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This timely book investigates the emergence of data-for-accountability as a governing tool in education. Five leading scholars explore its evolution over time and across regions, highlighting how datafication in education benefits some and disadvantages others.The authors trace the origins of using data for accountability in education back to the 1990s, demonstrating how various actors have adapted and tailored this trend, thus diversifying its use as a governance tool. They examine the rise of student testing, performance-based evaluation and governance by numbers to reveal the political, economic and pedagogical uses and abuses of data. Drawing on a variety of methods, theories and disciplines, including a combination of macro-, meso-, and microlevel analyses, the authors illustrate how these instruments have taken root globally, why they persist and how their meanings and effects vary across policy contexts.Data for Accountability in Education is a crucial resource for scholars, students and practitioners in comparative education and international education policy, as well as those engaged with the sociology of education. Policymakers working with educational data will also find the book a valuable reference point for understanding accountability in education.

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Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Patricia Bromley, Rie Kijima, Kerstin Martens, Antoni Verger

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A Research Agenda for Critical Literacies

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Challenges and Possibilities in Troubling Times

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This cutting-edge Research Agenda offers a way forward for critical literacies that takes into account current conditions of possibility. Expert contributing authors showcase innovative research that emphasises the importance of language, multimodality, place and suppressed knowledges.A Research Agenda for Critical Literacy outlines contemporary challenges faced by the field including a changing world order, the rise of right-wing extremism, climate change, and the changing role of social media and AI. Chapters highlight critical literacys dynamic and malleable nature, re-imagining influential frameworks and exploring new possibilities for practice. Considering also shifts in applied linguistics and the imperatives of the decolonial project, authors assess the implications of posthumanism, new materialism and the ontological turn for re-thinking language, discourse and critical literacies and advocate for re-imagining practice in order to meet modern societys needs.Interspersed with analytical commentary, A Research Agenda for Critical Literacy is a vital resource for students and scholars in education, particularly those interested in language, literacies, content literacies and discourse in relation to issues of identity, power and social and ecological justice. It is also an enlightening read for educators and researchers seeking to understand the ontological turn, posthumanism, new materialisms and decolonial theory in relation to pedagogy.

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Hilary Janks, Barbara Comber, Vivian Vasquez

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The witch figure has long inspired fear and fascination, and the witch-hunts and widespread persecution of women over time have made the witch a powerful figure for feminism. This book explores the growing interest in witchcraft in the marketplace, revealing how the witch has evolved into a feminist heroine for our times.Commencing with a historical overview of the witch imaginary in Europe during the burning times, the authors analyse the various manifestations of the witch in the contemporary marketplace. Chapters explore the witch in popular culture, witchcraft in Glastonbury and two popular forms of witchcraft - green and glamorous. Stevens and Maclaran also examine the figure of the crone as a powerful archetype for post-menopausal women and consider the power of covens as a means of feminist solidarity. Through adopting a multi-media approach, this book assesses both the problems associated with the marketisation of witchcraft and the opportunities for reclamation. Bewitching Consumer Culture is an enlightening read for scholars and students of marketing, consumer culture, critical management and gender and management studies. Its focus on witchcraft, market forces and feminism will also make this prime readership for those interested in womens studies, new spiritualities and popular culture.

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Advanced Introduction to Behavioral and Experimental Public Administration

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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the worlds leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this timely Advanced Introduction, Gregg G. Van Ryzin explores key ideas, methods, practices and prospects in the growing subfield of behavioral and experimental public administration (BEPA). He investigates the intellectual history of BEPA, as well as the rise of applied behavioral science work in governments around the globe. Chapters demonstrate the essential role of experimental design and logic in addressing emerging challenges in public policy and administration, including the ethical considerations of nudging.Key Features:Traces the key theoretical ideas that inspired BEPASurveys the rise of behavioral insights teams, or nudge unitsExamines the methodology and function of randomized experimentsAnalyses research on crucial themes, including government performance, work motivation, representative bureaucracy, collaborative governance and coproductionOutlines the criticisms and limitations of BEPA, as well as its prospects for future research and practiceThis Advanced Introduction is a valuable read for scholars and students of public management and administration. Public managers and practitioners will benefit from its insights on the real-world applications of behavioral science and experimental techniques.

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This informative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the key political concepts, ideas, institutions and processes in Africa. Leading scholars define core terms, trace the evolution of debates and discuss the ongoing relevance of these topics in contemporary academic and policy contexts.Entries explore diverse areas of study including apartheid, Chinese migration, land tenure reform, military mutinies, pan-Africanism, pre-colonial organisations and truth commissions. They outline analytical insights that connect the past and present as well as theory and practice, and direct readers towards fundamental literature references for deeper engagement with the topic.Scholars and students of politics and public policy, development studies, international relations and regulation and governance, particularly within the field of African politics, will benefit from the foundations and depth presented by this Encyclopedia.Key Features:Contains over 90 concise, analytical entriesWritten by specialists from across the globeAddresses the entire spectrum of the political systemEngages with ongoing debates on decolonising political science

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Anne M. Kjær, Moses Khisa, Xichavo Alecia Ndlovu

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Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Innovation Strategies

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Unlocking Smart Specialisation explores how European regions can design better strategies to grow, innovate and adapt in a rapidly changing world. George Papamichail examines the evolution of smart specialisation from an academic concept to a cornerstone of EU regional development, highlighting why many regions still struggle to put it into practice. Papamichail introduces key ideas from innovation systems theory, institutional theory and endogenous growth, connecting them with real-world policy application. He presents both the promise and the pitfalls of regional development, emphasising how regions succeed when they build on their unique strengths, engage local people and institutions and create trust-based collaboration. Chapters cover emerging trends such as S3 2.0, green and digital transitions and mission-oriented innovation, arguing that lasting success depends on efficient multilevel governance and institutional quality. Drawing on global examples, Papamichail concludes that smart specialisation will cultivate greener, fairer and more resilient futures in regions that have effectively closed the implementation gap.This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of public policy, economics and regional studies. Its recommendations for governance reform, capacity building and stakeholder engagement are also highly relevant for policymakers and practitioners in EU institutions, international organisations and regional development agencies.

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In this provocative book, Bartosz Biskup advocates for a reform of the right to marry, arguing that this right should extend beyond romantic or sexual couples to include any relationship that provides care and support.Through philosophical and legal analysis of the European Convention on Human Rights, Biskup concludes that the right to marry is currently an empty status that neglects to explain why marriage deserves special protection. He adopts an ameliorative legal philosophy to illustrate how relationships should receive legal recognition based on care and vulnerability rather than sexual intimacy. Biskup's research encompasses various common situations including adult siblings sharing a home, friends who become primary caregivers and chosen families. Rather than abolishing marriage, Biskup outlines how the institution of marriage can be improved to create a more just family law system while still upholding the human right to marry.Laws of Caring provides a novel ontological framework for understanding legal kinds and institutional change through social amendment, making it a valuable resource for scholars and students of legal philosophy, family law and social ontology. It is also highly relevant to human rights practitioners in NGOs and international organizations who focus on family diversity, especially the rights of LGBTQ+ and non-conjugal families.

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Judicial Policy Making, Empirical Data and Scientific Evidence

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Can Courts Manage the Twenty-First Century?

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This book examines the uncertainties which arise when courts have to deal with complex empirical data and contested scientific evidence in public interest cases, but lack the necessary knowledge and training to do so. Expert contributors explore the strategies, methods and techniques applied by the courts to inform their decisions, reduce uncertainty and assist proportionality assessments.Moving beyond mainstream legal thinking, which evaluates whether courts should engage with policy making, the contributors investigate the ways in which courts are actively interacting with this process. Chapters explore how courts are often hesitant to collect empirical data or scientific evidence and yet sometimes rely on this kind of evidence too easily when it is brought by self-interested litigants. The contributors present solutions to make courts less dependent on the adversarial system, revealing how courts are eager to avoid a battle of the sciences. They analyse the dependence of courts on legal principles, the procedural rules which distribute the burden of proof and ways of outsourcing complex factual issues to third party experts.Judicial Policy Making, Empirical Data and Scientific Evidence is a vital resource for scholars and students of constitutional and administrative law, research methods and law and politics. It is also beneficial for practitioners dealing with cases involving empirical data and scientific evidence.

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Rob van Gestel, Jurgen de Poorter, Edward Rubin

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A Practical Guide to Drafting, Filing and Litigating

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In spite of massive financial commitments to GreenTech made across the continent, Europe is currently behind when it comes to patenting green technologies. Based on first-hand experience, Christian Koster provides practical tips and strategies for drafting, filing and litigating patents in green technologies. Key Features:Provides step-by-step guidance on the various parts of a patent documentAddresses common challenges with practical techniques for tackling issuesProposes ways to emphasize the green character of the invention being patentedHighlights actual and planned investments across Europe directed at cleaner and more sustainable economies This must-have guide is an essential resource for in-house counsel, engineers and start-ups involved in developing, patenting and investing in emerging green technologies.

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In this innovative book, Koldo Casla proposes that property should be reinterpreted as a social right, arguing from the perspective of human rights and the social function that ownership must serve not only private interests but also the interests of the community.Positing that property ought to be democratically defined in accordance with its social function, Casla articulates a proposal for a new social right to property and evaluates the implications in relation to adequate housing and the private provision of public services, including transport and energy. Global case studies from Africa, Europe and Latin America demonstrate the underlying tension between an exclusivist and extractive idea of private property and the states mandate to respect, protect and fulfil social rights.Presenting a unique method of inquiry, The Social Right to Property is of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners of international human rights law, comparative law and property theory. Its critical analysis also makes it a valuable resource for those interested in property ownership and social rights.

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While intersections between Greek literature and medicine have become a focal point of considerable research among Classicists in the last ten years, little work has been done in the field of Latin literature, with particular regard to poetry. And yet the human body and its affections have pride of place in numerous poems from ancient Rome, the medical influence of which can hardly be denied.  By building on the recent developments in the field of medical humanities, this volume aims at tackling innovatively the intersections between medical sciences and Latin literary texts, with papers exploring the ways in which medicine is integrated into poetry and how poetry, in turn, can propagate medical knowledge across various social classes and cultural contexts.  This volume will uncover the connections between Roman literature and ancient theories of the body, thus showing how indebted Roman poetic production was to both ancient Greek and Roman medical traditions. As such, it will be of significant interest for researchers and postgraduate students working on ancient Greek and Roman medicine and philosophy, Roman poetry and literature more broadly, ancient senses and emotions, and medical humanities.

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Chiara Blanco, Allegra Hahn, Simona Martorana

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Denkmalpflege in Schlesien in der NS-Zeit

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Zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Politik

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Der Band bietet erstmals einen Uberblick uber die Geschichte der Denkmalpflege in Schlesien, eingebettet in den Kontext von Theorie und Praxis in Preuen und, insbesondere nach 1933, im gesamten deutschen Staat. Er stellt die beteiligten Akteure mit Kurzbiografien vor, darunter auch bislang kaum bekannte Architekten, Maler, Bildhauer, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Fotografinnen eine wichtige Erweiterung der Kenntnisse uber die schlesische Kunst- und Kulturszene seit den spaten 1920er Jahren. Und schlielich beleuchtet die Untersuchung die Rolle der Denkmalpflege innerhalb der ideologisierten Kulturpolitik des NS-Staates in der spezifischen geopolitischen Situation Schlesiens: Grajewski zeigt die aktive Mitwirkung des Provinzialkonservators Gunther Grundmann im Kreis der Ostforscher an der Breslauer Universitat, die den Expansionskrieg des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands durch vorgeblich wissenschaftliche Argumentationen unterstutzten.

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Case Studies and Best Practices Around the Globe

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The strong move to sustainability is one of the dominant reasons for wine companies to innovate, diversify into servitization, and to reconsider the range of activities they offer. Wine tourism accounts for more than 50 billion euros of direct revenue in the world economy. There is significant potential in assisting wineries secure sustainability and contribute to the economic development of their regions.  The typical wine tourism offer based on a good wine tasting is no longer sufficient for average wine visitors. Developing green tourism, empowering digital skills and entrepreneurial capacities would help wineries to attract young generations and gain the loyalty of a clientele in demand for rich and original experiences. It would also directly strengthen the competitiveness of local communities through diversified touristic offers, build the resilience of wineries and their economic regions. The book will investigate topical contemporary industry challenges and that can advance applied researchand education in the wider tourism field.

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Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva, Gergely Szolnoki, Noriaki Kawasaki, Alejandro Gennari

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For more than two centuries, economists and researchers have struggled with the conundrum of reconciling Adam Smiths views on economics and ethics. While some held that Smiths capitalism and free markets institutionalized selfishness, greed, inequality and injustice, others focused on his theory of the moral nature of all human persons and the application of conscience and self-restraint in capitalist activities. Adam Smith and Modern Economics suggests that neither of these two conventional understandings alone is accurate and conducive to human flourishing. Smith put markets in the context of morality, observing that markets serve best when our moral sentiments are followed. In a remarkable convergence of inductive thinking, the contributors to this book set a new standard of scholarship and insight for our understanding of Adam Smiths contributions as a master of political economy, where politics brings forth decision-making about priorities and values. The contributions integrate morals, values, and the universal intangible capitals of sociality and human resourcefulness with the more materialistic side of economic activity to advocate a system seeking equilibrium. They posit that when ethics and economics are integrated, wealth can be created for the good of all. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations, this new and sympathetic understanding of Smiths intentions and accomplishment is essential reading for academics and students of economics, politicians and bureaucrats, public policy planners, social justice activists, executives, and professionals.

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Unsere Gesellschaft ist aktuell gepragt von vielfaltigen religiosen Uberzeugungen und kulturellen Hintergrunden. In der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft (Naika Foroutan) treffen Lehrende in Schulen zunehmend auf eine breite Palette religioser Identitaten, die sich mit anderen sozialen Merkmalen wie Geschlecht, Ethnizitat und sozialem Status uberschneiden. Intersektionalitat als analytisch angelegtes Konzept hat das Ziel, die Uberschneidungen und Wechselwirkungen verschiedener Diskriminierungsformen wie Rassismus, Sexismus und religioser Abwertungen zu verstehen und in der Bildungsarbeit zu berucksichtigen. Sie stellt Lehrkrafte vor die Aufgabe, sowohl individuelle Lebenswelten als auch gesellschaftliche Realitaten in ihren Bildungskonzepten zu berucksichtigen.

Wie kann eine intersektionale Perspektive in die Lehrkraftebildung integriert werden, um den vielfaltigen Lebensrealitaten der Schuler*innen gerecht zu werden? Welche Kompetenzen benotigen Lehrkrafte, um rassismuskritische und migrationssensible Bildungsangebote zu gestalten? Mit Blick darauf mochte dieser Sammelband zum einen die ambivalenten Bezugnahmen auf Religion als Differenzdimension untersuchen. Zum anderen geht er der Frage nach, welche Konsequenzen sich aus der Verflochtenheit der Religionen mit sozialen Machtverhaltnissen im Hinblick auf mogliche zukunftige Professionalisierungsprozesse fur Religionslehrkrafte ergeben.

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Naciye Kamcili-Yildiz, Britta Konz, Joachim Willems

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Der Kommentar versucht, die auszulegenden Bucher -E als Hinfuhrung in das Gesamtkonzept von Aristoteles Metaphysik zu integrieren, das Seiende (als den allgemeinsten Gegenstand) unter dem umfassendsten Gesichtspunkt zu untersuchen, was es in seinem Sein begrundet. In wird diese Aufgabe der zu begrundenden Wissenschaft eingefuhrt und exemplarisch am Satz des ausgeschlossenen Widerspruchs erlautert. Dieser ist fur Aristoteles nicht blo logisch die Voraussetzung jeder sinnvollen Mitteilung, sondern verleiht zugleich einem Seienden die Bestimmtheit, ohne die es nicht sein kann. In werden fur diese Untersuchung erforderliche Begriffe im Sinn einer deskriptiven Metaphysik im Ausgang vom alltagssprachlichen Gebrauch entwickelt, nicht ohne systematische Zusammenhange. In E findet sich der wichtige Methodengrundsatz: An der Erorterung des jeweils hochsten Seienden konnen paradigmatisch Einsichten von universaler Bedeutung gewonnen werden.

Eine eingehende Analyse des Textes, die auch Fragen der Ubersetzung und der Textkritik nicht ausspart, sofern sie philosophisch bedeutsam sind, vermag zu zeigen: In den meisten Aussagen sind intrikate, vielfach verflochtene Fragen angesprochen, die auch fur eine heutige systematische Philosophie sachlich bedeutsam sind.

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Die Senkung des Energiebedarfs im Wohnungsbestand Deutschlands ist eine zentrale Aufgabe der nachsten Jahre. Hierfur bedarf es kostengunstiger und materialsparender Losungen. Der Ansatz folgt den Prinzipien des einfachen Bauens, d.h. der Einsatz von Technik wird auf ein Minimum beschrankt. Anhand der Analyse von drei Wohnsiedlungen in Munchen wird erklart, wie das Ziel einer CO2-Reduktion ohne Steigerung der Warmmiete erreicht werden kann.

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Florian Nagler, Anne Niemann, Tilmann Jarmer

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Do the emerging forces of the political far right have an architectural and urban planning agenda? This question runs through Right Spaces, a collection of essays written between 2015 and 2020 that anticipated many elements of the current debate. Supplemented by a new, detailed foreword that sheds light on recent international developments, these essays, collated in English for the first time, reveal that architecture has become a central medium of the global authoritarian right, from ethno-nationalists and historical revisionists to libertarians. This development has been accompanied by a policy of low interest rates pursued by the worlds main central banks in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, which led to a rapid increase in construction and a paradigm shift in architecture from a means of creating useful objects and towards a form of asset creation.   Highly topical international issue A collection of Stephan Trubys widely acclaimed texts on the political dimension of reconstruction: now translated into English Continues the discussion of anti-Semitism and racism in architecture and architectural education

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With the rapid development of big data, three major challenges arise in the field of economics and management. The first challenge is that the traditional correlation-based methods cannot essentially reveal the true philosophy under the economic activities, modelling and inferring the causal relationship is paramount for discovering the essential effect of certain economic and management policies. The second one is that the computational burden becomes extremely high and the estimation accuracy is lost when the data scale is large. The third one is that financial institutions typically hold tens of thousands of assets, making portfolio risk assessment very computationally intensive.
This book discusses three advanced topics in modern economics and management: causal inference, financial model computing and decisions, and financial risk management. The first part of the book introduces the counterfactual framework for causal inference in observational studies and defines important causal parameters under both discrete and continuous treatments. The second part focuses on the computations associated with the financial model and its consequent decision making. The third part studies the nested simulation method for portfolio risk measurement and introduces the neural network methodology for market risk forecasting. 
The goal of this book is to provide cutting-edge methodologies and rigorous theory to solve advanced problems in economics and management, such as program/policy evaluation, efficient computation of econometric models, and financial risk management. This book will be appealing to academic researchers and graduate students. Practitioners may also find this book helpful.
This is an open access book.

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Yuqian, Songshan; Zhang, Xing; Yang, Kun; Yan, Zheng; Zhang, Zhang

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Geopolitical Risks and Geoeconomics in International Economic Law

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The rules-based international economic order is undergoing profound transformation. Geopolitical risk and geoeconomic strategy are no longer external shocks to a stable system; they now shape the core of international economic law (IEL), influencing trade regulation, investment protection, digital governance, and supply-chain design. Tariffs, sanctions, investment screening, data controls, and security-driven regulation have become structural features of the global economy.
This edited volume originates from the 9th Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) Conference, held in Tokyo in June 2025 under the theme Geopolitical Risks and Geoeconomics in International Economic Law: Asian Perspectives and Beyond. It brings together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to examine how IEL is responding to persistent geopolitical uncertainty and regulatory risk.
The chapters analyze how legal frameworks allocate the costs of geopolitical and regulatory risk, whether the liberal trading system is fragmenting into regional or minilateral arrangements, and how security, resilience, and sustainability are reshaping market access and investment governance. A central question is whether international economic law can adapt to these pressures without abandoning rule-based multilateralism.
Placing Asia at the center of the analysis, the volume explores whether Asian states can move beyond being objects of great-power strategies and instead act as norm entrepreneurs shaping the future of international economic law.