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Rückzugsort, Vermittlerin von Religion und eine Brücke zur Gesellschaft - religiöse Migrantenorganisationen in westlichen Demokratien balancieren zwischen den Erwartungen der Mitglieder der Herkunfts- bzw. Residenzgesellschaft und der eigenen organisationalen Umwelt. Rebekka Rieser analysiert den Umgang mit diesen Erwartungen und die daraus resultierenden Konsequenzen für die Organisationen, die Individuen und die Gesellschaft anhand der bislang wenig beforschten römisch-katholischen kroatischen Missionen in der Schweiz und in Deutschland. Dabei fokussiert sie besonders auf die Strukturen und Rollen von Religionsgemeinschaften in Integrationsprozessen und betont somit deren Bedeutung in einem zunehmend pluralisierten und säkularen Umfeld.

RELIGION / General. --- Democracy. --- Diaspora. --- Germany. --- Integration. --- Interculturalism. --- Migrant Organisation. --- Migration. --- Neo-institutionalism. --- Organization. --- Religious Studies. --- Roman Catholic. --- Sociology of Organizations. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Switzerland.

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Over the past three decades, Meyer, Jepperson, and colleagues have contributed to the development of one of the leading approaches in social theory, by analyzing the cultural frameworks that have shaped modern organizations, states, and identities. Bringing together key articles and new reflections, this volume collects the essential theoretical ideas of 'sociological neoinstitutionalism.' It clarifies the core ideas and situates them within social theory writ large. Among other topics, the authors discuss the changing nature of the "actors" that have operated within contemporary social structure. The book concludes with the evolving frameworks that have structured social activity in the post-World War II period of 'embedded liberalism,' in the more recent neoliberal period, and in an emergent post-liberal period that appears to be a radical departure.

Organizational sociology. --- Culture and globalization. --- Sociology. --- New institutionalism (Social sciences) --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Institutionalism, New (Social sciences) --- Neo-institutionalism (Social sciences) --- Neoinstitutionalism (Social sciences) --- Organization (Sociology) --- Organization theory --- Sociology of organizations --- Sociology --- Bureaucracy --- Globalization and culture --- Globalization

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The human condition teems with institutions - intertemporal social arrangements that shape human relations in support of particular values - and the social scientific work developed over the last five decades aimed at understanding them is similarly vast and diverse. This book synthesizes scholarship from across the social sciences, with special focus on political science, sociology, economics, and organizational studies. Drawing out institutions' essentially social and temporal qualities and their varying relationships to efficiency and power, the authors identify more underlying similarity in understandings of institutional origins, maintenance, and change than emerges from overviews from within any given disciplinary tradition. Most importantly, Theories of Institutions identifies dozens of avenues for cross-fertilization, the pursuit of which can help keep this broad and inherently diverse field of study vibrant for future generations of scholars.

New institutionalism (Social sciences) --- Organizational effectiveness. --- International agencies. --- Social institutions. --- Associations, International --- IGOs (Intergovernmental organizations) --- Institutions, International --- Inter-governmental organizations --- Intergovernmental organizations --- International administration --- International associations --- International governmental organizations --- International institutions --- International organizations --- International unions --- Organizations, International --- Specialized agencies of the United Nations --- International cooperation --- Interorganizational relations --- Non-state actors (International relations) --- International organization --- Management --- Organization --- Institutionalism, New (Social sciences) --- Neo-institutionalism (Social sciences) --- Neoinstitutionalism (Social sciences) --- Social sciences --- Institutions, Social --- Social systems --- Sociology --- Social structure --- Social institutions --- International agencies --- Organizational effectiveness

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In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. Its goal is to explain why some of the new political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others. Using newly available economic, political, and sociological data to test various theories of democratization and institutional performance, Stoner-Weiss finds that traditional theories are unable to explain variations in regional government performance in Russia. Local Heroes argues that the legacy of the former economic system influenced the operation of new political institutions in important and often unexpected ways. Past institutional structures, specifically the concentration of the regional economy, promoted the formation of political and economic coalitions within a new proto-democratic institutional framework. These coalitions have had positive effects on governmental performance. For democratic theorists, this may be a surprising conclusion. However, it is possible, as Stoner-Weiss suggests, that the needs of democratic development may be different in the short run than in the long run. The "local heroes" of today may be impediments to the further development of democracy tomorrow. This provocative work, solidly grounded in research and theory, will interest anyone concerned with issues of economic and political transition.

Regional planning --- Local government --- Russland. --- Russia (Federation) --- Economic policy --- Academy of Sciences. --- Blalock, Hubert. --- Brezhnev Constitution (1977). --- Britain. --- Catherine the Great. --- Enlightenment. --- Goskomstat branch. --- Group of Thirteen. --- Huntington, Samuel. --- Kazakhstan. --- Krestianinov, Evgenii. --- Law on Education (1992). --- Liberal Democratic Party. --- Making Democracy Work (Putnam). --- Ministry of Education. --- agriculture. --- associationalism. --- barter agreements. --- budgets. --- capital investment. --- capitalism. --- civic culture. --- collective farms. --- communitarian theory. --- cultural hypotheses. --- debtor nations. --- decentralization. --- economic concentration. --- education. --- elections. --- factionalization. --- federalism. --- freedom of speech. --- glava administratsii. --- governors. --- housing. --- ideological polarization. --- incumbents. --- industrialization. --- institutional performance. --- kindergartens. --- labor force concentration. --- malyi soviets. --- military industrial complex. --- nationalism. --- neo-institutionalism. --- oblispolkom. --- oligarchy. --- pace of economic reform. --- population statistics.