Institute of Social Sciences

Stärker als die Regierungssysteme anderer Länder ist das politische System der USA unter besonderer Betonung der Rolle organisierter Interessengruppen und des Ausmaßes ihres Einflusses auf politische Entscheidungsprozesse untersucht worden, wobei die Vereinigten Staaten sogar als „Interessengruppengesellschaft“ („interest group society“, Berry 1984, 1997) charakterisiert worden sind. Diese prononcierte Stellung von Interessengruppen macht die Untersuchung der verbandlichen Organisationsfähigkeit in einem amerikanischen Wirtschaftssektor

This article examines how state regulations, market barriers, racist discrimination as well as NGOs interact and create internal border regimes by enabling, as well as restricting, access to social and civil rights connected to housing and the freedom of movement and settlement for refugees. Our contribution builds on an analysis of federal and state regulations on housing for refugees who are either in the process of seeking asylum or have completed the process and have been granted an asylum status in Germany. The analysis aims to dissect the workings of these regulations in order to develop a detailed understanding of how these internal border regimes define barriers and access to social and civil rights. In addition to legal and regulatory barriers at the federal, state, and local levels, we identify several other barriers that affect if, how, and when refugees are able to enter local housing markets. We will examine these barriers based on an exemplary analysis of the situation in the cities of Berlin and Dresden, whereby we will apply concepts from border as well as citizenship studies to obtain a deeper understanding of the processes at hand. While contributions to the realm of border studies have so far mostly concentrated on national or EU borders, our approach follows recent literature that emphasises the need to analyse the workings of borders internal to nation-states but has so far not addressed local variations of the ways in which refugees are able to access their right to housing. In taking up this approach, we also stress the need to look at local dimensions of an increasing civic stratification of refugee rights, which past research has also conceptualised primarily on the national level. In both cities, we have collected administrative documents and conducted interviews with refugees, NGOs, and representatives from the local administration. Based on this material, we analyse the workings of administrative barriers at the state and local levels along with market barriers and discriminatory practices employed by landlords and housing companies at the local level. In most cases, these conditions restrict refugees' access to housing. We will contrast these obstacles with insight into the strategies pursued by refugees and volunteers in their efforts to find a place to live in the city.

Social Justice Research, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2004 ( C o 2004) ... The editor thanks the following ad hoc reviewers who have reviewed manuscripts for Volume 17 of Social Justice Research. ... Lauren Appelbaum Anders Biel Hans-Werner Bierhoff D. Ramona Bobocel Joel Brockner Edward J. Bronson Victor G. Cicirelli Ronald L. Cohen Karen S. Cook Russell Cropanzano Claudia Dalbert John M. Darley Ronald C. Dillehay Willem Doise Bertjan EJ Doosje Thomas Ertman Norman T. Feather Christopher M. Federico Detlef Fetchenhauer Adrian Furnham ...

About the Editors . lames R8 Kluegel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His publications include Beliefs About Inequality (Aldine de Gruyter, 1986; with Eliot Smith) and numerous publications in professional journals. David S. ...

ABSTRACT In a field study, models for magnitude estimation and for category ratings are applied to the scaling of occupational prestige. The two respective models provide sufficient conditions for magnitude estimates to yield logarithmic interval scales and for category ratings to lead to interval scales. Both models are found to hold reasonably well for the majority of respondents. As implied by a third model, the relation between magnitude estimation and category rating scales can well be described by a generalized power function. Although overall results do not favour one method over the other individual data analyses reveal substantial interindividual differences with respect to the capability of performing magnitude estimates and category ratings, respectively. The findings are compared to results recently found in psychophysical laboratory experiments, and it is concluded that the individual scale properties the two methods provide do not differ across the attitudinal and the sensory domains.

... Earnings Functions in Thirteen Countries* GUILLERMINA JASSO** and BERND WEGENER*** ... According to justice theory the justice evaluation varies as the logarithm of the ratio of the actual reward to the just reward (Jasso, 1978, 1996): 6 ...

The objective of empirical justice analysis is fourfold: (i) to obtain numerical approximations of the quantities and relations identified by justice theory; (ii) to gauge the extent of interindividual and intergroup variation in the quantities and relations; (iii) to explain their etiology, ...

About the Editors . lames R8 Kluegel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His publications include Beliefs About Inequality (Aldine de Gruyter, 1986; with Eliot Smith) and numerous publications in professional journals. David S. ...