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Die Politische Ökonomie des Steuerstaates in Rentengesellschaften
(Nomos, 2023)
Die lateinamerikanischen Gesellschaften sind historisch von einer obszönen Ungleichheit geprägt und werden immer wieder von schweren Finanzkrisen erschüttert. Am Beispiel Argentiniens geht das Buch den systematischen Gründen für den Verzicht auf eine gezielte Besteuerung von Reichtum durch die lateinamerikanischen Regierungen der sogenannten Linkswende nach. Mit seinem rententheoretischen Zugang zu einer materialistischen Staats- und Gesellschaftstheorie des Steuerstaats leistet das Buch einen neuen Beitrag zur Debatte ...
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Organisierte Zerrissenheit
(transcript Verlag, 2023-06-27)
Die Arbeit in sozialen Diensten ist von großem Engagement, aber auch von hohen Belastungen geprägt. In Fallstudien aus der Altenpflege und der geförderten Altenbildung demonstrieren die Autor*innen, dass inkonsistente wohlfahrtsstaatliche Rahmenbedingungen systematisch Spannungen provozieren und das Personal vielfach in einen Zustand der Zerrissenheit führen. Ferner zeigen sie, wie sich dieser Zustand reproduziert - und zwar mit Blick auf die Rolle organisational vermittelter Emotionen sowie Dynamiken »gefühlter« ...
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Get the happiness out–An online experiment on the causal effects of positive emotions on giving
(2023-08-23)
Our study provides new evidence on the impact of positive emotions on voluntary contributions to public goods in a natural setting. Using a lab-in-field experiment, we induce positive incidental emotions randomly and analyze their effects on donations using a dictator game with multiple beneficiaries. Although we find no significant overall effect of positive incidental emotions on donation levels, our results show a significant shift in the allocation of donations towards the host charity. These findings shed light ...
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Agrarian change through speculation: Rural elites as land brokers for mining in Colombia
(2023-08-31)
This paper studies the connections between the expansion of mining capital, speculative forms of land grabbing and agrarian transformation. It is argued that in periods of commodity boom, the landowning rural elite benefits from mining through speculative land deals with mining companies. They act as ‘land brokers’ for the mining firms, helping them to overcome a significant barrier to land accumulation through the de facto abolition of landed property. The analysis is based on a qualitative case study on the expansion ...
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Saudi Arabian strategy reassessment since 2003: The emergence of a regional leadership via Neoclassical Realist lenses
(2023-06-12)
This article argues that the well-discussed international behaviour change in Saudi Arabia, rather than being a consequence of the so-called Arab Spring, resulted from a grand strategy reassessment in the early 2000s. Grand strategy concerns how states assess the geostrategic environment, plan resource allocation and prioritize policy to meet national interests. Since the 1970s, Riyadh judged its geopolitical vulnerabilities concerning Iran and Iraq realistically, supporting the least threatening actor from the two ...
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Conditional Freedoms: Non-State Labour in Cuba between Institutional Delegitimisation and Civic Recognition
(2023-09-11)
During the height of its power over everyday life, between 1968 and 1993, the Cuban Communist Party outlawed virtually all non-state labour and exchange. Since then, however, its continuity in power has increasingly depended on devolution: shifting responsibility for the provision of basic goods and services from failing state enterprises back to the self-employed. The latter now produce the majority of food and basic products; receive most of the national income from tourism, remittances and foreign investment; and ...
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Mental health and stress level of Ukrainians seeking psychological help online
(2023-11-04)
Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, more than 8 million Ukrainians have been displaced from their homes. Ukrainians exposed to armed conflict and migration are likely to have low levels of mental health status and seek help. We provide a uniform quantitative assessment of the mental health conditions of Ukrainians seeking help soon after the invasion and resettlement. We screen the mental well-being and psychological distress of 1165 refugees, migrants, internally displaced, and non-displaced ...
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Adaption of the meat attachment scale (MEAS) to Germany: interplay with food neophobia, preference for organic foods, social trust and trust in food technology innovations
(2023-09-19)
Meat-based diets are still the norm, and vegans and vegetarians represent only a small minority of the population. A transition, respectively, behavioural change towards a diet with less meat can only occur by adopting a positive attitude towards dietary changes based on reasons and motivations. The main aim of this study is to apply the meat attachment scale (MEAS) in Germany in order to analyse if this construct is a barrier towards a diet with less meat in this country. For this purpose, the impact of meat attachment ...
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Medicalizing disabled people’s emotions - Symptom of a dis/ableist society
(2023-12-11)
The theoretical - conceptual article at hand explores how emotional discourses shape social relations by specifically focusing on the medicalization of disabled - and chronically ill - people's emotions. Medicalization is a concept from medical sociology that describes medicine's expansion into non-medical life areas, for instance into the realm of emotions, sometimes in order to challenge this expansion. The emotions of disabled people are often presented as a medicalized problem, rather than recognizing their ...
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Imagined publics - On the structural transformation of higher education and science. A post-Habermas perspective
(2023-10-03)
Referring to Habermas’ groundbreaking book ‘The structural transformation of the public sphere’, the article discusses contemporary transformations of higher education and science. In order to do so, in a first step a post-Habermas perspective will be developed, which implies two changes to the theoretical foundations guiding Habermas’ analysis: On the one hand, we are in the midst of a social transformation that has led to a pluralization of the understandings of the public – that is, publics. The representation of ...