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Regional News, Regional Bias? Evidence From Media Discourses and Welfare Decisions in Germany

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do media representations of immigrants shape their treatment by street‐level bureaucrats? Despite a uniform federal legal framework, decision‐making varies substantially across local welfare offices. Though prior research links national news reporting and policy implementation, little is known about how regional variation in news reporting
Stefanie Rueß
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Conditionality as Administrative Burden: The Perceived Costs of (Potential) Sanctions and How Welfare Claimants Cope With It

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many welfare programmes, non‐compliance with requirements such as attending appointments with caseworkers or providing evidence of job search efforts can lead to (partial) benefit reductions. Sanctions have consequences for labour market outcomes, but their impact on welfare claimants is broader.
Monika Senghaas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Das Wissen digitaler Artefakte. Plädoyer für eine materialitätssensible Soziale Arbeit

open access: yes
Soziale Arbeit ist auf vielfältige Weise mit digitalen Artefakten verflochten, in denen Wissen anzutreffen ist. Durch sozio-technische Konzeptualisierungen des Mensch-Technik-Verhältnisses und den performativen Charakter digitaler Artefakte zeigt sich ...
Rink, Konstantin, Weber, Joshua
core   +1 more source

Everyday Discrimination as a Driver of Political Protest Among the Lower Social Class: Evidence from Germany

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This research note investigates how discriminatory experiences shape political protest behaviour among lower social class citizens. While prior studies show that discrimination mobilises ethnic and racial minorities toward protest, the political consequences of class‐based discrimination remain underexplored.
Manuel Diaz Garcia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic sparked unprecedented experimentation in the German social assistance system, leading to changes previously considered impracticable by policymakers. This included a sanctions moratorium, easier access to benefits, and temporary cash transfers, all of which were advocated by welfare associations—key organized interests ...
Christopher Smith Ochoa
wiley   +1 more source

ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 323-336, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
wiley   +1 more source

‘EINEN FILM DREHEN’: TECHNOPOLITICAL TURNS AND THE RENDERING OPERATIONAL OF SUBJECTIVITY IN FAROCKI'S LEBEN–BRD (1990) AND PETZOLD'S BARBARA (2012)

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 396-418, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the ‘Gestus’ of turning in films by Harun Farocki and Christian Petzold, in light of a central claim of Andrew Webber's esteemed theoretical work on film: that film has the power to uncover unconscious processes through which subjects come into being and are made operational for political regimes.
Annie Ring
wiley   +1 more source

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