This article undertakes an actor-centred case study of the European Parliament's (EP) reaction to the politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the most controversial EU trade negotiations in history, as structured by the behaviour of its political groups. Specifically, the article traces why and how the EP update...
Repetitive negative thinking (RNT)-such as worry and rumination-is an important transdiagnostic factor in the onset, course, and recurrence of depressive and anxiety disorders. This article describes a psychoeducational cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based group intervention entitled "Drop It" that focuses exclusively on treating RNT in patient...
'Unter dem Dach der Europaeischen Union (EU) und ihrer Vorlaeufer ist die politische Integration Europas ein gutes Stueck vorangekommen. Doch wie steht es mit der sozialen Integration innerhalb der Gemeinschaft? In diesem Artikel wird eine Definition von europaeischer Sozialintegration vorgestellt, die uns erst in die Lage versetzt, diese soziologi...
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'We assemble data from several different sources to examine the cross-national effects of inequality and trust on social expenditures. We find that the inequality between the middle classes and the poor (as measured by the 50/10 percentile ratio) has a small, positive impact but inequality between the ends of the distribution and middle class (meas...
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'In this paper, the concept of rituals to the field of collective action is applied. It is argued that rituals are not merely forces of 'being', but of 'becoming', that is, of the transformation of a group of individuals into a mutually recognized social unity. For this dynamic process to enjoy some success and culminate in the formation of a recog...
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