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Curtailing political short-termism in legislatures: a trade-off between influence and institutionalization?

to MPs without endangering the existing division of power. Finding this balance enhances the consolidation of legislative future organs, but it simultaneously limits their conventional political impact. ... -level policymaking, political executives have carried out most of this activity, and expert-driven governmental foresight units can now be found on all continents [ 43, 46 ]. However, as scholars of

“Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies

“Autonomous weapon systems” (AWS) have been subject to intense discussions for years. Numerous political, academic and legal actors are debating their consequences, with many calling for strict ... widely used in philosophy, psychology, human cognition and other disciplines and carries (often contested and contradictory) meanings that range from anthropocentric understandings to political contexts or

The Mammoth prophecies: a role-playing game on controversies around a socio-technical innovation and its effects on students’ capacities to think about the future

This article reports on a political game played between November 2021 and February 2022 at a European university in the frame of an elective course open to students from all disciplines. It started ... discuss whether the Mammoth game had a positive effect on students' abilities to think about the future. Introduction Political games are simulations of political processes that have as their primary

Politicizing the future: on lithium exploration in Portugal

proposes that political action that involves large sociotechnical ventures with the potential of contamination needs to consider the local collective perceptions of the future. ... . Javiera Barandiarán [ 8 ] explains that governments need to legitimize political programs based on science and technologies. Therefore, new totalizing imaginaries around the undertakings can emerge

Transformation through (re-)politicisation of socio-technical futures: how cultural semiotics can improve transformative vision assessment

meanings ascribed to technologies in terms of their potential and future implications as “game changers” are often contested, and driven by contradictory political, economic, and other interests (e.g. [ 1–3 ... technologies. By opening up such dialogues, vision assessment serves as an actor in politicisation processes, as it makes the technology and its futures an issue of political negotiation in society. The

Futures literacy in collaborative foresight networks: advancing sustainable shipbuilding

level dence that fosters the shaping of the industry’s future Coordination of interorganizational collaboration at the network level Finding opportunities to create a type of momentum or political will is ... . Midgley G ( 2003 ) Science as systemic intervention: some implications of systems thinking and complexity for the philosophy of science . Systemic Practice and Action Research 16 ( 2 ): 77 - 97 41. Miller R

The future of European education: A political strategy & four action areas

solutions could emerge from the retrieval of the idea of including a European Dimension in Education, as a joint political strategy of the European Union and the Council of Europe, given that two separate ... by the economical crisis, the political programmes of only one way and the political disaffection of the citizens with the European project, it is a matter of urgency to find new proposals, also for

Metaverse through the prism of power and addiction: what will happen when the virtual world becomes more attractive than reality?

 reality? Ljubisa Bojic 0 0 Digital Society Lab, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia New technologies are emerging at a fast pace without being properly ... sponsors and political agenda setters, hopes are rarely proportionate to what will occur in the future. Expectations are used to provide a sort of “mandate” to innovators, which is essentially the trust in

Political and social trends in the future of global security. A meta-study on official perspectives in Europe and North America

, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and United States. It focuses on the political and social trends impacting on defence and military issues. In global terms, the following can be discerned ... Political Science, University of Granada , Granada , Spain 1 Javier Jordan The present paper provides a meta-study of security and defence foresight documents by the Atlantic Alliance, European Union and

The determinants of a resilient food system for Finland in the 2020s—three opinion polls for improvements based on a Delphi study among food system experts

domestic renewable energy (RE) production and evenly distributed costs of promoting resilience are found in one of the clusters. Enablers and barriers from techno-economic, political-institutional, and ... means to build a more resilient system at the national level. Third, it was found that the political framework emphasised market-oriented and demand-centric means in food policy, which was manifested as

Adverse Events to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccines and Policy Considerations that Inform the Funding of Safety Surveillance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Mixed Methods Study

, epidemiologic studies that allow you to see whether the association is real. (Key Informant-07, male policymaker). Enabling and supportive political and bureaucratic environment within a country Participants ... bureaucracies, because they feared approval delays and political instability. We've been wary of countries that are, you know, having a lot of political instability because of that buy-in issue and just the

Possible future scenarios of the general health social security system in Colombia for the year 2033

GHSSS, this analysis is both relevant and necessary because there are crucial political and economic disagreements between the government and the opposition about: its quality, financing, stability, and ... council, which will be in charge of the political coordination and governance of the system. The health secretariats and territorial health councils will guide the formation of integrated and comprehensive

Whose knowledge, whose values? An empirical analysis of power in transdisciplinary sustainability research

. Although transdisciplinary approaches have been advanced as an effective avenue for generating knowledge positioned to question and transform an unsustainable status quo, the political and power dimensions ... hotly contested [ 17, 18 ], and recognising participation as relational processes [ 19, 20 ] that are co-produced with the socio-political context [ 21 ] demands the disclosure of the negotiations

University students’ representations of Europe and self-identification as Europeans: a synthesis of qualitative evidence for future policy formulation

The current European context is characterised by the emergence of socio-political tensions that threaten to derail the cohesion objectives traditionally promoted by the authorities of the European ... of Qualitative research (GRADE-CERQual) Education policy formulation  Introduction After decades of careful political, strategic and educational planning in pursuit of a European identity that

The ISoP PatEG-SIG for Promoting Patient Engagement in Pharmacovigilance: A Change of Paradigm is Needed

strategies that could address the scientific–medical, cultural, linguistic, social, political, and media–technological complexity of patient engagement in pharmacovigilance. The SIG will invite such experts to

How much can societal turning points affect forecasts’ accuracy in Europe? Case of post-communistic transformation in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

It seems that the least accurate (population) forecasts are those published in the period of great historical turning points both economic and political. Several studies analysed the forecasts ... unexpected developments. The political changes in Europe around 1990 started a transformation, social changes and fast demographic changes. A reduction in fertility and an increase in life expectancy

Öz- Savunuculuk Hareketi: Sosyal Hizmet Perspektifiyle Değerlendirme

selfrepresentationin the field of disability. In brief, the study is aimed at both to inform of philosophy of self-advocacy and to contribute to this positive effect ... /index.html, ( Accessed 2016 May 1 ). 13. Tsuda E. Japanese culture and the philosophy of self-advocacy: The importance of interdependence in community living . Br J Learn Disabil , 2006 ; 34 , 151 - 156 . 14

For an inclusive innovation. Healing the fracture between the human and the technological in the hypercomplex society

schools and universities in dealing with this hypercomplexity, in dealing with the indeterminateness and ambivalence of the ongoing metamorphosis, in dealing with the global extension of all political ... Philosophy, Social Science and Education, University of Perugia , Perugia , Italy 1 Piero Dominici Hurled into hypercomplexity, we are facing a complex process of anthropological transformation, of a shift in

Envisioning futures: imagining technoscientific worlds in film

, the analysis shows that they all address the importance of technoscience in future lives and imagine that humans embrace an active role as (self-) entrepreneurs and political subjects within future ... German and/or American political systems, that this information is fake, because such official departments do not exist. Nevertheless, from a second and more analytical view, the film is not merely an

Future of work in 2050: thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

to compete against developed nations, producing economic, social, and political inequalities along with technological advancement [ 38 ]. It is important to note, however, that unemployment levels ... ]. Gender equality influences the return on capital rate and the growth of income and output. An increase in women’s participation in the economy results in more political power. If the trend toward