The rise of public policies in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) suggests a reassertion of state power over a phenomenon initially designed to weaken public authorities. But depending on policy objectives ...

Der Text untersucht die Entstehung und Durchsetzung von Demokratie aus den politischsozialen Ordnungen heraus, die das spätmittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Europa bestimmt hatten. Er skizziert diese Ordnungen am ...

The paper describes and discusses the variant of societal differentiation that evolved under the Soviet regime. My argumentation starts with the assumption of Socialism as a program with a universal, function system-exceeding ...