Thesis concerns about ethical heritage of the holocaust education in projects which are realized by KreBul, o.s. In theoretical part, the multicultural education and of present world was chracterized as a world of meeting different cultures; it is focused on the issue of the Jewish genocide in World War II. In the second stage of theoretical part, there are introduced particular activities of KreBul, o.s., which are oriented on the holocaust education in the spirit of multicultural enlightenment. Perception and understanding of events linked with the holocaust with a focus on the classification of lectural activities is considered in practical part of the thesis. Viewpoint of young people on the theme of the holocaust is gained by interpretation and analysis of individual answers of respondents; particulary the ethical viewpoint on education about events from the end of World War II and perception of some ethical categories (evil, suffering).

The Trinitarian Perspectives of the Theology of Religions. The Outline of the Approache to the Non-christian Religions in Gavin D'Costa. This thesis presents an analysis of the theological work of British Catholic theologian Gavin D'Costa in the field of theology of religions. The goal of this study is the presentation of D'Costa's huge contribution to the theology of religions and critical examination of his constructive theological concept of Trinitarian Theology of Religions. In the first chapter we provide an introduction to the thought of Gavin D'Costa. We point out his philosophical and theological presuppositions, we go through his most important books and above all we introduce preliminary remarks about his theology of religions, i.e. conception of the relationship between systematic theology, theology of religions and religious studies and the notion of religion in D'Costa. The second chapter classifies D'Costa's approach within the context of contemporary theology of religions. We deal with D'Costa's critique of pluralism, inclusivism and exclusivism. Especially, the D'Costa's polemic with his former teacher John Hick is at the centre of our attention. In the third chapter we consider D'Costa's own paradigm of theology of religion which is based on the Trinitarian faith as well as respectful...

Precis The Political philosophy of John Gray touches a number of topics and also has gone thrue a couple of modifications. However this thesis aims to show that there can be found a consistent political doctrine of agonistic liberalism in Gray's thought that arises from his critigue of rationalistic theories of liberalism. Agonistic liberalism is based on the naturalistic ethical theory of value-pluralism which Gray adopted whit some modifications from Isaiah Berlin. On the ground of incommensurability and uncombinability of some values within individuel lives as well as within life forms Gray comes to conclusion that the conflict of values is ineradicable part of our lives. And that's the reason why any legel or political theory cannot set up a set of liberal principles that could claim universal validity. That is why Gray sets up the concept of modus vivendi, political ideal of coexistence of individuals, groups and societies based on mutual toleration. With regard to the rational indeterminacy of conflicts over values, according to agonistic liberalism these conflict has to by resolved by political means.

The text deals with the issue of changes in immigration and integration policies of the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia during last twenty years. At first, it summarizes the theoretical opinions on immigration, integration, multiculturalism and pluralism and makes that so from the point of view of liberalism and communitarianism. Then it focuses on the development of immigration and integration policies in each country in given time period and especially on their qualitative change. Attention is paid to their key principles, legal basis and real practice. Finally, these three approaches are mutually compared and there are outlined their future perspectives.

The issue of legal pluralism in contemporary society Abstract This work aims to describe the phenomenon of legal pluralism, its expressions and functioning in contemporary society and evaluate the findings in connection with the weakening role of the state. The role of law is changing more and more in today's global world, especially in an increasingly less homogeneous society. The plurality of contemporary society is increasingly penetrating normative systems, which in turn affects the very functioning of the state as an authority. Legal pluralism reflects the life of contemporary society. From the perspective of legal pluralism, we gain a new understanding of law. The concept of legal pluralism enables the law to respond in a more flexible way to the plurality of contemporary society, as law increasingly faces difficulties in reflecting the social reality of contemporary society. Related to laws that do not reflect this plurality is a growing distrust of people in the state and its institutions, which contributes to the weakening role of the state. One of the possibilities for the state to strengthen its role is to restore confidence of the citizens in the state and its institutions. This can be also achieved by creating good written law. State law should take into account the phenomenon of legal...

The Parliament of Catalonia was restored in 1980 within the transition to democracy in Spain. From the beginning the coalition of Convergència i Unió was dominated in party system. This coalition was consisted by two parties and had absolute parliamentarian majority between years 1984 and 1995. Its dominance was disrupted by Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya in elections in 1999 and also in 2003. Until then, there was a bipolar system where CiU won elections to the Parliament of Catalonia and PSC-PSOE elections to Congreso de Diputados in this autonomous region. CiU won every Catalan parliamentary elections till 2012. After the collapse of CiU in 2015, one of its parties, Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya, started to cooperate with Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya primarily because of Catalonia's independence. The number of relevant parties started to increase in 2015. The aim of the thesis is to answer following questions: what party system according to Sartori's theory occurred/occurs in the Parliament of Catalonia and whether there was a change of party system or not. If yes, then which circumstances affected this change. Furthermore, the results of the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia and to Congreso de Diputados in Catalonia are compared. This comparison seeks to answer the question of...

Öffentliche Verwaltungen sind ständig Reformen unterworfen. Auch das öffentliche Haushaltsrecht in Österreich, obwohl tendenziell weniger anfällig für kurzlebige Reformen, wurde in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten umfassend novelliert. Auf globaler Ebene lassen sich in der Literatur für die vergangenen Dekaden drei dominierende "Verwaltungs-" bzw. "Reformparadigmen" identifizieren, die Orientierung für Reformen im öffentlichen Sektor bildeten bzw. bilden und sich aus in einer Zeitperiode gehäuft diskutierten Ideen zur Verwaltungmodernisierung herauskristallisierten: Public Administration, New Public Management und Public Governance. Aufbauend auf die neo-institutionalistische Organisationstheorie geht diese Dissertation der Frage nach, wie sich diese Paradigmen in den Reformen des österreichischen Bundeshaushaltsgesetzes der letzten 30 Jahre widerspiegeln (d. h. "Was diffundiert?"). Dafür wird untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß sich die für die Reformparadigmen jeweils konstitutiven Ideen in parlamentarischen Reformdokumenten manifestieren. Konzeptionelle Grundlage bildet der Ansatz des institutionellen Pluralismus, der die neoinstituti-onalistische Organisationsforschung in den letzten Jahren stark geprägt hat. Die Reformparadigmen werden zunächst anhand von Schlüsseltexten operationalisiert. Neben deskriptiven Auswertungen der Häufigkeiten der Sichtbarkeit der einzelnen Paradigmen im Zeitverlauf (drei Abschnitte: erste Kodifizierung des Bundeshaushaltsgesetzes 1986, New Public Management-inspirierte Reformen zwischen 1998 und 2004, und Neu-Kodifizierung im Zuge der Haushaltsrechtsreform 2007/09) und in den unterschiedlichen Textgenres (Erläuterungen zu den Gesetzesentwürfen, Ausschussberichte, Abschlussdebatten und verkündete Gesetze) liegt ein weiterer Fokus auf den Überlappungsbereichen der Paradigmen, d. h. dem gemeinsamen Auftreten von Elementen aus unterschiedlichen Reformparadigmen. Anders als häufige Annahme, dass die Paradigmen konflingierende Rahmen darstellen, zeigt sich zum einen, dass in jedem Zeitabschnitt Kernideen aus allen drei Paradigmen im Diskurs auftreten. Weiters sind die Verwaltungsparadigmen bezogen auf ihre Zusammensetzung aus Ideen dynamisch im Zeitverlauf. Darüber hinaus findet keine Ablösung von Reformparadigmen statt, wie gelegentlich in der Literatur postuliert wird; vielmehr kann eine Hybridisierung und Sedimentierung des Feldes beobachtet werden, was anhand der Art, wie Elemente aus unterschiedlichen Paradigmen kombiniert werden, gezeigt wird. Die Übersetzung globaler Reformtrends in den lokalen Verwaltungskontext wird durch lokale Faktoren (Glokalisierung) sowie die in der Vergangenheit gemachten Reformerfahrungen (Pfadabhängigkeiten) beeinflusst: Wenig verwunderlich für ein rechtsstaatliches Verwaltungssystem stellt sich das Element Normen/Regelbefolgung als zentraler "Dreh- und Angelpunkt" des Diskurses heraus. Die Ergebnisse zeigen des Weiteren, dass das Konzept des institutionellen Pluralismus einen geeigneten Erklärungsansatz für die sich zeigende Gemengelage der Verwaltungsparadigmen darstellt. Die Arbeit greift die Forderung nach inhaltsanalytischen Studien im öffentlichen Sektor auf und knüpft an die Forschung, die auf die Diffussion und Übersetzung von globalen Konzepten auf lokaler Ebene fokussiert, an. (author's abstract)

The purpose of the presented dissertation is to analyse the functioning of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Antonín Novotný's period (1953- 1967). The dissertation deals with three main themes: the organizational structure of the central apparatus, the staffing and personnel policy (the so-called nomenklatura). The main intention of the study concentrates on the Party elite's mobility and formation and considers patronage (clientelism) as an approach to understanding the political process. From the perspective of the political pluralism it examines coalition building at the central level through an analysis of aggregate biographical career data of over sixty Communist politicians. During the second half of the 1950s the Communist regime broke with the most brutal aspects of totalitarianism. The abandonment of massive and arbitrary repression was the key policy change from the Stalinist era. In many ways it prompted the transformation into a different type of dictatorship, becoming a modern police state rather than a despotic terror state. Instead of previous large-scale repression as a key means of social control, the Communist regime focused on a so-called cadre policy as the main power authority. As far as economic troubles were concerned, the Czechoslovak...

Thesis--Tübingen, 2006 (Axiomatische Systeme im interreligiösen Dialog). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207).

Zugl.: Oldenburg, Univ., Diss., 2005