Informal Relations from Democratic Representation to Corruption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Informal Relations from Democratic Representation to Corruption write by Zdenka. This book was released on 2014-04-15. Informal Relations from Democratic Representation to Corruption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Informal relations have been one of the major research topics of the social sciences since the 1990s. In order to allow for meaningful comparisons between different combinations of the positive and negative effects of informal relations on democratic representation, this book focuses on post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe as a particular region where formal democratic rules have been established, but competing informal rules are still strong. A broad spectrum of related analytical concepts is discussed from different perspectives and from different academic disciplines, then empirical cases of the relationship between informal relations and democratic representation are analyzed. The contributions span the whole continuum, as we perceive it, from civil society networks seen as supporting democratic representation to the perversion of democratic representation through political corruption. The final part of the book takes a closer look at corruption through four case studies from Russia.
Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
Constructivist Turn in Political Representation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructivist Turn in Political Representation write by Lisa Disch. This book was released on 2019-01-22. Constructivist Turn in Political Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation; constituencies or groups exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented.
Suspicious Gifts
Suspicious Gifts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suspicious Gifts write by Malin Akerstrom. This book was released on 2017-09-08. Suspicious Gifts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gifts have been given and received in all eras and societies; gifts are part of a universal human exchange. The importance of creating and sustaining social bonds with the help of gifts is widely acknowledged by social scientists, not only from anthropological but also from economic, sociological, and political science perspectives. Contemporary anti-corruption campaigns, however, have led gifts to be viewed with ever-increasing suspicion, because it is feared that the social bonds created by gift giving may contaminate professional decision-making. Suspicious Gifts investigates the sensitive issue of gift exchanges and how they become an object of contention. Malin akerstro;m considers the moral dilemmas presented by bribes and gift giving as experienced by Swedish aid workers and professionals working in the public sector, business, and adoption agencies. She also deals with professionals' interaction with foreign officials or contractors. Often a gift is just that, although sometimes the gift giving may be seen by others as a bribe. akerstro;m highlights the tensions between strict regulations designed to prevent corruption with the human affection for the institution of gift giving. She argues that bribes and gifts are important social phenomena because they are windows into classic sociological and anthropological research issues concerning interaction, social control, exchange, and rituals. This unique analysis will be of keen interest to all sociologists, public officials, and professionals.
Regionalism without Regions
Regionalism without Regions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regionalism without Regions write by Ulrich Schmid. This book was released on 2019-08-14. Regionalism without Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collective volume shows how Ukraine can best be understood through its regions and how the regions must be considered against the background of the nation. The overarching objective of the book is to challenge the dominance of the nation-state paradigm in the analyses of Ukraine by illustrating the interrelationship between national and regional dynamics of change. The authors—historians, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, literary critics and linguists from Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the USA—explicitly go beyond the perspective of an entity defined by traditional political borders and cultural, economic, historical or religious stereotypes. The research project that led to the composition of the book combined quantitative (statistical surveys conducted across Ukraine) and qualitative (in-depth interviews and focus-group discussion) methods. The authors came to the conclusion that regionalism as a defining phenomenon of Ukraine is more prominent than the regions themselves. This approach regards Ukraine as a construct in flux where different discourses intersect, concur and eventually merge through the lenses of various disciplines and methodologies.
Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991
Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991 write by Olga Breskaya. This book was released on 2014-06-26. Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume consists of articles prepared after two conferences organized by the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2011 and in 2012. The focus of both conferences was concentrated on the development of reforms and changes in higher education in the social sciences and humanities in Eastern Europe during the last two decades. The collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe was followed by the enormous expansion of institutions of higher learning, especially in the ...
