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Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one ... powerful advocates for both restoring biodiversity and tackling climate change for the good of health. Political leaders must recognise both the severe threats to health from the planetary crisis as well as

Political Parties’ Electoral Strategies in the Context of Political Uncertainty

? ELECTORAL STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY Taking part in an election, political parties implement their planned strategic activities, which involve making choices regarding competitive ... goals and maximizing the usefulness of the resources they have. A significant context of party strategies is political uncertainty. The paper discusses the importance of political uncertainty in three

Reactive political leadership

- Agnieszka Turska-Kawa University of Silesia, Poland REACTIVE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP We live in the twenty-first century, which witnessed by far the most intensive marketing of politics, and ... traditional approaches (The Great Man Theory, situational, relational) to the process of emergence of political leadership are simply not enough. Cooperation between leaders and their followers is determined by

The Role of Trust in Political Corruption: Outline of the Subject

ROLE OF TRUST IN POLITICAL CORRUPTION: OUTLINE OF THE SUBJECT The article is an attempt to analyze the relations between political trust and one of the greatest problems of the public domain: political ... corrup tion. It seems obvious that corrupt behaviors revealed in the public space are supposed to undermine citizens? political trust. This thesis has been empirically verified many times. The author of

Political Parties and Their Role in Determining a Territorial Division of Poland

. But above all, political reasons should be excluded in this scope. Nowadays, it seems that political parties are becoming subjects that have a significant impact on the form of a country. It is ... currently common that propositions submitted by politicians pertaining to the territorial division are rather motivated by the political rivalry and fighting for the further election than end-to-end solutions

Coordinates of Interests of Media, Political Subjects and Recipients

COORDINATES OF INTERESTS OF MEDIA, POLITICAL SUBJECTS AND RECIPIENTS Introduction There are no doubts that the notion “democracy” is generally understood mainly as the method of obtaining votes of voters who ... confer mandates to decide on public matters to political parties. In a democratic country it should be normal and binding for decision-making to adopt a social consensus on the basis of a discussion [Kapr

Leaders of Polish Political Parties and Their Scope of Power in Party Structures

AND THEIR SCOPE OF POWER IN PARTY STRUCTURES The purpose of this article is to present the scope of authority of party leaders in selected Polish political parties. The study included the following ... 2012 : 146]. The purpose of this article is to examine the scope of authority of leaders of party in selected Polish political parties. The study included the following parties: Platforma Obywatleska

Techniques of social influence with reference to political life

Humanities, Poland Robert Wiszniowski University of Wroclaw Poland TECHNIQUES OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE WITH REFERENCE TO POLITICAL LIFE1 The present paper presents various social influence techniques ... , fear-then-relief). The paper also presents examples of using the above mentioned techniques with special focus on some which were taken from political life. Introduction People can take a range of

Positioning Strategies of Polish Political Parties in the 2014 European Parliament Election

contains clues as to current relations between political entities and the structure o f inter-partisan rivalry. This is so because when positioning themselves, parties take into consideration the place and ... which the EP election constituted the first big test. The key questions I intend to answer in this article refer to positioning strategies implemented by political parties in the period from 2011 to 2014

Pursuing the Path of Indigenization in the Era of Emergent International Law Governing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

identity. Significant barriers to indigenization include not only political, economic, and social obstacles, but also psychological reliance upon the colonizing nation, the inability to recall the memory of ... 32 (discussing estimates of American Indian depopulation since 1492). 15. Such an argument dovetails with the political philosophy known as communitarianism. See generally MICHAEL J. SANDEL

Sukces Ruchu Palikota w świetle czynników możliwego sukcesu politycznego = Political Opportunity Structure

?WIETLE CZYNNIK?W MO?LIWEGO SUKCESU POLITYCZNEGO (POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE) Wst?p Wybory parlamentarne s? okazj? do zmierzenia poparcia, jakim ciesz? si? w spo?ecze?stwie poszczeg?lne partie, a ... scenie politycznej (Political Opportunity Structure), na kt?re sk?adaj? si? instytucjonalne, spo?eczno-gospodarcze i kulturowe warunki dzia?ania oraz istniej?cy uk?ad relewantnych partii politycznych; (3

Pro-systemic Voters Versus Anti-systemic Ones: Emotional Attitude to Candidates and the Influence of TV Political Advertising in the 2015 Presidential Election in Poland

OF TV POLITICAL ADVERTISING IN THE 2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN POLAND Presented article is aimed at examining the emotional attitudes to candidates for the president of Poland among pro-systemic ... electorate is less interested in politics and more likely to be influenced by electoral TV spots. The study also confirms the relation between emotional att-i tudes to political actors and political

Model of election of the head of state of the Third Polish Republic : balancing between institutional coherence and political pragmatism

University of Silesia, Poland MODEL OF ELECTION OF THE HEAD OF STATE OF THE THIRD POLISH REPUBLIC ? BALANCING BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL COHERENCE AND POLITICAL PRAGMATISM Poland held its first ever popular ... the question about which method for the election of the head of state is most ?appropriate?. However, this issue was not an object of political deliberation for the major Polish political parties of the

On the Indivisibility of Rights: Truth Commissions, Reparations, and the Right to Development

between violations of Civil and Political Rights (CPR) and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR), using Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as an example. The TRC's findings show how ... York University School of Law (J.D.). She has been involved in Peru's political transition since 2002 in different capacities, most recently as a legal consultant and human rights educator of victim

Understanding "Hostage-Diplomacy": The Release of Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan

initiatives without broader gains in allowing political dissent, causing a number of commentators to refer to them as "hostage-diplomacy." ... term in context of Peruvian hostage crisis). It has, however, been used in the context of political prisoners before, see Policy Towards the United States "Matter of Concern",BBC SUMMARY OF WORLD

Extracting Accountability: The Implications of the Resource Curse for CSR Theory and Practice

absence of basic services like health care and electricity- require new strategies and incentives to encourage governments to play their traditional role more effectively. Political economic theories of the ... . Political economic theories of the "resource curse" see the breakdown of a sense ofgovernment accountabilityto its people as one of the more destructive aspects of excessive reliance on natural resource rents

"Political campaigning, elections and the Internet : comparing the US, UK, France and Germany", Darren G. Lilleker, Nigel A. Jackson, London-New York 2011 : [recenzja]

A. Jackson (2011), Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet. Comparing the US, UK, France and Germany, (London ? New York, Routledge), s. 197 Recenzja: Katarzyna Stelmach (Uniwersytet ?l?ski ... krajach umo?liwiaj? autorom obron? optymistycznej hipotezy, m?wi?cej o tym, i? Internet i nowe media s? w stanie zmienia?, i w praktyce zmieniaj?, styl prowadzenia kampanii wyborczej. Political Campaigning

Legal Pluralism in Post-Colonial Africa: Linking Statutory and Customary Adjudication in Mozambique

Legal pluralism - defined as a situation in which "more than one legal system operate(s) in a single political unit" - is a practical reality in a large number of countries in the world, most notably ... traditions or free of at least some elements that belong to western modernity. It is therefore that African governments have . . . to make decisions about the legal and political position of both tradition and

The Experience of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law edited by Eva Brems

The Experience of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law, edited by EvaBrems, positions itself in the midst of a political, cultural, and intimately personal debate enveloping Europe over what is ... withdrawal from society. Individually, the empirical country studies are not repetitive; each adds something new to the conversation by weaving personal narratives with the particular history and political

Managing Diversity in the European Union: Inclusive European Citizenship and Third- Country Nationals

citizenship. Free movement rights have allowed European citizens to cross borders and participate more nearly as political and legal equals within the host society. At the same time, however, European ... UNION The European Union (EU) is an ongoing project in diversity management.' Member states bring their own histories, languages, economies, and political cultures to a common table in Brussels, and the