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Originally published in 1983, this book locates the behavioural approach to the study of politics in its social science and historical context. The text reviews the findings in a number of fields - public opinion, electoral behaviour, political participation, policy outputs, political recruitment, political welfare and socialisation.

"This edited book focuses on the role and use of emerging technologies within the healthcare sector. This text will draw on expertise from leading practitioners and researchers who either utilise and/or are at the forefront of researching with emerging technology in anticipation of enhancing patient outcomes This edited volume encompasses an array of emerging technologies that will remain pertinent to caregivers, families, practitioners, service users and policymakers. It is aimed that this text will enhance and offer original discussions surrounding the interconnectivity of technology and medicine, rehabilitation, and patient care"--

The Westminster Lobby correspondents have a special place in both the politics and the mass media of Britain. These journalists dominate the behind-the-scenes reporting of British national politics. In this book, originally published in 1970, Jeremy Tunstall presents the first systematic social science study of the uniquely British phenomenon of Lobby correspondents.The study includes data collected from interviews with the national Lobby correspondents, who also completed lengthy questionnaires. It contains evidence of their careers, political opinions, pay, working conditions, relationships with their employing news organization and political news sources, and on the way in which the correspondents both compete with, and exchange information with, each other. As well as this fascinating empirical data, the book offers an important contribution to the sociology of politics and the mass media, and to the study of organizational intelligence' and the sociology of occupations.There had long centred upon the Lobby correspondents many myths and misconceptions, which Jeremy Tunstall effectively demolishes. (The so-called Lobby rules' were here published for the first time.) Other real dilemmas are, however, revealed: the competing demands of publicity and secrecy; the dilemmas of British politics in which basic principles - such as Parliamentary supremacy and Cabinet secrecy - are daily breached, not only by the correspondents, but also by leading politicians; and the problems of a system of political communication whose obsession with daily news values is so similar to official and academic contributions. With media and politics still very much linked today, this reissue can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Marxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and amongst Black diasporas. But South Asia has been relatively neglected in efforts to register the revolutionary theoretical traditions of the Global South. Reinvigorating the study of Marxism within the South Asian context, this volume of Political Power and Social Theory highlights lesser-known thinkers to unsettle the propensity within the Marxist cannon to disproportionately fixate on white male theorists. Forging an anti-imperialist Marxism through dialectical and historical approaches, chapters demonstrate how the South Asian facet of this revolutionary tradition can contribute to and even reenergize global Marxist theory.

Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Löwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Löwy s essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the labor and socialist movements of Germany, Poland, and Russia, Luxemburg had international standing as an original and sharp-minded theorist during her life and remains one of the most admired and studied revolutionaries in the Marxist tradition.Löwy follows Luxemburg in blending diverse intellectual disciplines-philosophy, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and economics-to make sense of global realities in her time and our own. Luxemburg s creative intellectual endeavors were shaped by her genuine devotion to the free development of all people, and her fierce opposition to all forms of tyranny and authoritarianism. These commitments guided her analyses of exploitation and mass struggle, the dynamics of trade unions and of bureaucracy, the origins and impacts of economic crisis, the nature of war and imperialism, and the interconnections of reform and revolution.In accessible and stimulating prose, Löwy explores Luxemburg s many political and theoretical contributions, as well as her links to revolutionaries including Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukács, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Leon Trotsky. Through Löwy s expansive engagement with Luxemburg s political trajectory and influence, we are able to see her wrestle with political problems that remain relevant today

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included women and non-Jews. Yet all of its members embraced a secular Jewish machismo that became a defining characteristic of the contemporary experience. Write like a Man examines how the New York intellectuals shared a uniquely American conception of Jewish masculinity that prized verbal confrontation, polemical aggression, and an unflinching style of argumentation.Ronnie Grinberg paints illuminating portraits of figures such as Norman Mailer, Hannah Arendt, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Mary McCarthy, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, and Irving Howe. She describes how their construction of Jewish masculinity helped to propel the American Jew from outsider to insider even as they clashed over its meaning in a deeply anxious project of self-definition. Along the way, Grinberg sheds light on their fraught encounters with the most contentious issues and ideas of the day, from student radicalism and the civil rights movement to feminism, Freudianism, and neoconservatism.A spellbinding chronicle of mid-century America, Write like a Man shows how a combative and intellectually grounded vision of Jewish manhood contributed to the masculinization of intellectual life and shaped some of the most important political and cultural debates of the postwar era

We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with colour's allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe's chocolate experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers' moods and productivity, from the colonial production of Indigo in India to globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow processing the machinery of the chemical industries, the red of political revolt in Godard's films, and the blur of education and critique in Steyerl's Adorno's Grey.Contributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization-a "chromatics of organizing"-that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color

In a world where the relentless force of natural and man-made disasters threatens societies, the need for effective disaster management has never been more critical. Predicting Natural Disasters With AI and Machine Learning addresses the challenges of disasters and charts a path toward proactive solutions by applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This book begins by interpreting the nature of disasters, clearly distinguishing between natural and man-made hazards. It delves into the intricacies of disaster risk reduction (DRR), emphasizing the human contribution to most disasters. Recognizing the necessity for a multifaceted approach, the book advocates the four R s - Risk Mitigation, Response Readiness, Response Execution, and Recovery - as integral components of comprehensive disaster management. This book explores various AI and ML applications designed to predict, manage, and mitigate the impact of natural disasters, focusing on natural language processing, and early warning systems. The contrast between weak AI, simulating human intelligence for specific tasks, and strong AI, capable of autonomous problem-solving, is thoroughly examined in the context of disaster management. Its chapters systematically address critical issues, including real-world data handling, challenges related to data accessibility, completeness, security, privacy, and ethical considerations. Ideal for academics, public and private organizations, managers, and the wider public, the book speaks to the urgency of adopting AI and ML in disaster management. Providing a comprehensive overview of research in the field serves as a catalyst for further studies, especially among postgraduate students interested in the convergence of AI and ML in predicting and managing natural disasters

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Keynote speech & Dialogue: Global Financial Turbulence and Changes in the World Order -- Chapter 2 Roundtable Ⅰ: China Economic Outlook -- Chapter 3 Global Financial Turbulence and China's Financial Market -- Chapter 4 Global Financial Turbulence and China's Economic Outlook.

Part I From Established to New Perspectives on Children and Young People's Use of Digital Technology -- 1. How Can We Understand the Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People? -- 2. Digitally Disengaged and Digitally Unconfident Children in Europe -- 3. The Digital Divide: Understanding Vulnerability and Risk in Children and Young People's Everyday Digital Lives -- 4. Children's Digital Boundary Crossings When Moving in Between Porous Ecosystems -- 5. Investigating Patterns of Digital Socialisation During Leisure Through Multimodal Social Research -- 6. Children's and Young People's ICT Experiences in School Education: Participatory Research Design to Engage Children and Young People as Experts in Research -- Part II Exploring Agency and Well-being in Everyday Digital Lives -- 7. A Developmental View on Digital Vulnerability and Agency of Children Under 10 Years of Age -- 8. Discourses and Gender Divides in Children's Digital Everyday Lives -- 9. ICT Use and Children's Self-reported Life Satisfaction -- 10. 'Of Gaming and Other Demons': Defining Children and Young People's Meaningful Leisure Activities in the Digital Era -- 11. Perspectives of Children and Young People on Their Education as Preparation for Their Future in the Digital Age: In-depth Qualitative Study in Five European Countries -- 12. Social Media as a Shaper, Enabler, and Hurdle in Youth Political Participation -- 13. Talking About Digital Responsibility: Children's and Young People's Voices -- 14. Intersecting Knowledge on Young People's Well-Being and Use of Digital Technology Across Contexts: A Scoping Review Synthesis -- Part III A New Response to Risk and Vulnerability: Influencing Social Policy in the Digital Age -- 15. Developing a Toolkit for Contributing to Digital Competence: A Review of Existing Resources -- 16. EU Policy Reflections on the Intersections Between Digital and Social Policies Supporting Children as Digital Citizens -- .