This article is an attempt to explain the specific features of China's socially oriented policy at the beginning of the 21st century from the point of view of a systemic and functional analysis of the PRC political system. Despite the limited character of the existing democratic mechanisms in...

Social assistance and minimum income benefits are important instruments as a safeguard against low income and poverty. There have been major developments in minimum income benefits both in developed and developing countries over the last decades. This thesis collects six empirical studies...

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik Sicherung gleichwertiger Lebensverhältnisse und eine Positionierung dazu aus der Perspektive der Raumwissenschaft und Raumplanung sind angesichts grundlegend veränderter Rahmenbedingungen und begrenzter Handlungsressourcen des öffentlichen Sektors...