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Global Corruption Report: Education
Corruption and poor governance are acknowledged as major impediments to realizing the right to education and to reaching the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. Corruption not only distorts access to education, but affects the quality of education and the reliability of research findings. From corruption in the procurement of school resources and nepotism in the hiring of teachers, to the buying and selling of academic titles and the skewing of research results, major corruption risks can be identified at every level of the education and research systems. Conversely, education serves as a means to strengthen personal integrity and is a critical tool to address...
A Comparative Analysis of German and Australian Climate Change Coverage in Quality Newspapers
In 2010, Germany and Australia had to deal with extreme floods. Was climate change considered as cause of these weather events in the media? In 2009, a conservative alliance committed to tackle climate change won the German election. In 2007, the Australian Labor Party claimed that “climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time” and won the election. But how was climate change covered by the media in the context of these two elections? This work answers these two questions comparing the climate change coverage of two German and two Australian quality newspapers (n = 1.012 articles). As theoretical foundation Entman’s (1993) framing approach and the “Extended Sphere Model...
Organizational Cultures of Remembrance
In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts. This book empirically explores the phenomenon of organizational remembrance from a holistic cultural perspective. Based on a twelve-month ethnographic case study conducted at the headquarters of the German automobile company, AUDI AG, this study dissects the relationships between memory, identity, and image in a corporate setting. The greater aim in doing so is twofold: First, this study examines exactly why and how a company officially manages its past in terms of ‘history’ and ‘tradition.’ And second, this study scrutinizes what effect ...
Physical Culture, Power, and the Body
During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.
Irredentism in European Politics
Considers how the emergence of the territorial status quo norm in post-1945 Europe has reversed the pattern of disputes.
Die CSU
Der soziale und politische Wandel hat die CSU in Bayern seit längerem erfasst. Nach dem Ende der Ära Strauß zeichnete sich schon ab, dass absolute Mehrheiten für die Christsozialen nicht mehr garantiert sind, sondern hart erarbeitet werden müssen. Der Verlust der eigenen Mehrheit bei der Landtagswahl 2008 stellt folglich nur den vorläufigen Endpunkt einer schon längeren Entwicklung dar. In diesem Buch werden die Wandlungen des gesamtgesellschaftlichen Umfelds in Bayern und ihre Auswirkungen auf die CSU analysiert und auf dieser Basis die programmatischen Anpassungen der Partei, die Änderungen ihrer Machttektonik sowie die Führungs- und Kommunikationsmuster betrachtet, um die Frage nach der Zukunftsfähigkeit der Partei differenziert beantworten zu können.
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Familienpolitik als Reformprozess
Die Familienpolitik stellte während der letzten Jahre sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Österreich eines der Politikfelder mit der höchsten Reformtätigkeit dar. Für die vergleichende Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung kam dies überraschend, war doch regelmäßig auf die Reformunfähigkeit der sogenannten konservativen, familialistischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten v.a. im Bereich neuer sozialer Risiken wie der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf hingewiesen worden. Wie also sind diese plötzlichen, weitreichenden Reformen zu erklären? Um dies zu beantworten, untersucht Sonja Blum die Reformprozesse in der Elternzeit sowie der öffentlichen Kinderbetreuung, darunter z.B. die Einführung des Elterngelds in Deutschland 2007 oder die Einführung des einkommensabhängigen Kinderbetreuungsgelds in Österreich 2010. Das Buch zeichnet ein umfassendes Bild der veränderten Determinanten von Familienpolitik in beiden Ländern, darunter v.a. neue Akteurskonstellationen, neue Ideen sowie vertikale und horizontale Policytransfers im Kontext eines verstärkten familienpolitischen Engagements der Europäischen Union.
Holding the Line
This volume contains contributions from twenty-four scholars concerning the significance and implications of the world’s borderlands in economic, political, and socio-cultural contexts. Together these essays explore the changing role of borders in a global world. Are borders increasingly irrelevant under conditions of globalization, or can a case be made to demonstrate their continuing importance at various levels of spatial activity? Situating itself within a growing border literature, Holding the Line argues that contemporary borders facilitate parallel processes of globalization and localization of political activity. As such, the essays adopt a holistic approach to understanding the im...
European Blame Games
Who is held responsible when EU policies fail? Which blame games resonate in the European public? European Blame Games challenges the conventional wisdom that the complexity of EU decision-making eschews clarity of responsibility, thereby rendering European blame games untargeted and diffuse. The book argues that the politicization of EU policies triggers a plausibility assessment of blame attributions in the public domain with the effect that European blame games gravitate towards true responsibilities, targeting those political actors involved in enacting a policy that is subsequently considered a policy failure. It distinguishes three kinds of European blame games. In scapegoat games, sup...
