scholarly journals Rebellious Priests? : The Catholic Clergy and the Diet, 1764-1765

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
András Forgó
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Decision Making

The study of the eighteenth-century parliament has intensified in Hungary over the past decade and a half. This tendency is part of a larger European historiographical trend which has revalued the role of the Diets in the study of eighteenth-century political decision-making and political culture. The Hungarian Diet of 1764–1765 is traditionally seen as an outstanding political event in the century, and at the same time as a turning point of the reign of Maria Theresa. After the bitter experiences gained here, she did not convene the estates of Hungary during the remaining fifteen years of her reign, she rather ruled the country by decrees with the help of the institutions of the estates in Hungary. This study is looking for the answer to the question of how the clergy’s opposition to the politics of the court is represented in the sources and how the “change of sides” by the chapter representatives can be grasped in the parliamentary debates.

scholarly journals Role of Social Media as a Soft Power Tool in Raising Public Awareness and Engagement in Addressing Climate Change

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavrodieva ◽  
Rachman ◽  
Harahap ◽  
Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Political Decision Making

Climate change has been one of the most debated topics in the past few decades, but a number of challenges have hindered the development of robust policies and strategies by nations. At the same time, social media platforms—such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook—have given the opportunity for the general public to share opinions and engage with the issue of climate change like never before. This phenomenon is considered to be a new form of soft power which can provide input into the discussion and possibly affect the current international political mechanisms. The present paper aims to (1) define the forms and characteristics of social media as a soft power method, (2) analyze its influence on the awareness of societies, and (3) assess if increased public awareness could influence the official political and policy processes. In order to assess if social media has influence on people’s relative awareness, we have focused on analyzing the links between a few highly visible climate change related events and the trends in people’s searches on the Internet in connection to those events. The study finds that even though it is difficult to assess the effects of social media as a soft power tool with certainty, there are visible links between social media and changing public perceptions, with the possibility of public opinion influencing political decision-making.

Terror and Politics

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Linton
Keyword(s):  
Personal Factors ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Public Identity ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Political Factions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Decision Making

In a move away from overarching explanations of the Terror based on ideology, class or a ‘system of Terror’, historians have been investigating the web of connections between politics, ideology, tactics, emotions and the role of individuals. Consequently, a more complex picture of revolutionary politics has begun to emerge. This chapter uses these new approaches to examine the individual experiences of Jacobin leaders. It asks how far we can reconstruct the motives that led individual Jacobin leaders to choose terror. Personal factors, including friendships, influenced political decision-making to a far greater extent than previously acknowledged. Emotions, above all fear, played an integral role in the Terror. The Jacobin leaders needed to maintain their public identity as ‘men of virtue’ or risk being destroyed in the politicians’ terror. The chapter examines the genesis of the politicians’ terror that culminated in the mutual destruction of political factions during the Year II.

Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science?

Derrida Today ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin McQuillan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Political Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Decision Making

How might we begin to think about deconstruction in relation to the formulation of political policy? Once we begin to ask this question the whole idea of policy as such is put in question and conversely the limitations of philosophy as the basis for political decision making quickly become apparent. Through a consideration of this problem and by reference to a number of key tropes in Derrida's later writings, this essay begins the task of thinking about the deconstruction of policy and of asking what the future role of deconstructive thought might be.

scholarly journals Naked Ape to Superspecies: A personal perspective on humanity and the global eco-crisis 2nd Edition

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Monica Russell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Good News ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Political Decision Making

The book Naked Ape to Superspecies outlines some of the most disturbing issues associated with the environment on a world scale and highlights the constant growing pressure we are placing on our environment. David Suzuki (Canadian science broadcaster, geneticist, public lecturer, and environmental and civil rights activist) and Holly Dressel (environmentalist and writer/researcher), authors of Good News for a Change (1997) imply that the human species is at a turning point in time so significant to our existence that if changes arc not made now, not only in our way of thinking but in our underlying economical, social and political decision making, we will ultimately destroy the environment.

scholarly journals Expected Participation and Mentality of Smart Citizen in Smart Cities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Feher
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Smart Environments ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Political Decision Making

The goal of the paper is to investigate the expected participation and mentality of smart citizens in smart cities. The key question is the role of the human factor in smart environments globally studied through a research corpus of the mainstream summaries, trend reports, white papers and visions of business – governmental – university research co- operations. Foremost, a short review of the changing scholarly trends is presented as a theoretical framework. Concerning its key ideas, the corpus based findings are recapped and analysed by content networks and the most referred city strategies. Besides, a critical approach reveal further required factors and risks to investigate. The ultimate goal is to understand how the smart city landscape is shaped by citizen-based strategies, open data, empowerment and responsibility. Accordingly, the paper closes with theoretical, practical and metaphor-based recommendations to support the business and political decision making, and also, the emerging scholarly trends in the context of upcoming technological-structural changes.

scholarly journals Changing the World Through Poetry: Confessions, Poems and Banners of Adam Borzič

Porównania ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
Markéta Kittlová
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Role ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Strong Current ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This study focuses on Adam Borzič, one of the most distinctive contemporary Czech poets. The study contextualises his work within current Czech poetry but also examines his other work that is not strictly classified as art as though it were cultural work with avant-garde features. It investigates four volumes of Borzič’s work in terms of the changes in the author’s creative gesture, which expands from his conviction that the world is at a turning point and the avant-garde longing to change the world by poetry. In the four volumes of Borzič’s poetry (written so far), this gesture is embodied through delicately intimate, acutely physical, or even gigantically all-embracing positions, where he employs motives of the heart, head, hand and mouth. The study attempts to evaluate the change in Borzič’s work in the lightof T. S. Eliot’s understanding of the social role of poetry and avant-garde longing to change reality through art. The Czech poet, Adam Borzič, is one of the most distinctive figures of the current Czech literary scene. His poetry is distinct because of its unique gesture andalso represents a strong current in the poetry production of the past decade with its emphasis on the social function of poetry7 and the poet’s role as somebody who should nurture the world through his/her work or even change it. This study attempts to portray Borzič’s work as focused on the mentioned topics and related issues of the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century and renew interest in them, contextualise his work within current Czech poetry but also investigate his other work, which is not strictly artistic but which possesses some avant-garde features.

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