Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--University of Manchester. / Bibliogr. p. 351-397. Index.

Diese Dissertation untersucht die institutionellen Zusammenhänge des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs in Europa mit Hilfe einer Weiterentwicklung des Governance Approach (Schmitter et al.). Die Studie enthält drei Fallstudien von typischen nationalen Governance Regimes: Manchester (GB) als typisch wettbewerbliches Regime, Lyon (F) als typisch etatistisches Regime und Wien (A) als typisch korporatistisches System. Folgende Schlüsse können gezogen werden: 1) Es zeigen sich europaweit sehr heterogene und nicht natürlicherweise konvergierende Regimes. 2) Alle Regimes plagen sich mit einem Set gemeinsamer Schwierigkeiten, die sektoral determiniert sein dürften. 3) Jedes der beobachteten Governance Regimes hat seine spezifischen Vor- und Nachteile: Das wettbewerbliche Governance Regime ist kurz- und mittelfristig günstiger, zerstört aber über eine Allmendedrama-Situation seine eigene Lebensgrundlage. Das etatistische Governance Regime ist zwar in seiner Entscheidungshierarchie konsistent, aber zu stark ideologisch-politisch dominiert für den ÖPNV und sehr konfliktuös. Das korporatistische Governance Regime berücksichtigt den Großteil der vertretenen Interessen optimal, ist jedoch intransparent und inflexibel. 4) Vor allem Wien hat nicht einmal ansatzweise die Strukturen, um die wahrscheinlich kommenden EU-Verordnungen zu administrieren. Es droht eine Paralyse des Systems. 5) Der Governance Approach ist nicht geeignet bzw. muss weiter entwickelt werden, um größere, dahinter liegende Entwicklungen zu erfassen und abzubilden: Die Prozesse der Kommodifizierung und "Unternehmerisierung" weiter Teile der öffentlichen Güter dürften Langfrist-Effekte haben, die derzeit nur sehr schlecht wahrnehmbar sind. Eine Weiterentwicklung der Theorie in diese Richtung ist viel versprechend. Mehr Informationen: http://www.clausfaber.net/wissenschaft (Autorenref.)

Akademisk avhandling--histoire des idées--Göteborg, 1989. / Résumé en anglais.

Zugl.: Magdeburg, Univ., Diss., 2009

The objective in this compositional research has been to create a portfolio of compositions with the goal of developing my musical language. This has been achieved through a portfolio that explores characterisation, transformation, dialogue, interaction, contrast and, latterly, timbre in the context of a teleological framework. Seven works are presented for a range of instrumental and vocal forces according to the opportunities taken throughout the research period. The majority of the works in the portfolio are under 10 minutes in duration and the final two cumulative works explore longer timeframes of c.15 and c.30 minutes respectively. The seven pieces are presented in the order of completion:1. Multiple Infection (2010) for clarinet, cello, percussion and piano.2. Contrasting Spectrum (2011) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.3. Splintering Factions (2012) for chamber orchestra.4. Chinese Whispers (2013) for violin and viola.5. Memoriam retinebimus (2014) for SATB choir and solo group (4 females and 2 males). 6. Sporos (2015) for string quartet.7. Relentless Continuum (2015-2016) for symphony orchestra. This portfolio also includes an analytical commentary in eight chapters prefaced with an opening section (part one) introducing the author and compositional research. This part also presents elements of the author's musical language including a short introduction of characterisation, teleology, transformation, dialogue, interaction, contrast and timbre with a brief discussion of notable influences that led to the implementation of these elements. Lastly, part two details the seven pieces of the portfolio in the form of musical commentaries over seven chapters, one piece being discussed in each chapter. The last chapter presents reflections and evaluations on the portfolio and future goals.

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The thesis Valuation of Manchester United Football Club deals with the fundamental differences between the sports club and the usual business in its theoretical part. Further, the basic methods of business valuation are summarized there and also some alternative approaches that are used in practice. We focused mainly on the practical part of the thesis, for which we have chosen Manchester United Football Club. The main reason why we chose this club was primarily due to publicly available information and data about the club as its shares are traded on the NYSE. We conducted both financial and strategic analysis of the club and used the results of the analysis in our own valuation. Then we compared the valuation with market capitalization and alternative valuation according to Forbes. We analyze the differences in conclusion.

This thesis explores the lived experience of race as told through narratives of the city. It draws on photo diaries, observations and qualitative interviews with 32 people aged between 20 and 30 years old in three areas of Manchester. It examines how discourses, which construct UK cities as tolerant and multicultural spaces, are reproduced by the respondents and yet are contradicted by their everyday experiences. It argues that narratives that actively silence race, for example through notions of tolerance and colour-blindness, obscure the ways that people are differentially positioned and makes it difficult to name difference and name racism. The thesis explores a series of dilemmas that form part of the struggle to reconcile multiple and often contradictory levels of experience and situates these within the broader political context. The thesis engages with discussions around what have been broadly defined as ideas of ‘post-race’. It argues that the city becomes a useful avenue through which to direct this discussion, because it acts as a location in which race is imagined in conflicting ways; simultaneously as a site of segregation and conflict and cosmopolitanism and ‘mixing’.The thesis explores how people talk race through their representations of different spaces of the city. It argues that people’s stories about their relationship to place help make perceptible the different ways that they deal with difference. Race is silenced in narratives of place, emerging primarily through coded references to class and criminality, except when it is articulated with exotic and ‘sympathetic’ representations of the ‘ethnic’ or ‘migrant’ neighbourhood, or with a white underclass. It also examines how, within these narratives, people talk about knowing others that they emphasise are racially or ethnically different. Notions of tolerance and colour-blindness are invoked throughout these narratives and used to suggest that they are emblematic of a new generation. The thesis argues that the respondents' narratives resonate with national discourses of multiculture that imagine liberal spaces of cosmopolitanism and, simultaneously, silence inequalities and exclusion. The central problem is that these discourses and processes of silencing do not take account of the meanings of race and how people are differentially positioned. Consequently, they disable questions about the significance and the effects of race. This has implications for how racism can(not) then be named. People subjected to racism are, instead, under pressure to assimilate and conform to the behavioural norm. The thesis argues that respondents’ narratives of the everyday can, therefore, be interpreted as a form of orientalism (Puwar 2004). They are indicative of the kind of multiculturalism that ‘tolerates’ and ‘bestows rights’ on the racialised Other, but does nothing to demythologise the Other, or engage with the needs of minorities (Amin, 2010). The façade of ‘racial etiquette’ when it is constructed as such, thus implies a ‘refusal to understand’ (Foucault 1978), because to do so would necessitate confronting the currency of racism and the fact of white privilege.