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IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHY PLATO'S REPUBLIC REMAINS ALMOST ENDLESSLY FASCINATING TO HISTORIANS OF PHILOSOPHY. ITS BEAUTIFUL SURFACE AND BRILLIANT CORE OFFER RICHES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO EXHAUST IN A LIFETIME OF INTERPRETATION. BUT IF THE REPUBLIC'S VIRTUES ARE TO BE OF MORE THAN HISTORICAL INTEREST, THE WORK MUST ALSO BE USEFUL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORISTS. THE DIALOGUE MUST OFFER INSIGHTS THAT CAN ASSIST THEM IN THEIR TWO MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS: THE JUSTIFICATION OF SOCIETY IN GENERAL AND THE EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF POLITICAL COMMUNITIES.

Purpose
– This study aims to offer a literature review on microinsurance, focusing on its financial performance and social impact. The aim is to review current research in microinsurance performance. Over the past decade, microinsurance has aroused the interest of the scientific community. Scholars have monitored its development and have examined its impact on the poor's ability of breaking out of the poverty trap.


Design/methodology/approach
– A systematic-narrative method was used to review the relevant literature. In total, 64 relevant articles on investigating the financial performance and the effects of microinsurance programs on the poor's well-being were reviewed, coded and followed by a narrative synthesis.


Findings
– This review synthesizes current published data on microinsurance to provide practitioners and researchers with a better understanding of this important area. Microinsurance benefits the poor, as it reduces their vulnerability to poverty. Microinsurance has a twofold impact on an individual's ability to overcome poverty. First, it has a direct impact on access to healthcare services and, second, it has an indirect effect on an individual's economic status, by moderating risk vulnerability and improving income stability. Further research is necessary to reach concrete conclusions about the financial performance of microinsurance programs. Finally, the analysis of the literature revealed an absence of research regarding the impact of microinsurance on society and sustainable development.


Research limitations/implications
– An understanding of the performance of microinsurance services is important. Therefore, the findings can be used by microinsurance practitioners to assess and improve their performance. Further, policy implications such as improvement of financial knowledge and social marketing via education polices to increase microinsurance awareness of its benefits are recommended.


Originality/value
– This review provides a synthesis of the literature in microinsurance concerning its financial and social performance, and raises suggestions for future research.

Vorbemerkung -- I. Einführung und Überblick: Literatur zwischen feudaler Restauration und bürgerlicher Opposition -- II. Literarische Gruppierungen -- 1. Biedermeier -- Lyrik: Droste-Hülshoff, Mörike, Platen und Lenau -- Erzählende Prosa: Droste-Hülshoff, Grillparzer und Gotthelf -- Der Roman: Immermann und Stifter -- Das hohe Drama: Grillparzer -- 2. Das Junge Deutschland -- Die Vorbilder: Börne und Heine (I) -- Die Programmatik der Jungdeutschen -- Die literarische Praxis: Gutzkow -- 3. Ansätze einer kritisch-realistischen Dramatik -- Christian Dietrich Grabbe -- Georg Büchner -- Friedrich Hebbel (I) -- 4. Der Vormärz -- Die Politisierung der Lyrik -- Wiener Volkstheater, Lokalposse, Genrebild: Nestroy und Glaßbrenner -- 5. Die Anfänge einer sozialistischen Literatur -- Die Begründung des wissenschaftlichen Kommunismus: Marx und Engels -- Die Darstellung der sozialen Realität: Weerth und Heine (II) -- Personenregister -- Die Verfasser.

Dackson reviews Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart.