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Intermediaries and illegal gratification in the Indonesian bureaucracy of Muslim marriage
Family law has been a fundamental issue in the negotiation of the relationship between the state and religion at the national level. For more than...
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Characteristics and changes in Japanese public administration research: statistical content analyses of article titles in Public Administration Review Quarterly (1978–2019)
The objective of this study is to understand features of Japan’s public administration research and the changes it has undergone, by using content...
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The Personal Security of Children Demands Bold System Reform
In this article, we argue for a new approach to child welfare—one that replaces existing child protection systems beset by scandals and tragedies...
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International Bureaucracies as Strategic Actors: How the Better Regulation Reform Strengthens the European Commission
The 2015 Better Regulation Reform is recognized as one of the key changes of Juncker’s European Commission, but its political implications remain...
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Social Differentiation, Welfare Needs of the Migrant Population and Their Implications for Household Registration System Reform
This book takes the differentiation of the migrant population after the introduction of the residence permit system in large cities as an example to...
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Relations Between Germany and China and the Rise of the Social Insurance State in China Since the Economic Reform of 1978
Since the economic reform in 1978, the main system of social security in China has gradually transformed from the labour insurance system to the...
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Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence: Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce It?
We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence using the...
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Decongesting Global Cities as Part of Health Reform in the Era of COVID-19: Impacts and Implications for Zimbabwe
Since the year 2000, eight major disease outbreaks, including COVID-19 involving zoonosis of viruses, have occurred. Increasing population density,...
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A Racialised Social Question: Pension Reform in Apartheid South Africa
The post-WWII period was the “golden age” of welfare-state development. Not so in South Africa, where pension policies did not undergo any...
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Reform des öffentlichen Dienstes
Daß eine Reform des öffentlichen Dienstes ein wünschenswertes Ziel und eine wichtige öffentliche Angelegenheit sei, darüber besteht weithin...
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Who adjusts? Exchange rate regimes and finance versus labor under IMF programs
Who adjusts under International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and why? In this paper, I demonstrate that labor groups adjust when there is a fixed...
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Welfare Regime in Japan and Recent Social Security Reform
This chapter presents the characteristics of Japan’s welfare regime and outlines trends of recent social security reform. Japan, as a welfare state,...
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Are Elders from Ancestor-Worship** Families Better Supported? An Exploratory Study of Post-reform China
Practices of intergenerational support are regulated by familial normative imperatives. Ancestor worship has been serving as such a normative force...
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Impact of a Reform Towards Shared Parental Leave on Continued Fertility in Norway and Sweden
It has been argued that a generous family policy aimed at a gender-equal division of childcare and economic responsibility will have a positive...
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Mental Health System Reform in Contexts of Humanitarian Emergencies: Toward a Theory of “Practice-Based Evidence”
Humanitarian emergencies such as armed conflicts are increasingly perceived as opportunities to improve mental health systems in fragile states....
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Die Realität der Reform Über Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit der Veränderung von Organisationen
Veränderungsprogramme zählen längst zum klassischen Projektrepertoire vieler Unternehmen, Banken, Verbände und Verwaltungen. Ihr Nutzen wird darin...
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The Reform that Never Happened: A History of Children’s Suffrage Restrictions
In this chapter we discuss the history of children’s voting rights in Sweden. Despite the remarkable strengthening of children’s rights in Sweden in...
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When School Comes to Community: Considering the Socioethnic Environment in Educational Reform for Gypsy Populations in a French City
In this paper, I explore the dynamics of an educational reform aimed at transforming individual and collective attitudes towards school among...
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The Long March of the Brazilian Peasantry: Socioterritorial Movements, Conflicts and Agrarian Reform
The history which marks the long march of Brazilian peasants is written in the almost always bloody struggles of this social class. On covering it, I...