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Transnational return? On the interrelation of family, remigration, and transnationality – An introduction
2016
AbstractThe focus topic on “Transnational Return? Family Constellations, Expectations, and Negotiations in Remigration” focuses on the meaning of family systems in remigration and the impacts remigration has on family systems. Return processes are characterized by and constructed through hybrid and highly individual as well as familiar remigration decisions, including transnational patterns. Therefore, remigration is increasingly a transnational return. The issue addresses in five articles the reciprocal relationship between remigration and family, the significance of family, the different family constellations and expectations, and highlights the manners, negotiation patterns, and (transna…
Smart parking system - another way of sharing economy provided by private institutions
2018
This paper presents our smart parking solution implemented at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu (LBUS) Romania, which consists in a hardware / software embedded system for managing the institution’s parking lots, namely sharing the parking places in excess for people who are in traffic in neighbourhood of LBUS and are looking to park. Our solution is flexible, universal, applicable to all faculties that have car parks from Romania and not only, in university cities where the crowd is bigger, but also to other private institutions that own parking spaces inefficiently exploited. The advantages introduced are primarily economic, then social and even environmental. The first benefit is econom…
Verso la disciplina giuridica della sharing economy
2015
Nonostante la crescente attenzione dei media e le tante dispute a livello globale sulle regole applicabili, la sharing economy è un fenomeno ancora trascurato dall’analisi giuridica. Questo saggio intende offrire un primo inquadramento delle pratiche economiche di condivisione, in cui piattaforme digitali facilitano lo sfruttamento in comune di beni e l’erogazione di servizi tra «pari», per poi valutare le sfide che i cambiamenti descritti presentano per il regolatore. Le ricadute giuridiche dei nuovi modelli di produzione e scambio vanno ben oltre il conflitto in atto tra esponenti dei comparti tradizionali e nuovi attori economici, sollecitando una ridefinizione dei fallimenti del mercato…
States of mourning: A quantitative analysis of national mournings across European countries
2018
Despite their growing incidence over the last decades, national days of mourning received curiously sparse attention throughout social sciences and death studies. This study investigates the 327 national mournings observed across European countries between 1989 and 2017 in terms of their national variance, temporal dynamics, typology of events that led to their declaration, and victimology. Drawing on a Durkheimian-inspired conceptualization of national mournings as political rites of solidarity and reconciliation, this article finds empirical support for the thesis that the frequency with which European countries declare national mourning is a negative function of a society's level of soci…
Transitional Politics of Memory: Political Strategies of Managing the Past in Post-communist Romania
2017
The article develops a typology of political strategies of coming to terms with the past as a theoretical frame of reference against which it assesses the transitional politics of memory pursued in...
Short Term Dynamics of Tourist Arrivals: What Do Italian Destinations Have in Common?
2011
This work aims to detect the common short term dynamics to yearly time series of 413 Italian tourist areas. We adopt the clustering technique of Abraham et al. (Scand J Stat. 30:581–595, 2003) who propose a two-stage method which fits the data by B-splines and partitions the estimated model coefficients using a k-means algorithm. The description of each cluster, which identifies a specific kind of dynamics, is made through simple descriptive cross tabulations in order to study how the location of the areas across the regions or their prevailing typology of tourism characterize each group.
Mayors in the Town Hall: Patterns of Relations and Conflict Among Municipal Actors
2017
The chapter explores the way in which local actors interrelate with each other and the environment surrounding them. For doing so, it analyses the balance of power among municipal actors in European town halls and to what extent these relationships are characterised either by consensus or by conflict. The findings confirm the existence of differences among types of government, confirming the validity of the Mourtizen–Svara’s typology to capture the division of functions at the apex of local leadership forms of local government. When analysing the level of conflict, other factors such as the level of local autonomy in the political system, the municipality’s economic situation or the mayor’s…
Interactions of Societal Actors and Local Government in Institutionalized Governance Arrangements: The Book’s Scope and Content
2020
The chapter sets the stage for a comparative analysis of institutionalized governance networks grouping local governments and individual and collective or corporate societal actors unfolding at the municipal, sub-municipal and inter-municipal level. It details the premises for analyzing these networks with an emphasis on organized interests and interest intermediation and their relationship with the notion of democracy. It then reviews existing literature on the relationship between local governments and societal actors at two different levels. With reference to the municipal (micro) level, it looks at interest theory, the community power debate and the local governance approach. With refer…
The Politics of Agenda in the Union Debates
2016
The chapter consists of a discussion of the politicisation of the agenda in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions’ public debates roughly between the reform acts in 1832 and 1867. As well as relating the setting of political agenda to the classical rhetorical tradition of inventio, Haapala contrasts the Union practices to the parliamentary setting of debating on both sides of an issue. The chapter also proposes that the Union public debates showed the use of certain rhetorical commonplaces, or topoi, which are named as principle, expediency, character and vote of confidence. Finally, Haapala offers a typology of political agenda setting in the Unions.
Crisis and restructuration in the Valencian metropolitan area
2015
En el presente artículo presentamos los resultados de un análisis de la estructura socioeconómica del Área Metropolitana de Valencia en 2011 que, en comparación a la existente en 2001, permite apreciar las tendencias recientes de reestructuración territorial. A continuación, se utiliza la tipología territorial hallada como patrón para el análisis de la dinámica reciente de la inversión industrial, una de las variables económicas que ha jugado un papel más importante en la formación del área metropolitana, y que desde distintas instancias viene siendo señalada como un factor estratégico de la recuperación económica. El análisis realizado muestra que, tanto en relación con la actividad indust…