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This volume elaborately studies the challenges posed and impact made by the Covid 19 pandemic. Through detailed case studies, it presents ethical, political, economic, medical, logistical and social impediments faced by contemporary states in the EU. The book focuses on the short and long-term consequences of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and covers issues concerning the world economy, the EU economy, as well as the Visegrad economies.

The essays in this volume:
Probes into the response of states to the economic phenomena resulting from the pandemic and analyses the institutional framework of the resulting crisis, lapses in social communication, social protests and the decline in democratic standards in countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary;
Discusses issues related to state security under conditions of the pandemic, the effectiveness of state and self-government administration, the transition of states from an external controllability to an internal controllability model of power, as well as challenges related to security in the digital space;
Presents policy actions at three basic levels, i.e. at the global, regional and sub-regional, and investigate strategies of the UN, WHO, the EU and the Visegrad Group as they play the most important role in the fight against COVID-19;

This insightful and timely volume will be of great interest to scholars, researchers and anyone inquisitive about political theory, public policy, public health and social care, international relations, governance, security studies, and public administration.

This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is divided into four parts. The chapters in Part I analyze the tensions between the neoliberal vision of democracy and the voices contesting it, with projections at different levels of government. The chapters in Part II focus on the emerging framework and scales of Western democracy. The chapters in Part III present new forms of citizen participation, paying special - though not exclusive - attention to new practical strategies for Basque society. The volume concludes with a block of chapters on the relevance of reviewing the methodological and epistemological frameworks from which knowledge about democracy and mechanisms of citizen participation is generated (Part IV). By delving deeper into the idea and practice of democratic governance, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students from all disciplines of politics, international relations, sociology and law

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black socialityLinking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital's weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notions of Africa as less progressive than the West in recognizing the rights of disabled people. Ultimately, this book foregrounds the engagement of diasporic Africans, who are still reeling from the violence of colonialism, slavery, poverty, and war, as they gesture toward a liberatory Black sociality by falling, floating, and flickering

"This book analyzes government formation and survival in parliamentary democracies, for the first time using computational models to do this. We model "functionally rational' politicians who attack complex problems using simple rules of thumb, and develop artificial intelligence algorithms, similar to those which have beaten the world's best poker players, which relentlessly learn how best to "win" the political game"--

"This collection of essays examines whether or not a culture of violence exists in modern Texas by examining trends associated with various types of violence within the state as well as the social and political responses to violent behaviors and events from 1965 to the present. Texas history is steeped in brutality and bloodshed, including conflicts between Native American tribes (such as the Comanche and Apache), confrontations between European settlers and indigenous peoples, warfare, violence against slaves, personal feuds, extralegal activities commonly practiced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, labor strikes and riots, battles between segregationists and civil rights activists, and myriad other incidents. While scholars have argued that industrialization and economic changes coupled with the expansion of state institutions in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have worked to reduce the frequency and acceptance of violence, recent evidence indicates that the general public does not agree, suggesting instead that a culture of violence has emerged, or perhaps persisted. Beginning with a broad introductory essay, the work proceeds in twelve chapters, each dealing with a specific form of violence. This important and timely collection provides valuable context to discussions on violence in general while providing a close examination of whether or not a culture of violence exists in Texas in the modern era"--

"This book is a wide-ranging collection of critical approaches on the highly accomplished poet Juan Felipe Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. The chapters in this book expertly demonstrate the author's versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and infinite creativity"--

1. Psychologie und Sozialwissenschaften als empirische Wissenschaften -- Teil A Quantitative Methoden -- 2. Quantitative Erhebungsmethoden -- 3. Quantitative Forschungsansätze -- 4. Quantitative Auswertungsmethoden -- Teil B Qualitative Methoden -- 5. Qualitative Forschungsansätze -- 6. Qualitative Erhebungsmethoden -- 7. Qualitative Analyseverfahren -- 8. Bewertung qualitativer Forschung -- Teil C Mixed Methods -- 9. Mixed-Methods-Forschung.

Bewertung ist mit Entwertung ebenso verbunden wie die Eingrenzung der Einen mit der Ausgrenzung der Anderen. Dieser Mechanismus, genannt "Externalisierung als Prinzip", ist bezeichnend für die herrschaftlich geprägte kapitalistische Wertbildung, die systematisch Abwertungen und Ausschlüsse hervorruft. Die Konstruktion dieses externalisierenden Prinzips wird theorie- und ideengeschichtlich analysiert, um sodann nach aktuellen Veränderungen zu suchen: "Wertbeben" durch COVID-19? Herrschaftsfreie Bewertung ohne Externalisierung in alternativen Handlungsräumen? Die Ergebnisse der Fallstudie laden zu kritischen Reflexionen und zukunftsweisenden Überlegungen ein.

Seit einiger Zeit werden in Deutschland zunehmend die Begriffe "Femizid" oder "Feminizid" benutzt, um auf strukturelle Ursachen von Tötungsdelikten ancis und trans Frauen zu verweisen. In Lateinamerika hingegen haben schon in den frühen 2000er Jahren zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen und feministische Wissenschaftler*innen damit begonnen, den Zusammenhang von tödlicher Gewalt gegen Frauen und einer hierarchischen Zweigeschlechtlichkeit zu betrachten und zu kritisieren. Sozialwissenschaftler*innen, Anthropolog*innen und Jurist*innen von Mexiko bis Argentinien haben sich genauer mit den Erscheinungsformen, Ausmaßen, Ursachen und Kontexten von Feminiziden auseinandergesetzt und politische Antworten gesucht. Die Herausgeberinnen machen in diesem Band eine Auswahl an übersetzten Texten zugänglich, die von oft zitierten Standardwerken zum Feminizid-Begriff bis hin zu aktuelleren Debatten reichen.