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Die Zukunft gehört dem urbanen Quartier: Das Quartier als eine alles umfassende kleinste Einheit von Stadtgesellschaft

Urbanität ist längst zu einem weltweiten Narrativ geworden und motiviert die Menschen mehr und mehr, auf urbanes Zusammenleben und die damit erhofften neuen Möglichkeiten zu setzen. Das Narrativ verspricht die Verknüpfung von Arbeiten, Wohnen und Versorgung in einem praktikablen, alltagstauglichen und überschaubaren Lebensumfeld. Das vorliegende Buch bietet kurze Beiträge von Praktiker*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Disziplinen der Stadtforschung und Stadtentwicklung zu den Forderungen, die aus der jeweiligen individuell-fachlichen Sicht heraus zu stellen sind, damit das Konzept einer Stadt der kurzen Wege und damit eine verbesserte und zukunftsfestere Lebensqualität im urbanen Quartier umgesetzt werden kann.

Die Zukunft in Amerika: Sonderabdruck aus Annalen für soziale Politik und Gesetzgebung, 1.Band, Heft 4 und 5.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Die zweite Große Koalition: Eine Bilanz der Regierung Merkel 2005-2009

Gegenstand dieses Bandes ist eine umfassende politikwissenschaftliche Bilanz der Großen Koalition unter Führung von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. Diese hatte das vom Ausgang der Bundestagwahl 2005 erzwungene, von den Parteien ungewünschte Regierungsbündnis anfangs als eine „Koalition der neuen Möglichkeiten“ bezeichnet. Tatsächlich konnte vermutet werden, dass parteitaktisch bedingte Entscheidungsblockaden in dieser Regierungskonstellation vermindert würden, da beide großen Parteien ein gemeinsames Interesse an einer erfolgreichen Regierungspolitik hätten. Andererseits wurde aber auch befürchtet, dass Unionsparteien CDU/CSU und SPD unter dem Zwang, unvereinbare Positionen zusammenführen zu müssen, nur zu untauglichen Formelkompromissen in der Lage seien. In diesen Beiträgen ausgewiesener Experten werden die Strategien der Regierungs- und Oppositionsparteien sowie die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen detailliert dargestellt und es wird für alle relevanten Politikfelder untersucht, welche dieser beiden Annahmen zutrifft und wie das Profil der Regierungspolitik in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen im Lichte politikwissenschaftlicher Theorien erklärt werden kann.

“Diego Portales: Interpretative Essays on the Man and Times”

Dienstleister für politische Kommunikation in Deutschland: Exploration der Branche durch Typologisierung

Stephanie Opitz geht der Frage nach, welche „Typen“ von Dienstleistern in Deutschland Dienstleistungen rund um Wahlkampf, politische PR und Public Affairs erbringen, wie sie arbeiten und wie sie sich voneinander unterscheiden. Ihre Studie beruht auf rund 50 qualitativen Interviews mit Führungskräften unterschiedlicher Organisationen, die auf dem Gebiet der politischen Kommunikationsberatung tätig sind. Weiterhin zeigt die Autorin auf, wie qualitativ erhobenes Datenmaterial so aufbereitet werden, dass mittels Clusteranalyse eine Typologie voneinander abgrenzbarer Dienstleistertypen entsteht.

Dienstleistungen für die energieeffiziente Stadt

Förderung und Umsetzung von Energieeffizienz und Klimaschutz zählen zu den vorrangigen Aufgaben von Städten und Gemeinden. Innovative Dienstleistungen leisten hierzu einen bedeutenden Beitrag. Der Sammelband präsentiert aktuelle Umsetzungskonzepte aus 15 Städten und bietet einen Überblick über neue Erkenntnisse aus der Dienstleistungsforschung im Hinblick auf Energieeffizienz. Die Beiträge anerkannter Wissenschaftler richten sich an alle, die sich dieses interdisziplinäre Forschungs- und Handlungsfeld erschließen möchten.

Dienstleistungssektor und kommunale Wirtschaftsförderung: Notwendigkeit und Möglichkeiten einer Erweiterung der Wirtschaftsförderung im Strukturwandel (Forschungsberichte des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen #3169)

Dienstrechtsreformen der deutschen Länder: Eine vergleichende Politikfeldanalyse (Studien der NRW School of Governance)

In diesem Buch werden durch fallstudiengestützte Analysen einzelner Bundesländer die Variablen für die Entstehung der spezifischen Landesdienstrechte, basierend auf dem breiten Theoriefundament der vergleichenden Policyforschung, analysiert. Matthias Reintjes untersucht die Staatstätigkeit der Länder in diesem Politikfeld und betrachtet die föderalen Politikprozesse zwischen den Ländern. Die vergleichende Policyanalyse prüft neben der Staatstätigkeit der Länder auch die divergierenden Auswirkungen der Föderalismusreform I und II auf das untersuchte Politikfeld. Neben politischen Zielvorgaben werden insbesondere sozio-ökonomische und demografische Faktoren als problemrelevante Kontextvariablen identifiziert. Die divergierenden administrativen Kapazitäten und finanziellen Kapazitäten der Länder sind im Kontext der Föderalismusreform II und der Schuldenbremse wesentliche Variablen, die nachweislich fördernd wie auch hemmend auf potentielle Reformmaßnahmen einwirken.

Dieppe Revisited: A Documentary Investigation (Studies in Intelligence)

This book reappraises the ill-fated raid named operation Jubilee, focusing on aspects such as naval and air operations in the Channel, signals, radar intelligence, agents and deception. It draws from official archives, both German and Allied. From these voluminous but fragmented records, many of which have been destroyed, classified or lost, the book aims to thread the evidence together.

Dieppe Revisited: A Documentary Investigation (Studies in Intelligence)

This book reappraises the ill-fated raid named operation Jubilee, focusing on aspects such as naval and air operations in the Channel, signals, radar intelligence, agents and deception. It draws from official archives, both German and Allied. From these voluminous but fragmented records, many of which have been destroyed, classified or lost, the book aims to thread the evidence together.

Diesseits und jenseits der Ökonomie: Kurzsichtige Krisenverwaltung oder weitsichtiger Neuanfang

Weltwirtschaftskrisen sind immer auch Gesellschaftskrisen! Treibende ökonomische Kräfte verfolgen als »homo oeconomicus« rücksichtslos isoliert exzessive Wachstumsziele mit einem skurrilen Tanz ums »goldene BIP-Kalb« – auf Kosten aller anderen Gesellschaftsinteressen und unter Inkaufnahme massiver Umweltzerstörungen. Das Paradoxe dabei ist, dass sich die Ökonomie amüsanterweise als naturwissenschaftlich geprägt sieht, obwohl sie zutiefst den Sozialwissenschaften zuzurechnen ist. Der scheinbar unaufhaltsame Trend einer diesseitigen Ökonomie erfordert angesichts sich häufender sozialer und ökologischer Probleme einen einschneidenden Richtungswechsel. Dieser kann nur darin bestehen, dass eine jenseitige Ökonomie die Interessen aller Gesellschaftsteinehmer, im engen Verbund mit dem Erhalt unserer natürlichen Lebensgrundlage stärkt und fördert. Während eine diesseitige (mono)kausale Ökonomie konfliktträchtige Ziele verfolgt, ist eine jenseitige Ökonomie geprägt durch eine vorausschauende systemische Perspektive nachhaltiger gesellschaftlicher Weiterentwicklung.

The Diet Delusion

Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. Nutrition and obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic, that diabetes rates have soared and the incidence of heart disease has not declined despite the fact that society is more diet and health aware today than generations ago.The Diet Delusion is an in-depth, scientific, groundbreaking examination of what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat, rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens and is essential reading for anyone trying to decide which diet - low-fat or low-carbohydrate - is truly the healthy diet.For years we have been deluded by the dieting industry. Now it's time to find out the truth.

Dieter Senghaas: Pioneer of Peace and Development Research (SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice #6)

Dieter Senghaas, professor emeritus of international relations, University of Bremen, was one of most innovative contemporary German social scientists, with major contributions on peace and development research and on music and peace. He was awarded many prizes: the International Peace Research Award (1987), Göttingen Peace Prize (1999), Culture and Peace Prize of the Villa Ichon in Bremen (2006), and the Leopold-Kohr Prize of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research (2010). In addition to his autobiographic notes and his selected bibliography, this book offers a global audience five key texts by D. Senghaas (1974-2009): Towards an Analysis of Threat Policy in International Relations; Friedrich List and the Basic Problems of Development; Developing the Definitions of Perpetual Peace (‘para pacem’): Through What and How is Peace Constituted Today?; Sounds of Peace: On Peace Fantasies and Peace Offerings in Classical Music; and Enhancing Human Rights – A Contribution to Viable Peace.

A Difference of Opinion: The Autobiography of Jim Sillars

Jim Sillars as a working-class schoolboy was told by the Deputy Rector at Ayr Academy that he would end up a ‘common labourer’, and by the Rector that he would ‘make nothing of himself’. He went on to be elected an MP twice, reaching high levels of political leadership, and making a continuing high-profile contribution to public life and policy. During a 60-year career in politics he moved from being a Labour MP and staunch Unionist – known as the hammer of the Nats – to becoming a prominent member of the SNP. He won the Govan by-election for the SNP, controversially became a columnist for the Scottish Sun, and when he lost his seat in 1992 notoriously described Scots as ‘90-minute patriots’.His 33-year marriage to Margo MacDonald and her involvement in nationalist politics is covered in the book. Though he is still a member of the SNP, both he and Margo clashed repeatedly with the SNP leadership, and he is now a sharp critic of the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and what he describes as the SNP’s cult of personality.

The Difference Principle Beyond Rawls

Since the publication of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) - followed up by Political Liberalism (1993) and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001) - discussions on social justice and redistributive liberalism have taken center stage in contemporary political theory. This book adds to an enormous body of literature. It does not question Rawlsian principles, but it does reject the liberal institutions he advocates. A debate is constructed in which his liberalism is contrasted with a libertarian socialism informed by the English theorist of guild socialism G.D.H. Cole (1889-1959). These two authors visualize alternative macro socio-economic schemes. Although they are set within modern liberal and libertarian socialist frameworks respectively, they share a commitment to reducing vast inequalities in wealth. Central to the Rawlsian scheme is the difference principle - that inequalities are only permitted if they benefit the least well off. Rawls proposes that citizens deliberating without awareness of subjective talents - a collective lack of knowledge captured by the Rawlsian term the veil of ignorance - will be compelled to prioritize a society structured to accommodate this principle to other systems in which inequalities are allowed to concentrate with lesser degrees of regulation. This assertion will not be challenged. However, it is shown how the difference principle will be more easily realized in the left libertarian scheme, in which the author defends. The argument is that Rawlsian premises point to a more radical conclusion than Rawls acknowledges.

Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination. Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and Cameroon, the contributors offer paradigm-changing approaches to the concepts of justice, identity, and social groups while also taking a fresh look at the idea that the demographic make-up of institutions should mirror the make-up of a populace as a whole. After laying out the conceptual framework, the volume turns to a number of provocative topics, among them the pernicious tenacity of implicit bias, the logical contradictions inherent to the idea of universal human dignity, and the paradoxes and problems surrounding affirmative action. A stimulating blend of empirical and interpretive analyses, Difference without Domination urges us to reconsider the idea of representation and to challenge what it means to measure equality and inequality.

Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination. Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and Cameroon, the contributors offer paradigm-changing approaches to the concepts of justice, identity, and social groups while also taking a fresh look at the idea that the demographic make-up of institutions should mirror the make-up of a populace as a whole. After laying out the conceptual framework, the volume turns to a number of provocative topics, among them the pernicious tenacity of implicit bias, the logical contradictions inherent to the idea of universal human dignity, and the paradoxes and problems surrounding affirmative action. A stimulating blend of empirical and interpretive analyses, Difference without Domination urges us to reconsider the idea of representation and to challenge what it means to measure equality and inequality.

The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress

What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers persuasively demonstrates that, even though representatives often vote a party line, their gender is politically significant and does indeed influence policy making. Swers combines quantitative analyses of bills with interviews with legislators and their staff to compare legislative activity on women's issues by male and female members of the House of Representatives during the 103rd (1993-94) and 104th (1995-96) Congresses. Tracking representatives' commitment to women's issues throughout the legislative process, from the introduction of bills through committee consideration to final floor votes, Swers examines how the prevailing political context and members' positions within Congress affect whether and how aggressively they pursue women's issues. Anyone studying congressional behavior, the role of women, or the representation of social identities in Congress will benefit from Swers's balanced and nuanced analysis.

The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress

What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers persuasively demonstrates that, even though representatives often vote a party line, their gender is politically significant and does indeed influence policy making. Swers combines quantitative analyses of bills with interviews with legislators and their staff to compare legislative activity on women's issues by male and female members of the House of Representatives during the 103rd (1993-94) and 104th (1995-96) Congresses. Tracking representatives' commitment to women's issues throughout the legislative process, from the introduction of bills through committee consideration to final floor votes, Swers examines how the prevailing political context and members' positions within Congress affect whether and how aggressively they pursue women's issues. Anyone studying congressional behavior, the role of women, or the representation of social identities in Congress will benefit from Swers's balanced and nuanced analysis.

The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress

What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers persuasively demonstrates that, even though representatives often vote a party line, their gender is politically significant and does indeed influence policy making. Swers combines quantitative analyses of bills with interviews with legislators and their staff to compare legislative activity on women's issues by male and female members of the House of Representatives during the 103rd (1993-94) and 104th (1995-96) Congresses. Tracking representatives' commitment to women's issues throughout the legislative process, from the introduction of bills through committee consideration to final floor votes, Swers examines how the prevailing political context and members' positions within Congress affect whether and how aggressively they pursue women's issues. Anyone studying congressional behavior, the role of women, or the representation of social identities in Congress will benefit from Swers's balanced and nuanced analysis.

The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress

What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers persuasively demonstrates that, even though representatives often vote a party line, their gender is politically significant and does indeed influence policy making. Swers combines quantitative analyses of bills with interviews with legislators and their staff to compare legislative activity on women's issues by male and female members of the House of Representatives during the 103rd (1993-94) and 104th (1995-96) Congresses. Tracking representatives' commitment to women's issues throughout the legislative process, from the introduction of bills through committee consideration to final floor votes, Swers examines how the prevailing political context and members' positions within Congress affect whether and how aggressively they pursue women's issues. Anyone studying congressional behavior, the role of women, or the representation of social identities in Congress will benefit from Swers's balanced and nuanced analysis.

Differences and Changes in Wage Structures (National Bureau of Economic Research Comparative Labor Markets Series)

During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries. Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the changing economies of Eastern Europe. Cross-country studies examine issues such as managerial compensation, gender differences in earnings, and the relationship of pay to regional unemployment. From this rich store of data, the contributors attribute changes in relative wages and unemployment among countries both to differences in labor market institutions and training and education systems, and to long-term shifts in supply and demand for skilled workers. These shifts are driven in part by skill-biased technological change and the growing internationalization of advanced industrial economies.

Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior

This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.

Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior

This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.

The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged those in power risking political censure. In addition, they also try to delineate how patronage has been used for propaganda, or to stir up national fervour. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence, challenge, and, in some cases, undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science, the humanities and performing arts.