How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative system that include the roles played by the European Commission, European Parliament and member states' national governments in the Council of Ministers. Robert Thomson examines more than 300 controversial issues in t...

On a foggy night on the Scottish coast in 1934, a most unusual visitor arrives at an inn and rents a room on the upper floor. He is colorful and charming and appears to be harmless, and at first the other guests staying at the inn think nothing of his presence, but as the night wears on events take a turn for the worse.The innkeeper and his guests learn that a series of murders have taken place in the surrounding area and that the police are baffled. In the thick fog that enshrouds...

Brooks Hospital, once among the largest psychiatric facilities in Pennsylvania and former host to the most violent patients in the state, now sits abandoned on a sprawling section of forgotten land. Most of its windows have been shattered, the stone of its exterior cracked and worn and its interior ruined by vandals and the passage of time.For Charles Gray and Sabine Jensen, who make a living filming abandoned places and selling their footage to YouTube, the old building is like a ...

Using an innovative mix of cross-national analyses, original survey experiments, and detailed case studies across advanced democracies, Promises Made, Promises Kept provides a compelling exploration of how globalization constrains domestic politics and transforms the nature of democratic representation. The authors show how globalization reduces the ability of governing parties to keep their campaign promises, and how parties strategically adapt to this by making vaguer promises or shiftin...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2025, which took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, in October 2025.The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. They are divided into the following themes: Advances in Tools and Theory; Data-Driven Approaches.Another focus of the conference is on understanding, predicting, and influencing ...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the established and expanding body of research on promissory representation.It examines how context shapes what political parties promise during campaigns and whether they deliver once in power. The book focuses on established Western democracies such as the USA, UK, France, Germany, and Australia, as well as emerging and non-Western democracies, namely Ukraine, Indonesia and India. It reveals tactical promises designed to win votes bu...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2023, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in September 2023.The 31 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Detecting malign influence; human behavior modeling; and social-cyber behavior modeling.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2022, which was in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in September 2022.The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: computer science, psychology, sociology, communication science, public health, bioinformatics, political science, and organizational scien...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2024, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, during September 18–20, 2024.The 24 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: advancements in tools and theory; data-driven approaches.

Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on forteen case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy.In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education of all children and young people to higher levels has become a key issue of international policy. Educational reform in such a context r...

Virtually any disease that results from malfunctioning, damaged, or failing tissues may be potentially cured through regenerative medicine therapies, by either regenerating the damaged tissues in vivo, or by growing the tissues and organs in vitro and implanting them into the patient. Principles of Regenerative Medicine discusses the latest advances in technology and medicine for replacing tissues and organs damaged by disease and of developing therapies for previously untreatable conditio...

Virtually any disease that results from malfunctioning, damaged, or failing tissues may be potentially cured through regenerative medicine therapies, by either regenerating the damaged tissues in vivo, or by growing the tissues and organs in vitro and implanting them into the patient. Principles of Regenerative Medicine discusses the latest advances in technology and medicine for replacing tissues and organs damaged by disease and of developing therapies for previously untreatable conditio...