scholarly journals The Role of the German State in the Emerging Biogas Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suning Jin ◽  
Jingwei Xu
Keyword(s):  
German State

scholarly journals Accessing the public workforce: Organisational recruitment practices and the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of immigrant origin

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Lang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
German State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
Recruitment Practices ◽  
Public Workforce

AbstractOrganisations are important gatekeepers in the labour market inclusion of immigrants and their children. Research has regularly documented ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions. Aiming to further our understanding of the role of organisations in influencing the professional trajectories of individuals of immigrant origin, this paper investigates the recruitment practices of public administrations. Drawing on approaches from organisational sociology and a qualitative case study of public administrations in the German state of Berlin, the article identifies three crucial elements of organisational decision-making affecting the recruitment of staff of immigrant origin: decisions regarding advertisement strategies, formal criteria, and individual candidates. Further, the article shows the underlying decision-making rationalities and the role of organisational contexts and ethnic stereotypes for recruitment-related decisions.

scholarly journals The Role of Intuition and Prognostic Risk Assessment Regarding the Leave of Offenders with Mental Disorders

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
C. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
German Law ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Mentally Ill Offenders ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
German State

The granting of leave during terms of imprisonment plays an important part in the treatment of mentally ill offenders. According to German law, leave is to be granted in those cases where the abuse of this privilege or an attempt to flee can be negated. These regulations also, however, imply that the risk assessment of a patient's offence-related recidivism can not be the only criterion for the granting of leave.So far, there have only been few studies about the prognostic risk assessment of the general abuse of leave. This is rather astonishing, as the granting of leave outside the institutional grounds, in particular, is a decision which often leaves those responsible fraught with anxiety. Furthermore, the abuse of a granted temporary release can lead to severe consequences on various levels.As part of a study to be conducted in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, decisions about granting leave are to be analyzed and possible predictors of the abuse of leave are to be examined.It is assumed that the abuse of leave is likely to be motivated by the conditions of particular situations and can primarily be explained by normal psychological factors.However, it should be pointed out that, as the abuse of leave is such a rare occurrence, it poses a significant methodological problem. The criterion to be examined therefore needs to be exactly defined and particular attention must be paid to achieve an adequately high interreliability of the decision makers.

scholarly journals From Boondoggle to Settlement Colony: Hendrik Witbooi and the Evolution of Germany's Imperial Project in Southwest Africa, 1884–1894

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-470
Author(s):  
Adam A. Blackler
Keyword(s):  
Colonial History ◽  
German State ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
Military Violence ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Important Extension ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Southwest Africa

AbstractIn the span of ten years, what started as a minor commercial enterprise in a faraway African territory grew into an important extension of the German state. This article reorients our understanding of the relationship between theKaiserreichand its overseas empire, specifically with a focus on Captain Hendrik Witbooi and on how the Witbooi Namaqua he led influenced the evolution of German imperial rule in Southwest Africa between 1884 and 1894. Witbooi's refusal to accept imperial authority compelled colonial officials to confront their administrative limitations in the colony. When the façade of imperial fantasy gave way to colonial reality, German administrators expanded the size and scope of the imperial government to subdue the Namaqua. The article emphasizes the appointments ofLandeshauptmannCurt von François and Governor Theodor Leutwein as critical examples of Witbooi's impact on imperial policy, as well as the colonial administration's embrace of military violence to attain German supremacy in Southwest Africa. An emphasis on the Witbooi Namaqua illustrates the prominent role of Africans in German colonial history and exposes how peoples in distant places like Windhoek and Otjimbingwe manipulated official efforts to control and exploit the colony.

The Origins of Neoliberalism and the Role of the German State

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-33
Author(s):  
Julian Germann
Keyword(s):  
International Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
German State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Corporate Profits ◽  
German Contribution

This chapter reviews the most prominent explanations of the global rise of neoliberalism provided within critical International Political Economy: (1) a state-centered argument, which holds that neoliberalism was imposed by the United States in a bid to reassert its global dominance; (2) a class-based argument, which sees neoliberalism as the project of globalizing elites who sought to restore their corporate profits and power; and (3) an ideational argument, which describes the rise of neoliberalism as a paradigmatic shift in economic ideas. The chapter argues that these accounts share a common bias: they pivot unduly on the Anglo-American world and are unable to capture the peculiar German contribution to the origins of neoliberalism. As a result, they misread the rise of Germany to the apex of a neoliberal Europe as a belated repetition of the same global movement spearheaded by the US and the UK.

Functions and the role of labor agency in social welfare and personnel management in Germany (through the example of immigrants)

10.12737/4872 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Кудайберген ◽  
Pirimkul Kudaybergen
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
German Economy ◽  
German Society ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
African Countries ◽  
German State ◽  
Payroll Taxes ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Single Child

The paper considers functions of the Labor Agency (Agency), which is an important mechanism for workforce management processes and procedures in the context of socially-oriented German economy. Agency activities are analyzed and how it practically implements social welfare principles (as exemplified by immigrants from CSI, Asian and African countries). The author operates based on his research and personal experience, gained while working in various German universities and companies. Special attention is given to how the Agency’s Center of Employment provide unemployed with unemployment relief and workplaces. Practical measures conducive to unemployment reduction are highlighted. It is emphasized that while Germany has powerful system of social welfare and sufficient unemployment reliefs, payroll taxes are also relatively high. Consequently, many immigrants try their hard to avoid working and prefer to live on the dole. Along with that the author reveals the reasons and ways through which German state officials discriminate immigrants thus favoring natives of Germany. Nevertheless, given one million vacancies to be filled throughout the country, many Germans reject the German tax system, emigrate and work successfully abroad (e.g., 65% of doctors in Switzerland are expatriate Germans). The paper specially emphasizes, that the majority of immigrants to Germany are poorly educated, poorly civilized Asians and Africans with extra families, while among native Germans single-child families prevail and highly qualified specialists do prevail among emigrants. Such social discrepancy arose discontent among German burghers which results in annual neo-Nazi anti-German marches in towns and villages. In conclusion the author provides recommendations for immigrants and Russians, willing to work in German, on how to integrate in the German society and adapt to labor market conditions of Germany.

The German Revolution of 1918/19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Political Transformation ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
German State ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Socialist Government ◽  
German Revolution ◽  
First World ◽  
Missed Opportunity ◽  
The Revolution

The German Revolution of 1918/19 is often viewed as underwhelming and disappointing, as a missed opportunity for social and political transformation which hamstrung the Weimar Republican project. This chapter engages with the revolution in more synchronic terms, as a lived event and a conspicuously successful project of civic mobilization. The German Revolution of 1918/19 fulfilled popular aspirations for political participation which had surged during the First World War. It delivered an armistice, a republic, parliamentary democracy, and the first-ever socialist government of an advanced industrial economy. The chapter traces the origins and course of the revolution, focusing on the agency of crowds and activists who led localized insurgencies across Germany. It explores the role of the council (Räte) movement in localities and at Reich level. The chapter concludes by appraising the counter-revolution of 1919. A series of local uprisings by left-wing radicals gave the MSPD regime and its military accomplices a pretext to push back against social revolution and to demonstrate, through extreme violence, the recovered authority of the German state.

scholarly journals Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd H. Weir ◽  
Udi Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
German State ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
National Socialists ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter argues that the role of religion in the political and social dynamics of the Weimar Republic was determined by two axes of confessional conflict. Alongside the Catholic–Protestant antagonism, there were also significant tensions between secularism and Christianity. Both axes contributed to the formation of different social milieus during the Kaiserreich and supported their continued articulation during the Weimar Republic. The chapter explores developments within the milieus, such as the significant growth and radicalization of freethought within the socialist and communist parties, as well as the shifting relationships between them, which created a fractured and complex set of political struggles, compromises, and alliances. The republic was bookended by efforts to overcome confessional divides in Germany through revolutionary means, on the one hand through the aborted attempt to fully secularize the German state in 1918 and, on the other, the campaign by the National Socialists to win Christian support by calling for ‘positive Christianity’ to heal Germany’s confessional divide by unifying Protestants and Catholics and destroying secularism.

Language Use among Syrian Refugees in Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-232
Author(s):  
Guyanne Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
German State ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Gain Access

Following the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians sought asylum in Europe, particularly in Germany. This chapter looks at language use among Syrian refugees living in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. It reports the results of a series of qualitative interviews conducted with refugees and other stakeholders in the refugee integration. Refugees’ linguistic repertoire consists minimally of Syrian Arabic, English, and German, though proficiency in the latter two languages varies from person to person. Though both scholarly literature and societal legend consistently report the centrality of English as a lingua franca, the refugees’ experiences show that this is not necessarily the case; the assumption that proficiency in English will ease communication in official contexts and help gain access to employment and other social benefits is often unmet, in stark comparison to the experiences of immigrants and refugees in neighbouring Holland and Belgium. Thus, the study has implications for the understanding of the role of English as a lingua franca, particularly in Germany.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Julian Germann
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
German State ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
Social Market ◽  
At Home

The introduction asks how Germany—a country long thought to be irrevocably European and committed to a more social market economy—could have emerged at the helm of a punitive program of neoliberalism within Europe. To resolve this puzzle, we need to revisit the crisis of the 1970s, when neoliberalism first appeared, and rethink the role of the German state in light of newly available archival material. From this viewpoint, Germany is revealed to be the “unwitting architect” of neoliberalism. Its parochial attempts to manage the crisis domestically promoted a regressive form of capitalism internationally that soon boomeranged back upon it, and which it promotes across Europe today so as not to practice at home. After a chapter-by-chapter summary of this argument, the Introduction lists the archival sources consulted for this book and discusses how an archival method can be integrated into critical International Political Economy.

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