The move to ecological sustainable development requires new principles, technology, tools and changes to the process of planning and design. This paper argues that there are emerging pathways that can be developed to meet the goal of ecological sustainable development. The pathways are informing the social, cultural and political milieu in which designers’ work and present new opportunities for...

This paper arises out of an ongoing research project focussing on the cultural policies and rhetoric of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) under Jörg Haider. Initially, my thesis sought a socio-political ‘explanation’ for the remarkable rise of the far-right in Austria. However, most academic sources have very little to say about the FPÖ’s kulturpolitik . I took the opportunity of getting a diffe...

BACKGROUND The recent commentary article in this journal by Chandra-Mouli et al. speaks of a never-before opportunity to strengthen investment and action on adolescent contraception. We endorse the positive 'can-do' tone of the article, but noticed that at least four issues, which in our view are crucial, merit a comment. MAIN BODY First of all, the article suggests that there is some sort of...

based on a meta-theoretical analysis of voting, the present paper is an attempt to present a theoretical model encompassing all the possible aspects of voting in an election action system, proposing four sub-systems of voting as follows: economic voting, political voting, cultural voting and moral voting. having distinguished among these sub-systems, the writer describes the constitutive elemen...

T his paper explores the conditions under which cultural cleavages become politically salient. It does so by taking advantage of the natural experiment afforded by the division of the Chewa and Tumbuka peoples by the border between Zambia and Malawi. I document that, while the objective cultural differences between Chewas and Tumbukas on both sides of the border are identical, the political sal...

Where is Scotland on the map of literary studies? This is a timely question for scholars to address. Recently, for example, some Scottish literature scholars have written a petition to the Modern Language Association to expand its current Scottish Literature Discussion Group into a Division on Scottish Literature at the MLA. The petition states that recent Scottish literary scholarship has " (a...

Despite the ubiquity of conflict, it is not inevitable. In any given dispute, other outcomes are possible. Why then does conflict grip us repeatedly despite the horrors that war veterans, movies, television, and history books promise? Undoubtedly, many factors specific to the time and place of a conflict are ultimately responsible for its occurrence. Here we explore one factor that may contribu...

Guided by gaps in the literature with regard to the study of politicians the aim of the research is to explore cross-cultural differences in political leaders' style. It compares the MLQ (Avolio & Bass, 2004) scores of elected political leaders (N = 140) in Bulgaria and the UK. The statistical exploration of the data relied on multivariate analyses of covariance. The findings of comparisons acr...

systems. Such is not the case, and it would have been helpful for them to have explained why. Socialist monetary systems suffer chronic but hidden fi nancial imbalances. Central planners direct resources to ineffi cient uses, using the fi nancial system as a means of enforcing their dictates. When banks and other state enterprises act ineffi ciently, they do not go bankrupt, transferring contro...