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The politics of knowledge -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- The Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Messages -- Chapter 1: Role of knowledge in the transformation of Asia -- Chapter 2: Understanding the politics of knowledge: the ASIAN perspective -- Chapter 3: Truth, free speech and knowledge: the human rights contribution -- Chapter 4: Knowledge: the driver of economic growth -- Chapter 5: Commerce vs the common conflicts over the commercialisation of biomedical knowledge -- Chapter 6: A global deal on climate change -- Chapter 7: The changing politics of religious knowledge in Asia: the case of Indonesia -- Index.

Political science is the product of modernity and the nation-state. A dominant tradition within it has striven for a positivistic and universal form of understanding, based on the individual actor. Developments in recent years have questioned our understanding of modernity, universalism, science, and the nation-state. Political science has responded in two ways: by reinforcing the positivist approach, or by adopting various forms of intepretivism. This has created an artificial division within the discipline. Political scientists can overcome this artificial divide by looking outside the discipline. There are promising developments in this direction but these are inhibited by trying to confine them within the dominant positivist mode. They have also responded by borrowing from neighbouring disciplines, but in doing so, they have too often appropriated concepts in simplified form or coined empty concepts. They need to take neighbouring disciplines more seriously and work across disciplinary boundaries. A pluralistic approach is possible, which neither seeks a grand synthesis of all the social sciences, nor sees them as independent and self-standing, but which encourages cross-fertilization and combinations of approaches. The existence of distinct European national and disciplinary traditions, far from being an obstacle to the development of the discipline, gives European political scientists an advantage.

The purpose of this paper is to study the role of European and international organizations in educational policy and the governance of the European education space. It is argued that the influence of transnational and supranational organizations on the discourses and practices of education systems in the European Union contributes to the creation of a "Globally Structured Educational Agenda" whose main purpose is the linking of education systems to the services of the global economy. The educational policy of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) especially plays a crucial role in shaping the European education space by exploiting policy by numbers as a tool and way of governance. It is also claimed that the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a key policy tool with strong international influence, is considered to be an extremely important hub for the governance of European education by numbers, aiming to improve the quality of education systems. Prospects for further research in the field of comparative education are examined, aiming to create different schemes for measuring the quality of education systems, where humanitarian values will be at the forefront. (DIPF/Orig.)

El artículo propone reconocer el contenido y resultado de las negociaciones entre unaparte de la conducción sindicaly el gobierno de la provincia de Córdoba,Argentina,a finales del siglo XX; y comprender la forma en que ellos construyeron y sostuvieron una relación en ese periodo. Sostenemosque ambos actores configuraron un intercambio político centrado en la concesión de beneficios acotadospor parte del Estadoa cambio de una desmovilización de la acción sindical. Para esto empleamos un método de investigación cualitativo y analizamos un corpus documental compuesto porfuentes hemerográficas y orales.

The aim of the article is to present the genesis and idea of the activity of educational farms, as well as their organisation and functioning in selected European countries (Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France). The desk research method was used in this study. Educational farms in different countries are connected by the area of their operation and the goals pursued. However, significant differences can be found in the official requirements for such entities, as well as in the ways and possibilities of cooperation between them within the organisations associating them, which results in significant heterogeneity of educational farms in individual countries. The presented research outcomes may be helpful in improving existing and creating new entities associating educational farms.

'The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion' includes approximately 300 signed articles that trace the historical roots of the relations between politics and religion in the modern world and consider how these two elemental institutions of society have combined to shape public discourse, affect social attitudes, spark and sustain collective action, and influence policy, especially over the past two centuries

Despite disparate attempts in both Conservative and Labour circles to get 'beyond Brexit', last week's series of local and regional elections across the UK were all about Brexit, in one way or another. Brexit is both a sign of a political realignment that has been a long time coming and has exacerbated it. It will reverberate down the elections cycles, whether politicians and voters like it or not, just like the relationship with the EU plays a role in other European countries. Even outside the EU, Britain will still have to deal with it, as has become clear so far in Jersey, Northern Ireland and soon, possibly in Scotland, where the EU lure might play a role in a future independence referendum.

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A major development on the European far right since 1945 is the turn to a 'metapolitics' supposedly influenced by the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci. Metapolitics, in this sense, deemphasizes electoral politics in favor of intellectual activism and the pursuit of 'cultural hegemony' as a prelude to seizing political power. This article examines the metapolitics of the European New Right (ENR) from a new theoretical and historical perspective. It argues that the literature of the US 'culture wars' better explains the ENR's practice than any reception of Gramsci. And it presents ENR metapolitics not as the strategic reformulation of interwar fascism but as part of a broad transatlantic backlash against the leftist successes of the 1960s. This approach better accounts for ENR intellectuals' function as 'culture warriors' specializing in demonization and mastery of the tools of public discourse.

Explores why some officials involved in European Community (EU) Council working groups have a more positive disposition toward European integration than others. The Council is disaggregated into multiple observations -- officials involved in the Council working groups -- to obtain a more profound understanding of the attitudes of the Council negotiators. Interview data collected in 1994 from 159 Belgian civil servants & diplomats representing about 170 working groups suggest that the interaction between domestic & transgovernemental experiences explains a significant proportion of the variance along the supranational-intergovernmental continuum. 13 Tables, 46 References. Adapted from the source document.

Europe's economic policy is currently being held hostage by incoherent decisions, which are not only crippling the euro area's economy but also threatening global recovery. The ECB needs to admit that it cannot meet its mandate without fiscal support. In return, Germany needs to accept that true reform of Europe's fiscal framework cannot take place without a real conversation about its debt brake policy, the schuldenbremse, and its balanced budget policy, the schwarze null.

AbstractIn this article, we focus on generational differences in women's representation and hypothesize that younger generations of women should be more highly represented than older generations, both in general and within the same parliament. We tested this hypothesis with data on all members who have ever served in the European Parliament since 1979. Of the four generations who have ever served in Brussels and Strasbourg – the World War II generation, the 1968 generation, the post‐1968 generation and the post‐materialist generation – we found both that women's representation increased with every generation and that their representation differs between generations within the same parliament. Finally, our results indicate that while these processes occurred roughly one generation later in eastern and southern Europe, yet, they happened faster in these parts of the European Union.

AbstractA financial activities tax (FAT) and a financial transactions tax (FTT) are the main alternative ways of recouping some of the public money used to bail out the financial sector after the great crisis of 2007–08. In preparing a common proposal for the European Union, the European Commission initially appeared to favour the FAT, but then swung its weight behind the FTT in late 2011. Its rationale was that in addition to generating revenue, this tax could also help to stabilize the financial markets by curbing excessive speculative trading. This article takes a different position. Its central argument is that the FTT would amplify rather than dampen market instability by interfering with the functions of important financial institutions. Its chief conclusion is that the FAT is superior to the FTT.