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"In some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education. In others, church influence on public policy is far weaker. Why? Nations under God argues that where religious and national identities have historically fused, churches gain enormous moral authority--and covert institutional access. These powerful churches then shape policy in backrooms and secret meetings instead of through open democratic channels such as political parties or the ballot box. Through an in-depth historical analysis of six Christian democracies that share similar religious profiles yet differ in their policy outcomes--Ireland and Italy, Poland and Croatia, and the United States and Canada--Anna Grzymała-Busse examines how churches influenced education, abortion, divorce, stem cell research, and same-sex marriage. She argues that churches gain the greatest political advantage when they appear to be above politics. Because institutional access is covert, they retain their moral authority and their reputation as defenders of the national interest and the common good. Nations under God shows how powerful church officials in Ireland, Canada, and Poland have directly written legislation, vetoed policies, and vetted high-ranking officials. It demonstrates that religiosity itself is not enough for churches to influence politics--churches in Italy and Croatia, for example, are not as influential as we might think--and that churches allied to political parties, such as in the United States, have less influence than their notoriety suggests"--
Christianity and politics. --- Church and state. --- Democracy --- Nationalism --- 261.7 --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- Christianity --- Church and politics --- Politics and Christianity --- Politics and the church --- Political science --- Christianity and democracy --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten --- Political aspects --- 261.7 De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie:--theologische aspecten --- Christianity and politics --- Church and state --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Religious aspects&delete&
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"In some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education. In others, church influence on public policy is far weaker. Why? Nations under God argues that where religious and national identities have historically fused, churches gain enormous moral authority--and covert institutional access. These powerful churches then shape policy in backrooms and secret meetings instead of through open democratic channels such as political parties or the ballot box. Through an in-depth historical analysis of six Christian democracies that share similar religious profiles yet differ in their policy outcomes--Ireland and Italy, Poland and Croatia, and the United States and Canada--Anna Grzymała-Busse examines how churches influenced education, abortion, divorce, stem cell research, and same-sex marriage. She argues that churches gain the greatest political advantage when they appear to be above politics. Because institutional access is covert, they retain their moral authority and their reputation as defenders of the national interest and the common good. Nations under God shows how powerful church officials in Ireland, Canada, and Poland have directly written legislation, vetoed policies, and vetted high-ranking officials. It demonstrates that religiosity itself is not enough for churches to influence politics--churches in Italy and Croatia, for example, are not as influential as we might think--and that churches allied to political parties, such as in the United States, have less influence than their notoriety suggests"--
Religious studies --- Political sociology --- Sociology of religion --- Politics --- Christianity and politics --- Church and state --- Democracy --- Nationalism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity
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Music --- Musique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Muziek --- musicologie --- anno 1400-1499 --- musicology --- Music - 15th century - History and criticism.
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Despite the public perception in many member states that labour mobility has spiralled out ofcontrol, we find that labour mobility is low, particularly within the euro area. We make four mainpoints in this paper. First, that the economic and financial crisis has affected mobility patterns byredirecting flows away from the periphery, thus showing the limits to the potential of labourmobility within the current eurozone – largely due to the negligible mobility of nationals fromlarge countries hit by the crisis. Second, east-west mobility has not been fundamentally affected bythe crisis, and ten years after the eastern enlargement the number of East Europeans living in EU15should be of no overall concern. Third, the long-term economic effects of mobility are uncertain,but potential negative effects are more likely to show up in sending countries than in receivingones. Finally, we argue that, in view of the lessons learned from the economic crisis, theCommission and member states should adopt a longer-term view on labour mobility.
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Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.
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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing, RSFDGrC 2015, held in Tianjin, China in November 2015 as one of the co-located conference of the 2015 Joint Rough Set Symposium, JRS 2015. The 44 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers in this volume cover topics such as rough sets: the experts speak; generalized rough sets; rough sets and graphs; rough and fuzzy hybridization; granular computing; data mining and machine learning; three-way decisions; IJCRS 2015 data challenge.
Computer Science --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer science. --- Numerical analysis. --- Database management. --- Data mining. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Pattern recognition. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Database Management. --- Numeric Computing. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Data base management --- Data services (Database management) --- Database management services --- DBMS (Computer science) --- Generalized data management systems --- Services, Database management --- Systems, Database management --- Systems, Generalized database management --- Mathematical analysis --- Informatics --- Science --- Electronic data processing. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- ADP (Data processing) --- Automatic data processing --- Data processing --- EDP (Data processing) --- IDP (Data processing) --- Integrated data processing --- Computers --- Office practice --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Automation --- Fuzzy sets --- Data mining --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Conjunts aproximats --- Conjunts borrosos --- Mineria de dades --- Anàlisi numèrica --- Gestió de bases de dades --- Reconeixement de formes (Informàtica) --- Intel·ligència artificial --- Pattern perception.
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