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Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era
2021
This chapter outlines the main dimensions of analysis for assessing how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organisations into the digital world. So far, most of the academic attention has been focused on the impact of the use of digital technologies on party competition and campaigning, while the intra-organisational dimensions have been significantly under-researched. However, several parties in Europe and around the world, both traditional and digital native, have increasingly used digital technologies such as online platforms for internal decision-making, funding, communication and membership mobilisation. We provi…
A Brief Political History of the Baltic States
2015
Political discourse in the Baltic states is marked by debates on the past as much as on the future. The 1980s drive to break from the Soviet Union, driven by an overwhelming sense of historical injustice, began with small ‘calendar demonstrations’ marking significant dates in Baltic history. Key domestic and international disputes are based on contested interpretations of history. This is particularly visible each spring in Latvia. On 16 March a shrinking number of Latvian Waffen SS Legion veterans, along with several hundred nationalist supporters, march from the historic Dom Church in the Old Town of Riga to the towering Freedom Monument, the symbol of Latvia’s independent statehood. Ther…
Party leadership in Poland in comparative perspective
2016
The aim of this paper is to analyse leadership in Polish political parties in comparative perspective. In the further parts of this paper, the methods of leader selections, their competitiveness, as well as reasons for their stepping down are discussed. Similarly to the western political parties, the Polish ones have been changing their methods of leadership selection. So far each time it has consisted in a formal increase in the inclusiveness of the selection. The reasons for transferring the rights relating to the leadership selection to party members were brought closer to the premises typical for Westminster democracies rather than the consensual ones. The analysis of the Polish case sh…
Elected and Unelected Institutions
2015
Having broken away from the Soviet Union, the Baltic states rapidly moved towards new constitutional orders more in line with the demands of the new democratic and market-economy framework that they were committed to building. The aim was to construct the major elected and unelected political institutions that would allow them to join the principal European organisations and usher in an era of boring normality. From what was a similar starting point, the Baltic states chose very different constitutional frameworks (although the demands of integration with the Western world has led to some institutional convergence). Nevertheless all three have largely achieved their ambition of making polit…
The Strategic Cognition View of Issue Salience and the Evolution of a Political Issue: Landis & Gyr, the Hungarian Uprising and East-West Trade, …
2017
Why do firms facing similar stakeholder issues respond quite differently? The recently introduced strategic cognition view of issue salience and firm responsiveness (hereinafter: issue salience model) seeks to tackle this core question of stakeholder theory. I extend the nascent theorizing with a historical case study in order to rethink the model’s firm-centric perspective. The firm under examination in this historical case study is the Swiss multinational Landis & Gyr (LG) during the Cold War period. Like many other Swiss export-oriented companies in the 1950s and early 1960s, LG was challenged by Swiss pressure groups, which were highly effective at putting an issue on the public agenda:…
Warfare in Livonia at the beginning of the 18th century in relations of English ambassador Philippe Plantamour from Berlin
2019
An important element in current historical research is the analysis of diplomatic relations focusing on the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. They show the history of the Polish-Lithuanian state, its internal and foreign policy from a different historical perspective. In 1700, the Great Northern War broke out and changed the political power system in Central and Eastern Europe for the next decades. Diplomats from foreign courts were interested in this war, including Philippe Plantamour, secretary of the British embassy in Berlin. He sent his reports to the British Isles in which he posted information on warfare in Livonia. The aim of the article will be to analyze diplomatic reports that can h…
Mazākumtautību protesta kustību rašanās: Latvijas krievvalodīgās minoritātes gadījuma analīze
2010
Anotācija Tatjanas Boguševičas promocijas darbam MAZĀKUMTAUTĪBU PROTESTA KUSTĪBU RAŠANĀS: Latvijas krievvalodīgās minoritātes analīze Promocijas darba mērķis ir izskaidrot, kādēļ iepriekš mazaktīva minoritāte izveido sociālo protesta kustību pret valsts politiku. Darba uzdevums ir sniegt ieguldījumu protesta kustību veidošanās izpratnē, analizējot pastāvošās teorētiskās pieejas un papildinot tās ar atziņām, kuras izriet no praktiskā gadījuma izpētes. Politikas zinātnē bez pārklāšanās pastāv divas pieejas, kuras skaidro minoritātes iesaistīšanos protesta kustībā - sociālo kustību pieeja un etniskās mobilizācijas pieeja. Autore tās kritiski analizē, veidojot savu etniskās mobilizācijas modeli…
Tools for education : policy analysis
2003
03125http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/06/06/000094946_03052904033567/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf; This hands-on, interactive guide to evaluating and revamping education policy is designed to help policymakers in low-income countries identify weakness and make the most efficient use of scarce education resources. Education specialist in the developed world will also find this guide to be an invaluable tool for analyzing priorities and arriving at cost-effective solutions. The out-growth of training workshops held at the World Bank, this book and CD-ROM present relevant policy problems and engage the user in a search for effective education-service delivery o…
La crise du modèle français d'éducation
2007
07009; Séminaire interne de l'IREDU, 3 avril 2007. 15 p.; Il s'agit de la conclusion de l'ouvrage "Gouverner l'école, une comparaison France/Etats-Unis" (Denis Meuret, PUF, 2007), présentée lors du séminaire interne de l'iredu du 3 avril 2007.
L'école à La Réunion -approches plurielles
2005
05024; Le devenir du système éducatif à La Réunion constitue un défi important et complexe, qui nécessite une pluralité d'approches. L'ouvrage commence par une étude sur le développement de la scolarisation dans l'île, incluant les évolutions les plus récentes. Vient ensuite une analyse quantitative des déterminants de la réussite et de l'échec scolaires en comparaison avec ceux de la métropole.