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Antworten auf alle Fragen zur Teilzeitarbeit Der Autor behandelt alle Ansprüche auf Verringerung der Arbeitszeit ausführlich und leicht verständlich. Zahlreiche Beispiele und Übersichten veranschaulichen die Darstellung. Kurzinformationen und praktische Tipps helfen den Beteiligten, konkrete Fragestellungen besser einzuordnen und sich in der individuellen Situation zurechtzufinden. Anspruch auf Arbeitszeitverringerung, Elternteilzeit oder Pflegeteilzeit nach dem TzBfG Besondere Lebenssituationen oder allgemeines soziales Engagement können mit einer vollberuflichen Beschäftigung kollidieren. Eine Möglichkeit zur Lösung solcher Interessenkonflikte bietet die Teilzeitarbeit. Sofern nicht bereits ein Teilzeitarbeitsverhältnis besteht, sind Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer auf das Einverständnis ihrer Arbeitgeber zur Verringerung der Arbeitszeit angewiesen. Scheitert eine einvernehmliche Lösung, besteht unter Umständen die Möglichkeit, auch gegen den Willen des Arbeitgebers eine Arbeitszeitverringerung durchzusetzen. Diese sogenannten Teilzeitansprüche sind in verschiedenen Gesetzen, u.a. im Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz (TzBfG) und auch in einigen Tarifverträgen geregelt. Brückenteilzeit und Verlängerung der Arbeitszeit Der Anspruch auf Verringerung der Arbeitszeit soll aber keine Einbahnstraße sein. Daher kann die Verringerung der Arbeitszeit von vornherein zeitlich befristet verlangt werden (Brückenteilzeit). Außerdem haben Teilzeitbeschäftigte unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen einen Anspruch auf Verlängerung ihrer Arbeitszeit.

"How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors? Uncommon Cause follows environmental justice activists in Kerala, India, as they seek out, avoid, or strive to overcome conflicts between their causes and their community ties. John Mathias finds two contrasting approaches, each offering distinct possibilities for an activist life. One set of activists repudiates community ties and resists normative pressures; for them, environmental justice becomes a way of transcending all local identities and affiliations, even humanity itself. Other activists seek to ground their activism in community belonging, to fight for their own people. Each approach produces its own dilemmas and offers its own insights into ethical tensions we all face between taking a stand and standing with others. In sharing Kerala activists' diverse stories, Uncommon Cause offers a fresh perspective on environmental ethics, showing that environmentalism, even as it looks beyond merely human concerns, is still fundamentally about how we relate to other people"--

"There is a tendency in public debate to downplay the significance of populism by attributing its rise to the inadequacies of those who vote for populist leaders and parties. But this way of thinking prevents us from seeing that the rise of populism may be linked to problems and shortcomings in the way our democracies work. In this important book, Armin Schfer and Michael Zrn argue that the rise of authoritarian populism is rooted in two developments that are specifically political in character: first, the takeover of parliaments by high-earning, highly educated personnel; and second, the growing political role of non-majoritarian institutions, like central banks and international institutions, that remove decisions from public debate and entrust them to experts. Contemporary democracy is increasingly perceived as lacking openness and representativeness. More and more citizens come to feel that politics is made by a closed political class oblivious to the concerns of ordinary people, and those who share this view are more likely to vote for authoritarian populists. Although contemporary populists keep rubbing salt into the wound of liberal democracy, their responses fail to solve the problems of democratic politics. On the contrary, wherever authoritarian-populist parties have come to power, they have damaged democracy rather than expanding it or reducing existing inequalities"--

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Political Economy of Coup d'états and Spectre of the Domino Effect in Africa in the 2020s -- 1 The Context: Political Economy Framework -- 2 State-Society Interaction in Africa: A Political Economy Analysis -- 2.1 Pre-Colonial State Formation Processes -- 2.2 Colonial State Formation and Orientation -- 2.3 Post-Colonial State -- 3 The Domino Effect Thesis -- 4 Resurgence of Coup d'états in Africa -- 4.1 Crisis of State Legitimacy -- 4.2 Constitutional Coups -- 4.3 Terrorism and Insurgency -- 4.4 Social Exclusion -- 4.5 Foreign Catalysts -- 5 Governance Reform Imperatives: By Way of Conclusion -- References -- Historicising Coup d'etats in Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Post-Independent Military in Africa -- 3 The Military and Coups in Africa -- 4 Military Coups in Africa: Justification and Ratification -- 5 Military Coups in Africa: Gains or Pains? -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix 1: List of Military Interventions, Successful and Failed Attempts, in Africa since 1952 -- References -- The Nature of Post-Colonial African States and Military Coups: A Convergence -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Understanding 'State Fragility' -- 3 The Nature of African Post-Colonial States -- 4 African States, Coups, and the Question of Legitimacy -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Military Coups and the Question of Misgovernance: A Malian Case Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Social Contract Theory -- 3 Historical Overview of Mali -- 4 Military Coups in Mali: Motion Without Movement? -- 5 Governance Crisis in Mali -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Patterns and Case Studies of Military Coups in Contemporary Africa: 1952-2022 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defining Military Coups -- 3 Methodological Considerations -- 4 The Occurrence of Military Coups.

This book delves into the doctrine of separate spheres within the history of economic thought. The concept of separate spheres emerged in philosophy and has consistently been incorporated by various disciplines. This book stands as the first comprehensive exploration of how this doctrine was embraced, adapted, and contested by economists engaged in gender issues and marriage theory. Spanning the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, it illuminates the evolution of the drive for gender equality -- rooted primarily in the tradition of classical liberalism -- across the landscape of economic ideas and theories. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and researchers interested in the intricate history of the interconnections among between economic thought, feminism, gender studies, and cultural studies

"An increasingly important field of research within multilingualism and sociolinguistics, Family Language Policy (FLP) investigates the explicit and overt planning of language use within the home and among family members. However the diverse range of different family units and contexts around the globe necessitates a similarly diverse range of research perspectives which are not yet represented within the field. Tackling this problem head on, this volume expands the scope of families in FLP research. Bringing together contributors and case studies from every continent, this essential reference broadens lines of inquiry by investigating language practices and ideologies in previously under-researched families. Seeking to better reflect contemporary influences on FLP processes, chapters use innovative methodologies, including digital ethnographies and autoethnography, to explore diverse family configurations (adoptive, LGBTQ+, and single parent), modalities (digital communication and signed languages), and speakers and contexts (adult learners, Indigenous contexts, and new speakers). Bringing to light the dynamic, fluid nature of family and kinship as well as the important role that multilingualism plays in family members' negotiation of power, agency, and identity construction, Diversifying Family Language Policy is a state-of-the-art reference to contemporary theoretical, methodological and ethical advances in the field of family language policy"--

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- PART I Information Economics Overview -- 1. Information economics examined through scarcity and abundance -- 2. Robust theory and fragile practice: Information in a world of disinformation Part 1: Indirect communication -- 3. Robust theory and fragile practice: Information in a world of disinformation Part 2: Direct communication -- 4. Information and income distribution: The perspective of information economics -- PART II Information Asymmetry -- 5. Asymmetric information as a market failure in retrospect -- 6. A quadrennial review of the significance of information asymmetry in economics and finance -- 7. Overcoming asymmetric information: A data-driven approach -- 8. Asymmetric information in health economics: Can contract regulation improve equity and efficiency? -- 9. Consequences of information asymmetry in a syndication network: The joint investments of the Israeli venture capital funds -- PART III Information Transmission and Influence -- 10. Disclosure of conflicts of interest: Theory and empirics -- 11. Information and expertise -- 12. Informational influence and its forecasting in e-commerce -- PART IV Innovation and Intellectual Property -- 13. Digital innovation: An information-economic perspective -- 14. Innovation and information: Smooth and ongoing change, or turbulence and cognitive over-stress? On the complex deep structure of innovation -- 15. Intangibles, information goods, and intellectual property goods in modern economics -- 16. Incomplete contracts, intellectual property rights, and incentives: Investment in knowledge assets under alternative institutional configurations -- PART V Payment, Value, Crowdfunding -- 17. Payment on information markets -- 18. Assessing the perceived value of information in an information immersive world.

"Through the concept of 'Romantic nationalism', this interdisciplinary global historical study investigates cultural initiatives in (British) India that aimed at establishing the nation as a moral community and which preceded or accompanied state-oriented political nationalism. Drawing on a vast array of sources, it discusses important Romantic nationalist traits, such as the relationship between language and identity, historicism, artistic revivalism and hero worship. Ultimately, this innovative book argues that because of the confrontation with European civilization and processes of modernization at large, cultivation of culture in British India was morally and spiritually more important to the making of the nation than in Europe"--

"This book examines the importance of flat ontologies for law and sociolegal theory. Associated with the emergence of new materialism in the humanities and social sciences, the elaboration of flat ontologies challenges the binarism that has maintained the separation of culture from nature, and the human from the nonhuman. Although most work in legal theory and sociolegal studies continues to adopt a non-flat, anthropocentric and immaterial take on law, the critique of this perspective is becoming more and more influential. Engaging the increasing legal interest in flat ontologies, this book offers an account of the main theoretical perspectives, and their importance for law. Covering the work of the five major theorists in the area - Gabriel Tarde, Bruno Latour, Manuel DeLanda, Karen Barad and Graham Harman - the book aims to encourage this interest, as well as to explicate the important problems of and differences between these perspectives. Flat ontologies, the book demonstrates, can offer a valuable new perspective for understanding and thinking about law. This book will appeal mainly to scholars and students in legal theory and sociolegal studies; as well as others with interests in the posthumanist turn in philosophy and social theory"--

"In recent years, information technologies such as mobile payment, search engines, cloud computing and internet finance have developed rapidly. This has greatly impacted the structure of the financial market, and is set to bring about deep changes to the global financial industry. At the same time, the advent of the digital economy has brought about more challenges to the services and products of internet finance and financial supervision. This book contains the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Finance and Digital Economy (ICIFDE 2022), which focus on how existing computer and information technology can be used to solve the problems of financial services in the era of digital economy. The chapters in this volume seek to provide technical solutions to the current digital financial transaction system, data processing in the digital economy and various forms of digital transactions or financing systems. Additionally, traditional research is combined with current cutting-edge technology in proposing new developments for the finance industry."

Privacy and surveillance -- Surveillance in China : from dang'an and hukou to the social credit systems -- Rules will raise people's 'moral quality' -- National humiliations and the civilisation dream -- Saving face : privacy as hiding shameful information -- The government : protection and order -- Technology as a magic bullet -- Mental tactics to dissociate oneself from surveillance -- Misgivings and objections -- Self-censorship.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field

"Updated in its eleventh edition, China's Political System continues to engage readers in the pursuit of greater understanding of Chinese politics past and present, providing accessible insight into the important policy problems. Throughout the text, June Teufel Dreyer challenges students to think about the broader problem of governance in China by comprehensively showing how past and present impacts leaders, citizens, ethnic minorities, and policies, leading to incisive considerations on the different futures for China's political system. When instructors teach from this textbook, they benefit from Dreyer's expert analysis of historical context and current trends to show this transition is challenging China's economic, legal, military, social, and cultural institutions. New to the Eleventh Edition: Discussion on the CCP's hundredth birthday celebration including Xi Jinping's strident speech. Tensions in South China and East China seas and "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy. China's three-child policy. The "lying flat" phenomenon (tangping). New regulations clamping down on freedom of speech and human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and against religion in general. Examination of the overhaul of the for-profit tertiary education system and the large-scale student protests that ensued. New regulations at primary and secondary levels on cram school off-campus tutoring, crackdown on false advertising, selling unnecessary programs. Evaluating the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the country's economy, and government's response in terms of demographic and health policies. "Made in China 2025". Leadership response to deteriorating environmental conditions with new policy tools. China's Political System continues to provide all of the tools professors need to introduce their students to Chinese politics in ways that are informed, accessible, and intriguing"--