Etymologically, 'opinion' has at least one foot in the idea of being able to think independently, of owning one's thoughts, and the other in the idea of choice, of being able to have preferences, judge something one way or another, or take one of several positions on a controversial issue. Having opinions implies being cognitively autonomous, independent, but also somewhat unpredictable. Althou...

The Bretton Woods Institutions, and lately the World Trade Organisation, have all been accused of representing narrow Western economic interests and ignoring important elements of culture and local conditions in their policies towards the developing countries. In drafting ‘one-fit-for-all’ strategies and conditionalities they have paid little attention to existing governance structures and have...

The central assumption in the literature on collaborative networks and policy networks is that political outcomes are affected by a variety of state and nonstate actors. Some of these actors are more powerful than others and can therefore have a considerable effect on decision making. In this article, we seek to provide a structural and institutional explanation for these power differentials in...

Biobanks are a challenge and topic for governance. Today, biobanks are identified as a biomedical scientific/infrastructural development that warrants a political/legal/ethical reaction with the goal to integrate biobanks into the preexisting fabric of regulation, medicine, law and society. Biobank governance is always a response to sociocultural challenges and requires the building of trust, a...

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

In this article, I will open my artistic research process from the phenomenological point of view, by aiming at identifying its aspects and potential. My presentation proceed as a series practical demonstrations, which enable us to perceive how an actor scenic performer conceives their corporeal practice what kind phenomena they produce, encounter operates with. The experience idea corporality,...

Conventional academic discourse, within both law and political science tells the story of how the European Court of Justice, though its judgments and judicial practices has ‘constitutionalised’ the EC Treaty, reformatting an intergovernmental bargain into a federal legal order. Many accounts have presented the Court as the heroic champion of integration, pushing the integrationist agenda forwar...

The article analyzes the influence of Caritas network charitable organizations on international relations during period political transformations. network’s direct complex process social democratization is discussed. study demonstrated that an important transnational actor and effective religious diplomatic tool has contributed to formation a new global order.

Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) consist of powerful actors and resource constraint sensors that are linked together in wireless networks. They mostly rely on actors to make proper decisions and perform desired coordination to achieve the goals of the entire network. They are usually deployed in critical applications and actor-actor network connectivity is thus vital to their effectiv...