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Greening Democracy
This book reveals how concerns about nuclear reactors made ordinary people into environmentalists and promoted democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s.
Better Active Than Radioactive!
During the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people across Western Europe protested against civil nuclear energy. Nowhere were they more visible than in France and Germany-two countries where environmentalism seems to have diverged greatly since. This volume recovers the shared, transnational history of the early anti-nuclear movement, showing how low-level interactions among diverse activists led to far-reaching changes in both countries. Because nuclear energy was such a multivalent symbol, protest against it was simultaneously broad-based and highly fragmented. 'Concerned citizens' in communities near planned facilities felt that nuclear technology represented an outside intervention that p...
Tax Court Memorandum Decisions
Contains the full texts of all Tax Court decisions entered from Oct. 24, 1942 to date, with case table and topical index.
Oil and Sovereignty
In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies. Yet waves of price increases and the use of the so-called “oil weapon” by a group of Arab oil-producing countries in the early 1970s demonstrated the West’s dependence on this vital resource and its vulnerability to economic volatility and political conflicts. Oil and Sovereignty analyzes the national and international strategies that American and European governments formulated to restructure the world of oil and deal with the era’s disruptions. It shows how a variety of different actors combined diplomacy, knowledge creation, economic restructuring, and public relations in their attempts to impose stability and reassert national sovereignty.
Frankreich Jahrbuch 2011
Mehr als in anderen Ländern sind Kultur und Bildung konstitutive Bestandteile der französischen Nation und nehmen einen hohen Stellenwert für Politik und Gesellschaft ein. Traditionell weist die französische Elite ihrer Kultur zudem eine universelle, über Frankreich hinausreichende Bedeutung zu. In den letzten Jahren wurden diese Grundüberzeugungen jedoch sowohl international als auch im heimischen Kontext in Frage gestellt. An diese Debatte knüpft das Frankreich Jahrbuch 2011 an. In der französischen Binnensicht geht es um das kulturell geprägte Selbstverständnis der Republik und der Nation, während in der Außensicht die Transformationen der Kulturaußenpolitik beleuchtet werden.
The Politics of Nuclear Energy in Western Europe
This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades. The comparative analytical perspective draws on the interplay between voters' attitudes, challenging movements, party competition, and coalition formation. Spanning more than 60 years and 16 countries, the researchers examine the underlying causal processes leading to the observed varieties of Western European nuclear energy policies. Based on a mixed methods approach using both structured case studies as well as quantitative analyses, the study shows that the nature of party competition under given institutional contexts is a key-driv...
Transformationen der Leistung in Schule und Bildungsmedien
Leistung ist eine der zentralen Kategorien in der Selbstbeschreibung moderner Gesellschaften, deren individuelle und gesellschaftliche Dimensionen immer wieder diskutiert, hinterfragt und verteidigt werden. Was aber wird unter Leistung in historischer Perspektive und angesichts aktueller Transformationen verstanden? Und wie wurde und wird die Kategorie in Schule und Bildungsmedien wirkmächtig? Hierzu versammelt der Band Antworten, die auf eine Vielfalt von Theorien, Geschichten und Methoden zurückgreifen, um so die Komplexität, Ambivalenzen und Spannungen des Themas abzubilden. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die Kategorie Leistung zwar dekonstruiert, jedoch nicht ohne Weiteres abgeschafft und überwunden werden kann.
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Globalizing Issues
This book is an invitation to question conventional and often misleading visions of globalization. No problem is global by nature: issues are transformed by the action of claims-makers to become ‘problems’ debated in supra-national forums, triggering policy choices and policy transformations. Contributions highlight how health issues, environmental issues and/or political issues are framed as global by a set of stakeholders (scientific experts, bureaucrats, political parties or actors, social movements, social networks, firms). As the volume maps the social logic behind the globalization of problems, it also presents an opportunity for the very cross-disciplinary collaboration it calls for: researchers mobilizing the “agenda-setting” paradigm of issue globalization and those working within the “social constructionist” model are both represented here, providing a unique opportunity to examine the dynamics of globalization from the perspectives of (political, media, economic) sociology, international relations, social movement studies, and beyond.
