Revolutions - Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

Democracy and the constitutional rule of law (elections are not necessarily democratic): representative, liberal and parliamentary democracy in Europe; Majoritarian versus consensus democracy: logic of power sharing versus power concentration and the institutional frameworks related with these models, including parliamentary versus presidential systems; Electoral systems: electoral formulae, number of districts and district magnitude/proportionality, control by political elites (gerrymandering...

Samenvatting van alle artikelen van 'science of happiness' (). - Helliwell, J.F., & Aknin, L.B. (2018). Expanding the social science of happiness. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 248-252. - Lucas, R. E. (2018). Reevaluating the strengths and weaknesses of self-report measures of subjective well-being. In E. Diener, S. Oishi, & L. Tay (Eds.), Handbook of well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers. DOI: - Norrish, J.M., & Vella-Brodrick, D.A. (2008). Is the study of happiness a worthy scient...

Notes on the lectures from the course (2023) Intelligence Revolutions. INCLUDES notes from lectures 1-7 (Total: 27 pages).

Summary of *SOME* of the reading materials for the final exam (2023) for Intelligence Revolutions. INCLUDES notes from (Total: 16 pages): Daniel Byman’s article (2013) “The Intelligence War on Terrorism” in “Intelligence and National Security”, pp. 837-863. Charles Cogan’s article (2004) “Hunters not Gatherers: Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century” in “Intelligence and National Security”, pp. 304-321. Richard Aldrich’s article (2021) “From SIGINT to Cyber: A ...

Yearly overview summary of the class materials and deadlines for block 1 of the Intelligence Studies minor (2023). INCLUDES a link to a Google Sheet (found on page 1) with the readings and deadlines from the following classes: Introduction to Secret Affairs Intelligence Failures Intelligence Revolutions Qualitative Analysis Techniques for Intelligence Studies

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T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 7 “The Political Economy of Policy Reform” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 113-129. A. El-Sayed El-Naggar, ch. 2 “Economic policy: from state control to decay and corruption”, in Egypt: The Moment of Change, R. El-Mahdi and P. Marfleet, eds. Zed Books (2009) pp. 34-50. M. El Mouhoub, “Political Economy of Arab Revolutions: Analysis and Prospects for NorthAfrican Countries”, Mondes en développement, 1...

This document entails all the lecture notes for the course Philosophy of Science (PoS). The topics include (but are not limited to): ways of knowing, scientific laws and induction, falsificationism, paradigms and revolutions, methodologies of analogies and models, quantitative/qualitative approaches to PoS, rationality, interpretation, as well as absolutism vs relativism. A table of contents is included in order to make finding a specific topic within the 90+ page document easy and fast!

This is a collection of lecture notes and text summaries from the Philosophy of Science course in 2021. It includes ideas on ideas like induction, deduction, falsificationism, underdeterminism, kuhn's paradism shifts, reductionism and many texts by specific thinkers