TY - BOOK A1 - Hallerberg, Mark A1 - Kucik, Jeffrey A1 - Mukherjee, Bumba T1 - Principles of International Political Economy N2 - Principles of International Political Economy is the only text to bridge the gap between the real world of politics underlying the international economy and the tools that researchers use to understand IPE. Utilizing a central theoretical framework, the book provides a systematic and widespread introduction to the standard topics covered in an IPE course. It also emphasizes the role of domestic and international institutions in IPE and incorporates several subject areas that are not covered well in other texts, including political determinants and consequences of financial crises; implications of the rise of the BRICs; international environmental politics; the political origins and effect of sovereign debt; and the politics of foreign aid and its effect on development, democracy, and human rights. KW - International Political Economy Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-0-19-979618-2 PB - Oxford University Press Inc CY - New York ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hurrelmann, Klaus A1 - Richter, Matthias T1 - Understanding Public Health N2 - This book develops a new model of the genesis of health, on the basis of the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Hurrelmann and Richter build upon the basic theories of health and the popular model of salutogenesis to offer a comprehensive interdisciplinary theory of health genesis and success: Productive Processing of Reality (PPR). The authors show that health is the lifelong dynamic process of dealing with the internal reality of physical and psychological impulses and the external reality of social and material impulses. To demonstrate this, the book is split into three interconnected parts. Part A analyses the determinants of health, providing an overview of the insights of current research and the impact of socioeconomic influences and gender on health. Part B covers public health, social, learning and coping theories, all of which understand health as an interaction between people and their environment. Part C draws on these four theories to outline PPR, stressing the interrelation between physical and mental constitution and the demands of the social and mental environment, and suggesting strategies for coping with these demands during the life course. Understanding Public Health: Productive Processing of Internal and External Reality will be valuable reading for students and researchers in psychology, sociology, educational science, public health and medical science, and for policymakers in public health. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-0367360764 PB - Routledge CY - Oxon ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Theodorou, Andreas A1 - Bryson, Joanna A1 - Bandt-Law, Bryn T1 - The Sustainability Game: AI Technology as an Intervention for Public Understanding of Cooperative Investment T3 - IEEE CONFERENCE ON GAMES (COG)[8848058] IEEE N2 - Cooperative behaviour is a fundamental strategy for survival; it positively affects economies, social relationships, and makes larger societal structures possible. People vary, however, in their willingness to engage in cooperative behaviour in a particular context. Here we examine whether AI can be effectively used to to alter individuals' implicit understanding of cooperative dynamics, and hence increase cooperation and participation in public goods projects. We developed an intervention---the Sustainability Game (SG)---to allow players to experience the consequences of individual investment strategies on a sustainable society. %, when personal well being, communal space, and resources limitations are taken into consideration. Results show that the intervention significantly increases individuals' cooperative behaviour in partially anonymised public goods contexts, but enhances competition one-on-one. This indicates our intervention does improve transparency of the systemic consequences of individual cooperative behaviour. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781728118840 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Appadurai, Arjun A1 - Fratzscher, Marcel T1 - Ungerechte Verteilung - Eine alternativlose wirtschaftliche Ordnung? Y1 - 2019 PB - Nicolai Publishing & Intelligence GmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Appadurai, Arjun A1 - Fratzscher, Marcel T1 - Unfairly Allocated - An Economic Order Without Alternatives? N2 - Two internationally renowned thinkers and globalization experts meet for this Berlin Correspondence: anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, critical visionary of globalization, and Marcel Fratzscher, director of the German Institute for Economic Research. Focusing on the challenges we face in a globalized world, such as struggles for resources, inequality, and social classes, they raise the question of the »regulatory hand«. Who or what in fact creates our social order? And what about the idea of the self-regulating power of free markets or the reallocation of resources? Part 4 of the Berlin Correspondence series will investigate these issues. Berlin Correspondence is a Matinée-Series of the Gorki Forum and the Humboldt University Berlin in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Y1 - 2019 PB - Nicolai Publishing & Intelligence GmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Appadurai, Arjun A1 - Alexander, Neta T1 - Failure N2 - Wall Street and Silicon Valley - the two worlds this book examines - promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless "flow." Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and (dis)connectivity. Moving between the planned obsolescence and deliberate precariousness of digital technologies and the "too big to fail" logic of the Great Recession, they argue that the sense of failure is real in that it produces disappointment and pain. Yet, failure is not a self-evident quality of projects, institutions, technologies, or lives. It requires a new and urgent understanding of the conditions under which repeated breakdowns and collapses are quickly forgotten. By looking at such moments of forgetfulness, this highly original book offers a multilayered account of failure and a general theory of denial, memory, and nascent systems of control. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781509504725 PB - Polity Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Europe's Burden: Promoting Good Governance Across Borders Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781108459662 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Henke, Marina T1 - Constructing Allied Cooperation: ​​Diplomacy, Payments and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions N2 - This book examines how diplomatic networks allow states to organize collective action. It thereby focuses on one of the areas of international cooperation where such collective action is the most difficult to achieve: multilateral military coalitions. The book argues that such coalitions seldom emerge naturally due to common interests, norms, values, or alliance commitments. Rather, coalitions are purposefully constructed by pivotal states. These states instrumentalize bilateral and multilateral networks, or what I term diplomatic embeddedness, to bargain fellow states into a specific coalition. Via these networks, pivotal states have access to private information on deployment preferences of potential coalition participants. Moreover, these connections facilitate issue-linkages and side-payments. Finally, pivotal states can use common institutional contacts (i.e., IO officials) as cooperation brokers and convert common institutional venues into coalition negotiation fora. The theory and evidence presented in this book generate new insights on how states cooperate in international affairs and the importance of diplomacy and diplomatic ties therein. KW - Diplomacy, Power, Military Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781501739699 PB - Cornell University Press CY - Ithaca, New York ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Leat, Diana T1 - Performance Measurement in Philanthropic Foundations BT - The Ambiguity of Success and Failure N2 - The growth of philanthropic foundations in numbers and significance raises two immediate questions. First, what makes for success and failure of foundations’ projects and activities? Second, what yardsticks or benchmarks are used to measure performance and track goal attainment? The purpose of this book is to delve deeper into the complex set of issues that lie behind the performance and wider impact of philanthropy. Performance Measurement in Philanthropic Foundations looks at the strengths and weaknesses of philanthropic foundations, which are independent of both the market and ballot box and yet open to signal and incentive deficiencies. The authors use in-depth case studies from different countries to illustrate the problems and challenge much of the conventional wisdom on foundation "success" and "failure." The book also outlines the main contours of a proactive governance and management style to address those problems. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781138062443; 9781138062412; 9781315161631 PB - Routledge CY - London and New York ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hurrelmann, Klaus A1 - Quenzel, Gudrun T1 - Developmental Tasks in Adolescence N2 - The topic of adolescent development in Europe is one which has received little academic attention in recent years. Developmental Tasks in Adolescence makes an exciting contribution to the field by applying socialisation theory to four major developmental tasks of life: Qualifying, Bonding, Consumption and Participation, arguing that if the tasks in these areas are mastered, then personal individuation and social integration can take place, a prerequisite for the formation of self-identity. In highly developed societies, adolescence encompasses a period of about 15 years on average. Puberty, or the transition from childhood, starts earlier and earlier, and the transition to adulthood is increasingly postponed. Developmental Tasks in Adolescence proposes that the way in which adolescents master the tasks of everyday life has become a pattern of orientation for the life stages which follow because of the new lifestyle requirements that are typical for modern democratic societies. Today, a life full of uncertainties and ambiguities is no longer limited to adolescence, but rather continues into adulthood. Hurrelmann and Quenzel's sociological approachis valuable reading for students and academics in psychology, sociology, education, social work and youth studies, and for those on professional training courses in these fields. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1138322424 PB - Routledge CY - London/New York ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Römmele, Andrea T1 - Zur Sache! BT - Für eine neue Streitkultur in Politik und Gesellschaft N2 - Warum wir wieder lernen müssen, richtig zu streiten. Ohne Streit ist unsere Demokratie nicht überlebensfähig. Wir brauchen die Auseinandersetzung, um eine öffentliche Meinungsbildung zu ermöglichen und konstruktive Lösungsvorschläge zu erarbeiten. Aber wir erleben heute, dass die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung immer seltener wird und sich die Debatte in die sozialen Medien und die Talkshows verlagert hat. Dort gehen die Akteure Parteien mit ungeprüften Fakten und Behauptungen aufeinander los, bleiben Meinungen unversöhnlich nebeneinander stehen und werden keine Kompromisse mehr gesucht. Es herrscht ein Kampf um Aufmerksamkeit, Selbstbestätigung und die Skandalisierung des Gegners. Andrea Römmele zeigt auf, warum es wichtig ist und wie es wieder möglich sein kann, miteinander zu streiten – ohne sich zu spalten. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9783351037796 PB - Aufbau Verlag CY - Berlin ER -