‘Citizen sensing’, framed as grassroots-driven monitoring initiatives based on sensor technology, is increasingly entering the debate on environmental risk governance. Although through a possible initial conflict, citizen sensing may ultimately have the potential to contribute to institutional risk governance. Building on previous empirical research based on a combination ofmethods, including ethnographical research, descriptive analysis and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Be...

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Four Politicians are engaged in a fierce political contest for the Presidential ticket of a big and dominant political party in an African nation. Out of the four, only one politician was adjudged to be morally upright by his own political opponents. In spite of all the wicked devices and demonic arrows thrown at the only upright politician by His wicked opponents, he emerged the winner of the contest.

The only upright politician is a fictional peep into the value preference...

This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the political shifts and challenges currently facing the centre–right in Europe. The central theme is the rise of radical-right parties and ideas, which not only strain the traditional political order but also raise questions about the future of European integration, the democratic order, and transatlantic cooperation. The authors explore the core values and strategies of Christian Democracy and conservatism and their enduring relevance. They also ...

Introduction to Intelligence: Institutions, Operations, and Analysis offers a strategic, international, and comparative approach to covering intelligence organizations and domestic security issues.

In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Netherlands: the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL). ARCNL represents a unique form of public-private collaboration in science, aligned with a political climate that actively encouraged partnerships between academia and industry. How did this collaboration come into being, and ho...

We have an urgent problem to solve.

Our societies and progressive political organizations are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They have been there for some time and are imploding in uncertainty.

Everyone – organizers and otherwise – is more and more aware of two sets of information. The first is that the capitalist system is the root cause of the climate crisis and has absolutely no perspective of solving it. The logical consequence is that the task of the progressive move...

This book focuses on the statistical tools most often used by political scientists and uses political examples, cases, and data throughout to show students how to answer real questions about politics using real political data.

The first book of its kind to examine race, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities revealing the similarities and differences of groups' underrepresentation.

This illustrated version of the "Democracy: An American Novel!", First published anonymously, March 1880, and soon in various unauthorized editions. It wasn't until the 1925 edition that Adams was listed as author. Henry Adams remarked (ironically as usual), "The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life."—it was very popular, as readers tried to guess who the author was and who the characters really were. Chapters XII and XIII were originally misnumbered.

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