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AbstractSince the "argumentative turn" in policy analysis, scholars have increasingly focused on discourse as an explanatory factor for the analysis of policy processes. This has resulted in a proliferation of rich and deep qualitative discourse-analytical studies on a vast range of policy controversies. However, these studies have two important shortcomings: firstly, they offer limited opportunities for comparative research, because they lack an objectified and standardized measuring instrument. Secondly, according to some critics, these studies do not meet scientific standards. In order to respond to these shortcomings, this article presents a method based on a combination of content analysis and social network analysis, which can be complementary to qualitative approaches. It is exemplified by a limited case study on two debates within the policy domain of transport mobility in Flanders. The article concludes with a discussion of a number of possible applications of the method within the broader discipline of political science.

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The Japanese state system of government remains one of the oldest and most continuous world monarchies, and the country itself is the largest world power. And to this day, domestic and foreign experts do not cease to worry about the problems associated with the birth and development of Japanese public authorities and management. Based on this, the study of the problem of the formation, functioning, and historical features of the Japanese state power becomes relevant. In this regard, the paper used a combination of different approaches used in describing the temporal evolution of Japanese public administration. In particular, in order to implement this task, the author used a comparative-historical method, which allowed us to study the genesis of the state authorities of Japan in chronological boundaries from the VII century to the present. In the course of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that initially the components of the Japanese system of public administration were formed on the traditions of Far Eastern values. After the end of the Second World War, the further development of Japan was influenced by the values of Western civilization. Currently, the world is presented with a unique original Japanese system of public administration. At the same time, it is important to emphasize that today the country not only particularly values the national traditions of state-building, but also has a fairly positive attitude to the accumulated world experience in this area.

"Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of both Trump's efforts to erode democracy's essential elements and opposition to those efforts. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocrats blur or breach the separation of powers, use executive orders to bypass the legislature, pack the courts, replace career prosecutors with political appointees, abuse the pardon power, and claim immunity from the law. They seek to hobble opposition from civil society by curtailing speech and assembly, tolerating and even encouraging vigilante violence, and attacking the media. As this book demonstrates, Trump followed the autocrat's playbook in many ways. He was a huckster of hate, aiming his vitriol at women and racial minorities, and making attacks on immigrants the focus of his 2016 campaign, as well as his first years in office. Nevertheless, his rhetoric and policies encountered widespread opposition - from religious leaders, business executives, lawyers and bar associations, and civil servants. His executive orders (on which he relied) were almost all struck down by courts: including the first two "Muslim bans," the detention of children and their separation from parents, the diversion of military funds to build the border wall, the insertion of a citizenship question in the Census, and limits on asylum. Just as Trump sought to weaponize the criminal justice system against his political opponents, so he manipulated it to defend his cronies, derailing some of their prosecutions. Trump also intervened in courts martial and criminal prosecutions of those convicted of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and those accused of desertion and terrorism. Again, however, there was resistance: as some career prosecutors withdrew from cases or resigned when subjected to political pressure and federal courts convicted all of Trump's allies- even though the president went on to use his unreviewable pardon power. This book, then, documents the abuses that are characteristic of autocracy, and assesses the various forms of resistance to them. This definitive account and analysis of Trumpism in action, as well as the resistance to it, will appeal to scholars, students and others with interests in politics, populism and the rule of law; and, more specifically, to those concerned with resisting the threat that autocracy poses to liberal democracy"--

This book sets forth a pathbreaking social and demographic portrait of Latino legal immigrants from a political perspective, comparing and contrasting them with the broader Latino population and discussing, based on survey research data, the experiences of Latinos from Central and South America.

Revolution from above -- Bashaar's first decade -- Revolution from below -- The grassroots -- Militarisation and liberation -- Scorched earth: the rise of the Islamisms -- Dispossession and exile -- Culture revolutionised -- The failure of the elites -- The start of solidarity -- Syria dismantled

First published in 1980. This book covers areas of policy interest viewed from a social democratic perspective and each chapter takes a specific issue which would have been of concern to Labour in the 1980s, including some of the more controversial areas. The study reviews various problem areas and suggests policies which are realistic and applicable in the conditions of the 1980s. This title will be of interests to scholars and students of history and politics.

"This book investigates contradictions in U.S. foreign policy: promoting democracy abroad while supporting dictatorships in Latin America. Such analysis requires multiple perspectives and this work embraces an evaluation of the influence of military dictatorships on cultural elements, while drawing on data from documentary archives, court case files, investigative reports, international treaties, witness testimonies, and letters from survivors"--Provided by publisher

An uneasy correlation : (un)civil society and democracy -- Historical and political framework for civil society formation in Indonesia -- Walking a tightrope : civil society under Suharto -- Between reform and regression : post-Suharto state and politics -- A contested arena : civil society in post-Suharto Indonesia -- The rise of uncivil society -- Summary and conclusion : (un)civil society and the future of democracy in Indonesia