September 14, 2016, 11:36 a.m.,
Armin Müller,
Allgemein.
Most migrant workers in mainland China are officially covered by the New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS), a rural health insurance system that operates in their home communities. The NRCMS and the system of household registration (户口, hukou) are tightly linked and systemically interdependent institutions. Migrant workers have difficulties benefitting from this social protection because it remains spatially separated from them. Only a minority have access to urban health insurance systems. This paper sheds light on the institutional origins of the coverage problem of migrant workers and examines crucial policy initiatives that attempt to solve it. In the context of the ongoing hukou reforms, these policies aim to partially dissolve the systemic interdependence of hukou and health insurance. While the policies provide feasible, yet conflict-prone, solutions in short-distance and concentrated bilateral migration systems, covering migrants who cross provincial boundaries remains a challenge.
Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/964
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September 14, 2016, 11:36 a.m.,
Tao Liu,
Allgemein.
In 1999 the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) introduced the Regulation on the Minimum Living Standard Scheme(MLSS, 低保 or dibao) for urban residents in China. Policy learning from different parts of the world significantly shaped the formation and expansion of the MLSS, and Chinese social policy researchers have drawn conclusions about the experiences of these multiple regions. Through expert interviews, we discovered that the Chinese social assistance scheme has been influenced by the US ideas of “social investment” and “workfare.” Furthermore, the European values of “universal entitlement” and “social citizenship” have also been internalised by the Chinese actors behind the scheme. In addition, Hong Kong’s social assistance scheme has inspired Chinese policymakers to explore a model consisting of various categories that target the country’s enormous special welfare needs. Thus, scholars and policymakers from China have used values and ideas outside China to create a hybrid model of social assistance that is characterised by broad coverage, a low benefit level, and a highly provincial administrative structure.
Quelle: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/963
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September 14, 2016, 11:36 a.m.,
Tao Liu,
Allgemein.
In 1999 the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) introduced the Regulation on the Minimum Living Standard Scheme(MLSS, 低保 or dibao) for urban residents in China. Policy learning from different parts of the world significantly shaped the formation and expansion of the MLSS, and Chinese social policy researchers have drawn conclusions about the experiences of these multiple regions. Through expert interviews, we discovered that the Chinese social assistance scheme has been influenced by the US ideas of “social investment” and “workfare.” Furthermore, the European values of “universal entitlement” and “social citizenship” have also been internalised by the Chinese actors behind the scheme. In addition, Hong Kong’s social assistance scheme has inspired Chinese policymakers to explore a model consisting of various categories that target the country’s enormous special welfare needs. Thus, scholars and policymakers from China have used values and ideas outside China to create a hybrid model of social assistance that is characterised by broad coverage, a low benefit level, and a highly provincial administrative structure.
Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/963
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September 14, 2016, 11:36 a.m.,
Armin Müller,
Allgemein.
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2016: Marginalisation and State Intervention in China
Quelle: https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/962
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September 14, 2016, 11:36 a.m.,
Armin Müller,
Allgemein.
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2016: Marginalisation and State Intervention in China
Quelle: http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/962
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September 14, 2016, 4:57 a.m.,
Louise Thompson,
Allgemein.
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September 12, 2016, 8:00 a.m.,
Eisenhuth, S.,
Allgemein.
<span class="paragraphSection"><span style="font-style:italic;">Amnesiopolis. Modernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany</span>. By RubinEli. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. 208 pp. £50.00 (hardback).</span>
Quelle: https://academic.oup.com/gh/article/34/4/718/2726437/Amnesiopolis-Modernity-Space-and-Memory-in-East?rss=1
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September 9, 2016, 7:43 p.m.,
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies current issue,
Allgemein.
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September 9, 2016, 7:43 p.m.,
Lim, P. C. H.,
Allgemein.
In The Unintended Reformation, Brad Gregory answers a number of questions regarding the doctrinal diversity and hermeneutical pluralism that resulted from the fissiparous tendency noticeable among the Protestants, particularly thanks to their emphasis on sola scriptura. This essay offers the outlines of a more substantial and sophisticated narrative of the birth of modernity from the anvils of Reformation doctrinal wrangling. Instead of focusing solely on sola scriptura, the essay considers other interpretive supplements: (1) the Conciliarist vs. Curialist conflict and the corresponding issue of power struggle within church and state; (2) the discovery of the "racial and religious" other and the resultant issues endemic to Spanish colonialism, which had the unintended effect of vitiating the fabric of Catholicism's credibility; (3) the significance of immigration and refugee movements as an interpretive heuristc for both the Reformation period and the contemporary world.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/3/555?rss=1
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September 9, 2016, 7:43 p.m.,
Milbank, A.,
Allgemein.
This essay questions the current critical attitude toward medieval understandings of the body. It tests the limits of the contemporary "corporeal turn" by reassessing a textual crux in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love. Contesting the dominant, defecatory reading of the "fair purse" passage, it argues that interpretation of the image of the purse has suffered at the expense of current preoccupation with the material and allegedly digressive body. The essay uses lexical evidence to demonstrate the significance of ingestion as much as digestion to Julian's image, and to align the passage with her thought elsewhere in A Revelation. Ultimately, it argues that the full resonance of the passage lies in its relationship to the sacrament of the altar. This article thus contributes to debates on religion and the body, and more specifically to underexamined eucharistic dimensions of the body in Julian's theology.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/3/629?rss=1
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