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Preface dated 1890. ; v. 1. Sovereignty and liberty.--v. 2. Government. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The paper gives an overview of the sections of the professionalization of political didactics as an academic discipline in Germany. The first section describes the development of political education and political didactics in schools showing a process of increasing professionalization as a result of engagements with various political influences. In the next part, the beginnings of political didactics and Politics as a school subject are presented. The following part describes the professionalization phase of political didactics and teacher education, with the designation of chairs of political didactics in institutes of political science. The goals and normative ideas that individual political didactics specialists have developed for teaching politics are also discussed. For reasons of space, the previously mentioned parts and the subsequent synopses only partially cover the initial proposition. The fourth part traces the politicization and depoliticization of didactics and of the teaching of politics while the fifth part discusses practical problems that lead to a variety of new normative questions. The sixth part moves toward educational theory, in which the idea of radical constructivism is gaining ground and educationalists attempt to restructure Politics as a school subject with an emphasis on studying democracy by developing a democratic way of thinking. The seventh part is characterized by a new phenomenon, that is the start of theoretical development. The different theoretical considerations on the subject-specific competencies of teachers and pupils are discussed. In addition, the first systematically collected empirical findings on theoretically postulated dimensions of competency are presented.

Scholars have debated the importance of declining political trust to the American political system. By primarily treating trust as a dependent variable, however, scholars have systematically underestimated its relevance. This study establishes the importance of trust by demonstrating that it is simultaneously related to measures of both specific and diffuse support. In fact, trust's effect on feelings about the incumbent president, a measure of specific support, is even stronger than the reverse. This provides a fundamentally different understanding of the importance of declining political trust in recent years. Rather than simply a reflection of dissatisfaction with political leaders, declining trust is a powerful cause of this dissatisfaction. Low trust helps create a political environment in which it is more difficult for leaders to succeed. (American Political Science Review / FUB)

Introduction. - GEORGE OF PODĚBRADY (The role of external stimulus to the European integration) -- CHARLES-IRÉNÉE CASTEL, ABBÉ DE SAINT-PIERRE (The role of Religion in the European integration) -- IMMANUEL KANT (The idea of progress and European integration) -- GASPAR MELCHOR DE JOVELLANOS (And other Europeanists in favour of the socioeconomic well-being of the nations of Europe) -- VICTOR HUGO (and other pro- "good governance" and "United States of Europe" Europeanists) -- RICHARD N. COUDENHOVE-KALERGI -- ARISTIDE BRIAND (Cooperation as the motor of Europe) -- JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET -- MADARIAGA AND THE SEARCH FOR A FREE EUROPE -- DENIS DE ROUGEMONT: AN EUROPOS FEDERALIST -- JULIÁN MARÍAS AGUILERA -- JEAN MONNET (Neofunctionalism at work in the European Integration) -- ALTIERO SPINELLI (Federalism in the European Integration) -- ROBERT SCHUMAN (and the pro-European political generation of 1950) -- WINSTON CHURCHILL (Cooperation and British support to the European Integration) -- DE GAULLE (The role of the Member States in the European Union) -- MARGARET THATCHER (British strategy in the European Integration) -- HELMUT KOHL (The German reunification and the genesis of the European Union) -- FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND (French leadership in the European Union) -- Andreas Papandreou: towards the European solidarity -- SIMONE VEIL. A EUROPEANIST COMMITTED TO THE DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- Emmanuel Macron: the return of France as a driving force for European integration?

The articles in this symposium underscore at least three common points about understanding and combatting sexual harassment in the context of social science fieldwork:

THE NOTION THAT IDEOLOGICAL PERCEPTIONS IN THE MASS PUBLIC ARE SHAPED TO SOME EXTENT BY ELITES AND POLITICAL CANDIDATES IS WIDESPREAD IN THE PUBLIC OPINION LITERATURE. HOWEVER, THERE HAS BEEN A LACK OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH DIRECTLY DEMONSTRATING THE LINKS BETWEEN ELITES AND THE MASSES WHOSE THINKING THEY SUPPOSEDLY CUE AND STRUCTURE. THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO SHOW, THROUGH MAGNITUDE SCALE DATA COLLECTED OVER TIME IN THE 1980 CAMPAIGN, THE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OF POLITICAL CANDIDATES IN ALTERING IDEOLOGICAL PERCEPTIONS OF POLITICAL STIMULI. THE CHIEF "CARRIER" OF IDEOLOGY IN 1980 IS SHOWN TO BE RONALD REAGAN, WHOSE STRONG ISSUE STANDS AND IDEOLOGICAL LABEL INFLUENCED PERCEPTIONS OF SPECIFIC ISSUES' IDEOLOGICAL CONTENT. THE FINDINGS ARE DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF BOTH MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN THE IDEOLOGY LITERATURE AND MORE GENERAL THEORIES OF ELITE AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON MASS POLITICAL THOUGHT.HT.

The transfer of large areas of agricultural land from small-holder farmers to international investors, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, has become one of the mostly contested topics in International development circles. Even though there is a broad agreement among both critics and opponents that these land transfers have profound welfare implications, there is a dearth in the academic literature about their distributional and welfare effects at both the household and country level. Moreover, beyond pure economic anaylsis, political economy analysis have rarely been provided. This thesis, which is comprised of four articles, attempts to fill these gaps by adopting a Computational General Political Economy Equilibrium (CGPE) Modelling approach to undertake an empirical political economy analysis of the role of political preferences, policy beliefs and political power in the large-scale land acquisition policy processes in Sierra Leone. It also undertakes a quantitative assessment of the distributional and welfare effects of large-scale land acquisition at both the household and country level in Sierra Leone. Our results suggest that even though some stakeholders put extremely high political weight on maximizing the profit of large-scale land investors, land market policies are not driven by land grabber preferences. Furthermore, land market policies would be only significantly inefficient if small-scale farmers hold rational expectation beliefs. These findings have significant implications for development institutions, and donor organisations seeking to promote stakeholder engagements and bolster evidence-based policy making in developing countries like Sierra Leone. We suggest that, to overcome the wide variance in the estimated policy beliefs among key policy stakeholders, a transdisciplinary research apprroach that allows for the scientifc and political community to interact and narrow policy belief differences, is required.