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Hyperpolitics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Hyperpolitics

Hyperpolitics is an appealing book in print format that is enhanced by an interactive Web version . Calise (Univ. of Naples Federico II) and Lowi (Cornell Univ.) define a hyperdictionary as a dictionary that uses a "method for unpacking a dense concept by separating out its components ... a method of concept analysis." Hyperpolitics provides an innovative way of defining political science topics. It is a dictionary, so readers can look up concepts that are organized in alphabetical order. Using the Web site, users can also, for instance, move from a definition to its "Sources"--"summaries from other dictionaries and online bibliographical sources." The 67 terms are divided into main concepts...

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 801

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies. Under the hegemonic influence of Christian Democracy in the early post-World War II decades, Italy went through a period of rapid growth and political transformation. In part this resulted in tumult and a crisis of governability; however, it also gave rise to innovation in the form of Eurocommunism and new forms of political accommodation. The great strength of Italy lay in its constitution; its great weakness lay in certain legacies of the past. Organized crime--popularly but not exclusively associated with the mafia--is one example. A self-...

Digital Education: At the MOOC Crossroads Where the Interests of Academia and Business Converge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Digital Education: At the MOOC Crossroads Where the Interests of Academia and Business Converge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Massive Open Online Courses, EMOOCs 2019, held in Naples, Italy, in May 2019. The 15 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have marked a milestone in the use of technology for education. The reach, potential, and possibilities of EMOOCs are immense. But they are not only restricted to global outreach: the same technology can be used to improve teaching on campus and training inside companies and institutions. The chapter 'Goal Setting and Striving in MOOCs. A Peek inside the Black Box of Learner Behaviour' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Fuorigioco
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 166

Fuorigioco

Il Pd è finito due volte fuorigioco. La prima volta perché ha rifiutato di accettare che una leadership forte è indispensabile per vincere. Ed è il miglior vaccino contro la degenerazione del partito personale. Ma la seconda, e più dura, sconfitta l'ha subita al proprio interno, dove il virus della personalizzazione si è diffuso nella sua variabile più letale: quella del microvoto e dei micronotabili. Intenti a combattere una battaglia di retroguardia contro il fantasma del leader, i Democratici sono rimasti impigliati nel ginepraio delle correnti. Cacciandosi in una strettoia dalla quale non sarà facile uscire.

OECD Skills Studies Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Education in Italy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

OECD Skills Studies Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Education in Italy

This review illustrates policy actions promoting the entrepreneurial and innovative activities in the Italian Higher Education System, and focuses on 11 case study universities. It discusses strategies and practices adopted by Italian higher education institutions to innovate, engage, and generate value for the society and the economy. This review is part of a series of national reports implementing the HEinnovate framework. HEinnovate is a guiding framework that the OECD and the European Commission have developed to promote the “entrepreneurial and innovation agenda” in higher education.

Political Leaders Beyond Party Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Political Leaders Beyond Party Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-31
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency. Based on data covering a large set of Western countries, and focusing on the trends of personalisation of politics, the volume is one of the first empirical investigations into how party leaders are elected, how long they stay in office, and whether they enter and guide democratic governments. It also provides novel data on how leaders end their career in a broad and diverse range of business activities. Topics covered include political leaders’ increasing autonomy, their reinforcement of popular legitimation, often through the introduction of direct election by party rank and file, and their grip on party organization. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in political parties, political leadership, the transformation of democracy, and comparative politics.

La democrazia del leader
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 168

La democrazia del leader

La nostra democrazia è irriconoscibile. Senza una rappresentanza funzionante, senza partiti governanti, senza elettori partecipanti. Una democrazia senza. Al centro della scena politica resistono solo i leader, ultimo perno di comunicazione, mobilitazione e decisione. Avamposto sempre più isolato della frontiera pubblica occidentale. Ma può la democrazia sopravvivere solo come protesi e baluardo della leadership? Per rispondere, dobbiamo avere il coraggio di capire perché il re è ritornato nudo. E cosa ci aspetta, oltre l'ultima spiaggia.

Monocratic Government
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Monocratic Government

Personalisation is the most relevant political phenomenon of our time. After the decline of structural and ideological foundations of Western democracies, a radical shift from collective to individual actors and institutions has occurred in several political systems. On the one hand, political leaders have gained centrality on the democratic scene as a consequence of both a more direct, sometimes plebiscitary, relationship with citizens, and a more direct control of the executive administration. On the other hand, a process of fragmentation occurs at the mass level, where electoral volatility has strongly increased and the spread of social media enables each citizen to express their convicti...

Guild and State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Guild and State

Guild and State examines the values of social solidarity and fraternity that emerged from medieval guilds and city-communes, and the effect of traditional corporate organization of labor on socioeconomic attitudes and theories of the state. What ordinary guildsmen and townsmen thought about these issues can be gleaned from chronicles, charters, and reported slogans. But in tracing attitudes toward the guilds of early Germanic times to todays equivalent-trade unions-a distinction must be made between popular "ethos" and learned "philosophy." In Europe, from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, the corporate organization of labor and of town-market communities developed side-by-side with ...

Political Branding in Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Political Branding in Cities

This book examines how cities suffering from poor government made a transition to brand politics to break a cycle of inertia.