The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus

This Open Access book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. It investigates the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality assurance reforms and their dynamic interactions with institutional, national and European policy contexts. The chapters report findings from extensive empirical studies that of…

Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering

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International students from Asia in Canadian universities :institutional chal…

This book explores how the recruitment and retention of Asian international students in Canadian universities intersects with other institutional priorities. Responding to the growing need for new insights and perspectives on the institutional mechanisms adopted by Canadian universities to support Asian international students in their academic and social integration to university life, it cruci…

Online Misogyny as Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation?

The ideal of an inclusive and participatory Internet has been undermined by the rise of misogynistic abuse on social media platforms. However, limited progress has been made at national – and to an extent European – levels in addressing this issue. In England and Wales, the tackling of underlying causes of online abuse has been overlooked because the law focuses on punishment rather than me…

Online Misogyny as Hate Crime : A Challenge for Legal Regulation?

The ideal of an inclusive and participatory Internet has been undermined by the rise of misogynistic abuse on social media platforms. However, limited progress has been made at national – and to an extent European – levels in addressing this issue. In England and Wales, the tackling of underlying causes of online abuse has been overlooked because the law focuses on punishment rather than me…

The politics of coalition in Korea: between institutions and culture

This book examines how inter- and intra-party coalition-building affects governability in South Korea. Focusing on the Kim Dae-jung administration (1998-2003) as a case study in the failure of a government to turn electoral success into stable governability, or ability to implement reform policies, the book’s research draws on two bodies of literature which, though focusing on the same depend…

Generational gaps in political media use

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Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement : From Baby Boo…

This book investigates news use patterns among five different generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice media environment. The book introduces the EPIG Model (Engagement-Participation-Information-Generation) to study how different generational cohorts’ exposure to political information is related to their political engagement and participation. The authors build on a …

Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity

This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within…

Resilienz durch Organisationsentwicklung

Dieses Open-Access-Fachbuch beleuchtet empirische und theoretische Aspekte einer Organisationsentwicklung, die auf Resilienz als strategischem Leitprinzip abhebt. Vor dem Hintergrund der gegenwärtigen weltweiten Coronakrise ist besonders deutlich geworden, wie wichtig zukunftsfähige und krisenresistente Strukturen und Prozesse für erfolgreiche Organisationen und Unternehmen sind. Resilienz a…