Risk Communication and COVID 19 explores the risk communication responses by national governments to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID 19 strain of coronavirus The book focuses on 17 country case studies representing states all around the world covering a range of democratic and authoritarian systems styles of leadership and political contexts The chapters analyse communication drawing on a modified risk communication framework to determine what patterns governmental risk communication followed in several areas messenger attributes consistency and clarity of communication communication methods message attributes and public trust in government The book also analyses how these attributes changed and developed over time from 2020 2022 The analysed period is divided into several parts representing different pandemic milestones such as the first cases the second wave of the pandemic vaccination and adaptation to the endemic logic of dealing with the COVID 19 virus Importantly the book draws out key lessons which can inform communication strategies during crises particularly when the crisis necessitates public behavioural adjustments The lessons are framed to further understanding of the challenges faced within the field of political risk commu

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan''s classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology, and assesses its theoretical and empirical relevance for the study of contemporary elections, voters and parties. Most importantly this volume gives scope to new areas such as consociational democracies, small island states, and newly democratising Eastern and Central European and Third World countries.

A comprehensive and current text for environmental politics and policy courses that offers a balanced assessment of current environmental issues

Understanding the interrelationship of business society and government is vital to working at any level in an organization of any size

Every four years the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance But in the modern era mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by local or global concerns Russell Field edits a collection that charts the evolution of protest around the Winter Games and illuminates the issues at the heart of anti Olympic activism The essays collectively explore the shifting dynamics and power relations between the civic coalitions that pursue the Winter Olympics and the social movements that oppose their efforts The contributors look at specific Games impacted by dissent and probe the issues that swirled around failed and withdrawn bids In addition contributions on the contemporary Olympics describe current or future bids while delving into the campaigns demanding host nations pay attention to economic social humanitarian and environmental concerns A first of its kind collection Winters of Discontent profiles the wide range of activists and social movements that have organized against the Winter Olympics

Environmental Policybrings together top scholars to evaluate the changes andcontinuitiesin American environmental policy since the late 1960sand help students think critically about their implication

Pedro IbarraDemocracies are being challenged on new and different fronts: by globalization, by the fragmentation of postmodernity, by collective identities. Social movements challenge democracy by calling for readjustments in its decision-making processes. At the same time the social movements are forms of collective action that help the democracies--by keeping them in tension--to respond to the challenges arising from the other fronts. The book deals with this double relationship between social movements and democracy, the movements as challengers and as maintainers of democracy.

Sociedad civil, hegemonía, instituciones, cultura, consenso: hoy es difícil pensar políticamente sin conocer un vocabulario que Antonio Gramsci redefinió en sus apuntes, cartas y manifiestos políticos, y que tienen su forma mas acabada y no obstante abierta en los Cuadernos de la carcel, las 3.000 paginas manuscritas que escribio entre 1929 y 1935, en sus ultimos años de cautiverio. Treinta cuadernos en los que aborda una vasta gama de temas, desde la historia y el nacionalismo italianos, la Revolucion francesa, el fascismo, el taylorismo y el fordismo, hasta la sociedad civil, el folclore, la religion y la alta y baja cultura, y que constituye una de las obras mas originales y que mas caminos ha abierto en ambitos tan dispares como los estudios culturales, la historia social y cultural, las relaciones internacionales o el pensamiento politico.

This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and "freeze" themselves into place. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood.

Esta obra es fruto de la sinergia entre el equipo de investigación liderado por el Dr. Ismael Crespo, pionero en España en el estudio y análisis de las campañas electorales, e investigadores y académicos que forman parte de la Asociacion Latinoamericana de Investigadores en Campañas Electorales (ALICE). Desde una perspectiva plural, el conjunto de la obra analiza el objeto de estudio desde enfoques y metodologias diversas, dando lugar a un texto rico en matices construido sobre una base comun, la de responder a la pregunta: ¿Tienen las campañas electorales efectos sobre la decision del voto? A lo largo de los veinticuatro capitulos que componen esta obra, los trabajos no solo responden a este interrogante, sino que van hilvanando las caracteristicas, actores, factores y resultados de la campaña electoral de las Elecciones Generales de 2011 en España: el contexto preelectoral y la competicion partidista marcados por la desconfianza, la indignacion y la crisis economica; las estrategias y diseño de campaña -candidatos, targets, propaganda grafica, nuevas tecnologias, debate electoral, etcetera-; la transmision del mensaje por los medios de comunicacion tradicionales y las redes sociales; y por ultimo, pero no menos importante, el comportamiento electoral de los españoles en estas elecciones. El conjunto de esta publicacion ha sido posible gracias al apoyo del Plan Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica, Desarrollo e Innovacion Tecnologica (MICINN), y a las investigaciones presentadas en sendos Congresos Internacionales que tuvieron lugar en 2011 en Madrid, el XXII World Congress of Political Science (IPSA) y el I Congreso de la Asociacion Latinoamericana de Investigadores en Campañas Electorales (ALICE).

El presente volumen, en su primera edición, constituye un nuevo hito en el proceso, iniciado por la Abogacía del Estado, dirigido a la elaboración y publicación periódica de obras jurídicas destinadas al publico en general y a los profesionales del Derecho en particular.En esta obra se aborda extensa y minuciosamente, con la colaboracion de un nutrido elenco de autores, la configuracion juridica de una institucion clave en nuestro sistema constitucional de garantias como es el principio de la responsabilidad de los poderes publicos. Desde esta perspectiva, el trabajo analiza la problematica de la responsabilidad publica desde una doble perspectiva: en primer termino, agotando el instituto de responsabilidad en sus distintos planteamientos doctrinales y seguidamente, acometiendo un enfoque eminentemente practico de tan importante cuestion. En definitiva, esta obra se nos presenta con una clara vocacion omnicomprensiva del estudio de la materia que constituye su objeto.

At a time when Congressional investigations have taken on added importance and urgency in American politics this book offers readers a rare insider s portrait of the world of US Congressional oversight It examines specific oversight investigations into multiple financial and offshore tax scandals over fifteen years from 1999 to 2014 when Senator Levin served in a leadership role on the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations PSI the Senate s premier investigative body Despite mounting levels of partisanship dysfunction and cynicism swirling through Congress during those years this book describes how Congressional oversight investigations can be a powerful tool for uncovering facts building bipartisan consensus and fostering change offering detailed case histories as proof Grounded in fact and written as only an insider could tell it this book will be of interest to financial and tax practitioners policymakers academics students and the general public

A stunningly novel account of why populism and fascism are on the rise in the early 21st century.Today we find in the most technologically advanced societies, wild conspiracy theories and a broad distrust of science and expertise have created deep political divisions that are splitting nations in two. Defensive Nationalism explains this paradox, using history as a guide. B. S. Rabinowitz finds that the turn-of-the 19th century was also a period of exceptional technological innovation that ended with toxic political upheavals. To investigate why, the author combines Karl Polanyi's concept of the "double movement" with Joseph Schumpeter's theory of innovation. Weaving together a fascinating narrative that spans two centuries, the book traces how the rapid transformation of transportation and communications during the Industrial Revolution and the Digital Revolution created economic interdependence and capital flows that induced radical economic, social, and political disruptions. In response, separate national-populist movements, stemming from particular national histories and struggles, arose concurrently to produce an era of "defensive nationalism." Distinguishing between creative, consolidating, and defensive nationalism, Rabinowitz offers a persuasively fresh way to study socio-political patterns across time and space.

Risk Communication and COVID 19 explores the risk communication responses by national governments to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID 19 strain of coronavirus The book focuses on 17 country case studies representing states all around the world covering a range of democratic and authoritarian systems styles of leadership and political contexts The chapters analyse communication drawing on a modified risk communication framework to determine what patterns governmental risk communication followed in several areas messenger attributes consistency and clarity of communication communication methods message attributes and public trust in government The book also analyses how these attributes changed and developed over time from 2020 2022 The analysed period is divided into several parts representing different pandemic milestones such as the first cases the second wave of the pandemic vaccination and adaptation to the endemic logic of dealing with the COVID 19 virus Importantly the book draws out key lessons which can inform communication strategies during crises particularly when the crisis necessitates public behavioural adjustments The lessons are framed to further understanding of the challenges faced within the field of political risk commu

La edición de este libro de Casos Prácticos, prepara al opositor para realizar el ejercicio práctico del proceso selectivo para ingresar en el Cuerpo de Tramitación Procesal y Administrativa por el turno libre.El objetivo es poner en practica todo lo aprendido a traves de los manuales teoricos. Hemos recogido las diferentes materias que pueden ser objeto de examen, planteando preguntas tipo test en relacion con cada ejercicio que le permitiran evaluar sus conocimientos y avanzar en la profundizacion de los mismos.