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The point of departure of this article is limited systematic research on the rotating EU Council Presidency after the Lisbon Treaty. In order to assess rotating presidencies the paper proposes a three-tier approach which includes a functional, a behavioural and a contingency dimension. These dimensions are supplemented by the institutional changes of the Lisbon Treaty referring to the rotating presidencies. Next, the paper applies this evaluation framework to the Polish Presidency that took place in the second half of 2011. Finally, it draws conclusions from the Polish case for both the leadership capacity of the rotating Council Presidency in the post-Lisbon European Union and the performance of Poland's EU Council Presidency.
The impact of humanitarian context conditions and individual characteristics on aid worker retention
(2015)
High employee turnover rates constitute a major challenge to effective aid provision. This study examines how features of humanitarian work and aid workers' individual characteristics affect retention within one humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Holland. The study extends existing research by providing new theoretical explanations of employment opportunities and constraints and by engaging in the first large-scale quantitative analysis of aid worker retention. Using a database of field staff (N=1,955), a logistic regression is performed of the likelihood of reenlistment after a first mission. The findings demonstrate that only 40 per cent of employees reenlist for a second mission with MSF Holland, and that workplace location and security situation, age, and gender have no significant effect. Individuals are less likely to reenlist if they returned early from the first mission for a personal reason, are in a relationship, are medical doctors, or if they come from highly developed countries. The paper reflects on the findings in the light of policy.
Following decision theory (Boudon, Raymond. 1974. Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality: Changing Prospects in Western Society. New York: Wiley.), social origin strongly affects educational decisions, especially at transition points in educational attainment. In Japan, the fierce competition in gaining access to the next level of schooling intensifies the impact of educational decisions on students' future careers. In addition to selecting a certain school, families are forced to decide whether or not to invest in shadow education. Thus far, socioeconomic background and parents' educational aspirations, in conjunction with students' academic achievement, have been deemed influential to such decisions in Japan. The agency of the student is rarely even considered. Based on calculations from the 2011 Hyogo High School Students' (HHSS) survey, the theoretical approach presented in this article stresses the importance of acknowledging the existence of a multitude of actors involved in each phase of the decision-making process, including the students themselves, especially when explaining inequalities in modern societies.
Serious games in andragogy
(2015)
Politische Bildung
(2015)
Die Reihe Politische Bildung vermittelt zwischen den vielfältigen Gegenständen des Politischen und der Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Gegenständen in politischen Bildungsprozessen an Schulen, außerschulischen Einrichtungen und Hochschulen. Deshalb werden theoretische Grundlagen, empirische Studien und handlungsanleitende Konzeptionen zur politischen Bildung vorgestellt, um unterschiedliche Zugänge und Sichtweisen zu Theorie und Praxis politischer Bildung aufzuzeigen und zur Diskussion zu stellen. Die Reihe Politische Bildung wendet sich an Studierende, Referendare und Lehrende der schulischen und außerschulischen politischen Bildung.
Das Buch „Organisation und Unsicherheit“ geht der Frage nach, wie Organisationen mit radikalen Wandlungsprozessen in den Organisation selbst und der Umwelt umgehen. Übergreifende These ist, dass Fehler, Unsicherheit, Ambivalenz und die Unplanbarkeit organisationaler Prozesse den Organisationsalltag maßgeblich prägen. Aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven und anhand verschiedener empirischer Analysen zu Jugendämtern, Bildungseinrichtungen, zum Umgang mit Großschadenslagen, zu Institutionen des Finanzmarktes u.a.m. wird gezeigt, welche Konsequenzen sich daraus für das Handeln in Organisationen und die Beziehungen zwischen Organisationen und Umwelt ergeben.