Women and men increasingly face work-related critical events during their lifecourse and experience risks that are not fully covered by unemployment insurance or other work related insurances. Social risk management of transitional labour markets (TLMs) aims at supporting people in navigating...

Turkey's position relative to Europe is analyzed from three different perspectives, i.e (i) the semi-official perspective of the Copenhagen criteria, the Maastricht criteria and the Lisbon strategy, (ii) the perspective of comparative surveys, and (iii) the perspective of key European worries...

Although analyses of democracy and governance may be complementary rather than in conflict, they are not identical. This article compares the EU criteria for evaluating applicants for membership with those of democracy indexes. It uses data from the 13- country New Europe Barometer surveys of...

Empirical studies of the 'old EU' countries suggest that poverty brings limited social relations and a lack of social support in its wake. At the same time, it is thought that in the transition countries, especially, individual supply crises are compensated for by a composite and stable network...

Life satisfaction is quite heterogeneously distributed across countries of the enlarged European Union. Previous research has shown how living conditions within individual countries, such as access to material and emotional resources, are important for personal well-being, but it has neglected...

Die deutschsprachige Debatte um den Ansatz der Aktionsforschung unterscheidet sich wesentlich von der angloamerikanischen Debatte. Dort wurde der action research Ansatz in den 1940er Jahren von dem Sozialpsychologen Kurt Lewin entwickelt und erfreut sich als Forschungsstrategie auch heute noch...

This paper complements the current health policy debate, which is largely confined to the cost aspects of health systems, by considering explicitly the potential economic benefits of investing in health in general and via - chiefly primary - prevention. While concerns about high and rising...

Traditionell dienen vergleichende Studien in der Politik- und Organisationsforschung der Feststellung von nationalen Unterschieden und Gemeinsamkeiten im Hinblick auf Institutionen, Organisationen und (politische) Systeme insgesamt. Bei einem Vergleich von Mitgliedsländern der EU wird dabei...

The changes of the division of labour between Western and Central-Eastern Europe and the relocation of production have provoked uncertainty and social conflicts. The low wages and the (allegedly) low level of institutionalized labour standards in Central-Eastern Europe are seen as a threat for...