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Finland : Civic activities, growing participation, diversification, and professionalisation
2022
Football arrived in Finland with English seamen in the late nineteenth century. Although Finland engaged in international football as early as the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, football did not become a popular national game. The Football Association of Finland (FAF) emphasised that football should be developed according to amateur principles. Between the World Wars, football had to fight with the Finnish version of baseball (pesäpallo) for living space. Football has been a sport of the cities and urban areas and spread to the countryside slowly. Nevertheless, unlike in other sport domains with a split between non-socialist and workers’ sport movements until the 1990s, the FAF united the…
Proceedings of the International Conference Riga Readings in Social Sciences
2020
Conference Proceedings of the International Conference Riga Readings in Social Sciences (RRSS). The Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, Faculty of Social sciences, University of Latvia annually organizes the international scientific conference Riga Readings in Social Sciences. The 1st RRSS conference (November 23, 2017) explored different transformations of civic society and various dimensions of inequality in contemporary Europe. Key-note speeches were devoted to the different aspects of social inequality. The 2nd RRSS conference (November 22-23, 2018) Baltic Sea Region: Hundred Years On. Contributions from interdisciplinary areas of studies (regional development, human devel…
The New Research Agenda of Examining Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making
2018
This paper presents new research agenda focused on organised interests in selected policy areas in the post-communist countries. In recent years, political scientists have made significant advancements in comparatively analysing the influence of organized interests in the political process. However, the post-communist region has been largely neglected. Instead, large bodies of research have focussed on formal political institutions, party systems and the Europeanization of public administrations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The research agenda discussed here seeks to overcome this research gap by exploring the structures, democratic-participative incorporation and impact of organize…
Paląca, ale niezaspokojona. O potrzebie dialogu obywatelskiego w kwestii przemocy w kontekście zabójstwa Pawła Adamowicza
2020
The aim of this paper is to draw attention to an urgent need of the civil dialogue about violence in Poland. Article starts with outlining of the „civil society” category. Next part is an analysis of the issue of social dialogue. Third part is devoted to the anxiety as a political capital. Then author focuses on the concept of violence. Last chapter is devoted to the methods of violence prevention.