Browsing by Subject "Germany"

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    The 1901 Fort Wayne, Indiana City Election: A Political Dialogue of Ethnic Tension
    (2013) Brown, Nancy Eileen; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Snodgrass, Michael; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947-
    In 1901, three German American candidates ran for the office of mayor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The winner, Henry Berghoff, had emigrated from Germany as a teenager. This thesis examines the election discourse in the partisan press for signs of ethnic tension. The first chapter places Fort Wayne in historical context of German immigration and Indiana history. The second and third chapters investigate the editorial pages for evidence of ethnic tension. I also reference a few articles of an editorial nature outside of the editorial pages. The second chapter provides background information about the election and examines indications of the candidates’ ethnicity and references to the German language papers. The third chapter considers the editorial comment about Germany, the intertwining of ethnicity and the issues, and ethnic name-calling. In order to identify underlying bias for or against Germany and to better understand the context of the references to German ethnicity, the fourth chapter explores the portrayal of Germany in the Fort Wayne papers.
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    Aiming at a data driven definition of volunteer types: The key to improved volunteer management practices
    (International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), 2014) Walk, Marlene; Willems, Jurgen
    Due to the huge heterogeneity of volunteering, generalizability of context specific findings from the literature regarding volunteer management practices is often limited. Furthermore, it seems that practitioner recommendations are consequently often too narrow or at times contrasting. To deal with this gap, we aim at a data driven approach to cluster volunteers into more homogeneous types, in order to enable (a) comparability of various volunteer contexts, and (b) differentiation of volunteer management strategies. Therefore, we apply an exploratory factor analysis, a cluster analysis and a canonical correlation analysis on a representative nationwide survey in Germany regarding volunteering behavior. Findings are however not robust and not suitable for further substantial interpretation, as the multivariate characteristics of the constructs probed for in the German Survey on Volunteering (GSV) are of limited quality (at least for our statistical analysis). Hence, we clarify the value of more elaborate questions in future large-scale data collection, and we discuss the remaining trade-off in the literature regarding generalizable but limited findings, versus more robust but context specific findings.
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    Country Report 2018: Germany
    (2018) Then, Volker
    The fundamental freedoms of expression, association, and assembly are fully granted in the Constitution. Most forms of POs require legal personality, although the association and the dependent foundation (type of trust) do not. The founders are free to choose their form. If POs apply for charitable status, purposes/goals that benefit the members/founders are not permitted; therefore, cooperatives, associations, foundations can only enjoy the tax privileges of charitable status (Gemeinnützigkeit) if they pursue public benefit purposes specified by the tax code.
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    Critical Juncture of Unification – Window of (missed) opportunity for the German Welfare State?
    (University of Duisburg-Essen, 2013) Walk, Marlene
    [Excerpt] This analysis focuses on the role of free welfare associations (FWAs) in the unification process, which was mainly characterized as an institution transfer from the west to the east. FWAs are a major force in the German nonprofit sector and the main provider of social services and health care in the country (Zimmer, 1999). Moreover, they play a special role in the German welfare state under the principle of subsidiarity. This principle allows them to act on behalf of the government in the provision of social services and health care (Zimmer, et al., 2004). Incorporating FWAs in the process of institution transfer after unification was essential for the German government, due to the valuable political knowledge of East Germany that the FWAs held (Angerhausen, Backhaus-Maul, Offe, Olk, & Schiebel, 1998). This paper draws on the concepts of path dependency, critical juncture, and window of opportunity (Hacker, 2002; Ebbinghaus, 2005; Marcussen et al., 1999) and analyzes to what extent the process of German unification was a successful or a missed opportunity for the unified welfare state, with particular consideration to the role of FWAs.
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    Dreams of Development in Mexico and Spain: A Comparative History of Guestworkers and Migration Diplomacy
    (Return Migration, 2022-07) Snodgrass, Michael David
    Abstract: This history of Cold War-era migration policy compares two emblematic guestworker programs that recruited several million Mexican and Spanish migrants to labor in the United States and Germany. Proponents of the bilateral accords defended them as diplomatic achievements that secured contractual labor rights, improved foreign relations, and sent migrants home with savings and skills to achieve the diverse development goals of the sending states. The study traces the programs’ historical and ideological roots, juxtaposes the guestworkers’ experiences, and uses the cases of Mexican braceros and Spanish gastarbeiter to explore the contested nexus between migration and development.
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    Expectations and Experiences of Young Nonprofit Employees: Toward a Typology
    (2011-07) Walk, Marlene
    Nonprofit organizational performance depends heavily on the work experiences and job satisfaction of the employees. Pressures to be more competitive in a diverse market of social services and health care providers, however, often drift the organizational attention away from the workforce. This exploratory analysis focuses on employees who have been recruited to entry-­‐level positions (jobs for university graduate students that require no or only little prior experience) in German Free Welfare Associations (FWAs). Through qualitative interviews with 28 employees, aged 23 to 35, their expectations, work experiences and consequent levels of job satisfaction have been studied and analyzed. Findings show that their initial expectations of working in FWAs often do not match the reality of the workplace. A typology of young employees is advanced that will enable FWAs to achieve a better fit between the employees’ personal needs and the organizational setting.
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