*Weitere Angaben Verfasser: Dr. Andréa Belliger leitet das Institut für Kommunikationsforschung (Luzern, Schweiz) und ist Dozentin an der Universität Luzern. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind angewandte Kommunikationswissenschaft mit Fokus Neue Medien, eLearning und Wissensmanagemen…
Societal transformations are needed across the globe in light of pressing environmental issues. This need to transform is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academic debate, and media, whether it is to achieve decarbonization, resilience, national development plans, …
Across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of bu…
"While powerful corporations often race to the bottom in setting regulatory standards, NGOs also often prevail in ratcheting up regulatory standards. In showing how, Global Business Regulation is a guidebook for how individuals and smaller organisations can prevail over more inf…
In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public services and build the rule of law. While sovereignty sharing can help address gaps in governance, it is inherently difficult, risking re…
Handbook of democratic innovation and governance
"Democracies are currently undergoing a period of both challenge and renewal. Democratic innovations are currently proliferating in politics, governance, policy, and public administration. This Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance advances understanding of democratic…
Actor-network theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. The authors trace how learning and practice emerge, show what scales are at play, and demonstrate what thi…