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Comparative and Historical Perspectives
JERZY J. WIATR
This book sheds new light on the theory of political leadership and its importance for understanding the contemporary conflict between liberal democracy and the new authoritarianism. Jerzy J. Wiatr reconsiders Max Weber’s typology of political rule and his concept of the ethics of responsibility. He shows that the unfinished contest between democracy and new authoritarianism in the twenty-first century confirms the importance of leadership in old and new democracies as well as in the neoauthoritarian regimes, and he calls for a new type of political leadership to address these challenges.
JERZY J. WIATR is professor emeritus at the University of Warsaw and honorary rector of the European School of Law and Administration in Warsaw, Poland, and Brussels, Belgium.
$60.00 cloth 978-3-8474-2538-0
The Influence of Economic Interdependence on US-China Relations
An Analysis of Economic Incentives for Continued Cooperation
FRANK MOURITZ
Tensions between China and the United States over global supremacy have escalated in recent years, increasing the likelihood of a future conflict. However, an open conflict would have costly consequences for both sides due to the countries’ deep economic interconnectedness. Against this backdrop, this book addresses the incentives for both sides to avoid conflict and continue cooperation out of economic considerations.
FRANK MOURITZ is research fellow at the Bundeswehr University Munich and academic coordinator at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8474-2516-8
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Power, Alliances, and Redistribution
The Politics of Social Protection for Low-Income Earners in Argentina, 1943–2015
CARL FRIEDRICH BOSSERT
Latin America is considered the most unequal continent in the world, despite the development of resourceintensive social systems. Carl Friedrich Bossert traces this paradox through the case of Argentina, uncovering the underlying conflicts and identifying successful strategies for implementing inclusive policies. This book systematically examines the long-term development of social security for low-income earners and analyzes the key political, social, and economic factors influencing it.
CARL FRIEDRICH BOSSERT works as political secretary to the Executive Committee of IG Metall in Frankfurt, Germany.
Post-Taliban Statebuilding in Afghanistan
The State Governmental Design at the National Level and the Role of Democratic Provincial Councils in Decentralization at the Sub-National Level
HAQMAL DAUDZAI
This book critically reviews the US/NATO military, peace-, and statebuilding interventions in Afghanistan since 2001. In addition, based on collected field interviews, it presents Afghan perceptions and discourse on topics such as democracy, Islam, women’s rights, formal and informal governance, ethnic divides, and the state democratic governmental design at the national and subnational level.
HAQMAL DAUDZAI works at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
$100.00 paper 978-3-96665-028-1 $60.00 paper 978-3-96665-030-4
The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe
A Descriptive Inquiry into Local Leadership in Six Transitional Democracies of the Region
ROXANA MARIN
How do elites continue to affect the evolution of local communities in the developing region of former Sovietized Europe? This book is concerned with the issue of local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It uses a comparative method to examine the profile and the role of the local political elites (such as members of municipal councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.
ROXANA MARIN holds a PhD from the University of Bucharest, Romania.
$55.00 paper 978-3-96665-031-1
Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba
BERT HOFFMANN, EDITOR
The economic crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is putting Cuban socialism to a severe test. The government in Havana has added a fundamental reform of the economy, institutional structures, and social policies to the agenda. This volume brings together contributions from leading international experts as well as from Cubans, analyzing the economic, political, and social challenges Cuba is facing today.
BERT HOFFMANN is lead researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, and professor for political science at Freie Universität Berlin.
$85.00 cloth 978-3-8474-2546-5
Action Research in Organizations
Participation in Change Processes
MARIANNE KRISTIANSEN AND JØRGEN BLOCH-POULSEN
Who decides to initiate change processes in organizations? Who sets the goals? What does it mean for employees to participate in change processes? The book examines organizational change processes based on collaboration between employers, employees, and action researchers in Europe and the United States in the later part of the twentieth century. The authors offer important insights into participation and change in organizations for researchers and practitioners by identifying dilemmas, paradoxes, and conflicting interests in the exercise of power.
MARIANNE KRISTIANSEN is professor emerita at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
JØRGEN BLOCH-POULSEN is a senior lecturer at Copenhagen University, Denmark.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8474-2445-1
Survival Through Bildung
On the Topicality of Heinz-Joachim Heydorn’s Philosophy of Education
HELGE KMINEK, EDITOR
Heinz-Joachim Heydorn’s 1974 essay “Survival Through Education: Outline of a Prospect” remains a powerful text. Recently translated into English and subsequently made available to a broad public for the first time, Heydorn’s text is particularly relevant at a time when the survival of humanity— or at least a substantial portion of humanity —has come to seem in doubt. Researchers from different theoretical perspectives question the text and its contemporary relevance and put their interpretations up for discussion.
HELGE KMINEK works at the Department of Education at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8474-2480-2
Vocational Education and Training in the Age of Digitization
Challenges and Opportunities
EVELINE WUTTKE, JÜRGEN SEIFRIED, AND HELMUT M. NIEGEMANN, EDITORS
The increasing digitization of the world of work is associated with accelerated structural changes. These are connected with changed qualification profiles and thus new challenges for vocational education and training. Companies, vocational schools, and other educational institutions must respond appropriately. This volume focuses on the diverse demands placed on teachers, learners, and educational institutions in vocational education and training. It provides up-todate results on learning in the digital age.
EVELINE WUTTKE is a professor of economic and business education at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
JÜRGEN SEIFRIED is a professor of economic and business education at the University of Mannheim, Germany.
HELMUT M. NIEGEMANN is a senior professor in economic and business education at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
$70.00 paper 978-3-8474-2432-1
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Overcoming the Deficit View of the Migrant Other
Notes for a Humanist Pedagogy in a Migration Society
MANFRED OBERLECHNERDUVAL
What contribution can a humanistic pedagogy make in the context of a migration society? This book uses three examples to illustrate the deficit-oriented pressure to assimilate to which foreigners are often subjected. Manfred Oberlechner-Duval develops proposals for a universalistic alternative to the prevailing particularistic approaches in contemporary educational theory.
MANFRED OBERLECHNER-DUVAL
is professor of sociology of education and migration at Stefan Zweig University of Education, Salzburg, Austria.
Research-driven Curriculum Design
Developing a Language Course
GÜLÇIN MUTLU AND ALI YILDIRIM
Research-based course design involves processes of needs assessment, course development, and testing. This book presents a curriculum design study in the field of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) that aims to link curriculum theory to educational practice through research-oriented course development activities. It is a practical guide for teachers and curriculum designers primarily in languages, and also provides insights into curriculum design processes in other areas.
GÜLÇIN MUTLU works at Izmir Democracy University in Turkey.
ALI YILDIRIM works at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
$25.00 paper 978-3-8474-2481-9 $35.00 cloth 978-3-8474-2426-0
Algorithmic and Aesthetic Literacy
Emerging Transdisciplinary Explorations for the Digital Age
LYDIA SCHULZE HEULING AND CHRISTIAN FILK, EDITORS
This book presents a wide array of transdisciplinary perspectives on computational and aesthetic practices and thinking. Drawing on computer and educational science, artistic research, designing, and crafting, this collection highlights the manifold ways in which algorithmic processes have become part of our lives.
LYDIA SCHULZE HEULING is professor in the Department of Sport, Food, and Natural Sciences at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway.
CHRISTIAN FILK is professor and head of the Department for Media Education at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8474-2428-4
Female Social Entrepreneurship
Challenging Boundaries and Reframing Gender and Economic Structures
MIRIAM GERLACH
The confluence of entrepreneurship, gender, and sustainability—especially the social dimension—is intricate and insufficiently understood. This book examines social entrepreneurship through a gender lens by portraying German female social entrepreneurs and their political, social, and economic contexts. It features analysis of different dimensions of the social entrepreneurship system and twenty-five in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs and experts. Miriam Gerlach shows that this sector offers the potential to rethink gender and reframe the economy, challenging norms and offering pathways for systemic change.
MIRIAM GERLACH is a research associate at the Chair of Economics of Sustainability, University of Vechta, Germany.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8474-2530-4
Women, Biomedical Research, and Art
A Relationality in Tension
NINETTE ROTHMÜLLER
Applying a phenomenological lens, this study investigates intersectional vulnerabilities, sociogeographical and racial injustices, as well as the potential of trauma in reproductive medicine, human trafficking, and black-market organ trades in a global context. This interdisciplinary study combines notions of writing back from within pedagogy and hands-on creative social work tools, which emphasize dignity and integrity, and support self-efficacy and human rights in the everyday lives of affected populations.
NINETTE ROTHMÜLLER is a visiting research scholar in the PhD program in sociology at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
$65.00 paper 978-3-8474-2439-0
