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"As wealthy countries build literal and figurative walls to keep migrants out, Ethiopia has welcomed refugees through policies that promote local integration. But do these policies enable refugees to consider their new country home?Focusing on the experiences of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests tracks the introduction, implementation, and evolution of policies that began in summer 2016, shortly before the New York Summit on Refugees prompted new national refugee legislation in Ethiopia. Using ethnographic interviews and participant observation with government officials, intragovernmental organizations, NGOs, and refugees in three camps in northern Ethiopia and Addis Ababa, Jennifer Riggan and Amanda Poole explore new efforts to halt treacherous, secondary migration to Europe. In particular, they explore the concept of refugee time-making, a theoretical model to better understand precarity, and a focus on education. An important read, Hosting States and Unsettled Guests makes key empirical and theoretical contributions in forced migration studies, East African studies, and anthropology. Riggan and Poole deftly shift the focus of refugee studies away from Europe to regions in the Global South, revealing emerging forms of migration management"--

In this study, we analyzed the forecasting and nowcasting performance of a generalized regression neural network (GRNN). We provide evidence from Monte Carlo simulations for the relative forecast performance of GRNN depending on the data-generating process. We show that GRNN outperforms an autoregressive benchmark model in many practically relevant cases. Then, we applied GRNN to forecast quarterly German GDP growth by extending univariate GRNN to multivariate and mixed-frequency settings. We could distinguish between "normal" times and situations where the time-series behavior is very different from "normal" times such as during the COVID-19 recession and recovery. GRNN was superior in terms of root mean forecast errors compared to an autoregressive model and to more sophisticated approaches such as dynamic factor models if applied appropriately.

We investigate whether employees in Germany benefit from public bank guarantees in terms of employment probability and wages. To that end, we exploit the removal of public bank guarantees in Germany in 2001 as a quasi-natural experiment. Our results show that bank guarantees lead to higher employment, but lower wage prospects for employees after working in affected establishments. Overall the results suggest that employees do not benefit from bank guarantees.

Does banking supervision affect borrowers' transition to the carbon-neutral economy? We use a unique identification strategy that combines the French bank climate pilot exercise with borrowers' carbon emissions to present two novel findings. First, climate stress tests actively facilitate borrowers' transition to a low-carbon economy through a lending channel. Stress-tested banks increase loan volumes but simultaneously charge higher interest rates for brown borrowers. Second, additional lending is associated with some improvements in environmental performance. While borrowers commit more to reduce carbon emissions and are more likely to evaluate environmental effects of their projects, they neither reduce direct carbon emissions, nor terminate relationships with environmentally unfriendly suppliers. Our findings establish a causal link between bank climate stress tests and borrowers' reductions in transition risk.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Unprecedented Conversations in an Unprecedented Time -- Part I Power, Violence, and the Adversaries of Freedom -- Chapter 1 On Power in Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt: Contrasts and Correlations (Lissa McCullough) -- Chapter 2 Tyranny without a Tyrant: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on Bureaucracy (Marina Lademacher) -- Chapter 3 Living in Dark Times: The Seduction of Totalitarian Evil (Marie Cabaud Meaney) -- Chapter 4 Political Violence: A Contradiction in Terms (Rose A. Owen) -- Part II Society, World, and the Need for Political Roots -- Chapter 5 We Come and Go: The World Is Here to Stay-Hannah Arendt and the World as Common (Elvira Roncalli) -- Chapter 6 An Ethics of God's Grace to Balance a Politics of Worldly Affliction: A Weilian Companion to Roncalli on Arendt (Ka -- Chapter 7 Rerooting "We Refugees": Considerations on Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil (Scott B. -- Chapter 8 Attention as a Contested Ethical and Political Resource: Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt on the Inner Origins of Freedo -- Part III Art, Aesthetics, and the Vulnerabilities of Political Appearances -- Chapter 9 Paying Attention to Affliction: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on Tragic Storytelling ( Pascale Devette) -- Chapter 10 Embodying the In-Between: An Arendtian Reflection on Simone Weil's Venice Saved (Thomas Sojer) -- Chapter 11 Beauty as the Beginning and End of Justice: Aesthetic Politics in Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil (Catherine Craig -- Chapter 12 On the Power of Words (Ian Rhoad) -- Contributors -- Index.

Chapter 1. Welfare State Reforms and Their Implications for Social Work in Central and Southeast Europe -- Chapter 2. The Austrian Welfare State – a Halfway House -- Chapter 3. Social Policy and Social Work in the Czech Republic: Partners at Fragile Times -- Chapter 4. The Politics of Welfare – From Rights to Obligations: The Case of Slovenia -- Chapter 5. Social Work and Social Policy in Croatia in Times of Continuous Reforms and Crisis -- Chapter 6. Three Decades of Post-Yugoslav Tranformation(s) of Social Policy and Social Work in Serbia – Still Between Uncertainty and Failure -- Chapter 7. Social Policies and Social Services in North Macedonia: Between Ideology and Reality -- Chapter 8. Social Welfare Policy and Social Work in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chapter 9. Social Protection in the Republic of Srpska: Conditions, Challenges and Reforms -- Chapter 10. Toward a Post-Crisis Welfare State in Central and Southeast Europe: Challenges and Perspectives.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Fascist Nightmares and the Cult of Violence -- 1 America's Fascist Problem: Rethinking Education in an Age of Conspiracy Theories and Election Deniers -- 2 Vigilantes on Parade -- Part two Neoliberal Fascism, Cruelty, and Street Politics -- 3 Neoliberal Fascism, Cruel Violence, and the Politics of Disposability -- 4 Street Fascism and the Politics of Denialism -- Part Three The Language of Fascism -- 5 Language and Violence as Spectacle in the New Age of Fascist Politics -- 6 Language and the Politics of Lying: The Big Lie and White Supremacy -- Part four Fascism's Fundamentalist Passions -- 7 Fascist Politics and the Scourge of Anti-Semitism in the Age of Disconnected Present -- 8 Fascism, White Christian Nationalism, and QAnon Rising -- Part five Fascism's Attack on Political Agency and Historical Memory -- 9 The Menace of American Authoritarianism and the Crisis of Political Agency -- 10 Politicizing January 6th, White Supremacy, and the Assault on Historical Memory -- Part six American Society and the Turn Towards Fascism -- 11 The Nazification of American Society -- 12 What Fascism Is (and Isn't): The White Working Class and White Supremacy -- Part seven Education and the Mobilizing Passions of Fascism -- 13 The Nazification of American Education -- 14 Orwell, Totalitarian Politics, and the War on Anti-Racism in Education -- Conclusion: Gangster Capitalism and the Politics of Fascism -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Recent Titles from the Moral Traditions Series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 The Shape of Moral Character: Sharpening Virtue Theory -- 2 Where Morality Takes Place: Ecology and Ecosystems -- 3 Earthly Moral Character: An Ecological Virtue Model -- 4 Where Roots Meet Source: The Theological Virtues -- 5 Embedded Within and Without: Prudence and Justice -- 6 Enjoyment in a World of Wounds: Fortitude and Temperance -- 7 Down to Earth with the Integral Ecology: Role Models -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. US Cancer Rhetoric: Constructing a People -- 1. Publicizing Cancer: Eugenic Visibility -- 2. Battling Cancer: Heroism and Eugenics -- 3. Thinking Positive: Progressing beyond Cancer -- 4. Knowledge, Power, and Cancer Prevention -- 5. Eugenic Reverberations: What Rhetoric Tells Us about Cancer-and Ourselves -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Qualitative Research in Health and Illness provides a highly accessible, pragmatic approach to conducting qualitative research in the health fields, including nursing, health studies, public health, medical sociology, and medical anthropology. Targeted toward novice researchers, Jessica Smartt Gullion aims to provide tools to address common scenarios that will arise in professional practice.

Front Cover -- Change in Emotion and Mental Health -- Change in Emotion and Mental Health -- Copyright -- Dedications -- Contents -- Contributors -- Endorsements -- On the importance of studying change in emotion and mental health -- References -- I - Change in emotions from a fundamental perspective -- 1 - Changing feelings: Individual differences in emotional inertia -- Definition, quantification, and meaning of emotional inertia -- Emotional inertia and psychological flexibility -- Individual differences in emotional inertia -- How can we advance scientific understanding of emotional inertia -- Improving the assessment and modeling of emotional inertia -- Broadening the demographic scope of research on emotional inertia -- Building a mechanistic account of individual differences in emotional inertia -- Stability versus context dependence of emotional inertia -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 - If it changes, it must be an emotion process: Micro or macro -- Microemotion processes -- Macroemotion processes -- Conclusion -- Recommendations for future research -- References -- 3 - Changing the emotion process: The role of emotion regulation -- Fundamental concepts -- Emotion generation -- Emotion regulation -- Difficulties in the emotion regulation process -- Identification stage -- Selection stage -- Implementation stage -- Monitoring stage -- Adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation -- Emotion regulation in nonsuicidal self-injury -- Emotion regulation flexibility -- Emotion regulation interventions -- Transdiagnostic interventions -- Digital mental health treatment -- Key directions for future research -- Individual differences -- Combination and sequencing of strategies -- Mediation in clinical trials -- Moderation in clinical trials -- Just-in-time adaptive interventions -- References -- 4 - Changes and stabilities in emotional memories.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Images -- List of Maps -- Toolkit Exercises -- How-To Guides -- Abbreviations -- Tour of the Book -- Online Learning and Teaching Resources -- I UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM -- 1 Your view of the world -- All politics starts with you -- The world in which we live -- The study of international politics -- Using the right TOOLS -- Overview of the textbook -- Conclusion -- 2 The evolution of the international system -- Understanding the international system -- The evolution of the international system -- Conclusion -- Toolkit: Is the United States an imperial power? -- How to - approach history in your political research -- 3 Theoretical foundations to the study of international politics -- Theory as an explanatory and interpretive tool -- Ontology, methodology and epistemology -- The origins of a discipline -- Summarizing realism and liberalism -- Conclusion -- Toolkit: Does a self-help international system mean states are concerned with relative gains? -- How to - paraphrase theoretical discourse in your politics writing -- 4 Critical and social theoretical approaches in international politics -- An evolving theoretical debate -- Marxism -- Postcolonialism -- Feminism -- Constructivism -- Comparing theoretical approaches in international politics -- Conclusion -- Toolkit: Does identity shape state behaviour in international politics? -- How to - apply theory to your research and writing -- 5 Refining your toolkit: The levels of analysis -- Refining your toolkit -- The levels of analysis -- The international level -- The state level -- The individual level -- Conclusion -- Toolkit: Why did the UK vote to leave the European Union? -- How to - use the levels of analysis approach -- II UNDERSTANDING THE ACTORS -- 6 The state -- Introducing the state -- The state as an actor.