petition against coalition

• Health Care Reform in Germany

German health care policy is characterized by a paradigm shift initiated by the enactment of the Health Care Structure Act in 1992. This fundamental change is both affecting in its care structures and its financial and regulatory mechanisms. This transformation is an expression of a paradigm change in health policy initiated during the first half of the 1990s. This paradigm change in health policy increasingly favours the goal of adapting the health care system to the perceived requirements of a globalised economy at the expense of the aim of covering the social life-risk of 'sickness'. Since it began, health policy has proceeded down that chosen development path, generally by means of incremental reforms. In terms of care structures the paradigm change involves modernization and ration...

... 6 outlines to what extent the various coalitions that governed be-tween 1992 and 2007 differed in t... of fund members, the specific com-petition regime introduced into the statutory health insura... over its function of protecting against the social life-risk of "sickness'. The change can...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, Januar 2010

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

... which according to Sabatier's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF, Sabatier 1988, 1998, Sabatier & Je... could use those numbers to argue against the limited-period abortion right. . Although ther...The convention accepted this petition, which by then also minister Broda supported, with...

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

• Positive Ethical Deviance Inspired by Moral Imagination*: The Entrepreneur As Deviant

The purpose of this paper is to extend the concept of positive ethical deviancy and moral imagination to the entrepreneurial environment. We specifically explore the connection between moral imagination and positive ethical deviance in firms that, from their inception, display positive deviance from established ethical industry norms. Our analysis identifies firms that do not deviate positively under pressure, or for other externally imposed reasons, but instead those that make a conscious and deliberate choice to adopt new and often radical approaches to ethical issues from the ground up, distinguishing them from standard entrepreneurs in the same industry. This exploration uncovers two elements present in these entrepreneurial firms that support the positive ethical deviance: visionar...

... used in this deviance, including coalition building (Suchman 1995; Maguire et al. 2003; Rao e... number of its own campaigns including a petition to expand the number of chemicals covered under th... benchmarks to monitor your behavior against your values is a discipline we are just learning t...

• Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
• Band 6 Nr. 3, September 2005

• Political culture as a basis for concepts of local security and crime prevention. A comparison of the conditions in Germany and the Netherlands.

... actually are--with respect to the fight against and the prevention of crime, disorder, incivilitie... democracy are therefore broad coalition governments which include all major groups, a cult... of the mayor by the citizens, the public petition or the public decision. Whereas at the local level...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 3 Nr. 1, März 2006