Abstract Preparing people for dealing with hazards, diseases and disasters requires teaching them statistics, ideally doing so by means of good representation formats in a dynamic fashion. Translating these dynamics to simple communication is what governments need from scientists.

In the development of public systems of education, the intention was that everyone should have access to schooling; however, the democratic idea did not extend to giving everyone the opportunity of becoming familiar with the main forms of understanding that make up the critical, reflective level of culture and illuminate the key social institutions. Schooling in this sense which belongs to the ...

Sociology, as conceived by Comte, was to put an end to the anarchy of opinions characteristic of liberal democracy by replacing opinion with the truths of sociology, imposed through indoctrination. Later sociologists backed away from this, making sociology acceptable to liberal democracy by being politically neutral.The critics of this solution asked ‘whose side are we on?’ Burawoy provides a n...

This article draws on qualitative data journeys to Europe or Brazil undertaken by adults and teenagers from Sub-Saharan African countries develop a conceptual analysis of the blurriness lines drawn between supposedly different types movement via referencing binary forced/voluntary (such as asylum, trafficking, smuggling). It questions liberal model ‘agency’ that is employed not just state actor...

Estonia is the only country in the world where all voters can vote online in national elections. In the 2015 election, 31% of voters did so. This paper discusses the sociology and politics of online voting in Estonia. I first show that online voting is a partisan project. Liberal, conservative, and social democratic parties support online voting as a way of modernizing the electoral system, whi...

Conflicted African societies are confronting a crisis of public authority caused by the ethnic, sectarian and class conflicts generated their ongoing transitions from authoritarian to liberal democratic institutional systems. Most have introduced competitive elections which rarely produced stable inclusive political outcomes, discrediting dominant state-building agenda. We draw on classical ‘du...

There is currently a diversity of understandings of digital democracy being deployed within popular commentary, research, policy making, and practical initiative. However, there is a lack of resources clearly outlining this diversity; this article undertakes such an outline. It provides a reconstruction of four digital democracy positions. These four positions are referred to here as liberal-in...

In 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) brought an end to the long reign of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). However, despite high expectations, this politically transformative event has not unleashed significant policy change in Japan. We highlight five electoral factors that have acted as important constraints on policy change under DPJ rule. First, majoritarian electoral rules have l...

This essay critically analyses modern social and environmental accounting. First, I argue that modern social and environmental accounting models have been developed based on procedural liberal frameworks that limit the proposals for reform. Second, social and environmental accounting focuses on the corporation as the accounting entity and mistakenly claims to be able to in ̄uence it. In developi...