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Much research in entrepreneurship presents results as if they are universally and timelessly valid. Entrepreneurship in Context takes the opposite tack -- it studies entrepreneurship as a context bound phenomenon. For entrepreneurship, the importance of context goes beyond gaining understanding and avoiding mistakes. The reciprocal influence exercised by the entrepreneurial venture and its corresponding context is at the very heart of the entrepreneur as an agent of change. The book addresses context in a narrow sense, i.e. a person's life situation and local, situational characteristics. It a

In her book, Barbe discusses verbal irony as an interpretative notion. Verbal irony is described in its various realizations and thus placed within linguistics and pragmatics. From the point of view of an analyzing observer, Barbe provides an eclectic approach to irony in context, a study of how conversational irony works, and how it compares with other concepts in which it plays a role. In addition, by means of the analysis of irony as an integrated pervasive feature of language, Barbe questions some basic unstated, literacy and culture-dependent assumptions about language. Her study of irony complements contemporary research in the area of conversational analysis.

Context Collapse is a seven-chapter critical essay in verse by Ryan Ruby examining the history of poetry as a function of developments in communications technologies and patronage systems. Playfully importing the discourses of media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology, and heterodox political economy, Context Collapse argues that the delicate dance between poets, publishers, censors, and audiences set the coordinates within which the expressive modes of poetry become intelligible — or fail to do so. Chapter 4 covers the poetics of early twentieth-century avantgarde movements like Dadaism, Italian and Russian Futurism, and Anglophone Modernism and is concerned with the ways that new media technologies (gramophone, film, typewriter—but also telegraphy and radio) and the imperative to distinguish one's literary production in an increasingly crowded cultural commodities market drove these avantgarde movements to see poetry no longer as a formalized communicative act but as the fashioning and exchange of niche linguistic objects. If, as Shelley wrote in A Defense of Poetry, poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts on the present, in the texts of Pound, Tzara, Marinetti, and, above all, Gertrude Stein we can already begin to catch glimpses of the fragmented, information-overloaded Umgebung of contemporary digital media. What literary theorist Sianne Ngai calls the 'relentlessly materialist environment of words' was first processed in high modernist poetics but has only become more pronounced since. The event will begin with a short commentary by Daniel Liu on the history of telegraphy as a technology and metaphor, followed by introductory remarks by Ryan Ruby about Context Collapse, after which Ryan and Daniel will read chapter 4.Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel (2017). His short fiction and poetry have appeared in Conjunctions, The Decadent Review, Statorec, and elsewhere, while his writing on contemporary politics and modernist literature have appeared in ...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Author's Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Social Transitions of the Late Twentieth Century: 'Crime' and 'Fear' in Context -- The Job Crisis -- The Crisis of Material Poverty and Social Inequality -- Fear of Falling and Fear of the Other -- The Crisis of the Nation-state -- Crises of Inclusion and Exclusion -- Crisis in 'the Culture' -- Crises of Masculinity and the Gender Order -- Crises of the Family and Parenting -- 2 The Ninth Transition: The Rise of Market Society -- Market Structures -- Market Culture -- The entrepreneur as hero -- The market not the nation-state -- The market and the discourse of choice -- The market and 'self-interest' -- 3 Young People, Crime and Fear in Market Societies -- Unemployment and Insecurity -- Poverty in Childhood and in the Transition to Adulthood -- Youthful Insecurity and Risk in Market Society -- The War against the Young in Market Society -- The Absence of Subcultures -- Protest and Market Masculinity among the Young -- Household Formation, Household Non-formation and Homelessness -- The Omnipresence of Drugs and Alcohol -- Winners and Losers in Market Society: Present and Future Prospects -- 4 Crime in the City: Housing and Consumer Markets and the Social Geography of Crime and Anxiety in Market Society -- Images of Crime, Images of the City -- American Exemplars: Chicago to Los Angeles -- The Cities of Old Europe -- Cities of the Industrial Revolution -- The new urban police -- Spatial and social sequestration in the industrial city -- The 'Modern City' - Twentieth-Century Processes of Urban Development -- Slum clearance and the new life -- Post-war suburban Utopias -- The Problem Estate and the Demonization of Social Housing.

With its emphasis on emerging and cutting-edge debates in the study of comparative constitutional law and politics, its suitability for both research and teaching use, and its distinguished and diverse cast of contributors, this handbook is a must-have for scholars and instructors alike. This versatile volume combines the depth and rigor of a scholarly reference work with features for teaching in law and social science courses. Its interdisciplinary case-study approach provides political and historical as well as legal context: each modular chapter offers an overview of a topic and a jurisdiction, followed by a case study that simultaneously contextualizes both. Its forward-looking and highly diverse selection of topics and jurisdictions fills gaps in the literature on the Global South as well as the West. A timely section on challenges to liberal constitutional democracy addresses pressing concerns about democratic backsliding and illiberal and/or authoritarian regimes.

A growing literature in political science has pointed to the importance of heuristics in explaining citizens' political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. At the same time, the multidisciplinary research on heuristics in general has revealed that individuals seem to use heuristics sensibly—applying them (perhaps subconsciously) when they are likely to be helpful but not otherwise. We extend this multidisciplinary work to political behavior and present a general theory of contextual variation in political heuristic use applied to discover under what conditions (i.e., what political contexts) voters will use a partisanship heuristic to infer the legislative votes of their legislators in imperfectly disciplined voting contexts. More specifically, we predict that US constituents of loyal partisan senators will use the partisanship heuristic more often than constituents of less loyal senators. Our empirical analysis reveals strong support for our theory, contributing to our understanding of political heuristics in general and adding nuance to our understanding of the partisanship heuristic in particular.

"The U.S. Congress is by the far the least popular-and most misunderstood- branch of the federal government. Congress in Context de-mystifies the institution, giving students a comprehensive and practical understanding of Congress and the legislative process. This book takes a different approach to the study of Congress than other texts. Usually Congress is treated in isolation from the rest of the government. But the Framers of the Constitution explicitly intended for the branches of government to be interdependent. Congress in Context introduces readers to Congress's critical role in the context of this interdependent system. Using the metaphor of a board of directors, the authors explain the three key roles of Congress within the federal government-authorizing what government does, funding its activities, and supervising how it carries out the laws Congress passes-and shows students how Congress interacts with the rest of the government to exercise these powers. The thoroughly expanded and revised second edition features brand-new chapters on Congress and the courts, and Congress and interest groups. It also includes expanded coverage of Congress's relationship with the executive branch, campaign finance, and today's major budget issues. Grounded in the latest political science literature coupled with contemporary examples, Congress in Context offers students an informed yet accessible introduction to how the legislative branch carries out its duties."--