This book analyzes the state of the bureaucracy in the eastern part of Germany prior to reunification and discusses changes that occurred after 1990. The contributors review the impact of these changes on the bureaucracy and other sectors of society where a new ethic seems to have emerged, guiding practitioners involved in restructuring East German institutions. Issues discussed include: the performance of the administrative structures, the transformation of the Eastern German university system, the various affirmative action policies implemented after 1990, compensation to victims of abuses by the former socialist regime, changes in public relations policy after 1990, and an ethic guiding the models of restructuring institutions for industrialized and developing countries.

Across Eastern Germany, where political allegiances are shifting to the right, the wolf is increasingly seen as a trespasser and threat to the local way of life. Styled by populist right-wing actors as an 'invasive species', the wolf evokes and resonates with anti-immigration sentiments and widespread fears of demographic catastrophe. To many people in Eastern Germany, the immigrant and the wolf are an indistinguishable problem that nobody in power is doing anything about. In this account of Eastern German agitation of wolves and migrants, Eastern German hunters, farmers, rioters and self-appointed 'saviours of the nation', Pates and Leser move beyond stereotypic representations of 'the East' and shine a light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. As nationalist parties are on the rise across Europe, The wolves are coming back offers an insight into the rise of the far right in Germany. The nationalist Alternative for Germany represents the third-largest party in the German federal parliament, with representation in the vast majority of German states. They draw much of their support from the 'post-traumatic places' in Eastern Germany, regions structured by realities of disownment, disenfranchisement and a lack of democratic infrastructure. Pates and Leser provide an account of the societal roots of a new group of radical right parties, whose existence and success we always assumed to be impossible. -- .

Antidiskriminierungspadagogik ist eine relativ junge Strategie, die sich zum einen fur einen respektvollen Umgang mit Vielfalt einsetzt und zum anderen ein entschiedenes Eintreten gegen Diskriminierung und Herabwurdigung befordert. Das Konzept will junge Menschen befahigen mit Differenzen umgehen zu lernen, die aus sozialen Unterschieden resultieren und uber die gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, die die Konstruktion dieser Differenzen ergeben, aufklaren. Der Band bietet Padagoginnen und Padagogen praxisorientiertes und umfassendes Werkzeug, um im beruflichen Handeln Ausgrenzung und Exklusion zu thematisieren und gegen diese vorzugehen."

Lectures presented winter semester 2006/2007 at the Universit'at Leipzig.