Canadian federalism, as a particular form of political organization for a complex society—with multiple economic, political, geographic, cultural, and national divides—faces important challenges. The political realignment that brought the Conservative Party to power in the last quinquennium has set in motion a significant transformation of the Canadian state and its federal system of governance.The contributors in this collection focus on three recurrent themes: the issues arising ...

We vertrouwen op objectiviteit om grip te krijgen op de wereld. We meten, analyseren en reduceren alles tot cijfers en feiten. Maar brengt dat ons dichter bij de waarheid? Peter De Graef betwijfelt het. In dit boek neemt hij je mee voorbij de grenzen van het meetbare, naar de plek waar waarheid niet alleen iets is wat je kunt beschrijven, maar vooral iets wat je ervaart. Want een cijfer kan vertellen welke toon een cello speelt, maar niet hoe die klank je raakt. En objectiviteit kan ons on...

Public reporting has been used experimentally in federal-provincial relations since the mid-1990s as an accountability mechanism to promote policy effectiveness, intergovernmental cooperation, and democratic legitimacy. Our understanding of how well it is working, however, remains limited to very specific policy sectors – even though this information is essential to policy makers in Canada and beyond. Overpromising and Underperforming? offers a deeper analysis of the use of new ac...

Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en la literatura y el cine podictatorial analiza discursos narrativos sobre el legado de la dictadura militar en Chile. El argumento inicial del libro indica que los «discursos apocalípticos» que representan el legado de Pinochet como opresivo y traumático, están directamente ligados a la construcción de una cultura de consumo y explotación laboral. La segunda parte del proyecto se concentra en personajes de cine chileno (John...

This book gathers papers from the International Conference on Differential & Difference Equations and Applications 2017 (ICDDEA 2017), held in Lisbon, Portugal on June 5-9, 2017. The editors have compiled the strongest research presented at the conference, providing readers with valuable insights into new trends in the field, as well as applications and high-level survey results.The goal of the ICDDEA was to promote fruitful collaborations between researchers in the fields of diffe...

This edited volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the fourth International Conference on Differential & Difference Equations Applications (ICDDEA), which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2019.First organized in 2011, the ICDDEA conferences bring together mathematicians from various countries in order to promote cooperation in the field, with a particular focus on applications. The book includes studies on boundary value problems; Markov models; time...