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Bertelsmann
This book analyzes one of the largest media conglomerates worldwide, the Bertelsmann Corporation. Analyzing its history, its corporate divisions and international business relations, the book focuses on the dominant role of Bertelsmann in international media – and media services – in Europe, the U.S., Latin America, and China. Addressing a broad readership interested in issues of media ownership, journalism and policy work, this book shows how issues of media ownership and corporate power are closely connected to issues of beyond media, namely politics, consulting, services and financial transactions. The book also draws parallels to other major media conglomerates and their attempts to influence communication infrastructures and policies on national and international levels, helping readers to understand the broader structural relations and power mechanisms at play in the global media market. The book will be of interest primarily to scholars in the fields of global media studies, international communication studies, and the critical political economy of media and communication.
To the Man with a Hammer
In the face of rising complexity and systemic risks, policy-making appears at a breaking point. If business and public leaders hope to create a sustainable and responsive economy, they will need to break from traditional governance and embrace new, innovative solutions. Adopting new practices will be essential for our ability to detect and solve unprecedented challenges of the 21st century. After all, "to the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters starts to look like a nail." It is high time to augment the policymaker's toolbox. This article collection helps point the way forward. Gathering a distinguished panel of complexity experts and policy innovators, it provides concrete examples of promising insights and tools, drawing from complexity science, the digital revolution and interdisciplinary approaches.
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The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation
It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines were negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. The focus is on the first key guideline – "Democracy, good governance, human rights and the rule of law" – with an emphasis on civil society participation in global food governance. The five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are presented as case studies: representing major emerging economies, they blur the line between the Global North and South, and exhibit different levels of human rights realisation. The book first provides an overview ...
Escaping the Escape
Conflict and war, but most of all overwhelming despair are driving massive numbers of mostly young people from the Middle East and North Africa, Central Africa, Ukraine and Central Asia to leave their homes for Europe in search of safety. What do they need most in order to lead their lives in peace and security? How can opportunities for a meaningful and secure future in their countries of origin be improved? How can the EU-acting in concert with its principles-support these people in their search for freedom, self determination and well-being? The book will contain a collection of essays, ideally from authors from different countries, and in particular, from the countries of origin of refugees. In these essays, authors are supposed to analyse the individual crisis regions at Europe’s front door and make concrete and practice-oriented proposals to improve and/or change the situation there.
Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia
This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It maps governance challenges and analyzes current trends from the perspectives of democracy, public policy, and public institutions. Regional public administration and governance systems have undergone some phenomenal changes over the last three decades and have played a key role in the economic progress of the area, especially in the Southeast and East Asian nations. Rich with country-specific evidence and analyses, the chapters in the book apply empirical and other research methods to examine shifting paradigms and best practices. This book develops an understanding of changes in the forms, process and practices of governance, both within the context of each nation and in a comparative perspective. The book will appeal to scholars, academics, students, and practitioners of public administration, political science, and policy issues.
Die Bertelsmann Stiftung im Institutionengefüge
Abstract AbstractDie Klärung des Verhältnisses von Institution und Organisation ist für eine Analyse der Bertelsmann Stiftung bedeutsam. Das Buch behandelt die Stiftung und ihre institutionelle Umwelt, widmet sich obigem Verhältnis, um darauf aufbauend vor dem Hintergrund eines Typisierungsversuchs politischer Institutionen die Stiftung institutionell zu fassen. Dabei werden auch Grenzen des ökonomischen Institutionalismus thematisiert. Erst eine konstitutionenökonomische Betrachtung überwindet diese Grenzen und verdeutlicht die Ziele der Bertelsmann Stiftung. Regina Hannerer ist Dissertantin und Christian Steininger ist Professor für Medienökonomie am Fachbereich Kommunikationswissenschaft der Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg.
The Limits Of Social Cohesion
Through findings gained from a study of normative conflicts in eleven economically and geographically diverse societies, contributors find two common features: one concerns disputes over the place of religion in the state and in public life; the other is a clash of values between a cultural elite and the broad masses of the population. Finding also that the same institutions can either polarize or mediate normative conflicts, they conclude that one must ask not just what sort of institutions one looks to for social cohesion, but what ideas and values inspire these institutions. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
