This paper begins with the proposition that EU faces a problem of politics or to put it another way is characterized by trap and consequential. A trap, for purpose this paper, defined as position situation from which difficult impossible escape. The idea draws on seminal article Scharpf joint-decision (Scharpf, 1988) had major impact study EU. focus an analysis examining three components politi...

Almost 30 percent of the more than 68 million young adults aged eighteen to thirty-four in the United States today are either foreign born or of foreign parentage. As these newcomers make their transitions to adulthood, say Rubén Rumbaut and Golnaz Komaie, they differ significantly not only from one another but also from their native-parentage counterparts, including blacks and whites. The auth...

Keyssar's largely intellectual history of suffrage throughout the nation's history and Kornbluh's largely quantitative analysis of the transition from nearly universal male political participation in the late 1800s to the much less active polity of the twentieth century underscore a simple, but often neglected lesson: Because words and behavior are sometimes at variance, scholars should study b...

How can the EU obtain legitimacy? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of the ambitions of the polity-makers in the EU. It defines the EU as a problem-solving or special purpose organisation. Here the EU’s own legitimacy is held to be dependent ...

Language planning, in one way or another, is as old as human civilization. Every time that one polity  invaded  the  territory  of  another,  the  language  of  the  conqueror  was  imposed  on  the conquered. The Romans imposed their language across the civilized world as they  knew it. In the  21st  century,  the  practice  of  language  planning  has  become  increasingly  sophisticated. Eng...

This article is a critique of Reformed Ecclesiology, particularly as regarding ministry and church polity. It argued herein that static ecclesiology results in seemingly deficient responding to the context. seen current polities ways which different denominations explain carry out their face new religious environment 21st century. demands imperatives from church, especially now advent emerging ...