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"Yhteiskunta olemme me jokainen" : Facebookin ad hoc -ryhmät kansalaisvaikuttamisen väylinä
2016
Sosiaalisen median aikakausi on muovannut aktiivisista internetin käyttäjistä viidennen valtiomahdin. Sen toimintavalmiudet perinteisten vallanpitäjien tarkkailuun ja kyseenalaistamiseen ovat nousseet odottamattomiin mittoihin, sillä verkon mahdollistama vapautuminen ajan ja paikan rajoitteista on saanut ihmiset kokoamaan voimansa verkkoyhteisöissä. Näistä kansan yhteenliittymistä on tullut yhteiskunnallisiin asioihin kantaaottava koneisto, jonka toimintaan on syytä pureutua tarkemmin. Pro gradu -työni tarkastelee Facebookissa toimivia tiettyä tarkoitusta varten perustettuja ad hoc ryhmiä ja sitä, millaisia mahdollisuuksia niillä on toimia kansalaisvaikuttamisen väylinä. Lähestyin aihetta s…
The roles of the state and social licence to operate? Lessons from nuclear waste management in Finland, France, and Sweden
2019
The concept of social licence to operate (SLO) is an increasingly popular tool for companies to manage their relations with the local communities. SLO is very seldom used in the nuclear sector, which has nevertheless applied similar approaches, under notions such as partnership and participatory governance. This article explores the specific challenges that the application of SLO faces in the nuclear waste management (NWM) sector, by applying an often-used SLO framework of Boutilier and Thomson to illustrative case studies concerning nuclear waste repository projects in Finland, France and Sweden. Among the specificities of this sector, the article focuses on the central roles of the state …
Development discourses of the low human development index : countries in UN post-2015 discussion
2015
This study is about development discourses and agents of the countries with low Human Development Index (HDI) in Africa. It is based on six UN Post-2015 national consultations. These six nations are Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Liberia and Zambia. The criteria of data selection involve the level of HDI, language, format of the report and geographical location. The idea about development as discursive constructed social reality is at the focus of theoretical framework. The method is Discourse Analysis (DA) with some Foucauldian characteristics. The research questions are: What kind of specific development discourses and agentive roles are there in pol…
Kirja-arvio : Havel, filosofia ja uusliberalismi
2022
Teatterintekijä ja presidentti Václav Havelille valheiden tunnistaminen ja totuudessa eläminen oli politiikan perusta. Vastikään suomennettu esseekokoelma tarjoaa mahdollisuuden pohtia Havelin ajattelun yhteyksiä politiikkaan. nonPeerReviewed
Individual and country-level factors associated with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity in old age: a cross-national analysis of…
2022
AbstractThis study aimed to investigate associations between individual-level (personality traits, quality of life) and country-level (gross domestic product per capita, number of policies and action plans for physical activity) factors with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity and cross-level interactions among European countries. Based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) from 2019–2020, self-reported physical activity (N = 46,617 from 27 countries) and accelerometer-based average acceleration and intensity gradient (N = 855 from 10 countries) were analyzed. Mixed-model regressions with two levels (individuals nested within countries) were us…
Choice models in nordic long-term care : care managers' experiences of privilege and disadvantage among older adults
2022
AbstractConsumer choice models have been introduced in eldercare services in several Western welfare societies. Choice models in eldercare emphasise the importance of individuals’ abilities to make informed choices and therefore entail a risk for increased inequalities among older adults with care needs. In the Nordic countries, such inequality risks are in stark contrast to universal policy ambitions of equal access to care services. Care managers, who are responsible for needs assessment for eldercare services, have a central role in implementing policies and, thus, have first-hand experience of their impact on older adults’ access to care. The aim of this study was to explore care manage…
Does It Really Matter? Assessing the Performance Effects of Changes in Leadership and Management Structures in Nordic Higher Education
2019
AbstractUniversities are public organisations, which operate in a highly institutionalised environment. They are heavily dependent on public resources. As such, universities are susceptible to shifts in governance arrangements but are also far from being passive recipients of reform agendas. They face demands from multiple internal constituencies (academics, administrators, students, managers) and from a variety of external stakeholders. This chapter explores the interplay between governance arrangements resulting from policy shifts and university dynamics. It sets the stage for the book, asking the following research questions: (1) what characterises changes in governance regimes in Nordic…
Political science as a topic in post-war German Bundestag debates
2020
The conceptual history of politics in post-WWII (West-) Germany is connected to the history of academic political science. From the Bundestag plenary debates (beginning in September 1949) both the controversies on the political science itself and the contributors of both contemporary scholars and the ‘classics’ of the understanding of politics can be studied. The digitalisation of parliamentary debates opens up new chances for conceptual research in this regard. The article studies the conceptual commitments in the use of the discipline titles (Politikwissenschaft, Politische Wissenschaft, Politologie, Politikforschung, Politische Theorie, also political science) and actors (Politologe, Pol…
Sodan perusteet : sota länsimaisessa filosofiassa
2010
Thomas Hobbes ja pelon taloustiede
2013
Thomas Hobbesia (1588-1679) pidetään usein yhtenä ”kapitalismin isistä”. Näkökulma on kuitenkin sinänsä ongelmallinen, että Hobbes ei juurikaan kirjoittanut pääomista tai tuotannosta. Hänen poliittinen ajattelunsa oli vastakkaista Englannin nousevan porvariston pyrkimyksille toteuttaa vero- ja kauppavapaus. Hobbes piti aikansa Alankomaita huonona esimerkkinä pääoman ja vapauden liitosta.Kysymys omistuksesta löytyy kuitenkin Hobbesin yhteiskuntateorian perustasta. Kuuluisassa ”luonnontilassa” ei voi Hobbesin mukaan olla omistusta, koska vain oikeusjärjestelmä yhdessä väkivallan monopolin kanssa kykenee takaamaan sen. Hobbes kannustaa ihmisiä tuottavaan elämään ja näkee valtion tehtävänä sell…