Abstract The current labour market is at a crossroads: on one hand, there are challenges triggered by technological pressures and perks, aiming greener, more sustainable resilient economic growth, the other changes tensions generated institutional frameworks, that show delays in mitigating apparent “de-socialising” of this market. pandemic paradox 2019-2021 has emphasized several vulnerabilitie...

It is not every day that a scholar stoops to defend legislatures. Oh sure, lots of political theorists rush to the defense of democracy in the abstract, but they often have little to say about actual democratic practice. By contrast, empirical political scientists (and “positive political theorists”) have lavished attention on the institutions of democratic governance such as legislatures (part...

In this study we explore two different perspectives of one ICT project. The “mainstream” believed that an educational ICT project for Taiwanese aboriginals was successful, while the local aboriginals and local teachers did not. Using ethnographic research, we investigated the possible reasons for the disparity between the views of the mainstream and the locals. Our findings indicate that the pa...