• Under the supervision of Dr. Kelly Aguirre , Michael aims to uncover the ways in which cis-heteronormativity works to actively exclude queer, transgender and two-spirit people from participating in decolonial political movements at both the grassroots and intellectual levels. (uvic.ca)
  • Monet is studying political theory, institutional oppression and the power of social movements under the supervision of Dr. Mara Marin . (uvic.ca)
  • Her tentative thesis title is "In which democratic systems can people pursue their political goals through social movements? (uvic.ca)
  • [8] [9] Similarly, in her 1892 essay, "The Colored Woman's Office", Anna Julia Cooper identifies black women as the most important actors in social change movements, because of their experience with multiple facets of oppression. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • [12] The women of the Combahee River Collective advanced an understanding of African-American experiences that challenged analyses emerging from Black and male-centered social movements, as well as those from mainstream cisgender, white, middle-class, heterosexual feminists. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • It will be dedicated to a political debate on the challenges and issues at stake within social movements in the context of the current political upheavals in the world and of the systemic crisis of capitalism. (openfsm.net)
  • For much of the twentieth century, social democratic movements like Labour in Britain or the Social Democratic Party in Germany monopolized the vast majority of left-wing votes. (democracyjournal.org)
  • At the same time, the primacy of economic questions also made it possible for social democratic movements to build up a base of support among significant sections of the middle class. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Beyond the obligations of governments and the private sector to support inclusive programs, there is also a need to acknowledge social movements' legitimate struggles for achieving better living conditions and health outcomes for all people, without exception. (bvsalud.org)
  • I frequently participate in debates and publishing on social movements, democratic innovation, and green ideas. (lu.se)
  • I'm looking to gather and assess different strategies based on research on movements and democratic institutions. (lu.se)
  • In my previous research I have examined, among other things, discourses on riots, feminist and democratic activism in the Middle East, participatory budgeting in South America, the room for critical reflection in higher education, and environmental movements. (lu.se)
  • I teach and supervise on topics such as democracy, public administration, social movements, political theory and qualitative methods. (lu.se)
  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements contains over 400 entries across three volumes, exploring social and political movements and related collective phenomena throughout the world. (lu.se)
  • Comprising over 400 entries across three volumes, this invaluable reference resource explores major social and political movements and related collective phenomena across the globe. (lu.se)
  • You will be equipped to analyse and discuss the role of digital media, social movements and civil society, human rights, environmental issues, and land rights in the region. (lu.se)
  • Here, it seems that the major issue is the disparity between the understanding of social democracy and democratic socialism. (project-syndicate.org)
  • It's social democracy, and it doesn't work, because Capital retain the power, and when Capital doesn't think Welfare and regulation serve its interests any more, they are rescinded. (crookedtimber.org)
  • I am not persuaded that a straight Marxist analysis of political power is realistic and so I am not ready to give up on social democracy. (crookedtimber.org)
  • Popular uprising against authoritarianism, dictatorships, for freedom, dignity, democracy and social justice have not always led to democratic regimes. (openfsm.net)
  • A settlement agreement could be reached among Federal Election Commission staff, the proposed Republicratic entity, other political parties and the U.S. media on a scheme that could greatly enhance democracy in the United States by encouraging greater competition in the political process. (counterpunch.org)
  • With few exceptions, just about every factory town in a major democracy was the natural possession of the political left: Whether in Hull or in Sindelfingen, in Scranton or in Brisbane, most workers reliably voted for the parties that fought for union rights, higher wages, and generous social services. (democracyjournal.org)
  • It is essential that we unite again, imagining new ways to articulate the social and political dimensions, and to deepen our political systems, with more and better democracy, seeking the common good rather than the individualism that has permeated our societies in recent decades. (feps-europe.eu)
  • Robert H. Nelson , professor of economics at the University of Maryland, develops these arguments in Lutheranism and the Nordic Spirit of Social Democracy: A Different Protestant Ethic . (helsinki.fi)
  • According to Nelson, fundamental Nordic values, such as a strong work ethic, complete equality between men and women, and others manifested in social democracy are all derived from Lutheran teachings as embodied in the Lutheran ethic. (helsinki.fi)
  • The book Lutheranism and the Nordic Spirit of Social Democracy: A Different Protestant Ethic offers interesting and novel approaches to the connections between religion, national identity, church and state, as well as the relationship of civil society and government in the Nordic countries. (helsinki.fi)
  • According to Nelson, current challenges to secular Lutheranism and social democracy include the rising number of immigrants and difficulties with maintaining a high rate of economic growth to support a generous welfare system. (helsinki.fi)
  • After all, if one is going to study the reasons for democratic collapse, authoritarian rise and fall and the re-emergence, restoration or first appearance of democracy, one should have a pretty good grasp on what democracy is and is not. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • In a book that I wrote about the relationship between the State, organised labour and capitalists in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in the transition from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s, I used my understanding of democratic theory to break down what it looks like in practice. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • I distinguished between procedural democracy, which is the (electoral) means by which incumbents of political decision making positions are selected, and substantive democracy, which are the institutional, social and economic dimensions underpinning the procedural level and which gives it intrinsic merit. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • Large "D" Democracy basically refers to the procedural and institutional bases of a particular form of elected political representation-rule of law, separation of powers, universal franchise, horizontal and vertical accountability etc. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • This misses a fundamental aspect of the social construct known as democracy. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • That is where the substance of democracy-its ideological foundations translated into everyday social practice-matters. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • Is social democracy facing extinction in Europe? (lse.ac.uk)
  • Costas Simitis in Greece, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Spain, and José Sócrates in Portugal represented the new faces of this successful social democracy. (lse.ac.uk)
  • I've previously been affiliated with the Department of Sociology at New York University, the Center for Social Movement Studies in Florence, the Institute for Urban Research at Malmö University, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Lund, and I've been a "Visiting Democracy Fellow" at Harvard Kennedy School 2017-2019. (lu.se)
  • However, coups d'états are not a panacea to the inability of democracy to deliver public goods and security to the people but are the very antithesis of a democratic culture. (lu.se)
  • However, the foundations of a political culture necessary to consolidate liberal democracy are still weak in most African states. (lu.se)
  • Africa has seen a renewed quest for democracy expressed itself in the streets, popular culture, the Internet, and social media. (lu.se)
  • Martin Luther's theological thinking, as it worked to shape the Lutheran world in the centuries following the Reformation, has had a decisive impact on the creation of the Nordic social-democratic system in the twentieth century, argues Professor Robert H. Nelson in his new book. (helsinki.fi)
  • He drew a distinction between the country's political transition from apartheid to democratic rule and the transformation of its economic and social system. (hbs.edu)
  • Such a merger also would produce substantial savings for the two parties' top contributors and would benefit the American public by presenting a unified vision for the country's future, unencumbered by traditional political infighting between the two dominant parties. (counterpunch.org)
  • The participation of civil society and its various organisations (such as mothers' associations, neighbourhood councils, unions and parties) was an essential element in creating and implementing a government programme that reflected the country's social needs. (feps-europe.eu)
  • The "rising tide" theory is associated with capitalism -an economic and political system that prioritizes private control of goods and services for profit. (uscatholic.org)
  • Catholic social teaching recognizes the benefits of democratic capitalism as compared to other systems such as socialism. (uscatholic.org)
  • Lynn's supervisor is Dr. Feng Xu and her research interests include comparative politics, international relations, feminist political economy (FPE), racial capitalism, East Asia, care work and foreign domestic workers (FDWs). (uvic.ca)
  • Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance , published in 2010, represents Scott's magnum opus. (hbs.edu)
  • But instead of encouraging capitalism as in Calvinist Europe, Lutheranism promoted a social-democratic welfare state in the Nordic world. (helsinki.fi)
  • The main characteristic of Allende's Popular Unity process and its electoral triumph was the leadership and tenacity of Allende himself in building a political project that had the full participation of all parts of society . (feps-europe.eu)
  • The last French presidential election and the recent legislative elections confirmed a seemingly unstoppable declining trend in the electoral support of social democratic parties. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Figure 1 below shows how the electoral picture has changed for thirteen social democratic parties in western Europe since the early 1990s. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Although academic literature often emphasises the importance of electoral laws in modelling party competition, the social democratic decline encompasses all types of electoral laws (from proportional to majoritarian laws). (lse.ac.uk)
  • In particular, when dividing the post-Cold War situation into three periods - the post-Maastricht period (1993-2000), the post-euro period (2001-2008) and the post-crisis period (2009-2017) - social democratic electoral decline is evident especially in the last period. (lse.ac.uk)
  • We are carrying out this revolutionary transformation by deepening the democratic regime, respecting the pluralism of our political organisation, within the legal order and with the legal instruments that the country has given itself - not only maintaining but expanding civic and social, individual and collective freedoms", Salvador Allende said at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1972. (feps-europe.eu)
  • For Salvador Allende, the structural transformation programme had to respect the existing democratic institutions unreservedly. (feps-europe.eu)
  • In Italy, the culmination of the transformation of the centre-left was the merging of the left-Christian Democrats and the Left Democrats (the successor of the Italian Communist Party) into one "reformist" party, the Democratic Party (PD). (lse.ac.uk)
  • It explores democratic, authoritarian, and populist trends and dynamics. (lu.se)
  • He probes the large role a Lutheran ethic played in the development of the Nordic welfare state and the Nordic social-democratic political and economic system during its golden years from the 1930s to the 1980s. (helsinki.fi)
  • They want to see differences between countries with completely different history: a social democratic welfare state, a former Eastern Bloc country, a neoliberal country, a southern European country and a rich oil-producing country outside the EU. (lu.se)
  • Now that US Senator Bernie Sanders has emerged as a leading contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, his brand of democratic socialism warrants closer scrutiny. (project-syndicate.org)
  • and the Driving forces, Pressures, State, Impact, and Responses (DPSIR) framework as wel as Systems Dynamics (SD) from the Sustainability Science perspective. (lu.se)
  • We contend that the success of environmental politics ultimately depends on capturing cultural and political aspirations and on the dynamics of values as they play out in political expression. (lu.se)
  • A successful economy as well as national and social coping rely on trust, while conscious attempts to undermine that trust, which we have recently seen, will harm everyone instead of just individual parties or their voters, social scientist and politician Marju Lauristin tells ERR in an interview. (err.ee)
  • Under the merger scenario, the political parties could retain their brand names, Republican and Democrat, to which many voters have grown attached. (counterpunch.org)
  • But this overlooks the rather obvious point that the greens have largely thrived by attracting voters who had previously opted for social democratic or far-left parties. (democracyjournal.org)
  • In the northern and central countries, the decline was steady but irreversible: here, social democratic parties represent less than 1 out of 5 voters and the scenarios depicted by the polls for the other elections - Germany (September), Austria (October) and Belgium (2019) - is rather problematic. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The audiences for political communications are also central, necessitating concentration on citizen reactions to political messages, how the general public and voters in democratic systems respond to political messages, and the effects of all types of media and message types. (lu.se)
  • Democratic decline. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • In recent years the theme amongst third and fourth generation transitologists includes the unfortunate subject of democratic decline, something that is global in nature and has been evident in mature as well as relatively nascent or immature democracies over the last decade or so. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • This built on other high profile losses for social democratic parties in recent years, notably PASOK's decline in Greece in 2012 (13.2%), which represented a turning point for the Greek political system. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In southern Europe, the social democratic decline was more marked than the other two areas. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Yes, we are completely opposed to any kind of individual or collective behaviour (note that we are speaking of behaviour, not beliefs) promoting a political system which is non-democratic and incompatible with our citizens' constitutional and human rights. (blogspot.com)
  • These youth-led popular protests have demonstrated against social injustice, fraudulent elections, corruption, insecurity, demanding inclusion to participate in governance and a life of dignity as equal citizens. (lu.se)
  • This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy, and Sociology. (lu.se)
  • This groundbreaking Encyclopedia is the very first fully-refereed A-Z compendium of the main principles, concepts, problems, institutions, schools and policies associated with political economy. (lu.se)
  • For example, the youthful civil society in Africa has become vigilant in guarding against the erosion of democratic principles and manipulation by the ruling elite. (lu.se)
  • In this paper, we argue for more utopian environmental politics, more aspirational and democratic conceptions of the future that will open up (geo)political space for alternative discourses and interests. (lu.se)
  • However, Catholic social teaching also recognizes that appropriate safeguards are necessary to prevent capitalist systems from devolving into systems based on unfettered greed or an individualistic ethic of progress. (uscatholic.org)
  • In this chapter we define critical education broadly as a field or approach that works theoretically and practically toward social change that anticipates a post-capitalist world. (ubc.ca)
  • In recent decades, in various regions of the world, our democratic systems have been hit by criminal dictatorships, fanatical right-wingers, populism and strong nationalisms that have led to the degradation of our social fabric and to a division of the left. (feps-europe.eu)
  • But despite this result, the overall picture is one of declining support for social democrats. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The right-wing government has focused on the work-first principle, but so did the Social Democrats in the 1990s. (lu.se)
  • Scott was instrumental in developing the multidisciplinary Business, Government and the International Economy, (BGIE), course that teaches students about the economic, political, social, and legal environment in which business operates. (hbs.edu)
  • This transition has profound bearing on human productive capabilities, adaptability, creativity and values, the organization of economy, public policy, social awareness and life styles that determine sustainability. (mdpi.com)
  • Based on developments in political economy since the 1960s, it is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the field as well as being an authoritative reference work. (lu.se)
  • In this article, I review the history of landscape production in Florida, USA, to reveal the interrelated consequences of adjustments in political economy, administration, land use, and spatial representations for future landscape development. (lu.se)
  • Between these results, other social democratic parties have suffered heavy losses, either as incumbents or as parties in opposition. (lse.ac.uk)
  • These concessions ultimately would benefit less dominant political parties that have been virtually shut out of the political process through exclusion from debates, discriminatory ballot access laws and media blackouts of their campaigns. (counterpunch.org)
  • With nearly 600 entries, this resource pays considerable attention to important political messages such as political speeches, televised political advertising, political posters and print advertising, televised political debates, and Internet sites. (lu.se)
  • This paper addresses these debates and discuss landscape's role in social justice. (lu.se)
  • Fifty years later, taking time to reflect on the political and democratic legacy of this moment that marked Chile and the world is a necessary part of the process of redesigning and strengthening the progressive project - a project that still today seeks to build fairer, more egalitarian and deeply democratic societies to be able to tackle the current new challenges and those of the future. (feps-europe.eu)
  • Over time, concepts like equality, fairness, consensus and consent, mutual respect, toleration and compromise move from being ideals or notions about the proper social order to being baseline characteristics of small "d" societies. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • Asserting the right to participate in landscape production and thus to help steer landscape along desirable development pathways remains a core component of landscape politics and grows in importance as many societies experience widespread citizen withdrawal from engagement in political processes. (lu.se)
  • His research focuses on the social, cultural, and scientific practices that create societies' conceptions of the future. (lu.se)
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall heralded not only the collapse of communism in Europe, but also the destruction of a broader - and far more constructive - social-democratic compact. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Three trends of backsliding constitutionalism on the continent have exposed the fragility of democratic institutions. (lu.se)
  • While there cannot be a one-size-fits-all explanation for the proliferation of coups, the causal factors include poverty, insecurity, poor governance, including endemic corruption and economic mismanagement, infrastructural deficit, poor socio-economic systems and institutions, and frustrated youths. (lu.se)
  • All forms of capital derive their value, utility and application from human mental awareness, creativity and social innovation. (mdpi.com)
  • If no more cases of smallpox are detected, the countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Yemen, and Democratic Yemen will be eligible for certification in October 1979. (cdc.gov)
  • Title= {Connecting with work : the role of social networks in immigrants searching for jobs in Finland}, Year= {2011}, Pages= {687-712}, ISBN= {ISSN 1461-6696}, Abstract= {"This study considers to what extent immigrants social networks have acted as important resources that have helped them to connect with employment opportunities during their entire occupational careers in Finland. (iab.de)
  • Despite the presence of a well-established nationwide system of public employment agencies in Finland, reliance on predominantly ethnic networks was found to be pervasive among immigrants throughout their employment histories under loose as well as tight job-market conditions. (iab.de)
  • A study of sustainability needs to consider the role of all forms of capital-natural, biological, social, technological, financial, cultural-and the complex ways in which they interact. (mdpi.com)
  • This makes human capital, including social capital, the central determinant of resource productivity and sustainability. (mdpi.com)
  • Sustainability challenges associated with energy systems are complex and need an interdisciplinary approach. (lu.se)
  • His main research interests are climate politics , geoengineering, and social theory, specifically where it concerns questions of sustainability. (lu.se)
  • Because the church calls Catholics to consider every economic and political action according to how the most vulnerable members of society are faring , it is important to evaluate the truth of this adage. (uscatholic.org)
  • To understand the real predicament facing the left in Western Europe, North America, and beyond, it is therefore necessary to recognize these developments as different manifestations of the same underlying trend: In most developed democracies, social and cultural issues have, over the past decades, displaced economic ones as the principal political cleavage. (democracyjournal.org)
  • The focus on economic issues handed social democratic parties a vast heartland in the industrial parts of the Western world. (democracyjournal.org)
  • It was a long-term strategy to endow the left with a solid political project that would address the social, economic and cultural demands for structural change. (feps-europe.eu)
  • He shows how Lutheranism continued to have a large impact on national economic policy, as the social democratic adaptation of Lutheranism has sought to build a Paradise of sorts on earth. (helsinki.fi)
  • The Nordic countries should focus more on the fundamental values of their society on which their political and economic systems have been built. (helsinki.fi)
  • What emerges from a very brief longitudinal analysis of the social democratic share of votes in thirteen western European countries is that the 2007-09 economic and financial shock represented a turning point. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The interest rate bonanza and economic growth which followed the introduction of the euro benefited all social democratic parties. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Creating and enabling Environment for sustainable social economic development. (who.int)
  • Each of these instruments carried a theme and strategic focus, which primarily aimed to improve the social economic conditions of our people. (who.int)
  • This document sets out the goals and targets to be achieved in the various spheres of our social-economic life over the next generation. (who.int)
  • Several African countries are burdened by low social and economic development levels, suppression of opposition, human rights abuses, poverty, and poor social service delivery. (lu.se)
  • As a part of the second generation of "transitologists" interested in the causes, processes and consequences of political regime change, I was exposed to a considerable amount of writing on democratic theory and practice. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • Public involvement in the political process has been static or declining for the past few decades. (counterpunch.org)
  • [1] Intersectionality is a qualitative analytic framework developed in the late 20th century that identifies how interlocking systems of power affect those who are most marginalized in society [2] and takes these relationships into account to analyze social and political equity. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Campaigns to remove term limits have faced unsuccessful protests in countries such as Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Burundi, Guinea, the Republic of Congo, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (lu.se)
  • This reduction has been carried out without any major protests from any political party. (lu.se)
  • Michael's MA in Indigenous Governance from UVic and lived experiences inspire his research interests in Indigenous political mobilization, power, privilege and oppression, colonial power structures, gender and sexuality in politics and Indigenous futurities. (uvic.ca)
  • Sharia is an entirely different matter, Sharia in an occidental society is of a political nature (politics being the thing that rules society). (blogspot.com)
  • Let me return your question by asking this: why hasn't everyone in our democratic countries focused yet on the Sharia problem we are facing today? (blogspot.com)
  • The process of democratization has been marred by the formation of political parties, rigging and winning elections, and state capture by a few elites. (lu.se)
  • Allende's political legacy was also his tireless work for the unity of the left, respecting its different nuances and always processing differences with transparency. (feps-europe.eu)
  • The time is right for a merger of the Republican and Democratic parties. (counterpunch.org)
  • Economies of scale in the political business certainly are important, especially in the building of campaign apparatuses at the grass roots level where the parties can attract the greatest number of people to the polls. (counterpunch.org)
  • The two parties could propose certain concessions that would result in easing the entry of other political parties into the political process. (counterpunch.org)
  • To win the FEC's blessing for the merger, the new Republicratic entity also could negotiate a deal with establishment media that would provide for greater coverage of non-Republicratic political parties. (counterpunch.org)
  • Both the Republican and Democratic Parties have operated roughly at their current scales for some years. (counterpunch.org)
  • A Republicratic Party would find the greatest growth opportunities among members of the public who have not previously participated in the political process or have been alienated by the petty nature of the competition previously exhibited by the two dominant parties. (counterpunch.org)
  • The merging of political parties has been a common occurrence in U.S. history, primarily involving less dominant parties and occurring at the state level. (counterpunch.org)
  • To grow the overall vote share of the left, they say, far-left and social democratic parties need only to emulate the greens. (democracyjournal.org)
  • But the same trend has made it far harder for the left to appeal to its traditional working-class constituency, weakening both social democratic and far-left parties. (democracyjournal.org)
  • One of the more surprising aspects of Labour's strong performance in the UK's general election is that it came at a time when social democratic parties have experienced falling support in other countries across Europe. (lse.ac.uk)
  • His political project sought tirelessly to link the two worlds of politics and civil society. (feps-europe.eu)
  • The creation of a super-party, perhaps called the Republicratic Party, would produce sizeable efficiencies through the integration of the offices and operations of each political party into a single entity. (counterpunch.org)
  • Each unit, though, would become a subsidiary of a political holding party called Republicratic Inc., which would become the party label affixed to ballots next to candidates' names in election seasons. (counterpunch.org)
  • Consolidating the party offices would open the communication lines among the political operatives. (counterpunch.org)
  • One can envision scenarios in which unilateral attempts at expansion by either political party, absent the merger, would fail. (counterpunch.org)
  • Evidence such as this would suggest that neither political party would likely expand its political base any time soon in the absence of a merger. (counterpunch.org)
  • There is a broad consensus on the work-first principle and no party has fought to keep the higher rates of benefits in the social insurance system", says Hans Swärd. (lu.se)
  • The Encyclopedia of Political Communication discusses the major theoretical approaches to the field, including direct and limited effects theories, agenda-setting theories, sociological theories, framing and priming theories, and other past and present conceptualizations. (lu.se)
  • She has explored themes in social justice and will reflect an intersectional point of view in her research which complements her personal and academic background. (uvic.ca)
  • Human dignity and the principle of subsidiarity demand that "it is gravely wrong to take from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry," as Pope Pius XI states in Quadragesimo Anno (On the Reconstruction of the Social Order). (uscatholic.org)
  • She has written for a range of academic and community platforms, such as The Journal of Aging and Social Change , Human Rights in the Global South , Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies , Carework Network , Global South Political Commentaries , Taiwan Insight and South China Morning Post . (uvic.ca)
  • Social Investment and Human Development. (who.int)
  • This summarizes the context in which the Preparatory Assembly to the World Social Forum 2013 is organized. (openfsm.net)
  • The Preparatory Assembly to the World Social Forum 2013 will take place from the 12th to the 17th of July. (openfsm.net)
  • Conflicts and other crises continue to disrupt and strain health systems and have an enormous negative impact on health in many parts of the world, including my own region. (who.int)
  • In particular, my analysis of the strategic contestation of undesirable development in the production of the local landscape in a smal coastal community highlights the increasing need to engage strategically in the politics of landscape production in the pursuit of social y and environmental y desirable landscapes the world over. (lu.se)
  • This becomes clear when you see that all the countries except Sweden and Italy have carried out major reforms to combine their social insurance and benefits systems. (lu.se)
  • For the first time in Chile's history, the people felt part of a social and political project on the basis of equal opportunities and conditions. (feps-europe.eu)
  • The issue of poverty is not particularly hot in any of the countries, but Sweden stands out as the country where the issue receives least political attention. (lu.se)
  • This approach has proved able to put environmental concerns on the political agenda, yet such an image of the future cannot stimulate the aspirational politics necessary for the major cultural shifts necessitated by the environmental crises. (lu.se)
  • Drawing on discourse and dramaturgical analysis, we argue that such utopian environmental politics require a reappreciation of which political stages and what forms of political expression matter and why - and consistent investigation of how values and aspirations change. (lu.se)
  • Via several examples that at first glance appear marginal - but might have significant power to foster cultural aspirations and a reimagination of the stages that matter - we point to emerging avenues for a less technocratic and more utopian, culturally-literate, and democratic form of environmental politics. (lu.se)
  • Håkan Johansson, who like Hans Swärd is a Professor of Social Work, is involved in a major EU project to compare welfare policy in six European countries: Sweden, Germany, Poland, the UK, Italy and Norway. (lu.se)
  • The change from regulative and protective policies of farmland to market- based pricing has reinforced tendencies within the real estate market to al ocate land in a social y and economically efficient way. (lu.se)
  • Adopting a comprehensive job-acquisition model, it offers a detailed investigation into how job information that led to employment is acquired and transmitted, how the jobs themselves are applied for, and in which ways social contacts have played a direct or indirect role in obtaining them. (iab.de)
  • In general, those on benefits have always been stigmatised, in the view of Professor of Social Work Hans Swärd. (lu.se)