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"Inclusive Disruption serves as a primary guide to help readers understand what financial technology is and how it has evolved to change the future financial landscape. The central ideas of fintech are explained in details, with topics ranging from distributed innovation, inclusive blockchain to decentralised inclusive technologies. The book also gathers the views of key opinion leaders and cutting-edge practitioners who are at the forefront of fintech development. Therefore, it not only presents useful insights about financial technology but also represents an invaluable source of knowledge for readers who are interested in fintech"--

"Liberal democracies are under constant threat in the twenty first century, and there is growing scepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue to survive together. In Democracy Tamed, Gianna Englert argues that some of the crises of confidence facing liberal democracy are not unique to our present moment. Instead, they have existed ever since liberal political thought emerged in the nineteenth century. Combining political theory and intellectual history, Englert not only uncovers the source of liberals' original animus toward political democracy. She shows how self-proclaimed liberals devised two strategies to counter the rise of mass democracy. They created the concept of political capacity as their alternative to universal suffrage and mobilized that concept in the contentious debates over the franchise from the French Revolution to the Third Republic. Liberals also redefined democracy itself, transforming it from its ancient meaning as political rule by the people to designate a modern form of society-a new democracy that, counterintuitively, demanded the guidance of a capable few rather than the rule of all. Democracy Tamed tells the story of how the earliest liberals deployed their notion of the "new democracy" to resist universal suffrage. But it also reveals how later liberals would utilize their predecessors' antidemocratic concepts to merge liberal principles with political equality, first to imagine and then to safeguard liberal democracies as we have come to know them"--

"Shows how autocrats structure interaction between citizens and leaders to manage information dilemmas and build regime legitimacy. Uses interviews, original surveys, and text analysis to highlight the tools used by Russian President Vladimir Putin to reinforce his now twenty-year rule-and how these tools may backfire against the regime"--

"Should we optimize our branch network or launch a digital attacker? Should we optimize the internal combustion engine or switch to electric engines? Should we optimize our organization or change it? These are all versions of the exploration-exploitation dilemma, an approach to decision-making that we naturally use in situations of uncertainty, that is, most of the time. There is no general rule or mathematical formula for making decisions exactly or perfectly. However, understanding what drives the choice between exploitation and exploration under uncertainty is of fundamental importance because it can help leaders take decisions in uncertain, dynamic and ambiguous situations in more ways. And it can help build more adaptive, more flexible organizations. Super Decisions seeks out these drivers in recent research in management and neuroscience and explains how understanding the neuroscientific foundations of decision making and adaptation can help leaders make their organizations perform better in today's fast-paced and dynamic environments. Super Decisions is a 1-2-3 guide to making great decisions. First, it discusses the dilemmas of adaptation, the exploration-exploitation dilemmas. Second and reviewing recent advances in neuroscience, it designs a method for better decision making in practice. Third, it explores venues for managing tensions in organizations arising from resolving exploration-exploitation dilemmas in practice. Tensions arise from pursuing several and often contradicting strategies contemporaneously. By reviewing approaches to manage those tensions, the book develops a framework for effectively managing corporate adaptation and change in practice, at individual, group, and organizational level. To make the concept of decision making under uncertainty real and practical, the book illustrates how its done through the story of a leader of an international travel operator called Inuk"--

Citizens in emerging democracies vote at high rates, particularly given the high costs of voting. This title argues that community-level population dynamics and features of the electoral environment specific to recent democratizers increase the likelihood that individuals vote.