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The leaders of youth programs encounter a range of challenging situations that involve youth's parents or families. This qualitative study obtained data on the variety and nature of these family-related "dilemmas of practice." Longitudinal interviews with leaders of 10 high quality programs for high-school-aged youth yielded narrative information on a sample of 32 family dilemmas that they had encountered. Grounded theory analysis identified four categories of family dilemmas: 1) problems at home that become a concern to the leader, 2) parents' expectations are incongruent with program norms or functioning, 3) parents do not support youth's participation in the program or an aspect of the program, and 4) communicating with parents on sensitive matters. Each of these categories of dilemmas entailed distinct considerations and underlying issues that effective leaders need to be able to understand.

Der folgende Beitrag befasst sich mit der Erfassung islamistischer Radikalisierungsprozesse durch die Rhetorik. Der Protest politischer Islamisten wird anhand von Indikatoren wie Protestaktionen oder einer konfrontativen Rhetorik zur Mobilisierung politischer Gewalt und terroristischer Anschläge gemessen. Das Ziel dieses Beitrages ist, das Gefahrenpotenzial durch politische Islamisten am Beispiel der mobilisierenden Rhetorik der islamistischen Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) besser einzuschätzen.English AbstractThe following article deals with the analysis of Islamic radicalization processes through rhetoric. The protest of political Islamists is measured by indicators such as protest actions or confrontational rhetoric to mobilise political violence and terrorist attacks. The aim of this article is to better assess the potential dangers posed by political Islamists using the example of the mobilising rhetoric of the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT). The article was written in German.

Contrary to conventional belief, IR theorist Quincy Wright & his cohort before WWII were neither idealists, legalists, nor moralists. Deeply grounded in the realism & pragmatism that marked the U of Chicago's interwar climate, Wright applied an ethically neutral & empirical approach to understanding international relations. Unlike the stereotypical interwar theorist, Wright eschewed legalism. He recognized that a struggle for power drove international politics & would continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Above all, Wright embraced the complexities of international politics, rejecting monocausal explanations for war or simplistic frameworks for understanding international relations. Adapted from the source document.

The debate on personalization in electoral politics is inconclusive. There is confusion about the concept of personalization. Moreover, the fact that party evaluation and person evaluation are interrelated complicates the debate. This paper focuses on the latter problem by employing counterfactual thought experiments in which voters are asked to simulate their vote with their candidate lower on the party list or nominated by another party. The results show that most voters put party above person and less than ten percent put person above party. A sizeable third category has a preference for an individual candidate as long as that candidate does not leave the party. Also, personalization is slightly more important with regard to (the leaders of) populist parties, and individual candidates are more important for voters with less education, less political knowledge and a less deeply rooted party preference. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]