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In Civil Society's Democratic Potential, Nicole Bolleyer explores which civil society organizations (CSOs) contribute to democracy, how, and why. Organized civil society, including interest groups, political parties, and service-oriented associations, is traditionally considered a cornerstone of democracy. Constituting the organizational fabric between government and society, these organizations encompass a wide diversity of entities thought to fundamentally contribute to both democratic participation and representation. However, CSOs' readiness and ability to serve as venues for participation, vehicles of democratic representation, or indeed both at the same time, are increasingly questioned in political science, sociology, and voluntary sector research alike. Bringing those fields together, the author argues that two contrasting organizational templates - the 'voluntary association' and the 'professionalized voluntary organization' - allow theorizing fundamental trade-offs shaping CSOs' 'performance' on three dimensions accounting for their varying democratic contributions: participation, representation, and societal responsiveness. The study's innovative theoretical framework is examined using a mixed-methods design. The latter combines the analysis of survey data covering over 3000 CSOs across four European democracies with qualitative case studies of the evolution of three CSOs - a political party, an interest group, and a service-orientated organization - over several decades.

"This edited book focuses on the role and use of emerging technologies within the healthcare sector. This text will draw on expertise from leading practitioners and researchers who either utilise and/or are at the forefront of researching with emerging technology in anticipation of enhancing patient outcomes This edited volume encompasses an array of emerging technologies that will remain pertinent to caregivers, families, practitioners, service users and policymakers. It is aimed that this text will enhance and offer original discussions surrounding the interconnectivity of technology and medicine, rehabilitation, and patient care"--

The essential art of communication about balance in border closures / Raywat Deonandan -- The wolf and the sheepfold : borders, containment, and contested discourses of public health in the great influenza pandemic era / Esyllt Jones -- Bordering and the fallacy of disease directionality : ebola, SARS-CoV-2, and Africa's confidence deficit with global public health / Chidi Oguamanam -- Towards reimagining the IHR Article 43 on travel restrictions / Lisa Forman & Roojin Habibi -- Management of the European Union's (internal and external) borders during the COVID-19 pandemic / Tamara Hervey, Alexandra Fyfe & Vincent Delhomme -- Public health vidence for provincial border management / Brenda J. Wilson -- First nations, COVID-19, and the implications of spatial restrictions in a settler colonial context / Eva Ottawa, Florence Robert & Sophie Thériault -- Border controls as part of aotearoa New Zealand's response to the COVID-19 pandemic / Siouxsie Wiles -- Borders within borders within borders : a legitimate approach to controlling the first two years of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Australia / Stephen Duckett -- The United States response to COVID-19 : a patchwork of border regulations / Katherine Ginsbach -- Brazilian discriminatory border control policy based on 'health restrictions' during COVID-19 pandemic / Fernando Aith -- Pandemic pathways to permanent residence / Audrey Macklin -- Spouses of the pandemic : data, racism, and mental health / Wei William ("Will") Tao -- Vaccine refusals and freedom of religion : a moving target in a pandemic age / Carissma Mathen -- A brief history of the science of vaccine passports and what the future holds / Kumanan Wilson -- Rights discourse and Canadian debate over vaccine passports / Bryan Thomas -- Mobility restrictions, human rights, and the legal test of proportionality / Jeff King -- Pandemic-fighting technologies? lessons from COVID-19 for the pandemics of the future / Vivek Krishnamurthy & Myka Kollmann -- Verification theatre at borders and in pockets / Michael Veale -- The paradox of protecting the vulnerable : an analysis of the Canadian public discourse on older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic / Martine Lagacé, Caroline D. Bergeron, Tracey O'Sullivan, Samantha Oostlander, Pascale Dangoisse, Amélie Doucet & Philippe Rodrigues-Rouleau -- Of governmental priorities, human rights, and social control : prison responses to the COVID-19 pandemic / Adelina Iftene -- Extending the boundaries of the psychiatric hospital : the use and misuse of psychiatric coercion during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec and Ontario / Emmanuelle Bernheim -- Punishing mobility : curfews and homelessness in Quebec during the COVID-19 pandemic / Véronique Fortin & Céline Bellot -- Bodies across borders : a history of cross-border travel for abortion services in Poland and Canada / Christabelle Sethna & Krystyna Dzwonkowska-Godula -- Borders drawn across bodies : advocating for maternal health in times of crisis / Sarah J. Lazin -- Keeping border restrictions light enough to travel : a humanitarian perspective on Canada's border control measures during COVID-19 / Jason Nickerson & Joseph Belliveau -- "Where you live shouldn't determine whether you live" : Canada and the line between rhetoric and reality in global COVID-19 vaccine access / Adam R. Houston -- Cross-border mobility of persons and goods during pandemics : exposing normative duality in international law / Pedro A. Villarreal -- Modeling approaches to borders, geography, and infectious diseases / David Fisman -- Advancing a risk-based approach to border management during public health emergencies of international concern / Kelley Lee, Julianne Piper & Jennifer Fang -- Global health law : overcoming the shortfall in human resources / Tim G. Evans & Priyanka Saksena -- Conceptual and tangible borders under a revised international health regulations or new international pandemic agreement / Sam Halab.

Andreas Ströhl stellt in seinem Buch die wichtigsten Medientheorien verständlich vor. Ausgehend von Platon gelangt er über Kant und Hegel zu den Denker:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts, darunter Brecht, Benjamin, Bühler, Shannon und Weaver, McLuhan, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Barthes, Sontag, Luhmann, Postman, Flusser. Auch auf Theoretiker der Postmoderne und Gegenwart, wie Virilio und Kittler, geht er ein.