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This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia. It aims to go beyond the two popular theoretical propositions in current democratic theory, which emphasise the bilateral connections between the middle class and democracy on one hand and civil society and democracy on the other. Instead, using national case studies, this volume attempts to provide a new comparative typological interpretation of the triple relationship in Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Presenting a careful analysis and delineation of historical democratic transformation over the past thirty years, three discernible typologies emerge. Namely, there are positive links in Taiwan and South Korea, dubious links in the Philippines and Indonesia, and negative links in Thailand.Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics and democracy.

"SozioNet forms part of a forthcoming national social science information portal, which is currently being developed by the German Infoconnex initiative. Inspired by successful examples like MathNet or SOSIG, SozioNet provides access to freely available web resources with relevance to social science. It is based on a network of social science institutions and scientists, to agree on and establish common metadata standards. SozioNet implements a general infrastructure for the creation of semantically rich metadata, and for the harvesting and retrieval of relevant resources with a domain specific focus." (author's abstract)

Nowadays, deep cooperation between universities, research centres, and industry is seen as a stimulus for economic growth. Yet, it is still unclear how the knowledge commercialization process works in the countries with an experience of the highly centralized economy and education. Tbilisi State University is seen as the optimistic catalyst for further commercialization, mainly due to its international ties, though the issue of social science knowledge commercialization is still mostly neglected. In our research, the case of the oldest, the largest, and the most internationalized university in Georgia is analyzed. The comprehensive study aims to determine the macro and micro factors that make knowledge commercialization in social sciences successful or a failure. Results show that some university society representatives believe commercialization is mainly based on natural and exact sciences. In contrast, others claim that human development contribution is the most significant knowledge transfer that can be done.

Les premiers regards portés, d'un point de vue scientifique, sur les activités de travail l'ont été, d'une part, dans la perspective des sciences naturelles (effort physique, charge maxima, énergie dépensée), de l'autre, dans celle de la réflexion économique. L'analyse célèbre d'une fabrique d'épingles par Adam Smith (1776) ouvrait la voie aux théories économiques du travail. Chez Smith déjà, mais surtout chez Ricardo, le travail s'affirme comme valeur, thème repris par Marx qui en fait la pièce maîtresse d'une conception de la société où les rapports de production sont à la fois l'infrastructure et, dans leurs conflits avec les formes de production, le moteur de l'histoire humaine. Dès lors, le travail a pris la place primordiale dans l'étude du circuit économique en tant que production, c'est-à-dire en tant que processus créateur de valeur.

"Assessing Contemporary Crises: Aligning Safety Science and Security Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.