TY - CHAP A1 - Steiger, Dominik ED - Witzleb, Normann ED - Paterson, Moira ED - Richardson, Janice T1 - International law and new challenges to democracy in the digital age BT - big data, privacy and interferences with the political process T2 - Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting N2 - This chapter aims to analyse whether and how democracy is actually threatened by big-data-based operations and what role international law can play to respond to this possible threat. It shows how big-data-based operations challenge democracy and how international law can help in defending it. The chapter focuses on both state and non-state actors may undermine democracy through big data operations; although democracy as such is a rather underdeveloped concept in international law, which is often more concerned with effectivity than legitimacy – international law protects against these challenges via a democracy-based approach rooted in international human rights law on the one hand, and the principle of non-intervention on the other hand. Thus, although democracy does not play a major role in international law, international law nevertheless is able to protect democracy against challenges from the inside as well as outside. KW - Computer Science KW - Humanities KW - Law KW - Politics & International Relations KW - Social Sciences Y1 - 2019 SN - 9780429288654 SN - 9780367230548 SN - 9781032082554 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429288654 SP - 71 EP - 98 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian A1 - Bernhard, Stefan T1 - Charting transnational fields BT - methodology for a political sociology of knowledge N2 - The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on the seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization and certification or supranational political structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and beyond the nation state. Part 1 on "Methodological Foundations" discusses the consequences of Bourdieu's epistemology and methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational phenomena. The contributions show the import of field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on "Investigating Political Fields" presents exemplary case studies in diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy. While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of transnationalization. The volume is an invitation for sociologists, political scientists and scholars in adjacent research areas to engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to further develop field-theoretical thought. KW - Politics & International Relations KW - Research Methods KW - Social Sciences Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-367-22418-9 SN - 978-1-03-217385-6 SN - 978-0-429-27494-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429274947 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - BOOK ED - Kazepov, Yuri Albert Kyrill ED - Verwiebe, Roland T1 - Vienna BT - Still a Just City? T3 - Built environment city studies N2 - This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. Historically, European cities have been characterised by a strong association between social cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State. Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years, however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this volume discusses Vienna's responses to these pressures in key policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore the local capacity to innovate urban policies and to address new social risks, while paying attention to potential trade-offs. The book questions and assesses the city's resilience using time series and an institutional analysis of four key dimensions that characterise the European city model within the context of post-industrial transition: redistribution, recognition, representation and sustainability. It offers a multiscalar perspective of urban governance through labour, housing, participatory and environmental policies, bringing together different levels and public policy types. KW - Built Environment KW - Environment and Sustainability KW - Geography KW - Social Sciences KW - Urban Studies Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-0-367-68011-4 SN - 978-1-003-13382-7 SN - 978-0-367-68013-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003133827 PB - Routledge CY - London ER -