Contemporary Issues of Industrial Relations
The book "Contemporary Issues of Industrial Relations" has been written to meet the necessities of the business administration students of postgraduate and undergraduate levels through the elucidation of the basic concepts of industrial relations and their managerial applications. The research scholars in human resource management, personnel management and industrial relations fields will also find this book appropriate and helpful. Due to its application-orientated approach, it is also an important resource for the working industrial professionals and other professionals active in training and consultancy. This book explains the industrial relations in the context of the recent trends and contemporary issues of Indian industries and covers the major factors, conceptual and legal systems, significant issues like labour policy and law reforms, impact of technological changes, etc. The book also describes the various approaches to maintain and develop optimal industrial relations. For more details, please visit https: //centralwestpublishing.com
Discourses on Sustainability
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide--in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development. Exploring various responses to human-induced climate change, the book offers a critical reflection on climate change and clean energy and highlights the fundamental problems of international energy justice and human rights. Examining these and other climate-related issues from legal, business, political, and scientific perspectives, the volume also analyzes the impact of economic factors and policies on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Urban Governance in Transition
This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the functions of the government in contemporary China. Further, it creates a framework to describe urban governance in today's China, which consists of four basic modes: the omnipotent government mode, autonomous governance mode, integrated governance mode and cooperative governance mode. The book defines a "city" as a gathering place for high-quality public service resources, and the basic task of urban governance is to provide high-quality public services and maintain the sustainability of fiscal revenues. By focusing on current "hot topics" in urban governance in China, including the institutional development of urban governance, model interpretation, city/county relationship, cross-border governance, cross-sectoral coordination, street management, community service provision, and municipal performance evaluation, it clarifies a number of common misunderstandings in the field of urban management and practice. Lastly, the book analyses the current integrated governance model used in Chinese cities, which relies on the authority of the government and integrates the market and social subjects across borders by means of qualification identification, resource support, elite absorption, party-group embeddedness, and project cooperation. However, this model is currently facing several problems. In order to address the potential risks of integrated governance, the book argues that we need to develop new institutional arrangements based on collaborative governance.
Austerity, Welfare and Work
David Etherington provides bold and fresh perspectives on the link between welfare policy and employment relations as he assesses their fundamental impact on social inequalities. Exploring how reforms, including Universal Credit, have reinforced employment and social insecurity, he assesses the role of NGOs, trade unions and policymakers in challenging this increasingly work-focused welfare agenda. Drawing on international and national case studies, the book reviews developments, including rising job insecurity, low pay and geographical inequalities, considered integral to neoliberal approaches to social spending. Etherington sets out the possibilities and challenges of alternative approaches and progressive new paths for welfare, the labour market and social rights.
Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As the biodiversity crisis deepens, Anna Wienhues sets out radical environmental thinking and action to respond to the threat of mass species extinction. The book conceptualises large-scale injustice endangering non-humans, and signposts new approaches to the conservation of a shared planet. Developing principles of distributive ecological justice, it builds towards a bold vision of just conservation that can inform the work of policy makers and activists. This is a timely, original and compelling investigation into ethics in the natural world during the Anthropocene, and a call for biocentric ecological justice before it is too late.
Creative Presence
This book contributes a transnational feminist intersectional analysis of artwork as a powerful force in world politics and argues that contemporary artwork is a site of knowledge production that provides vital insights for scholars of world politics.
Community Radio Policies in South AsiaA Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach
Chapter 1: Introduction: Critical Media Policy and Community Media in South Asia.- Chapter 2: The Deliberative Ecology Approach to Media Policy.- Chapter 3: The Post-Colony and its Radio: 'Imperium' and 'Liberation' on air.- Chapter 4: A Glocal Public Sphere in the Waves: Principles, Policies, Performances and Practices in South Asia.- Chapter 5: Plural Voices of Policy Actors: Associational-Networked Deliberation and Potential Democratisation.- Chapter 6: Reconstructing Community Radio in South Asia: Sustainable Community Radios, Public Diplomacy, and the Right to Communicate.- Chapter 7: Reflexivity and Responses: Deliberative Sound Cultures of the Anthropocene.
Social Welfare Policy
Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World is a topical, comprehensive introduction to social welfare policy. It uses a contemporary framework that explicitly addresses three forces that have redefined the social policy arena: the growth of the information economy, the rise of globalization, and our current environmental crisis. This framework is applied to the six traditional arenas of policy--child and family services, health and mental health, poverty and inequality, housing and community development, crime and violence, and aging--and explores how to find solutions to both long-enduring and brand-new problems. John McNutt and Richard Hoefer's introductory text represents a move forward in social welfare policy thinking that is built on the latest scholarship and teaches students that the time to create social policies for the future is in the present.
Local Integration of Migrants Policy
This book presents an overview of European migration policy and the various institutional arrangements within and between various actors, such as local councils, local media, local economies, and local civil society initiatives. Both the role of local authorities in this policy field and their cooperation with civil society initiatives or networks are under-explored topics for research. In response, this book provides a range of detailed case studies focusing on the six main groups of national and administrative traditions in Europe: Germanic, Scandinavian, Napoleonic, Southeastern European, Central-Eastern European and Anglo-Saxon.
Care and Care Workers
​1. Care work. A Latin American Perspective2. The Care Deficit in Latin America: structure, trends and policy approaches3. The Matrix of Social Inequality, Integrated Social Protection Systems, and Care in Latin America4. The Centrality of Women's Work and the Sexual and International Division of Care Labor: Brazil, France, Japan5. Reimagining Care and Care Work6. Care Amongst Ourselves: self-care as a therapeutic and political experience7. Care, Aesthetic Creation, and Anti-Racist Reparations8. The circuits of care. Reflections from the Brazilian case9. Gender and Care in Uruguay: Ground Covered and Challenges to Current Policies10. Social Organization of Care in Chile11. Migrations and remunerated eldercare in the city of Buenos Aires. A subjective perspective12. Care Work: professionalization and valuation of nurses and nursing assistants in health and old age in Colombia13. Dialogues between (feminist) studies of care and (critical) disability studies to rethink emerging activisms
Cruelty or Humanity
Discrimination, unjust economic policies and violent regimes continue in the 21st century. Distinguished academic and human rights activist Stuart Rees exposes politicians' cruel motives and the resulting outcomes. Through empirical analysis, human stories and poetic commentary, he identifies non-destructive exercise of power, courageous public action and compelling humanitarian alternatives as the key to achieving a future in which dignity and equality flourish.
The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter
Porter draws from the past to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand our present situation.
Workers Against LeninLabour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1920-22
This work challenges the view, widely held among historians of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War, had little significant content and was largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants. Based on a wide reading of the contemporary Soviet press, archive sources and first-hand accounts by Bolsheviks and non-Bolsheviks, this work shows how rank and file opposition to the leadership in the Bolshevik-dominated trade unions grew, and how support for non-Bolshevik trade unions and political parties developed fast.
Christlich-Soziale Union
Die CSU steht vor gro?en Herausforderungen: Die Partei muss Reformen entschlossen anpacken, um dauerhaft zukunftsf瓣hig zu bleiben. Zugleich muss sie ihre bew瓣hrten politischen St瓣rken pflegen und ihren christlich-sozialen, bayerischen Markenkern bewahren. Die Studie unternimmt daher eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme der Partei, die ihre St瓣rken und Schw瓣chen systematisch gegeneinander abw瓣gt. Diese Gesamtbilanz bietet dann auch Impulse f羹r Reformma?nahmen, um die CSU dauerhaft zukunftsf瓣hig zu machen.
Innovation Und Legitimation in Der Migrationspolitik
​Wie kann die Politik Innovationen vorantreiben und zugleich Legitimation und demokratische Unterst羹tzungsbereitschaft in der Bev繹lkerung erzeugen? Der Sammelband zeigt im Feld der Migrations- und Fl羹chtlingspolitik, wie im Regierungshandeln Innovation und Legitimation auf Bundesebene, in der Europ瓣ischen Union, in den Bundesl瓣ndern und Kommunen zusammenh瓣ngen. Dazu dient der internationale Vergleich mit Kanada und anderen Einwanderungsl瓣ndern.
Sustainable Energy Transitions
This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions. Starting with the basic biophysical principles, current sources and environmental consequences of existing energy resource use, the book takes readers through the key questions and topics needed to understand, prescribe, and advocate just and sustainable energy solutions. The interdisciplinary nature of the book aims to build bridges across the social and natural sciences and humanities, bringing together perspectives, ideas and concepts from engineering, economics, and life cycle assessment to sociology, political science, anthropology, policy studies, the humanities, arts, and some interdisciplinary thinkers that defy categories. This accessible approach fills the gap for a textbook that integrates sustainability science and engineering studies with strong empirical social science and it will be a useful tool to anyone interested in the socio-ecological dimensions of energy system transitions.
Terrorismusabwehr
Dieses Buch analysiert einf羹hrend ausf羹hrlich die aktuelle und zuk羹nftige Bedrohung durch den islamistischen Terrorismus in Deutschland und Europa. Dabei werden sowohl in Deutschland und Europa ver羹bte als auch von den Sicherheitsbeh繹rden verhinderte islamistische Anschl瓣ge auf ihre Taktik und Wirkmittel hin analysiert und potenzielle zuk羹nftige Anschlagsszenarien erkl瓣rt. Auf der Ebene der Akteure, Mittel und Ma?nahmen der Terrorismusabwehr werden u.a. islamistische "Gef瓣hrder" und technische Mittel wie die Video羹berwachung des 繹ffentlichen Raumes beleuchtet. Ausf羹hrlich wird die Bek瓣mpfung der Terrorismusfinanzierung dargelegt und die deutschen und europ瓣ischen Institutionen der Terrorismusabwehr werden vorgestellt. Stark erweitert wurde das Kapitel sechs, "Radikalisierung im Ph瓣nomenbereich Islamismus, Salafismus und islamistischer Terrorismus sowie Pr瓣vention". Dort wird der aktuelle Stand der deutschen und internationalen Sozialwissenschaft zur Radikalisierungsforschung dargelegt und erstmals islamistische, salafistische und jihadistische Radikalisierung in Justizvollzugsanstalten analysiert. Abschlie?end werden in diesem Kapitel Pr瓣ventions- und Deradikalisierungsprojekte gegen Islamismus, Salafismus und islamistischen Terrorismus untersucht.
Kritik, Kontrolle, Alternative
Dieses Buch schlie?t eine bedeutsame L羹cke der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Was sind Handlungsspielr瓣ume und -restriktionen der Minderheit im Parlament heute? Inwiefern gelingt es der parlamentarischen Opposition, ihre Kritik-, Kontroll- und Alternativfunktionen gegen羹ber der Regierung zu erf羹llen? Angesichts der "Mini-Opposition" der vorigen und einer in vier Fraktionen gespaltenen Opposition in der laufenden 19. Wahlperiode des Deutschen Bundestages gewinnen diese Fragen aktuell an zus瓣tzlicher Bedeutung. Demokratietheoretische und empirische Analysen von Politikwissenschaftler*nnen und Einsch瓣tzungen erfahrener Abgeordneter zeigen die Chancen und Grenzen effektiver Opposition in Deutschland auf.
From Gdp to Sustainable Wellbeing
This book is about the function and use of official statistics. It welcomes the aspiration for official statistics to be an indispensable element in the information system of a democratic society, serving the government, the economy and the public with data about the economic, demographic, social and environmental situation. The book identifies the political role of official statisticians, who decided what gets measured as well as how it is measured. While thousands of official statistics are published every year, and some are quoted by politicians, used by policy-makers or reported in the media, the authors observe that, in the main, official statistics do not feature much in everyday lives of people and businesses. The book concludes with suggestions for more that should be done, especially in the context of improving wellbeing and helping meet the worldwide set of sustainable development goals set for 2030.
Reformbaustelle Bundesstaat
Der Band befasst sich mit der Fragestellung, ob der F繹deralismus in Deutschland in seiner jetzigen Form noch den Herausforderungen der Zukunft gewachsen ist, oder ob es weiterer, auch das Grundgesetz betreffender Reformen bedarf. Aufbauend auf einer R羹ckschau, die die einschneidenden Entwicklungen im deutschen Bundesstaat insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund bedeutender Grundgesetzreformen w羹rdigt, folgt eine Bestandsaufnahme des aktuellen Zustands in den Bereichen Bildung, Innere Sicherheit und Integrationspolitik. Hierbei werden einerseits das Ausma? an Wandel und Konstanz des deutschen F繹deralismus ermittelt. Andererseits werden seine Leistungs- und Zukunftsf瓣higkeit sowie m繹gliche Reformbedarfe in international vergleichender Perspektive durch eine Analyse alternativer F繹deralismusmodelle diskutiert.
Hong Kong's 2019-2020 Social Unrest
This book provides an anatomy of Hong Kong's 2019-2020 social unrest, which has significantly damaged its economy and image. A coalition of Opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) emerged in Hong Kong after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, which became effective in 1997, defines "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong but inadvertently installed an "opposition politics" system that the city was unfamiliar with. Freshly out of a colonial system, Hong Kong did not have the socio-ecological system to hold politicians accountable for their policies. For decades, the tug of war between the Opposition and all other politicians delivered incoherent public policies that raised the costs of living and income disparity, while hollowing out economic opportunities in the middle that particularly hurt the younger generations. Meanwhile, the Opposition camp promotes the blame narrative that the CPC is chipping away at Hong Kong's democracy and freedom. While the narrative's empirical evidence is weak and its linkage to Hong Kong's economic grievances is absent, the Opposition camp propagates the narrative relentlessly. Ironically, the Opposition Camp has fallen captive to the narrative in the sense that its legitimacy is now tied with the narrative. Two decades of rallies grounded on the blame narrative have profoundly influenced the development of people who grew up after 1997. Furthermore, the year-long unrest has socialized many more to adopt the narrative. The younger generations are hurt first by inconsistent public policies, and on top of that, the blame narrative that robs them of any coherent social identity; and finally, the unrest further dims their future. Hong Kong now faces the problem of how to re-incorporate a significant portion among its younger generations into mainstream society. This book offers in-depth analyses of the journey, identifies government and societal failures, and suggests long- and short-term policy directions.
Private Health Providers in Developing Countries
New ideas on the role of the state in developing countries have considerable implications for the social sectors, especially health. Certain international organizations have advocated a larger role for private sector health care providers and many developing country governments have adopted this approach. Yet, until now, very little evidence has existed about how shifting the balance between public and private roles might affect equity, and the quality and efficiency of health care. This book presents the results from a coordinated programme of research on the private health care sector including studies carried out by Asian, African and Latin American researchers. The conceptual chapters draw upon both industrialized and developing country literature to describe the intellectual terrain, analyse the key issues and summarize experience to date. This book will help increase understanding of the private sector, as well as illustrating the contentious issues involved in privatization. It will be useful to students and academics involved in international public health courses, and to health policy makers in developing countries.
Globalisation and Labour
Intellectual fashion currently focuses on us as consumers, but the world of production and services still needs us as workers. While globalisation has, in part, been driven over the past two decades by the transnational corporations' search for cheap labour in new regions of the South, scholarly research and the mass media have paid remarkably little attention to the consequent changes that are happening in the world of work. This book is the first to deal comprehensively and analytically with labour's response to globalisation. It provides a critical overview of the main challenges facing workers and trade unions worldwide. Its author argues that what may be described as the national period in labour history is decisively over. Now the labour movement is itself acting increasingly in a transnational manner. This holds out the hope of its playing a major role in the social regulation of a global economic system which is largely out of control. The author explains how globalisation is foisting flexibilisation and feminisation on working people, but in the process also making them conscious of their transnational links. The 'old' internationalism of the trade union movement is now showing signs of developing into a 'new' internationalism where workers develop a sense of common interest and new ways of organizing that transcend national boundaries. Drawing his evidence from what is happening to workers and trade unions in a wide range of countries in both the industrialized North and the developing South, Professor Ronaldo Munck suggests that we may be on the brink of a new version of what Karl Polanyi, many years ago, strikingly called 'the great transformation'. The implications for workers, trade unions and their transnational corporate employers could be profound.
Cruelty or Humanity
Cruelty has long been a feature of states' domestic and foreign policies but is seldom acknowledged. Governments mouth respect for human rights yet promote discrimination, violence and suppression of critics. Documenting case studies from around the world, distinguished academic and human rights activist Stuart Rees exposes politicians' cruel motives and the resulting outcomes. Using his first-hand observations and insights from international poets, he argues for courageous action to support non-violence in every aspect of public and private life for the survival of people, animals and the planet.
Hong Kong's 2019-2020 Social Unrest
This book provides an anatomy of Hong Kong's 2019-2020 social unrest, which has significantly damaged its economy and image. A coalition of Opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) emerged in Hong Kong after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, which became effective in 1997, defines "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong but inadvertently installed an "opposition politics" system that the city was unfamiliar with. Freshly out of a colonial system, Hong Kong did not have the socio-ecological system to hold politicians accountable for their policies. For decades, the tug of war between the Opposition and all other politicians delivered incoherent public policies that raised the costs of living and income disparity, while hollowing out economic opportunities in the middle that particularly hurt the younger generations. Meanwhile, the Opposition camp promotes the blame narrative that the CPC is chipping away at Hong Kong's democracy and freedom. While the narrative's empirical evidence is weak and its linkage to Hong Kong's economic grievances is absent, the Opposition camp propagates the narrative relentlessly. Ironically, the Opposition Camp has fallen captive to the narrative in the sense that its legitimacy is now tied with the narrative. Two decades of rallies grounded on the blame narrative have profoundly influenced the development of people who grew up after 1997. Furthermore, the year-long unrest has socialized many more to adopt the narrative. The younger generations are hurt first by inconsistent public policies, and on top of that, the blame narrative that robs them of any coherent social identity; and finally, the unrest further dims their future. Hong Kong now faces the problem of how to re-incorporate a significant portion among its younger generations into mainstream society. This book offers in-depth analyses of the journey, identifies government and societal failures, and suggests long- and short-term policy directions.
Advancing Urban Rights
How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpretations and political articulations of the right to the city, especially those that have emerged since the end of the 2000s, encourage us to view it through the lens of identity politics. They propose that attention should be given to the diversity of the social groups that live in urban environments, whose voice and agency must be recognized in the construction of the city in the interests of equality and social justice. Addressing these issues not only involves recognizing and valuing the subjects that have historically been marginalized in the construction of urban space, both physical and symbolic. It also means bearing in mind that the city materializes and is experienced in a different way by the different groups that inhabit it through their practices, uses of it and, in short, how their daily life takes shape. Advancing Urban Rights will help both concerned citizens and policy makers identify and analyze redistribution and recognition policies, institutional change, and social production of the city in an increasingly urban world.
The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter
Porter draws from the past to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand our present situation.
Rage
2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Current Events In the days after 9/11, Abigail R. Esman walked the streets of New York haunted by a feeling that was eerily familiar: the trauma of violence that hovered in the air. Friends, family, and strangers moved, walked, even stood as she herself had done earlier as a victim of domestic battery and abuse. Since then, Esman, a journalist who specializes in writing on terrorism and radicalization, has studied the connections between domestic abuse and terrorism and the forces that inspire both forms of violence. In Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism Esman brings into focus the complex web that ties them together, illuminating the terrorist psyche and the cultures that create it. With this new approach to understanding terrorism and violence, Esman presents clear explanations of pathological narcissism and its roots in shame-honor cultures--both familial and sociopolitical--through portraits of terrorists and batterers, including O. J. Simpson, Osama bin Laden, Anders Breivik, and Dylann Roof. The insights of psychiatrists, former white supremacists, Islamist terrorists, national security experts, and others elaborate her thesis, while Esman's own experiences with abuse and the aftermath of 9/11 on the streets of New York City further enrich the narrative. At a time when so many lives are threatened by public violence and terrorism, understanding the forces that incite them has become crucial, and finding solutions, urgent. Esman proposes social and policy initiatives aimed at reducing violence while engendering social equality and enriching women's rights. Such proposals, she argues, are essential to overcoming the cultural and political forces that hinder progress toward security and peace. This groundbreaking book sheds new light on the roots of violence and terrorism while advancing proactive measures to protect our values and traditions of justice, equality, and freedom.
All Hands In? Making Diversity Work for All
OECD societies have become increasingly diverse in the past decades, offering new opportunities if diversity is properly managed. Ensuring that OECD countries are equipped to make the most of diversity by fully utilising all talent among diverse populations and promoting inclusive labour markets is a key challenge.
Intelligence and Security Sector Reforms in Greece, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and Italy
This book highlights intelligence and security sector reforms within the European Union, radicalization, espionage and the Lone-Wolves attacks.
Education and Solidarity in the European Union
This book tells the story of the European Movement's mission to create--through education--a European spirit in order to secure the success of European integration. This book draws links between the crisis of solidarity experienced by the European Union today and the difficulties faced throughout European integration to develop a fully-fledged EU education policy. It makes the case that education has not been a stable mechanism for fostering spirit due to its national attachment to identity and nation-building. Without education, it has been difficult to foster the spirit needed to establish a strong citizen-wide sense of European solidarity to overcome the crises the EU faces today. Exploring the connection between education and solidarity through the notion of spirit, the book presents an interdisciplinary study that avoids the compartmentalisation of education studies, philosophy and political science to bring ideas together that shed fresh light on contemporary debates currently under the spotlight.
The Climate Crisis, Democracy and Governance
This book argues that at a time when the world is facing environmental and social upheaval, the political establishment has been unwilling to listen and slow to act. This is reflected in a political system that has been incapable of rising to the challenge. Only by governments taking a radical and progressive lead in making changes - imposing them if necessary - can there be any hope of slowing, stopping and then reversing our global catastrophe. Governments hold the prime responsibility in the creation of a virtuous circle of positive action for the climate. Starting from a European perspective, a ten point manifesto explains how this can be done and how we can have hope for the future. The book is a call for action to European governments in the approach to COP26 and when plans for a European Green Deal are being discussed in the EU.Disclaimer: The author of this publication is acting in his own name. The viewpoints he defends are in no way reflecting the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee and of other EU institutions.
Delivering Justice
This book analyzes emerging issues and challenges in delivering timely justice to people. It deals with themes such as administration accountability and securing justice; challenges in disposal of cases; challenges to forensic community; green federalism and environmental justice; threats to human rights; ethics in the criminal justice system.
Chambers of Commerce in Europe
Chambers of commerce are omnipresent in domestic public policy and play a crucial role in business self-governance. However, they are rather neglected in both public and scientific debates and seem to be in decline. This volume fills this gap in research on organised business and state-market coordination in Europe. The contributions discuss chambers of commerce as interest groups and actors in political systems, and address the institutional changes that this kind of self-governance is undergoing. The development of chambers of commerce in recent decades shows a wide array of mechanisms for institutional adaptation, ranging from displacement and conversion to enduring stability. This volume gives an insight into the dynamics and factors affecting these changes, with case studies on Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, and the United Kingdom, all conducted by recognised experts in this field.
Edge of the Abyss
Academic discourse does not often reference the idea of antichrist, perhaps because it is seen as archaic or as too closely associated with religious fundamentalism. Robert Isaac Skidmore, a depth psychotherapist and an Orthodox priest, argues that antichrist, alongside its theological meaning, designates an aspect of our psychological, social, and political experience that becomes hazardous, especially when ignored or dismissed. Seeing Donald Trump's cultural and political influence as expressive of an archetypal pattern, Skidmore explores implications of taking the idea of antichrist seriously--in order to lift it toward conscious awareness and responsible use. Christian individuals are asked to reconsider the theological function of the notion of antichrist as a summons to self-scrutiny concerning their fidelity to truth. Readers, religious or not, are invited to awareness of antichrist's archetypal contours, in order to appreciate its significance for the understanding of psychological and social phenomena and to better understand the implications of its use--including its potential benefits and hazards.Table of ContentsForeword by Steven-John Harris, Ph.D. Introduction I. Antichrist in Its Theological Setting Scriptural Context Antichrist as Idol Antichrist as Marker Between Truth and Error II. Antichrist in Public View Sociopathy: The Psychological Correlate to Antichrist Charismatic Totalitarianism: The Political Correlate to Antichrist III. Antichrist in Context of Psyche and Sacred Antichrist as Archetypal Shadow Antichrist as Expression of Evil Differences Between Religious and Psychological Understandings of Antichrist IV. Antichrist's Social Dynamics Antichrist as Expressive of Group Dynamics Antichrist as a Label Versus Antichrist as an Operative Principle Antichrist as a LabelAntichrist as an Operative PrincipleV. Assessment of a Dangerous Idea Usefulness of the Antichrist ConceptCaution in Use of Antichrist TerminologyConclusion References
Edge of the Abyss
Academic discourse does not often reference the idea of antichrist, perhaps because it is seen as archaic or as too closely associated with religious fundamentalism. Robert Isaac Skidmore, a depth psychotherapist and an Orthodox priest, argues that antichrist, alongside its theological meaning, designates an aspect of our psychological, social, and political experience that becomes hazardous, especially when ignored or dismissed. Seeing Donald Trump's cultural and political influence as expressive of an archetypal pattern, Skidmore explores implications of taking the idea of antichrist seriously--in order to lift it toward conscious awareness and responsible use. Christian individuals are asked to reconsider the theological function of the notion of antichrist as a summons to self-scrutiny concerning their fidelity to truth. Readers, religious or not, are invited to awareness of antichrist's archetypal contours, in order to appreciate its significance for the understanding of psychological and social phenomena and to better understand the implications of its use--including its potential benefits and hazards.Table of ContentsForeword by Steven-John Harris, Ph.D. Introduction I. Antichrist in Its Theological Setting Scriptural Context Antichrist as Idol Antichrist as Marker Between Truth and Error II. Antichrist in Public View Sociopathy: The Psychological Correlate to Antichrist Charismatic Totalitarianism: The Political Correlate to Antichrist III. Antichrist in Context of Psyche and Sacred Antichrist as Archetypal Shadow Antichrist as Expression of Evil Differences Between Religious and Psychological Understandings of Antichrist IV. Antichrist's Social Dynamics Antichrist as Expressive of Group Dynamics Antichrist as a Label Versus Antichrist as an Operative Principle Antichrist as a LabelAntichrist as an Operative PrincipleV. Assessment of a Dangerous Idea Usefulness of the Antichrist ConceptCaution in Use of Antichrist TerminologyConclusion References
From Criminalizing to Decriminalizing Marijuana
This book tracks the political history and specific political actions associated with the diffusion of state-level marijuana decriminalization. It provides an integrated chronology of policy diffusion to show how social and cultural changes have impacted the shift from anti- to pro-marijuana political platforms. The main contributions are an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing policy learning and evolution, an overview of the political history of marijuana criminalization, a clear synthesis of the medical literature on cannabis effects, and a supply and demand analysis of legal and illegal marijuana markets in America. For scholars of criminal justice, law, political science, policy studies, sociology and addiction, it provides an amalgam of the diverse and divergent extant research on marijuana.
Congressional Lions
In some periods of American history, members of the legislative branch have been as influential, and sometimes more influential, than a particular president in crafting public policy and reacting to world events. Congressional Lions examines twelve influential members of Congress throughout American history to understand their role in shaping the life of the nation. The book does not focus exclusively on the biographical details of these lawmakers, although biography invariably plays a role in recalling their triumphs and tragedies. Instead, the book highlights members' legislative accomplishments as well as the circumstances surrounding their congressional service.
Governing Social Protection in the Long Term
This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of social protection theory. He argues that treating employment relations as dynamic, and as inextricably intertwined with changes in the welfare state over time, allows for more accurate portrayal of similarity and difference in social protection. The book will be of most interest to researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in social policy, employment relations, public policy, social and political history, and comparative politics.
Parental Life Courses After Separation and Divorce in Europe
This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child well-being, and (4) health. Through studies from several European countries, the book showcases how legal regulations and social policies influence parental and child well-being after divorce and separation. It also illustrates how social policies are interwoven with the normative fabric of a country. For example, it is shown that father-child contact after separation is more intense in those countries which have adopted policies that encourage shared parenting. Correspondingly, countries that have adopted these regulations are at the forefront of more egalitarian gender role attitudes. Apart from a strong emphasis on the legal and social policy context, the studies in this volume adopt a longitudinal perspective and situate post-separation behaviour and well-being in the life course. The longitudinal perspective opens up new avenues for research to understand how behaviour and conditions prior or at divorce and separation affect later behaviour and well-being. As such this book is of special appeal to scholars of family research as well as to anyone interested in the role of divorce and separation in Europe in the 21st century.
Extended Working Life Policies
This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators; followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future directions for research and addresses issues associated with effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable source for both researchers and policymakers.
Classical Political Economics and Modern Capitalism
This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so. It explores central theoretical issues addressed by the classical economists Smith and Ricardo, as well as Marx, while also operationalizing more recent theoretical developments inspired by the works of Sraffa and other modern classical economists, using actual data from major economies.On the basis of this approach, the book subsequently provides alternative explanations for various microeconomic issues such as the determination of equilibrium prices and their movement induced by changes in income distribution; the dynamics of competition of firms within and between industries; the law of tendential equalization of interindustry profit rates; and international exchanges and transfers of value; as well as macroeconomic issues concerning capital accumulation and cyclical economic growth. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, students, and policymakers seeking new explanations for observed phenomena and interested in the mechanisms that give rise to surface economic categories, such as prices, profits, the unemployment rate, interest rates, and long economic cycles.
St瓣dtische Verkehrspolitik Auf Abwegen
Jakob Hebsaker hinterfragt bestehende Auffassungen 羹ber den 繹ffentlichen Personennahverkehr als Alternative zum Automobil durch eine Kontextualisierung mit gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungsprozessen. Anhand verkehrspolitischer Entscheidungen zum Schnellbahnbau in Frankfurt am Main wird herausgearbeitet, dass Schnellbahnnetze insbesondere der st瓣dtischen Raumproduktion dienen sollen und dabei nicht als Alternative, sondern im Sinne eines ?berdruckventils als korrespondierender Bestandteil eines automobildominierten Beschleunigungssystems betrachtet werden m羹ssen. Zudem wird anhand des Begriffes der heimlichen Verkehrspolitik aufgezeigt, dass sich hinter vermeintlich verkehrspolitischen Infrastrukturentscheidungen auf kommunaler Ebene h瓣ufig Zwecke verbergen, deren haupts瓣chliche Motivation au?erhalb des Verkehrsbereichs verortet sind.
Top 100 Trump Promises Made Promises Kept
President Trump is the most effective, impactful US President since Ronald Reagan, and maybe even more so. He campaigned on promises, and once elected he has been keeping all those promises he made to America. Every step of the way, far-left democrats have stood against him. Lied about him. Worked to deceive the American people. And the Fake News media is working overtime as the media wing of the Democrat Party. This book contains the truth. The truth they don't want you to know. Promise kept after promise kept. Positive impact upon positive impact. President Trump is not your normal politician. He is not a politician at all. He is a leader. A servant. A businessman. A promise keeper. A proud American. And the man who has Made American Great Again. Now it's up to us to Keep American Great.
Medical Social Work in Singapore: Context and Practice
Medical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war period. This textbook documents the historical development and evolution of the medical social work profession in Singapore, as well as the specialist work done in the profession.The first part of the book gives an overview to the field in Singapore. It provides information which is considered as fundamental and core to medical social workers across the various medical or healthcare settings. The second part focuses on the selected practice areas and adopts an integral approach to discuss theory and practice.This book is essential for social work students who wish to learn from a range of examples of good social work practice, presented from human developmental perspectives and in sufficient breadth to provide a reasonable overview of social work practice in health care. This book also provides added lens for medical, nursing and other allied health students and practitioners who wish to better understand their patients and families.
