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Inhalt: 1 Die Trias wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Regimes 2 Der kulturelle und institutionelle Bezugsrahmen in den drei Modell-Ländern: Deutschland, Norwegen, USA 3 Die Operationalisierung der Berufsstrukturen mit Hilfe der international Standard Classification of Occupations 1968 (ISCO1968) 4 Schichtselbsteinstufung und Einstellungsindex zu staatlicher Intervention auf Basis des International Social Survey Programme 1992 (ISSP1992) 5 Schichtselbsteinstufung und Einstellungsindex zur Frauenerwerbstätigkeit auf Basis des International Social Survey Programme 1994 (ISSP1994)
The fiscal reform of 1994 was introduced to strengthen the redistributive function of central government. In the aftermath of the reform it turned out, however, that the dominating cleavage is not necessarily the rivalry between "centre" and "regions", mainly because of the very complex relationships within the provinces. Though taxation itself is highly centralized there is a growing tendency of expensation of "extra-budget revenues". That is why the share of the central government concerning all revenues fell to 27%, falling considerably short of the purpose of the fiscal reform to increase the rate of central redistribution to 60% of the national fiscal ressources. Local communities have turned out to be rather successful in collecting non-tax revenues, concentrating on the non-state sectors of the economy. The problem is not so much the threat of fiscal decentralization but the definition of rules and procedures in the relationship between centre, provinces and local administrations.
Nowadays the term "technocracy", which means the elimination of politics by the rule of scientific reasoning, is most often used with a quite negative overtone. Technocrats are described as experts without morals, able to function in any kind of political system. Nevertheless one should remember that the technocratic idea contained from the very beginning a strong ethic element: conventional political power as an instrument of repression should be replaced by the rule of sciences as an instrument to improve human life. Although the idea of eliminating politics by "science-based" decisions of an autocratic leadership has been widely used to legitimate totalitarian rule, it is obvious, that clear technocratic reasoning and decision making do not go conform with the functioning of a totalitarian system. On the contrary, technic and technologic innovation accelerated the breakdown of totalitarianism. The complex character of modern societies calls for regulation by markets and pluralistic political systems. The evolution of our technical civilization improved the conditions for democratic selforganisation.
The economic reforms in the German Democratic Republic during the 60s, known as "New Economic System" (NES) or "Economic System of Socialism" (ESS) have been characterised by historians as truly technocratic. What is often not known is the fact, that during the first debate on economic reform in Eastern Germany in 1954-1958 the idea of democratic reform was prominent thanks to the role and writing of the outstanding GAR economist Fritz Behrens, who favoured a diminished role of the state in the economy and the self-rule of the workers in the factories. Behrens and his followers were denounced by party leader Walter Ulbricht as "revisionist". Together with his economic advisor, Wolfgang Berger, originally a scholar of Behrens’, he started the NES and ESS in the 60s. Behrens remained barred from the management of the reform, in which Berger plaid a prominent role. When Behrens began again to publish his demands for a democratic reform in 1967, thus intervening in the progress of the reform, he was forced to leave his academic job into retirement. In 1971, Erich Honekker succeeded Ulbricht. The economic reform was stopped. And Berger lost his job, too.
Since 1989 the German-Czech relationship has been burdened by the problem of a just assessment of World War II and the following forced transfer of the Sudeten Germans. Why are democrats on both sides who acknowledge the same values and principles unable to reach an agreement about crucial events in the past? The political and legal differences imply a moral dissent which is not being discussed systematically. The article tries to investigate the deficits of the moral arguments on both sides.
In August 1997 the Australian Government released the first White Paper ever issued on its foreign policy. As one important element, this essay tries to delineate the pro Asia-Pacific shift of Australia’s international economic and security orientations, particularly since the early 1970s - a foreign policy which could rest upon an certain bipartisan basis. The recently launched White Paper represents a new reflection upon Australia’s national interests and a soft relativisation of the strong emphasis on regional and multilateral foreign policy performances of former governments. According to a least the author’s judgement, the fundamental legacy of Australia’s international relations remain: a certain (a definite?) contradiction between the country’s predominant cultural and ethnic (!) heritage on the one hand and its geographical location on the other.
Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Ideal : zu Theorie, Norm und Praxis des Rechtsstaats in der VR China
(1998)
Besides establishing a legal system for the needs of economic construction, legal theory and legislation in China are extending their concern from an instrumental concept of law to a more value based notion, thus supplementing "rule by laws" by elements of the "Rechtsstaat" (rule of law). Whereas legal and constitutional theory take more and more bold views concerning integrating structures of checks and balances and division of powers into the legal system, urging for statutory control of the ruling party, for reforming the National People’s Congress into a responsible legislative body based on real representation of the people, providing for constitutionality of legal norms by a system of judicial review etc., legislation has started to deal with certain aspects of the Rechtsstaat in fields as administrative, criminal and criminal procedure law. In view of grave problems of implementation, this legislation may partly be regarded more to be an expression of intention to develop gradually a new ideal and a new legitimation for the political system than well established actual practice.
In 1988, the Government of the People’s Republic of China established the island of Hainan as a province and made it a Special Economic Zone. While the hope for a spectecular economic take off was the main driving force behind this decision, it provided China with an area where far reaching trial-and-error politics could be. Hence the new provincial government was granted the privilege of setting its own legal framework for administering the special economic policies and establishing a governmental structure guided by the principle of "Small government, big society". Although some of the efforts to reduce the administration in terms of scope and resources, to develop and strengthen non-governmental organizations and provide economic actors with a minimum of freedom and reliability proved successful, the overall results are mixed: While well-being and opportunities for self-fulfillment clearly grew, political participation is still confined to areas defined by the Communist Party.
Biomacht - Biopolitik
(1998)
Dieses Heft der Potsdamer Studien zur Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung hat den thematischen Schwerpunkt „Biomacht - Biopolitik“ und präsentiert Ergebnisse aus Forschungsprojekten, die in den letzten Jahren am Lehrstuhl Frauenforschung an der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam realisiert wurden. Inhalt: „Gebärstreik“ im Osten? Wie Sterilisation in einer Pressekampagne diskursiviert wurde und welche Motive ostdeutsche Frauen hatten, sich sterilisieren zu lassen. (Irene Dölling, Daphne Hahn, Sylka Scholz) Sterilisation und Individualisierung: Biopolitik in der DDR (Daphne Hahn)
Disziplinäre Quergänge : (Un-)Möglichkeiten transdisziplinärer Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
(1998)
Heft 2/1998 hat den thematischen Schwerpunkt der Transdisziplinarität in der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung und dokumentiert die Beiträge sowie die Diskussion eines Workshops, der im Sommersemester 1998 an der Universität Potsdam im Rahmen der Planungen zu einem Magisternebenfach „Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien" stattgefunden hat. Beiträgerinnen sind u.a. Sabine Hark, Maike Baader, Beate Neumeier, Axeli Knapp, Silke Wenk, Ulrike Teubner. Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung hat wiederholt Interdisziplinarität reklamiert, um das Zugleich von Monotonie und Heterogenität der Reproduktion der Geschlechterhierarchie verstehen zu können. Aus den Einzeldisziplinen heraus waren Grenzgänge in andere Disziplinen geradezu notwendig, um das Dickicht der Geschlechterordnung, die Verknüpfungen zwischen symbolischen, strukturellen und individuellen Dimensionen von Geschlecht zu durchdringen. Der „Beziehungssinn" zwischen den Disziplinen wurde dabei allerdings selten gepflegt. Wie etwa die moderne Geschlechterordnung selbst zum Ordnungsprinzip und zur Modalität der Produktion wissenschaftlichen Wissens wurde, war allenfalls eine Randfrage. Der reflexive Blick auf die Prozesse der wechselseitigen Konstitution von Disziplingrenzen gerade durch interdisziplinäre Herangehensweisen blieb bisher weitgehend aus. In einer transdisziplinären Orientierung von Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien würde daher gerade die je fachspezifische Konstitution von Gegenständen, Methoden und disziplinären Grenzen sowie die durch sie bestimmten bzw. beschränkten Perspektiven zum Gegenstand, wenn es darum gehen soll, die überschneidenden Problemfelder, die sich aus der Perspektive der Geschlechterdifferenz als relevant erweisen, zwischen den Disziplinen zu bearbeiten. In einer transdisziplinären Perspektive also stünden die Disziplingrenzen selbst zur Disposition, Teil der Lehr- und Forschungspraxis wäre die Frage, wie verschiedene disziplinäre Zugänge die Objekte des Wissens konstruieren und was das für die möglichen Erkenntnisse bedeutet.