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Street‐Level Policymaking: From Local Political Preferences to Welfare Policy Delivery

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Street‐level bureaucracy research argues that the local community shapes policy implementation. Yet, little is known about the impact of local political preferences on welfare policy application. This study extends this line of research examining how local political preferences in East Germany are linked to job centres' delivery of active ...
Veronika J. Knize, Markus Wolf, Stefan Tübbicke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

German Reunification in the West: A Process Built from the Political Elite to the Masses

, 2004
This project examines the development of German reunification in 1990 from the perspective of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), and explains how the policy of reunification was developed and advanced by the West German political leadership ...
Zetzman, Jonathon
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Explaining the Populist Radical Right's Success in the 2023 Swiss National Elections: A Reference Group Perspective

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analyses the success of populist radical right (PRR) parties in the 2023 Swiss elections using reference group theory. While existing literature emphasizes the influence of objective and subjective group membership on electoral choice, it often overlooks voters' feelings toward groups they do not belong to and their perceptions of ...
Anke Tresch, Line Rennwald
wiley   +1 more source

The “Communal College:” Cross‐Ethnic Voting Rules and Census Requirements for Dyadic Consociational Democracies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral systems in deeply divided societies are pivotal for peace and stability among ethno‐national groups. Consociationalism and centripetalism are the most widespread approaches from which derive the major incentives for electoral systems in deeply divided, dyadic societies.
Ivan Pepić
wiley   +1 more source

German Reunification

, 1992
ii, 73 p.German reunification is under way but will take several years before it is complete. The unification of Germany will help with the reform and the uniting of Europe. Unification, in time, will rebuild and modernize East Germany.
Tartaglia, Mario N.
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Do Family Changes Constitute a Comprehensive Demographic Shift? A Comparison of the Spatial Dynamics of Five Family Changes in Switzerland (1969–2023)

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Several theories have been proposed to explain the family changes that have occurred in Europe since the mid‐1960s. It is often assumed that as these changes occurred simultaneously; they have a common origin and represent the same demographic shift.
Adrita Banerjee, Yoann Doignon, Oumar Mbath, Amira Hamieh, Philippe Wanner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How socio-political change is associated with the number of individually reported negative life events: a population-based study using the German reunification 1989/1990 as an example. [PDF]

J Epidemiol Community Health
Hahm S, Altweck L, Schmidt S, Fleischer T, Helmert C, Ulke C, Speerforck S, Schomerus G, Klinger-König J, Grabe HJ, Schmidt CO, Beutel ME, Brähler E, Muehlan H.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An international study on emerging arboviral infections and blood safety

Transfusion, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Emerging and re‐emerging arboviral infections are a risk to blood safety. We conducted an international survey on how blood establishments respond to current and future arbovirus threats. Study Design and Methods A questionnaire on arbovirus donor deferral strategies, pathogen reduction, and donation screening was distributed to ...
Piya Rajendra, Helen M. Faddy, Daniel Candotti, Carolina B. Bub, Jose M. Kutner, Steven J. Drews, Carmen L. Charlton, Sheila F. O'Brien, Wai‐Chiu Tsoi, Michel‐Andres Garcia‐Otalora, Claire Reynolds, Tuulia Palukka, Riikka Lehtisalo, Ruth Offergeld, Axel Seltsam, Marijke Weber‐Schehl, Nahid Chenarsabz, Naoko Goto, Sung‐Chan Park, So‐Yong Kwon, Ryanne Lieshout‐Krikke, Aneta Kopacz, Ewa Sulkowska, Oana‐Alexandra Șerban, Simona Ruta, Eugene Zhiburt, Maha Badawi, Josephine Mitchel, Ute Jentsch, Ángel Luis Pajares Herraiz, Ana Lafuente Guijosa, Gülşen Özkaya Şahin, Christoph Niederhauser, Marion C. Lanteri, Brian Custer, Galen Conti, Anthea Cheng, Shannah Secret, Peter Simmonds, Heli Harvala, on behalf of the Virology subgroup of the ISBT WP‐TTID   +40 more
wiley   +1 more source

[The debate on the German abortion law since the German reunification-historical, legal, and ethical aspects of abortion in Germany]. [PDF]

Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz
Dienerowitz FM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Learning Capitalism the Hard Way - Evidence from German Reunification

, 2016
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical German data. Firms’ forecasts improve with age.
Tumlinson, Justin, Triebs, Thomas P.
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