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Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

By: Kristof Jacobs,Niels Spierings

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Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

By: Kristof Jacobs,Niels Spierings

This book examines how social media have transformed politics in established democracies. Specifically, the authors examine the influence of the unique qualities of social media on the power balance between and within parties. They present a general theory as well as an in-depth case study of the Netherlands and compare it to the US and European democracies. The authors show how and why social media's introduction leads to equalization for some and normalization for others. Additional to national politics, Jacobs and Spierings investigate often-overlooked topics such as local and European politics and the impact on women and ethnic minorities.

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1137533900

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Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

By: Kristof Jacobs,Niels Spierings

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By: Kristof Jacobs,Niels Spierings

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Lakeshore Living

Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers

By: Paul J. Radomski,Kristof Van Assche

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Lakeshore Living

Designing Lake Places and Communities in the Footprints of Environmental Writers

By: Paul J. Radomski,Kristof Van Assche

In this remarkable and remarkably accessible synthesis of ecology, landscape design, and social sciences, the authors present an approach to lakeshore living that addresses the need to create rich, sustainable places and communities on the water, where both the loon and the family find a place, and where the cabin can be handed down with integrity to the grandchildren. Fragile shorelands require care, and that caring comes from knowledge, experience, and an environmental ethic. Radomski and Van Assche argue that an environmentally sensitive lakeshore place and community design is the way forward. While many factors affect the quality of lakes and lakeshore living, property owners and local communities do not have to wait until policies are perfect: the design approach advocated here can be applied in any place people living lakeside can get together and collaborate. The approach presented here is proactive and context sensitive: new designs have to fit the existing ecological, cultural, and policy landscapes. Development is always re-development in this sense. The authors introduce the reader step-by-step to this approach and carefully discuss leverage points that can be helpful in implementation and system change.

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464

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MSU Press

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1628950145

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Rural development

Knowledge and expertise in governance

By: Kristof Van Assche,Anna-Katharina Hornidge

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Rural development

Knowledge and expertise in governance

By: Kristof Van Assche,Anna-Katharina Hornidge

This book offers a unique perspective on rural development, by discussing the most influential perspectives and rendering their risks and benefits visible. The authors do not present a silver bullet. Rather, they give students, researchers, community leaders, politicians, concerned citizens and development organizations the conceptual tools to understand how things are organized now, which development path has already been taken, and how things could possibly move in a different direction. Van Assche and Hornidge pay special attention to the different roles of knowledge in rural development, both expert knowledge in various guises and local knowledge. Crafting development strategies requires understanding how new knowledge can fit in and work out in governance. Drawing on experiences in five continents, the authors develop a theoretical framework which elucidates how modes of governance and rural development are inextricably tied. A community is much better placed to choose direction, when it understands these ties.

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396

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BRILL

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9086868126

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Local Cosmopolitanism

Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

By: Kristof Van Assche,Petruța Teampău

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Local Cosmopolitanism

Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

By: Kristof Van Assche,Petruța Teampău

This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to critically re-examine current conceptions of globalization. The book first illustrates the interplay between networks and narratives in the construction of cosmopolitan communities in three specific cities: Trieste, Odessa and Tbilisi. Each has a past more cosmopolitan than the present and each uses that cosmopolitan past to guide them towards the future. Next, the book focuses on narrative dynamics by isolating several discourses on the cosmopolitan place and figure in European cultural history. It then goes on to detail the internal representations and local functions of larger wholes in smaller communities, shedding a new light on issues of inter- disciplinary interest: self- governance, participation, local knowledge, social memory, scale, planning and development. Of interest to political scientists, anthropologists, economists, geographers and philosophers, this book offers an insightful contribution to theories of globalization and global/ local interaction, bringing the local discursive mechanics into sharper focus and also emphasizing the semi- autonomous character of narrative constructions of self and community in a larger world.

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331919030X

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Fifty Years of Philosophy of Religion: A Select Bibliography (1955-2005)

By: Andy Sanders,Kristof de Ridder

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Fifty Years of Philosophy of Religion: A Select Bibliography (1955-2005)

By: Andy Sanders,Kristof de Ridder

The bibliography lists about 10.000 titles of monographs, collections and articles in the field of the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology that appeared between 1955 and 2005. The majority of them are in the English language but publications in German, Dutch and French are listed as well. Though it is not claimed to be exhaustive, the bibliography offers a fairly representative survey of scholarly work on the main topics of interest. *** Publications have been systematically classified according to eleven main categories: Introductions, Surveys and Historical Issues (Part I), Religious Language (Part II), Religious Experience (Part III), Religious Epistemology (Part IV) , Theism (Part V), Hermeneutics (Part VI), Religion and Science (Part VII), Religion and Aesthetics (Part VIII), Religion and Morality (Part IX), Religious Pluralism (Part X) and Feminist Philosophy of Religion (Part XI). Part III has been subdivided into Religious Experience and Mystical Experience, Part VII into The Concept of God, (arguments for) The Existence of God, The Problem of Evil and Atheism, and Part VII into General and Historical Issues, Theological Issues and (implications of) Modern Physics, Cosmology and Biology. *** The bibliography will particularly be useful to scholars, teachers and students in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and systematic theology as well as to those who are interested, professionally or otherwise, in the results of academic scholarship in those fields.

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9047420810

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The Mirror of Death

Hermeneutical Reflections of the Realms in the Afterlife

By: Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte

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The Mirror of Death

Hermeneutical Reflections of the Realms in the Afterlife

By: Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte

How porous is the border between life and death? How do the dead influence the living and in what way? What can Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the two Limbos tell us of our contemporary world today? In The Mirror of Death, Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte explores the hermeneutical potential of the regions in the hereafter. After an exciting voyage through the emergence of the afterlife and of the constancy of death’s presence in the history of humanity, Vanhoutte shows, through the study of the nature and genealogy of the various realms in the beyond, how an invigoratingly new and critical perspective of a wide variety of contemporary phenomena is unveiled when reading them through the interpretative lens of these regions where the dead dwell. Modern politics, our fellow human beings, the times of our lives, the capitalistic economic system, medicalization, wokism, and living in crisis will never look the same.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538171872

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9781538171875

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Governance, Community and Environment

By: Kristof Van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Monica Gruezmacher

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Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Governance, Community and Environment

By: Kristof Van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Monica Gruezmacher

In this innovative work, Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Monica Gruezmacher analyse the challenges and possibilities of sustainability transitions, presenting the dilemmas facing the path to sustainable communities and societies, as well as proposing creative solutions. The authors deploy evolutionary governance theory as a conceptual framing for transition strategy, highlighting the importance of understanding governance and community strategy in any potential response to environmental crises.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035324008

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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950

Between Saints and Celebrities

By: Tine Van Osselaer,Andrea Graus,Leonardo Rossi,Kristof Smeyers

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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950

Between Saints and Celebrities

By: Tine Van Osselaer,Andrea Graus,Leonardo Rossi,Kristof Smeyers

In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the ‘saints’ and religious ‘celebrities’ of their time. With their ‘miraculous’ bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious ‘celebrities’.

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9004439358

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9789004439351

Evolutionary Governance Theory

An Introduction

By: Kristof van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

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Evolutionary Governance Theory

An Introduction

By: Kristof van Assche,Raoul Beunen,Martijn Duineveld

This short books offers the reader a remarkable new perspective on the way markets, laws and societies evolve together. It can be of use to anyone interested in development, market and public sector reform, public administration, politics & law. Based on a wide variety of case studies on three continents and a variety of conceptual sources, the authors develop a theory that clarifies the nature and functioning of dependencies that mark governance evolutions. This in turn delineates in an entirely new manner the spaces open for policy experiment. As such, it offers a new mapping of the middle ground between libertarianism and social engineering. Theoretically, the approach draws on a wide array of sources: institutional & development economics, systems theories, post-structuralism, actor- network theories, planning theory and legal studies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319009842

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9783319009841

The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

By: Kristof Baten

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The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

By: Kristof Baten

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position to marking the argument’s actual function. Theoretically couched within Processability Theory, the book deals with the feature unification and the mapping processes involved in case marking, and critically examines previous findings on German case acquisition. Empirically, the book consists of longitudinal data of 11 foreign language learners of German, which was collected over a period of 2 years. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the acquisition of German and in the acquisition of case systems in general.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027271704

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Tightrope

Americans Reaching for Hope

By: Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn

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Americans Reaching for Hope

By: Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn

This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.

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0525655085

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9780525655084

The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

Nature, History, Policies

By: Constantin Iordachi,Kristof Van Assche

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The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

Nature, History, Policies

By: Constantin Iordachi,Kristof Van Assche

In this volume Constantin Iordachi and Kirstof Van Assche take an interdisciplinary look at the history, policy, and culture of the development and politics of the Danube Delta.

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Lexington Books

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0739195158

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9780739195154

Organizational Fit

Key Issues and New Directions

By: Amy L. Kristof-Brown,Jon Billsberry

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Organizational Fit

Key Issues and New Directions

By: Amy L. Kristof-Brown,Jon Billsberry

An ambitious survey of the field, by an international group of scholars, that looks toward the future of person-organization fit. Explores how people form their impressions of fit and the impact these have on their behavior, and how companies can maximize fit Includes multiple perspectives on the topic of how people fit into organizations, discussing issues across the field and incorporating insights from related disciplines Actively encourages scholars to take part in organizational fit research, drawing on workshops and symposia held specially for this book to explore some of the creative directions that the field is taking into the future

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118320905

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Book's by Kristof Jacobs

Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

Lakeshore Living

Lakeshore Living

Rural development

Rural development

Local Cosmopolitanism

Local Cosmopolitanism

Fifty Years of Philosophy of Religion: A Select Bibliography (1955-2005)

Fifty Years of Philosophy of Religion: A Select Bibliography (1955-2005)

The Mirror of Death

The Mirror of Death

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

Strategy for Sustainability Transitions

The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950

The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950

Evolutionary Governance Theory

Evolutionary Governance Theory

The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

Tightrope

Tightrope

The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

The Bio-Politics of the Danube Delta

Organizational Fit

Organizational Fit

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