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Während Hitler und seine Architekten die Umgestaltung Münchens zur monumentalen ""Hauptstadt der Bewegung"" planten, herrschte in der Stadt schwere Wohnungsnot. Die Abkehr von der öffentlichen Subventionierung des Mietwohnungsbaus und die Konzentration auf das Siedlungswesen hatten schon in den ersten Jahren der NS-Herrschaft unzureichende Bauleistungen zur Folge. Im Krieg kam der zivile Wohnungsbau vollends zum Erliegen. Die Reaktion der nationalsozialistischen Stadtverwaltung auf die Wohnungsproblematik war nicht nur für München von Bedeutung, da Oberbürgermeister Fiehler als Vorsitzender de

The study of Political Science has much to offer college students. The program broadens our understanding of ourselves & our world. However, I argue that this is not a sufficient basis upon which to build a college major, especially in light of changing economic circumstances & changing educational demands from our students. Students increasingly come to college to earn degrees that will lead to employment, & most undergraduates do not perceive of the BA in Political Science as a gateway degree, but rather as a terminal degree. Our failure to offer the BA as a terminal degree harms our programs & our graduates. I offer three solutions to the dilemma of Political Science: eliminate the BA program entirely; use our elective offerings to guide students into gaining useful job skills while earning a BA in Political Science; & revamp the BA program to be a terminal degree program, offering real job skills integrated into our overall course offerings. 1 Table, 1 Figure, 1 Appendix, 46 References. Adapted from the source document.

In order to counter the economic crisis of the recent years, fiscal stimulus programs have been launched in numerous economies around the globe. In February 2009, the United States of America decided to spend a nominal amount of 787 billion U.S. dollars to support the economy, accounting for 5.5% of annual GDP. The U.S. are all but alone on this track. In the face of the crisis, political decision makers from several nations have agreed on fiscal expansions of significant size. For economists, it is therefore important to ask how effective such supportive actions of governments are, and what kind of circumstances can create grounds for effective policies. Economic openness of countries is a determining factor in this respect, which is gaining more importance as globalization is accelerating. As a result of the crisis, and of the sovereign debt of several countries reaching dangerously high levels, financial markets and foreign exchange markets have shown severe reactions. Relative interest rate ratios between countries and exchange rates between national currencies have changed dramatically. These developments have even caused central banks to fundamentally change the paradigm of their policy, as it is the case for the Swiss National Bank.

This volume presents a selection of Alasdair MacIntyre's classic essays on ethics and politics, focussing particularly on the themes of moral disagreement, moral dilemmas, and truthfulness and its importance. They will appeal to a wide range of readers across philosophy and especially in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and theology

When undergraduates want to study legislatures, more often than not their choice is limited to a course on Congress, although they may find a course on the legislative process which includes attention to state legislatures. This is hardly a cause for student discontent. The first, and often the only, ambition of political science students is to learn about the American system of government. That is why the introductory course in the discipline is usually a course in American government, why courses on state and local politics are entirely concerned with the United States, why courses on political parties are really about the Democratic and Republican parties, and why there are hardly any courses on the executive at all since the only subject in that area which is taught is the American presidency.It was not always so. A century ago, as curricula in political science developed in American universities, a general, theoretical concept of politics, derived from continental and particularly German approaches to the subject predominated. The focus on American politics came a full generation later, inspired by a concern for citizenship training and by the prospect of large captive audiences in classrooms of students fulfilling teacher certification requirements.America First was consistent with the mood of the United States in the 1920s, but less so in the 1930s and 1940s. In those decades student interest in non-American politics revived in response to the nation's involvement in world affairs, and this interest was expressed in the curriculum by separate courses, often misnamed "comparative government." These were frequently courses in a series of major foreign governments, shaped by the writing and teaching of a new cohort of emigré faculty who revived the European influence on American political science. In this form the study of what was called "comparative government" gained a larger place in the curricula of departments of political science. But as a subfield of the discipline, comparative government remained too small, and the approach was too country-specific, to permit sub-specialization except by geographic areas. There was no place in it for courses on non-American legislatures, or executives, or political parties.