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Vaccine Hesitancy in the Nordic Countries Trust and Distrust During the COVI…
Bringing together studies from across the Nordic region, this book examines the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on vaccine hesitancy. Shedding light on the political tensions that emerged as a result of the pandemic and the debates that ensued both within and between the Nordic nations, it investigates the vociferous discussions surrounding the COVID-19 vacc…
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Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health : Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that…
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Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises
This is an open access book. Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated debates that can divide entire societies. But does the study of the past also have something to teach us about the future? Can history help us in coping with the planetary crisis we are now faci…
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How and Why to Regulate False Political Advertising in Australia
This open access book represents the first comprehensive, Australia-focused treatment of the problem of false election information disseminated for the purpose of gaining an electoral advantage. It explores cautious legal regulation as the most effective and decisive approach to the issue. In doing so, the book demonstrates that, although experiments with such remedies have met with mixed succe…
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Digitale Transformation
Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine erweiterte Einführung in die Grundlagen und Charakteristika sowie auch Risiken und Chancen der digitalen Transformation. Anhand von ausführlichen Fallstudien branchenführender Unternehmen werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf die digitale Geschäftsmodellentwicklung und den Wettbewerb aus Sicht von IT-Entscheidern erörtert. Die Ergebn…
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Migration Research in a Digitized World
This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship …
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- 978-3-031-01319-5
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Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences
Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds o…
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Humanitarian Journalists : Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
This book documents the unique reporting practices of humanitarian journalists – an influential group of journalists defying conventional approaches to covering humanitarian crises. Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by ampl…
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Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare : An Exemplar for Practice in…
ABSTRACT Good leadership and governance at all levels of the healthcare system is necessary for better performance of the system and health outcomes. Lack of good leadership and governance practices can lead to misuse of health system inputs such as human resources, health commodities and financial resources hence lowering the quality of services delivered. Thus, this guide was developed throu…
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Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials : Is the Jury Out?
This book provides an in-depth examination of current, high-profile debates about the use of sexual history evidence in rape trials and its impact on jurors. In doing so, it presents findings of the first mock jury dataset in England and Wales to explore how jurors interpret, discuss, and rely upon such evidence within their deliberations. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative insight…
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