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Einleitung -- Bestimmung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes -- Beteiligungsregelungen in der Praxis -- Theoretischer Hintergrund: Demos-Problem -- Der Kontext von Bürger:innenbeteiligungsverfahren -- Die Inklusion der primären Gruppe -- Die Beteiligung sekundärer Gruppen -- Abschließende Zusammenfassungen und Reflexionen -- Literaturverzeichnis.

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an incorrect description, but it is incomplete. Drawing on field observations, medical records, and his own experience as a novice emergency medical technician, sociologist Josh Seim reimagines paramedicine as a frontline institution for governing urban suffering. Bandage, Sort, and Hustle argues that the ambulance is part of a fragmented regime that is focused more on neutralizing hardships (which are disproportionately carried by poor people and people of color) than on eradicating the root causes of agony. Whether by compressing lifeless chests on the streets or by transporting the publicly intoxicated into the hospital, ambulance crews tend to handle suffering bodies near the bottom of the polarized metropolis. Seim illustrates how this work puts crews in recurrent, and sometimes tense, contact with the emergency department nurses and police officers who share their clientele. These street-level relations, however, cannot be understood without considering the bureaucratic and capitalistic forces that control and coordinate ambulance labor from above. Beyond the ambulance, this book motivates a labor-centric model for understanding the frontline governance of down-and-out populations

"While private monopolists are generally assumed to maximize profits, the goals of public enterprises are less well known. Using the example of Pennsylvania's state liquor retailing monopoly, we use information on store location choices, prices, wholesale costs, and sales to uncover the goals implicit in its entry decisions. Does it seek to maximize profits or welfare? We estimate a spatial model of demand for liquor that allows us to calculate counterfactual configurations of stores that maximize profit and welfare. We find that welfare maximizing networks have roughly twice as many stores as would maximize profit. Moreover, the actual network is much more similar in size and configuration to the welfare maximizing configuration. An alternative to a state monopoly would be the common practice of regulated private entry. While such regimes can give rise to inefficient location decisions, little is known about the size of the resulting inefficiencies. Even for a given number of stores, a simple characterization of free entry with our model results in a store configuration that produces welfare losses of between 3 and 9% of revenue. This is a third to half of the overall loss from unregulated free entry"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

In response to an invitation from the Chinese mental health platform, Jiandanxinli, and its CEO Li Zhen, the International Psychotherapy Institute developed and implemented a two-year training programme, "Object relations psychoanalytic psychotherapy" to be held on-site in Beijing, and online weekly. This contribution begins with an example of the teaching intrinsic to the programme, and then describes the programme itself.

How much should ethnographers involve themselves with the people, places, and processes they study? One answer has become increasingly popular: invert the standard method of participant observation into observant participation. This article draws on an ethnography of ambulance work to consider the trade-offs between these approaches. My fieldwork included "ride-alongs" with labor and management at a private ambulance firm in California (participant observation) and short-term employment as a novice emergency medical technician at the same company (observant participation). Beyond a simplistic distinction in "empirical depth," I identify three issues at stake between participant observation and observant participation: field positioning, analytic gaze, and data assembly. Where participant observation presents more opportunities for mobile positioning, outward gazing, and inscription, observant participation presents more opportunities for fixed positioning, inward gazing, and incarnation. In addition to justifying such contrasts, I consider the advantages of mixing these styles into a hybrid approach when feasible.

Romanian Cinema before the "Wave": More than Ripples. The article gives an overview of Romanian cinema before the New Wave. The first part sketches the modest beginnings of Romanian cinema from the first performance in 1896 and lists some examples of Romanian films made before 1947. The second part shows how the conditions changed under communist rule both materially and politically and discusses a few films, especially of Liviu Ciulei and Lucian Pintilie. The final part describes some aspects of the first cinematic decade after the fall of the communist regime in 1989.
Rezumat. Cinematografia românească înainte de Noul Val: Mult mai mult decât încercări modeste. Propunem o perspectivă integratoare asupra cinematografiei românești dinainte de Noul Val. Prima parte privește începuturile modeste ale cinematografiei românești; ajungem la primele performanțe; oferim apoi câteva exemple de filme românești realizate înainte de 1947.În a doua parte ilustrăm maniera în care condițiile s-au schimbat în conformitate cu regula (autoritatea) comunistă, atât din punct de vedere material (în mod substanțial), cât și din punct de vedere politic, și discutăm câteva pelicule, insistând asupre filmelor lui Liviu Ciulei și ale lui Lucian Pintilie. În cele din urmă, ne oprim la câteva aspecte din primul deceniu cinematografic de după căderea regimului comunist din 1989.
Cuvinte cheie: film, cinematografie, regizori români de film, cenzură, 1989, un nou val.

The objective of Norwegian security policy is to prevent or, if necessary, repel aggression on Norwegian territory. In addition, our Norwegian security policy is intended to enable us to resist any attempted political or military coercion so that we may remain free to determine ourselves the structure of our society.

This article reimagines poverty governance as a labor process. Extending theories of bureaucratic fields and street-level bureaucracies, the proposed model suggests that the state manages the poor through fragmented activities embedded in horizontal and vertical relations of production. I use an ethnography of 911 ambulance operations in a single California county to advance this perspective. From plugging gunshot wounds to moving sidewalk slumberers, ambulance crews interact with a mostly impoverished clientele base by transforming spaces in bodies and bodies in spaces. This two-sided governance puts the ambulance in recurrent contact with the hospital emergency department and the police squad car. Across these institutions, ambulance crews struggle with their nurse and police counterparts over the horizontal shuffling of burdensome work, shaping the life chances of their subjects in the process. At the same time, bureaucratic and capitalistic forces from above activate a lean ambulance fleet that is minimally wasteful and highly flexible. This verticality structures clientele processing through the ambulance and fuels tensions across the frontlines of governance. In an effort to advance theory and fill an empirical gap, this article proposes a new model for understanding the management of marginality and highlights an overlooked case of poverty regulation.