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Parlamente unterliegen vielfältiger Kritik. Umso wichtiger ist es, verlässliches Wissen über ihre rechtlichen und politischen Fundamente, ihre Aufgaben, Leistungen und Herausforderungen zu vermitteln. Demokratie, in der die Gesellschaft in ihrer Pluralität insgesamt zum Ausdruck kommt und Integration gewinnt, ist ohne funktionierenden Parlamentarismus nicht vorstellbar. Nach dem Grundgesetz stellt seine Mehrheit die Regierung. Zugleich gibt die Opposition Minderheiten ihre Stimme. Doch längst verlangen komplexe Probleme die Begleitung politischer Positionen von sachlicher Rationalität. Dem entspricht die Priorität des Bundestags als Arbeitsparlament, dessen Entscheidungskompetenz zusätzlich eingewoben ist in die föderalen und europäischen Strukturen. Wie er unter diesen Bedingungen zukunftsorientiert seine legislative wie kommunikative Funktionen erfüllen kann, ist die Leitfrage dieser Dokumentation.

"Diversity: A Key Idea for Business and Society introduces an idea that proliferates business and society, having been incorporated into mainstream theory and practice. Beyond this multidisciplinary setting, how diversity is defined, framed, managed, and regulated is also exposed to considerable social, economic, political and ideological interpretation and manipulation. This volume explores definitions of diversity, its various manifestations, and interdisciplinary influences that shape how diversity is researched. The text turns to workforce diversity as a particular case of diversity and explores antecedents, correlates, and consequences of workforce diversity. The author considers power, inequality, and intersectionality to illuminate the subject from the key manifestations, including class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability. With insights from an array of fields from economics, through management to biology, the author also highlights the various cases against diversity alongside analysis of how to navigate the diversity jungle in practice. This concise, authoritative book will be essential reading for students, researchers and reflective practitioners interested in workforce diversity as well as unique supplementary reading across the social sciences"--

The book investigates the quest for international security in mid-19th century Germany from a new and inspiring perspective. Under the influence of international events, Germans believed that they lived in dangerous times when relations between countries and nations were increasingly defined by the law of the strongest instead of written law. Regardless of their origin, political views, gender and social status they participated in debates about the future of Germany, Europe and the world and tried to determine how to better ensure external security, develop justice and achieve a more stable peace. This fundamental but hitherto historiographically neglected process became manifest in numerous phenomena analysed independently in the past such as the participation in the organised peace movement, the rise of German nationalism, the call for land and naval armaments, the aspiration to colonial expansion, the birth of Realpolitik and the concept of Mitteleuropa, and the deterioration in relations and wars with other nations. Although it did not last long, the process became significant for the negative consequences it had for the rest of the century. For today's reader it presents a warning about how society is impacted and the stability of an international order is undermined by a declining confidence in international justice and the durability of peace