Books: 'Micro-political'

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Alsaid, Loai. Political Dynamics in Micro Organisational Accounting Change. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49133-2.

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Micro-macro dilemmas in political science: Personal pathways through complexity. Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

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The impact of economic development on political participation: A micro study. Mumbai: Himalaya Pub. House, 2000.

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Needham, W. Robert. Understanding the Canadian economy: A political economy approach : I. Micro-economics. Toronto: Wall & Thompson, 1989.

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Jana, Kamal. Political socialization in rural West Bengal: Macro dimensions and micro-level analysis of Nadia District. Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 1996.

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O'Kelly, Declan. The management and micro-political implications of the 11 - 16 curriculum programme in Northern Ireland. [S.l: The Author], 1986.

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Creating political and military simulation games on your micro: Includes ten ready-to-run major games. London: Interface, 1985.

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Galligan, Brian. Utah and Queensland coal: A study in the micro political economy of modern capitalism and the state. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1989.

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Da xue jiao yu zhi shi de wei guan zheng zhi zhe xue fen xi: An analysis of micro-political philosophy on educational knowledge in universities. Changsha Shi: Hunan ren min chu ban she, 2010.

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V, Alberto Paniagua. Micro-regionalización, administración pública y desarrollo regional. Lima: Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 1987.

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V, Alberto Paniagua. Micro-regionalización, administración pública y desarrollo regional. [Lima]: Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 1987.

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Landry, Réjean. Prospective et politique: Micro-avenir des individus et avenir global de la collectivité. Québec: Laboratoire d'études politiques et administratives, Université Laval, 1986.

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Jean-Philippe, Gardère, ed. Démocratie participative et communication territoriale: Vers la micro-représentativité. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008.

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Gardère, Elizabeth. Démocratie participative et communication territoriale: Vers la micro-représentativité. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008.

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Di Qual, Anna. Eric J. Hobsbawm tra marxismo britannico e comunismo italiano. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-400-4.

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By developing the biographical genre though a “translocal micro-history” approach, the research aims to study the figure of Eric J. Hobsbawm focusing on his elective affinity with Italy. It examines the ways in which the encounter of the English historian with this country took place and was renewed from the fifties until the new Millennium. First, it analyzes the relationships networks which Hobsbawm created in Italy or with Italians worldwide; secondly, it considers the results that these interactions provoked at the level of scientific production and political reflection, trying to capture at the same time the transformations that his political identity underwent in contact with the Italian Communist Party. Moreover it try to explore the features that his reputation reached in Italy, discussing the influences his production exerted on Italian historiographical context and on Italian public opinion.

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Savchenko, Pol', Aleksandr Alekseev, Nikolay Ahapkin, Sergey Bobylev, Vladimir Varnavskiy, Aleksandr Vilenskiy, Grigoriy Goncharenko, et al. The Russian socio-economic system: realities and vectors of development. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1087982.

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The monograph reveals the System as a way of development of Russian society, as the balance of the whole and the parts at the macro-, meso - and micro-level, mathematical modeling of the System, freedom and justice, man as a factor of production human capital institutional framework for the development of Russian Systems of state and market regulation, improve planning and forecasting, digitalization, political institutions, social functions of the state, social capital, social trend, demography and family, motivation, labour and entrepreneurship, the institutions of labour market regulation, sustainable and dynamic development of the Russian System in the context of globalization. Of interest to researchers and practitioners, teachers, graduate students of economic specialties.

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Chinsky, Pavel. Micro-histoire de la Grande Terreur: La fabrique de culpabilité à l'ère stalinienne. Paris: Denoël, 2005.

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Khan, Firoz. Developmental local government and local economic development: Combining the macro- and micro-institutional foundations of development. Auckland Park: EISA, 1998.

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Growth, poverty and inequality dynamics: Four empirical essays at the macro and micro level. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2008.

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Weisbrod, Julian. Growth, Poverty and Inequality Dynamics: Four Empirical Essays at the Macro and Micro Level. Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2018.

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Falcoff, Mark. Chile: Prospects for Democracy. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988.

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The growth of market relations in post-reform rural China: A micro-analysis of peasants, migrants and peasant entrepreneurs. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

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Censi, Martina. Rituali di segni e metamorfosi Ṭuqūs al-išārāt wa-l-taḥawwulāt. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-475-2.

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Ṭuqūs al-išārāt wa-l-taḥawwulāt (Rituals of Signs and Transformations), published in 1994, is a play which can be attributed to the last phase of Saʿd Allāh Wannūs’s literary production. At this stage, the Syrian author’s political commitment is no longer expressed through the interest for the collective dimension, but it focuses on the individual, considered as a pivotal element for social change. In Ṭuqūs, Saʿd Allāh Wannūs revisits history from an individual point of view, fragmenting it into a multiplicity of micro-narratives. During the 1880s in Damascus, the muftī, the chief religious legal authority, and the leader of the ašrāf, the descendants of the Prophet, are involved in a feud that splits the city into factions and brings it on the verge of anarchy. When the chief of police arrests the leader of the ašrāf while he is engaged in lovemaking with his mistress in his semi-private garden, the muftī concocts a scheme to save his enemy’s reputation, but his real aim is to subdue him and get rid of him. This event triggers a series of transformations involving the identities of the characters. Thus, the leader of the ašrāf, a regular of prostitutes and assiduous drinker, suddenly becomes a mystic with ascetic ambitions, while the upright muftī loses his head for a high-ranking woman who leaves her respectable life to become a prostitute. The whole society is destabilized by the desires of the characters. Desire not only affects their individual identity, but it also exerts influence on their social position, undermining a system of norms based on hypocrisy and on the division between the ‘latent’ and the ‘manifest’.

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1937-, Tewary I. N., ed. Political system: A micro perspective. Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1986.

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Sparkes, Andrew C. Curriculum Change & Physical Education: Towards a Micro Political Understanding. Hyperion Books, 1990.

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Micro-Macro Dilemmas in Political Science: Personal Pathways Through Complexity. University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

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India: The Economy, Political Transition and Micro Small Medium Enterprises. Institute of Small Enterprises and Development, 2014.

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Alsaid, Loai. Political Dynamics in Micro Organisational Accounting Change: Politics, Power and Fear. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Alsaid, Loai. Political Dynamics in Micro Organisational Accounting Change: Politics, Power and Fear. Palgrave MacMillan, 2017.

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Kitschelt, Herbert, and Philipp Rehm. 18. Political participation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198737421.003.0020.

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This chapter examines four fundamental questions relating to political participation. First, it considers different modes of political participation such as social movements, interest groups, and political parties. Second, it analyses the determinants of political participation, focusing in particular on the paradox of collective action. Third, it explains political participation at the macro-level in order to identify which contextual conditions are conducive to participation and the role of economic affluence in political participation. Finally, the chapter discusses political participation at the micro-level. It shows that both formal associations and informal social networks, configured around family and friendship ties, supplement individual capacities to engage in political participation or compensate for weak capacities, so as to boost an individual's probability to become politically active.

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Freeden, Michael. 7. Segments and modules: the micro-ideologies. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192802811.003.0007.

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The age of the mainstream ideologies is not over. But in ‘Segments and modules: the micro-ideologies’ the constant mutation of ideologies and the emergence of fragmented ideologies are traced. Libertarianism, neo-Liberalism, nationalism, feminism, and religious fundamentalism, are all explored as manifestations of the constant tidal pull between the decentralization of political power and its recentralization. The evidence makes it clear that ideologies cannot come to an end, and there isn't a winning ideology as announced by the ‘end of history’ prophets in the 1990s. History is not yet at the finishing post.

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Listhaug, Ola, and Tor Georg Jakobsen. Foundations of Political Trust. Edited by Eric M. Uslaner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274801.013.14.

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Research on political trust has been through a period of strong growth and now constitutes an important field within political behavior. The research growth is driven at least partly by access to new sources of data, which are relevant for testing many of the explanations of political trust discussed in the research literature. Research has moved in several directions. Overall, we observe that research on political trust is strongly integrated into mainstream research on political behavior with an emphasis of attitudes and other political psychology constructs. Complementing the micro-level approach, there is also a movement toward macro-level studies, with strong links to institutions. The institutional approach is primarily linked to electoral institutions and serves to test main hypotheses about differences between electoral systems.

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Young, Dannagal G. Theories and Effects of Political Humor. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.29.

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As both an art form and a mode of persuasive discourse, the use of political humor dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. For centuries politicians, citizens, and elites have marveled at and even feared its powerful—and magical—influence on public opinion. By reflecting on various approaches to the study of political humor’s content, audience, and impact, this chapter offers scholars multiple ways to consider the effects of political humor on individuals and society. It culminates with a consideration of the latest advances in the study of political humor and humor theory and poses challenges to those in the field to better explicate micro-level processes that incorporate structural elements of the text and characteristics of the audience.

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Young, Dannagal G. Theories and Effects of Political Humor. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.29_update_001.

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As both an art form and a mode of persuasive discourse, the use of political humor dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. For centuries politicians, citizens, and elites have marveled at and even feared its powerful—and magical—influence on public opinion. By reflecting on various approaches to the study of political humor’s content, audience, and impact, this chapter offers scholars multiple ways to consider the effects of political humor on individuals and society. It culminates with a consideration of the latest advances in the study of political humor and humor theory and poses challenges to those in the field to better explicate micro-level processes that incorporate structural elements of the text and characteristics of the audience.

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Chadwick, Andrew. The Political Information Cycle. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696726.003.0005.

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Following chapter 3, the emphasis shifts toward deeper exploration of key events and processes that reveal the hybrid media system in flow. Chapter 4 proposes a new approach to political news making based on what is termed the political information cycle. The chapter examines the mediation of two extraordinary news events during the 2010 British general election campaign: the Bullygate scandal and Britain's first ever live televised prime ministerial debate. It shows how political information cycles are built on news-making assemblages that combine older and newer media logics. Using original data gathered during two intensive periods of live qualitative research, the chapter reveals how the hybrid mediation of politics now presents new opportunities for non-elite actors to mobilize and enter news production through timely interventions and sometimes direct, one-to-one, micro-level interactions with professional journalists.

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Wittman, Donald A., and Barry R. Weingast, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548477.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy surveys the field of political economy. Over its long lifetime, political economy has had many different meanings: the science of managing the resources of a nation so as to provide wealth to its inhabitants for Adam Smith; the study of how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes for Marx; the study of the inter-relationship between economics and politics for some twentieth-century commentators; and for others, a methodology emphasizing individual rationality (the economic or public choice approach) or institutional adaptation (the sociological version). This Handbook views political economy as a grand (if imperfect) synthesis of these various strands, treating political economy as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions. The fifty-eight articles range from micro to macro, national to international, institutional to behavioural, methodological to substantive. Articles on social choice, constitutional theory, and public economics are set alongside ones on voters, parties and pressure groups, macroeconomics and politics, capitalism and democracy, and international political economy and international conflict.

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Richter-Devroe, Sophie. Women's Political Activism in Palestine. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041860.001.0001.

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What does doing politics mean in a context of occupation, settler-colonialism, and prolonged state violence such as Palestine? This book traces Palestinian women’s forms of political activism, ranging from peacebuilding and popular resistance to their everyday survival and coping strategies. Over the last decades, the Israeli occupation has tightened its grip on Palestinian life; settler-colonial violence against Palestinians has risen, and Palestine is more fragmented—politically, socially and spatially—than ever. For most Palestinians, neither the official liberal peace agenda nor the liberationist resistance paradigm offers promising solutions to unlock the status quo of political paralysis in Palestine today. Instead, they simply try to get by and struggle through quotidian, small-scale, informal efforts to establish a livable environment for themselves and their loved ones. Women play a major role in these micro politics. The ethnographically grounded analysis in this book focuses on the intricate dynamics of daily life in Palestine, tracing the emergent politics that women practice and articulate there. Rather than being guided by larger categories, such as party politics, social movements, or binaries between the public and the private, it zeroes in on women’s own, often complex and ambiguous, everyday politics. Shedding light on contemporary gendered political culture and alternative “politics from below” in the region, the books invites a rethinking of the functionings, shapes, and boundaries of the political.

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Trepulė, Elena, Airina Volungevičienė, Margarita Teresevičienė, Estela Daukšienė, Rasa Greenspon, Giedrė Tamoliūnė, Marius Šadauskas, and Gintarė Vaitonytė. Guidelines for open and online learning assessment and recognition with reference to the National and European qualification framework: micro-credentials as a proposal for tuning and transparency. Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7220/9786094674792.

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These Guidelines are one of the results of the four-year research project “Open Online Learning for Digital and Networked Society” (2017-2021). The project objective was to enable university teachers to design open and online learning through open and online learning curriculum and environment applying learning analytics as a metacognitive tool and creating open and online learning assessment and recognition practices, responding to the needs of digital and networked society. The research of the project resulted in 10 scientific publications and 2 studies prepared by Vytautas Magnus university Institute of Innovative Studies research team in collaboration with their international research partners from Germany, Spain and Portugal. The final stage of the research attempted creating open and online learning assessment and recognition practices, responding to the learner needs in contemporary digital and networked society. The need for open learning recognition has been increasing during the recent decade while the developments of open learning related to the Covid 19 pandemics have dramatically increased the need for systematic and high-quality assessment and recognition of learning acquired online. The given time also relates to the increased need to offer micro-credentials to learners, as well as a rising need for universities to prepare for micro-credentialization and issue new digital credentials to learners who are regular students, as well as adult learners joining for single courses. The increased need of all labour - market participants for frequent and fast renewal of competences requires a well working and easy to use system of open learning assessment and recognition. For learners, it is critical that the micro-credentials are well linked to national and European qualification frameworks, as well as European digital credential infrastructures (e.g., Europass and similar). For employers, it is important to receive requested quality information that is encrypted in the metadata of the credential. While for universities, there is the need to properly prepare institutional digital infrastructure, organizational procedures, descriptions of open learning opportunities and virtual learning environments to share, import and export the meta-data easily and seamlessly through European Digital Hub service infrastructures, as well as ensure that academic and administrative staff has digital competencies to design, issue and recognise open learning through digital and micro-credentials. The first chapter of the Guidelines provides a background view of the European Qualification Framework and National Qualification frameworks for the further system of gaining, stacking and modelling further qualifications through open online learning. The second chapter suggests the review of current European policy papers and consultations on the establishment of micro-credentials in European higher education. The findings of the report of micro-credentials higher education consultation group “European Approach to Micro-credentials” is shortly introduced, as well as important policy discussions taking place. Responding to the Rome Bologna Comunique 2020, where the ministers responsible for higher education agreed to support lifelong learning through issuing micro-credentials, a joint endeavour of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and DG Research and Innovation resulted in one of the most important political documents highlighting the potential of micro-credentials towards economic, social and education innovations. The consultation group of experts from the Member States defined the approach to micro-credentials to facilitate their validation, recognition and portability, as well as to foster a larger uptake to support individual learning in any subject area and at any stage of life or career. The Consultation Group also suggested further urgent topics to be discussed, including the storage, data exchange, portability, and data standards of micro-credentials and proposed EU Standard of constitutive elements of micro-credentials. The third chapter is devoted to the institutional readiness to issue and to recognize digital and micro-credentials. Universities need strategic decisions and procedures ready to be enacted for assessment of open learning and issuing micro-credentials. The administrative and academic staff needs to be aware and confident to follow these procedures while keeping the quality assurance procedures in place, as well. The process needs to include increasing teacher awareness in the processes of open learning assessment and the role of micro-credentials for the competitiveness of lifelong learners in general. When the strategic documents and procedures to assess open learning are in place and the staff is ready and well aware of the processes, the description of the courses and the virtual learning environment needs to be prepared to provide the necessary metadata for the assessment of open learning and issuing of micro-credentials. Different innovation-driven projects offer solutions: OEPass developed a pilot Learning Passport, based on European Diploma Supplement, MicroHE developed a portal Credentify for displaying, verifying and sharing micro-credential data. Credentify platform is using Blockchain technology and is developed to comply with European Qualifications Framework. Institutions, willing to join Credentify platform, should make strategic discussions to apply micro-credential metadata standards. The ECCOE project building on outcomes of OEPass and MicroHE offers an all-encompassing set of quality descriptors for credentials and the descriptions of learning opportunities in higher education. The third chapter also describes the requirements for university structures to interact with the Europass digital credentials infrastructure. In 2020, European Commission launched a new Europass platform with Digital Credential Infrastructure in place. Higher education institutions issuing micro-credentials linked to Europass digital credentials infrastructure may offer added value for the learners and can increase reliability and fraud-resistant information for the employers. However, before using Europass Digital Credentials, universities should fulfil the necessary preconditions that include obtaining a qualified electronic seal, installing additional software and preparing the necessary data templates. Moreover, the virtual learning environment needs to be prepared to export learning outcomes to a digital credential, maintaining and securing learner authentication. Open learning opportunity descriptions also need to be adjusted to transfer and match information for the credential meta-data. The Fourth chapter illustrates how digital badges as a type of micro-credentials in open online learning assessment may be used in higher education to create added value for the learners and employers. An adequately provided metadata allows using digital badges as a valuable tool for recognition in all learning settings, including formal, non-formal and informal.

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Dalton, Russell J. Congruence and Representation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830986.003.0008.

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This chapter examines the congruence between voters and their preferred party on the economic and cultural cleavages. It describes political representation on both cleavages at the macro and micro levels. The chapter determines whether voters as a collective find a party that well represents their positions, or if they satisfice with a party that only partially reflects their views. There is a very close collective fit between voters and their chosen party in the two-dimensional space. Then the chapter examines the fit between voter and party for each individual voter. While there is strong voter-party congruence at the macro level, this relationship weakens at the micro level. This produces a tension between collective representation and individual-level views of representation.

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Meng, Jing. Fragmented Memories and Screening Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528462.001.0001.

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This book explores the way personal memories and micro-narratives of the Cultural Revolution are represented in post-2001 films and television dramas in mainland China, unravelling the complex political, social and cultural forces imbricated within the personalized narrative modes of remembering the past in postsocialist China. While representations of personal stories mushroomed after the Culture Revolution, the deepened marketization and privatization after 2001 have triggered a new wave of representations of personal memories on screen, which divert from those earlier allegorical narratives and are more sentimental, fragmented and nostalgic. The personalized reminiscences of the past suggest an alternative narrative to official history and grand narratives, and at the same time, by promoting the sentiment of nostalgia, they also become a marketing strategy. Rather than perceiving the rising micro-narratives as either homogeneous or autonomous, this book argues that they often embody disparate qualities and potentials. Moreover, the various micro-narratives and personal memories at play facilitate fresh understandings of China’s socialist past and postsocialist present: the legacies of socialism continue to influence China, constituting the postsocialist reality that accommodates different ideologies and temporalities.

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(Editor), Burt Anderson, Herman Friedman (Editor), and Mauro Bendinelli (Editor), eds. Microorganisms and Bioterrorism (Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis). Springer, 2006.

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Friedman, Herman, Mauro Bendinelli, and Burt Anderson. Microorganisms and Bioterrorism. Springer, 2010.

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Victor, Jennifer Nicoll, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Introduction. Edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.1.

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This volume is meant to be a foundational resource on the study of networks in politics. This introductory chapter sets the stage for the chapters in this volume, which revolve around three central questions: What is political network analysis? How does it provide insight into important political phenomena? Why is it crucial for all political analysts to engage in network analysis? The opening argument is that networks are crucial for the study of politics and can bridge the micro-macro divide. After providing a brief history of the application of networks in political science, this chapter engages in a visual analysis of the development of the literature on political networks. This investigation shows the cross-cutting ties among academic subfields and highlights the central contributions to the literature. It also provides an overview of the chapters and concludes with the editors’ thoughts on the future of political network analysis.

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Freeden, Michael. The Morphological Analysis of Ideology. Edited by Michael Freeden and Marc Stears. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585977.013.0034.

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The chapter examines the recent approach to ideology as an actual and ubiquitous combination of decontested political concepts, whose micro-morphological arrangements are the key to the specific meaning each ideological family contains. Shifting proximities and relative weights accorded to those concepts produce multiple ideological variants. Ideologies are pivotal to the discipline of political theory, discernible both in professional and vernacular thinking, and serve as discursive competitions over the control of public political language. Notions of essential contestability, theories of symbolic mapping, and a focus on actual rather than normative political thinking shed light on their semantic significance. Ideologies are permanent phenomena ranging from the flexible to the rigid, and the boundaries that seem to separate one ideology from another may be loose and mutating, challenging the traditional association of ideologies with political parties. In parallel, the study of ideology involves decoding and interpretation, not its juxtaposition with truth.

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Van Aelst, Peter. Media Malaise and the Decline of Legitimacy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793717.003.0006.

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This chapter analyzes media malaise theories and their consequences for legitimacy. These theories argue that the increasing availability of information through new and old media and increasingly negative tone of media are to blame for declining legitimacy. The chapter examines these claims by providing a systematic review of empirical research on media and political support. It first investigates whether news coverage has become more negative over time, and then examines the micro process that might explain the link between media coverage and political support. Empirical evidence suggests that where coverage has become more negative, this occurred before the 1990s and has levelled off since, and is concentrated primarily in election news. Negative political news does have a modest impact on political support once controlled for level of education, but that effect can be positive and negative, depending on the medium, the receiver, and the indicator of political support.

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Tuori, Kaarlo. The Many Constitutions of Europe. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935352.013.23.

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The article discusses two main senses of the “many constitutions in Europe.” First, it argues that the European constitution—identified in the article with the constitution of the European Union—should be examined as a multidimensional and multitemporal process of constitutionalization. A distinction is made between the framing juridical and political constitutions, and the sectoral constitutions: micro- and macroeconomic, social, and security constitutions. Second, the article explores the relations between the transnational European and the national member state constitutions. It is claimed that the debate on constitutional pluralism has one-sidedly focused on merely one aspect (the conflictual one) of these relations within merely one (the juridical) constitutional dimension.

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McClurg, Scott D., Casey A. Klofstad, and Anand Edward Sokhey. Discussion Networks. Edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.21.

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While political network research is often a holistic enterprise, the network paradigm can also be used to study individual behavior. Specifically, rather than focusing on full network structures, a well-established area of research considers individuals’ “core” networks, their perceptions of interpersonal connections, and the consequences of said micro-social environments for myriad political outcomes and processes. This chapter examines this research tradition, tracing the history of its use in the study of political behavior. It begins with discussion of network research, paying specific attention to “egocentric” network name generator techniques. It then outlines several challenges to this research paradigm: (1) the difficulty of making causal inferences, (2) debates over concept and measurement, and (3) questions about mechanisms of influence. The chapter concludes by reviewing advances in the field that have developed from these challenges and points toward next steps in this research agenda, focused on the connected citizenry.

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Leifeld, Philip. Discourse Network Analysis. Edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.25.

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Political discourse is the verbal interaction among political actors, who make normative claims about policies conditional on each other, rendering discourse a dynamic network phenomenon. The structure and dynamics of policy debates can be analyzed by combining content and dynamic network analysis. After annotating statements of actors in text sources, networks can be created from these structured data, such as congruence or conflict networks at the actor or concept level, affiliation networks of actors and concept stances, and longitudinal versions of these networks. The resulting network data reveal important properties, such as the structure of advocacy coalitions or discourse coalitions; polarization and consensus formation; and underlying endogenous processes like popularity, reciprocity, or social balance. The advantage of discourse network analysis over survey-based policy network research is that policy processes can be analyzed from a longitudinal perspective. Inferential techniques for understanding the micro-level processes governing political discourse are being developed.

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Huckfeldt, Robert. Taking Interdependence Seriously. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.012.

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Networks of communication among interdependent citizens constitute the connecting tissue between citizens and electorates, revealing an electoral whole that is different from the sum of its citizen parts. These communication networks, in turn, reflect the social contexts within which an actor is imbedded, thereby bridging the micro-macro divide in our understanding of electoral politics. Belonging to a group and developing corresponding political loyalties is not simply a matter of individual characteristics and circumstance. Rather, it is a matter of being connected to the group through networks of communication and association. These patterns of interdependence produce profound implications that are not only substantive and theoretical but also methodological and profoundly dynamic. Indeed, new platforms for studying political communication continue to emerge, and they carry the potential for further transformations in the ways that we understand the consequences of political communication for individual voters as well as for electorates.

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Haegel, Florence. Parties and Party Systems. Edited by Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy G. Mazur. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669691.013.17.

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International work on political parties and party systems is presented first in this chapter, and then the French scholarship which is largely ignored by international party scholars. The analysis argues the gap between the English-language and French literature is actually widening because of the French penchant for the sociocultural approach. It identifies the need for both French and international communities to better connect in order to avoid isolation and fossilization on both sides. While the micro and qualitative French work challenges some of the tenets of international models, like the catch-all model, and presents important empirical knowledge about French political parties at the local level, French scholars should take a broader perspective on political parties by embracing alternative approaches and examining new objects of study outside the purview of the sociocultural paradigm to address the persistent and widening gap between French and international work on party systems and parties.

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