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German Policy Studies - Band 2 Nr. 2, April 2002

The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: a post-communist socialist or a neo-communist party?

... Initially, the most active reforming group was the Democratic Communist Forum (in 1990), and later, from 1990 to 1991, the Democratic Left faction (Grzymala-Busse, 1998). The above factions, and ...

German Policy Studies - Band 3 Nr. 4, Dezember 2006

Policy learning in policy domains with value conflicts: the Austrian cases of abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (1).

... regime, and the following oppression of both factions in the Third Reich. These lessons were that ...... It is to be noted that the SPO, having a strong women's rights faction, became associated with two ACs. Together with ...

German Policy Studies - Band 3 Nr. 4, Dezember 2006

Explaining restrictive ART policies in Switzerland and Germany: similar processes - similar results?

... that promoted the idea against the modernization faction to which also the Chancellor himself belonged (...

Journal for East European Management Studies - Band 13 Nr. 4, Oktober 2008

Who Won the Contest for a New Property Class? Structural Transformation of Elites in the Visegrád Four Region

This paper analyses the transformation of elites in the Visegrád Four countries (namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Drawing on a process-tracing analysis, it argues that the emergence of foreign-led economies in the late 1990s was intertwined with political processes in which domestic forces linked to foreign capital were transformed into major elite segments with considerable influence. This elite segment, the comprador service sector, proved to be politically active w...

Industrielle Beziehungen - Band 14 Nr. 2, April 2007

The Curse of Institutional Security: The Erosion of German Trade Unionism**/Die Nachteile Institutioneller Stabilität: Die Erosion Der Deutschen Gewerkschaften

Among all EU member states, German unions have the widest gap between male and female trade union density rates and are least adjusted to the structural changes stemming from the rise of the service sector on the labour market. This development asks for a more subtle understanding of the role of industrial relations institutions for trade union membership. The paper addresses the phenomenon by locating the main problem areas of membership erosion, such as weak service sector membership and th...