"Radical Roots" tells the story of Joel Torstenson, a sociology professor at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the 1960s, Torstenson challenged his university to embrace its urban setting and to design its curricular, co-curricular, and community engagement programs to advance its mission of "education for service." The compelling story of Torstenson's legacy at Augsburg over the past 60 years offers lessons for colleges and universities across the country committed to democratic engagement in their work at the intersections of mission and place.
Deutschland steckt in einer Polykrise, auch die Demokratie. Die Herausforderungen für Rechtsstaat und Demokratie in Deutschland nehmen zu. Der Blick zurück auf die Gründung der Bundesrepublik und die Krisen der vergangenen 75 Jahre zeigt: Unsere Demokratie ist stabiler als viele Schwarzseher wahrhaben möchten. Der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt während der stürmischen Krisen der zurückliegenden Jahre - Finanzkrise, Flüchtlingskrise, Pandemie, Ukrainekrieg - hat sich als resilient erwiesen. Und im europäischen Vergleich auffällig: Die radikalen Parteien können in Deutschland noch von der Macht ferngehalten werden. Aber die Anfechtungen sind groß und nur durch entschiedenes politisches Handeln, durch eine Reform des Rechtsstaats, kann Deutschland bleiben, was es ist: eine freiheitliche Demokratie.
Die Zahl verfügbarer Inhalte in Medien, Entertainment und Social Media wächst in einem nie dagewesenen Tempo. Und es wird alles noch viel mehr. Bis 2026 werden schätzungsweise über 90% der Inhalte synthetischen Ursprungs und mithilfe Künstlicher Intelligenz hergestellt sein. Dies bringt nicht nur Herausforderungen in Bezug auf die Menge der Inhalte mit sich, sondern auch ernsthafte Fragen zur Echtheit und Authentizität. Zur Überforderung der Nutzer:innen durch die schiere Masse kommen Fragen nach Echtheit, Wahrheit und Relevanz: Was ist eine vertrauenswürdige Nachricht? Was ein echtes Foto oder Video? Welchen Quellen kann ich vertrauen? Wie erhalten wir bei dieser Flut an Inhalten unsere Souveränität zurück? Dieses Buch erklärt verständlich das unaufhaltsame Content-Wachstum und zeigt, wie wir den Überblick behalten, vertrauensvolle Quellen finden und die Entwicklung beruflich und privat für uns nutzen können.
"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.
