Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> General

Im Kontext der Debatten um Rassismus, Antisemitismus, antimuslimische Einstellungen, Homosexuellenablehnung und ahnliche Phanomene hat in jungerer Zeit das Konzept der Gruppenbezogenen Menschenfeindlichkeit (GMF) besondere Prominenz erfahren. Wahrend es sich bislang vornehmlich auf quantitative Untersuchungen bei Erwachsenen konzentrierte, stehen hier die Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes im Mittelpunkt, das qualitativ-langsschnittlich in Deutschland lebende Jugendliche ohne und mit sogenanntem Migrationshintergrund einbezieht. Es werden haltungsrelevante Zusammenhange von ablehnenden...

The communist German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany is, for many people, epitomized by the Berlin Wall; Soviet tanks and surveillance by the secret security police, the Stasi, appear to be central. But is this really all there is to the GDRs history? How did people come to terms with their situation and make new lives behind the Wall? When the social history of the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s is explored, new patterns become evident. A fragile stability emerged in a period characterized by 'consumer socialism', international recognition...

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political thought, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed "Christian anarchism." This book provides a comprehensive overview of Tolstoy's political thought. It outlines in a systematic way Tolstoy's thought, which was originally articulated unsystematically in diverse, often informal writing, such as pamphlets, letters and speeches, as well as books, and in his novels, where Tolstoy's thinking is put forward implicitly through the novels'...

At the beginning of the 21^st century organised crime has become a 'hot' topic in public debate and on political agendas throughout Europe. To control organised crime, far-reaching legal and institutional reforms have been passed in all European states and ad hoc instruments have been adopted by all major international organisations. Despite its great media success and the flurry of national and international initiatives on the subject, comparative research has so far been limited.

This volume represents the first attempt to systematically compare organised crime concepts,...