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Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths
New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they function by using specific legal cases to examine social control efforts. The legal cases involve group leaders, a groups’ practices or alleged abuses against members and children in the group, legal actions brought by former members or third parties, attacks against such groups by outsiders including even governments, and libel and slander actions brought by religious groups as they seek to defend themselves. These cases are sometime...
Contracts, Performance Measurements, and Accountability in the Public Sector
This book addresses issues to do with public accountability, audit and performance measurement that are both highly topical and of crucial importance to the theory and practice of public administration in an era of contractualized public management. The literature on public sector contracting - covering both 'hard' agreements (ones that are legally enforceable) and 'soft' agreements (enforced by negotiation and mutual trust) - has been growing for some time and the present book adds a primarily European perspective on contracting, performance-based management and accountability. One important aspect of this study is its recognition that those responsible for monitoring public services, and h...
The Civil Service in Europe
This book opens an often nationally focused field of research to a transnational, common European debate. It addresses the ongoing transformation of the civil service, examining its evolving landscape across Europe and exploring the intricate web of historical, social, and political influences that are shaping its current state and setting the future direction. Written by experts from different European countries, this book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective on the civil service by combining legal analysis with insights from public management, political science, and sociology. It addresses the growing complexity of public administration tasks and the increasing requirem...
Religious Pluralism
This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of organized and recognized pluralism. In the process, both individual and collective identities are redefined, incessantly moving along the continuum that ranges from exclusion to inclusion. The book starts by first detailing general issues related to religious pluralism. It makes the case for keeping the empirical, the normative, the regulatory and the interactive dimensions of religious pluralism analytically distinct while recognizing ...
Forward in Europe
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Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths
Exploring cases in different parts of the world, this book offers a practical insight for understanding the relations of NRMs and other minority religions and the law from the perspective of legal cases. Including contributions from scholars, legal practitioners, actual or former members, this book presents an objective approach to understanding why so many legal actions have involved NRMs and other minority faiths in recent years in western societies, and the consequences of those actions for the society and the religious group as well.
Handbuch der öffentlichen Verwaltung in der Schweiz
Die öffentliche Verwaltung in der Schweiz ist eine der effizientesten der Welt und geniesst einen hervorragenden Ruf. Rund 40 führende Wissenschaftler aus der deutsch- und der französischsprachigen Schweiz geben Einblick in den neusten Wissensstand der modernen Verwaltung. In einem ersten Teil werden die Grundlagen und charakteristischen Eigenheiten von Staat und Verwaltung thematisiert und es wird auf die Managementaufgaben in der Verwaltung eingegangen. Der zweite Teil beschäftigt sich mit den Ressourcen der Verwaltung. Dazu gehören die Beschäftigten, das Recht und die Finanzen. Der dritte Teil befasst sich mit der Organisation der Verwaltung in ausgewählten Bereichen. Diese reichen von der Landwirtschaftspolitik über die Sozialpolitik bis zur Bildungspolitik. Das Handbuch richtet sich an interessierte Kreise aus Politik und Verwaltung und an die zunehmende Zahl von Studierenden im Bereich Public Management.
The Cult Observer
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