Search results for "Political Science and International Relation"
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Le fantôme de Descartes
2012
Trop souvent, on considere l’histoire de la philosophie comme quelque chose de scolaire, qui n’eclaire pas la pensee. Or il en va tout autrement, puisqu’elle nous permet precisement de mieux contrer certains discours du monde contemporain, et d’echapper a l’enfermement du present. Comme le demontre l’exemple de la theorie du dualisme cartesien, qui permet de critiquer de maniere feconde l’approche reductrice des sciences cognitives.
Practicing Ballot Secrecy : Postal Voting and the Witness Requirement at the 2019 Finnish Elections
2021
Electoral rights belong to the core of citizenship in democratic nation-states. Voting, then, represents an actualization of the relationship between the citizen and the political community. For citizens living outside the country in which they are eligible to vote, voting signifies a rare institutional connection to the country of origin. The aim of this article is to explore the introduction of the postal vote, a new form of voting for external voters at Finnish elections, from the grassroots perspective. The study focuses on how a central policy concern, safeguarding ballot secrecy, was resolved in the policy implementation by the witness requirement, and how the individual voters subseq…
Entry Barriers of Small and Medium-sized Software Firms in the Japanese Market
2007
The Japanese software market size was 131,773 million U.S. dollars in 2004. Due to limited domestic software production, Japan is highly dependent on imported software products. Despite the market potential for foreign software firms in Japan, almost no research exists on what kind of challenges foreign software firms encounter when they are entering the market. To fill this gap, this paper investigates the entry barriers of small and medium-sized software firms in the Japanese market by using a multi case-study. The findings suggest that most of the barriers are firm-specific and mainly related to firms’ resources and capabilities to operate in the market. The entry barriers encountered al…
The effectiveness of interregional security cooperation: evaluating the joint engagement of the EU and the AU in response to the 2013 crisis in the C…
2017
African Union (AU)–European Union (EU) interregional security cooperation has not so far been analysed systematically with regard to its effectiveness despite the substantial support of African cap...
The Nazi Connection. Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. Stefan Kuhl, New York and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. 184 pp. …
2003
Public Opinion, National Integration and National Identity in Spain: The Case of the Barcelona Olympic Games
1997
. This article analyses the impact of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games on national integration and national identity in Spain with respect to the conflict of interests that developed around the Games between the centre and Catalonia. We argue that polarisation along nationalist lines was limited in large part because national identity in Spain today is not predominantly a unitary and exclusive entity. Dual identity, loyalty to both Spain, on the one hand, and to one's region, or nation as in the case of Catalonia, on the other, and inclusive nationalism that does not aim at complete national independence, increasingly have tended to predominate in the last decade and a half. The Olympics, t…
Tackling wicked problems in performance management and governance of public health: an empirical analysis of COVID-19 vaccination strategies
2023
PurposePublic health strategies and activities are intrinsically complex. According to the literature, this “wickedness” depends on the different interests and expectations of the stakeholders and the community, the fragmented governance of the related services and the challenges in measuring and assessing public health outcomes. Existent performance measures and management systems for public health are not designed to cope with wickedness since they are mainly focused on inputs and outputs, neglecting broader outcomes because of their long-term impact and the poor accountability of results. This research aims to tackle this shortfall by adopting a dynamic performance management (DPM) appro…
Cooperation Formats of China and Europe: Synergies and Divergences
2017
Abstract This contribution articulates the synergies and divergences of the various formats of cooperation between China and the European countries. The EU and China have a strong interest in each other’s flagship initiatives, namely the Investment Plan for Europe, and the One Belt, One Road Initiative (Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road). The authors argue that there are certain synergies between these initiatives. Furthermore, the new initiative EU-China Connectivity Platform is aimed to explore these synergies. The authors explore the recent developments in the EU-China investments, trade cooperation and the challenges of the ever-growing CEEC-China partnership i…
El proceso de independencia de cataluña: su visión desde la comunidad valenciana
2016
Este trabajo aborda el proceso independentista de Cataluña desde la perspectiva de la Comunidad Valenciana; analizando, por un lado, la respuesta que se ha ofrecido institucionalmente a la Declaración del Parlamento de Cataluña que inicia el «proceso de desconexión de España». Por otro, estudia la incidencia de dicho proceso en el marco de una Comunidad dual, que no ha manifestado ni política ni sociológicamente ningún conflicto entre su autonomismo —con su identidad propia— y su pertenencia al Estado.This paper examines the Catalan movement towards independence from the perspective of the Valencian Community and analyses the institutional response to the Declaration of the Catalan parliame…