It is often argued that electoral vulnerability is critical to constituency responsiveness. We investigate this possibility using different measures of vulnerability, but argue that in the United States the Republican Party ...

Tendons feature the crucial role to transmit the forces exerted by the muscles to the skeleton. Thus, an increase of the force generating capacity of a muscle needs to go in line with a corresponding modulation of the ...

Im Schuljahr 2017/18 wurden in Deutschland rund 317.000 Schülerinnen und Schüler in Förderschulen (Sonderschulen) unterrichtet. Die Förderschule stellt damit für rund 60% der Schülerschaft mit einem festgestellten ...

Seit einigen Jahren wird in Berlin verstärkt über "Jugenddelinquenz" diskutiert und geforscht. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Auftragsstudie beleuchten Talja Blokland und Vojin Šerbedžija den Jugendalltag in den Kreuzberger ...

Precarity and precarious work are widely debated concepts, though a lack of clarity remains about its definition, dimensions and application. Recognition appears to be an illuminating concept for a deeper understanding of ...

Internationalisation of higher education has mostly been theorised from a Euro-American perspective, taking less into account how legacies of colonial expansion impose unique demands on universities. This article highlights ...

This study examined the role of teacher expectations in the emerging gender gaps in reading and mathematics in the first year of schooling. Therefore, we first investigated whether boys and girls differ in their vulnerability ...

Inscribing names into the firmament of symbolic orders is crucial argues Rancière who traces the symbolic distribution of bodies into those that ‘one sees’ and those that ‘one does not see’. The issue of accounted ...

This article combines the perspective of transnational transfer with contributions from social theory and historical sociology – specifically the Luhmannian concept of social ‘inclusion’. In doing so, this article reconstructs ...

Der vorliegende Beitrag thematisiert das Konzept des Trainingsraums für den schulischen Umgang mit Unterrichtsstörungen. Nach einer Einführung in die Maßnahme werden in einem Review des aktuellen Forschungsstands die ...