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In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since the 1960s. Written by a respected social scientist, this book reviews appropriate theories of political crime and explains numerous definitional and conceptual issues, causes of political crimes, ways to control it, and effects of different types of political crime. Ross integrates new scholarship on state crime, and post 9/11 developments in both scholarship and current affairs and uses numerous examples to help readers understand the issues. The book is supported by a companion website, containing additional materials for both students and lecturers, which is available from the link above

As European countries continue to adapt their economic, social and industry policies to minimise the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, key elements of the Green Deal offer new jobs and business opportunities to help with the recovery while addressing climate change at the same time. In particular, the European Union (EU) hydrogen and energy system integration strategies clearly highlight the potential benefits of and urgent need for investment to accelerate the deployment of renewable electricity generation on which decarbonisation of the EU economy, including the future production of renewable hydrogen and synthetic fuels in the EU, will depend. In this Commentary, EASAC (the European Academies' Science Advisory Council), which is the independent voice of the National Academies of Science of the EU Member States, Norway, Switzerland and the UK, draws upon its previous work on energy and decarbonisation policies to comment and advise, through 15 key points for policy-makers, on the implementation of the EU hydrogen strategy. Now is the right time to begin a phased approach to the sustainable development, production and use of renewable hydrogen. Strong governance of the emerging renewable hydrogen sector and the removal of market barriers in the EU is needed, with good coordination between EU and Member State strategies and rules. Targeted investments in decentralised electrolysers should focus on further cost reductions and feeding renewable hydrogen into sustainable local markets and networks. For the foreseeable future, hydrogen should be used primarily for decarbonising those applications that are difficult to electrify. The EU should build a strong leadership role in global hydrogen markets, by developing international partnerships with third countries to include not only collaboration on research and technology development but also the trading of hydrogen production technologies, renewable hydrogen and synthetic fuels. Further studies and demand-driven initiatives, including research, should be initiated soon at EU and national levels to address the emerging and long-term needs for hydrogen infrastructure, standards and certification. EASAC calls on the EU to establish science-based long-term energy and climate policies that will remove market barriers and build investor confidence in the production and use of renewable hydrogen.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Fascist Memory on the Move -- Fascism's Pasts -- Fascism: Culture, Class, Ideology -- Cults of the Dead -- Fascist Memory in the (Post-)Holocaust Era -- Chapters and Arguments -- Memory's Travels -- Notes -- Part I: Initiation -- 1. The Birth of an Image: Early Antisemitism and the Challenge to the Liberal Age -- Jewish Emancipation and Anti-Jewish Politics -- Istóczy's Debt -- Ónody's Inheritance -- Blood Libel in the Modern Era -- Ritual Murder and the Concept of History -- Ritual Murder and Racial Antisemitism -- Ritual Murder and the Eastern Jews -- Antisemitism and Colonialist Imagination -- The Birth of an Image -- Another Melodramatic Opening -- Legacy -- Notes -- Part II: Resurrection -- 2. Fascism on the Rise: Class Politics and Anti-Liberal Memory -- The Era of Moderation -- Establishment Radicals -- A Memorable Example -- Dark Times -- Milotay's Discovery -- An Unclaimed Idea -- Racial Reservoirs -- A Furious Ghost -- The Journey of "O -- Notes -- 3. The Bleeding Icon: Rural Migration and Fascist Poetry -- Erdélyi's Testimony -- An Incomplete Departure -- In Dept -- On the Edge -- Illus, Eszter, and the "Jewish Girl -- The Bleeding Icon -- Unsettling Aftermath -- Notes -- 4. Transcending Babel: Memory in the Era of Fascist Transformation -- Marschalkó, the Imagineer -- At the Press Palace -- Another Budapest -- In the Quiet of the Reading Room -- In the Wake of Istóczy -- Message from Rome -- Transcending Babel -- Notes -- 5. Resurrection, Now: Fascist Memory during the Holocaust -- On the Road to Elimination -- A Look from the Castle -- Atlantis Calling Us -- Resurrection, Now -- A Revolution in Letters -- Jews, Blacks, Russians -- On the Air -- Fraternal Alliances -- The Unmade -- Notes.

From protomodern insurgencies to modern insurgencies and COIN -- Insurgencies and counterinsurgencies in the European empires -- American imperialism and armed rebels -- Modern insurgencies and COIN in the Asian empires -- Neo-imperialism, insurgencies and counterinsurgencies -- Nation states, insurgencies and counterinsurgencies in Asia -- Insurgent tribes and COIN in Africa -- Nation states, criminals and insurgents of Latin America -- Postmodern insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.

Journalists have been using data in their stories for as long as the profession has existed. A revolution in computing in the 20th century created opportunities for data integration into investigations, as journalists began to bring technology into their work. In the 21st century, a revolution in connectivity is leading the media toward new horizons. The Internet, cloud computing, agile development, mobile devices, and open source software have transformed the practice of journalism, leading to the emergence of a new term: data journalism. Although journalists have been using data in their stories for as long as they have been engaged in reporting, data journalism is more than traditional journalism with more data. Decades after early pioneers successfully applied computer-assisted reporting and social science to investigative journalism, journalists are creating news apps and interactive features that help people understand data, explore it, and act upon the insights derived from it. New business models are emerging in which data is a raw material for profit, impact, and insight, co-created with an audience that was formerly reduced to passive consumption. Journalists around the world are grappling with the excitement and the challenge of telling compelling stories by harnessing the vast quantity of data that our increasingly networked lives, devices, businesses, and governments produce every day. While the potential of data journalism is immense, the pitfalls and challenges to its adoption throughout the media are similarly significant, from digital literacy to competition for scarce resources in newsrooms. Global threats to press freedom, digital security, and limited access to data create difficult working conditions for journalists in many countries. A combination of peer-to-peer learning, mentorship, online training, open data initiatives, and new programs at journalism schools rising to the challenge, however, offer reasons to be optimistic about more journalists learning to treat data as a source.

This work serves as a reference source for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary political theory. It examines the global landscape of all the key theories & the theorists behind them, presenting the theories in the context needed to understand both strengths & weaknesses.

POLITICAL THEORISTS OFTEN fail to appreciate that any claim about how politics is to be organized must be a relational claim involving agents, actions, legitimacy, and ends. If they did, they would see that to defend the standard contending views in many of the controversies that occupy them is silly. In what follows I work through a number of debates about the nature of right, law, autonomy, utility, freedom, virtue, and justice, showing this to be true. I argue, further, that political theorists frequently think in terms of gross concepts: They reduce what are actually relational claims to claims about one or another of the components of the relation. This not only obscures the phenomena they wish to analyze, it also generates debates that can never be resolved because the alternatives that are opposed to one another are vulnerable within their own terms. Finally I offer a pair of explanations for why gross concepts persist in political theory, and suggest a way for avoiding their trap.

Die ifo-Datenbank zur Preussischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte beinhaltet eine umfassende Zusammenstellung von Variablen auf Kreisebene Preussens für das neunzehnte Jahrhundert. Das Königliche Statistische Amt Preussens hat diese Daten erhoben mittels mehrerer Volkszählungen, die in der Zeit von 1816 bis 1901 durchgeführt wurden und durch die Informationen auf regionaler Ebene erhoben wurden. Diese Daten liefern eine einzigartige Informationsquelle für die mikroregionale empirische Forschung in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte, um die Bedeutung von Bildung, Religion, Fruchtbarkeit und vielen anderen Einflussfakturen auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Preussens im 19. Jahrhundert zu analysieren. Die Datenbank iPEHD stellt die Daten in digitalisierter und strukturierter Form zur Verfügung.

iPEHD beginnt mit der Volkszählung von 1816, welche die erste vom Preußischen Königlichen Statistischen Amt durchgeführte Vollerhebung der Bevölkerung war. Die Volkszählung von 1816 bezieht die zu dieser Zeit 308 Preußischen Kreise ein. Weitere umfangreiche Volkszählungen wurden 1849, 1864, 1871 und 1882 durchgeführt, aber sehr viel detailliertere Daten wurden in weiteren Jahren erhoben. Die Anzahl der Preußischen regionalen Kreise wuchs auf 574 Kreise im Jahr 1901 an. Insgesamt enthält die Datenbank iPEHD 1500 variablen und über eine halbe Millionen Datenpunkte, alle auf Bezirksebene. Diese Daten wurden insgesamt von 15 Originalquellen erhoben.

Eine der größten Herausforderungen bei der Analyse historischer Daten ist die Vergleichbarkeit Daten über die Zeit bei den Fällen bzw. Untersuchungsgebieten, bei denen sich die Grenzen im Laufe der Zeit verändert haben. iPEHD ermöglicht die Analyse der Daten auf regionaler Ebene, wobei die administrativen Grenzen über die Zeit stabil gehalten wurden.
Die Daten liegen im Archiv in den Formaten Excel, kommaseparierter Text (csv) und als SPSS-Datei vor. Die Codebücher informieren über die Variablen-Namen, Definitionen, Labels und Quellen für jede Variable.

Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) wie Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch oder Attac stehen mittlerweile im Rampenlicht der Öffentlichkeit. Vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet der Übersichtsartikel diese internationalen Institutionen unter den folgenden Aspekten: Das erste Kapitel liefert eine Begriffsbestimmung und beschreibt in einem Rückblick die Geschichte der NGOs, die bis zum Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts zurückreicht. Im zweiten Kapitel skizziert ein empirischer Befund die Aktivitäten der verschiedenen NGOs und stellt ihre Rolle und Bedeutung als politische Akteure auf nationaler und vor allem internationaler Ebene dar. In einem abschließenden dritten Kapitel wird dann die Frage nach dem Rechtsstatus der NGOs im modernen Völkerrecht und kurz auch im nationalen Recht beantwortet. Zusammenfassend stellt der Autor fest, dass die Rolle und Bedeutung der NGOs in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten ganz erheblich gewachsen ist. Dies spiegelt sich in einer zunehmenden Zahl von Regelungen im völkerrechtlichen Primärrecht, vor allem aber im internen Recht zwischenstaatlicher Organisationen, also in dem Völkerrecht im weiteren Sinne zugehörigem Sekundärrecht, wider, die NGOs teils als abgeleitete und engbegrenzte Völkerrechtsubjekte, teils als Rechtssubjekte des Sekundärrechts ausweisen.

In the history of Russian philosophy there is no key figure of intellectual culture of the second half of the XIX century, which is associated with the development of academic philosophy in universities. A.V. Golovnin (1821–1886) is not in­cluded in the historiographical canon of Russian thoughtThe paper shows that Golovnin's intellectual heritage is still beyond the interests of historians of Rus­sian thought. Golovnin's activity as Minister of Public Education of the govern­ment of Alexander II is considered in the national social and humanitarian sci­ence "in the department" of history, political science, history of pedagogy in the context of the Great Reforms studies, but is not included in the subject area of the history of philosophy. In my opinion, the increment of knowledge in Russian thought history will be associated with the inclusion of A.V. Golovnin in the narrative not only as the author of the education reform who changed the position of philosophy in Russia and who gave a powerful impetus to the in­tellectual process, but also as an independent Christian liberal thinker and a par­ticipant in ideological discussions in the mid-1850s–1870s determining their di­rection and content.

The Bibliography of Behavioral Science Research in Unintentional Injury Prevention includes more than 900 citations of journal articles, book chapters, government reports, and other publications. Designed as a tool for researchers, practitioners and students, this bibliography documents the contributions of behavioral and social sciences to unintentional injury prevention and control from 1980-2003. ; compiled and edited by David A. Sleet, Krista Hopkins ; contributing editor, Helen Harber Singer. ; Title from PDF title screen (viewed April 21, 2004). ; "January 2004." ; Also available on 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). ; Mode of access: World Wide Web. ; Includes bibliographical references and index.

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