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This article presents a case study of the emergence of the issue-linkage necessary for a cross-cutting European Union cleavage to become electorally salient. We argue that a key political decision on immigration in 2004 facilitated the emergence of a new dimension of party competition and growth in popular support for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leading eventually to the 2016 EU Referendum. To examine this thesis, we trace the impact of the UK government's immigration policy on (i) rising immigration, (ii) the political salience of immigration, (iii) the increasing association between concern about immigration and Euroscepticism, and (iv) the emergence of a cross-cutting dimension of party competition coalescing around support for UKIP. The analysis combines information from official immigration rates, media reporting on immigration, Mori polls, continuous monitoring surveys, and the British Election Study.

This paper analyses the articulation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) into Turkish foreign policy (tfp) during the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, akp) era. R2P has particularly become significant when the uprisings turned into full-scale civil wars in Libya and Syria. Therefore, this study examines tfp towards Libya and Syria in the framework of R2P. It argues that there is a close correlation between Turkey's support of R2P and recently increasing emphasis on the normative foundations of its foreign policy in general. It also discusses that Ankara has appeared as an active advocate of the norm insofar as it adopted a more ambitious policy agenda, particularly in the context of the Syrian civil war. However, this paper concludes that, due to Turkey's pragmatic approach, R2P has turned into a justification tool in the discourse of tfp makers for their regional aspirations.

Annotation, What role should religion play in shaping and implementing U.S. foreign policy? The dominant attitude over the last half century on the subject of religion and international relations was expressed well by Dean Acheson, Harry Truman's secretary of state: "Moral Talk was fine preaching for the Final Day of Judgment, but it was not a view I would entertain as a public servant." Was Acheson right? How a nation "commits itself to freedom" has long been at the heart of debates about foreign aid, economic sanctions, and military intervention. Moral and faith traditions have much to say about what is required to achieve this end. And after September 11, no one can doubt the importance of religious beliefs in influencing relations among peoples and nations. The contributors to this volume come at the issue from very different perspectives and offer exceptional and unexpected insights on a question now at the forefront of American foreign policy

This article proposes that creativity and criticality not only can but should be entangled and elevated in participatory futuring engagements. Selected concepts from creativity theory and critical futures studies are applied to develop a set of futuring games through action research. We claim that participatory processes designed to entangle and elevate creativity and criticality produce more novel and varied ideas that better fit the purposes of futures studies. This article offers four arguments for combining creativity and criticality in participatory futuring engagements. First, due to complexity and uncertainty, the future is ultimately unknowable and requires tools to probe the unknown. Second, novelty is difficult to achieve in practice while creativity and criticality can help overcome these challenges. Third, discontinuities are the main sources of futures that are most radically different from the present and will have the biggest impact. Fourth, creativity and criticality support the rigorous imagining required for exploring and discovering new possible futures. This article analyzes three experimentations in entangling and elevating creativity and criticality in game-based futuring, stemming from Causal Layered Analysis. Based on these examples, we demonstrate that creativity and criticality, when combined, help people break through the limitations of current understanding, reveal approaching tipping points, and find the "unvisited cavities" through rhizomatic knowledge creation. However, there remain challenges in evaluating how well various participatory designs support creativity and criticality in practice. Context-sensitive evaluation tools and open sharing of outcomes are needed to develop participation design principles capable of supporting creativity and criticality in participatory futuring.

Citizenship education (CE) in Turkey holds a pivotal role in shaping the civic consciousness of forthcoming generations. This study employs Q methodology to analyze the perspectives of teachers and parents regarding CE in Turkey, examining their viewpoints in the context of the political structure. The research reveals both consensus and disagreement among teachers and parents. Despite significant differences between teachers and parents, a consensus emerges on the importance of reinforcing national identity through CE. Moreover, there is a prevalent perspective on citizenship that exhibits limited tolerance for differences. The perspectives identified in the study reflect the political polarization present in Turkey. Some perspectives adopt a nationalist understanding rooted in Islamic foundations, influenced by the political power in the country, while others adhere to a secular nationalism based on the principles of Kemalism. These findings underscore the necessity for all facets of CE to embrace a more comprehensive perspective that promotes tolerance and democratic values.

AbstractAcross the globe, people's reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns highlighted, and continued to stress, the relevance of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in responding to crises, including in low-income and emergency settings. They also demonstrated the importance of faith practices and communities of faith as core needs and important coping mechanisms for many affected people in times of crisis. Drawing on data collected by World Vision International, the world's largest child-focused humanitarian and development organisation, in the course of its response to COVID-19 in 70 different countries, this article explores the ways in which faith groups and faith leaders responded to the perceived needs of their communities. While keen to offer psychosocial support to people suffering anxiety and fear in the context of the crisis, this has often been integrated with spiritual support. Analysing their work from the framework of a rights-based approach to mental health, we conclude that they did contribute to psychosocial support through their MHPSS, in part through their provision of spiritual care. However, spiritual well-being should not be conflated with psychosocial well-being. While faith groups play an important role in MHPSS, their primary role is to offer spiritual care.

The effects of programme abundance as a result of cable should be observable in the most densely cabled country in Europe — Belgium — where most viewers have a choice of 11 to 15 channels. Time series data on audience behaviour in the Flemish-speaking part of the country demonstrate the strength of pre-existing patterns of TV utilization, slowness of change, the dominant influence of linguistic barriers and community divisions in channel choice; there is no sudden fragmentation. The implications for programming policy and the future strategy of public service broadcasting in a densely cabled country are discussed.

Intro -- Contents -- Social Network to Improve the Educational Experience with the Deployment of Different Learning Models -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social Networks in Education -- 2.1 Facebook -- 2.2 Twitter -- 2.3 YouTube -- 3 SLNs: Sporadic Learning Networks -- 4 OPPIA Platform -- 4.1 Layer Model -- 4.2 OPPIA Architecture -- 4.3 OPPIA Operation -- 5 OPPIA Implementation -- 6 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Temporal Model of the Online Customer Review Helpfulness Prediction with Regression Methods -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Works -- 2.1 Linear Regression -- 2.2 The Coefficient of Determination -- 2.3 The Akaike Information Criterion -- 3 Method -- 3.1 Corpus Collection -- 3.2 Morphological Preprocessing -- 3.3 Feature Set -- 3.4 Sentiment Feature Selection -- 3.5 Evaluation Index -- 4 Experiments -- 4.1 Authors and Affiliations of Chinese Customer Review Corpus -- 4.2 Experimental Tools -- 4.3 Experimental Results -- 4.4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion and Future Works -- References -- Traits of Leaders in Movement Initiation: Classification and Identification -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Proposed Approach -- 2.1 Bidirectional Agreement in Multi-Agent Systems -- 2.2 Bidirectional Agreement Condition -- 2.3 Leaders as State Changers -- 2.4 Approach Overview -- 2.5 FLICA -- 2.6 Leadership Trait Characterization Scheme -- 3 Experimental Setup -- 3.1 Trait of Leadership Model -- 3.2 Datasets -- 3.3 Sensitivity Analysis in Model Classification -- 3.4 Hypotheses Tests -- 3.5 Parameter Setting -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Traits of Leader Classification: Sensitivity Analysis -- 4.2 Trait Identification of Baboon Movement -- 4.3 Trait Identification of Fish Movement -- 4.4 Traits of Leaders as Measure of Degree of Hierarchy Structure -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Emotional Valence Shifts and User Behavior on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

by Nison Mok Ka Ho. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Acknowledgments --- p.i ; Abstract --- p.ii ; Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter 2 --- The Theory of Legitimation Crisis --- p.11 ; Chapter 3 --- On Economic Crisis --- p.36 ; Chapter 4 --- On Institutional Crisis --- p.69 ; Chapter 5 --- On Identity Crisis --- p.95 ; Chapter 6 --- On Cultural Crisis --- p.124 ; Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.153 ; Bibliography

Examines the borderline between traditional economic theory and the particular problems of developing countries. The ethics of redistribution, and the impact on the development process of the interaction between national state bureaucracy and international institutions are considered.

During the long nineteenth century, Western publics experienced the invention and proliferation of commercial games for children. Card games, board games, and other parlor games were no longer for adults only; these new offerings formalized some aspects of what it meant for a child to engage in play. Many games centered travel, becoming sites for children to simulate adult agency in movement through space. This paper examines the stories told by narrative card games and board games about travel, especially travel within and between urban centers. The games present the city as microcosm of the world. Child players are invited to construct multiple national and ethnic identities as they pretend to be city travelers. The games attempt to teach children, and their caregivers, how to travel. I argue that the structures and aims of the games evolve over time, keeping pace with new mores surrounding work and leisure travel. I also argue for connections between games and the "set moves" of narrative fiction and theatre.

This study explores contemporary Indian picturebooks' take on Dalit childhood through a critical reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar: The Boy Who Asked Why (2015) by Sowmya Rajendran and Satwik Gade, Rinchin and Sagar Kolwankar's I Will Save My Land (2017), and CG Salamander and Samidha Gunjal's Puu (2018). These new-age narratives challenge, resist and replace the hegemonic ideals that have dehumanized Indian Dalits for several generations. The emergence of these picturebooks asserts a powerful call towards and beyond Dalit children in re-conceptualizing and reasserting the collective and individual Dalit identities to claim their rightful position in the Indian social system. This study reveals how the selected picturebooks not only offer insight into the veiled lives of the outcaste before the readers but also sensitize them about the subjects of social justice and inequity. This article examines a critique of representing Dalit childhood while addressing the plurality of oppression behind the monolith of caste inequality and establishing the significance of social inclusivity.

I In this paper, I provide an intersectional analysis of Roma Armee, a theatre play staged at Berlin's Maxim Gorki theatre. I wish to challenge preconceptions and representations of Romani queer and feminist identities by investigating the personal narratives and self-envisioning of queer and feminist Romani performers. While there are notions that Romani queers live only as victims, perpetrators of violence, or unwitting exoticized objects of desire for mainstream queer consumption, I favour a more complex image, showing how some Romani queers articulate their own sexuality, race, class, and agency. I look at how these articulations are met in some Romani communities, and by majoritarian audiences in Berlin and Stockholm, in order to problematize the complex nature of being a minority within a minority. I end with remarks on the revolutionary potential of the play, by arguing that the play creates spaces for healing and can be seen as a significant contribution to an epistemic and ontological shift when it comes to Romani queer and feminist knowledge production.

Young residents of East Los Angeles neighborhoods use their involvement in punk rock cultures to forge new social identities and new social relations. The essay introduces the concept of the "mission," a term that barrio youths use to describe their efforts to forge an oppositional cognitive mapping of space. The mission serves as a node in a network of tactics that utilize seemingly obscure and forgotten places as key sites for community congregation and self-definition. Putatively private spaces in backyards and abandoned public areas like alleys and freeway underpassesin East Los Angeles get turned into public performance venues by young people who are cut off from other sites for creativity and congregation. City streets, public transit vehicles, and alleys become part of a complex process of cognitive mapping for young people who own no property of their own, whose movements are aggressively policed, and who must create unexpected uses for seemingly routine and functional places and spaces.