This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies. It focuses in particular on the experiences of India and Germany as examples of post-war and post-colonial constitutional democracies whose trajectories illustrate democratic transitions and transformative constitutionalism. While transformative constitutionalism has come to be associated specifically with the post-apartheid experience in South Africa, this book uses the transformative as an analytical framework to transcend the dichotomy of west and east and explore how temporally coincident constitutions have sought to install constitutional democracies by breaking with the past. While the constitution-making processes in the two countries were specific to their political contexts, the constitutional promises and futures converged. In this context, the book explores the themes of Constitutionalism, Nationalism, Secularism, Sovereignty and Rule of Law, Freedoms and Rights, to investigate how the contestations over democratic transitions and democratic futures have unfolded in the two democracies. It offers readers valuable insights into how the normative frameworks of constitutional democracy take concrete form at specific sites of democratic and constitutional imagination in Dalit and Islamic writings, as well as the relationship between state and religion in the writings of public intellectuals, political and legal philosophers. The book also focuses on specific sites of contestation in democracies including the relationship between sovereignty and citizenship in post-colonial India, free speech and sedition in liberal democracies, questions of land rights in connection with economic and political changes in contemporary contexts, and the rights of indigenous communities with regard to international conventions and domestic law. Given its scope, it will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, political philosophy, comparative constitutionalism, law and human rights.

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Die Bedeutung des Rechtsstaates erlangt im Zuge der Entstehung junger Demokratien verstarkt Aufmerksamkeit. Diskutiert werden die Folgen oftmals prekarer Rechtsstaatlichkeit fur die funktionsweise und die Konsolidierung junger Demokratien. Die damit begonnene Debatte zeigt, dass es notwendig ist, auch die bereits etablierten Demokratien in die Betrachtung einzuschliessen. Eine Voraussetzung fur die empirische Untersuchung ist allerdings, den komplizierten Zusammenhang zwischen Demokratie und Recht aufzuklaren. Der vorliegende Band greift die genannten Aspekte auf, vertieft sie in theoretischen Beitragen und empirischen Studien, die sowohl vergleichend als auch landerspezifisch angelegt sind.

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Dieses Open-Access-Buch adressiert die durch Globalisierung und Digitalisierung zunehmende Internationalisierung der Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten. Musikverlage, aber auch Urheber sehen sich dabei zwar der Option einer selbstbestimmten internationalen Wahrnehmung ihrer Urheberrechte gegenuber. Gleichzeitig ist dieser Schritt aber mit grossen betriebswirtschaftlichen, technischen und rechtlichen Herausforderungen und Unsicherheiten behaftet. Dieses Buch soll an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis die Grundlagen, Konzepte und Technologien internationaler Verwertung vermitteln. Dabei strukturiert es sich entlang des Lebenszyklus, beginnend mit der Mitgliedschaft bei Verwertungsgesellschaften, uber Werk- und Nutzungsmeldungen bis hin zu Abrechnungsprufungen und Reklamationen.

This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies. It focuses in particular on the experiences of India and Germany as examples of post-war and post-colonial constitutional democracies whose trajectories illustrate democratic transitions and transformative constitutionalism. While transformative constitutionalism has come to be associated specifically with the post-apartheid experience in South Africa, this book uses the transformative as an analytical framework to transcend the dichotomy of west and east and explore how temporally coincident constitutions have sought to install constitutional democracies by breaking with the past. While the constitution-making processes in the two countries were specific to their political contexts, the constitutional promises and futures converged. In this context, the book explores the themes of Constitutionalism, Nationalism, Secularism, Sovereignty and Rule of Law, Freedoms and Rights, to investigate how the contestations over democratic transitions and democratic futures have unfolded in the two democracies. It offers readers valuable insights into how the normative frameworks of constitutional democracy take concrete form at specific sites of democratic and constitutional imagination in Dalit and Islamic writings, as well as the relationship between state and religion in the writings of public intellectuals, political and legal philosophers. The book also focuses on specific sites of contestation in democracies including the relationship between sovereignty and citizenship in post-colonial India, free speech and sedition in liberal democracies, questions of land rights in connection with economic and political changes in contemporary contexts, and the rights of indigenous communities with regard to international conventions and domestic law. Given its scope, it will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, political philosophy, comparative constitutionalism, law and human rights.

Behavioral operations management is a new and growing research field incorporating behavioral aspects of decision making into operations management models, challenging the assumption of fully rational decision makers. Behavioral aspects include risk-aversion, mental accounting, reference points, or bounded rationality. In this book the author presents experimental and empirical studies that address behavioral decision making in the supply chain contracting context. First, different behavioral aspects are incorporated in the decision making process of a buyback and a revenue sharing contract. Second, an empirical decision maker is analyzed facing a service level contract. Potential readership includes scholars and graduate students who are interested in the field of behavioral operations management and practitioners looking for behavioral aspects of decision making in supply chain contracting context.

Leistungsfahige urbane Infrastruktursysteme zur Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung sind Voraussetzung fur eine erfolgreiche Volkswirtschaft. Die historische Entwicklung fuhrte in den westlichen Industrielandern zu Systemkonzepten mit zentralen Behandlungsanlagen und ausgedehnten Netzen. Deren Unterhalt, Reparatur und Sanierung erfordern enorme Finanzmittel und binden die Kommunen langfristig, obwohl der technische Fortschritt heute grundlegend andere und nachhaltigere Systemkonzepte ermoglicht.
Das vorliegende Buch beschreibt die aus Langfristperspektiven entwickelten neuen urbanen Wasserinfrastrukturkonzepte und untersucht die mit einem eventuellen Ubergang auf diese moderneren Systeme verknupften Vorteile sowie die dabei zu uberwindenden Hemmnisse.

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Dr. Joshua Crandall is in moral crisis. His wife Theo has been an invalid for years, the victim of kidney failure, and although he's resisting every step of the way out of respect for his religious beliefs, he's strangely attracted to a colleague, the mysterious Kristen. He is haunted by wanting to end Theo's suffering; it would be so easy for him, as a doctor, and after all, it is being done all the time in this morally confused world. But deep down he's troubled that he's deceiving himself into believing that his true motive could conceivably be characterized as altruism. Adding to his moral crisis is his long campaign to end the heinous practice of illegal organ harvesting. His outrage intensifies when he learns through his sister Jessica, a spunky FBI agent spearheading the re-opening of cold cases surrounding organ theft, that Theo herself as a young adult was the victim of such a crime. He further discovers that his putative mistress Kristen is the recipient of a stolen kidney. The thought creeps into his mind that this simply cannot be a coincidence, and although he dismisses it as preposterous, the idea keeps returning, seemingly of its own volition. Can it be that Theo and Kristen are somehow linked? Kristen begins to exhibit some very unusual behavior. Just who or what is she? To satisfy his outrage over the corruption in the organ transplant business, Josh has made himself into an avenging angel on a mission of justice. But as Josh's conviction grows that Kristen is indeed more than she seems, his crusade transforms from satisfying his sinful obsession with revenge, into a quest for renewal and awakening. The story wraps most excitingly and satisfactorily, with the evildoers appropriately identified and punished, Josh dodging his temptations and accepting the second chance in life arranged for him by higher powers, and Kristen revealing her true nature.

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Die Verschrankung von Politik und Recht ist ein charakteristisches Merkmal moderner Gesellschaften und darum zentraler Gegenstand sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung. In der deutschen Politikwissenschaft wurde dieses Verhaltnis bisher allerdings sehr viel weniger systematisch betrachtet und bearbeitet, als es in anderen Disziplinen und Wissenschaftskulturen ublich ist. Das PVS-Sonderheft soll einen Beitrag zur Uberwindung dieser Situation leisten. Der Band ist in vier Teile gegliedert: Nach der Einleitung mit einem Uberblick zum Stand der Diskussion erfolgt in Teil I die Erorterung wichtiger theoretischer Fragen (Verhaltnis von Recht und staatlicher Ordnung; Verstandnis von Legitimitat und Legalitat). Teil II diskutiert ausgewahlte Aspekte der konstitutionellen Demokratie. Hierbei liegt ein Schwerpunkt auf der Betrachtung des spannungsreichen Verhaltnisses von Bundesverfassungsgericht und demokratischem Gesetzgeber, aber auch die aktuelle Foderalismus-Reform in der BRD wird analysiert. Teil III und IV sind dann der Analyse der zunehmenden Verrechtlichung im europaischen Integrationsprozess und in den Internationalen Beziehungen gewidmet bzw. dem Problem der Steuerungsfahigkeit durch rechtliche Regulierungen in ausgewahlten Politikfeldern.