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This book examines how the BJP became the world's largest political party. It goes beyond the usual narrative of the party's Hindutva politics to explain how, under Narendra Modi, the party reshaped the Indian polity using its own brand of social engineering. According to the findings of this book, this reconstruction was cleverly powered by new caste coalitions, the claim of a new welfare state that focused on marginalised social groups and the making of a women-voter base.Based on data from three unique indices—the Mehta–Singh Social Index, which studies the caste composition of Indian political parties; the Narad Index, which calculates communication patterns across topics and audiences; and PollNiti, which connects and tallies hundreds of political and economic datasets—The New BJP is full of startling insights into the way both the party and the country function. Previously untapped historical records, exclusive interviews with party leaders and comprehensive reportage from across India provide a fresh understanding of the BJP's growth areas, including the Northeast and south India.A lucid and objective study of the BJP and India today, this book will be useful to researchers, journalists, students, activists and general public alike.Print edition not for sale in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).

As the pace of economic change seems to only quicken, including rapid technological advance, today's advanced economies face uncertainty from a number of directions, most of which have the potential to change established modes of thinking and the institutional arrangements that underpin basic economic organization. Labor-saving technological advances are accompanied by risks to jobs due to automation. Work is being made more insecure for a wide variety of workers and skill levels because of shifting capital–labor relationships. Regulatory systems are scrambling to adapt to new technologies in infrastructure planning or to the classification of workers under rapidly proliferating'alternative work arrangements.'Even the ties that bind groups of countries together in often long-standing bilateral and multilateral trade relationships are increasingly under strain with the rise of populist economic nationalism in some of the world's largest economies. Crucial changes are taking place that risk eroding structures of opportunity, as well as public confidence in the institutions charged with economic policy making in many countries. The expert views contained in this book will be valuable to the reader studying or working on the many overlapping issues of economy, technology, and society and thus looking for insights into some of the most pertinent topics in today's advanced economies.Taking a multidimensional view, this book synthesizes the main issues and dilemmas facing the economy of the future, seeks to frame the trade-offs in policy terms, while also advancing the discussion towards recommendations and solutions. It focuses on the intersection of work, technology, society, infrastructure, and the economic role of government. In this way, the book is centered on some of the most tangible areas of economic structure that reproduce the gains of growth, but it also addresses matters related to the distribution effects and measures that can produce more inclusive and productive outcomes, including the fundamental role of policy and regulation.

Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at – and across – a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural policy has firmly established itself as a field that cuts across a range of academic disciplines, including sociology, cultural and media studies, economics, anthropology, area studies, languages, geography, and law. This Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy sets out to broaden the field's consideration to recognise the necessity for international and global perspectives.The book explores how cultural policy has become a global phenomenon. It brings together a diverse range of researchers whose work reveals how cultural policy expresses and realises common global concerns, dominant narratives, and geopolitical economic and social inequalities. The sections of the book address cultural policy's relation to core academic disciplines and core questions, of regulations, rights, development, practice, and global issues. With a cross-section of country-by-country case studies, this comprehensive volume is a map for academics and students seeking to become more globally orientated cultural policy scholars.

“The most interesting book ever written about Google” (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword.Google is arguably the most important company in the world today, with such pervasive influence that its name is a verb. The company founded by two Stanford graduate students—Larry Page and Sergey Brin—has become a tech giant known the world over. Since starting with its search engine, Google has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, power utilities, self-driving cars, all while remaining the most powerful company in the advertising business. Granted unprecedented access to the company, Levy disclosed that the key to Google's success in all these businesses lay in its engineering mindset and adoption of certain internet values such as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk-taking. Levy discloses details behind Google's relationship with China, including how Brin disagreed with his colleagues on the China strategy—and why its social networking initiative failed; the first time Google tried chasing a successful competitor. He examines Google's rocky relationship with government regulators, particularly in the EU, and how it has responded when employees left the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. In the Plex is the “most authoritative…and in many ways the most entertaining” (James Gleick, The New York Book Review) account of Google to date and offers “an instructive primer on how the minds behind the world's most influential internet company function” (Richard Waters, The Wall Street Journal).

Wie Google denkt, arbeitet und unser Leben verändertAus dem InhaltDie Suche nach GoogleDie Welt aus der Sicht von Google: Biografie einer SuchmaschineGooglenomics: Das Geheimnis des Internet-ProfitsSei nicht böse: Wie die Google-Kultur entstandGoogles Wolke: Aufbau von Datenzentren zur Speicherung aller jemals verfassten WerkeJenseits der eigenen Gefilde: Google-Telefone und Google-TVGuGe: Googles moralisches Dilemma in ChinaGoogle.gov: Ist das, was für Google gut ist, auch gut für die Regierung und die Öffentlichkeit?Google in der Verfolgerrolle Steven Levy begleitet den Leser in die Google-Zentrale.Nur wenige Unternehmen waren jemals derart erfolgreich wie Google – das Unternehmen, das das Internet verändert hat und zu einem unentbehrlichen Teil unseres Lebens geworden ist. Der erfahrene Technikredakteur Steven Levy erhielt beispiellose Einblicke in das Unternehmen und begleitet den Leser in die Google-Zentrale, um ihm zu zeigen, wie Google arbeitet.Der Schlüssel zu Googles ErfolgNoch während ihres Studiums in Stanford gelang es den beiden Google-Gründern Larry Page und Sergey Brin, die Internet-Suche zu revolutionieren und daraufhin Milliarden mit Internet-Werbung zu verdienen. Dank dieses Goldesels konnte das Unternehmen enorm expandieren und weitere Projekte wie effizientere Datenzentren, Open-Source-Mobiltelefone, kostenlose Internet-Videos (YouTube), Cloud Computing und die Digitalisierung von Büchern in Angriff nehmen.Der Schlüssel zu Googles Erfolg in all diesen Bereichen ist, wie Levy enthüllt, ihr technischer Ansatz und ihre Orientierung an Internet-Werten wie Geschwindigkeit, Offenheit, Experimentierfreudigkeit und Risikobereitschaft.Verliert Google an Schwung?Aber hat Google vielleicht seinen innovativen Schwung verloren? In China ist es böse gescheitert. Levy enthüllt, wie Brin und Co. hinsichtlich der China-Strategie uneins waren und wie Google im Bereich der sozialen Netzwerke nun erstmals erfolgreichen Konkurrenten hinterherhetzt. Kann sich das Unternehmen mit seinem berühmten Motto, nicht böse sein zu wollen, weiterhin im Wettbewerb behaupten? Kein anderes Buch enthüllte jemals derart viele Google-Interna wie Levys Google Inside.Der Autor:Steven Levy berichtet seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt über Google, anfangs als Chefredakteur für Newsweek und nun für Wired als leitender Journalist. Er hat auch über Apple (Insanely Great und The Perfect Thing) geschrieben und ist der Autor des Klassikers Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Besuchen Sie den Autor unter www.StevenLevy.com.'Google kann man nicht verstehen', so Marissa Mayer, Vizepräsidentin von Google,'wenn man nicht weiß, dass Larry und Sergey Montessori-Kinder sind. Das ist in den beiden Persönlichkeiten wirklich tief verwurzelt: Mach etwas, weil es sinnvoll ist und nicht, weil irgendeine Autoritäts-person dir es gesagt hat. Diese Denkweise bestimmt bei Larry und Sergey letztlich die Heran-gehensweise an Probleme. Sie fragen immer, warum etwas so sein sollte.'Aus Google InsideEine aufschlussreiche Einführung in die Denkweise der hinter dem einflussreichsten Internet-Unternehmen der Welt stehenden Köpfe.Richard Waters, The Wall Street JournalDer Aufstieg von Google ist eine fesselnde Geschichte, die noch nie so umfassend erzählt wurde.Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2001, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in September/October 2001. The 14 revised full papers and 15 revised technical notes were carefully selected during a highly competitive reviewing process from a total of 160 submissions (90 paper submissions and 70 technical notes submissions). All current aspects of research and development in the booming area of ubiquitous computing are addressed. The book offers topical sections on location awareness, tools and infrastructure, applications for groups, applications and design spaces, research challenges and novel input, and output.