Verdictul imaginii: politica 3D

Author(s): Viorella Manolache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2015

The present study attaches itself to the 3D politics as a way of approaching new ideas and using any support that Godard’s film - Goodbye to Language - may offer, with the avowed intention of reviewing image signifiers which (here) approaches the fact that: the verdict imposed by the political impulse of the image tolerates three dimensions found in representation and representing, mediation and intermediation, geopoetics and geopolitics.

Vključevanje uporabnikov v oblikovanje in izvajanje storitev

Author(s): Ružica Boškić / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 42/2003

Na področju analize politik se od osemdesetih let 20. stoletja vse bolj postavlja vprašanje kakovosti storitev. Uporabniki in uporabnice postajajo vse bolj pomembni subjekti pri oblikovanju in izvajanju storitev javnih politik. Članek obravnava razloge, ki so privedli do tega in sodobne trende na področju vkljuèevanja uporabnikov. Med različnimičnačini vključevanja sta posebej predstavljena dva najpomembnejša. Prvi je demokratični model, ki temelji na načelu državljanstva; drugi je potrošniški model, kjer je uporabnik obravnavan kot potrošnik. Vključevanje uporabnikov je obravnavano na splošno, tovrstna konceptualna izhodišča pa je možno aplicirati tudi na različne sektorske politike, kot na primer na analizo stanovanjskega področja.

Výskum cezhraničnej spolupráce medzi Slovenskou republikou a Ukrajinou

Author(s): Vladislav Dudinský,Vladimír Dančišin,Martin Lačný / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017

In the circumstances of existing tendencies towards integration within uniting Europe, it is necessary to surmount mental stereotypes, which, from the historical point of view, have perceived borders and border zones as the areas of potential conflict, battlefield or buffer-zone, where all more significant investments are exposed to possible risk. Surpassing this legacy of the past is relevant also in the case of the Slovak-Ukrainian border zone, which though having a real potential is stigmatized by the phenomenon of periphery and border zone. The realized research, which is the subject of the study, assesses a current state of cross-border cooperation between the Slovak Republic and Ukraine and exposes its positives and at the same time also deficiencies, which are reflected by its participants.

Vývoj globálnej environmentálnej politiky – výskum a prax

Author(s): Roman Novotný,Viera Ivanková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

The aim of this article is to give an overview of global environmental problems, outline the ways in which countries and people have tried to solve them and present some of the most important aspects of global environmental policy as part of its development. The influence that international relations scholars and global environmental policy scientists can have on policy-makers is also solved, with a primary focus on diffuse influence. Political and scientific measures and international regimes that have tried to solve certain environmental problems or tried to find a compromise between these measures are also mentioned.

Ways for assessment of the potential for development of the so called “smart cities”

Author(s): Yana Stoencheva / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2020

The objective of the present article is to discuss and explore relevant indicators for assessing the possibilities for the realisation of the concept of “smart cities”. Therefore, as a characteristic of primary importance regarding the potential and the expected benefits from the realisation of the “smart cities” concept, we have highlighted the level of urbanization. Supplied and analysed is data about the urban population within the European Union, by country, as well as data about the regions around Bulgaria. As a second most significant indicator is singled out the access to financial resources, which are measured by GDP per capita of the population, as well as employment rates. Thirdly we have singled out a group of indicators which assess the level of technological advancement of a population.

What next for the studies of Political Science as a discipline? A tentative research agenda

Author(s): Thibaud Boncourt / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

This text is an edited version of the opening remarks that Thibaud Boncourt,Past President of the Research Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a Discipline) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and Associate Professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP), gave at the special panel “The Future of the Studies of Political Science as a Discipline” sponsored by IPSA-RC33 at the 7th international interdisciplinary conference of political research SCOPE: Science of Politics (University of Bucharest, 20-24 September 2021, www.scienceofpolitics.eu). The event was organized and hosted by the Centre for the International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the Department of Comparative Governance and European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, and gathered participants from several countries on all continents, via a virtual meeting. The aim of the panel was to contribute to the global conversation on the current state of political science as a discipline, as well as to discuss the practical means through which IPSA-RC33 can contribute to it and to support the work of political scientists worldwide.

Whats and Hows? The Practice-Based Typology of Narrative Analyses

Author(s): Grzegorz Bryda / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2020

The nature of qualitative research practices is multiparadigmaticity which creates coexistence of different research and analytical approaches to the study of human experience in the living world. This diversity is particularly observed in the contemporary field of narrative research and data analysis. The purpose of this article is a methodological reflection on the process of developing typology and a proposition of new data-driven and practice-based typology of narrative analyses used by qualitative researchers in the lived experience research. I merge the CAQDAS, Corpus Linguistics, and Text Mining procedures to examine the analytical strategies inherited in a vivid language of English-language research articles, published in five influential qualitative methodological journals between 2002-2016. Using the dictionary-based content analysis in the coding process, hierarchical clustering, and topic modeling – a text-mining tool for discovering hidden semantic structures in a textual body – I confront Catherine Kohler Riessman’s heuristic typology with the data-driven approach in order to contribute the more coherent image of narrative analysis in the contemporary field of qualitative research. Finally, I propose a new model of thinking about the typology of narrative analyses based upon research practices.

Wieloaspektowe podejście do kształtowania teraźniejszego oblicza innowacyjności w Siłach Zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

Author(s): Krzysztof Meszyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11.2/2015

The article presents issues concerning the research priorities in the area of technology and defense technology. Priorities were defined based on an analysis of the impact of technology on achieving operational capabilities, in particular the possibility of carrying out the tasks defined as priorities for technical modernization of the armed forces. In the first part, the author presents the genesis and evolution of planning and programming the development of the Polish Armed Forces. In the second and third article presents the considerations in respect of the powers and responsibilities of the entity coordinating the modernization of the Polish Armed Forces. The result of the undertaken subject are the conclusions and recommendations relating calculates the present innovation in the Polish Armed Forces. The presented material does not contain classified information and source material presented content are acts of universally binding law and normative documents widely available and develop a compact.

Wise Governance – Elements of the digital strategies of municipalities

Author(s): Christian SCHACHTNER / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2022

The innovation fields of municipalities are based on the creation of added value for the local population by creating a portfolio of digital implementation projects as a "proof of concept".The Objective of the research project is focussed on answers to the questions of Strategies on multi-time acceptable and responsible governance standards in a portfolio of data-based, bureaucracy-reducing and trend-based topics.The Prior work serves the elements of Open Data, Public Value Modeling, Business Process Optimization, Public Corporate Responsibility and Digital Leadership in a holistic orientation question of municipal departments.The Approach are adjusting screws in the interaction of control options from the spectrum of local governance. Between different surveys there are relationships and effects.The Results show that basic prerequisites at the level of values, competencies and management are necessary in order to effectively implement targeted instruments of digital transformation in everyday life. Transparency tools and creativity technology support the introduction of targeted governance.The Implications of this interdisziplinary project should give an impact to academics in the public management and data sciences as well as specialists of leadership and strategic management. For practioneers and leaders of municipalities the possibilities of wise governance should get visual.The Value of the paper lies in the direction of the tension between stable efficiency measures and visionary holisticness of adoption capability of ambiguous requirements in the public sector.

Wstęp

Author(s): Piotr Mickiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

Wyjaśnianie empiryczne a wyjaśnianie interpretacyjne działań politycznych

Author(s): Andrzej Czajowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2020

The article arranges issues related to explaining social phenomena, primarily political activities. Three types of explanation are mentioned in the literature: a reason explanation, an interpretative explanation (humanistic, understanding) and an integral explanation combining these two. The author discusses the types of explanation, where he replaces the term “causal explanation” with the term “empirical explanation”. Then he characterizes political activities and their results as an object of explanation. In the last part, on two examples, he examines the practice of empirical and interpretive explanation. With reference to the example of interpretive explanation, he recalls abductive reasoning, i.e. inference to the best explanation. In the interpretation process, in the absence of irrefutable evidence, none of the hypotheses can be confirmed. They can only be enhanced or made more attractive. Considering the imperfections of empirical and interpretive explanation, one should strive to use them complementarily.

Zapomniany paradygmat - dlaczego postmodernizm warto stosować w europejskich badaniach stosunków międzynarodowych

Author(s): Iwona Jakimowicz-Pisarska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article is focused on the postmodern paradigm and its uses in research on European international relations. It shows how postmodernism is understood in philosophy and how it can be adopted by political science methodology. Although, All aspects – positive and negative – as each paradigm postmodernizm can’t be used to every kind of analysis. As a result of European philosophy and based on the European background, the postmodern paradigm seems to be the most suitable for European state research. That’s why the suggestion included in the text is described in the context of this kind of issue.

Zastosowanie metod ilościowych w postępowaniach przetargowych

Author(s): Radosław Jadczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9.1/2016

The multi-criteria decision making problem is one of the most important problems in public and non-public procurement system. The big number and diversity of criteria in the evaluation offers process forces to use more or less sophisticated methods. It very often depends on the goals which must be achieved by organizer of the tender. In this paper selected quantitative methods of multicriteria evaluation are presented with special emphasis on Promethee method. They are compared and analysed from the point of view of their usefulness in the effective choice of contractor or contractors in procurement systems.

Zdania odrębne w teorii polityki: Voegelina badanie symboli i Straussa poszukiwanie filozofa

Author(s): Michał Kuź / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

The paper summarizes the nature of Eric Voegelin’s and Leo Strauss’s methodological approaches to the study of the history of political thought, in particular, the Western political thought. The paper concludes that in both cases the thinkers stray away from the mainstream, which is currently represented by contextualism. However, in their dissenting voices both authors take very different routes. Voegelin focuses on political symbols which are grounded in the metaphysical experience of their creators, and Strauss focuses on the perennial question of philosophy and classical, discursive rationality as the criterion of philosophical inquiry. They also differ in their opinions on the role of the political philosopher. For Voegelin, the philosopher is a defender or a co-creator of political creeds. For Strauss s/he is mainly the educator of politically savvy youths and, above all, the defender of philosophy as the most noble pursuit of the mind. The paper concludes by pointing out the importance and prominence of both thinkers.

Zpátky do budoucnosti: Kontrafaktuály a scénáře v bezpečnostním výzkumu plánování

Author(s): Jan Kofroň / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2015

Defense planning and research has to engage with questions about future developments quite often. Solutions to these questions tend to be hazy due to (I) the missing data, or due to (II) the necessity to build long-term prognoses, which are – by their very nature – only remotely related to any current or historical empirical cases. Under these conditions counterfactuals and their specific – futureoriented – form: scenarios, offer a valuable tool. Nevertheless, counterfactuals and scenarios, due to their limited empirical embeddedness, demand explicit and rigorous application of a theory. The article highlights often overlooked resemblance of scenarios and counterfactuals and derives from this fact some methodological implications for scenario building enterprise. Beyond that, it aims at demonstrating possible contributions as well as obstacles inherent for the use of scenarios and counterfactuals in our defense policy debates.

Балканските държави и индекс на демокрация (2017)

Author(s): Blaga Blagoeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

The paper analyses the results from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s research for Democracy Index 2017. It starts by offering a general presentation of the research and focuses specifically on the results of Bulgaria and other Balkan countries on several major criteria: Electoral process and pluralism; Functioning of government; Political participation; Political culture; Civil liberties. The paper seeks to answer the question why there aren’t “Full Democracies” in the Balkans?

Биовластта днес

Author(s): Paul Rabinow,Nikolas Rose / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2016

ВЪПРОСЪТ ЗА ИНТЕРДИСЦИПЛИНАРНИЯ НАУЧЕН ПОДХОД ПРИ ИЗСЛЕДВАНЕ НА МЕЖДУНАРОДНИТЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ

Author(s): Todor Koburov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The issue concerning the interdisciplinary scientific approach in the research of international relations is not a new one for the Western scientific community, but it became very topical for the countries of the so-called Eastern Bloc, including Bulgaria, after the changes of the international situation in 1989. This problem has been explored by classic Western authors as well as by Bulgarian ones. In the present article, the author has set himself the modest task to raise some questions concerning the interdisciplinary approach from Bulgarian perspective.

Гендерная политология в России: достижения, проблемы и перпективы

Author(s): Tatjana Borisovna Riabova,O. G. Ovcharova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

The paper examines the set of research problems in contemporary Russian Gender Studies in Political Sciences, the current status and perspectives of developing this research field in Russia. The authors dwell upon gender methodology in Political Sciences and an alyze main Russian scholars’ research areas in the field: gender in political attitudes and behavior in Russia and abroad, gender in Russian political processes, woman movement and feminism, influence of gender on Russian politics, gender asymmetry, gender aspects of nationalism and geopolitics.

Да преосмислим Европейския съюз? Доклади от Четвъртата международна научна конференция на катедра „Европеистика“, Софийски университет, май 2017 г.

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

This book presents reports from Rethinking the European Union?, International Conference of the European Studies Department, Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The conference was organized in May 2017 with the support by Hanns Seidel Foundation. The collective book was a project of the European Studies Department at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in teaching and research on the Europeanisation of the countries of Southeast Europe (2016-2019), co-financed by the Erasmus+ program.