This time around, the IPCC deliberately went with a risk management frame for communicating climate impacts, and noted that doing something about climate change isn’t really related to the science, so much as it’s a value judgement on how much we’rewilling to roll the dice. They do howe...
Part III discusses measures to limit the role of money in politics and the problem that, in a market society, speech is always, to some extent, for sale. 展开 关键词: Citizens United political speech corporate speech democracy truthiness post factual corporate personhood ...
where there is open government and mass participation. These are places where citizens, social innovators, civil society organisations, businesses and academia are part of the process of building their cities (in a quintuple helix model1), closing the gaps between local government and the ecosystem...
At the same time, opportunities for consumption and status attainment in the rest of society were rapidly increasing, leading to additional stigma and frustration for those stuck at the bottom. Finally, the strain on institutions of social control reduced the cost of crime by reducing the risk ...
“Faced with this human drama, my thoughts are also with those who were present at mass, with the faithful from here and abroad, and all of society, because we are all affected,” he said in a statement. “We are all shocked by this act of violence that has taken place in our city...
Alarm bells are already ringing about the potential impact of AI on democratic processes, on communities, and on society. But what are those concerns? According to HP Dalen, an IBM Watsonx manager specializing in AI governance, we're talking about “a new threat” as “an amplifier” of di...
A final commenter observed that the bureaucratic way that Japanese society is organized means that there is a large need to rely on informal institutions. Journalists have to get close to their sources, otherwise they will not get stories. Such close and informal relationships are assets for ...
democracy is a regime in which all or most adults are men of virtue, and since virtue seems to require wisdom, a regime in which all or most adults are virtuous and wise, or the society in which all or most adults have developed their reason to a high degree, or the rational society...
key elements in the USA Constitution by considering the benefit of the society; and to encourage politicians to display attitudes as the executives of a country which is regarded as the motherland of democracy and human rights in the world—not to act as the executives of “the high power”....
Regarding the social science of youth and society, this is reflected in unique configurations of preadolescent and adolescent cultures in gangs, cliques, fashions, fads, viral memes, and so on. From the perspective of social movement theory, we see two general youth-specific collective action ...