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IN THE LAST 10 YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING BY SOCIAL-SCIENTISTS, YET THE WORKS THAT DEAL WITH POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS IN THIS AREA OVERESTIMATE AND ARE TOO OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THEIR POWER. THE CONTRIBUTION SOCIAL SCIENCE CAN MAKE TO POLICY-MAKING IS THROUGH LITERATURE, WHICH INFLUENCES PUBLIC OPINION; WHICH AFFECTS POLICY.

This paper discusses how an ethical dimension can best be included within the policies, structures and services of the developing European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Although the inclusion of ethical principles and policies are seen as of fundamental importance to the EOSC, it is difficult to anticipate all the ethical issues that may emerge as the scientific, technical, social and political landscape evolves. It is therefore seen as crucially important to have governance mechanisms in place that can ensure ethical issues are appropriately dealt with in the future, however and whenever they are presented, as well as identifying and proposing responses to current issues. An analysis of ethical issues relating to organisational conduct and policies, research conduct, research decision making, the use of data, especially sensitive personal data, and the interaction between science and society, serves to underline the complexity and diversity of potential issues.

Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past few decades have changed that with a veritable renaissance of studies on lotteries. This book collects fourteen of the most important of these papers, and offers a critical introduction tying t ...

Six articles addressing the multiplicity of methodological perspectives currently used & available to foreign policy analysis are presented. In the Introduction, symposium editor Jean A. Garrison articulates the need for contemporary studies to establish novel concepts that will overcome current obstacles in foreign policy analysis. In Foreign Policy Analysis in the Twenty-First Century: Back to Comparison, Forward to Identity and Ideas, Juliet Kaarbo recommends that foreign policy analysis adopt methodological frameworks that are either comparative in nature or address the relationship between identity & ideas. In Foreign Policy Analysis and Globalization: Public Opinion, World Opinion, and the Individual, Douglas Foyle contends that foreign policy analysis must consider the influence that public & world opinion & the global community possess over states' foreign policies in order to better account for the movement of people, capital, & ideas across international boundaries. In Science, Empiricism, and Tolerance in the Study of Foreign Policymaking, Mark Schafer suggests that foreign policy analysts demonstrate greater tolerance for certain subfields & methodological perspectives & that scholarship utilize three empirical techniques -- computer-oriented textual evaluation, state-level psychology, & experimental perspectives. In Foreign Policymaking and Group Dynamics: Where We've Been and Where We're Going, Garrison reviews existing research on group decision making to determine future applications of foreign policy analysis & investigate how individual cognition becomes assimilated into the decision-making processes of groups. In Crisis Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis: Insights, Synergies, and Challenges, Eric K. Stern notes the contributions that international crisis theory approaches have made to foreign policy analysis & identifies future research topics, eg, determining the limitations of existing deterrence policies. 315 References. J. W. Parker

The following discussion took place in September 2018 at the Warsaw School of Economics. It focused on both senior politics, experts, and analysts. The discussion was moderated and planned by Andrzej Klimczuk, associated with the Warsaw School of Economics, and invited to the discussion: Barbara Szatur-Jaworska, social politician and gerontologist from the University of Warsaw, Paweł Kubicki, economist, Warsaw School of Economics, Marek Niezabitowski, sociologist from the Silesian University of Technology, Ryszard Majer, social politician , Agnieszka Cieśla, architect and urban planner, Warsaw University of Technology, Marzena Rudnicka, founder and president of the National Institute of Senior Management (biographical notes at the end of the debate). Panelists during the discussion analyzed the following issues: I. Beginnings of the senior policy, its definition, strategic documents of the state, II. The role of local governments in animating activities within the framework of senior policy and non-governmental organizations, III. Creation and role of the law on seniors, IV. Diversification of the environment of seniors, V. Activities in other countries within the framework of the senior policy, VI. Changes in social awareness, the evolution of attitudes towards older people, old age, ageing, VII. The market for products and services for seniors, VIII. Seniors' activity, formal and informal, activity infrastructure, IX. Housing for older people and ageing population X. The role of the state and self-government in the senior policy, dialogue with the authorities, public-private partnership, XI. Challenges and directions of development of the senior policy, XII. The deficit of care services, XIII. Senior and pension policy, XIV. Convergence and divergence in the senior policy.

Understanding Entrepreneurship Across Countries and Over Time -- An Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship: Policies, Institutions and Culture -- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in France -- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands -- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Germany -- Determinants of Entrepreneurship in The United States of America.