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Kingdon’s landmark paintings on time table environment and coverage formation is drawn from interview performed with humans in and round the U.S. federal executive, and from case reviews, govt records, get together systems, press assurance, and public opinion surveys. whereas different works study how coverage concerns are determined, Kingdon’s booklet was once the 1st to contemplate how concerns received to be issues. This enduring paintings makes an attempt to reply to the questions: How do topics come to officers’ recognition? How are the choices from which they pick out generated? How is the governmental time table set? Why does an idea’s time come while it does?

 

Longman is proud to announce that Agendas, possible choices, and Public Policies has been reissued during this Longman Classics version, that includes a brand new epilogue: health and wellbeing Care Reform from Clinton to Obama. evaluating the Clinton management in 1993 with the Obama management in 2009 and 2010, Kingdon analyses how time table environment, actors, and choices have an effect on public policy.

X ist gerecht, X ist gleich Y, X ist frei und X ist vernünftig deutlich. Dieser Essay informiert über diese Tatsache anhand von kurzen Kommentaren zu ausgewählten Passagen aus Texten zur Sozialphilosophie und Gesellschaftstheorie. Über den trotz ihrer mannigfaltigen Unterschiede und Gegensätze bestehenden inneren Zusammenhang der vier normativen Prinzipien wird ebenfalls in klarer und kompakter shape Auskunft gegeben.

Karl Polanyi was once some of the most influential political economists of the 20th century and is commonly considered as the main proficient of social democratic theorists. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale, one of many leading students of Polanyi, offers a sweeping survey of his contributions to the social sciences.

Polanyi’s highbrow and political outlook can most sensible be summarised via paradoxical formulations akin to ‘liberal socialist’ and ‘cosmopolitan patriot’. In exploring those paradoxes, Dale attracts upon a wide range of basic resources to reconstruct Polanyi’s perspectives on quite a number themes which have been overlooked within the serious literature, together with the historical past of antiquity, the evolution and dynamics of Stalin’s Russia, McCarthyism and his serious discussion with Marxism.

Dale additionally analyses Polanyi’s relevance to present matters, significantly the ‘clash’ among democracy and capitalism, and the character and trajectory of ecu unification. this is often a vital and unique research for an individual attracted to the formation and alertness of social democracy.

Terrorismus ist schon seit Urzeiten ein Risiko. Aber seit wann zählt er zu den Neuen Risiken? Reichen die bestehenden Konzepte zum Umgang mit Risiken zur gesellschaftlichen Bewältigung von Terrorismus aus? Wo können Alternativen ansetzen?

Das vorliegende Werk zeigt, dass die bestehenden Konzepte zum Umgang mit Risiken dem seit den Anschlägen des eleven. September als Neues Risiko geltenden Terrorismus eben nicht vollständig gerecht werden. Daher werden Alternativen entwickelt, die wiederum die Funktions- und Wirkungsweise von Terrorismus zum Ansatzpunkt und verstärkt den Schutz der gesellschaftlichen Psyche zum Ziel haben.

Theories in regards to the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy concern are as outdated as democracy itself. but, consultant democracy nonetheless exists, and the empirical proof for a mundane decline of political aid in confirmed democracies is proscribed, questionable, or absent. This loss of conclusive proof calls into query latest explanatory theories of legitimacy decline. How legitimate are theories of modernization, globalization, media malaise, social capital, and
party decline, if the anticipated final result (i.e. secular decline of political help) doesn't happen? And which (new) reasons can account for the empirical edition in political aid in verified democracies?

This e-book systematically evaluates the empirical proof for legitimacy decline in confirmed democracies, the explanatory strength of theories of legitimacy decline, and can provide new routes in investigating and assessing political legitimacy. In doing so, the e-book presents a wide and thorough mirrored image at the cutting-edge of legitimacy learn, and descriptions a brand new examine schedule on legitimacy.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Politik - Methoden, Forschung, word: 1,0, Universität Potsdam (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Institutionelle Schranken von Staatstätigkeit, 22 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Staatsverschuldung hat eine Reihe negativer Folgen, die in der ökonomischen Literatur kaum bestritten werden. So führt die Finanzierung des Defizits zu Zinszahlungen an die Inhaber staatlicher Anleihen, die wiederum aus Steuern bezahlt werden, deren Erhebung zu einer starken Verzerrung wirtschaftlicher Anreize führt. Fraglich ist jedoch, wie diese Schulden abgebaut werden können.

Ein Vergleich der Schuldenstände der OECD-Länder macht deutlich, dass die Höhe der Schuldenstände zwischen den Ländern stark variiert und dass in einigen Ländern die Schulden stetig stiegen, in anderen dagegen das pace der Entwicklung wesentlich langsamer warfare und in Einzelfällen durchaus auch Senkungen zu verzeichnen waren. Eine examine politischer Ursachen für diese unterschiedliche Performanz kann eine Antwort darauf geben, inwieweit die politischen Akteure hier überhaupt steuernd tätig werden können.

In Punkt 2 werde ich den Begriff der Staatsverschuldung definieren sowie ihre standardmäßigen ökonomischen Ursachen darstellen und deren Bedeutung anhand empirischer Untersuchungen untermauern. Punkt three widmet sich dann den politisch-institutionellen Ursachen der Staatsverschuldung.

Die hierzu von mir behandelten Theorien lassen sich in drei Gruppen einteilen: Eine Gruppe sucht die Ursachen von Staatsverschuldung im demokratischen Prozess des Parteienwettbewerbs, der durch wiederkehrende Wahlen bedingt ist. Die zweite Gruppe sucht die Gründe in den kollektiv-irrationalen Ergebnissen individuell-rationalen Handelns. In einem solchen obstacle befinden sich beispielsweise politische Akteure, wenn sie aus allgemeinen Steuereinnahmen ihre spezifische Klientel bedienen. Variationen zwischen den Ländern ergeben sich nach diesem Ansatz aus den unterschiedlichen Maßnahmen, dieses predicament aufzulösen. Die dritte Gruppe sieht die Ursachen vor allem in der Fähigkeit beziehungsweise Unfähigkeit von Regierungen, auf fiskalische Rigiditäten zu reagieren und versucht damit Variationen zu erklären.

Alle Theorien haben gemein, dass sie im Sinne des Rational selection Ansatzes den Akteuren rationales, eigennutzmaximierendes Handeln unterstellen. Sehr wahrscheinlich können zentrale politische Variablen wie das Wahlsystem und Institutionen wie Direktdemokratie, aber auch das Verhältnis von Arbeit und Kapital im Zusammenspiel mit der sektoralen Struktur einer Volkswirtschaft und einer unabhängigen Zentralbank die Höhe der Staatsverschuldung wesentlich beeinflussen.

This quantity ways the UN as a laboratory of religio-political price politics. during the last twenty years faith has got expanding impact in overseas politics, and non secular violence and terrorism has attracted a lot scholarly recognition. yet there's one other parallel improvement which has long gone principally left out, particularly the expanding political influence of peaceable non secular actors.

With numerous spiritual actors in a single position and interacting below an analogous stipulations, the UN is as a multi-religious society writ small. The participants to this e-book examine the main influential spiritual actors on the UN (including The Roman Catholic Church; The corporation of Islamic nations; the Russian Orthodox Church). Mapping the peaceable political engagements of non secular actors; who they're and the way they collaborate with one another - even if on an advert hoc foundation or through forming extra everlasting networks - throwing gentle on the modus operandi of spiritual actors on the UN; their innovations and motivations. The chapters are heavily interrelated during the shared specialize in the UN and customary theoretical views, and pursue intertwined points of spiritual worth politics, particularly the whys and hows of cross-religious cooperation at the one hand, and the interplay among spiritual actors and states at the different.

Drawing jointly a huge diversity of specialists on spiritual actors, this paintings may be of serious curiosity to scholars and students of faith and Politics, diplomacy and the UN.

the twentieth Century historical past of the Kennedy kinfolk is peppered with incidents of demise, scandal and normal misfortune, in general related to firearms, ladies or gentle plane combined with foggy climatic conditions. a lot of these occasions have served to both tarnish the clan's recognition or get rid of these contributors who appeared destined to satisfy their political targets, best a few commentators to signify that there's a curse at the Kennedys that stops them from ever with the ability to flip their imaginative and prescient for the US into truth. the truth that brand new generations of Kennedys typically languish at the fringes of the political scene or have deserted politics altogether in prefer of different occupation paths keeps to illustrate this loss of success.

So what's in the back of this mysterious "curse"? might it particularly be that this one kinfolk is just liable to immense quantities of undesirable good fortune? Did their political opinions or millionaire's existence support to place them at extra chance? a few have stated that there's a way more sinister facet to the whole lot, suggesting that a lot of those misfortunes have been arrange as a part of a conspiracy by means of the yankee political and enterprise institutions who have been decided to avoid the Kennedys from getting close to the White apartment or staying there too lengthy. to totally comprehend the idea that of a Kennedy Curse we needs to return virtually a hundred years and meet the fellow who laid the principles of this nice political dynasty, and its downfall.

This booklet files the ultramodern upward thrust of the multifaith flow, as mulitfaith tasks were more and more deployed as cosmopolitan ideas to counter international hazards similar to terrorism and weather switch on the flip of the 21^st century. those tasks objective to augment universal defense, relatively in Western societies following the occasions of September eleven, 2001 and the July 2005 London bombings, the place multifaith engagement has been promoted as a method to counter violent extremism. the writer attracts on interviews with fifty six best figures within the box of multifaith family, together with Paul Knitter, Eboo Patel, Marcus Braybrooke, Katherine Marshall, John Voll and Krista Tippett.

 

Identifying the main goals of the multifaith circulation, the research explores the benefits—and challenges—of multifaith engagement, in addition to the effectiveness of multifaith tasks in countering the method of radicalization. construction on notions of cosmopolitanism, the paintings proposes a brand new theoretical framework termed ‘Netpeace’, which acknowledges the interconnectedness of world difficulties and their recommendations. In doing so, it recognizes the means of multi-actor peacebuilding networks, together with spiritual and kingdom actors, to deal with the urgent dilemmas of our instances. the first purpose of the booklet is to help within the formation of recent versions of activism and governance, based on a ‘politics of figuring out’ modeled via the multifaith movement.