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This handbook for the Methodology of Societal Complexity describes the theoretical development of the field and lays the foundation for the application of the Compram Methodology in the context of addressing complex societal problems. As such, it offers a valuable resource for scientists, practitioners, politicians, master and PhD students in the fields of methodology, the social sciences, operational research, management and political science and for all others who are professionally involved in handling complex societal problems. These problems are the kind that fill the front page of quality newspapers; they have a huge impact on society, involve a variety of phenomena and actors, and are...
Even a cursory review of the numerous hijacking, train and bus bombings can establish beyond doubt that transport systems are particularly vulnerable targets of terrorist attack. To confront and seek remedies for this problem the Transportation Security against Terrorism Advanced Research Workshop took place 05-06 May 2008 at the Merkez Officers’ Club conference venue in Ankara. Although the papers in this edition – which is an overview of the discussions held at the workshop – present diverse and interdisciplinary views, the need to better understand terrorism and its effects on transportation infrastructure emerges as a common view. Due to increased globalization transportation networks are becoming more and more accessible to a growing group of people, some with questionable intentions. Transportation systems are also becoming more and more interlinked with one another requiring fro states to cooperate both during crises and before emergency situations emerge. The editors hope that this book will lay the groundwork for a theoretical and practical understanding of the issues that surround transportation security against terrorism.
With the dawn of the twenty-first century comes the awareness that current rapid political-economic-social and technological transformations will affect our of living, by producing new forms of information, communications, common way market, work-style and leisure. In this context, human behaviour will certainly change its 'fixed' parameters. It is likely that the relationships between internal structures and external influences, between individual components and collective behaviour, as well as between multi-scale networks and interrelated dynamics, will show spatio-temporal patterns which will be difficult to predict by means of our usual tools. As a consequence, academic research is incre...
The Austrian voter in historical perspective / Oliver Rathkolb -- Electoral change in Austria / Fritz Plasser and Peter A. Ulram -- It ain't over till it's over : electoral volatility in Austria from the 1970s through 2007 / Christoph Hofinger, Guenther Ogris, Eva Zeglovits -- Regional elections in Austria from 1986 to 2006 / Herbert Dachs -- Electoral strategies and performances of Austrian right-wing populism, 1986-2006 / Kurt R. Luther -- Framing campaigns : the media and Austrian elections / Gunther Lengauer -- Europeanization in disguise / Peter Gerlich -- The OVP lose, or did the SPO win the 2006 national parliamentary election? / Imma Palme -- Who is the winner? : the strategic dilemma of "the people's choice" / Anton Pelinka -- The conservative turn to socialism / Manfred Prisching