Author: Michael TobiasPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791458143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Interviews with scientific leaders focus on the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology.
A Parliament of Science
Author: Michael TobiasPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791458143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Interviews with scientific leaders focus on the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology.
A Parliament of Minds
Author: Michael TobiasPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791444849
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this companion volume to the national public television documentary of the same name, interviews of philosophy luminaries expose the relevance of philosophy to everyday life.
The Victorian Palace of Science
Author: Edward J. GillinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419666
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Edward J. Gillin explores the extraordinary role of scientific knowledge in the building of the Houses of Parliament in Victorian Britain.
Science in Parliament
Author: A Parliament of Science
Author: Michael TobiasPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791458136
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Interviews with scientific leaders focus on the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology.
The Autocratic Parliament
Author: Irene Weipert-FennerPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815655010
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
When protests erupted in response to the 2010 Egyptian parliament elections that were widely viewed as fraudulent, many wondered. Why now? Voters had never witnessed free and fair elections in the past, so why did these elicit such an outcry? To answer this question, Weipert-Fenner conducted the first study of politics in modern Egypt from a parliamentary perspective. Contrary to the prevailing opinion that autocratic parliaments are meaningless, token institutions, Weipert-Fenner’s long-term analysis shows that parliament can be an indicator, catalyst, and agent of change in an authoritarian regime. Comparing parliamentary dynamics over decades, Weipert-Fenner demonstrates that autocratic parliaments can grow stronger within a given political system. They can also become contentious when norms regarding policies, political actors, and institutions are violated on a large scale and/or at a fast pace. Most importantly, a parliament can even turn against the executive when parliamentary rights are withdrawn or when widely shared norms are violated. These and other recurrent patterns of institutional relations identified in The Autocratic Parliament help explain long spans of stable, yet never stagnant, authoritarian rule in colonial and postcolonial periods alike, as well as the different types of regime change that Egypt has witnessed: those brought about by external intervention, by revolution, or by military coup.
Science Policies for the Next Parliament
Author: Save British Science SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Proceedings of the Canada Parliament Senate Special Committee on Science Policy - Phase 1, With Index - Second Session of the Twenty-Seventh Parliament, 1967-1968
Author: Canada. Parliament. Senate. Special Committee on Science PolicyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Proceedings of the Special Committee on Science Policy
Author: Canada. Parliament. Senate. Special Committee on Science PolicyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
Author: Lyn CarsonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271069074
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book seeks to fill a gap in empirical studies in deliberative democracy by studying the assembly of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament (ACP), which took place in Canberra on February 6–8, 2009. The ACP addressed the question “How can the Australian political system be strengthened to serve us better?” The ACP’s Canberra assembly is the first large-scale, face-to-face deliberative project to be completely audio-recorded and transcribed, enabling an unprecedented level of qualitative and quantitative assessment of participants’ actual spoken discourse. Each chapter reports on different research questions for different purposes to benefit different audiences. Combined, they exhibit how diverse modes of research focused on a single event can enhance both theoretical and practical knowledge about deliberative democracy.