Der Blick ueber die Grenzen zeigt: Die liberalen Demokratien sind in der Defensive, laengst ist unklar, ob nicht der Autokratie die Zukunft gehoert. Und auch in Deutschland haben der Aufstieg des Rechtspopulismus und die zunehmende soziale Ungleichheit zu einem Verlust von Vertrauen in die Demokratie gefuehrt, der ihr Verschwinden denkbar werden laesst.

Dieser Essay blickt nicht nostalgisch auf die gute alte Zeit der liberalen Demokratie zurueck, sondern betrachtet diese als historisch spezifische Ordnung in einer Phase kollektiven Wohlstands, die an ihr Ende gekommen ist. Statt Visionen zur Rettung des Ueberkommenen zu entwerfen, fragen die Autoren, was danach kommen koennte: Expertokratie, Digitalisierung und verschaerfte Exklusionen sind nicht zwangslaeufig ein ≫neuer Faschismus≪, stellen aber eine neue Aera von Aufruhr und Ordnungszerfall in Aussicht.

This book offers a systematic overview of the concept of time from the perspective of philosophy, natural science and everyday psychology.

Public Representations explores how popular screen stories represent, and interact with, politics, governance, and the public sphere. It analyses a selection of recent films and broadcast, cable, and streaming series from the US and the UK, as well as a multi-decade survey of comparable Canadian films and series. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship and popular media commentary, Public Representations considers questions of narrative representation, political agency, and conditions of screen story production as they intersect with race and gender.

Using a rich array of paratexts, including online and legacy media reviews, interviews, news reports and feature coverage, as well as metrics such as production budgets, box office figures, and awards, Public Representations traces the ways in which these screen stories function as frames of reference, and sites of contestation, for the most urgent issues within the contemporary public sphere.

This open access volume bridges the so far rather disconnected debates on the crisis of democracy and the Anthropocene. The various, contradicting, but also entangled relations between democracy and the Anthropocene are the overarching theme. Across four sections, contributors probe the impasses and transformations of liberal modernity and navigate new political forms and democratic possibilities emerging in the Anthropocene: 1) crisis diagnoses, 2) conceptual reflections on the epistemic shifts of democratic politics in the Anthropocene, 3) concepts for governing in the Anthropocene and 4) (local) practices and innovations of democracy in the Anthropocene.

This book is an open access publication.

From financial shocks and health pandemics to climate change and national security threats, crises expose the faultlines in how policy expertise is sought, filtered and acted upon.

This edited collection offers a rigorous, comparative analysis of governmental policy advisory systems under pressure. Drawing on case studies spanning COVID-19 responses in Australia and Belgium and slow-burning, "creeping" crises such as climate change, the authors examine the available knowledge, advisory bodies and experts from trusted insiders to external commentators.

Together, these invaluable chapters advance our understanding of how evidence-informed advice shapes - and is shaped by - the politics of crisis governance.

What happens when public services get personal? From healthcare to criminal justice, policy makers increasingly champion tailored and individualised approaches. Digital advances have helped forge these ambitions into reality, yet the promises of greater efficiency, better outcomes, and meaningful support for society's most vulnerable often go unfulfilled. Worse, responsibility for those outcomes quietly shifts from government to individuals, fundamentally rewriting the social contract.

Drawing on diverse case studies across policy areas and national settings, this timely and accessible analysis is the first of its kind to interrogate personalisation so comprehensively - examining its value, ethics, equity implications, and digital dimensions.

An urgent book, it challenges us to ask harder questions about redistribution, responsibility, and the proper role of government - and to demand public services that genuinely serve both individual needs and the common good.

Mainstream academic literature, international reports and media coverage have long portrayed the post-Soviet governments as corrupt, ineffective and unaccountable. However, this unyielding narrative obscures a more complex and diverse reality.

Drawing on policy success frameworks, this edited collection presents 10 diverse case studies within a novel under-researched geographical region - Central Asia and the Caucasus.

These cases include civil service reform in Georgia, sovereign oil fund governance in Azerbaijan, electric vehicle adoption in Armenia, public service innovations in Uzbekistan, national immunisation rollouts in Kyrgyzstan, higher education reforms in Turkmenistan and state-sponsored scholarship programmes in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

This book shows how, across Central Asia and the Caucasus, genuine policy successes are quietly reshaping public services, improving lives and demonstrating what effective governance can look like in non-democratic and hybrid contexts. A must-read for anyone studying evidence-based models of governance, policy success and positive public administration.

New Brunswick is an interesting study in governance. It is one of Canada's geographically smallest and least populated provinces, yet it contains all of the different historic, cultural, linguistic, political, economic, and social experiences and challenges found in the rest of the country. This volume questions what we can learn from New Brunswick's post-2000 experience that can ultimately inform governance and policy-making elsewhere in Canada.

New Brunswick Politics begins by situating the province's social, linguistic, and economic dynamics regionally and nationally. Contributors then examine the governments of Bernard Lord, Shawn Graham, David Alward, Brian Gallant, and Blaine Higgs and their policies to reveal how their governance and policy directions reflected broader trends in Canadian politics while, at other times, they provided opportunities for unique new policy directions to emerge. Key issues examined include the residual welfare state, language politics, healthcare reform, equity-denied groups, and housing.

This is the first comprehensive book on New Brunswick politics in sixty-five years, and it presents a province struggling to address questions of conflict, power, marginalization, and governance as it carves out its unique path in addressing pressing public policy questions.

This book examines how governments respond to pressure and build resilience to crises that are increasingly complex, interconnected, and transboundary.

The last decade has underscored the limits of traditional approaches to crisis management: governments are increasingly required to balance immediate emergency response with long-term resilience, to act decisively while maintaining public trust, and to coordinate not only across sectors and institutions but also across national borders. The Baltic and Nordic countries provide a particularly revealing context for exploring these challenges. They face a shared spectrum of risks - geopolitical instability linked to Russia's aggression, climate-related hazards, cyber threats, and the demographic and social strains of aging populations and migration. At the same time, their governments differ in how they conceptualize resilience, organize institutions, and engage with citizens. These dynamics create fruitful ground for investigating how resilience is framed, institutionalized, and practiced in public administration.

The book examines how governance under pressure operates in this region, and what lessons it offers beyond it. The chapters provide country-level studies that address how governments frame crisis and resilience in policy, the structures of government and the roles of key actors, decision-making styles and their distribution across levels, coordination mechanisms both within and across institutions, and the use of information and evidence in navigating uncertainty. Taken together, these analyses reveal both common regional challenges and distinctive national approaches, offering insight into how resilience is being constructed in practice.

This book offers a collection of contributions that identify and exemplify a wide range of overlooked, subversive changes in the history of natural philosophy, spanning from antiquity to modernity. The guiding principle of the volume is to address questions that arise from Kuhn's approach to the problem of paradigmatic change. While it is tempting to follow in Kuhn's footsteps and see the history of natural philosophy as a series of revolutions led by giant figures - theoretical watersheds diverging from the 'normal' course of events - an accurate picture seems to be more complex and nuanced. By blending philosophy, science, mathematics, this book offers a rich perspective on intellectual progress and is of interest to a broad array of scientists.

How have Chinese thinkers viewed American democracy and federalism across more than a century of turbulent change? This book offers a fascinating exploration of Chinese perceptions of the US political system from the late Qing dynasty to the aftermath of Tiananmen and the rise of China as a global power.

Through the voices of remarkable yet overlooked intellectuals-from an imperial consul in San Francisco to the ideologue behind Xi Jinping's Chinese Dream-Brusadelli reveals how the American 'mirror' served alternately as inspiration and cautionary tale in China's ongoing struggle to define its own political order.

This book provides an insider's account of the dramatic confrontation between the peace movement and the Thatcher Government over the deployment of nuclear-armed cruise missiles in early 1980s Britain. Alongside a critical re-evaluation of the role played by the Greenham Common women's peace camp, the book addresses the tension common to all radical movements between activities designed to persuade the general public, and more confrontational tactics of non-violent resistance.

While the Greenham women were an inspiration to peace activists in Britain and beyond, the impact of their actions on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's (CND) more conventional efforts to win and sustain majority support for the anti-nuclear cause was by no means always positive. Focusing on the often difficult relationship between Greenham and the CND leadership, the author throws new light both on conflicts within CND, and on the evolution of the women's peace camp itself. While questioning some of the myths woven by and around the Greenham women, the book also gives critical attention to CND's problematic attempts to combine conventional campaigning with non-violent direct action. The book offers a meticulously researched account of one of the most important social movements of twentieth-century Britain and an authoritative case study of an issue central to all social movements - how difficult it is to combine a politics of resistance with a politics of persuasion.

Canada stands at a precarious crossroads. For decades, Canadians enjoyed the comforts of a protected North American market and the assurance of US security. That era is ending, as the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the weaponization of trade, mounting great-power rivalry, and emerging threats to Canada's North have exposed the fragility of Canada's strategic and economic position.

Canada Rising offers a sophisticated, urgent analysis of this watershed moment and argues that reliance on the United States for prosperity and protection is no longer viable. Moving beyond diagnosis, the authors propose a comprehensive blueprint for Canada to reclaim its national destiny and achieve genuine strategic sovereignty. Canadian politics and economics experts Perrin Beatty and Fen Osler Hampson call for a fundamental transformation of the Canadian state and economy: dismantling archaic internal trade barriers, overcoming bureaucratic inertia, renewing innovation, and forging a more dynamic partnership between business and government. Externally, they advocate rebuilding Canada's depleted military capabilities and diversifying trade relations beyond the United States.

Canada Rising contends that unless Canadians act with resolve to shape a post-American world order that reflects their own interests and values, they risk being consigned to the margins.

From fistfights to scandals, Unparliamentary provides a sourced account of unexpected events that have marked the history of Canada's Parliament. It offers an intriguing look into surprising moments that occurred on Parliament Hill, highlighting the unpredictable nature of human behaviour - especially among legislators.

Moving from Confederation to the present day, Charlie Feldman explores moments from the less formal side of national politics, including conflicts between parliamentarians and acts of disorder, as well as instances of controversy and error in both the Senate and House of Commons. Many of the episodes discussed once attracted public attention but have since faded from memory, even among parliamentarians themselves. Unparliamentary draws on a wide range of historical and archival materials to document these incidents and bring them to life.

Demonstrating how parliamentary truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, this book is written in a direct and accessible style and functions as both a reference work and as a readable account of the Parliament's unconventional history.

Money fuels Canadian elections - but who gives, who gets, and who really wins? This book pulls back the curtain on Canada's campaign finance system to reveal how money shapes competition, representation, and power. Moving beyond party war chests and national ad blitzes, it zooms in on electoral districts, where local contests ultimately determine the House of Commons and who forms government.

Following the money from donors to candidates and through to election outcomes, it shows how access to financial resources can make or break a campaign. Not all aspiring representatives can tap into wealthy networks, and not all citizens are equally able to give. While Canadian campaign finance regulations aim to curb the influence of rich donors, businesses, and "special interests," public policy researcher Holly Ann Garnett asks whether these rules truly level the playing field - or quietly reproduce existing inequalities.

Accessible, data-driven, and politically timely, Who Gives? Who Gets? Who Wins? challenges readers to reconsider what democratic fairness means in a system where every voter is equal at the ballot box, but not at the bank.

Populism has upended politics around the world over the past decade. Claiming to speak for the people, populist leaders denigrate mainstream politicians, threaten democratic norms, and take aim at immigrants and other vulnerable minorities.

Canadians have observed this gathering storm with one eye on events elsewhere and another on populist stirrings in the domestic political arena. Populist sentiment helped fuel the Freedom Convoy and was harnessed by Pierre Poilievre as he rose to the leadership of the Conservative Party. With the outcome of the 2025 election, the momentum behind this made-in-Canada populism seems to have faltered. But with populism flourishing globally, is this really the end of the story?

In The Perils of Populism, political scientist Paul Howe answers this critical question by digging beneath the surface of recent events to examine the public attitudes, values, biases, and emotions that shape our contemporary political life. He asks probing questions about the commitment of Canadians to democratic norms, to the ideals and practices of engaged citizenship, and to principles of social tolerance and acceptance - finding evidence of vulnerabilities that stand ready to be exploited by a firebrand populist leader who strikes a chord with a critical mass of disaffected Canadians.

In these tumultuous times, Howe advises, Canadians must recognize our vulnerability and reach across social divisions to find ways of strengthening our political community together.