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Paper discusses topical problems of preserving and further strengthening tolerance in Georgia as an attribute of contemporary Georgian society. An interplay between religious and ethnic aspects of conflict is a primary focus of the paper. It is argued that despite the rarity of religion-driven conflicts between different ethnic groups, there is an acute need for preventive measures to avert conflict in the future. Effective and coordinated efforts on the part of international organizations and individual governments are seen as of increasing importance as they support Georgia's political stability and economic growth.

Situating desis in U.S. ethnoracial politics -- South Asian Americans and immigration regimes: exclusion, Ghadar rebellion, and Silicon Valley -- Political incorporation and new immigrants: beyond racial solidarity -- Race, religion, and communities: South Asians in the post-9/11 United States -- Mapping the modes of mobilization -- Transnationalism and political participation: the challenges of "in-between" Americans -- Diasporic nationalism and fragments within -- Negotiating identities and crafting political solidarities -- The 2016 U.S. elections and South Asian Americans

Defence date: 13 September 2017 ; Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Alexander H. Trechsel, European University Institute (Supervisor) Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Bernardi, European University Institute (Co-supervisor) Dr. Elias Dinas, University of Oxford Prof. Dr. Marc Hooghe, University of Leuven ; How does the family influence citizens' political ideology, and what role do family dynamics and structure play in this process of political socialization? As society and family forms are changing, this study provides new insights in political socialization research by investigating how gender dynamics in the family, parental separation, and intergenerational social mobility affect the transmission and development of citizens' political ideology in multiparty systems in Europe. The German Socioeconomic Panel and the Swiss Household Panel are the most important data sources. The first empirical chapter provides a descriptive account of the level of transmission of left–right ideology, showing a large and stable influence of the parental on the child's ideology. Especially the similarity of parental ideology favours this process. Chapter 3 addresses gender effects in political socialization, showing that the political ideology of both parents equally influences the ideology of their children, irrespective of their gender. In Switzerland, moderate left-wing effects of the presence of an older sister are found for females, and in families of a centrist ideology. For males, however, having a female eldest sibling has a right-wing effect. Chapter 4 investigates the ideological consequences of parental divorce, showing with pan-European data that adults whose parents separated during childhood hold a more leftist ideology. Longitudinal analysis using Swiss data shows that this is partially caused by the mother becoming more leftwing after separation from the partner. Finally, Chapter 5 addresses how vertical and horizontal intergenerational social mobility affect the ideological transmission process from parents to children, showing that especially the upwardly mobile are less influenced by the parental ideology. However, it is demonstrated that self-selection into social mobility plays an important role herein. The overall conclusion is that the family is important in shaping voters' political ideology until in adulthood, not only in terms of intergenerational transmission, but also in terms of direct effects of family experiences and structure.

Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction / Christopher Beem and Lawrence M. Mead -- Chapter 1. A Summary of Welfare Reform / Lawrence M. Mead -- Chapter 2. Another Way Forward: Welfare, Social Reproduction, and a Basic Income / Carole Pateman -- Chapter 3. Making People Work: Democratic Consequences of Workfare / Desmond King -- Chapter 4. Is Conditionality Illiberal? / Stuart White -- Chapter 5. Conditional Citizenship / William A. Galston -- Chapter 6. An Ethic of Mutual Responsibility? Toward a Fuller Justification for Conditionality in Welfare / Alan Deacon

Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a ""math camp"" or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills. The problem is that most available textbooks are written for mathematics or economics majors, and fail to convey to students of political science and sociology the reasons for learning often-abstract mathematical concepts. A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research fills this gap, providing both a primer for m.

"When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As empirical evidence accumulated, however, it became clear that political reactions 'from below' to land grabbing were quite varied and complex. Violent resistance, outright expulsions, everyday 'weapons of the weak' and demands for better terms of incorporation into land deals were among the outcomes that emerged. Readers of this collection will encounter a multinational group of scholars who use the tools of social movements theory and critical agrarian studies to examine cases from Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Uganda, Mali, Ukraine, India, and Laos, as well as the Rio +20 Sustainable Development Conference. Initiatives 'from below' in response to land deals have involved local and transnational alliances and the use of legal and extra-legal methods, and have brought victories and defeats. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies."--Provided by publisher.

Institutions are failing in many areas of contemporary politics, not least of which concerns climate change. However, remedying such problems is not straightforward. Pursuing institutional improvement is an intensely political process, playing out over extended timeframes, and intricately tied to existing setups. Such activities are open-ended, and outcomes are often provisional and indeterminate. The question of institutional improvement, therefore, centers on understanding how institutions are (re)made within complex settings. This Element develops an original analytical foundation for studying institutional remaking and its political dynamics. It explains how institutional remaking can be observed and provides a typology comprising five areas of institutional production involved in institutional remaking (Novelty, Uptake, Dismantling, Stability, Interplay). This opens up a new research agenda on the politics of responding to institutional breakdown, and brings sustainability scholarship into closer dialogue with scholarship on processes of institutional change and development.

"Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse the relationship between the representation of certain pasts in 'official' heritage settings and the use of the same pasts in political discourse. Drawing on data gathered from museums, heritage sites, news articles, political speeches, manifestos, and through digital media such as Twitter, Farrell-Banks demonstrates how a connection with a shared past can move people emotionally and give them the confidence to engage in political action. The book considers how heritage and the past moves in time and space, examining how it shapes political beliefs and action in the present. The work is a timely intervention, calling attention to the political responsibilities that come with heritage work, when these same languages of heritage are adopted to promote a politics of division. Introducing the concept of the 'moving moment', a framework by which to research and understand uses of the past, the book demonstrates how the past becomes a potent political tool. Combining critical heritage studies, critical discourse, memory studies and political theory, the book demonstrates new approaches to interdisciplinary studies within heritage. Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past will thus be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, memory, politics, history and media"--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Could This Be 1648? -- PART I Political Economy and Struggle -- CHAPTER 1 Political Economy: World-Making Stories -- CHAPTER 2 Struggle: Toward a Cartography of Engagement -- PART II Expertise -- CHAPTER 3 World-Making Ideas: Imagining a World to Govern and Resist -- CHAPTER 4 Expertise: The Machinery of Global Reason -- CHAPTER 5 Expertise in Action: Rule by Articulation -- PART III Law -- CHAPTER 6 Law and the Global Dynamics of Distribution -- CHAPTER 7 International Legal Expertise: Innovation, Avoidance and Professional Faith -- CHAPTER 8 Legal Expertise in War -- EPILOGUE Let It Be So -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- Notes -- Index

Intro -- Titles in This Series -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Background to the Campaign: From Confidence and Supply to the Oven-Ready Deal -- The Long Shadow of Brexit -- All Change? The Parties' Prospects -- Overview of the Book -- References -- 2 A Brexit Election? -- Introduction -- Attitudes Towards Brexit -- Volatility -- The Campaign -- The Outcome -- Why the Difference? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Campaigning -- 3 Reaching the Right People: The Conservatives -- 4 No Time for Real Change: Labour -- 5 'Time to Choose Our Future': The SNP -- Background -- Our Message -- How We Won the Campaign -- Leadership -- The Result and What It Means -- 6 An Alternative Voice: The Liberal Democrats -- 2019-Before the Campaign -- Pre-war Skirmishes: The Autumn of 2019 -- The Starting Gun -- The Brexit Party -- The TV Leaders' Debates -- The Ground War -- The Air War -- The Importance of a Core Message -- Post Script: The Election Outcome, Fallout and Where Next -- 7 "Me and Brexit, or Nothing": A French Perspective on Boris Johnson's Victory -- 8 'Water Dripping on a Stone': Topham Guerin and the Tory Digital Strategy -- Introduction -- The Digi Kiwis: Shitposting, Love Actually and Other Boomer-Memes -- Getting Brexit Done: The YouTube and Google Dimensions -- Facebook: More Output, Less Cost -- Attack by Disinformation? -- The Influence of 'Non-Party' Campaigners -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 "Strategic Lying": Or How the Conservatives Dominated the Campaign News Agenda -- Introduction -- Lying -- Spin 'n Lies -- Strategic Lying -- The Strategic Lie in Action: The 2019 UK General Election -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Media -- 10 Knocking Copy: How the National Press Covered the Campaign -- Introduction -- Partisans in Print -- Press Matters.