Anderson, Zelle, and their contributors provide in-depth analyses of electoral trends in Germany--the one country in which an electorate that had maintained stable democracy after World War II was enlarged by compatriots who had experienced decades of socialist rule.
Most of the essays in this book first focus on long-term developments known to affect electoral change in industrial societies such as: societal transformations, changes in ideological thinking, and value change. After establishing if and how these developments have been taking place in the old Lander, they investigate...
Anderson, Zelle, and their contributors provide in-depth analyses of electoral trends in Germany--the one country in which an electorate that had m...
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the Early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe and as one of the moving forces behind the Anthropological Turn. Research foci of the Centre have been and are Enlightenment anthropology, Enlightenment in the reference field of early modem esotericism, university history, philanthropism and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz; more recent emphasis has been on the Early...
When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following...
The contributions gathered in this volume endeavour to evaluate the role played by medical empiricism in the emergence of a philosophy of human nature in the 17th century and the role played by philosophical anthropology in the 18th century. Divided into three parts, "1. The Dispute between Metaphysics and Empiricism," "2. Arts of Empirical Research," and "3. Relevance of Case Studies," the volume questions the position of medicine within so-called "natural philosophy," which encompasses physiology and anatomy, as well as physics, astronomy and chemistry. One of its aims is to understand the...
The contributions gathered in this volume endeavour to evaluate the role played by medical empiricism in the emergence of a philosophy of human nature...
Sind Veranderungen im Wahlverhalten auf politische und auf soziale Phanomene zuruckzufuhren? Treten darin also Veranderungen auf der "Nachfrageseite" der Wahlerschaft zutage, oder reagiert die Wahlerschaft auf Veranderungen der "Angebotsseite" der politischen Eliten? In einem systematischen Vergleich langfristiger Entwicklungen der Sozialstruktur, der Parteiensysteme und des Wahlverhaltens in Deutschland und den USA stellt der Band diese Erklarungsansatze einander gegenuber. Die Ergebnisse der Langs- und Querschnittsanalysen bestatigen die Erwartungen des politischen Erklarungsansatzes und...
Sind Veranderungen im Wahlverhalten auf politische und auf soziale Phanomene zuruckzufuhren? Treten darin also Veranderungen auf der "Nachfrageseite" ...
Der Band dokumentiert anlasslich der Emeritierung am 5. Juli 2000 das literaturkritische und literarische Fruhwerk des Schriftstellerwissenschaftlers Karl Riha, das dieser zwischen 1957 und 1967 in der Frankfurter Studentenzeitung Diskus publiziert hat, sowie wissenschaftliche und kunstlerische Beitrage von FreundInnen und KollegInnen zu diesem feierlichen Anlass."
Der Band dokumentiert anlasslich der Emeritierung am 5. Juli 2000 das literaturkritische und literarische Fruhwerk des Schriftstellerwissenschaftlers ...
