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Handbook of Social Infrastructure
This timely Handbook showcases cutting-edge empirical and theoretical social science research to shed light on the role, aims and functioning of social infrastructure (SI). Leading scholars present unique insights on topics such as healthcare, childcare, education, employment and SI for marginalized groups alongside cultural and recreational infrastructures.
On Track Or Off The Rails?
In order to achieve a transition from a transport system centred on the individual car to one centred on (electrified) rail a new focus in infrastructure planning is needed. The preparation of project proposals for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 on the sub-national level in Germany provides an opportunity to study decision-making processes in ministries and compare their respective results in this respect. Using document analysis, expert interviews, qualitative content analysis as well as QCA, this thesis in political science analyses how decision-making processes within bureaucracies impact the decision output in transport infrastructure planning. It contributes to the discussion on bureaucracy-politics interactions that is relevant beyond the German case. One result is that ministries tend to use complex decision-making processes for topics deemed salient as long as the available capacity permits it. Consequently, in order to conduct legitimacy-enhancing steps – such as public participation – a well-funded bureaucracy is indispensable.
Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 15
Civil war threatens the Lalannoy Republic. An opposition party colluded with church agents, splitting the young nation in two in a bid for power. Determined to build a coalition against the growing influence of the false Saint and her apostles, the Wainwright Kingdom dispatches a highborn envoy to broker an alliance with the republic’s rightful leader. But a diplomat needs an aide, and that’s where Allen comes in. Fresh from a bitter reunion with his best-friend-turned-undead-foe, the young sorcerer was already looking for a chance to set aside his tutoring and follow a lead to Lalannoy himself. He knows he’s walking into a trap, and he doesn’t care. The secrets lurking beneath the city of craft—and the guise of an unexpected traveling companion—will test Allen like never before.
Face of Danger
Former child actor Chris Madura returns to his hometown for Christmas with only one goal. He wants to give his stalker the slip. For one month he wants to live like a normal person without always looking over his shoulder. And maybe he'll run into his first crush? The girl he never got up the nerve to ask out before it was too late. But he can't go ten feet without people taking his picture. With one click of a button, Mel finds herself the focus of a familiar face. It's her childhood friend and the star of all her teenage fantasies back home again. But this reunion isn't just hot, boozy chocolate and making eyes at this dreamy man. Chris is near to breaking under the stress of being hunted ...
Tales from the Nightside
Hauntings and enchantments, elegies of the macabre, dim-lit excursions beyond the bounds of reality—here are fifteen subtle tales of terror. A toll road lures wayfarers into another dimension... A mysterious white wolf appears as a portent of doom... An aged seamstress holds, in her needle, dominion over life and death... A bizarre world of dark fantasy awaits, strangely, horribly compelling. From the demon-cursed town of Oxrun Station to the terrifying byways of Hawthorne Street, prepare for fear as you enter the nightside... Stories included in this collection: Coin of the Realm Old Friends Home If Damon Comes A Night of Dark Intent The Gentle Passing of a Hand When All the Children Call My Name Needle Song Something There Is Come Dance With Me on My Pony's Grave The Three of Tens Digging From All the Fields of Hail and Fire The Key to English White Wolf Calling
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
Technological advances related to legal information, knowledge representation, engineering, and processing have aroused growing interest within the research community and the legal industry in recent years. These advances relate to areas such as computational and formal models of legal reasoning, legal data analytics, legal information retrieval, the application of machine learning techniques to different legal tasks, and the experimental evaluation of these systems. This book presents the proceedings of JURIX 2023, the 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, held from 18–20 December 2023 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. This annual conference has become re...
Gentrification and Resistance
Gentrification is arguably the most dynamic area of conflict in current urban development policy – it is the process by which poorer populations are displaced by more affluent groups. Although gentrification is well-documented, German and international research largely focuses on improvements in the built environment and social composition of neighbourhoods. The consequences for those who are displaced often remain overlooked. Where do they move? What does it mean to be forced to leave a familiar residential area? What kinds of resistance strategies are developed? How does anti-gentrification work? With a focus on Berlin – the German "capital of gentrification" – the chapters in this volume use innovative methods to explore these pressing questions.
Judging European Democracy
In several EU Member States, constitutional courts have reviewed European law on its compatibility with national constitutional law. These judgments deal with issues of major importance such as EU democratic legitimacy, the protection of fundamental rights, and the status of national sovereignty within the EU. Yet should national courts decide such issues of key constitutional significance for the EU? Or is it more democratic to leave these matters to political institutions that represent Europe's citizens and are politically accountable to them? In Judging European Democracy, Nik de Boer argues that the national courts' review of European law can actually constrain democratic debate over th...
Exporting the Energiewende
Based on close to two hundred interviews with decision-makers, government officials, and industry stakeholders, Karoline Steinbacher presents the first in-depth enquiry into Germany’s efforts of “exporting” its sustainable energy policies. The book closes the empirical gap in understanding how Germany’s leadership influences the transfer of renewable energy policy to three heterogeneous cases, namely Morocco, South Africa, and California.
