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Throughout the 1990s, several observers of the post-communist transformation in East Central Europe viewed the Slovaks as a non-historic nation hastily modernized during the communist era. Following the fall of the communist regime and the creation of the independent Slovak Republic, the country's image was associated with radical nationalism and an unstable domestic political scene. This study examines Slovakia's evolution from the downfall of Communism to the accession of the independent Slova...

Das Buch umfasst eine Dekadenanalyse (1987-1997) der Bereiche Demographie, Macht- und Ordnungspolitik, Okonomie und Okologie in der Turkei. Auf Basis einer umfangreichen Text- und Inhaltsanalyse deutsch- und englischsprachiger Tages- und Fachzeitschriften werden staatsspezifische und grenzuberschreitende Krisenpotentiale, wie etwa die Veranderung der Parteienlandschaft, okonomische Grundprobleme, die Problematik der kurdischen Stamme oder das griechisch-turkische Konfliktfeld, herausgearbeitet....

This book explores a variety of social risks and possible policy options that could be put in place to either prevent, or lessen the negative consequences of their materialisation. Pieters groups these policy issues into four major social risks -- income replacement in case of old age and survivorship; unemployment; incapacity for work; and social health care protection - all of which are crucial to the development of a social security system. Navigating Social Security Options draws on extensiv...

Der südamerikanische Binnenstaat Bolivien erlebte in den Jahren 2000-2005 eine massive Protestwelle, in deren Verlauf es zu einem drastischen Anstieg der Protesthandlungen verschiedenster sozialer Gruppen kam. Bettina Schorr geht zum einen den Faktoren nach, die den Ausbruch, den Verlauf und den Niedergang dieser Protestwelle bedingt haben. Zum anderen untersucht sie ihre politischen Folgen. Abschließend werden die Ergebnisse der Studie nach ihren theoretischen Implikationen für die Protestwelle...

This book provides an up-to-date summary of the consequences of demographic aging for labor markets, financial markets, economic growth, social security schemes and public finances in Germany, essentially reflecting the present state of knowledge in any of these areas. All contributions are written by leading experts in their fields and are based on results that emerge at the forefront of current research.

In this important new book, Bart Landry contributes significantly to the study of black American life and its social stratification and to the study of American middle class life in general.

The ancient moral philosophy of Epicureanism offers many valuable lessons for the modern world. How to Live Well updates and modifies Epicurean philosophy to offer an exciting new framework for contemporary social reform. How To Live Well provides a synopsis of the key facets of Epicureanism and offers a history of Epicureanism across the past twenty centuries. Fitzpatrick identifies the core criticisms of Epicureanism and compares it with Aristotelian thought. In light of these criticisms, he...

THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK IN HEALTH CARE TODAY Obamacare and the changes it brings could save our primary care doctors from extinction. Or it could crush them. Imagine health care without your Familiar Physician. Every time you're sick, you're a stranger, enduring long waits for medical treatment from someone who may never have seen you before. This is what the future could look like ... because there's a tempest bearing down on primary care medicine. It's powered by frustrated doctors retiri...

Yew-Kwang Ng looks to make welfare economics more complete by discussing the recent inframarginal analysis of division of labour and by pushing welfare economics from the level of preference to that of happiness, making a reformulation of the foundation of public policy necessary. A theory of the third best is provided, with extension to the equality/efficiency issue. The remarkable conclusion of treating a dollar as a dollar provides a powerful simplification of public policy formulation in gen...

This volume contains speeches from a conference co-sponsored by Hudson Institute and The Johnson Foundation. It includes contributions from leading thinkers including John DiIulio, director of the new White House Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Don Eberly, the Offices deputy director, Washington Post columnist and Brookings fellow E.J. Dionne, former U.S. Senator Dan Coats, and scholars Stanley Carlson-Thies, Carl Esbeck, and Amy Sherman. Ryan Streeter is research fellow at the...

Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting 'Future of Minority Studies national research project', "Identity Politics Reconsidered" re-conceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of 'identity' within ethnic, women's, disability, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practic...

Behavioral-based intervention in designing public policies has become an important field of study in recent years with empirical studies devoted to analyzing how to design better policies from the fields of behavioral economics, social psychology, sociology, anthropology, economy, political science, design (human-centered design and design thinking), or effective state and non-state bureaucracies throughout the world. Therefore, it is important to explore this original research on behavioral pol...

Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book's core argument quickly became the year's most widely read essay on the most prominent scholarly network in the social sc...

African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement. This comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual constitution of these three crises.

America's complex system of multi-layered government faces new challenges as a result of rapidly changing economic, technological, and demographic trends. An aging population, economic globalization, and homeland security concerns are among the powerful factors testing the system's capacity and flexibility. Major policy challenges and responses are now overwhelmingly intergovernmental in nature, and as a result, the fortunes of all levels of government are more intertwined and interdependent tha...

This volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of in-depth analyses on human rights violations committed in war. It offers myriad perspectives on the content and application of legal protections offered to civilians, including women, children and the elderly, and to others who are ‘no longer active in the fight.’ A series of carefully researched case studies illustrates the extent to which human rights violations occur in recent and current armed conflict, and signals the ways...

Die Sendung der Kirche (missio propria) ist weder eine politische, noch eine okonomische, noch eine soziale sondern eine religiose. Aber gleichzeitig galt und gilt fur die Kirchen - "Der Mensch" -, Wurzelgrund, Trager und Ziel aller gesellschaftlichen Institutionen; er ist Urheber, Mittelpunkt und Ziel des gesamten Wirtschafts- und Soziallebens. Damit sind Christen und ihre Kirche zum Engagement in Gesellschaft und Staat gefordert. Der vorliegende Band will einen Beitrag leisten zur historische...