englischElectoral success of the two main German parties CDU and SPD and their status as catch-all-parties is threatened by the decline of party affiliations and volatile voting behaviour. This development fosters the need for them to address and win over new voters. Therefore the steadily [...]

englischThis research is an important contribution to the discussion about the influence of globalization processes on autonomy movements, since it shows the connection between autonomy efforts in South Tyrol, Flanders and Quebec and the influence of globalization processes on the respective states. [...]

englischIn this book, Sonja Sälzle shows how learning and aptitude development among employees proceed in organisations and which factors have to be considered in this regard on an individual, a team-based and an organisational level. In her systematic review, she shows that transformational leaders [...]

englischIn this research, the theoretical and conceptual debates on the local integration of refugees and the role of non-state actors in the integration are brought together. Their investigation take place in the nexus of migration management, the implementation of the states and non-state actors [...]

englischIn these days, we live in a new Cold War. On the side of Western elites, the disintegration and collapse of the Soviet Union was seen as representing the End of History and a permanent triumph of democratic values. American triumphalism, an expression of the idea of Manifest Destiny, [...]

englischThere is plenty of information about the impacts of National Socialism, but the municipal administrative authorities of Mülheim an der Ruhr and its employees have so far been neglected in this regard.

This book points out how National Socialism had an influence on the tasks and the daily [...]