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Updating democracy studies: outline of a research program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Technologies carry politics since they embed values. It is therefore surprising that mainstream political and legal theory have taken the issue so lightly.
Mindus, Patricia
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Analyser l’économie en physicien : introduction à la pensée économique de Marion King Hubbert

open access: yesŒconomia
Marion King Hubbert (1903-1989) is a geophysicist mostly known for his work on the availability of oil resources (known as “peak oil” theory). But Hubbert was also a political theorist and activist of the Technocracy Movement, a political movement mainly
Ambroise Joulin
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Beware the cult of 'tech fixing' -- it's why America is eyeing the nuclear button [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
On technological fixes and the dangers of the shallow short-term problem solving of social, political and economic problems by technological means ...
Johnston, Sean F.
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From Crisis to Technocracy

open access: yesPolitikon
This paper examines the relationship between economic crises, institutional factors, and technocratic appointments in European governments during the 2006-2015 period, with a specific focus on the European sovereign debt crisis (2010-2015).
Greta Comedini
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Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes in Colombia: the Effects of the 1991 Constitution [PDF]

open access: yes
: The 1991 Colombian constitution strengthened the checks and balances of the political system by enhancing the role of Congress and the Constitutional Court, while somewhat limiting the powers of the president (who nonetheless remains extremely powerful
Mauricio Cárdenas   +2 more
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The window of opportunity: Linking climate history and storms

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment
High magnitude storms have impacted coastal maritime communities, instigating national government responses. Storm catastrophes can open a ‘window of opportunity’ that enables the implementation of new long‐term disaster risk reduction measures. Analysis
A. Jardine, K. A. Selby, D. Higgins
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State College Times, January 19, 1933 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1933
Volume 21, Issue 53https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/12822/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Elites, intelectuales y tecnocracia Calidoscopio contemporaneo y fenomeno latinoamericano actual.

open access: yesColombia Internacional, 2005
This paper to provides a state of art discussion of general elite theory by developing a taxonomy of the academic literature on this topic, based upon theoretical and historical criteria, and by discussing recent analytical tendencies in Latin America ...
Jairo Estrada Alvarez.   +1 more
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