSED 2021)

    Series Book 692 - Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
    This is an open access book. Since human beings entering the modern era, risks have become parts of the very fabric of the society, either social, cultural, economy or political; they hit them entirely and continuously. The risks of the pandemic Covid-19 – hit the world in 2020 – have brought in a real jeopardy; new crises, new problems, new challenges that have radically changed ways of living of ... Read more

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  • EU Citizenship Beyond Urban Centres

    Perceptions and Practices of Young People in East Central European Peripheral Areas

    Edited by Astrid Lorenz, Lisa H. Anders ...
    Series series The Future of Europe
    This open access book provides in-depth and comparative analyses of how young people in peripheral areas in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania perceive EU citizenship. It also informs the reader about the challenges faced by EU Youth Dialogue projects that aim at promoting active (EU) citizenship in these areas and it offers context-specific recommendations for local, ... Read more

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  • International Organizations in Global Social Governance

    Series series Global Dynamics of Social Policy
    International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies.This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding of IOs ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Political Representation and Its Paradoxes

    Series Book 24 - Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
    If we want to understand the vicissitudes of modern democracy then, argues the author, we need to analyse the ideas upon which representative government is based rather than compare contemporary conditions with the Greek ideal. These principal ideas have been presented clearly in past centuries, when the relation between democracy and representation was still a matter of political judgement. The ... Read more

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  • Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes in the Nordic countries whilst outlining recent legal aid transformations in their respective welfare states. Based on in-depth studies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, theauthors compare these cases with ... Read more

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  • Pirate Waves

    Polish Private Radio Broadcasting in the Period of Transformation 1989–1995

    Series Book 15 - Studies in Communication and Politics
    This book reveals the value and significance of pirate radio, with a special focus on local radio stations that broadcast illegally in Poland in the early 90s. It shows that many of them, like in other countries from the region, began as non-commercial, community-oriented initiatives. Several sources of information were used to maximize the potential of the study, especially documents gathered ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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  • Plains of Bengal and the Brahmaputra

    SinopsisIf the Brahmaputra River could be stopped by long, low-altitude dikes that formed a water pond that contained the annual flow of the great river (approximately 300 cubic kilometres), this water could be used during the rainy season. the monsoonsIf 10,000 cubic meters per second (300 cubic kilometres per year) could be retained in this pond, an irrigation of one cubic meter per square meter ... Read more

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  • India's Super Power Dream

    by N.Natarajan ...
    A nation with citizen dreaming to see their nation, a super power is great.But these idea about super power is given by leaders. They predict that India will become a super power in the year 2*** . This is merely to fool the vulnerable that they are doing a great job of achieving this task.There are several steps we need to advance before we become a powerful country First is a country freed from ... Read more

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  • Housing Market Dynamics in Africa

    This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy ... Read more

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  • Thank You For Being Young

    by Andrew Lerner ...
    A venture capital executive draws on a wide variety of business, government, and societal trends to illustrate how most major challenges facing younger adults are exacerbated by age biases. 2011 eLit award winner.Kirkus Review:Venture capital investor Lerner calls attention to the alarmingly prevalent, counter-productive discrimination that thwarts young adults in the United States from making ... Read more

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  • Ideas for a Chinese Agriculture Improvement Proyect

    Excerpt from the brief of the year 1984:“On the other hand, as the spring floods of the Yangtze were contained, many flooded, lacustrine lands would be exposed, ready for cultivation, so that the territory that should be flooded in the Han Valley would be more than compensated.If it were possible to bring the waters of the Yangtze to the Great Plain, the spring harvest could be helped by ... Read more

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  • Law and Social Policy in the Global South

    Brazil, China, India, South Africa

    Edited by Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen ...
    The book is an in-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, four middle-income countries in the global South with a history in social policy making that starts in the 1920s.The policies of these countries affect almost half of the world’s population. The book takes the legal framework of the policies as a ... Read more

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  • Care Poverty

    When Older People’s Needs Remain Unmet

    by Teppo Kröger ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Goals Series
    This open access book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term care researchers from comparative descriptions of care systems, focusing mostly on expenditures and volumes of long-term care services, to outcomes, and in particular to the question whether older people really receive the support that they need. Without knowledge about which needs and which social groups ... Read more

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