Publications
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The Impact of Individual Expertise and Public Information on Group Decision-Making
(2021)
In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information ...
Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe
(2022)
This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop ...
Educational Theory in the 21st Century
(2022)
This open access book reviews the effects of the twenty-first century scientific-technological and social developments on the educational theory. The first part handles the subject, focusing on technology and educational ...
Genome Editing in Neurosciences
(2017)
CRISPR; genetic engineering; DNA; double-strand breaks; Parkinson's disease; Huntington's disease; Rett syndrome; muscular dystrophy
Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships
(2010)
"Public-private partnerships have become an important tool for delivering essential public goods, but critics fear that they erode public accountability. Making partnerships more accountable requires a clear understanding ...
Doing Indefinite Time
(2023)
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores ...
Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World
(2021)
This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the ...
Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity
(2024)
This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive ...
Nutzen der Labormedizin in der Schweiz
(2023)
Die Labormedizin gilt nach Expertenmeinung als ausschlaggebend für rund 70 % aller klinischen Entscheide, wird jedoch hinsichtlich ihrer Kosten und des Kosten-Nutzen-Verhältnisses labordiagnostischer Verfahren kritisch ...
Chapter 8 Conclusion
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Rassismus in der Polizei
(2022)
Der Open Access-Band arbeitet das Themenfeld Polizei und Rassismus umfassend auf. In 33 Beiträgen werden behandelt: • Grundlagen zum Phänomen Rassismus, • relevante Befunde zur Polizei als Organisation und zu ihrer Praxis, ...
Future Skills
(2020)
Dieses Open Access-Buch analysiert veränderte Grundkoordinaten der Hochschulbildung weltweit und stellt die Frage, wie Hochschulbildung sich entwickeln muss, um in einer Welt globaler Herausforderungen, sich immer schneller ...
The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults
(2022)
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, ...
Core Values and Decision-Making for Sustainable Business
(2024)
This open access volume discusses the core values and decision-making for sustainable business in general, and includes research findings and country cases on addressing challenges. It emphasizes the importance of adapting ...
Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future
(2021)
This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of ...
Digital Platform Regulation
(2022)
This Open Access volume provides an in-depth exploration of global policy and governance issues related to digital platform regulation. With an international ensemble of contributors, the volume has at its heard the question: ...
Atlas of Global Change Risk of Population and Economic Systems
(2022)
This book is open access and illustrates the spatial distribution of the global change risk of population and economic systems with the maps of environment, global climate change, global population and economic systems, ...
A Buddhist Approach to International Relations
(2021)
This book is an open access book. Many scholars have wondered if a non-Western theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the “Global South,” could release international relations ...
Agenda-Setting zwischen Parlament und Medien: Normative Herleitung und empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweiz
(2017)
Political Communication; Political Theory
Alpine Industrial Landscapes
(2022)
This Open Access book presents a pioneering research on brownfield redevelopment in mountain regions, and specifically in the European Alps. The origins and causes, the actual conditions as well as the future challenges ...