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An examination of excessive state violence against social challenges within weak or poorly consolidated states maintains that officials tend to react from a position of insecurity based on a lack of sufficient resources to exercise power "broadly" across a large geographic area or "deeply" across many elements of social life. Strong social challenges have the potential to weaken state power or generate a larger mobilization that authorities are unable to control. State violence against challengers is easier to understand when consideration is given to the ability of protests & insurgencies to prevent officials from consolidating power or building hegemony. A framework for thinking about relationships between social challengers & weak, poorly consolidated state authorities is presented to shed light on why some seemingly harmless social movements are met with extremely harsh government responses while other seemingly more formidable groups are treated in a far less brutal manner. The implications for prediction are discussed & suggestions are made for further research. 3 Figures, 38 References. J. Lindroth

Der Verfasser nennt drei Gründe dafür, dass die Frage der Bildungspolitik für Minderheiten in Südosteuropa heute eine hohe Bedeutung hat: die in der Region ablaufenden Prozesse der Nationen- und Staatenbildung, die Armut in der Region sowie die lange Tradition zwischenethnischer Spannungen und Konflikte. Er gibt einen Überblick über Bildungssysteme und gesetzlich verankerte Minderheitenrechte auf dem Balkan und zeigt am Beispiel des vom OSZE-Büro in Sarajevo verfassten "Action Plan on the Education Needs of Roma and Members of Other National Minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina", wie bildungspolitische Minderheitenrechte implementiert werden können. Der Verfasser setzt sich abschließend mit der gesellschaftstheoretischen Dimension der behandelten Problematik auseinander. (ICE). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten.

An examination of excessive state violence against social challenges within weak or poorly consolidated states maintains that officials tend to react from a position of insecurity based on a lack of sufficient resources to exercise power "broadly" across a large geographic area or "deeply" across many elements of social life. Strong social challenges have the potential to weaken state power or generate a larger mobilization that authorities are unable to control. State violence against challengers is easier to understand when consideration is given to the ability of protests & insurgencies to prevent officials from consolidating power or building hegemony. A framework for thinking about relationships between social challengers & weak, poorly consolidated state authorities is presented to shed light on why some seemingly harmless social movements are met with extremely harsh government responses while other seemingly more formidable groups are treated in a far less brutal manner. The implications for prediction are discussed & suggestions are made for further research. 3 Figures, 38 References. J. Lindroth

AbstractThe government has recently signalled its determination to address both the symptoms and causes of homelessness through the introduction of new legislation requiring local authorities within England and Wales to develop strategic approaches to addressing this issue. Moreover, in common with many other areas of social provision in recent years, the "joining‐up" of services has been identified as a central tenet of these new approaches. In the case of homelessness, then, experience gleaned from other policy fields may prove an invaluable resource, in terms both of guiding approaches and in avoiding potential pitfalls. This paper examines the findings from a study undertaken within one Midlands city to investigate this assumption. Based upon evidence from this study it is suggested that, while precedent can offer this particular policy area valuable lessons, homelessness is an issue which, due to its multi‐dimensionality, offers new and unique challenges of its own.