1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996309063503316

Autore

Meier Dominik <1969->

Titolo

Power and its logic : politics and how to master it / / Dominik Meier and Christian Blum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-8394-4497-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

Edition Politik ; 64

Disciplina

320.12

Soggetti

Power (Social sciences)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Table of Contents    5  Acknowledgements    7  0.1 PREFACE    9  0.2 STRUCTURE AND SUBSTANCE    11  0.3 METHODS    14  1.1 DEFINITIONAL APPROACH    17  1.2 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF POWER    30  1.3. HUMANKIND, POWER AND HISTORY - FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS    47  2.1 FORMS OF POWER    59  2.2 POWER AND SYMBOLISM    69  2.3 POWER FIELDS    78  2.4 THE COMMON GOOD    114  2.5 THE VECTORS OF POLITICAL POWER    133  3.1 THE POWER CHESS MODEL    214  3.2 EMPOWER MODEL    219  3.3 CONDENSING    243  3.4 INFLUENCING    269  3.5 GLOBAL GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS    274  3.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS    281  4.1 SPECIALIST LITERATURE    285  4.2 ADDITIONAL SOURCES    305

Sommario/riassunto

Power is the essence of politics. Whoever seeks to understand and master it must understand its logic. Drawing on two decades of international experience in political consulting, Dominik Meier and Christian Blum give profound and honest insights into the inner workings of power. Introducing their Power Leadership Approach, the authors provide a conceptual analysis of power and present the tools to successfully exercise it in the political domain. "Power and its Logic" is a guidebook for politicians, business leaders, civil society pioneers, public affairs consultants and for every citizen who wants to understand the unwritten rules of politics.



»Das Buch ist klar stukturiert und gut geschrieben.«  Isabell Trommer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12.02.2019 (zur deutschen Ausgabe)

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910252705803321

Autore

Inaba Hisashi

Titolo

Age-Structured Population Dynamics in Demography and Epidemiology / / by Hisashi Inaba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

981-10-0188-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 555 p. 15 illus.)

Disciplina

304.6

Soggetti

Demography

Aging

Biomathematics

Genetics and Population Dynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 The Stable Population Model -- 2 Extensions of the Linear Theory -- 3 Nonlinear One-Sex Models -- 4 Pair Formation Models -- 5 Basic Ideas in Epidemic Modeling -- 6 Age-Structured SIR Epidemic Model -- 7 Epidemic Models for HIV Infection -- 8 Variable Susceptibility, Reinfection and Immunity -- 9 Basic Reproduction Number R0 -- 10 Mathematical Tools.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first one in which basic demographic models are rigorously formulated by using modern age-structured population dynamics, extended to study real-world population problems. Age structure is a crucial factor in understanding population phenomena, and the essential ideas in demography and epidemiology cannot be understood without mathematical formulation; therefore, this book gives readers a robust mathematical introduction to human population studies. In the first part of the volume, classical demographic models such as the stable population model and its linear extensions, density-dependent nonlinear models, and pair-formation models are



formulated by the McKendrick partial differential equation and are analyzed from a dynamical system point of view. In the second part, mathematical models for infectious diseases spreading at the population level are examined by using nonlinear differential equations and a renewal equation. Since an epidemic can be seen as a nonlinear renewal process of an infected population, this book will provide a natural unification point of view for demography and epidemiology. The well-known epidemic threshold principle is formulated by the basic reproduction number, which is also a most important key index in demography. The author develops a universal theory of the basic reproduction number in heterogeneous environments. By introducing the host age structure, epidemic models are developed into more realistic demographic formulations, which are essentially needed to attack urgent epidemiological control problems in the real world.