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v. 2 ed. by S. Stern and J.K.H. Willcox. ; Sub-title varies. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The growing exploration of political life from an aesthetic perspective has become so prominent that we can now speak of an "aesthetic turn" in political theory. But what does it mean and why an aesthetic turn? This collection of essays aims to answer such questions from a variety of perspectives, to think in a new way about the possibilities and weaknesses of democratic politics. The book first outlines the theoretical motivations and historical conditions that led to the turn to aesthetics. Essays then call attention to the presence of aesthetic themes and arguments in political theory as well as to parallels between theories of aesthetics and politics, revealing how much political theory can gain from making use of aesthetic modes of thought. They demonstrate that much of what is essential to democratic politics can in fact only be disclosed through aesthetic theorizing. A significant contribution to the contemporary debate in political theory, The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought will appeal to all students interested in the interdisciplinary crossroads of aesthetic and politics"--

The social policy of the ordoliberal tradition has attracted limited scholarly attention despite an increased interest in the content of Ordoliberalism. This article attempts to fill the research gap through a reconstruction of the ideal-typical ordoliberal social policy model and its conception of the welfare state. At the same time, the author compares the scholarly positions of the first-generation ordoliberal thinkers with three ideal-typical welfare state models of social policy distilled from Esping-Andersen's seminal book The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990). Aiming to uncover the possible distinctiveness of the ordoliberal social policy model, the conclusion is that while the ordoliberal social policy model shares similarities with the liberal and conservative models in Esping-Andersen's typology, it constitutes a welfare policy model in its own right, not least via its foundation in Vitalpolitik.

Civic ethics, as a special ideology, is ultimately determined by the economic foundation and is always the product of concrete, realistic and specific industrial relations and social relations. Among the various social forms, the main content of civic ethics and the way of its construction vary greatly. Conduct a diachronic study of civic ethics, explore the main content of civic ethics and the ways of its construction in various social forms and make up the inevitable logic, academic orientation and basic theoretical field of research in the field of building civic ethics.

The balance of higher education ecosystem plays an important role in the sustainable development of regional higher education. Therefore, from the perspective of ecology of education, this paper intends to discuss the balance of regional higher education ecosystem in China and how to construct effective cooperation between universities and other subjects in the region. In order to solve the above problem, this research adopts literature study method and historical method, combed the domestic and foreign about higher education in education ecology and ecosystem research, summarized the development trend of China's higher education and the development mode, and based on the symbiosis theory analyzed how universities and other main body to construct the effective cooperation. Through the above research, the following findings are obtained: 1) China's higher education has moved from the elite stage and the popular stage to the universal stage; 2) Under the strong leadership of the government, China's higher education has changed from extensional to connotative development mode; 3) The value orientation of cooperation between universities and government, enterprises, communities, other universities or research institutions is high-quality integration; 4) The cooperation path based on the symbiosis theory of regional higher education can provide a strong guarantee for the construction of a balanced higher education ecosystem.

This landmark edition contains both the newly rediscovered, original lecture manuscripts; and an authoritative introduction, outlining Rao's remarkable career, his complicated relationship with Sayaji Rao III, and the reasons why his lectures have been neglected - until now.

This article is based on work from COST Action 15137 European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH (ENRESSH) and supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). We thank all who have contributed to the two surveys on databases, especially Kasper Bruun, Gennady Eremenko, Viktor Glukhov, Marit Henningsen, Hanna-Mari Puuska, Svetlana Shabanova, Davor Šoštarič, and Mimi Urbanc. In the same way, we thank the reviewers for their valuable feedback. ; This article provides an overview of national bibliographic databases that include data on research output within social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe. We focus on the comprehensiveness of the database content. Compared to the data from commercial databases such as Web of Science and Scopus, data from national bibliographic databases (e.g. Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the SSH (VABB-SHW) in Belgium, Current Research Information System in Norway (CRISTIN)) are more comprehensive and may, therefore, be better fit for bibliometric analyses. Acknowledging this, several countries within Europe maintain national bibliographic databases; detailed and comparative information about their content, however, has been limited. In autumn 2016, we launched a survey to acquire an overview of national bibliographic databases for SSH in Europe and Israel. Surveying 41 countries (responses received from 39 countries), we identified 21 national bibliographic databases for SSH. Further, we acquired a more detailed description of 13 databases, with a focus on their comprehensiveness. Findings indicate that even though the content of national bibliographic databases is diverse, it is possible to delineate a subset that is similar across databases. At the same time, it is apparent that differences in national bibliographic databases are often bound to differences in country-specific arrangements. Considering this, we highlight implications to bibliometric analyses based on data from national bibliographic databases and outline several aspects that may be taken into account in the development of existing national bibliographic databases for SSH or the design of new ones. ; This work was supported by funding provided by the Flemish government to L.S., R.G., T.E., through the Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and the COST Action 15137 ENRESSH (through a grant for a short-term scientific mission) to L.S.