The Politics of Joint University and Community Housing Development: Cambridge, Boston, and Beyond informs and encourages the understanding and creation of community/university housing. It reveals the political and technical dynamics of joint housing development involving both communities and universities. Community/university housing projects have been built in several cities and planned in others.Since Cambridge, Masschusetts, home of Harvard and MIT, contains outstanding examples...

Utilizing both a critical thinking approach and a comparative perspective throughout the text, Sobel and Shiraev provide comprehensive coverage of public opinion while also teaching students the basic skills necessary for measurement, understanding, and interpreting. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this text provides a unique and practical introduction to the field of public opinion. The book begins by “schooling” the reader in how to think critically and then helps students ...

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explores the nature and meaning of American citizenship and the rights flowing from citizenship in the context of current debates around politics, including immigration. The book explains the sources of citizenship rights in the Constitution and focuses on three key citizenship rights - the right to vote, the right to employment, and the right to travel in the US. It explains why those rights are fundamental and how national identification systems and ID...

No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of ref...

Das digitale Zeitalter bringt immer wieder neue Komplikationen mit sich. Die Zunahme von Fern- und Heimarbeit, die auf einer zunehmenden Abhängigkeit von elektronischer Kommunikation beruht, und die allgemeine Zunahme virtueller Interaktionen hat zur Eskalation eines Phänomens namens "virtuelle Distanz" geführt. Die virtuelle Distanz, die unser Verhalten durch die drei Komponenten physische Distanz, operative Distanz und Affinitätsdistanz beeinflusst, wirkt sich nicht nur darauf aus, wie w...

This revised second edition presents 15 years of data on Virtual Distance metrics and their predictive impact on organizational success factors shedding new light on how to correct for communication challenges that often show up as a foggy set of digital disconnects where the vitality of the virtual workforce often gets lost in transmission.This still-evolving Digital Age conundrum continues to present new complications. The rise of remote work which rests on an in...

Does public opinion matter in international conflict resolution? Does national foreign policy remain independent of public opinion and the media? International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis examines, through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies, how public reaction impacted democratic governments' response to the ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia during the period from 1991-1997. Each case study offers an overview of the national media coverage and public reactio...

Les transformations économiques et sociales d'une Chine devenue capitaliste suscitent des commentaires fascinés ou craintifs. Quand les uns soulignent l’enrichissement de la population, le pragmatisme des dirigeants, et la grandeur retrouvée du pays, les seconds insistent sur les risques d’instabilité sociale, l’autoritarisme, la corruption et l’ampleur des dégâts environnementaux. En cherchant à renouveler l’analyse du développement chinois et de ses conséquences, cet ouvrage collectif et...

Virtual Distance—the measurable disconnect that arises when we rely on digitally mediated communication—applies to all of us. In the Second Edition of The Power of Virtual Distance, Karen Sobel Lojeski and Richard R. Reilly showcase fifteen years of data to describe their powerful framework for predicting everything from trust, employee engagement, and job satisfaction to bottom-line results.Technology is at the very core of everything we do, and it enables us to be more c...

Tout le monde parle de la RSE mais qui sait vraiment à quoi renvoie ce phénomène ? Si chacun s'accorde sur le fait qu'il bouleverse le mode traditionnel de négociation sociale et de médiation publique, il n'existe en revanche aucune forme de consensus clair quant à ses contours et limites. Avancée pour les uns, recul pour les autres, phénomène intriguant pour tous, la RSE interpelle, mobilise, divise... sans que l'on dispose d’un minimum de référent commun concernant le sens, la nature, l’...

La Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises est une énigme : mode passagère relevant de la communication ou réelle inflexion dans la régulation du capitalisme ? L'ouvrage est conçu dans le double but d'analyser et d'éclairer ce phénomène, et rédigé d'une manière accessible au non spécialiste. Une trentaine de spécialistes de sciences sociales (droit, sociologie, économie, gestion, histoire, sciences politiques...) interrogent ces contours, sa dynamique et son potentiel régulatoire. Trois axe...

As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance, comprised of three major axes: physical distance - geographic, time zone, or organizational; operational distance - multitasking, communication problems, and technical difficulties; and affinity distance - cultural differences, interdependence distance, working relationships, and social distance.