Citizenship Tests in Five Countries - An Expression of Political Liberalism?

Abstract Engaging discussions on civic integration for immigrants, this comparison systematically analysis citizenship tests in the US, Austria, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. A central question discussed is whether these tests can be interpreted as assimilation, repressive liberalism or as a neutral instrument that changes its function according to the surrounding citizenship regime as some authors argue. The analysis has the surprising result that none of the hypotheses from the existing literature on civic integration can explain the content of all five citizenship tests. In particular I find that the characteristics of the surrounding citizenship regime are not a good predictor for the content of the respective citizenship tests: countries with rather restrictive citizenship regimes such as Austria or Germany have opted for a citizenship test with a liberal content that is comparable not only to the British but also to the US-American test. On the other hand the content of the Dutch citizenship test does not fully correspond to a Rawlsian definition of political liberalism although the Dutch citizenship regime is relatively open. Therefore I conclude that the formal character of a citizenship regime is only loosely connected with the national definition of citizenship as it is conveyed by the content of citizenship tests. It is not because civic integration requirements are obligatory and restrict the free will of future citizens that citizenship itself is defined in illiberal terms. Keyword

Die Abteilung Regulierung von Arbeit: Aktuelle Projekte und Veröffentlichungen 1988 bis 2000

Dieses Paper enthält eine Darstellung der Ziele und des Arbeitsprogramms der Abteilung „Regulierung von Arbeit“, wie sie von Frieder Naschold zum Abschluß der Dokumentationsphase aus Anlaß des alle zwei Jahre erscheinenden „WZB Berichts“ für die Jahre 1998/99 Ende November 1999 niedergelegt wurden. Der Tod Frieder Nascholds am 30.11.1999 stellt einen tiefgreifenden Einschnitt für die Abteilung dar, deren Direktor Frieder Naschold seit ihrer Konstituierung im Jahre 1988 war. Das Paper enthält darüber hinaus die Veröffentlichungen der Mitglieder der Abteilung und ihrer Kooperationspartner für den Zeitraum von 1988 bis in das laufende Jahr 2000 hinein. Die Zusammenstellung dokumentiert damit den Abschluß einer Ära und zugleich die Weiterführung des Arbeitsprogramms und der zentralen Forschungslinien der Abteilung

Die Abteilung Regulierung von Arbeit: Aktuelle Projekte und Veröffentlichungen 1988 bis 2000

Dieses Paper enthält eine Darstellung der Ziele und des Arbeitsprogramms der Abteilung „Regulierung von Arbeit“, wie sie von Frieder Naschold zum Abschluß der Dokumentationsphase aus Anlaß des alle zwei Jahre erscheinenden „WZB Berichts“ für die Jahre 1998/99 Ende November 1999 niedergelegt wurden. Der Tod Frieder Nascholds am 30.11.1999 stellt einen tiefgreifenden Einschnitt für die Abteilung dar, deren Direktor Frieder Naschold seit ihrer Konstituierung im Jahre 1988 war. Das Paper enthält darüber hinaus die Veröffentlichungen der Mitglieder der Abteilung und ihrer Kooperationspartner für den Zeitraum von 1988 bis in das laufende Jahr 2000 hinein. Die Zusammenstellung dokumentiert damit den Abschluß einer Ära und zugleich die Weiterführung des Arbeitsprogramms und der zentralen Forschungslinien der Abteilung. --

Usage and Diffusion of Cellular Telephony, 1998-2004

In this paper, we study the dynamics of usage intensity of second-generation cellular telephony over the diffusion curve. We address two specific questions: First, does information about usage intensity over time allow us to draw conclusions about the underlying drivers of technology diffusion? Second, what effect does the existence and penetration of previous generations and other networks in the same generation on network usage intensity? Using an operator-level panel covering 41 countries with quarterly data over 6 years, we find that heterogeneity among adopters dominates network effects and that different technological generations are complements in terms of usage, but substitutes in terms of subscription

“But One Needs to Work!”: Neoliberal Citizenship, Work-Based Immigrant Integration, and Post-Socialist Subjectivities in Berlin-Marzahn

This is the accepted version of the following article: MATEJSKOVA, T., 2012. "But One Needs to Work!": neoliberal citizenship, work-based immigrant integration, and post-socialist subjectivities in Berlin-Marzahn. Antipode, 45 (4), pp.984-1004, which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01050.xThis paper examines how middle-aged and older post-Soviet immigrants in eastern Berlin navigate the neoliberalized landscape of work-based integration in face of their long-term unemployment. I first show how these immigrants’ own insistence on the centrality of paid work for their feeling integrated contributes to their experience of collective despondency and enrollment in exploitative quasi-markets, including workfare. Focusing on this insistence, I examine how it draws strength primarily from their continued subscription to the conceptions of self as deeply socially embedded, and of work as a practice of such an embedding, adopted through their Soviet-era socialization into the culture of dispersed personhood and obligation to work, rather than from their adoption of neoliberal concepts of citizenship in Germany. Contributing to geographies of post-socialist experience of neoliberalized regimes of citizenship and immigrant integration this paper thus highlights how some of the aspects of post-socialist subjectivities dovetail unexpectedly with the neoliberal project

The companies, the state and the changing age-structure in Japan a profile report

SIGLEUuStB Koeln(38)-911101709 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Testing the industry-mix hypothesis of early exit

SIGLEUuStB Koeln(38)-891101584 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman