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Technological Utopianism and the Idea of Justice
This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their benefits should not be discounted in an overall assessment. Rather than rejecting them based on a too narrow definition of utopianism, we must acknowledge their potential to exceed the individualist vs. collectivist dichotomy ascribed to traditional …
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- 978-3-031-75945-1
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- IX, 156
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Territory and Democratic Politics
The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. Territory plays a rather marginal role in the traditional conceptions of democracy that in many ways still prevail today. Democratic politics is often analysed from the point of view of its institutions, citizens and voters, while little is said about the territory through whi…
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- 978-3-031-35672-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Expert Consensus in Science
This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing on what are acceptable scientific methodologies. For some scientific issues, a consensus forms spontaneously among scientists working on a topic, while for others, where the is…
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- 9789819792221
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- XVII, 231 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Energy Citizenship = Envisioning Citizens’ Participation in the Energy System
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.
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- 9783031701535
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- VII, 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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One Hundred Years of Social Protection = The Changing Social Question in Braz…
While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesio…
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- 9783030549596
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- XXIV, 437 ill; hlm
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Governing Social Protection in the Long Term
This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of …
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- 9783030420543
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- XI, 281 ill; hlm
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Berufs- und Arbeitswelt in der politischen Bildung = Über Bildungs- und Beru…
Dieses open access-Buch analysiert den Zusammenhang von Berufsorientierung und politischer Bildung von Jugendlichen. Der Anspruch der Mündigkeitsbildung stellt die Ausgangsposition für die Vorstellungsforschung subjektiver Sinnbilder über die Berufs- und Arbeitswelt von Jugendlichen in der Sekundarstufe I dar. Dabei zeichnen sich Unterschiede in den Vorstellungen entlang der Trennlinien von …
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- 9783658343040
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- XI, 177 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Qualitätsmessung als Prisma = Forschungsevaluation in der Medizin
In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband werden verschiedene Leistungsdimensionen und Datenzugänge für Abbildung medizinischer Forschung empirisch dargestellt und diskutiert. Leitfragen sind dabei: Wie identifizieren wir Qualität in der medizinischen Forschung? Unter welchen Bedingungen lassen sich medizinische Themen bestmöglich beforschen, um das Patientenwohl und die öffentliche Gesundheit zu…
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- 9783658436834
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- XXII, 153 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Rescaling Sustainability Transitions = Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Re…
This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales. Hence, the pract…
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- 9783031699184
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- XVII, 299 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Unterstütztes Wohnen und Teilhabe
Das Buch fasst die Forschung zum unterstützten Wohnen und zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung zusammen und weist Richtungen für die inhaltliche und methodische Weiterentwicklung. Im ersten Teil wird die Forschung zum Wohnen mit Unterstützung in der Teilhabeforschung verortet und ein Überblick über die Entwicklung und den Stand der deutschsprachigen und internati…
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- 9783658404482
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- VI, 337 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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