Institut für Sozialstrategie Blog
Abstract [en]: Since the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela the government has being trying to empower the communal and lowest political level. This process is insignificantly related to decentralization. After the Fourth Republic, Chávez´ administration implemented a clientelistic and discriminatory policy highly connected with the communes. This development was acompaigned by a high polarisation inside the Venezuelan society. ...
Abstract [de]: „Nordafrikanisch“ seien das Aussehen und der Habitus; die ganze Unsicherheit bezüglich der kulturellen Prägung tritt in solchen Äußerungen zu Tage und lässt sich auch durch Verweis auf sprachliche Besonderheiten nicht gänzlich aus der Welt schaffen. Da bleibt man schon lieber beim „Hintergrund“, beim „nordafrikanischen“ oder „migrantischen“ Hintergrund. Das erspart uns eine präzisere Ortung, die auch mitschwingende Ressentiments offenbart....
Abstract [en]: Brazil’s Lava Jato scandal is more than just a mere corruption scandal involving alleged kickbacks at oil giant Petrobras. It has snowballed into a social crisis; an economic crisis as the scandal’s impact on investment drags Brazil deeper into stagflation; and a political crisis for President Dilma Rousseff. The present article will examine how closely Brazil’s problems are interwoven...
Abstract [en]: On the Importance of Family in Civil Society All over the world, families continue to be driving forces for the development of each individual person. Families, however, cannot exist without a surrounding civil society which gains familiar influence by prohibiting familiar violence, by demanding school attendance and by offering nursing homes for elderly care. Such developments serve for the...
