Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe written by Adam Gendźwiłł and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyzes issues such as local electoral systems, voting behavior, or political representation in Europe. It provides comprehensive and expert coverage of 40 European countries – organized along the respective local state traditions – and in addressing a wide range of important questions related to local elections and voting, it broadens the scope of existing analyses quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Finally, it affords a more theoretically grounded typology of local elections and voting. Each country chapter is written by a leading expert and follows a rigorous conceptual framework for cross-national comparisons, providing an overview of the local government system, details on the place of local elections within the multilevel political system, specific features of the electoral system, analysis of the main electoral outcomes in recent decades, and, finally, reflective discussion. Representative democracy is as widespread at the local as at the national level, and as the significance of local authorities in Europe has increased in recent decades, local elections represent a crucial area of study. The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe is an authoritative and essential reference text for scholars and students interested in local electoral politics and, more broadly, European studies, public administration, and political science.

Download or read book Biliteracy and Multiliteracies written by Fotini Anastassiou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces the reader to ongoing research on the study of biliteracy, and highlights recent trends in the promotion of biliteracy and multiliteracies in education. Literacy issues have come under the microscope of researchers in recent decades. The very concept of literacy includes skills such as understanding, interpreting, and managing different text types in different sociocultural environments. Therefore, the pioneers in the study of literacy characterize it as one multidimensional concept with social and cultural components, or go even further by talking about pluriliteracies/multiliteracies, which emerge through the complex linguistic and value practices adopted by speakers of multilingual societies in the 21st century. The contributions gathered here will give the reader a general idea of where research is heading in the areas of biliteracy and multiliteracies, especially in view of multilingualism and its ever-changing conditions. The authors situate their research within current debates in terms of theory and empirical data. In this volume, the reader will find several chapters discussing issues of biliteracy and multiliteracies in a wide variety of settings, countries, and orientations, including Brazil, Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Portugal, and the USA.

Download or read book No One is an Island written by Giorgio Baruchello and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Iceland vis-à-vis international affairs, with special focus on immigration, foreign aid, Arctic policy, climate change and Iceland´s international image, identity and perception. All issues that play an important role in Iceland´s foreign and domestic policy. This book addresses Iceland as a small state from a variety of perspectives offered by academics and officials. In this book, the authors explore how Iceland’s domestic and international behaviour is marked by its smallness, suggesting that the Icelandic perspective is perhaps more idiosyncratic than international.

Download or read book Sub National Governance in Small States written by Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of subnational government in small states, using Iceland as a model and comparing it with small states of similar population size as well as those with larger populations. The book examines subnational government from the perspective of small state theory, providing a comprehensive overview of the basic data on subnational government for all small states with between 100,000 and 1 million inhabitants. It presents Iceland as a model for decentralization in small states, providing detailed information on the country’s organization at the subnational level, and highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of decentralizing tasks from central to subnational government. Demonstrating the difference population size makes when it comes to successfully decentralizing tasks to subnational governments, this book is intended for scholars, students and practitioners alike.

Download or read book Icelandic Constitutional Reform written by Ágúst Þór Árnason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection documents, analyses, and reflects on the Icelandic constitutional reform between 2009 and 2017. It offers a unique insight into this process by providing first-hand accounts of its different stages and core issues. Its 12 substantive chapters are written by the main actors in the reform, including the Chair of the Constitutional Council that drafted the 2011 Proposal for a New Constitution. Part I opens with an address by the President of the Republic and positions the constitutional reform in its full complexity and longer-term perspective, going beyond the frequent portrayal of that process in international discussion as being solely a result of the 2008 financial crisis. Part II offers a nuanced and contextualised reflection on Iceland’s innovative approach to consultation and drafting involving lay participants, including its twenty-first-century digital take on ‘the people,’ which attracted international attention as ‘crowdsourcing.’ Part III analyses the main constitutional amendment proposals, and focuses on natural resources and environmental protection, which lie at the heart of Iceland’s identity. The final part reflects on the reform’s wider significance and includes an interview with the current Prime Minister, who is now taking the reform forward. The volume provides a basis for reflection on a groundbreaking constitutional reform in a democratic context. This long and complex process has challenged and transformed the ways in which constitutional change can be approached, and the collection is an invitation to discuss further the practical and theoretical dimensions of Iceland’s experience and their far-reaching implications.

Download or read book International Residential Mobilities written by Josefina Dominguez-Mujica and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the drivers and impacts of new international residential mobilities by considering a range of mobilities in different countries across the globe from investment, amenity and retirement mobilities to those of the new global middle class and the transnational elites. It examines the intersection of these mobilities with the increase in the volume of global tourism, the advent of the sharing economy and peer-to-peer platforms, and the effects of transnational property investment. The consequent transformations are considered in urban environments where tourism pressure coexists with gentrification, increasing house prices and processes of social and ethnic segregation. By offering a broad perspective based on different case studies, the book portrays the contradictory consequences of international residential mobilities both favouring local opportunities for development and disrupting housing markets through the disassociation from local demand. As a result this book is a great resource for academics and students in tourism, urban and migration studies as well as policy-makers and practitioners involved in urban planning, social affairs and tourism management.

Download or read book Electoral Politics in Crisis After the Great Recession written by Eva H. Önnudóttir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines to what extent politics in Iceland have been transformed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The book focuses on whether the short-term sudden shock caused by the Great Recession has permanently transformed politics, political behaviour and the Icelandic party system or whether its effect was primarily transitory. These questions remain highly relevant to the wider field of political science, as the book examines under what circumstances sudden shocks lead to permanent changes in a political system. As such, the book situates the post-crisis Icelandic case both temporally and comparatively and evaluates to what extent the Iceland experience is reflective of broader patterns found in other Western democracies, particularly those other countries that were also hard hit by the Great Recession (e.g. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy). This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Nordic politics, Icelandic politics and society, electoral studies, political parties and party systems, representative democracy, political behaviour and more broadly to European and comparative politics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Download or read book Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe written by Ulla Vanhatalo and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe describes what Easy Language is and how it is used in European countries. It demonstrates the great diversity of actors, instruments and outcomes related to Easy Language throughout Europe. All people, despite their limitations, have an equal right to information, inclusion, and social participation. This results in requirements for understandable language. The notion of Easy Language refers to modified forms of standard languages that aim to facilitate reading and language comprehension. This handbook describes the historical background, the principles and the practices of Easy Language in 21 European countries. Its topics include terminological definitions, legal status, stakeholders, target groups, guidelines, practical outcomes, education, research, and a reflection on future perspectives related to Easy Language in each country. Written in an academic yet interesting and understandable style, this Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe aims to find a wide audience.

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Download or read book Medical Superstition in Icelandic Language written by MEENACHISUNDARAM.M and published by MS SOFTWARE LABORATORIES. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÞETTA IS A BÓKMENNTIR VINNA AF FRÖKEN HUGBÚNAÐUR RANNSÓKNARSTÖÐUR. The fyrirtæki skráning vottorð er inn the síðast síðu af þetta bók. The fyrirtæki er a séreign gerð af skipulag skráð af M. Meenachi Sundaram WHO er the höfundur af þetta bók. 10% af bók sölu gildi vilja vera notað fyrir hindúa Musteri Framkvæmdir Ferli. Hver sem er dós endurnotkun þetta bók inn Einhver sniði fyrir Menntun/nám Tilgangur. LÆKNISHÆTJA Læknabókin By M. Meenachi Sundaram FRAMKVÆMD Saga læknisfræðinnar er nátengd þróun guðfræðinnar. Villur annars endurspeglast að mestu í mistökum hins. Sama hversu óljóst og dökkt uppruni hvors tveggja er, hvort sem það er sprottið af fáfræði og hjátrú eða ekki, verður að taka til greina endanlegt afrek eitt og sér. Við höfnum ekki efnafræði vegna þess að hún er upprunnin í gullgerðarlist, við virðum ekki stjörnufræði að vettugi vegna þess að rætur hennar eru samofnar kenningum stjörnuspeki, og svo í guðfræði og læknisfræði horfum við til lokamálsins. Yfirlýsingarnar sem settar eru fram í þessari bók ætti ekki að túlka sem endurspegla þróun guðfræði eða læknisfræði á þeim tíma, heldur sem trú fólksins sem var til á þessum tímum. Heimspeki kann að hafa verið hrein, en ef hugur mannsins var gallaður má ekki leggja ábyrgðina fyrir dyr vísinda. Það er hlutverk sagnfræðingsins að sýna með sanni hugsun og anda þess tíma sem hann skrifar um. Þetta hefur verið reynt í þessari vinnu. Það er ekki gagnrýni á kerfi, heldur gagnrýni á manninn. Það er enginn vafi á því að fáránleg hjátrú er enn til staðar sem tuttugasta öldin mun verða harðlega gagnrýnd fyrir þegar fram líða stundir. Þannig má vel nota orð píslarvotts forseta okkar sem einkunnarorð fyrir þessa bók: "Með illsku í garð engan, með kærleika fyrir alla." Síðasti kafli þessarar bókar hefur verið bætt við af þýðanda, þar sem hann virtist nauðsynlegur fyrir alla umfjöllun um efnið. INNIHALD SÍÐA I. HVAÐ ER læknisfræðileg hjátrú? 1 II. GUÐSMENN Í TENGSLUM SÍNUM VIÐ LÆKNISFYRIR OG Í BARÁTTU SÍNUM VIÐ EÐLIS-VÉLFRÆÐI LÍFIÐ 7 III. TRÚ STUÐNING læknisfræðilegrar hjátrúar 23 IV. Áhrif heimspekinnar á form og uppruna læknisfræðilegrar hjátrúar 89 V. TENGSL NÁTTÚRUVÍSINDA VIÐ LÆKNISHÆTJA 128 VI. ÁHRIF SÉR Á ÞRÓUN Hjátrúar með læknisfræðinni sjálfri 185 VII. HJÁLÆKNISHÆTJA OG GEÐVEIKJA 191 Heimildaskrá 201 MYNDATEXTI SÍÐA CIRCLE OF PETOSIRIS 141 CIRCLE OF PETOSIRIS 143 Lýðræðistafla 145 TENGSL HLUTA MANNSLIKAMANS VIÐ MERKI STJÓRNARVERKINNAR 159 VENESECTION Í STJÖRNUFRÆÐU TENGSLUM SÍNU 175 I HVAÐ ER læknisfræðileg hjátrú? Trú og hjátrú eru tvíburabræður. Þó að hið fyrra leiði mannkynið að háleitustu hugsjónum sínum og hið síðarnefnda sýni okkur aðeins skopmynd af mannlegri þekkingu, eru bæði börn af sömu fjölskyldu. Hvort tveggja er upprunnið í skilningi um ófullnægjandi mannvísinda með tilliti til náttúrufyrirbæra. Sú staðreynd að ekki er hægt að rekja mikilvægustu ferli lífræns lífs til endanlegs uppruna þeirra, heldur að rannsókn þeirra mun brátt leiða til ómótstæðilegrar andstöðu við frekari greiningu, hefur alltaf kallað fram tilfinningu um getuleysi og ósjálfstæði í huga mannsins. . Þessi meðvitund um að vera háð þáttum sem eru algjörlega ofar mannlegum skilningi hefur þannig valdið frumspekilegri þörf á að velta fyrir sér þessum dularfullu þáttum og koma þeim innan seilingar mannlegs skilnings. Með því að reyna að fullnægja slíkri frumspekilegri kröfu út frá siðferðislegu sjónarmiði skapaði mannkynið trú sem síðan kom fram í hinum ýmsu formum trúarbragða. Það er ekki innan ramma þessarar ritgerðar að íhuga hversu langt guðdómlegar opinberanir hafa verið ábyrgðar um þetta efni. Hjátrú kom án efa fram á sjónarsviðið þegar samtímis þessu var reynt að íhuga og útskýra eðlisfræðilega ferla frá sjónarhóli slíkra frumspekilegra krafna. Það er rétt að þetta leiddi í fyrstu ekki til áberandi andstæðu milli trúar og hjátrúar; á tímabili var til þar sem trú og hjátrú - þ.e.a.s. frumspekileg íhugun á siðferðilegum gildum og frumspekileg íhugun á öllum fyrirbærum lífsins - var ekki aðeins jafngild, heldur sameinaðist jafnvel í eina hugmynd. Þetta átti sér stað á tímum þar sem mannkynið taldi öll jarðnesk ferli, hvort sem þau voru af sálrænum eða efnislegum toga, sem strax orsakast af stöðugri truflun yfirnáttúrulegra krafta - tímabil þar sem guðdómurinn var gerður ábyrgur fyrir öllum jarðneskum fyrirbærum . Á þessu tímabili varð trú að hjátrú og hjátrú að trú. Aðskilnaður átti sér ekki stað fyrr en sumir sérstaklega upplýstir hugar fóru að þróa þá hugmynd að það væri eðlilegra að útskýra náttúrufyrirbæri - tímabundna tilveru, tilveru og fráfall - af náttúrulegum fremur en yfirnáttúrulegum orsökum. Viðbrögðin gegn þessari betri túlkun, þrautseigja fylgni við upphaflega tengingu jarðrænna birtingamynda við frumspekilega þætti, skapaði hjátrú náttúruvísindanna. Fæðingu hjátrúar í gríska heiminum verður að vera um sjöundu öld f.Kr., tímabilið þar sem Þales frá Míletos kom fram með viðleitni sína til að útskýra náttúrulega ferla á eðlilegan hátt.

Download or read book Mobilities on the Margins written by Björn Thorsteinsson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time, come into being and develop through interference of everyday mobilities and creative practices that cut across the spheres of culture and nature as usually defined. Through fieldwork and case studies from areas in Iceland, Finland, Greenland, and Scotland, the book’s twelve chapters draw out the multiple relations through which places emerge, where people compose their lives as best they can with their surroundings. A special concern is to explore the links between travelling, landscape, and material culture and how places and margins are enacted through mobilities and creative practices of humans and other beings. The emphasis on mobility disturbs the perception of a place as a bounded entity and offers a useful and necessary understanding of places as mobile and fluid. Mobilities on the Margins is a novel and timely contribution to the exploration of human and more-than-human interactions in a world of increasingly fluid mobilities and insistent crises.

Download or read book Wroc awski Rocznik Historii M wionej written by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and published by Ośrodek "Pamięć i Przyszłość". This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej jest wydawanym przez Ośrodek "Pamięć i Przyszłość" multidyscyplinarnym, jedynym w Polsce czasopismem naukowym poświęconym oral history, którego celem jest stworzenie platformy do refleksji metodologicznej nad metodą oral history oraz do wymiany doświadczeń różnych ośrodków i osób – przedstawicieli różnych dyscyplin naukowych – zajmujących się szeroko rozumianą historią mówioną. W periodyku publikowane są wyniki badań naukowych z wykorzystaniem źródeł historii mówionej oraz dyskusje nad samą metodą, a także opracowane naukowo źródla historii mówionej. Czasopismo jest również źródłem informacji o aktualnie prowadzonych badaniach, projektach, organizowanych konferencjach i nowościach wydawniczych, których tematyka dotyczy oral history. Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej znajduje się w bazach: The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, The Central and Eastern European Online Library oraz w Bazie Czasopism Humanistycznych i Społecznych, oraz w European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS). W 2019 r. Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przyznało WRHM 20 pkt.

Download or read book State of the Nordic Region 2018 written by Anna Karlsdottìr and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State of the Nordic Region 2018 Migration and Integration presents a series of facts and figures showing the current state of integration within core socioeconomic sectors, including demography, the labour force, health, and foreign background in state funded culture in the Nordic Region. The report is produced by Nordregio, an international research center for regional development and planning established by the Nordic Council of Ministers, on behalf of Nordic Welfare Centre and the programme Nordic co-operation on integration of refugees and migrants, along with Nordic Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis. The report is partly based on State of the Nordic Region 2018, which is a unique compilation of statistics and maps, giving a detailed view of the Nordic countries at both national and regional level.

Download or read book The Right Not to Stay written by Valeria Ottonelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central question in the debate on justice in immigration is whether immigrants have a right to stay; this book argues that liberal-democratic receiving states should also grant migrants a right not to stay. This claim runs against the presumption that migrants always desire to move on a permanent basis and intend to forge a completely new life in the country of destination. From this perspective, temporary migration is always a second-best option for migrants, engendered by the closed and often punitive migration policies of receiving countries. This book's innovative focus on the right not to stay is prompted instead by the realization that increasing numbers of migrants throughout the world conceive and plan their migratory experience as circumscribed in time and instrumental to goals and projects that they will pursue once back in their country of origin. These temporary migration projects are worthy of being accommodated by the receiving states as much as the migratory plans of those who resolve or aim to immigrate on a permanent basis. Accommodating them entails setting up the appropriate welfare measures and programs in the host country and, through bi-lateral agreements, in the country of return. This is especially important in view of the fact that very often the migrants who engage in temporary migration projects find themselves in a condition of high vulnerability and risk. The "right not to stay" advocated in this book is a positive and substantive right to see one's project of temporary migration-and-return protected and accommodated by institutions.

Download or read book Political Economic And Social Dimensions Of Labour Markets A Global Insight written by Soon Beng Chew and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how do politics, society and economics shape the growth and failure of labour markets? Does government intervention help or harm labour market reforms/adjustments in times of economic downturn? What forces drive such government intervention and do they differ from society to society?In addressing these big-picture questions, this book's analytical scope is heavily centred around the topic of labour markets' performance. The book argues that performance in labour markets across countries are influenced by their labour market policies. In turn, these policies are shaped, in varying degrees, by the country's politics. Each chapter in this book dives into the labour market experiences in various countries to demonstrate why in some countries, labour markets perform better than in other countries. Major findings from this book suggest that countries can produce better economic and social outcomes (e.g. lower socio-economic inequality) if their labour market policies are aimed at fostering a socially and politically stable society via greater equity in wealth distribution across various socio-cultural and income groups.This book is an essential read for any public policy researchers, policy practitioners and undergraduate/graduate students who are interested or vested in the topic of labour markets' performance in the political, social and economic dimensions. Particularly, this book provides a critical synthesis of the labour market experiences in many countries. Hence, the book serves as an ideational tool to advance future labour market research and policy.

Download or read book Researching Educational Practices Teacher Education and Professional Development for Early Language Learning written by Sandie Mourão and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising the urgent need for further progress in teacher education and preparation for the success of early language learning, this volume presents research on the education and professional development of teachers, exploring how they can foster multilingual spaces in the early years of formal education. Investigating a range of European contexts, the book examines the effectiveness of teacher education for early language learning, covering contexts of multilingualism and English as a foreign language (EFL) with children under the age of 12. Split into three parts examining research into teacher practices, education, and curricula, chapters cover emerging topics such as teacher education and local linguistic encounters; global citizenship and transcultural education; linguistic landscapes and visual narratives; mixed-age classrooms and literacy skills; pre-service and in-service teacher education; and teacher and teacher educator competencies and beliefs. Offering a unique combination of foci on teachers, teacher education and classroom practice, this book will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of early language education, multilingualism, EFL and teacher education more broadly. Student teachers and teachers working in early language learning contexts may also find the volume of interest.