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• 1. Introduction CHARLES CAMERON, BRANDICE CANES-WRONE, SANFORD C. GORDON and GREGORY A. HUBER
• Part I. Candidate Evaluation and Selection: 2. The Importance of Issue Representation in a Polarized Congress JOSHUA D. CLINTON, MICHAEL W. SANCES and MARY CATHERINE SULLIVAN
• 3. Can Citizens Assess Policies Based on Programs' Costs and Benefits? The Role of Yardsticks and Contextual Information in Democratic Accountability ERIC M. PATASHNIK, PATRICK TUCKER and ALAN S. GERBER
• 4. Logic with Polarized Parties, Changing Media, and Motivated Reasoners PATRICK J. EGAN and MARKUS PRIOR
• 5. Groups, Parties, and Policy Demands in House Nominations KATHLEEN BAWN, KNOX BROWN, ANGELA X. OCAMPO, SHAWN PATTERSON, JR., JOHN L. RAY and JOHN ZALLER
• Part II. The Media and the Informational Environment: 6. Local Newspapers and Ideological Accountability in US House Elections BRANDICE CANES-WRONE and MICHAEL R. KISTNER
• 7. Inequality, or Invisibility and Inaccuracy? How Local Newspapers Cover the Occupational Backgrounds of Congressional Incumbents and Challengers NICHOLAS CARNES
• 8. Congressional Accountability in the Contemporary Media Environment: Arguments, Data, and Methods GREGORY A. HUBER and PATRICK TUCKER
• Part III. Policymaking, Information Provision, and Accountability: 9. Coalition Leadership in the Polarized Congress FRANCES E. LEE
• 10. Fire Alarms and Democratic Accountability CHARLES M. CAMERON and SANFORD C. GORDON
• 11. Achieving Accountability: Aligning Institutions and Behavior JOHN W. PATTY
• Part IV. Outside the Public Eye? Private Interests and Policymaking: 12. Legislator Advocacy on Behalf of Constituents and Corporate Donors: A Case Study of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ELEANOR NEFF POWELL, DEVIN JUDGE-LORD, and JUSTIN GRIMMER
• 13. Organized Interests, Policymaking, and Congressional Accountability LEE DRUTMAN
• 14. Administrative Politics with Clear Stakes and Venues: Strategic Commenting upon Federal Reserve Debit Card Regulations DANIEL CARPENTER and BRIAN LIBGOBer
• 15. Conclusion CHARLES M. CAMERON, BRANDICE CANES-WRONE, SANFORD C. GORDON and GREGORY HUBER.
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The last two decades have witnessed a substantial change in the media environment, growing polarization of the two dominant parties, and increasing inequality of wealth and income. These profound changes necessitate updating our understanding of political accountability. Accountability Reconsidered examines how political accountability functions in the US today given the dramatic changes in voting behavior, media, congressional dynamics, and relations between branches. With particular attention to policymaking, this volume uses original research to analyze micro-foundations of voter behavior, examining its implications for incentives and offering insight into the accountability relationships among voters, interest groups, legislators, and government bureaucracy. Combining contributions from leading experts who write about the political system synoptically with those who focus on specific elements, Accountability Reconsidered brings together distinct perspectives to focus on the effect of the informational environment on government officials, bridging up-to-date knowledge about accountability mechanisms with our overall understanding of political accountability.
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• Die Bedeutung der Sozialen Arbeit und Sozialpädagogik im veränderten Wohlfahrtsstaat
• Sorge in der Transformation von Sozialpolitik und Wohlfahrtsstaat
• Rechte Sozialpolitik und die Transformation des Wohlfahrtsstaates
• Widersprüche der Sozialpolitik und die wohlfahrtsstaatliche Kontrolle und Regulierung von Migration
• Diskussion emanzipatorischer Perspektiven sozialpolitischer Entwicklungsoptionen.

Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger. There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar, to Mussolini, Salazar, De Gaulle and Trump. The saga of Boris Johnson and Brexit frequently crops up in this author's narrative as a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon. The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump's march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government.

• The crisis of our rights-based democracy. Rights and their limits ; Democratic deterioration
• The bill of obligations. Be informed ; Get involved ; Stay open to compromise ; Remain civil ; Reject violence ; Value norms ; Promote the common good ; Respect government service ; Support the teaching of civics ; Put country first

"A bold guide to how we must re-envision citizenship if American democracy is to survive The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics, but the greatest peril to the country comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save our democracy. The Bill of Obligations is a bold call for change. In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Richard Haass argues that the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded if American democracy is to endure. The Bill of Rights is at the center of our Constitution, yet our most intractable conflicts often emerge from contrasting views as to what our rights ought to be. As former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out, "Many of our cases, the most difficult cases, are not about right versus wrong. They are about right versus right." Rights alone, however, do not provide a strong enough foundation for a democracy to succeed in the twenty-first century. But there is a cure: to place obligations on the same footing with rights. The ten obligations that Haass introduces here are essential for healing our divisions and safeguarding the future of our country. These obligations re-envision what it means to be an American citizen. They are not a burden, but rather commitments that we make to fellow citizens and to the government to uphold our democracy and fight back against the growing apathy, anger, selfishness, and division that threaten us all. Through an expert blend of civics, history, and political analysis, this book illuminates how Americans can rediscover and recover the attitudes and behaviors that have contributed so much to this country's success over the centuries. As Richard Haass argues, "We get the government and the country we deserve. Getting the one we need, however, is up to us." The Bill of Obligations gives citizens across the political spectrum a plan of action to achieve it"-- Provided by publisher

• Comparative political analysis
• The state, development, democracy and authoritarism
• Institutions of government
• Politics, society, and culture
• The comparative-international nexus
• Country profiles and case studies.

"An engaging and accessible introduction to the subject, Comparative Politics: Integrating Theories, Methods, and Cases gives students the methodological tools they need to answer the 'big questions' in the field. The authors introduce methods early in the text and integrate them throughout, in Thinking Comparatively features, to help students develop a systematic way of thinking about comparative politics. Offering a hybrid format, the text's unique structure offers the best of thematic and country-by-country approaches. Sixteen succinct thematic chapters--organized around the 'big questions' in the field--are followed by a separate section at the end of the book offering full-length profiles and case studies for fourteen countries. Examples of some of the 'big picture questions' discussed in the thematic chapters are, 'Why do countries have different institutions and forms of government? Why do some social revolutions succeed and endure while others fail? Why are some societies subjected to terrorism and not others?' Each chapter integrates several standalone country case studies in Case in Context features; these features tie into the narrative, pose questions, and point students to the full case discussions in the country profiles section of the book"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The Content governance dilemma
• The international law of content governance
• Shaping standards from below : insights from civil society
• Platform policies versus human rights standards
• Conclusion

"This open access book is one of the first academic works to comprehensively analyse the dilemma concerning global content governance on social media. To date, no single human rights standard exists across all social media platforms, allowing private companies to set their own rules, values and parameters. On the one hand, this normative autonomy raises serious concerns, primarily around whether companies should be permitted to establish the rules governing free speech online. On the other hand, if social media platforms simply adopted international law standards, they would be compelled to operate a choice on which model to follow, and put in place mechanisms to uphold these general standards. This book examines this topic from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing from the expertise of the authors in law, political science and communication studies. It provides a carefully reconstructed theory of the content governance dilemma, as well as pragmatic solutions for companies and policymakers. In this way, the book not only benefits academics by advancing the debate on content moderation issues, but also informs new policies and regulatory strategies by offering an up-to-date overview of rules and tools for content moderation, as well as an evaluation of their current level of compliance with standards emerged in international human rights law and digital constitutionalism initiatives."-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld and Armin Schafer
• Part I. The Contested Idea of Political Representation: 2. Democratic Representation, Contestation and Institutional Reform Claudia Landwehr
• 3. Deliberative Minipublics and the Populist Conception of Representation as Embodiment Cristina Lafont
• 4.Protest and the Will of the People in a Representative Democracy Daniel Gillion
• 5. Evolving Dilemmas: Representative Democracy in the European Union Guri Rosen
• 6. Progress and Failure in Achieving Equal Representation: Understanding Women's Office Holding by Party in the US Melody Crowder-Meyer
• Part II. Representation and Responsiveness in Unequal Societies: 7. Reconsidering Representation: How the Same Data Can Produce Divergent Conclusions about the Quality of Democratic Responsiveness in the United States Peter K. Enns
• 8. Party Politics or Public Opinion? Unequal Responsiveness of Policy-making Reconsidered Marius R. Busemeyer
• 9. Unequal Representation and the Right-Wing Populist Vote in Europe Svenja Hense and Armin Schafer
• 10. What Do Voters Think About the Descriptive Underrepresentation of the Working Class? Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu
• Part III. Polarization, New Cleavages and Shifts in Democratic Government: 11. Policy and Politics in Disjuncture Jane Gingrich and Ben Ansell
• 12. The Effect of Polarization on Cabinet Formation and Termination in European Democracies, 1945-2019 Henning Bergmann and Thomas Saalfeld
• 13. Is Populism a Threat or a Chance for Representative Democracy? Michael Zurn
• Part IV. Constitutional Crisis and Institutional Reform: 14. Deliberative Innovations and the (Re-) Inclusion of Disadvantaged and Disaffected Citizens Andre Bachtiger and Vanessa Schwaiger
• 15. Electoral Democracies and Democratic Innovations: An Agenda Mark E. Warren.
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In the past two decades, democratic institutions have faced a crisis of representation. From authoritarian backsliding in countries with recent democratic transformations, to severe challenges to established liberal democracies, the meaning of political representation and whether and when it succeeds has become highly debated. In response to an increasingly fraught political climate, Contested Representation brings together scholars from across the United States and Europe to critically assess the performance of representative institutions in Europe and North America. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this volume looks at the viability of electoral institutions, the responsiveness of government to public preferences, alternative institutions for more inclusive democracy, and the political economy of populism. Chapters also address the broader normative question of how democratic institutions can be adapted to new conditions and challenges. Expertly researched and exceedingly timely, Contested Representation provides critical frameworks that highlight realistic pathways to democratic reform.
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• Intro
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Corruption, Responsibilities, and Global Justice: An Introduction
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Forms of Corruption: An Introduction
• 1.3 An Improperly Close Inter-dependence between Business and Government
• 1.4 Corrupting Healthcare and Medical and Health Knowledge
• 1.5 What Drives Corruption?
• 1.6 Book Overview
• 1.7 Why Should Normative Theorists Be Interested in This Project?
• 1.8 The Central Kind of Corruption in View in This Project: A Clarification
• 1.9 Conclusions
• 2. Corruption and Global Injustice

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Corruption and Global Deprivation: The Case of Clean Water
• 2.3 What Should We Want in an Account of Global Justice? Some Key Themes
• 2.4 How Does Corruption Undermine Global Justice Goals?
• 2.5 Combatting Corruption: Important Lessons from Empirical Studies and Practice
• 2.6 Conclusions
• 3. Justice, State Responsibilities, and Human Rights
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Justice for Compatriots and Justice for All
• 3.3 Human Rights Practice: Central Features
• 3.4 Is the Human Rights Practice Really the Best We Can Hope for in Our Current Situation?

• 3.5 Duties to Contribute to Resilient Communities that Are Human Rights Sustaining
• 3.6 Conclusions
• 4. Reducing Corruption: The Many Dimensions
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Robust Institutions, Effective Bureaucracies, and Good Governance
• 4.3 Robust Mechanisms of Accountability
• 4.4 Transparency and Disclosure Requirements: Opportunities and Limitations
• 4.5 Good Institutional Design
• 4.6 Appropriate Ethical and Professional Standards, Procedures, and Training
• 4.7 Controlling Conflicts of Interest
• 4.8 Independent Monitoring and Oversight

• 4.9 Curbing Corruption as a Collective Action problem
• 4.10 Collaborations and Social Action Coalitions
• 4.11 Conclusions
• 5. Contemporary Corruption-curbing Tools
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Core Parts of UNCAC: An Overview
• 5.3 UNCAC: Some Examples of Core Obligations for State Parties
• 5.4 How Effective Has UNCAC Been So Far?
• 5.5 Multi-stakeholder Initiatives: The Case of Transparency in Extractive Industries
• 5.6 Transparency and Accountability in Infrastructural Projects
• 5.7 Conclusions
• 6. Abusive Tax Avoidance and Tax Professionals' Responsibilities
• 6.1 Introduction

• 6.2 Abusive Tax Avoidance: Some Preliminaries
• 6.3 Factors Contributing to Abusive Tax Avoidance
• 6.4 Assigning Remedial Responsibilities
• 6.5 Causal Contribution: How Tax Professionals Facilitate Abusive Tax Avoidance
• 6.6 Benefit: What Tax Professionals Gain from Abusive Tax Avoidance
• 6.7 Capacity: What Tax Professionals Could Do about Abusive Tax Avoidance
• 6.8 Professional Integrity, Collective Action, and the Outline of Some Responsibilities
• 6.9 Extending the Analysis to Other Enablers
• 6.10 Conclusion
• 7. Sharing Responsibilities for Action
• 7.1 Introduction

• Chapter. 1. Counterintelligence Theory
• Chapter. 2. The Cyber Operational Environment
• Chapter. 3. Cyber Threats (and Opportunities)
• Chapter. 4. Psychology and Criminal Profiling
• Chapter. 5. Counterespionage
• Chapter. 6. Technical Surveillance
• Chapter. 7. Physical Surveillance
• Chapter. 8. Data Analysis
• Chapter. 9. Attack Attribution
• Chapter. 10. Practical Deception
• Chapter. 11. Legal Issues in Cyber Counterintelligence
• Chapter. 12. Ethical Issues in Cyber Counterintelligence

This book provides an outline of the major challenges and methodologies for applying classic counterintelligence theory into the cybersecurity domain. This book also covers operational security approaches to cyber, alongside detailed descriptions of contemporary cybersecurity threats, in the context of psychological and criminal profiling of cybercriminals. Following an analysis of the plethora of counterespionage techniques that can be mapped to the cyber realm, the mechanics of undertaking technical surveillance are reviewed. A range of approaches to web and forum surveillance are outlined as a virtual addition to traditional video and audio surveillance captured regarding targets. This includes a description of the advances in Artificial Intelligence, predictive analysis, support for the disciplines of digital forensics, behavioural analysis and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). The rise of disinformation and misinformation and the veracity of widespread false flag claims are discussed at length, within the broader context of legal and ethical issues in cyber counterintelligence. This book is designed for professionals working in the intelligence, law enforcement or cybersecurity domains to further explore and examine the contemporary intersection of these disciplines. Students studying cybersecurity, justice, law, intelligence, criminology or related fields may also find the book useful as a reference volume, while instructors could utilise the whole volume or individual chapters as a secondary textbook or required reading

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: A Prototype Data Governance Framework for Africa
• Chapter 3: A Value Chain Approach to Data Production, Use and Governance for Sound Policy Making in Africa
• Chapter 4: Data Protection Legal Regime and Data Governance in Africa: An Overview
• Chapter 5: Data Regulation in Africa: Free Flow of Data, Open Data Regimes and Cyber Security
• Chapter 6: Digitalisation and Financial Data Governance in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
• Chapter 7: More Than Just a Policy - Day to Day Effects of Data Governance on the Data Scientist
• Chapter 8: The Economics of Blockchain Within Africa
• Chapter 9: Conclusion.

This open access book examines data governance and its implications for policymaking in Africa. Bringing together economists, lawyers, statisticians, and technology experts, it assesses gaps in both the availability and use of existing data across the continent, and argues that data creation, management and governance need to improve if private and public sectors are to reap the benefits of big data and digital technologies. It also considers lessons from across the globe to assess principles, norms and practices that can guide the development of data governance in Africa. The book will appeal to scholars and students of data governance, technology and public policy, as well as practitioners and policy makers. Bitange Ndemo is the Kenyan Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union Mission. He was previously Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Njuguna Ndungu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi. He is the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury of Kenya, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, and Executive Director at the African Economic Research Consortium. Scholastica Odhiambo is Manager of Research at the African Economic Research Consortium. She was previously Senior Lecturer of Economics at Maseno University, Kenya. Abebe Shimeles is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He formerly served as Director of Research at the African Economic Research Consortium. .

Learn to gather and analyze publicly available data for your intelligence needs In Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence, veteran open-source intelligence analyst Rae Baker explains how to use publicly available data to advance your investigative OSINT skills and how your adversaries are most likely to use publicly accessible data against you. The author delivers an authoritative introduction to the tradecraft utilized by open-source intelligence gathering specialists while offering real-life cases that highlight and underline the data collection and analysis processes and strategies you can implement immediately while hunting for open-source info. In addition to a wide breadth of essential OSINT subjects, you'll also find detailed discussions on ethics, traditional OSINT topics like subject intelligence, organizational intelligence, image analysis, and more niche topics like maritime and IOT. The book includes: Practical tips for new and intermediate analysts looking for concrete intelligence-gathering strategies Methods for data analysis and collection relevant to today's dynamic intelligence environment Tools for protecting your own data and information against bad actors and potential adversaries An essential resource for new intelligence analysts, Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence is also a must-read for early-career and intermediate analysts, as well as intelligence teams seeking to improve the skills of their newest team members

"A concise history of espionage. Going beyond the traditional accounts of espionage that focus on military and diplomatic intelligence collected by humans, the book also includes chapters on industrial espionage as well as the new techno-spy"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Theorising and Analysing Pro-European Activism in the United Kingdom
• The Politics of Europe in the United Kingdom
• Mapping Anti-Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom
• Framing Leave and Remain
• Conclusion.

"Whilst much has been written about the UK's decision to leave the European Union ('Brexit'), the focus has largely been on the role of politicians and political parties, on the one hand, and the characteristics of 'Leave' and 'Remain' voters, on the other. This monograph adopts a different perspective and offers the first comprehensive study of the UK's grassroots anti-Brexit movement which developed after the June 2016 referendum. Our extensive study is based on original interview data, complemented with results from our survey of anti-Brexit activists and analysis of their campaign materials. It provides an in-depth assessment of the ideology, arguments, and strategies of the UK's anti-Brexit movement. We trace its internal political and ideological divisions, analyse the interaction between individuals and organisations part of the movement, and their relation to political elites. We conclude that whilst the anti-Brexit movement was successful in mobilising a large number of pro-European citizens, its impact has been limited by weak links to political elites and institutions, divisions between organisations and activists, and the absence of a clear stance on the UK's relationship with the EU. With our UK case study we also make a significant contribution to the wider comparative literature on European integration as a topic of public debate and political contestation (the 'politicisation of Europe'). Whilst the UK case is by no means typical, it is nevertheless revealing of how difficult the formulation of effective pro-European arguments can be."-- Provided by publisher.

• Selling Citizenship
• A Product Is Born
• EU Citizenship
• New Developments around the Core Market
• Geopolitical Maneuvering
• The Citizenship Industry
• Do the Programs Pay Off?
• "Is My Citizenship Really Worth That Much to Someone?"
• Who Wants to Buy a Passport?
• Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century.

"The Golden Passport is the first on-the-ground investigation of "investor citizenship." Some 50,000 people annually pay cash for citizenship in various microstates desperate for investment. Kristin Surak uncovers the surprising motivations of the buyers, the effects on seller-state locals, and the geopolitical dynamics driving the industry"-- Provided by publisher.