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Vasil'ev, V. "Russia and Austria: Mutually Beneficial Cooperation and its Prospects." World Economy and International Relations, no. 10 (2014): 28–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2014-10-28-36.
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The aim of this article is to explore political aspects of Russian–Austrian relations in the conditions of globalization and European integration, and the factors contributing to the advanced development of multidimensional interaction between Moscow and Vienna. The paper deals with approaches taken by the Government and the main parties in Austria to the policy in Russian direction; it also singles out the trends of the bilateral partnership widening. An important element consists in the analysis of image formation of contemporary Russia and Austria. For Austrians, the quality of Russia’s political setup and its socio-economic model is determined by the existence of a real multi-party system, competitiveness between parties in elections and objective summing up of voting returns, natural change of elites, efficiency of various sectors within economy, and the degree of effort aimed to combat corruption. Vienna is criticizing Moscow for actions, which, as seen by Austrian experts, are a violation of human rights and freedoms and constrict the opportunities for development of civil society in Russia. Analysis reveals that the political dialogue is a pragmatic foundation for diverse bilateral links. Stability and reliability of Russian–Austrian relations is confirmed by regular contacts at the top and high level, intensity of cross-sectoral consultations, building up of inter-parliamentary relations and strengthening of fruitful cooperation between regions and cities of the two countries. The trade and economic dimension of bilateral relations imply an incremental cooperation between Moscow and Vienna because Austria’s achievements in innovative, high-tech and other fields, on one hand, meet Russia’s needs in modernizing its national economy and, on the other hand, ensure the sales of Austrian export items in Russian markets as well as safeguard the continuous prosperity for citizens of the Alpine Republic. Cultural and scientific ties as a value factor in bilateral relations testify to the natural attraction of people in both countries and create favorable prerequisites for a dialogue on the issues of common European values. The Austrian experience is of major scientific and practical interest in many respects. Present-day theory and practice of Austria’s governmental and party construction point to the democratic opportunities of involving of various population sections in political competition, and a joint quest for a compromise between different regions, political forces and ethnic groups. The institution of social partnership seems useful. Rich experience of cooperation, high degree of confidence at the political level, long-lasting mutual likes between Russians and Austrians allow one to speak in terms of an unique creative potential of Moscow and Vienna that is successfully implemented in various spheres of socio-political life.
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PENNERSTORFER, ASTRID, and DIETER PENNERSTORFER. "Inequalities in Spatial Accessibility of Childcare: The Role of Non-profit Providers." Journal of Social Policy 50, no. 1 (January 29, 2020): 122–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279419000990.
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AbstractEqual access to childcare services is a key concern of childcare policy. This article analyses social inequalities in the availability of such services. We explore how observed disparities are related to the socio-economic status of neighbourhoods and investigate how different provider types contribute to such differences. To do so, we use data on all childcare centres in the city of Vienna, Austria, on the spatial distribution of children aged under six and on three measures of neighbourhood status, over a period of eight years. We find that spatial accessibility is highest in neighbourhoods with the highest socio-economic status, that such inequality has increased over time and that both effects can be attributed to the role of non-profits. The results indicate that the policy change undertaken in Vienna towards increased communitarisation – that is, a shift towards non-profit provision – has undermined the universal character of the city’s childcare system.
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Metzler, Ingrid. "Imaginaries as infrastructures? The emergence of non-invasive prenatal testing in Austria." BioSocieties 15, no. 4 (October 4, 2019): 601–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41292-019-00171-7.
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Abstract Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a new technology used in prenatal testing (PT) that capitalizes on genomic platforms to transform DNA fragments in the blood of pregnant women into information about the genome of a foetus. Since its market introduction in 2011, it has travelled around the globe with remarkable speed. This article engages with the emergence of NIPT in and around Vienna, the capital city of Austria, to explore why and how this technology could travel so quickly in practice. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews, documents, and field notes, it argues, first, that NIPT could travel so quickly because it travelled as ‘adaptable boxes’ that added on to different ‘local worlds of prenatal testing (PT)’, without disrupting them. Second, in so doing, NIPT could travel on a moral and material ground, or an ‘imaginary of PT’, built in the past. Third, the article argues that elements of this imaginary were also mobilized by commercial pioneers of NIPT, who ‘infrastructurized’ extant values, practices, and networks among biomedical professionals. Thus, various actors converged in mobilizing moral and material elements of an imaginary, transforming them into an infrastructure that facilitated the travels of NIPT, while also shaping its use.
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Jankó, Ferenc, Zsolt Bottlik, and Róbert Győri. "Vienna’s South-Eastern Hinterlands: Regional Development in the Austrian-Hungarian Border Area, 1910–2011." European Countryside 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 232–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/euco-2022-0012.
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Abstract Formed from the westernmost territories of Hungary, Burgenland became a part of Austria a hundred years ago. The aim of the paper is to answer the question of how Burgenland became integrated into the Austrian society and economy, how its regional inequalities and rural character changed in comparison to the neighbouring Austrian and Hungarian areas, under the influence of Vienna’s major role. The analysis is based on the census data of 1910, 1960/61, 2001 and 2011 and on the mapping of different social and economic indicators. Our data revealed that one hundred years ago, the northern, more prosperous area of Western Hungary was an integral part of the rural hinterland of the imperial capital, Vienna, in stark contrast to the region’s southern periphery. After World War II, however, a steep west-east gradient emerged in the borderland along the Iron Curtain, while the traditional north-south disparity continued to exist on both sides of the new border. During the political transformation in the early 1990s, and even more after Hungary’s EU accession (2004), the former hard border ceased to exist in this region, while Vienna regained its former economic importance and influence. After 1990, the patterns of regional disparities changed rapidly in Hungary, and the western part achieved a leading position within Hungary in every dimension of economic prosperity. In line with this, while the Austrian rural regions in Burgenland and between Vienna and Graz showed remarkable infrastructural progress, Southern Burgenland remained peripheral regarding economic activity.
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Nadirov, Rashid A. "The influence of the First World War on the social and economic position of Vienna in 1914–1916." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 190 (2021): 235–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2021-26-190-235-241.
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The influence of the First World War on the social and economic position of Vienna, the capital of the dualistic Austro-Hungarian Empire in the first two years of the war, is considered. It was during these two years that there was an increase in contradictions between various social groups, which would ultimately lead to the collapse of the Empire in 1918. One of the important sources when analyzing the situation in Vienna is the weekly police reports. It is by studying the materials of police reports that a picture of wartime Vienna appears in front of us. As the problems grew, the volume of reports constantly increased, new headings appeared, which made it possible to study not only the existence of problems in the capital of Austria-Hungary, but also to trace their dynamics and the measures taken by the government of Franz Joseph. A special role is given to the food problem, in particular, the dynamics of prices, the deterioration of the quality of bread, the growing shortage, the growth of speculation. In addition, the national relations and the attitude of the Viennese towards the arriving refugees were analyzed. Based on the material studied, it was concluded that the First World War greatly changed the life of the population of Vienna, showed the inability of the government and local authorities to quickly solve the emerging problems of the city.
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Koželouhová, Anna. "Housing Policy of the City of Vienna as an Example for the Czech Republic." Advanced Materials Research 1020 (October 2014): 726–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1020.726.
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This work concentrates in its first part on the situation on the field of the social housing policy of the European Union. Subsequently, it collects and processes information about history and current state of the subsidized housing in Austrian capital Vienna, including its social, political and economic aspects. Viennese model, as a well-functioning system, is recommended as an example for the development of housing policy in the Czech Republic, especially in the city of Brno.
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Lewis, Mark. "The Failure of the Austrian and Yugoslav Police to Repress the Croatian Ustaša in Austria, 1929–1934." Austrian History Yearbook 45 (April 2014): 186–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0067237813000672.
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Since the 1970s, historiography about the pre-World War II phase of the Croatian Ustaša concentrated on Italian and Hungarian state support for Ante Pavelić's national-separatist/terrorist organization from approximately 1929–1934, and identified Nazi support when it became more significant in the late 1930s and put the group in charge of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941. More recent scholarship has investigated the support of Croatian exiles in the United States and Argentina for the Ustaša movement, as well as how the Ustaša regime, once in power, tried to legitimate its policies of racial “cleansing” and social revolution against capitalism and secularism. The first aim of this article is to return to the early period of the Ustaša, when it was a terrorist organization, and to show that it had an important base in Austria that senior Austrian police officials tolerated. The article, therefore, takes a somewhat different position from that of historian Arnold Suppan, who argued that the Austrian police could find no evidence that the Ustaša in Austria had been involved in terrorism, and that the Austrian government had made a good faith effort to expel Ustaša members. The fact that elements of the Austrian police indeed knew about the Ustaša network and protected certain senior members supports historian Gerhard Jagschitz's argument that the Vienna police had not turned over a new leaf in the postwar period and had not shed all political activities. However, Jagschitz concentrated on the problems surrounding the establishment of a domestic intelligence agency in the 1920s, showing how it ultimately was not effective. This article concentrates on 1929–1934, demonstrating that while the Austrian political police was not all-knowing, certain decisions not to share what it knew about ultra-nationalist Croatian terrorism damaged the Austrian police's international reputation. Second, this article argues that the Yugoslav police possibly turned to shadowy extra-judicial groups to carry out assassinations against Ustaša figures, in part because the Austrian police were not aggressive enough in repressing the organization. This adds an additional factor to the interpretations of historians James Sadkovich and Mario Jareb, who contend that Yugoslav police violence was an extension of the Serbian dictatorship's attempt to repress Croatian nationalism by any means necessary.
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Sidorenko, Alexandre, and Asghar Zaidi. "International Policy Frameworks on Ageing: Assessing Progress in Reference to the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing." Journal of Social Policy Studies 16, no. 1 (March 28, 2018): 141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/727-0634-2018-16-1-141-154.
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Alexandre Sidorenko – Senior Advisor, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria. Email: sidorenko.alexandre@gmail.com
Asghar Zaidi – Professor in International Social Policy, University of Southampton, UK. Email: Asghar.Zaidi@soton.ac.uk
The central goal of this article is to review progress made in implementing the international policy frameworks on ageing, focusing on the Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing (VIPAA) and in more detail on the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA). The article offers a critical examination of the current approaches to monitoring and assessing the implementation process, outlining promising avenues for the future. In this way, the limitations of the current procedures for following the policy priorities of the MIPAA can be highlighted. What is found is that progress in many countries is hampered by inherent subjectivity in assessing and reporting advancement, lack of continuity and consistency, and difficulties in comparing the national level progress with international development in the same areas. The current year, 2017 / 2018, is momentous as we reach the end of the third five-year implementation cycle of the MIPAA. Introspection now should not merely focus on assessing the progress made but also on how the implementation of the MIPAA could be strengthened. In the same spirit, the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals presents new opportunities; especially its pledges 'Leave no one behind' and 'Reach the furthest behind first', which imply that the older population can serve as agents of development. In moving forward, an essential requirement will have to be the establishment of an internationally acceptable set of indicators, which can be employed for assessing national progress in addressing the challenges and opportunities of ageing and monitoring the international efforts to implement international policy frameworks like the MIPAA. Along the lines of the dashboard of indicators used in the Active Ageing Index 'AAI', there should be a MIPAA monitoring toolkit with different layers of indicators, which are aligned with the three priority directions of the MIPAA.
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Paidakaki, Angeliki, and Richard Lang. "Uncovering Social Sustainability in Housing Systems through the Lens of Institutional Capital: A Study of Two Housing Alliances in Vienna, Austria." Sustainability 13, no. 17 (August 30, 2021): 9726. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13179726.
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This paper analyzes social sustainability in the context of urban housing through the lens of institutional capital. It examines how civil society housing actors co-construct bottom-linked governance arrangements by interacting endogenously with peers and exogenously with institutional actors, such as public housing agencies and elected officials, in order to steer, as housing alliances, socially sustainable residential developments. The paper thus offers an answer to the following two research questions: (1) What are internal governance features that characterize such civil society housing alliances? (2) What are their strategies of interaction with institutional actors in order to promote social sustainability and thus counter exclusionary patterns in urban housing systems? Empirical evidences are drawn from two civil society housing alliances in Austria, ‘BAWO’ (a national alliance of homelessness NGOs) and the ‘Initiative Collaborative Building & Living’. During three research stays in Vienna between 2014 and 2020, data was collected through semi-structured interviews and focus groups with leaders and members of housing alliances, interviews with key institutional stakeholders and web research. By reflecting on the institutional and relational character of the two housing alliances and digging out their potential and limitations in promoting different elements of social sustainability, our paper concludes that social sustainability in housing systems can be realized when it is set as a societal ambition sufficiently politicized by major parties involved in housing systems (housing alliances, governmental authorities of all ideological backgrounds, large non-profit housing developers) that collectively guarantee housing affordability and socio-spatial equity for all.
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Boczy, Tatjana, Ruggero Cefalo, Andrea Parma, and Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen. "Positioning the Urban in the Global Knowledge Economy: Increasing Competitiveness or Inequality." Social Inclusion 8, no. 4 (December 3, 2020): 194–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i4.3332.
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Major cities are increasingly focused on being competitive on an international scale, developing innovative service sectors and investing in human capital. This has contributed to reshaping local socio-economic systems towards a knowledge economy by strategically fostering key business clusters. But what happens in terms of social inequality in this process? The purpose of this article is to analyse whether issues regarding challenges of social inequality and polarisation are considered in the strategies of urban centres positioning themselves in the global knowledge economy. This leads to a discussion about how the cities’ strategies address potentially growing inequalities, combining goals of competitiveness, internationalisation and social inclusion. The article builds on case studies from Milan in Italy, Vienna in Austria and Aarhus in Denmark. The three cities are all drivers of growth in their respective regions and countries and are embedded in different national welfare regimes. At the same time, they display internal spatial differentiation in that the municipality covers areas of growth and affluence as well as deprivation. In the article, we combine analysis of policy documents and interviews with governance, business and community actors from the three locations. Our results show that the association between competitiveness and integration is shaped through specific state-city relationships, highlighting both the importance of the welfare framework and the specific urban policy tradition.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Austria – Vienna – Social policy"
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Blumen, Sacha Carl. "Granularity and state socialisation: explaining Germany’s 2015 refugee policy reversal." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111430.
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Between late August and mid-November 2015, the German Government
liberalised its refugee policy to allow an unlimited number of
people to claim asylum in the country, and then made a
near-reversal on this policy by calling for European-wide quotas
on the number of refugees entering the EU and a reduction in the
number of refugees Germany would admit. The German Government’s
decisions to liberalise and then backtrack on its refugee policy
within a short time period, at a time when many people were still
seeking asylum from the Syrian civil war, present a puzzle to the
dominant International Relations theories of state
socialisation—constructivism and rational choice—which do not
explain well this type of observed real world behaviour.
By using the Foreign Policy Analysis literature to augment the
constructivist and rational choice approaches, I argue that a
more granular approach can help explain
Germany’s backtracking on refugee policy in 2015. I focus on
the domestic actors, institutions, and the contested processes of
their interactions from which state policy emerged. Using this
approach, I explain Germany’s backtracking on its refugee
policy as the result of varying sets of interactions over time
among actors who had different and potentially changing interests
and beliefs. This focus on granularity and contestation within
state policy making processes provides a more precise
understanding of the dynamics of policy making from which we gain
a greater insight into this puzzling example of state behaviour.
Such approaches may also help explain other examples of state
behaviour that are similarly mysterious.
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Thomson, Grant. "Community small scale wind farms for New Zealand: a comparative study of Austrian development, with consideration for New Zealand’s future wind energy development." Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/961.
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In New Zealand, the development of wind energy is occurring predominantly at a large scale level with very little opportunity for local people to become involved, either financially or conceptually. These conditions are creating situations of conflict between communities and wind energy developers – and are limiting the potential of the New Zealand wind energy industry. The inception of community ownership in small scale wind farms, developed in Europe in the late 20th Century, has helped to make a vital connection between wind energy and end users. Arguably, community wind farms are able to alleviate public concerns of wind energy’s impact on landscapes, amongst a wide range of other advantages. In Austria, community wind farms have offered significant development opportunities to local people, ushered in distributed generation, and all the while increasing the amount of renewable energy in the electricity mix. This thesis investigates whether community small scale wind (SSW) farms, such as those developed in Austria, are a viable and feasible option for the New Zealand context. The approach of this thesis examines the history of the Austrian wind industry and explores several community wind farm developments. In addition, interviews with stakeholders from Austria and New Zealand were conducted to develop an understanding of impressions and processes in developing community wind energy (CWE) in the New Zealand context. From this research an assessment of the transfer of the Austrian framework to the New Zealand situation is offered, with analysis of the differences between the wind energy industries in the two countries. Furthermore, future strategies are suggested for CWE development in New Zealand with recommendations for an integrated governmental approach. This research determines that the feasibility for the transfer of the Austrian framework development of ‘grassroots’ community wind farms in the next 10 years is relatively unlikely without greater support assistance from the New Zealand Government. This is principally due to the restricted economic viability of community wind farms and also significant regulatory and policy limitations. In the mid to long term, the New Zealand government should take an integrated approach to assist the development of community wind farms which includes: a collaborative government planning approach on the issue; detailed assessment of the introduction of feed-in tariff mechanisms and controlled activity status (RMA) for community wind farms; and development of limited liability company law for community energy companies. In the short term, however, the most feasible option available for the formation of community wind farms lies in quasi community developments with corporate partnerships.
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HADJ-ABDOU, Leila. "Governing urban diversity : immigrant integration policies and discourses in Dublin and Vienna." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/29623.
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Defence date: 16 September 2013Examining Board: Professor Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute (Supervisor) Professor Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute (Co-Supervisor) Professor Bryan Fanning, University College Dublin Professor Andrew Geddes, University of Sheffield.
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This thesis explores how city governments respond to the presence of immigrants and the increasing ethno-cultural difference that comes with it, seeking to explain these responses. The thesis analyses discourses about immigrants and immigration by relevant policy-makers as well as types of immigrant integration policy. The thesis is based upon a comparison (longitudinal and across-cities) of the capital of Ireland - a city of recent immigration - and the capital of Austria, a city with a long history of immigration. These contrasting cases, which at the same time exhibit similar positions within their two nation states and within the global setting, allow an examination of the processes of convergence, as well as a scrutiny of the particularities of European cities in the domain of immigrant integration. The thesis argues that an analysis of both discourses and policies contributes to a more accurate understanding of the dynamics of immigrant integration in the urban space. The majority of research on immigrant integration in cities focuses solely on policies. This research tends to depict cities as an inclusive and liberal arena in contrast to the nation state. Cities, indeed, differ from nation states. The nation state and national citizenship are institutions that are based on principles of social closure and the notion of the imagined community. Rights and resources are widely accessible to its members, while this is not necessarily the case for others. Cities, in contrast, are potentially more predisposed to welcoming strangers. One becomes a member of the city by the fact of residence, and loses membership automatically by giving up residence. To a certain degree, the research findings of the thesis challenge this idea of the open city. It is shown that cities are clearly embedded in the national categorisations of boundary-making and are constrained by institutional mechanisms located at the nation-state level. Local governments are not only pragmatic actors which have to deal with the problems of integration on the ground. This thesis demonstrates that urban immigrant integration policies are led by cost and benefit considerations of policy actors confronted with global economic competition. Moreover, the policies of the cities as well as the discourses about immigrants are led by ideas such as the collective memory of a city and cross-city travelling concepts of immigrant integration. Urban responses to immigrants are also driven by institutional factors such as the make-up of the welfare regime and the electoral and party systems. Political party competition in particular is a relevant factor, substantially shaping both discourses and policies.
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CATTACIN, Sandro. "Stadtentwicklungspolitik zwischen Demokratie und Komplexitaet : zur politischen Organisation der Stadtentwicklung." Doctoral thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5229.
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Defence date: 5 June 1992Examining board: Prof. Klaus Eder (EUI, supervisor) ; Prof. Bernd Marin (European Center, Wien, co-supervisor) ; Prof. Hans-Peter Kriesi, Université de Genève) ; Prof. Alessandro Pizzorno (EUI) ; Prof. Danilo Zolo (Università di Siena)
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Mundt, Alexis. "Empirical Essays on Austrian Housing Policy Evaluation." Thesis, 2017. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5527/1/Mundt2017_HousingPolicyAustria_20170630_epubVersion.pdf.
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This dissertation focuses on Austrian housing policy measures and regional housing markets. It places the Austrian situation into a European context and evaluates singular housing policy measures in detail. The evaluation includes aspects of effectiveness, equity, costs, and efficiency. This contribution brings together three empirical essays, each of which has a different focus and addresses particular elements of housing policy. All three papers use empirical methods, but with adjusted approaches according to their underlining research questions: from state finance comparisons, to subsidy calculations for specific households, to hedonic apartment price index construction. Quantitative methods, mainly based on administrative and survey data, are accompanied by qualitative research in the form of expert interviews. Across the three papers, the level of analysis differs and increases in focus: from the level of nation states, to the nine Austrian regions, to the 117 (as of 2015) administrative districts into which the Austrian territory is divided. The first two papers focus on state housing policy measures and evaluate them in an international comparative framework. Both follow different levels of aggregation. The first one takes a very broad view and quantifies the sum of expenses on various state housing policy measures in six EU countries at the level of nation states (Austria, Czech Republic, Great Britain, France, The Netherlands, and Spain). It investigates the structure of state support for the housing sector and establishes numeric estimates of its components (supply-side subsidies, housing benefits, tax advantages and concessions). The second paper focuses on a particular housing policy instrument in Austria: means-tested, income-dependent housing benefits. It analyses the nine regional housing benefit schemes in the context of minimum income schemes. The paper applies a comprehensive residual income approach to housing affordability and identifies market segments and household types where affordability is at risk, in spite of existing benefit schemes. The third paper calculates regional price indexes for second-hand apartments in Austria at the level of administrative districts. It is based on state-of-the-art hedonic methods of house price index construction that control for the varying distribution of apartment characteristics and locations over time. The resulting indexes are an important improvement over indexes based on average prices. All three papers address specific elements of Austrian housing policy and identify areas for policy improvements and necessary future research activity.
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Baron, Kristina Lynn. "Decoration or dramatic function? : Mozart's use of coloratura in three comic soprano roles." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2338.
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Coloratura arias for soprano were popular with Viennese opera audiences in the late eighteenth century. Prima donnas of the Singspiel and opera buffa companies expected composers to write arias that would display their technical skills, even requesting substitute arias to replace less virtuosic ones in revivals of older operas. However, in using coloratura in the comic opera genres, Mozart was not only creating an opportunity for virtuoso display of the singer's talent, but was also using this vocal style as a dramatic and rhetorical device, one that defined a character's social level. depicted her emotions, and advanced her dramatic situation. This thesis investigates how coloratura functions in Mozart's soprano comic roles by examining the arias of three characters from two different operas: Konstanze and Blonde in the Singspiel Die Enifiihrung aus dem Serail, and Susanna in the opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro. An analysis of these arias shows evidence of Mozart's skill in using coloratura while meeting the conflicting demands of diva and drama.
Books on the topic "Austria – Vienna – Social policy"
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Red Vienna: Experiment in working-class culture, 1919-1934. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Sweden. Social Security: Agreement, with administrative arrangement, between the United States of America and Austria, signed at Vienna July 13, 1990. Washington, D.C: Dept. of State, 1996.
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European Parliament. Directorate-General for Research. Social policy in Austria: Summary. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1994.
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Blau, Eve. The architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.
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Last waltz in Vienna. London: Papermac, 1994.
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Jewish women in fin de siècle Vienna. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
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Posthumous people: Vienna at the turning point. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996.
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Austria. Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie. and Austria Umweltbundesamt, eds. Internet for environmental communication: Workshop papers, Vienna, Austria, 30-31 May 1996. Vienna: Federal Ministry for Environment, Youth and Family, 1996.
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Judith, Beniston, and Vilain Robert, eds. Culture and politics in red Vienna. Leeds: Maney Pub., 2006.
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United Nations Industrial Development Organization., ed. Regional consultation on the fisheries industry for Asia and the Pacific Island countries: Vienna, Austria, 2-6 December 1991 : report. [Vienna, Austria]: United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1991.
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Šustrová, Radka. "The Struggle for Respect: The State, World War One Veterans, and Social Welfare Policy in Interwar Czechoslovakia." In World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 107–34. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/9783737011341.107.
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Bryant, Christopher G. A. "The Disputes in Germany and Austria about Methods and Values in the Social Sciences: Part II The Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School." In Positivism in Social Theory and Research, 109–32. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17759-2_4.
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Torotcoi, Simona. "What Does It Take to Build a Social Dimension Strategy? A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of Romania and Austria." In European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade, 161–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56316-5_12.
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Abstract Unlike other action lines of the Bologna Process, slow progress has been made towards making the social dimension an implementable policy. The social dimension had to overcome a significant start-up difficulty. It entered the Bologna Process with no clear definition, guidelines or projection of concrete policy measures. In 2015, with the adoption of the Strategy for the Development of the Social Dimension and Lifelong Learning in the EHEA to 2020, participating countries were asked to come up with concrete national plans to address the participation of underrepresented groups in higher education. This paper looks in depth at two country cases that attempted to create the necessary conditions for such strategies, Austria and Romania, and asks what are the successful conditions for building a social dimension and lifelong learning strategy in line with the Bologna requirements? The common point for these countries is that both of them attempted to build a social dimension and life-long learning strategy, however, one of the countries came up with a strategy, yet other national strategies and policies were in contradiction with what the strategy promoted, whereas in the second country no strategy was developed beside the involvement of the main stakeholders. The data for the analysis comes from interviews conducted in November 2017 with stakeholders involved in the formation of these strategies, ranging from student representatives to educational experts, and governmental representatives.
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Boyer, John W. "The First Austrian Republic, 1920–1932." In Austria 1867–1955, 658–758. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198221296.003.0009.
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Abstract This chapter describes the tumultuous history of the First Republic in Austria, as the state struggled to stabilize its fragile economy after 1920 and then to cope with the ravages of the Depression in the later 1920s and to implement the new republican constitutional framework of governance.The chapter focuses first on the activities of the prominent Catholic leader, Ignaz Seipel, and his strident opposition to the Austrian Socialists, now led by Otto Bauer. The chapter shows Seipel’s slow, but certain move to upend and weaken the Constitution of 1920. On the left, Otto Bauer’s strategy of permanent revolution is contrasted to Karl Renner’s accommodationist pleas, marking the great division of opinion that perplexed and weakened the Austrian Social Democrats as to whether to try to work with the regime or to maintain a virtuous and deeply hostile distance from it. The chapter also presents a comprehensive evaluation of radical social and cultural policy innovations of Red Vienna between 1920 and 1932, focusing on public housing, schools, and public health. What most frustrated the anti-Semitic and Catholic opponents led by Seipel about Red Vienna was that the Social Democratic municipal regime used legally justified administrative methods to transform the urban fabric of Vienna into a more egalitarian society. The chapter ends with the procedural self-destruction of the Austrian parliament (Nationalrat) in March 1933, which opened the door for the radical Catholics led by Dollfuß to set aside the constitution and to impose an authoritarian, semi-dictatorship in 1934.
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Boyer, John W. "The Era of the Iron Ring." In Austria 1867–1955, 187–297. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198221296.003.0004.
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Abstract This chapter introduces Count Eduard Taaffe, who served as Minister-President from 1879 to 1893, and was in many respects the Austrian counterpart to Otto von Bismarck. It presents a revisionist account of Taaffe’s regime, arguing that while Taaffe assembled a parliamentary coalition (the Iron Ring) based on clericals, Czechs, and Poles against the German-speaking Liberals, in fact the basic ethos of this policy record was to sustain and even to protect the constitutional institutions introduced by the Liberals in 1867 and 1868. The chapter also argues that Austrian politics was hit by three large new political forces in the 1880s and early 1890s that fundamentally reshaped the course of late imperial Habsburg history, engendering new forms of political aesthetics that forever changed the practice of politics in the western half of the Empire. The Young Czechs in Bohemia and the Christian Socials and the Social Democrats in and around Vienna constituted new mass political movements in east Central Europe in the 1880s and early 1890s, becoming all the more powerful because they defined their identities in relation to each other. That these movements emerged under the conservative ministerial regime of Taaffe was not accidental, and they created two parallel dynamic force fields—the Czechs versus the ex-German Liberals in Bohemia and Moravia; the Catholics versus the Socialists in Vienna and Lower Austria—that framed the history of the final decades of the Habsburg Empire. The chapter also analyzes the political impact on the Taaffe regime of the suicide/murder perpetrated by Crown Prince Rudolf in the company of Mary Vetsera at Mayerling in January 1889.
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Boyer, John W. "Conclusion." In Austria 1867–1955, 962–80. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198221296.003.0012.
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Abstract The Conclusion briefly takes the narrative of the book from the State Treaty of 1955 to the end of the Socialist government led by Bruno Kreisky in 1983. The political culture of the Republic of Austria that exists today (2022) is essentially the product of the political reconciliation engineered by the Great Coalition between 1945 and 1955 and Kreisky’s massive cultural and social revolution accomplished between 1970 and 1983. Kreisky’s revolution was based on the slow transformation of the Austrian economy to an urban service basis, the radical numerical decline of agrarian voters, the emergence of new social-interest movements related to environmentalism and women’s rights, and the frustration on the part of many younger state officials, educators, media professionals, artists, and journalists about the conservative cultural policy priorities of elements of the Catholics, which seemed to be retarding Austria’s social modernization. Kreisky sought to resolve the profound tensions between Otto Bauer and Karl Renner relating to the strategy and identity of the Social Democratic Party that were discussed in Chapters 8 and 9 of this book. Rather than a social revolution confined to Red Vienna, the egalitarian and libertarian impulses of the 1920s were uploaded into Austrian national culture on a state level. Sensitive to the anti-bureaucratic, youth-based cultural revolutions that were sweeping Western European societies in the 1960s and 1970s, Kreisky brilliantly combined appeals to heightened individual liberty and new private cultural prerogative—abortion rights, higher educational opportunities—with invocations of the eudemonistic power of the state in social welfare.
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Kirk, Tim. "1919." In The Global Challenge of Peace, 161–80. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800857193.003.0010.
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In April 1919 hundreds of unemployed workers and war veterans took to the streets of Vienna, stormed the parliament building, and attempted to set it on fire. The crowd was dispersed by the police and units of Austria’s revolutionary army (Volkswehr), but the insurgents regrouped and took the to the streets again in June in a putsch attempt that was also suppressed. These events came at a critical point in the history of the republic and shaped the politics of the 1920s. Communists had seized power in both Bavaria and Hungary, and the Austrian labour leadership had come under intense pressure to lead the country in a more radical direction. They also reveal the peculiar and precarious position in which Austria found itself in the wake of the First World War: ‘the state that nobody wanted’, perceived as an economically ‘unviable’ rump of the Habsburg empire, but denied national self-determination through union with the Weimar Republic. The Social Democratic Workers’ Party came under similar pressures, both from the Entente, and from counter-revolutionary forces at home, and was compelled to work with the dispossessed elites of the Habsburg Empire. This chapter examines the response of labour leaders and Austro-Marxist intellectuals in the spring and summer of 1914 to the political problems they faced and the ways in which the outcome of the crisis determined the course of political developments in inter-war Austria.
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Klieber, Rupert. "Katholische und protestantische Lebenswelten. Religiöser Alltag, kirchliche Formung, politischer Aufbruch." In Niederösterreich im 19. Jahrhundert, Band 1: Herrschaft und Wirtschaft. Eine Regionalgeschichte sozialer Macht, 483–521. NÖ Institut für Landeskunde, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52035/noil.2021.19jh01.21.
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Catholic and Protestant lifeworlds. Religious Life, Ecclesiastical Formation, Political Mobilization. Ecclesiastically-organized religion has always been a complex phenomenon: highly intimate and regulated, marked by persistence and change, a pillar and cauldron of the political system, a player and an object of ideological discourses. In manifold ways, Lower Austria was typical of religious developments in the 19th century. Enlighted Church policy was executed rigorously here and created structures that proved beneficial for the churches in the long term, supported by a permanent influx of personnel from German-speaking regions in Bohemia and Moravia. Conflicts and stimulus were also triggered by the contrast between traditional rural regions and the metropolis of Vienna and the industrialized zones to its south. The eminent social transformation inspired male and female activists and office-holders in the Catholic and Protestant Churches to find a new solution to old concerns that led to a partial religious revival and the re-confessionalization of society.
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Aleksiun, Natalia. "The Making of Professional Polish Jewish Historians." In Conscious History, 63–108. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764890.003.0002.
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This chapter studies the academic agenda of professional Jewish historians who received their training before 1918, in the imperial context of Austria–Hungary, at the universities of Lwów, Kraków, and Vienna, and the social and political contexts in which they were active. It shows that Polish Jewish historiography emerged as a field of interest among the Polish intelligentsia and the enlightened Jewish elite throughout partitioned Polish lands in the early to mid-nineteenth century. This new cohort boasted professional university training and saw themselves as part of the guild. In the early works of Schorr, Schiper, and Bałaban in the first decade of the twentieth century, a more substantial and critical scholarship on the history of the Jews of Poland emerged. The chapter then argues that their understanding of Polish Jewish history was shaped by their immersion in Polish historical writing and by their responses to political developments in Galicia, such as the emergence of the Jewish national movement and the increasingly complex position of the Jewish community in the region in relation to the Polish and Ukrainian national narratives.
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Edelmann, Noella. "e-Participation in Austria: Digital Agenda Vienna." In Engaging Citizens in Policy Making, 225–43. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800374362.00023.
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Bagnou, Jennifer Hamet, Etienne Audureau, Renaud Massart, Marine Lunven, Alexis Gabadinho, Rafika Fliss, and Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi. "F66 Social relationship self-questionnaire specific to huntington’s disease (hd)." In EHDN 2018 Plenary Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Programme and Abstracts. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2018-ehdn.167.
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Novati, Arianna, Giuseppe Manfré, Ilaria Faccini, Johanneke Van der Harst, Judith Homberg, and Huu Phuc Nguyen. "B06 Social and sexual behavior changes in the BACHD RAT model." In EHDN 2018 Plenary Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Programme and Abstracts. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2018-ehdn.58.
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Vos, Maxime, Meike Herben-Dekker, Joke Spikman, Berry Kremer, and Rients Huitema. "F36 Are social cognitive deficits a predictor for the onset of huntington’s disease?" In EHDN 2018 Plenary Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Programme and Abstracts. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2018-ehdn.140.
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Swope, Chandler, Catherine Martin, and Matthew Ellison. "H25 The social and educational impact of attending an huntington’s disease specific camp." In EHDN 2018 Plenary Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Programme and Abstracts. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2018-ehdn.204.
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Fisher, Alexandra, Anna Lavis, Sheila Greenfield, and Hugh Rickards. "F37 Is social cognition in huntington’s disease more than just a marker for disease progression? – an exploration of social functioning in the day to day experiences of people with hd, their companions and friends." In EHDN 2018 Plenary Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Programme and Abstracts. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2018-ehdn.141.
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Vollmann, Ralf, and Wooi Soon Tek. "Migration, Language, Identity: The Journey of Meixian Hakkas from Calcutta to Vienna." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.4-3.
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Hakkas from Meizhou who migrated to Calcutta established suc¬cessful businesses, and then, in the 1970s to the 1990s, moved on to settle in Vienna (and Toronto). Prac¬ticing a closed-group life both in Vienna and across continents, the Hakkas preserved their lan¬gua¬ge and culture while adapting both to India and Austria in various ways. In a series of open interviews with Vienna-based Hakkas, questions of identity and the preservation of a minority culture are raised. In dependence to age, the consultants have very different personal identities behind a shared social identity of being ‘Indian Hak¬ka¬s,’ which is, however, mostly borne out of practical considerations of mutual support and certain cultural practices. As mi¬grants, they can profit from close friendship and loyalty between group members, sharing the same pro¬fes¬sions, marrying inside the group, and speaking their own language. Questions of identity are most¬ly relevant for the younger generation which has to deal with a confusingly layered familial iden¬tity.
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Marusynets, Marianna, and Kyryl Kotun. "Strategies for Adult Education Development in the European Educational Space and International Organizations’ Activities." In ATEE 2020 - Winter Conference. Teacher Education for Promoting Well-Being in School. LUMEN Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumproc/atee2020/18.
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Nowadays, the development of adult education as an important lifelong learning component is conditioned not only by the dynamics of social, scientific and technological progress, changes in the scope and nature of work, increasing leisure time, and opportunities for its rational use but also by the social role of both society and personality. Non-formal youth and adult education is becoming important in the context of ensuring the sustainable and balanced development of society. For the past two decades, adult education as a component of lifelong learning has been a defining goal of education policy in developed countries at the national and international levels. Adult education is considered a social indicator of the state policy human dimension, one of the ways to achieve socio-economic well-being, and a tool for promoting the ideas of the information and knowledge society. The problem of ensuring access to lifelong learning is becoming a priority, and its solution is possible only taking into account the achievements of foreign countries, including European ones, which are reviewed in the article (Austria, Poland, Liechtenstein, France, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Ukraine). The article outlines the European countries` experience in the field of adult education and describes a network of lifelong learning institutions; it is identified strategic directions for the development of continuing education.
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Ivanova, Anna, and Svetlana Popova. "EFFICIENCY OF STATE SUPPORT MEASURES OF POPULATION INCOME DURING THE PERIOD OF CONSTRAINTS: A COUNTRY APPROACH." In Manager of the Year. FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/my2021_82-89.
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This article is devoted to the research of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the economy of the Russian Federation and other countries of the world and its consequences on society. Today, the social policy of the Russian Federation and the whole world is experiencing great stress. The crisis, which arose due to the imposed restrictive measures to ensure the isolation regime in order to prevent the spread of COVID-2019 by foreign governments, revealed previously existing gaps in the provisions of social protection. The ways of formation and improvement of state support of incomes of the population during a crisis situation all over the world are considered. In the conditions of the crisis, the load on the social system has increased many times over, due to the increase in the number of poor citizens. Funding has been introduced for various measures, methods and ways to improve livelihoods and prevent the closure of Micro-Enterprises, SMEs of all types, self-employed and workers, in order to prevent unemployment caused by the global situation. The analysis of the gross domestic product and the effectiveness of the implemented additional measures of state support of the population’s income has been carried out. For example, the leading countries of the world were considered, such as: Russia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA.
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Jelenko, Marie, and Georg Effenberger. "Work-related diseases as a challenge for institutionalized prevention in a changing world of work." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002622.
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The world of work is changing. This change becomes obvious by various developments, such as individualization, flexibilization or dissolution of boundaries, which also shape the discourse about subjectification of work (Beck, 1986, Kleemann et al., 2019, Sennett, 2008). Changing work requirements and demands made by employees are closely entwined with changes in health burdens of working people (Eurofound and EU-OSHA, 2014, Eurofound and ILO, 2017, Kratzer et al., 2011, Mauno et al., 2019, Siegrist, 2019). While the numbers of workplace accidents decline, an increasing emergence of work-related diseases can be observed. Contemporaneously, long-term health maintenance and employability is gaining importance in Europe as access conditions to welfare state benefits is becoming increasingly restricted (Böhle and Lessenich, 2018, Vogel, 2018).The prevention of accidents and diseases at workplace is historically rooted in the welfare state and associated with certain traditions of thought (Dixon, 1999, Esping-Andersen, 1990, Moses, 2019). In Austria, workplace disease prevention is based on regulations of occupational health and safety (OHS) as well as statutory accident insurance (Püringer, 2014). Interpretation and communication of these regulations through legally mandated institutions strongly influence companies‘ OHS prevention measures. However, in the face of tertiarization processes and the subjectification of work and in view of the “4 Fs” of change at work – feminization, flexibilization, fragmentation and financialization – traditional prevention discourses and practices run the risk of excluding growing parts of the working population (Kangas, 2010, Rubery, 2015). This paper takes up the developments described above and carries them forward using the results of Marie Jelenko's dissertation (2021) on current prevention discourses. The focus is on Austria's central state mediating bodies, the Labor Inspectorate and the Workers' Compensation Board. Within the methodological framework of Grounded Theory, Jelenko conducted qualitative interviews, additionally including a large number of relevant documents in her analysis (Bogner et al., 2014, Strauss, 1994, Wolff, 2010). The findings reveal conservative as well as dynamic approaches to work-related disease prevention at the level of intermediary social policy agencies.
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Michael, Miess, Stefan Schmelzer, Günther Lichtblau, Sigrid Stix, Clemens Gerbaulet, Wolf-Peter Schill, Totschnig Gerhard, et al. DEFINE Synthesis Report: DEFINE - Development of an Evaluation Framework for the Introduction of Electromobility. IHS - Institute for Advanced Studies, March 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2015.500.
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The project DEFINE – Development of an Evaluation Framework for the Introduction of Electromobility – was conducted by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, in cooperation with the Environment Agency Austria (EAA), the Vienna University of Technology (TUW), Austria; the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Institute for Applied Ecology (Oeko-Institut), Germany; and with the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Poland.
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Kofler, Jakob, Elisabeth Nindl, Dorothea Sturn, and Magdalena Wailzer. Participatory Approaches in Research, Technology and Innovation (RTI) Policy and their Potential Impact. Fteval - Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2021.518.
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The present article reviews various concepts of participatory science and research and discusses their potential to exhibit impact on the relationship between science and society. Starting with an overview of rationales, concepts and challenges, different forms and intensities of participatory approaches in research and innovation are discussed. We then look at the situation in Austria and sort selected Austrian funding programmes and initiatives into a diagram according to the intensity of participation as well as the social groups involved in each case. Finally, we try to gain more precise indications of the impact of participatory programmes on the relationship between science and society. Many questions remain unanswered, as precise analyses and evaluation results are usually lacking. While different surveys provide insights into society’s level of information on a general level, interest, involvement and attitude towards science and research, approaches for impact assessment are fragmented and remain on the surface. We therefore propose to develop an analytical framework based on existing approaches and to include collaboratively developed indicators in it.