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"This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year existence, The City and the Railway in the World shows that urban railways are still politically and historically important to the modern world. The City and the Railway in the World will be a useful tool for scholars interested in the history of transport, travel, and urban change"--

"Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author's previous work, this book discusses whether social progress is linear and on a continual upward trajectory to human betterment, or if there are peaks and troughs along the way. More importantly, it questions that, if social progress exists, is it compatible with social and environmental sustainability? At the outset the book introduces the concepts of social contract theory and the idea of human social progress, long considered to be settled conditions, now ripe for further examination. Each chapter carefully analyses the contemporary struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, using examples from the USA as a foundation to discuss and compare democracies from around the world encountering the pressures of rising authoritarianism, including anti-immigration, xenophobia and anti-institutionalism. It argues that if the climate crisis is to be urgently addressed as required, the rise in authoritarian thinking, with its focus on maintaining power and the creation of individual wealth, presents a challenge to both our societal foundations and environmental sustainability. Highlighting and analysing topics of critical importance to today's society, this book will have widespread appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology, political science, philosophy, environmental sustainability and development studies"--

Introduction / David Schultz and Jurij Toplak -- Democratic theory and election law / David Schultz -- Representative government and elections / Mark E. Rush -- Voting rights and limitations / Djordje Gardašević and Jurij Toplak -- Electoral management / Toby S. James and Holly Ann Garnett -- Electronic voting / Robert Krimmer and Jordi Barrat i Esteve -- Election law in advanced democracies / Steven J. Mulroy -- Challenges in electoral integrity / Pippa Norris -- Elections as rituals / Graeme Orr -- International election observation and standards / Alexander Shlyk -- Election observation : using law and international standards - a practitioner's perspective / Hannah Roberts -- Election disputes, complaints, and appeals / Bob Watt -- Role of money in campaigns and elections / Emily Schnurr -- Political finance / Barbara Jouan Stonestreet -- Gender quotas in politics / Drude Dahlerup and Lenita Freidenvall -- Election participation of persons with disabilities / Enira Bronitskaya -- Personalization of elections : in search of the sound conception / Klemen Jaklič and Maša Setnikar -- European Court of Human Rights and the Election Law / Jurij Toplak -- Post-election disputes in Europe / Mathieu Leloup -- The Election Law in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania / Inese Druviete and Ēriks Kristians Selga -- Election Law in Turkey / Ali Çarkoğlu -- Election Law in Latin America / Daniela Urosa -- Contested elections in Africa : the roles of courts in electoral processes / Ugochukwu Ezeh -- Election Law in India / M. V. Rajeev Gowda and Varun Santhosh -- Election Law in Malaysia / Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani -- Legal reforms for electoral integrity in Pakistan / Hassan Nasir Mirbahar -- Deep Election Law in South Korea / Erik Johan Mobrand.

What are girls learning from porn? -- Block porn and play porn : power, pleasure and possibilities -- "Dirty work" : the politics of researching teenage girls and porn -- Porn pops : "ten or eleven, I already knew what sex was" -- Porn puzzles : sexual things, feeling things, and unrealistic things -- Porn for pleasure : pleasure for men? -- Queer assemblages : girls figuring out sexuality and porn -- Porn race(s) : white, long hair, nice boobs, and always young -- Porn conversations : "I'm curious, you're curious, let's be curious together."

Introduction -- Sporting Moustaches, Riding Bulls, Flashing Bums - Dorian Pavus's Queer Odyssey -- The Sissy & the Cyborg--or How to Set the World on Fire in Fabulous Robes -- "Gotta Smuggle them All!"--Queer Détournement, Drag, and Border Politics -- Wandering through Paths and Pixels--the Queer Meandering of the Gaming Flâneur -- Flawless in Defeat--In and For the Margins -- Conclusion.

"This book discusses undercover reporting and deception in journalism, addressing the ethical issues encountered by professionals when deception is involved and providing an explanation of how high-profile cases have developed. Carson and Muller begin by examining how philosophical theories which form the basis of contemporary ethical codes for journalists, bear upon undercover reporting and questions of deception in the digital age. Drawing upon case studies such as Al Jazeera's undercover operation against the National Rifle Association in the US and the One Nation political party in Australia, and Britain's Channel 4 infiltration of Cambridge Analytica, this book goes on to define and discuss the ethical concepts behind deception and betrayal and lays out an original ethical framework for undercover journalists facing related challenges in their work. Undercover Reporting, Deception and Betrayal in Journalism is an important research text for students and academics in journalism and media studies"--

Introduction to Global Political and Social Media Communication -- Social Media Communication Theories -- Political and Social Media Communication Methods -- Developing Meaningful Political Communication Questions -- Academic and Industry Social Media Data -- Propaganda and Social Media Persuasion -- Normative Law, Ethics and Critical Examination -- Social Media Processes and Effects -- Media and Information LiteracyTechnologies of Freedom and Oppression.

"The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries own 30 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and largely depend on oil for their income. Yet, the GCC faces serious challenges. The global demand for oil is expected to continue declining and the average long-run oil price could become lower than its historical average in the future. This book is a research-based, structural macroeconomic analysis, providing evidence-based and future-facing, policy recommendations for GCC governments. First, it analyzes historical data to explain the macroeconomic performance and economic policies of the GCC countries from 1970 to 2019. Then it presents ten-year dynamic stochastic projections from 2020 to 2030. The book examines debt sustainability and optimal fiscal policies, i.e., government spending and taxation. It also analyses structural issues such as savings and productivity, and from an institutional perspective, taking into account education, the labor market, and pension funds, as well as other factors that have a close effect on economic performance. The book is comprehensive and thorough, it relies on extensive econometric analyses, including rigorous time series analysis. The author uses both calibration of theoretical models and estimation, facilitating projections for the next decade of key economic variables under different policy scenarios. The book also assesses what the future of the GCC economies will look like if climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic continue to, adversely, affect oil supply and demand, and the price of oil, given their current policies and institutions. As well as scholars and researchers of economics and finance, the book will engage policymakers in central banks, treasury departments, planning councils, research institutes and think tanks"--

"India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj) and culture (sanskriti). However, studies on castes largely deal with social structure and less on culture, while studies on tribes focus more on culture than on social structure. What has resulted from this bias is a general misunderstanding that tribes have a rich culture, but lack social structure. This volume emerges out of an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses and compares their internal social organization consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks. The book also deals with changes taking place in the social structure of contemporary tribal societies. While the focus is mainly on the data from tribes of Western India, the issues are relevant to pan Indian tribes. An important contribution to the studies on tribes of India, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, demography, history, tribal studies, social work, public policy, and law. It will also be of interest to professionals working with NGOs and civil society, programme and policy formulating authorities, and bureaucrats"--

An intruder at the royal table -- Everything started with a crisis -- Taste and status: the invention of the "gourmet" in early bourgeois society -- A voice in the wilderness -- The Médoc connection: transnational knowledge transfer or industrial espionage? -- Conquering the queen's palate -- Thwarted: too modern for the time -- Quantity beats quality: the challenge of the phylloxera plague -- The comeback: shape and consolidation of a brand -- New wine, new conflicts: industrial wineries, small winegrowers and the state -- The globalization trap: challenges and opportunities for Rioja wine in the 21st century.