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This book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal. Utilising petitions submitted to Parliament, legislative bills, parliamentary debates, opinion articles published in newspapers, and documents published by the Catholic Church, it examines this sensitive issue through the theoretical lens of morality politics. It does so by studying the process of political dispute between advocacy coalitions formed by political parties and societal actors. This is the first book to comprehensively analyse a morality issue in Portugal, a predominantly Catholic country that has taken an innovative and liberal stance on many morality issues over the last two decades. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, political science, public policy and bioethics, as well as policymakers and other interest groups. Ins Santos Almeida is a Researcher in Political Science at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her research interests include policy processes, morality policies, and party politics. Lus F. Mota is an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic of Leiria Polytechnic University, Portugal, and a full researcher at the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy (GOVCOPP), University of Aveiro, Portugal. His research interests include policy-making processes, network governance, public sector reforms and civil society organisations

Front Matter -- Copyight -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Advancing the Multiple Streams Framework -- PART I Theoretical contributions -- 2. How far does a policy change go? Explaining the scope of reforms with the Multiple Streams Framework -- 3. Policy termination meets Multiple Streams -- 4. Multilevel influence and interaction in the Multiple Streams Framework: A conceptual map -- 5. The beating heart of the Multiple Streams Framework: Coupling as a process -- 6. From policy entrepreneur to policy entrepreneurship: Examining the role of context in policy entrepreneurial action -- PART II Applications: National level -- 7. Shifting ideational paradigms in public health: Connecting design and implementation in Greek health policy -- 8. Multiple Streams, policy implementation and the Greek refugee crisis -- 9. More guns, less violence? Putting the Multiple Streams Framework to the test against Bolsonaro's gun liberalization agenda -- 10. Turkey's pandemic management: Insights from the Multiple Streams Framework perspective -- 11. The Multiple Streams Framework in an autocracy: China's long-awaited Soil Pollution Law -- PART III Subnational and international levels -- 12. Subnational focusing events and agenda change: The case of toxic algae bloom and contaminated drinking water in Toledo, Ohio -- 13. Policy development in Swedish Crisis Management: Restructuring of fire and rescue services -- 14. Subnational policy windows: Shanghai's grid screening policy -- 15. The Multiple Streams Framework and Multilevel Reinforcing Dynamics: The case of European and international climate policy -- 16. The challenge of applying the Multiple Streams Framework to non-decisions and negative decisions -- 17. Multiple Streams in the public policymaking processes of the European Union -- Index.

This book explores Chinese soft power and public diplomacy, and the way that it has played out in the context of the US-China relationship. As tensions between the two countries have grown in recent years, Chinese foreign policy has oscillated between confrontation and conciliation. In this work, which integrates all facets of China⁰́₉s public diplomacy especially towards United States, the author explores the past and future of Chinese soft power, in a text that will interest diplomats, scholars and journalists. Dr. Bilal Zubair teaches at the National Defence University, Islamabad. He has a PhD in International Relations from the School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

How to understand the mistakes we make about those on the other side of the political spectrum—and how they drive the affective polarization that is tearing us apart. It's well known that the political divide in the United States—particularly between Democrats and Republicans—has grown to alarming levels in recent decades. Affective polarization—emotional polarization, or the hostility between the parties—has reached an unprecedented fever pitch. In Undue Hate, Daniel F. Stone tackles the biases undergirding affective polarization head-on. Stone explains why we often develop objectively false, and overly negative, beliefs about the other side—causing us to dislike them more than we should. Approaching affective polarization through the lens of behavioral economics, Undue Hate is unique in its use of simple mathematical concepts and models to illustrate how we misjudge those we disagree with, for both political and nonpolitical issues. Stone argues that while our biases may vary, just about all of us unwisely exacerbate conflict at times—managing to make ourselves worse off in the long run. Finally, the book offers both short- and long-term solutions for tempering our bias and limiting its negative consequences—and, just maybe, finding a way back to understanding one another before it is too late.

A creative and comprehensive exploration of the institutional forces undermining the management of environments critical to public health. For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic clouds of foam lift off the river in a strong wind. In Sewer of Progress , Cindy McCulligh examines why industrial dumping continues in the Santiago despite the corporate embrace of social responsibility and regulatory frameworks intended to mitigate environmental damage. The fault, she finds, lies in a disingenuous discourse of progress and development that privileges capitalist growth over the health and well-being of ecosystems. Rooted in research on institutional behavior and corporate business practices, Sewer of Progress exposes a type of regulatory greenwashing that allows authorities to deflect accusations of environmental dumping while "regulated" dumping continues in an environment of legal certainty. For transnational corporations, this type of simulation allows companies to take advantage of double standards in environmental regulations, while presenting themselves as socially responsible and green global actors. Through this inversion, the Santiago and other rivers in Mexico have become sewers for urban and industrial waste. Institutionalized corruption, a concept McCulligh introduces in the book, is the main culprit, a system that permits and normalizes environmental degradation, specifically in the creation and enforcement of a regulatory framework for wastewater discharge that prioritizes private interests over the common good. Through a research paradigm based in institutional ethnography and political ecology, Sewer of Progress provides a critical, in-depth look at the power relations subverting the role of the state in environmental regulation and the maintenance of public health.

Was weltweit "gutes" oder "richtiges" Recht ist, folgt nicht aus inhaltlichen Vorgaben. Weder ein westlicher philosophischer noch z. B. ein islamischer oder ein fernöstlicher Ansatz können dies leisten. Modelle transnationalen Rechtsdenkens zeigen vielmehr: Der Universalismus westlichen Denkens oder das Modell einer materiellen Rechtsvereinheitlichung ist nicht umsetzbar. Allein das Toleranzprinzip des europäischen Ne-bis-in-idem nach Art. 54 SDÜ/50 EUGr-Ch zeigt einen Weg auf. Dieses fragt danach, was die eine von der anderen Rechtsordnung noch akzeptieren muss und was sie nicht mehr akzeptieren kann. Deshalb kommt es allein auf Verfahrenslösungen an, welche die Sachgründe argumentativ herausarbeiten

An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards. In Recycling Class, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. Recycling Class links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability's emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of "clean" with "green." Tracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle-class "communal sustainability" efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. Coproduced "DIY infrastructures" serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Revealing the win-win fallacy of sustainability and foregrounding the agency of communities excluded from environmental policy, Recycling Class will appeal to scholars and activists alike who want to create a future with more transformative sustainability.