Background: Gender identity disorder and its treatment with sex reassignment surgery is a profound experience, which can affect the mental, interpersonal, social and religious aspects of one’s life.   Methods: This was a qualitative content analysis study focusing on the various dimensions of the experiences of seven patients suffering from gender identity disorder in a female-to-...

Abstract Driven by the need to address immediate public health threats of COVID-19 pandemic, this has seen a rise technocratic mode governance around world. A approach is evidence-based and relies upon guidance experts respond crisis. The technocracy reflects utilitarian calculus that seeks preserve greater good. Taiwan’s pandemic response exemplifies strengths weaknesses type governance. Based...

What kind of challenge is right-wing populism for the European Union (EU)? The EU has been frequently criticized by populists and non-populists alike being a remote technocracy that suffers from serious democratic defects. Democratization relies on popular (and system insider) feedback, to spell out where shortcomings are, how these can be rectified. Does play this role—is it capable playing ro...

The article reconstructs Habermas’ view of capitalism from the 1970s to his most recent writings. It takes its starting point Wolfgang Streeck’s claim that Habermas has failed acknowledge real enemy democracy is not bureaucracy but and that, therefore, he underestimates role in shaping global order. first returns diagnoses late developed early 1980s then moves on some later This will reveal the...

Many developing countries have, in recent years, adopted structural transformation strategies and strengthened state economic activism. While prima facie reminiscent of the post-war era’s developmentalist strategies, contemporary industrial policies have resurfaced a different environment: they are often designed implemented (newly) democratic, rather than authoritarian, political regimes. This...

Technology companies are investing billions of dollars in educational technology, but also creating their own alternative schools. This article traces the emergence of four prototypical ‘silicon startup schools’ as exemplars of a technocratic mode of corporatized education reform: IBM’s P-TECH, part of its Smarter Cities program; AltSchool, a chain of schools based on ‘makerspaces’ established ...