TY - JOUR A1 - Bode, Dagmar A1 - Rolfes, Manfred T1 - Einschätzungen zum politischen Handlungsfeld "Stärkung der Demokratie und Intensivierung der gesellschaftlichen Beteiligung" im Land Brandenburg BT - Ergebnisse der Befragung der teilnehmenden der 18 Zukunftdialoge 2015 bis 2016 JF - Potsdamer Geographische Praxis Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-468187 SN - 978-3-86956-483-8 SN - 2194-1599 SN - 2194-1602 IS - 15 SP - 59 EP - 128 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schubarth, Wilfried A1 - Kohlstruck, Michael A1 - Rolfes, Manfred T1 - Zukunftsdialog tolerantes Brandenburg BT - Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Beobachtung JF - Potsdamer Geographischer Praxis Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-468179 SN - 978-3-86956-483-8 SN - 2194-1599 SN - 2194-1602 IS - 15 SP - 21 EP - 57 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR ED - Fitzi, Gregor ED - Mackert, Jürgen ED - Turner, Bryan S. T1 - Concepts and theory JF - Populism and the crisis of democracy N2 - There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break that led to UK’s ‘Brexit’ and the election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016, as well as promoting what has been called left populism in countries that were hit the hardest by both the banking crisis and consequential neo-liberal austerity politics in the EU, such as Greece and Portugal. In 2017, the French Front National (FN) attracted many voters in the French Presidential elections; we have seen the radicalization of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany and the formation of centre-right government in Austria. Further, we have witnessed the consolidation of autocratic regimes, as in the EU member states Poland and Greece. All these manifestations of right-wing populism share a common feature: they attack or even compromise the core elements of democratic societies such as the separation of powers, protection of minorities, or the rule of law. Despite a broad debate on the re-emergence of ‘populism’ in the transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century that has brought forth many interesting findings, a lack of sociological reasoning cannot be denied, as sociology itself withdrew from theorising populism decades ago and largely left the field to political sciences and history. In a sense, Populism and the Crisis of Democracy considers itself a contribution to begin filling this lacuna. Written in a direct and clear style, this set of volumes will be an invaluable reference for students and scholars in the field of political theory, political sociology and European Studies. This volume Concepts and Theory offers new and fresh perspectives on the debate on populism. Starting from complaints about the problems of conceptualising populism that in recent years have begun to revolve around themselves, the chapters offer a fundamental critique of the term and concept of populism, theoretically inspired typologies and descriptions of currently dominant concepts, and ways to elaborate on them. With regard to theory, the volume offers approaches that exceed the disciplinary horizon of political science that so far has dominated the debate. As sociological theory so far has been more or less absent in the debate on populism, only few efforts have been made to discuss populism more intensely within different theoretical contexts in order to explain its dynamics and processes. Thus, this volume offers critical views on the debate on populism from the perspectives of political economy and the analysis of critical historical events, the links of analyses of populism with social movement mobilisation, the significance of ‘superfluous populations’ in the rise of populism and an analysis of the exclusionary character of populism from the perspective of the theory of social closure. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-138-09136-8 SN - 978-1-315-10807-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108070 VL - 1 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - THES A1 - Nessel, Camille T1 - Die Logik des selbstlosen Gebens im Spiegel des normativen und rationalen Paradigmas T1 - The impact of normative and rational paradigmes on altruism BT - ein Vergleich zwischen Émile Durkheim und James Coleman BT - comparing Emile Durkheim and James Coleman N2 - The word altruism derives from the French sociologist Auguste Comte, who also happens to be the founder of sociology. It can be best described with the term selflessness and is mostly regarded in contrast to the so called rational and egocentric behaviour of human beings. People who support the idea of a rational protagonist often reject the idea of altruism. On the contrary people who believe in altruistic human beings are rather rare and do not support the idea of a purely egoist human being. The presented BA Thesis examined this controversy on the example of Emile Durkheim and James Coleman who both represent different ideas when it comes to altruism. While Durkheim sees altruism as an evident feature of human nature, Coleman denies its existence. Instead, he is assuming that human behaviour is driven by egoism and he therefore exemplifies the rational-choice concept. The opposing approaches towards altruism are rooted in the different premises, which also lead to different methodological paths in social or sociological theory. The methodological individualism portrayed through Coleman starts from an egocentric, rational stakeholder, whereas the methodological collectivism finds it origin in a normative world view. The paper analysed these approaches. By comparing both ontologies I tried to show the limits of both theories and a way out of the methodological dispute and subsequently between the altruism-egoism controversies. N2 - Der Begriff Altruismus geht auf Auguste Comte, den Gründer der Soziologie zurück. Es bezeichnet zugleich Uneigennütziges als auch selbstloses Verhalten von Individuen und wird daher oft dem egoistischen Verhalten gegenübergestellt. Die zahlreichen Anhänger des rationalen-egoistischem Paradigma lehnen die Idee der altruistischen Natur des Menschen meist ab, wohingegen die Anhänger des Altruismus nicht nur schwerer zu finden sind, sondern vor allem die Idee einer rein egoistischen Natur ablehnen. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Altruismus-Begriffe der Soziologen Emile Durkheim und James Coleman, welche die Kontroverse zwischen den unterschiedlichen Paradigmen wiederspiegeln. Ziel dieser Arbeit wird es sein, die unterschiedlichen Altruismus-Konzepte von Durkheim und Coleman zunächst vorzustellen, anschließend einander gegenüberzustellen und darauf folgend zu untersuchen, welche Auswirkung ihre unterschiedlichen Weltanschauungen, Prämissen und Methodologien auf ihr Verständnis von der Logik des selbstlosen Gebens haben. Durch den Vergleich soll versucht werden die Grenzen beider Theorien aufzuzeigen und damit auch ein Ausweg aus dem methodologischem Disput, welcher folglich zur Überwindung der Altruismus-Egoismus Kontroverse beitragen soll. KW - altruism KW - egoism KW - rational choice theory KW - methodological individualism KW - methodological collectivism KW - Methodenstreit KW - ontology KW - macro-micro-macro-model KW - Durkheim KW - Coleman KW - Caillé KW - Altruismus KW - Egoismus KW - Rational-Choice KW - methodologischer Individualismus KW - methodologischer Kollektivismus KW - Methodenstreit KW - Ontologie KW - Makro-Mikro-Makro-Modell KW - Durkheim KW - Coleman KW - Caillé Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-88529 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Mackert, Jürgen ED - Turner, Bryan S. T1 - Political Economy T3 - The transformation of citizenship N2 - The Transformation of Citizenship addresses the basic question of how we can make sense of citizenship in the twenty-first century. These volumes make a strong plea for a reorientation of the sociology of citizenship and address serious threats of an ongoing erosion of citizenship rights. Arguing from different scientific perspectives, rather than offering new conceptions of citizenship as supposedly more adequate models of rights, membership and belonging, they deal with both the ways citizenship is transformed and the ways it operates in the face of fundamentally transformed conditions. This volume Political Economy discusses manifold consequences of a decades-long enforcement of neo-liberalism for the rights of citizens. As neo-liberalism not only means a new form of economic system, it has to be conceived of as an entirely new form of global, regional and national governance that radically transforms economic, political and social relations in society. Its consequences for citizenship as a social institution are no less than dramatic. Against the background of both manifest and ideological processes the book looks at if citizenship has lost the basis it has rested upon for decades, or if the institution itself is in a process of being fundamentally transformed and restructured, thereby changing its meaning and the significance of citizens’ rights. This book will appeal to academics working in the field of political theory, political sociology and European studies. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-138-67290-1 (print) SN - 978-1-315-56228-5 (online) IS - 1 PB - Routledge Taylor CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mackert, Jürgen A1 - Turner, Bryan S. T1 - Introduction BT - a politcal economy of citizenship T2 - The Transformation of Citizenship : Volume 1 Political Economy N2 - In the course of the last four decades, neo-liberalism has established itself as the dominant form of governing both national societies and global affairs. On the foundation of both Keynesian economic policies and the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates among currencies, the world economy recovered. The classical sociological meaning and concept of citizenship as defined by T. H. Marshall and others after World War II rests on an analysis of the relationship between the capitalist economy and political democracy against the background of 'embedded liberalism'. Today, however, the enforcement of neo-liberal principles in order to turn modern democracies into 'market societies' impinges heavily on our idea of citizenship. The critical aspects of a flawed citizenship go directly to the heart of the idea of citizenship itself, as both democratic and social participation and a substantial conception of individual liberty all seem to be under attack from the global politico-economic regime. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-138-67290-1 (print) SN - 978-1-315-56228-5 (online) U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562285 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Routledge Taylor CY - London ER - TY - BOOK ED - Mackert, Jürgen ED - Turner, Bryan S. T1 - Struggle, Resistance and Violence T3 - The transformation of citizenship N2 - This volume Struggle, Resistance and Violence examines the fact that all over the world the rights of citizens have come under enormous pressure and addresses the many ways in which people are ‘making claims’ against both autocratic and democratic authority. Without any doubt rule-breaking, riots and violent upheavals have become an aspect of political struggles for citizenship. The book takes up a conflict perspective that directs attention to these recent phenomena. It stresses the necessity of a careful analysis of resistance and violence as critical factors for coming to terms with social conflicts for citizenship from Europe to South America, as well as the Near East, the Far East and the Arab World Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-138-67288-8 (print) SN - 978-1-317-20385-8 (online) IS - 3 PB - Routledge Taylor CY - London ER - TY - BOOK ED - Mackert, Jürgen ED - Turner, Bryan S. T1 - Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion T3 - The transformation of citizenship N2 - This volume Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion examines the many different and newly emerging ways in which citizenship refers to spatial, symbolic and social boundaries. Today, in the context of citizenship we face processes of inclusion and exclusion on national and supranational level but no less on the level of groups and individuals. The book addresses these different levels and discusses processes of inclusion and exclusion with regard to spatial, social and symbolic boundaries referring to such different problems as political participation, migration, or identity with regard to religion or the EU. This book will appeal to academics working in the field of political theory, political sociology and European studies. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-138-67289-5 (print) SN - 978-1-315-56226-1 (online) IS - 2 PB - Routledge Taylor CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mackert, Jürgen T1 - Why we need a new political economy of citizenship: neo-liberalism, the bank crisis and the 'Panama Papers' T2 - The Transformation of Citizenship : Political Economy Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-138-67290-1 (print) SN - 978-1-315-56228-5 (online) IS - 1 SP - 99 EP - 117 PB - Routledge Taylor CY - London ER - TY - BOOK ED - Turner, Bryan S. ED - Wolf, Hannah ED - Fitzi, Gregor ED - Mackert, Jürgen T1 - Theories and concepts T3 - Urban change and citizenship in times of crisis N2 - Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the world’s population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today, classical sociological questions about the city acquire new meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city and new developments of urbanism. The contributions to Theories and Concepts offer new theoretical reflections on the city in a philosophical and historical perspective as well as fresh empirical analyses of social life in urban contexts. Chapters not only critically revisit classical and modern philosophical considerations about the nature of cities but no less discuss normative philosophical reflections of urban life and the role of religion in historical processes of the emergence of cities. Composed around the question whether there can be such a thing as a ‘successful city’, this volume addresses issues of urban political subjectivities by considering the city’s role in historical processes of emancipation, the fight for citizenship rights, and today’s challenges and opportunities with regard to promoting social justice, integration, and diversity. Consequentially, theory-driven empirical analyses offer new insight into ways of solving problems in urban contexts and a genuine approach to analyse the Social Quality in cities. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-367-20562-1 SN - 978-0-429-26226-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429262265 VL - 1 PB - Routledge CY - London ER -