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Mit der Präsentation ihrer »Frankreichstrategie« hat die saarländische Landesregierung überregional für Aufsehen gesorgt. Dass das Nachbarland Frankreich für das Saarland politisch und wirtschaftlich eine große Bedeutung hat, ist kaum bestreitbar. Doch wie realistisch sind die Zielsetzungen der Frankreichstrategie - und was können Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft dazu beitragen, die Potenziale der Grenzregion auszuschöpfen?Dieser Band befasst sich mit den vielfältigen Handlungsfeldern der saarländisch-französischen Zusammenarbeit und diskutiert die saarländische Frankreichstrategie im Kontext großregionaler, nationaler, europäischer und globaler Prozesse.

Wie kann Kulturpolitik so gestaltet werden, dass - im Sinne einer Cultural Governance - nicht nur Politik und nachgeordnet Verwaltung in Entscheidungsprozesse einbezogen sind, sondern auch die Betroffenen: Künstler_innen, Kulturschaffende, Bürger_innen? Welche Allianzen und Konflikte entstehen in Verhandlungssituationen? Und wie argumentieren Vertreter_innen von Politik, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft?Anke Simone Schad entwickelt anhand der Beispiele Linz und Graz einen Rahmen für Governance-Analysen und bietet darüber hinaus Antworten auf die Fragen, woran Cultural Governance oft scheitert und wie gutes Regieren idealerweise aussehen könnte.

National audience ; Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming use of CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, we know little about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended liberalization of a CBD-based product (light cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using unique and high-frequency data on prescription drug sales and by exploiting the staggered local availability of the new product in each Italian province, we document a significant substitution effect between light cannabis and anxiolytics, sedatives, opioids, anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. Results are informative for regulators and suggest that bans on light cannabis use would disregard the needs of patients to seek effective reliefs of their symptoms.

El movimiento indígena ecuatoriano pudo posicionarse desde 1990 en el ambiente político nacional e internacional con un discurso original que combina aspectos clasistas con aspectos identitarios alrededor de los conceptos de interculturalidad y plurinacionalidad. Este discurso se define por ser crítico a la estructura colonial de la sociedad y del Estado en el Ecuador, que describe como racista y excluyente. Con las propuestas de un Estado plurinacional y una sociedad intercultural ofrece alternativas hacia la Colonialidad imperante que pueden ser descritos como decoloniales. Siguiendo a la teoría de la Colonialidad del Poder que Aníbal Quijano desarrolló, el presente texto va a analizar los contenidos decoloniales de estas propuestas. El surgimiento del movimiento indígena como actor político plenamente visible a partir del levantamiento indígena del Inti Raymi en 1990 vino acompañado con una serie de demandas que giran alrededor de los conceptos de interculturalidad y plurinacionalidad. Desde el movimiento indígena, estos conceptos se extendieron hacia otros movimientos sociales y partidos políticos y finalmente se integraron en el discurso general de la sociedad. Una muestra de este desarrollo es la reforma constitucional de 1996 y la Constitución de 1998 que declaran al Ecuador un Estado "pluricultural y multiétnico" (Art. 1) y, aún más, la actual Constitución de 2008 donde el Estado aparece como "intercultural, plurinacional" (Art. 1). En este artículo, se pretende analizar los conceptos de interculturalidad y plurinacionalidad en el contexto de una lucha contra la desigualdad económica, política y cultural en la sociedad ecuatoriana y los múltiples intentos de liberarse de ella. El concepto de Colonialidad (del saber, del poder, Colonialismo interno), desarrollado por Aníbal Quijano y otros, ayuda a entender tanto la percepción que el movimiento indígena tiene del Estado y la sociedad actual como sus propuestas para cambiarlos. Este trasfondo teórico permitirá entender los conceptos del movimiento indígena ...

"This book will introduce how the Internet can be used to assess market trends and public opinion before the slower and far more expensive, traditional government reports and Gallup polls are published. It could be similar to having a real-time "Dow Jones" index for buzz about a company or confidence in the economy. The book will talk about how to take this raw data and validate it using some traditional methods without relying on them entirely in the future. It will discuss how this will eventually effect business and government in a much broader sense. For example, this tool allows for a new kind of real-time decision analysis that will greatly improve productivity. Pulse will describe how most major decisions are made on information that was actually available quite a long time prior to the beginning of the analysis of the decision, nevermind the decision itself. But real-time information about socio-economic trends and public opinion will allow for a kind of "programmed trading" for some decisions similar to how trading firms automate buying and selling. Specific examples include: Specific examples will incude: A Canadian epidemiologist tracked Google searches on the phrase "flu sympoms". He used this information to track flu outbreaks faster than the Canadian health authorizes could keep up. His success later inspired Google's "Flu Trends" tool. Researchers at HP labs showed how tracking Twitter comments about upcoming movies could reliably predict box office success better than any other method. It will show how the number of Google searches nationwide on the term "unemployment" (publically available through "Google trends") tracks very closely to Bearue of Labor Statistics (BLS) unemployment reports. The difference is that BLS releases its data monthly after samply 60,000 households while Google trends data is available weekly and for free. Research by Carnegie Mellon students show that tracking Twitter comments produces nearly the same results for consumer confidence and political polls as Gallup polls would produce - except that the results are real-time and free. I'll introduce the possibility that even tracking auctions on ebay, ranks of books on Amazon, or job-seeking websites may become the new way to track real time data about the economy and trends in public opnion. LA County detected (with 85% accuracy) collusive fraud rings in public assistance programs based onn analysis of links in social networks. "Semantic" analysis tools are even being developed to process thousands of blogs and Facebook comments that could be used to assess security threats like potential terrorism."--

This book presents comparative analyses of different modes of the governance of religious diversity and state-religion connections and relations in twenty-three countries in five world regions: Western Europe, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the MENA region, and South and Southeast Asia. Debates and controversies around the governance of religious diversity have become important features of the social and political landscape in different regions and countries across the world. The historical influences and legacies, and the contemporary circumstances provoking these debates vary between contexts, and there have been a range of state and scholarly responses to how, and why, particular understandings and arrangements of state-religion relations should be preferred over others. The analyses of country cases and regions presented in this volume are based on extensive reviews of secondary literature, of legal and policy landscapes, and in some cases on interviews. This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students interested in in the sociology of religion, religious studies, politics and migration studies. The contributions in this volume arise out of the Horizon2020 funded GREASE project. It was originally published as a special issue of Religion, State and Society.

A 'new spirit of hospitality' beckons planetary provenances of leisure and pleasure, to promote tourism destinations through the digitization and cinematic advertising of tourist experience. While releasing identities, populations, and environments from their geographical and political isolation, this new spirit may rob them of their ability to communicate cultural diversity on their own terms. Such changes also affect the professionals who produce aesthetic renditions of other people's home territories as tourist destinations, often feeding into domestic perceptions of homemaking, with various good and bad consequences for the design of sustainable planetary futures. Through methodological elaborations on case studies, Tzanelli explains that we have entered a new era of tourism and hospitality mobilities dominated by crises of cultural representation and host presence. Triggered by the urge to renovate concept design, the crisis leads to a proliferation of what is just, true, and real, with various consequences for those interest groups involved in the production of truthfulness, justice and reality in hospitality and tourism. The Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations series provides an insightful guide for policy makers, specialists and social scientists interested in the future of tourism in a society where uncertainness, anxiety and fear prevail.

"Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it. In this new book, the author provides a timely untangling of the various historical meanings of the term and explores the various ways in which it has been co-opted, suggesting that it has a strength that we should open up to examination with a view to reinvigorating it. Just as importantly, the book situates cultural democracy within the wider framework of progressive political and social movements, and of the impact of new digital information and communication technologies. To those unfamiliar with the term, it introduces cultural democracy through related concepts such as digital cultural politics, participatory democracy and digital citizenship. Providing a much-needed theoretical take on the growing interest in cultural democracy, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the arts as well as practitioners and policy makers. It combines theory and practice with a view to inciting both thought and action"--

"This text challenges students to think critically about global issues that affect the business environment and provides them with a wealth of pedagogical features that help cement learning. Its coverage includes the economic, political, social, legal, cultural, technological and financial environments. The book is truly global in coverage, with case studies and examples from all over the world, including Afghanistan, China, Sweden and Thailand. It also has a strong focus on ethics, responsibilities and sustainability and what this means for business organizations. Janet Morrison's writing style makes difficult concepts easy to understand and its clarity makes it suitable for students with English as a second language. New to this edition: - The theme of uncertainty in global contexts, examining how best to assess and confront the challenges of uncertainties and risks in the differing dimensions of the business environment - A chapter on the worldwide pandemic and the global business environment - Increased coverage of FDI, industrial policy and global communication - New coverage relating to race relations and decolonising the curriculum - 10 new cases, making a total of 52 cases, with all other cases fully updated - A brand new decision-making feature linked to some of the cases studies."

"Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide for launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive through the consequences of climate change. The book offers strong and straightforward measures for creating a landscape of resilience via pockets of self-sufficiencies. It demonstrates how to secure systems that sustain life (energy, water, food, waste, and production of essential goods) as well as political and social protocols enabling agile decisions in managing these systems effectively at the local scales. It also provides the design principles for creating the kind of built environment that will enable the kind of localization we need for adaptation. The book explores how it is possible to create a life that does not depend on large-scale regional sustenance systems which are likely to be disrupted or fail. This book uncovers how to enable people to be creative, productive, and supportive at local scales, so that we can achieve strong and diverse local economies that can sustain life. It will appeal to students, planners, and policy makers working in environmental studies, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism"--

Introduction -- Political polarization and cannabis legalization by Paul Musgrave and Clyde Wilcox -- The cannabis strain : marijuana prohibition in an age of police defunding by Robert Hardaway -- Seeing through the haze : using intersectionality to reveal systematic differences in support for marijuana decriminalization by Geoffrey Whitebread -- The politics of marijuana, immigration, and Latinos by Joe R. Tafoya and Melissa R. Michelson -- Implementing social equity : opportunities and challenges from marijuana legalization in Massachusetts by Jeffrey Moyer -- Bureaucratic structures and policy implementation challenges in medical cannabis by Céline Mavrot -- Consumer well-being and cannabis spending habits : evidence from Massachusetts by D. Steven White, Catharine M. Curran, Paul Bacdayan, and Marion McNabb -- Exaggerated panic or valid concerns? Post-legalization youth drug use by Renee Scherlen and José Antonio Cisneros-Tirado -- Using administrative and survey data to evaluate the impact of changing marijuana laws and policies on marijuana use, treatment admissions for marijuana, and mortality related to marijuana and other drug use by Maggie Martin, Rebecca Ivester, Jesse Mishra, Maryam Salihu, Sonja Richard and Ryan Kling -- The unintended consequences of marijuana decriminalization on illegal commerce and the opioid crisis by Nikolay Anguelov, Michael P. McCarthy and Thalia Valkanos.