A raft of United Nations Treaties, European Union Directives and domestic laws oblige governments in 180 + countries to apply the Participative Democratic Model of mainstreaming equalities to public administration by involving those targeted by equality initiatives at all stages in their design and delivery. Notwithstanding Participative Democratic Model's deeply political nature, extant work h...

Editor's note In this paper Mr Stalley explores the role of the doctor through comparing and contrasting medicine and politics, but aims to illuminate the role of the physician rather than look at the nature of politics as many previous philosophers have done. Mr Stalley takes the extremes of the doctor as a 'philosopher king' and then as a 'technician' to illustrate the point that either one o...

Young college teachers’ ideological politics education work with certain particularity is different with students’. Only their ideological politics education work is made well, the talent advantages can be fully exerted, which is very important for the talent cultivation of colleges. Based on the importance of young college students’ ideological politics education work, the problems existing in...

What does it mean to live for sociology, today? In attempting to answer this question I return to Max Weber’s famous lectures delivered toward the end of his life—one on science as a vocation and the other on politics as a vocation. He presented ‘‘Science as a Vocation’’ in November 1917 toward the end of World War I and the more pessimistic ‘‘Politics as a Vocation’’ in January 1919 after Germ...

We are proud to welcome our readers, contributors and reviewers to this inaugural issue of Politics and Governance, published by Librello Publishing House— a peer reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the study of politics in the national, regional and global realm, and the modes and methods of governance in all its manifestations. We are thrilled to be so ably supported by an editorial bo...

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The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...