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In a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentration of executive power in a single human being is not. The book defends this thesis and explores 'semi-parliamentary government' as an alternative to presidential government. Semi-parliamentarism avoids power concentration in one person by shifting the separation of powers into the democratic assembly. The executive becomes fused with only one part of the assembly, even though the other part has at least equal democratic legitimacy and robust veto power on ordinary legislation. The book identifies the Australian Commonwealth and Japan, as well as the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia, as semi-parliamentary systems. Using data from 23 countries and 6 Australian states, it maps how parliamentary and semi-parliamentary systems balance competing visions of democracy; it analyzes patterns of electoral and party systems, cabinet formation, legislative coalition-building, and constitutional reforms; it systematically compares the semi-parliamentary and presidential separation of powers; and it develops new and innovative semi-parliamentary designs, some of which do not require two separate chambers.

The Syrian revolution : crowds, the political field, the political subject / John Borneman -- The disappearance of the crowd and the rise of dissent in Thailand / Tyrell Haberkorn -- Spectacles of piety : prayer and the politics of mass arousal in Democratic Nigeria / Ebenezer Obadare -- Crowds and transformations : on the pious crowds of the Hajj / Abdellah Hammoudi -- Too many people : crowds and cliques in contemporary China / Megan Steffen -- Regarding others : metro crowds, metro publics, metro mobs / Rashmi Sadana -- Emotional entrainment in crowds and other social formations / Douglas Hollan -- Enduring crowds : the ritual molding of the anthropos in the prolonging of political protest / Bjørn Thomassen -- The ethics of the digital : crowds and popular justice in Bangladesh / Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury -- Death on the bund : crowd control and the Chinese dream in Shanghai / Scott Moskowitz.

What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on their encounters with crowds. Each chapter examines a particular crowd or conception of crowdedness to provide an analysis of how, when, where—and with whom—crowds form in different contexts, as well as their purpose and the practical effect the experience has on both the participants and their environment. The wide selection of case studies ranges from the crowds that form every year during the Hajj, to New Year celebrations in China, commuters on the Delhi metro, public prayer in Nigeria, online mobs in Bangladesh, and the crowds that have emerged during protest movements in Thailand and Syria. Crowds makes a key contribution to establishing an anthropological theory of crowds and will be an essential read for both students and researchers.

Wie kann ich mein Kind vor Gewalt schützen? Autor Steffen Meltzer ist Polizist und als solcher Einsatztrainer und schnürt hier ein Massnahmenpaket für Eltern, die ihren Kindern Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe geben wollen. Welcher Menschentyp bin ich, ist mein Kind? Wo sind Kinder gefährdet und wie können sie im Fall eines Falles agieren? Checklisten und kurze thematisch gegliederte Kapitel (Strassenverkehr, Cyber Mobbing, "Nein" sagen etc.) und "kurzfristig zu erlernende Verhaltensregeln" sind auf 100 Seiten zusammengefasst und allgemein verständlich aufbereitet. Nach wie vor konkurrenzloser Ratgebertitel für Eltern, gegenüber der Vorauflage (vgl. ID-A 50/16) knapp erweitert und mit neuem Cover. (2)