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This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of "ordinary
cities" as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and
economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness.
The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities
that have emerged from this new city movement. As chronicled, such
cities - Cleveland (USA), Heidelberg (Germany), Oxford (UK),
Groningen (Netherlands), Montpellier (France), but also cities from
the Global South such as Cachoeira (Brazil) and Delhi (India) - now
experience new and unexpected realities of poverty, segregation,
neglect of the poor, racial and ethnic strife. To date planners,
academics, and policy analysts have paid little attention to the
connections between this drive in these cities to be more creative
and the inequalities that have followed. This book, keenly making
these connections, highlights the limited visions that have been
applied in this planning drive to make these cities more creative
and ultimately more globally competitive.
This volume is a collection of original essays prepared by
colleagues, collaborators, and former students on the occasion of
Helmut K. Anheier's 65th birthday and retirement from the
University of Heidelberg. An internationally recognized pioneer of
nonprofit and civil society studies, Anheier focused his work on
providing clarity around (1) civil society, local and global,
observing its origins and trajectory and developing theories to
explain it; (2) the nonprofit sector and institutions within and
extending from it, including nonprofit organizations, philanthropy
and social investment; and (3) culture as it relates to democracy
and back to civil society. The essays in this volume refer to these
concepts and position them in the context of developments over the
last two to three decades. The volume is arranged in three
sections. The first section comprises essays that elucidate
concepts and probe theories in the field. The second section
presents chapters discussing current global challenges and trends
in the focal areas. The third and final section then comprises
country and regional case studies illustrating important aspects of
the global challenges or theoretical issues of the two preceding
sections. A fascinating and up-to-date overview of key issues and
trends in civil society and nonprofit research by an international
collection of eminent scholars in these fields, this book will be
attractive to civil society and nonprofit sector researchers as
well as a broader academic community of political scientists,
sociologists, economists, and cultural experts.
Policies to promote high participation in Higher Educations (HE)
systems aim to deliver social justice and economic development
through widening participation of under-represented groups. Degrees
of Success provides a critical test of this through examination of
participation and success of learners progressing to HE with a
vocational background. Employing an original conceptual framework
that combines the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu the
authors analyse the various transitional frictions experienced by
learners with VET backgrounds on their journeys into and through
the HE system. The findings indicate that including students with
vocational qualifications does lead to widening participation but
that their modes of participation may not provide fair access and
outcomes. In part this is due to the epistemic incompatibilities
between higher and vocational education which remain unresolved
despite constant VET qualification reform. This book, therefore,
extends the debate about widening participation beyond metaphors of
barriers to access to consider the epistemic and pedagogical
challenges of increasing student heterogeneity in high
participation HE systems. The analysis and policy suggestions
therefore have relevance for all seeking to support students' HE
learning journeys, and policy makers concerned with how best to
utilise HE systems as means of furthering social mobility and
justice.
This volume is a collection of original essays prepared by
colleagues, collaborators, and former students on the occasion of
Helmut K. Anheier’s 65th birthday and retirement from the
University of Heidelberg. An internationally recognized pioneer of
nonprofit and civil society studies, Anheier focused his work on
providing clarity around (1) civil society, local and global,
observing its origins and trajectory and developing theories to
explain it; (2) the nonprofit sector and institutions within and
extending from it, including nonprofit organizations, philanthropy
and social investment; and (3) culture as it relates to democracy
and back to civil society. The essays in this volume refer to these
concepts and position them in the context of developments over the
last two to three decades. The volume is arranged in three
sections. The first section comprises essays that elucidate
concepts and probe theories in the field. The second section
presents chapters discussing current global challenges and trends
in the focal areas. The third and final section then comprises
country and regional case studies illustrating important aspects of
the global challenges or theoretical issues of the two preceding
sections. A fascinating and up-to-date overview of key issues and
trends in civil society and nonprofit research by an international
collection of eminent scholars in these fields, this book will be
attractive to civil society and nonprofit sector researchers as
well as a broader academic community of political scientists,
sociologists, economists, and cultural experts.
This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of "ordinary
cities" as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and
economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness.
The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities
that have emerged from this new city movement. As chronicled, such
cities - Cleveland (USA), Heidelberg (Germany), Oxford (UK),
Groningen (Netherlands), Montpellier (France), but also cities from
the Global South such as Cachoeira (Brazil) and Delhi (India) - now
experience new and unexpected realities of poverty, segregation,
neglect of the poor, racial and ethnic strife. To date planners,
academics, and policy analysts have paid little attention to the
connections between this drive in these cities to be more creative
and the inequalities that have followed. This book, keenly making
these connections, highlights the limited visions that have been
applied in this planning drive to make these cities more creative
and ultimately more globally competitive.
Die Wirtschaftssoziologie hat in den letzten Jahren immer
deutlicher zeigen koennen, dass Werte und Kultur die Entwicklung
der OEkonomie beeinflussen. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, welche
Wirtschaftskulturen in den Mitgliedslandern und den
Beitrittskandidaten der EU vorherrschen. Die Studie kann anhand von
reprasentativen Umfragedaten zeigen, dass sich in Europa drei
grosse Wirtschaftskulturen finden lassen, die sich vor allem im
Hinblick auf eine OEffnungs- und eine Leistungsdimension
unterscheiden.
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