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Grundlage von traditionellen Bewertungsmodellen für derivative Wertpapiere sind explizite Annahmen über das stochastische Verhalten der bewertungsrelevanten Einflußfaktoren. Die Auswahl der verwendeten stochastischen Prozesse steht dabei immer im Spannungsfeld zwischen Handhabbarkeit und Realitätsnähe. Empirische Studien zeigen, daß das stochastische Verhalten der bewertungsrelevanten Einflußfaktoren dabei oft nur unzureichend erfaßt wird, was...

Social policy is widely accepted as scientific discipline - and this includes that it accepts for itself another meaning of this status, one which is usually not considered: the subject is disciplined, i.e. regimented. One important point in this context is that social policy is focused and thereby forgets systematic economic determinants and the historical perspective on its own existence. The present book recalls some fundamental issues - su...

Today's society is marked by a fundamental ambiguity: On the one hand we find the loss in old values and systems, in particular what is called secularisation, and the loss of the stronghold of religious institutions. However, at the same time we find the opposite: rather than the loss of confidence in religion, the loss of confidence in citizenship and the institutions of the welfare state. As a conservative answer, policies based in family an...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Trust Management, held in Paris, France, during 23-26 May 2005. The conf- ence follows successful International Conferences in Crete in 2003 and Oxford in 2004. All conferences were organized by iTrust, which is a working group funded as a thematic network by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) unit of the Information Society Technologies (IST) program of the...

Soziale Dienste sind mehr als nur kaufbare Waren, während von Politikern oft der Eindruck geweckt wird, sie müssen den gleichen Kriterien folgen, wie man sie beim Kauf eines Schrankes oder beim Gang zur Autowerkstatt anlegt. In der europäischen Diskussion hierüber wird allerdings über dem Streit von kniffligen Rechtsfragen leicht vergessen, den Besonderheiten sozialer Dienste - z.B. dass sie auch dem Allgemeinen Interesse dienen - Beachtung zu...

-Die 60 wichtigsten Krankheitsbilder: von A (wie Adipositas) bis V (wie Virilismus). Alphabetisch sortiert und griffig aufbereitet. -Konkret und übersichtlich: alle wichtigen Informationen zur Ätiologie, Diagnostik und Therapie. Konkrete Dosierungshinweise, ausführlicher Medikamentenanhang -Diagnostische Methoden: alle relevanten Funktionstests und Diagnosehilfen: Testprinzip, Testdurchführung, Interpretation. Mit Normalwerten, zu erwartenden ...

The book reflects with heterogenous contributions - one presenting purely theoretical reflections, the other two looking more focussed on the empirical side: in Hungary and Russia - on precarity. It is of some special significance that the empirical contributions are not looking at the countries of the traditional core of capitalism. Together, the contributions aim on enhancing the debate on precarity, with their special significance that they...

This new book deals with the complex issue of Europe's inevitable yet extremely controversial expansion process.

This book is based on the thesis that the process of European integration is far more than just the building and further development of institutions. It is far more than the adjustment of economic and political procedures in a changing environmental and ever new challenges. Instead it is a social process which takes place even if the "social dimension" is underexposed by the official policy. And just this makes it all the more interesting beca...

This book presents topical research in the study of democracy in theory and action from across the globe. Topics discussed herein include inclusive democracy as a theoretical and political project, the quality of democracy and media logic in Mexico, governance networks and democratic ideals and the role of the social democratic welfare state regime in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health care.

Developing the before presented methodological framework further, is a self-referential and self-reflexive process. This simply means that detailing and weighing criteria can only emerge from already applying the historical analysis, by this enabling the author to develop the foundation further theoretical and then more detailed historical analysis. Thus, SPA can be localised dialectically as part of the process of socialisation. To conceptual...

With the processes of globalization, we are more than ever confronted with the paradoxes inherent in modern statehood. The characteristics of modern statehood are: (1) securing freedom from feudal oppression or despotism, (2) legislating for equality among citizens, (3) focusing on inclusion to incorporate the previously excluded into the system and finally (4), of the utmost importance, establishing the principle of individualism as a primary...

The book presents contributions on diverse topics as Parent Support in the Republic of Ireland: An Evaluation of One Model of Intervention, Convergence in the Midst of DivergenceAn Exploration of Feminist Support for and Opposition to Abortion, Relationships and Sexuality Education in the Irish Context: An Analysis of Policy and Programme Implementation, Inner-Country Adoption - Challenging National Identity, Youth Work and Young People's Tran...

Welfare is a current global issue challenging the lives of many. Investigations are constantly being made to find answers in search of the most proficient social model. This book presents the usefulness of an enhanced model for welfare regime analysis and shows the localisation of social professional orientations. This includes social quality, social professions, traditions, public services, globalisation, child protection, retirement plans an...

Looking for an answer of social science: being able to maintain political independence, without loosing genuine political orientation and responsibility, and at the same time maintaining a sophisticated balance of holistic orientation on the one side and discrimination on the other side is, of course, on the one hand bound to the objective conditions of society, on the other hand -- and even more so -- scientists have to accept their responsib...

Part One of this new book presents four lectures not meant to be a textbook in the traditional sense. Nevertheless, it is meant to be used as material guiding lectures and students alike through their work in the field of European social policy-making. Being understood as guidance, this means as well that many parts are not fully elaborated. Some hints are given -- and in many cases there is a debate behind them that would justify its own book...

The guiding question of this work is the following: In which way, if at all, can we define a framework that allows a comparative view on social professional activity in an international perspective? Going beyond positivist research usually means to look for qualitative standards, however remaining caught by taking individual professions in a national setting from one country for granted and looking from what we know for 'counterparts' and/or '...

Strangely, citizenship has usually been considered as a matter of interest when it is questioned or even withheld. The other way round, usually citizenship is taken for granted 'as it is', not being defined as such. In consequence we find only a negative definition rather than a clear way of spelling out the meaning. As globalisation spreads and deepens, the question of citizenship becomes crucial for society. It is already possible to see cha...

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With the process of a 'wider Europe' (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's 'ring of friends') that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the Mediterranean-Muslim world. The house of Islam (Dar al Islam) was pivotal to the European path to the Renaissance and to the re-discovery of classic Greek philo...