Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Anastassia V. Obydenkova ◽  
Alexander Libman
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Key Terms

The introductory chapter provides an overview of the issues discussed in the book and sets the framework and logic of analysis presented in the subsequent chapters. It summarizes the importance of the topics discussed, as well as the book’s motivation and its contribution to the literature and methodology. It formulates the two main research questions of the book: whether non-democratic regional organizations are different from democratic ones in terms of governance and membership and whether non-democratic regional organizations contribute to authoritarian consolidation at the national level. It outlines the structure of the book and sketches the main ideas of each chapter. It then sets out the terminology and vocabulary used throughout the book as well as the definition of the key terms.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Process Standardization ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Business Process Standardization ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Key Terms

The goal of this chapter is to give an overview of the work at hand: it introduces Business Process Standardization (BPS), explains the motivation of the research topic, and formulates research questions to be answered. Then, it explains the methodology used, provides a definition of key terms, and gives an overview of the structure of the book. Finally, it summarizes the main findings of the book.

Ethical Affordances, Awareness, and Actions

Ethical Life ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Webb Keane
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ethical Evaluations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Ways Of Life

This introductory chapter provides a definition of some key terms: ethics, morality, reflexive awareness, and affordance. Studies that focus on virtues, values, and ways of life tend to fall under the rubric of ethics. Those that focus on obligations, prohibitions, general principles, systematicity, and momentary decisions are treated as morality. There is a great deal of overlap and interaction between these. Cutting across the distinction between ethics and morality is another one, that between the tacit and the explicit—those background assumptions, values, and motives that go without saying or are difficult to put into words, on the other hand, and those that easily lend themselves to conscious reflection, on the other. Meanwhile, ethical affordance is any aspects of people's experiences and perceptions that they might draw on in the process of making ethical evaluations and decisions, whether consciously or not.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aksel Ersoy
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Oriented Research

This introductory chapter studies the possibilities and tensions for co-produced research practices that emerge from the collision of long-established, community-oriented research practices, an increased institutional emphasis on community co-production in academia, and the ongoing critique of the key terms of these practices. Among long-established approaches to community-oriented research scholarship, Participatory Action Research (PAR) is squarely oriented to a particular vision of social justice and community defined methods and research questions. The chapter cites various case studies about what co-production looks like and some of the challenges that arise. It opens up the field and begins to illustrate in practice what the tensions and challenges of co-production are.

scholarly journals Understanding and Acting Upon a Creeping Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Arjen Boin ◽  
Magnus Ekengren ◽  
Mark Rhinard
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Societal Problems

AbstractThe notion of a creeping crisis is a conceptual one, a heuristic device useful for helping to uncover hidden dimensions of today’s more pressing—some might say existential—societal problems. In this introductory chapter, we present our definition of creeping crisis and unpack the analytical dimensions of the concept. We review what existing research does and does not tell us about those dimensions. The chapter concludes by highlighting key research questions and outlining how the case studies in the book help to answer those questions.

Centre-left parties and the European Union

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Hertner
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Principal Agent ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Eu

This introductory chapter outlines the challenges that centre-left parties face in the European Union, explaining that the EU limits their room for manoeuvre. It then explains how the analysis fits into and builds on existing research on intra-party democracy, centre-left parties in Europe, the Europeanisation of political parties, and multi-level party politics. Next, this chapter briefly introduces the principal-agent framework that will be applied to Labour, PS and SPD throughout the book. Finally, the introductory chapter outlines the main research questions that this study addresses, the methodology, including the sources used and original data collection, and introduces the format and structure of the book.

Multilayer Networks in Nature, Society and Infrastructures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginestra Bianconi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Molecular Networks ◽  
Financial Networks ◽  
Network Medicine ◽  
Multilayer Networks ◽  
Multilayer Network ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Climate Networks

Chapter 4 opens Part III of the book, ‘Multilayer Networks’, which comprises chapters 4–15. The chapter starts with an informal definition of multiplex networks, multi-slice networks and networks of networks, and motivates the research interest on multilayer networks by providing a general overview of the multiple applications of the multilayer network framework in different disciplines and contexts, including social networks, complex infrastructures, financial networks, molecular networks and network medicine, brain networks, ecological networks and climate networks. This chapter discusses the major examples of multilayer network datasets studied so far in the different disciplines and highlights the main research questions emerging from the study of these real datasets.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Stefán Ólafsson ◽  
Mary Daly ◽  
Olli Kangas ◽  
Joakim Palme
Keyword(s):  
European Countries ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Mary Daly ◽  
Deep Crisis

This introductory chapter by Stefán Ólafsson, Mary Daly, Olli Kangas, and Joakim Palme sets the scene for this volume’s approach. It starts by describing the main research questions, the context, and the underlying themes. It then lays out the explanatory framework that guides the analysis and ends with an overview of each chapter of the book. The book combines general comparative studies of some 30 European countries with a more in-depth analysis of 9 countries, spanning differential experiences of the Great Recession. These include four countries that experienced a very deep crisis (Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Spain), three that were not as severely affected (Denmark, Finland, UK), and two that were only modestly affected (Norway and Sweden). The book shows that the welfare state played a much larger role in averting negative crisis consequences than during the Great Depression of the 1930s, its influence varying considerably between countries or welfare regimes.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Stefanie Walter ◽  
Ari Ray ◽  
Nils Redeker
Keyword(s):  
Policy Options ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Large Current ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Research Questions

Why did the Eurozone crisis prove so difficult to resolve? Why were adjustment burdens distributed so unevenly and why did no country leave the Eurozone? Who supported and opposed different policy options and how did the distributive struggles both within countries and between countries shape crisis politics? This introductory chapter lays out the main research questions and puzzles motivating this book. It provides an overview about the trajectory of the crisis and highlights the unusual characteristics of the crisis, most notably the unequal distribution of crisis resolution costs between deficit-debtor and surplus-creditor countries in the Eurozone. It then presents the policy options available to policymakers in both crisis countries mired by debt and balance of payments problems, as well as surplus-creditor countries characterized by large current account surpluses. The chapter then presents a brief overview of the book’s main argument that societies’ and political actors’ vulnerability profiles play an important role in shaping crisis policies and politics. The chapter concludes with an outlook and brief summary of the book’s individual chapters and a discussion of the book’s contributions to research on the Eurozone crisis, crisis politics, and the role of trade-offs in policymaking more generally.

OUTDOOR CAMP EFFECTS ON ATHLETES: ORIENTEERING EXAMPLE

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (104) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadir Yıldız ◽  
Pınar Güzel ◽  
Fırat Çetinöz ◽  
Tolga Beşikçi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Research Questions

Background. In this research, we aimed to investigate the effects of outdoor camps on orienteering athletes. Methods. The study group consisted of 74 athletes (44 males and 30 females, aged 11.94 ± 1.32 years) who participated in Bolu outdoor camp on the 3 rd –13 th of August, 2015. Interview technique, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used as data collection tool and content analysis method was used for data analysis. Results. Demographic factors were interpreted after the analysis of the obtained data and three main research questions were discussed under the topics of the views of athletes about the concept of Orienteering which is an outdoor sport, themes and codes regarding the purpose of Orienteering by the students who participated in the outdoor camp, and themes and codes about the outcomes of Orienteering for the students who participated in outdoor camps. Conclusion. It is suggested that a policy must be developed within the Ministry of Youth and Sport and Sport Federations in order to disseminate more deliberate and more comprehensive outdoor education among young people and measures should be taken to provide extensive participation.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cheyne
Keyword(s):  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
External Powers ◽  
The Mind

This introductory chapter commences with a definition of contemplation as the sustained attention to the ideas of reason, which are not merely concepts in the mind, but real, external powers that constitute and order being and value, and therefore excite reverence or admiration. A contemplative, Coleridgean position is outlined as a defence in the crisis of the humanities, arguing that if Coleridge is right in asserting that ideas ‘in fact constitute … humanity’, then they must be the proper or ultimate studies of the disciplines that comprise the humanities. This focus on contemplation as the access to essential ideas explains why Coleridge progressed from, without ever abandoning, imagination to reason as his thought evolved during his lifetime. A section on ‘Contemplation: How to Get There from Here’, is followed by a descriptive bibliography of Coleridge as discussed by philosophers, intellectual historians, theologians, and philosophically minded literary scholars.

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