Two cities are models for European education reform: Bologna for higher education and Copenhagen for vocational training. The effects of both reform processes are subject of heated public debate. But what are the shared fundamentals and ideas behind the reforms?
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Wherever citizen participation is strong, there is less corruption. Benny Geys and Nicolas Grießhaber have reviewed this thesis, broadly present in research, within 20 European democracies. Their conclusion: It depends on the type of participation.
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The 2010 WZB Annual Report is now available in an English version. The report offers an overview over that year´s research and institutional news.
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The state of social and healthcare professions in Germany does not look good. In spite of a significant growth in personnel over the past years, the workload has increased immensely. In the new , WZB scholars Dietmar Dathe, Franziska Paul and Stefan Stuth analyze working conditions in social services.
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How are work/care arrangements supported through public policies of different welfare states? WZB researcher Agnes Blome investigates work/care policies in fifteen European welfare states during the last two decades in a comparative perspective.
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How can new forms of participation strengthen representative democracies? Does more political involvement increase their stability and legitimacy? These questions are at the center of WZB guest scholar Thamy Pogrebinschi’s research project.
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News about our research is also now available through the Twitter instant messaging service. We report on current research results, new publications, events and staff news – in German and English.
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Researchers from the department of Cultural Sources of Newness now report regularly on their work in their blog. They address the question that is also the focus of their research: What are the cultural prerequisites – in contrast to technical or political factors of influence – that incite learning processes and lead to innovation.
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