Axel Klein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611845 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Axel Klein |
| NOMBRES | Axel |
| APELLIDO | Klein |
| FIRMA | KLEIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4203-2938 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism
The East Asian democracies (EAD) of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have received little attention from the international political science community working on populism. By analyzing the last two to three decades of research on EAD we look for clues to help us explain why there is so little interest. In our review we encounter cases of eclectic conceptualization, suboptimal data, innovative categorization, binary analytics, and even political bias…
Das politische System Japans
Populism in East Asian Democracies
Diagnosing a gap in our knowledge on populist phenomena in East Asian democracies, especially the lack of attention paid to the region by comparative studies, the organisers of the online lecture series ‘Populism in East Asian Democracies’ (PinEAD) brought together small but substantial research on East Asia by inviting presentations by nine experts, three each on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Their findings showed how different phenomena and a…
Towards social justice and economic empowerment? Exploring Jamaica’s progress with implementing cannabis law reform
The Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act (DDAA) 2015 positioned Jamaica at the forefront of international cannabis law reforms in the developing world. The DDAA legalised and regulated commercial cultivation and sale of cannabis for medicinal and therapeutic use, legalised home cultivation and decriminalised personal possession of cannabis. This dramatic policy change came after years of discriminatory drug law enforcement and multiple attempts at canna…
The Oldest Societies in Asia
This chapter is a comparative piece on political demographics of two East Asian democracies: Japan and South Korea (hereafter: Korea). Our analysis shows that in spite of certain differences the two countries share similar demographic developments with Korea often following in Japan’s footsteps with a time lag of one or more decades, a phenomenon we ascribe to the belated economic development in Korea. By systematically taking stock of political …
The Khat Controversy
Khat. A harmless natural stimulant or a lethal epidemic sweeping through the international drugs trade? Khat is a natural substance that, in the Middle East, is as ubiquitous as coffee is in the West. It is hugely popular in some African and Arab populations. But critics contend that it is a seriously addictive stimulant that damages the cardiovascular system. In a groundbreaking study, the authors go behind the veil of the drug, questioning its …
Divergences and commonalities between the US opioid crisis and prescription medicine mis/use in West Africa
Is There Left Populism in Japan? The Case of Reiwa Shinsengumi
The rather heterogeneous state of populism research on Japan and the potentially populist quality of the new political party Reiwa Shinsengumi are the two key points addressed in this paper. Based on a summary of dominant concepts of populism and the pertinent research on Japan I argue for an ideational approach to make Japan more accessible to comparative efforts. Using Reiwa Shinsengumi as an example, I conclude that there is little populism to…
Khat and the creation of tradition in the Somali diaspora
In the Somali community in the UK, few issues are as contentious as the status of khat. Many maintain that it lies at the root of the social and medical problems that trouble a significant proportion of the community. Interviews were conducted between December 2003 and June 2005 as part of an interdisciplinary research project entitled The khat nexus: transnational consumption in a global economy. The chapter shows how Somalis living in the UK ar…
Drug Problem or Medicrime? Distribution and Use of Falsified Tramadol Medication in Egypt and West Africa
Tramadol is a synthetic opioid that is widely used as an analgesic for alleviating pain of moderate to medium intensity. With potency estimated to be about one-tenth that of morphine, tramadol is considered as relatively safe with regard to poisonings or dependency. Yet there are increasing reports of widespread non-medical consumption of tramadol in North and West Africa. The Egyptian government has requested the UN Commission of Narcotic Drugs …
The three betrayals of the medical cannabis growing activist
An Evening of Irish Music
English Abstract: On the eve of St Patrick’s Day 2014, the RISM Central Office in Frankfurt, in cooperation with RISM Ireland and the Research Foundation for Music in Ireland, presented a concert that featured a performance of the first symphony composed in Ireland, the Grand Symphony by Paul Alday (ca. 1763–1835), and other Irish works that are rarely found on concert programs. Rediscovered in 2012 by members of RISM Ireland, Alday’s symphony re…
Lessons from conducting trans-national Internet-mediated participatory research with hidden populations of cannabis cultivators
Global patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation
Anti-Kōmeitō Countermobilizations
Religious Groups in Japanese Electoral Politics
Kōmeitō in Coalition
Kōmeitō
The presumption of mutual influence in occurrences of workplace bullying
Purpose The self‐reports of bullies or victims of workplace bullying appear to result in confused responses that fail to clarify who is doing what to whom. The research reported in this paper aimed to examine how staff from human resources and occupational health conceptualized and assessed cases of alleged bullying. Design/methodology/approach The research relied on semi‐structured interviews with managers, human resource staff, occupational hea…
The Khat ban in the UK
Since the 1920s certain psychoactive substances have been controlled by specially created international agencies. More recently, governments have committed themselves to using evidence in policy‐making. Yet, as the ban on khat in the UK and other countries shows, the assessment process is a perfunctory rather than a decisive component. The Home Secretary set aside scientific advice and bases the decision to ban on considerations outside the healt…
The Anthropology of Drugs
Twice Bitten, Once Shy
Immigration Detention in the Community
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anomalies within the liberal, democratic state – not only within detention centres but also post‐release. Given that most released detainees remain destitute and without entitlement or resolution of their immigration cases, many report feelings of being continuously ‘detained’ even after release. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on the ongoi…
Money Politics in Japan
Kōmeitō
Immigration Detention in the Community
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anomalies within the liberal, democratic state – not only within detention centres but also post‐release. Given that most released detainees remain destitute and without entitlement or resolution of their immigration cases, many report feelings of being continuously ‘detained’ even after release. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on the ongoi…
The barracuda's tale
The expansion of Nigeria's artisanal fisheries has been a rare economic success story during the 1980s. Without assistance from government agencies the canoe fishermen, many of them Ghanaian migrants, have responded successfully to the opportunities offered by the Lagos market. In recent years declining fish stocks and competition from trawlers have forced shore-based fishermen to adapt their operations to changing circumstances. In describing a …
Towards social justice and economic empowerment? Exploring Jamaica’s progress with implementing cannabis law reform
The Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act (DDAA) 2015 positioned Jamaica at the forefront of international cannabis law reforms in the developing world. The DDAA legalised and regulated commercial cultivation and sale of cannabis for medicinal and therapeutic use, legalised home cultivation and decriminalised personal possession of cannabis. This dramatic policy change came after years of discriminatory drug law enforcement and multiple attempts at canna…
Nigeria & the drugs war
Over the past five years the Nigerian government has taken dramatic steps to improve the country's reputation as an international drug trafficking centre. As most of the emphasis has fallen on law enforcement and repression there has been a sharp increase in arrest rates and the prison population. In spite of such severe measures a correlative fall in consumption has not been registered. There is a danger that Nigeria is not only repeating the un…
The Khat ban in the UK
Since the 1920s certain psychoactive substances have been controlled by specially created international agencies. More recently, governments have committed themselves to using evidence in policy‐making. Yet, as the ban on khat in the UK and other countries shows, the assessment process is a perfunctory rather than a decisive component. The Home Secretary set aside scientific advice and bases the decision to ban on considerations outside the healt…
The Incurious Approach to East Asian Populism
The East Asian democracies (EAD) of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have received little attention from the international political science community working on populism. By analyzing the last two to three decades of research on EAD we look for clues to help us explain why there is so little interest. In our review we encounter cases of eclectic conceptualization, suboptimal data, innovative categorization, binary analytics, and even political bias…
Drug Problem or Medicrime? Distribution and Use of Falsified Tramadol Medication in Egypt and West Africa
Tramadol is a synthetic opioid that is widely used as an analgesic for alleviating pain of moderate to medium intensity. With potency estimated to be about one-tenth that of morphine, tramadol is considered as relatively safe with regard to poisonings or dependency. Yet there are increasing reports of widespread non-medical consumption of tramadol in North and West Africa. The Egyptian government has requested the UN Commission of Narcotic Drugs …
Is There Left Populism in Japan? The Case of Reiwa Shinsengumi
The rather heterogeneous state of populism research on Japan and the potentially populist quality of the new political party Reiwa Shinsengumi are the two key points addressed in this paper. Based on a summary of dominant concepts of populism and the pertinent research on Japan I argue for an ideational approach to make Japan more accessible to comparative efforts. Using Reiwa Shinsengumi as an example, I conclude that there is little populism to…
The Puzzle of Ineffective Election Campaigning in Japan
In Japan, electoral campaigning in plurality districts often appears strangely ineffective to observers. In their explanations, political scientists have so far fallen back on the proximate cause, namely the strict Public Office Election Law (Kōshoku senkyo-hō), claiming that it is this law that prohibits different and more effective campaigning. This study, however, is based on the assumption that such an explanation could be insufficient since …
Between the death penalty and decriminalization
Traces the changes in public attitudes toward and political stances on drug control in the British Caribbean between 1980 and 2000. Author first discusses the origins of drug control, the role of US pressure, and the vulnerability of the Caribbean. He then looks at European involvement and the different plans and policies to control drugs in the region. Finally, he describes the consequences of these policy approaches on the justice system and le…
Trapped in the Traffick
Theliterature on drugs in Africa includes policy statements by government officials which, by and large, follow the line set by international organisations created to design counter-measures to drug consumption and trafficking, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations. At this level the debate revolves largely around the effectiveness of different preventative strategie…
Trapped in the Traffick
Theliterature on drugs in Africa includes policy statements by government officials which, by and large, follow the line set by international organisations created to design counter-measures to drug consumption and trafficking, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations. At this level the debate revolves largely around the effectiveness of different preventative strategie…
Nigeria & the drugs war
Over the past five years the Nigerian government has taken dramatic steps to improve the country's reputation as an international drug trafficking centre. As most of the emphasis has fallen on law enforcement and repression there has been a sharp increase in arrest rates and the prison population. In spite of such severe measures a correlative fall in consumption has not been registered. There is a danger that Nigeria is not only repeating the un…
The barracuda's tale
The expansion of Nigeria's artisanal fisheries has been a rare economic success story during the 1980s. Without assistance from government agencies the canoe fishermen, many of them Ghanaian migrants, have responded successfully to the opportunities offered by the Lagos market. In recent years declining fish stocks and competition from trawlers have forced shore-based fishermen to adapt their operations to changing circumstances. In describing a …
Flood, W(illiam) H(enry) Grattan
O’Leary [née Strong], Jane
Have a Piss, Drink Ogogoro , Smoke lgbo , but don't take Gbana ”-Hard and Soft Drugs in Nigeria
One of the consequences of increased exposure to Western influences has been the spread of drug use among Nigerian young people over the last two decades. There is now a buoyant consumer market for home-grown cannabis, and a smaller market for heroin and cocaine within the country. Under successive military regimes, drug use was either downplayed, or regarded as a law enforcement issue. Little work was carried out to gauge the extent of use, or o…
Between the death penalty and decriminalization
Traces the changes in public attitudes toward and political stances on drug control in the British Caribbean between 1980 and 2000. Author first discusses the origins of drug control, the role of US pressure, and the vulnerability of the Caribbean. He then looks at European involvement and the different plans and policies to control drugs in the region. Finally, he describes the consequences of these policy approaches on the justice system and le…
Protecting the Caribbean from itself
First paragraph]Drug policy in the Caribbean region provides a testing ground for one of the key themes in the social sciences over recent years, the relationship of knowledge and power. Acting as intermediary between northern donors and the microstates of the region, the organization - United Nations International Control Programme (UNDCP) - applies the models framed by northern expertise even when local experience suggests they are inappropriat…
Caribbean Drugs
The Caribbean poses a significant drugs problem for the UK and the US, as the recent phenomenon of yardie gangs in British cities graphically illustrates. But in the islands themselves ganja, crack cocaine and the policies to control them have become, as this book demonstrates, a veritable social disaster. The authors, who are among the leading local researchers and engaged professionals in the region as well as the former regional head of the UN…
Khat use and mental illness
Drugs and the World
The use and misuse of psychoactive substances is one of the most widely discussed and yet least understood social processes. It is easy to condemn the use of illicit drugs, as well as alcohol and tobacco, as problems that require the services of professionals and the retribution of the state. Sight has been lost of the contributions that drugs have played in society and culture and the key role they play in ritual, religion and possibly human evo…
Regulating khat—Dilemmas and opportunities for the international drug control system
A good chew or good riddance—How to move forward in the regulation of khat consumption
Introduction to the special issue
The Puzzle of Ineffective Election Campaigning in Japan
In Japan, electoral campaigning in plurality districts often appears strangely ineffective to observers. In their explanations, political scientists have so far fallen back on the proximate cause, namely the strict Public Office Election Law (Kōshoku senkyo-hō), claiming that it is this law that prohibits different and more effective campaigning. This study, however, is based on the assumption that such an explanation could be insufficient since …
The Anthropology of Drugs
Twice Bitten, Once Shy
Immigration Detention in the Community
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anomalies within the liberal, democratic state – not only within detention centres but also post‐release. Given that most released detainees remain destitute and without entitlement or resolution of their immigration cases, many report feelings of being continuously ‘detained’ even after release. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on the ongoi…
The presumption of mutual influence in occurrences of workplace bullying
Purpose The self‐reports of bullies or victims of workplace bullying appear to result in confused responses that fail to clarify who is doing what to whom. The research reported in this paper aimed to examine how staff from human resources and occupational health conceptualized and assessed cases of alleged bullying. Design/methodology/approach The research relied on semi‐structured interviews with managers, human resource staff, occupational hea…
The Khat ban in the UK
Since the 1920s certain psychoactive substances have been controlled by specially created international agencies. More recently, governments have committed themselves to using evidence in policy‐making. Yet, as the ban on khat in the UK and other countries shows, the assessment process is a perfunctory rather than a decisive component. The Home Secretary set aside scientific advice and bases the decision to ban on considerations outside the healt…
Anti-Kōmeitō Countermobilizations
Religious Groups in Japanese Electoral Politics
Kōmeitō in Coalition
Kōmeitō
Lessons from conducting trans-national Internet-mediated participatory research with hidden populations of cannabis cultivators
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