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"Central Asia offers a potential smorgasbord for researchers engaged in comparative analysis. Common shared characteristics of these states have provided and continue to provide opportunities for advances in our understanding of political and social phenomena of global importance, including state building, democratisation, nationalism and economic development. However, in conducting comparative case study research in Central Asia, researchers should be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of different comparative approaches. This article reviews and critiques one approach to comparative analysis that has become increasingly dominant in social science research, particularly in the US. Comparing events in two Central Asian countries during 2005, a period of heightened risk of colour revolution, the article highlights both strengths and weaknesses of this increasingly dominant approach, arguing instead for a more inclusive and pragmatic approach to comparative analysis both in Central Asia and to case study comparisons more generally as the best way to advance our understanding of important social and political phenomena." (author's abstract)

What do the most senior national security policymakers want from international relations scholars? To answer that question, we administered a unique survey to current and former policymakers to gauge when and how they use academic social science to inform national security decision making. We find that policymakers do regularly follow academic social science research and scholarship on national security affairs, hoping to draw upon its substantive expertise. But our results call into question the direct relevance to policymakers of the most scientific approaches to international relations. And they at best seriously qualify the 'trickle down' theory that basic social science research eventually influences policymakers. To be clear, we are not arguing that policymakers never find scholarship based upon the cutting-edge research techniques of social science useful. But policymakers often find contemporary scholarship less-than-helpful when it employs such methods across the board, for their own sake, and without a clear sense of how such scholarship will contribute to policymaking. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Transdisciplinary research partnerships for environmental justice and citizenship within planetary boundaries -- 1.1 Organizing research on integrated social and ecological systems -- 1.2 The promises of transdisciplinary sustainability research -- 1.3 Addressing governance challenges in partnerships between scientific researchers and societal actors -- 2 Overcoming collective action failures in knowledge co-production practices -- 2.1 Governance failures in transdisciplinary research -- 2.2 Theoretical building blocks from the multi-level approach to governing scientific research commons -- 2.3 Promoting synergies among various styles of transdisciplinary research practice -- 3 Generating actionable knowledge outputs through collaborative research co-design -- 3.1 Usable knowledge production on sustainability transformations -- 3.2 Collaborative research co-design across technological, socioeconomic, and cultural levers of sustainability transformations -- 3.3 A pragmatist constructivist approach to knowledge co-production -- 4 Social learning among actors with incommensurable value perspectives on sustainability transformations -- 4.1 Building common perspectives for research collaboration in highly diverse societal value settings -- 4.2 Amartya Sen's deliberative approach to social choice with incommensurable societal values -- 4.3 Illustrating the various types of social learning in transdisciplinary research practices -- 4.4 Fostering critical engagement across differences -- 5 Developing integrated boundary-crossing organizational networks -- 5.1 From disciplinary divisions and departments to flexible network organizations.

On the subject of the Polish-Jewish postwar relations, this paper deals with the pathology of public discourse known as the "conspiracies of silence" phenomenon (see Eviatar Zerubavel, The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life , 2008). The concept in question may be applied to the Polish historic conditions. It helps to problematize the circumstances in which social conspiracies were accumulating around the Polish-Jewish relations in the postwar period so as to pave the way for analysis of the current difficulties in researching the title issues, particularly those that emerged while using a quantitative and qualitative approach to research Polish attitudes toward Jews. The resulting polemical analysis is made on the basis of a text by one of the most renowned Polish sociologists, Prof. Antoni Sułek. His lecture titled "Ordinary Poles Looking at Jews" was delivered at the University of Warsaw, Poland, on 17 December 2009, within the cycle "Ten Lectures for a New Millennium." It summarises the Polish twenty-year poll-based researches of Poles' attitudes towards Jews.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Making Connections -- Stating the Problem -- Origins of Political Development Studies -- Development Theories and Interpretations Under Attack -- Liberal Democratic Theory, Its Elitist Interpretations, and the Study of Political Development -- A Reader's Guide -- Notes -- 2 Discourse on Development -- Putting Development Policies on the Agenda -- Development and Domestic Economic Growth -- From Economic Development to Development -- Development and the New Diplomatic Order -- Development, Counterinsurgency, and a Typology of Intervention -- Notes -- 3 Transparent Boundaries: From Policies to Studies of Political Development -- Forging a Foreign Policy Consensus -- The "End of Ideological Policy -- Social Science Research and the National Security -- Counterrevolution in the Revolution -- The Map of Third World Change: Politics and the Transition Process -- Notes -- 4 Defining the Parameters of Discourse -- Disenchantment and the Roots of Domestic Consensus -- G. Almond and E. A. Shils on Some Lessons of the 1950s -- The Congress for Cultural Freedom: Mission to the Third World -- The Mass Society Debate and Its Implications for the Interpretation of Third World Politics -- Notes -- 5 The Academic Translation: Liberal Democratic Theory and Interpretations of Political Development -- Changes in Postwar American Political Science -- The Response to the Elitist, Pluralist, Equilibrium Model -- Development Theorists and the Elitist Interpretations of Democracy -- The Several Approaches to Political Development -- Key Texts -- Notes -- 6 The Impossible Task of Theories of Political Development -- Paradoxes and Predicaments -- Deceptions of Development: The False Promise of an Explanation -- Politics, Personality, and the Question of Political Style.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze accounting research developments in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Indonesia for the period 2012-2016. The focus of CSR literature review is on disclosures and not to examine CSR activities or programs.Design/methodology/approachThis study applied a descriptive approach to provide evidence on the major variables that have been examined in CSR research and what is the measurement used to measure CSR disclosures. The CSR research development was traced through mapping articles published in the international journal with the subject of category accounting (Schimago Journalrank quartile Q3 and Q4), and national journal (national accredited accounting journals, as well as the proceedings of National Symposium on Accounting [NSA]). A total of 5,971 articles were reviewed and resulted in 31 Indonesian CSR articles in accounting which are dominated by quantitative methods (93.5 per cent), and as many as 28 articles were analyzed.FindingsThe analyses result showed that (1) 75 per cent of CSR research were in the areas of financial accounting and capital markets, followed by tax accounting and corporate governance; (2) The most widely used variable associated with CSR was financial performance; which (3) More than 80 per cent of the CSR research used annual reports as the source of data with only 19.23 per cent using sustainability reports; (4) 65.38 per cent of the CSR disclosure measurement referred to used other CSR disclosure lists, other than the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).Research limitations/implicationsThe study results are important as a basis for future studies to provide a platform for the analysis to cover the gap between CSR studies in the academic and business areas for not only Indonesia but also other countries. Comparative studies between countries will be essential for future research to provide empirical evidence on the development of CSR research in accounting fields.Practical implicationsThe study provides comprehensive pictures in how CSR disclosures have been analyzed in academic area so that practitioners in business field are able to understand the results on which variables are associated with CSR. Further, the practitioners could enhance their CSR implementations and reports to gain the utmost benefits for their business.Originality/valueThis study is considered as the first CSR literature review analyzed in accounting research publications. As CSR topics have been emerging developed in many field of studies, reviewing this topic in the accounting area resulted interesting findings. These findings are useful for not only Indonesia but also other countries. Further, this study provides platform to fill many gaps for future research in the topic of CSR in accounting field.

Gegenstand des vorliegenden Beitrags sind Auswertungsprobleme "qualitativer" Daten der empirischen Sozialforschung. Insbesondere in bezug auf offene Interviews fehlen Verfahren zur Interpretation der Interviewtranskripte, die allgemein als konsensfähig gelten können. In Auseinandersetzung mit hermeneutischen Ansätzen stellt der Autor zunächst einen Katalog von Interpretationsregeln oder -prinzipien für die Arbeit mit der Hermeneutik auf, um auf diesem Wege zu intersubjektiv kontrollierbaren Interpretationen qualitativer Daten zu gelangen. (pmb)