Christian Adam

"Ziemlich lustige Gedichte" - der Titel bringt es auf den Punkt. Mit einer F lle von witzigen - zum Teil vielleicht aberwitzigen - Gedichten bring der Autor sein gesch tztes Publikum gekonnt zum Lachen, aber auch zum Nachdenken.

Despite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era’s most popular books were diverse and often surprising in retrospect, despite an oppressive ideological and cultural climate: Huxley’s Brave New World was widely read in the 1930s, while Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars was a great success during the war years. Bestsellers of the Third Reich surveys this motley collection of books, along with the circumstances of their publication, to provide an innovative new window into the history of Nazi Germany.

The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic government in three main ways. First, policy accumulation renders policy content increasingly complex, which crowds out policy substance from public debates and leads to an increasingly unhealthy discursive prioritisation of politics over policy. Secondly, policy accumulation comes with aggravating implementation deficits, as it produces administrative backlogs and incentivises selective implementation. Finally, policy accumulation undermines the pursuit of evidence-based public policy, because it threatens our ability to evaluate the increasingly complex interactions within growing policy mixes. The authors argue that the stability of democratic systems will crucially depend on their ability to make policy accumulation more sustainable.

Un parcours initiatique et libertin. Jusqu'o ira J r me par amour pour Manon et quel jeu pervers joue la sulfureuse Evelyne ? Quelle est la limite entre badinerie rotique et la perversion pathologique ? L'auteur nous entraine dans un genre litt raire dont il n'est pas coutumier. Il s'amuse avec les fantasmes qui nourrissent souvent plus notre imaginaire que notre quotidien.

This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the emergence of multilevel actors’ litigant configurations, the impact of actors’ constellations on success in court, as well as the impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they originate from.

En 2013une pand mie atteint la race humaine insidieusement. Sans sympt mes apparents, elle perturbe la f condit par son tropisme lectif pour les ovocytes f minins. La d natalit s'ccroit d s l'ann e suivante. Ledocteur Christian Audran, gyn cologue proche de la retraite, est dans les premiers percevoir la situation. Par les hasards de ses fonctions la soci t Scientifique de Gyn cologie Obst trique, il se retrouve confront aux boulversements auxquels l'humanit doit faire face et c toie le plus haut niveau politique. Il parvient d montrer l'existence du virus et l'identifier avec son quipe. Mais le vaccin tarde venir et la natalit d croit de mani re catastrophique. De m dical le probl me devient soci tal. Un homme politique avise, son ami Demoustier, affronte le probl me et devient pr sident de la r publique en 2027. Le pays, comme le monde entier, s'installe dans une situation in dite: 90% d'enfants en moins, quasi plus d' cole ni de maternit et un d fi d mographique majeur, la charge d'une population vieillissante. Une petite lueur d'espoir qui survient suffira t'elle sauver l'humanit ou la g n ration Omega sera t'elle vraiment la derni re g n ration de l'humanit ?

This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the emergence of multilevel actors’ litigant configurations, the impact of actors’ constellations on success in court, as well as the impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they originate from.

The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic government in three main ways. First, policy accumulation renders policy content increasingly complex, which crowds out policy substance from public debates and leads to an increasingly unhealthy discursive prioritisation of politics over policy. Secondly, policy accumulation comes with aggravating implementation deficits, as it produces administrative backlogs and incentivises selective implementation. Finally, policy accumulation undermines the pursuit of evidence-based public policy, because it threatens our ability to evaluate the increasingly complex interactions within growing policy mixes. The authors argue that the stability of democratic systems will crucially depend on their ability to make policy accumulation more sustainable.

This book unites scholarship on law and politics with compliance research in the EU to shed light on the political role of a neglected dimension of litigation in the EU: the political role of governmental actions for annulment. The book does not portray national governments as passive actors within the EU’s judicial arena. Instead it focuses on cases in which national governments turn to the Court of Justice to litigate against the European Commission, and provides several answers to the question of why EU member state governments take this decision. Governments hope, on the one hand, to evade costly domestic adjustments where the Commission uses administrative acts to interfere with domestic policy application. On the other hand, governments hope to provoke judicial law-making to influence the long-term development of EU administrative law and sectoral regulation. The book will be of particular interest to political scientists and legal scholars. .

Der Entfuhrungsfall des Jakob von Metzler hat in Deutschland eine hochemotionale Kontroverse um die Sinnhaftigkeit des Folterverbotes und die Gultigkeit des Unabwagbarkeitsdogmas des Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG ausgeloest. Insoweit wird in dieser Arbeit diskutiert, ob gegenuber einem Straftater die Folter zur Abwendung einer Gefahr zulassig sein kann und ob damit die Menschenwurdegarantie einer Abwagung mit anderen hochrangigen Grundrechten zuganglich ist. Der Frage der Unabwagbarkeit der Menschenwurde kommt daruber hinaus auch im Zusammenhang mit den Bedrohungen durch den internationalen Terrorismus eine erhebliche Bedeutung zu.