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Act now: A vision for a better future and a new social contract

An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new solutions.In Act now, a team of leading researchers presents a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. They outline clear policies for welfare, health and social care, education, housing and more. Arguing for a rolling forwards of the state, they call for a new era of active citizenship and economic democracy, grounded in robust and resilient institutions.Only a comprehensive and integrated approach, based on clear evidence of feasibility and popularity, can provide a pathway to the secure, democratic and prosperous Britain of tomorrow. This book is the blueprint. It calls on politicians, pundits and the British people to act now.

Act now: A vision for a better future and a new social contract

An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new solutions.In Act now, a team of leading researchers presents a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. They outline clear policies for welfare, health and social care, education, housing and more. Arguing for a rolling forwards of the state, they call for a new era of active citizenship and economic democracy, grounded in robust and resilient institutions.Only a comprehensive and integrated approach, based on clear evidence of feasibility and popularity, can provide a pathway to the secure, democratic and prosperous Britain of tomorrow. This book is the blueprint. It calls on politicians, pundits and the British people to act now.

The Act of Voting: Identities, Institutions and Locale

Electoral behaviour is one of the most dynamic areas of study in the field of comparative politics today. A strongly emerging theme in recent years has been the need to set the study of voting behaviour in its wider context, that is to understand how the behaviour of the individual (non)voter is conditioned by the environment in which the election is occurring. The main motivation for this book is to respond to this need. The Act of Voting examines voting – both the question of whether to vote (ie. electoral turnout) and who to vote for – in context from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. In addition to other topics and themes, chapters explore the national or social identities of individuals and how these contribute to complex social dynamics, discuss the institutions that determine who is able to vote and over what, and analyse the impact of the locale on the voting act. Offering chapters by up-and-coming scholars in the field of electoral behaviour, as well as reflections on how the act of voting should be viewed in the broadest context – normatively, institutionally and socially, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching political behaviour, public opinion and politics more generally.

The Act of Voting: Identities, Institutions and Locale

Electoral behaviour is one of the most dynamic areas of study in the field of comparative politics today. A strongly emerging theme in recent years has been the need to set the study of voting behaviour in its wider context, that is to understand how the behaviour of the individual (non)voter is conditioned by the environment in which the election is occurring. The main motivation for this book is to respond to this need. The Act of Voting examines voting – both the question of whether to vote (ie. electoral turnout) and who to vote for – in context from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. In addition to other topics and themes, chapters explore the national or social identities of individuals and how these contribute to complex social dynamics, discuss the institutions that determine who is able to vote and over what, and analyse the impact of the locale on the voting act. Offering chapters by up-and-coming scholars in the field of electoral behaviour, as well as reflections on how the act of voting should be viewed in the broadest context – normatively, institutionally and socially, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching political behaviour, public opinion and politics more generally.

Act Of War

When crisis demands skill, stealth and the kind of diplomacy that comes from a mandate to strike down terror, the call to action goes to Stony Man. Under presidential directive, the crack commando teams of Phoenix Force and Able Team, backed by the most sophisticated cybernetics team in the world, bring the fight to the enemy…

Acta Demographica: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft e.V.

Acta Demographica 1991 (ACTA DEMOGRAPHICA #1991)

Acta Demographica ist eine offizielle Publikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft. Jeder Band umfaßt herausragende Beiträge zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft, die innerhalb der Arbeitskreise "Bevölkerungswissenschaftliche Methoden", "Geschichte der Bevölkerungswissenschaft", "Bevölkerungsökonomie" und "Demographie der Entwicklungsländer" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft oder an anderer Stelle im deutschen und europäischen Raum entstanden sind. Es werden sowohl empirische wie theoretische Beiträge veröffentlicht, die sich mit fachspezifischen und interdisziplinären Themen beschäftigen.

Acta Demographica 1992 (ACTA DEMOGRAPHICA #1992)

Dieser Band enthält 15 Aufsätze zu bevölkerungswissenschaftlichen Themen wie Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in der EG, sozialer Status der Frauen in England und in den Niederlanden, demographische Krisen, die Hungerkatastrophe um 1860 in Finnland und in den 30er Jahren in der Ukraine, nicht-lineare demographische Prozesse, Migration und Öffentliche Güter, Mortalitäts-Vorausschätzungen für Österreich, Fertilität in der DDR. Die Acta Demographica ist eine offizielle Publikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft. Jeder Band umfaßt herausragende Beiträge zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft, die innerhalb der Arbeitskreise "Bevölkerungswissenschaftliche Methoden", "Geschichte der Bevölkerungswissenschaft", "Bevölkerungsökonomie" und "Demographie der Entwicklungsländer" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft oder an anderer Stelle im deutschen und europäischen Raum entstanden sind. Es werden sowohl empirische wie theoretische Beiträge veröffentlicht, die sich mit fachspezifischen und interdisziplinären Themen beschäftigen.

Acta Demographica 1993 (ACTA DEMOGRAPHICA #1993)

Die Acta Demographica ist eine offizielle Publikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft. Jeder Band umfaßt herausragende Beiträge zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft, die innerhalb der Arbeitskreise "Bevölkerungswissenschaftliche Methoden", "Geschichte der Bevölkerungswissenschaft", "Bevölkerungsökonomie" und "Demographie der Entwicklungsländer" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft oder an anderer Stelle im deutschen und europäischen Raum entstanden sind. Es werden sowohl empirische wie theoretische Beiträge veröffentlicht, die sich mit fachspezifischen und interdisziplinären Themen beschäftigen.

Acta Demographica 1994–1996 (ACTA DEMOGRAPHICA #94-96)

Die Acta Demographica ist eine offizielle Publikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft. Jeder Band umfaßt herausragende empirische und theoretische Beiträge, die innerhalb von Arbeitskreisen im deutschen und europäischen Raum entstanden sind.

Actes du Conseil Général / Proceedings of the General Council: Vol. XXXIII

Actes du Conseil Général / Proceedings of the General Council

Actes du Conseil Général Proceedings of the General Council: VOL. XXXI, 31e Session Helsinki 1965 August 15–21 août

Actes du Conseil Général / Proceedings of the General Council (PDF): Vol. XXXII

Acting Like a State: Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood (Interventions)

How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo’s diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and securing membership of international organisations. Analysing the everyday diplomatic discourses, performances, and entanglements, this book contends that state-becoming is not wholly determined by systemic factors, normative institutions, or the preferences of great powers; the diplomatic agency of the fledgling state plays a far more important role than is generally acknowledged. Drawing on institutional ethnographic research and first-hand observations, this book argues that Kosovo’s diplomatic success in consolidating its sovereign statehood has been the situational assemblage of multiple discourses, practiced through a broad variety of performative actions, and shaped by a complex entanglement with global assemblages of norms, actors, relations, and events. Accordingly, this book contributes to expanding our understanding of the everyday diplomatic agency of emerging states and the changing norms, politics, and practices regarding the diplomatic recognition of states and their admission to international society.

Acting Like a State: Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood (Interventions)

How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo’s diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and securing membership of international organisations. Analysing the everyday diplomatic discourses, performances, and entanglements, this book contends that state-becoming is not wholly determined by systemic factors, normative institutions, or the preferences of great powers; the diplomatic agency of the fledgling state plays a far more important role than is generally acknowledged. Drawing on institutional ethnographic research and first-hand observations, this book argues that Kosovo’s diplomatic success in consolidating its sovereign statehood has been the situational assemblage of multiple discourses, practiced through a broad variety of performative actions, and shaped by a complex entanglement with global assemblages of norms, actors, relations, and events. Accordingly, this book contributes to expanding our understanding of the everyday diplomatic agency of emerging states and the changing norms, politics, and practices regarding the diplomatic recognition of states and their admission to international society.

Acting on Cultural Policy: Arts Practitioners, Policy-Making and Civil Society (New Directions in Cultural Policy Research)

This book investigates the role of arts practitioners in cultural policy-making, challenging the perception that arts practitioners have little or no involvement in policy and seeking to discover the extent and form of their engagement. Examining the subject through a case-study of playwriting policy in England since 1945, and paying particular attention to playwrights’ organisations and their history of self-directed activity, the book explores practitioners’ participation in cultural policy-making, encompassing both “invited” and “uninvited” interventions that also weave together policy activity and creative practice. It discusses why their involvement matters, and argues that arts practitioners and their organisations can be understood as participants in civil society whose policy activity contributes to the maintenance and enlargement of democratic practices and values.

Acting Presidents: 100 Years of Plays about the Presidency (The Evolving American Presidency)

This book seeks to fill a major gap in the literature about fictional representations of presidents by studying more than 40 plays, written since 1900, which have had prominent productions on or off-Broadway or in another major city.

Acting White?: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America

What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgments are often based not just on skin color, but on how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race. Specifically, racial minorities are judged on how they "perform" their race. This performance pervades every aspect of their daily life, whether it's the clothes they wear, the way they style their hair, the institutions with which they affiliate, their racial politics, the people they befriend, date or marry, where they live, how they speak, and their outward mannerisms and demeanor. Employing these cues, decision-makers decide not simply whether a person is black but the degree to which she or he is so. Relying on numerous examples from the workplace, higher education, and police interactions, the authors demonstrate that, for African Americans, the costs of "acting black" are high, and so are the pressures to "act white." But, as the authors point out, "acting white" has costs as well. Provocative yet never doctrinaire, Acting White? will boldly challenge your assumptions and make you think about racial prejudice from a fresh vantage point.

Acting White?: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America

What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgments are often based not just on skin color, but on how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race. Specifically, racial minorities are judged on how they "perform" their race. This performance pervades every aspect of their daily life, whether it's the clothes they wear, the way they style their hair, the institutions with which they affiliate, their racial politics, the people they befriend, date or marry, where they live, how they speak, and their outward mannerisms and demeanor. Employing these cues, decision-makers decide not simply whether a person is black but the degree to which she or he is so. Relying on numerous examples from the workplace, higher education, and police interactions, the authors demonstrate that, for African Americans, the costs of "acting black" are high, and so are the pressures to "act white." But, as the authors point out, "acting white" has costs as well. Provocative yet never doctrinaire, Acting White? will boldly challenge your assumptions and make you think about racial prejudice from a fresh vantage point.

Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt

This collection of essays by established scholars explores the juncture of action and appearance in the political thought of Hannah Arendt.

Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt

This collection of essays by established scholars explores the juncture of action and appearance in the political thought of Hannah Arendt.

Action Directe: Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987

In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society.

Action Directe: Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987

In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society.

Action on Poverty in the UK (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

This book tackles poverty and policy issues in the UK by discussing successful projects and practices, across lots of short chapters. The first section provides a brief history overview of poverty in the UK over the past two hundred years and discusses the question of why the UK, as a wealthy western nation, still has a poverty issue. It discusses various vulnerable groups and contextual factors which lead to these inequalities. The second section articulates what anti-poverty work is and shares project examples from across the country where anti-poverty workers are supporting people to survive and then to thrive. Lived experiences voices are articulated to present examples of poverty being experienced. This book draws on academic and practitioner work and aims to equip the activist and inform the student, academic and policy maker.