@misc{Treiber2014,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Treiber, Victor Oviedo},
  title     = {Rural poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-302-2},
  issn      = {2197-8069},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-71263},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {viii, 68},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. This study analyzes whether rural poverty increases the incidence of food insecurity and whether food insecurity perpetuates the condition of poverty among the rural poor in Bolivia. In order to achieve this aim, the risks that households face and the capacity of households to implement coping strategies in order to mitigate vulnerability shocks are identified. We suggest that efforts by households to become food secure may be difficult in rural areas because of poverty and the vulnerability associated with a lack of physical assets, low levels of human capital, poor infrastructure, and poor health; as well as the precarious regional environment aggravating the severity of vulnerability to food insecurity.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Debre2014,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Debre, Maria},
  title     = {Testing the limits of civil society in Jordan},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-72974},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {iii, 108},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Civil society is either considered as a motor of democratization or stabilizer of authoritarian rule. This dichotomy is partly due to the dominance of domains-based definitions of the concept that reduce civil society to a small range of formally organized, independent and democratically oriented NGOs. Additionally, research often treats civil society as a 'black box' without differentiating between potential variations in impact of different types of civil society actors on existing regime structures. In this thesis, I present an alternative conceptualization of civil society based on the interactions of societal actors to arrive at a more inclusive understanding of the term which is more suited for analysis in non-democratic settings. The operationalization of the action-based approach I develop allows for an empirical assessment of a large range of societal activities that can accordingly be categorized from little to very civil society-like depending on their specific modes of interactions within four dimensions. I employ this operationalization in a qualitative case study including different actors in the authoritarian monarchy of Jordan which suggests that Jordanian societal actors mostly exhibit tolerant and democratically oriented modes of interaction and do not reproduce authoritarian patterns. However, even democratically oriented actors do not necessarily take on an oppositional positions vis-{\`a}-vis the authoritarian regime. Thus, the Jordanian civil society might not feature a high potential to challenge existing power structures in the country.},
  language  = {en}
}