Gender equality is a central element of our representative democracy (Bukow & Voß, 2018). However, with a female representation of about 35 % in the German Bundestag (Deutscher Bundestag, 2023), the current gender distribution ...

In this research, the attempt was made to develop a program for indicative prevention of depression among adolescents, based on Gestalt group therapy with creative media, and to examine ...

The `Convention of the United Nations on the rights of persons with disabilities‘ was created to move more awareness towards the human rights of people with disabilities. The convention was implemented in the member states ...

Considering the nonexcludable and nonrival nature of the benefits of global public goods stretching intergenerationally across population groups und transnational borders it becomes logically inevitable to safeguard them ...

Deconstructing the concept of personhood by observing the social praxis as the common anthropological approach, reveals that 'person' is not equivalent to the human being as a biological ...

More and more people are moving to Russia with different intentions and goals. According to the United Nations, Russia ranks third in the number of international migrants worldwide after the United States and Germany. Once ...

This dissertation was motivated by the rise of pop-up stores as a retail concept devised to satisfy consumers’ desire for ephemerality and extraordinary experiences. As pop-ups are highly original and unique, they are ...

This doctoral thesis is titled ‘Hindutva Self-Fashioning: Young Hindu Nationalists of India’. In this study, I investigated the socialisation processes and everyday lives of members of India’s largest Hindu nationalist ...

The aim of the study titled Empirical analysis of health concepts, risks and behavior of German members of parliament is to analyze the work-related health strain of members of the German parliament. Objective of the study ...

At the center of this qualitatively-oriented study is an insight into the world and the autobiographical development of adult adoptees. We consider the feature of double parenthood, the way experience of racism are dealt ...

Within the last few decades the Federal Republic of Germany has changed through immigration from a rather ethnically homogeneous, to an ethnically heterogeneous society. In the course of ...

Summary Hungary is a post-communist country where for long decades poverty or unemployment caused by disability, among other undesired social problems, was not made a subject of discussion or was ignored and considered ...

Experts have been discussed in the literature concerning the role of transferring knowledge to client firms and private customers. Nevertheless, only limited evidence has been presented concerning the clients’ internal ...

At the core of this book are theoretical and empirical analyses of how local policies are shaped by the incentives that various institutions in education and media markets create for economic ...

Integration through law is evolving. The realization of an ever closer union between the peoples of Europe is not taking place solely on the basis of the "negative" elimination of legal obstacles to integration in the ...

This PhD thesis analyzes the political, socio-cultural and economical context, leading to wind power as proven technology during 1970/80ties. The most attention ist given to the period of ...

The thesis by publication contains three papers and addresses shortcomings in existing literature on internationalization processes of multinational enterprises and international new ventures (INVs). Special focus is given ...

Today’s policy makers are facing the challenge of mitigating climate change without limiting the growth potentials of developing countries. In this vein, this study offers a step towards answering the question is de-carbonized ...

With increasing commercialization, the issues in the sustainability of microfinance have drawn much attention in recent times. However, very little is known about the critical role played ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to address policy makers to change the way they think about increasing obesity rates. So far the discussion revolves around increasing incomes and imposing taxes on high fat food, despite ...

Concerning turnover and market-capitalization German secondary equity market is strongly fragmented. There is a general shortage of supply for equity in segments of small and medium capitalized ...

This dissertation addresses key labour market issues and decent work in developing and emerging countries, and is comprised of four stand-alone research articles. The first article discusses the conceptual considerations ...

The dissertation represents the significance of the klageerzwingungsverfahren and contains an analysis of the practical meaning today.

In Interdisciplinary Research Associations in Medicine (IFVBM) actors work together across disciplines and organizations on complex medical issues. Within IFVBM they also develop methodological procedures and collaborative ...

Cooperation between the government and non-governmental actors is all around within the political decision-making process. This study asks for the reasons and for the functionality of cooperation within all stages of ...

This thesis consists of three essays which measure land security, estimate agricultural efficiency and farm productivity, and analyze their impacts on farm income in rural China. The work ...

This dissertation contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the rising global phenomenon of investments in land through in–depth insights obtained from a cross–country study as well as from three case–studies ...