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Jul 2, 2024 · Politics and Governance publishes peer-reviewed articles on various topics in political sciences, such as elections, parties, institutions, gender, and security. Browse the latest and most viewed articles on the journal's website.
- Resilience of Society and The State
- Society and De-Industrialization
- Social Change and The Middle Class
- Economic Crisis and Populism
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The concept of resilience was first used by Holling in 1973 to help understand the ability of ecosystems to absorb or tolerate disturbances and adapt to change. It has been used in many disciplines, such as engineering, as the ability of materials to return to their original state after a shock, physics, as the speed at which a system returns to eq...
The modern world we live in is the result of a process of industrialization that involved the three waves of the Industrial Revolution: Steam production (mechanical production of equipment during the period from 1760 to 1840). An increase in the division of labor (arrival of electricity and mass production from 1870 to 1914). And, finally, the Elec...
In recent decades, perhaps the most significant developments have been the significant accumulation of wealth in the hands of 1% of the world’s population, the reduction of poverty in the developing world—especially in China—and the emergence of large middle classes in developing countries. The period from the mid-1980s to today, is the period of t...
Populism is defined as a shallow ideology which considers that society is completely divided into two homogeneous and competing groups, the “pure people” and the “corrupt elites”, and which argues that politics should be the expression of the general will of the people (Mudde, 2004). It is a specific view of how society is and how it should be stru...
1. More generally, there is an ambiguity in literature about the extent of democracy’s impact on development. By studying 16 empirical studies, Borner, Brunetti, and Weder (1995) conclude that thre...2. In economics, the term interest groups, in its broad sense, refers to any non-governmental social group that seeks to exert pressure on policymakers and exert power in a particular direction, in...3. An activity in which organized interest groups with specific interests seek to influence the authorities in enacting favorable laws and rules to their advantage.4. In the early 1980s, Malaysia, while in a deep recession, adopted a campaign in which Japan and Korea set the standards for economic growth. Values such as hard work, austerity, and patience, wer...This chapter analyzes the relationship between politics and political institutions and how they affect economic outcomes. It covers topics such as democracy, elites, pressure groups, cultural background, media, state resilience and political upheavals.
- Panagiotis E. Petrakis
- ppetrak@econ.uoa.gr
- 2020
Jun 27, 2024 · This contribution enlists Michael Zürn's A Theory of Global Governance (2018) to explore the state of global governance theory through a focus on three substantive themes: authority, legitimacy, and contestation in global governance.
- Orfeo Fioretos, Jonas Tallberg
- 2021
Oct 12, 2017 · In terms of political science, governance refers to the process of political administration, including the normative foundation of political authority, approaches to dealing with political affairs and the management of public resources.
- Yu Keping
- yukp@pku.edu.cn
- 2018
Mar 10, 2023 · Governance theory can gain theoretical and empirical attention if it considers comparative politics of how pluralism, populism, and technocracy can converge in the same political order and design policies in different ways, with different dynamics related to the dimension of political conflict.
This chapter explores how governance can be a foundation for a political theory that focuses on the public sector's role in society and the economy. It develops the concept of governance and shows how it can address contemporary concerns in political science and practice.
Jul 28, 2023 · The concept of governance emphasizes the patterns of political steering, specifically the institutionalized relationship between public, private, and civil actors, in managing public affairs and addressing social problems (Knill & Tosun, 2020).
