Introduction. Social Rights, Active Citizenship and Governance in the European Union

Intersections. EEJSP_Vol1_No2

“…Nevertheless, some exemplary efforts along this line have taken place in sociological research of the past two and a half decades and these have concluded in acknowledgeable success: the revealed new results of Eastern contribution found their way also to mainstream Western sociology and, parallel to this, 'Easterners' gained substantial reputation and longer-term safe involvement in East-West collaborative research (Bruszt and Stark, 1998;Einhorn, 2002;Ladányi and Szelényi, 2006;Young and Kaczmarek, 2008;Boje and Potucek, 2011) . The lessons of the past 25 years of cooperation when Easterners turned around the wheel (or instigated Westerners to go along in such an exercise) can perhaps be fruitfully capitalised on in thinking about the preconditions of more balanced endeavours in East-West research.…”

Zivilgesellschaft, ländlicher Raum und Grenzregion: ein deutsch-polnisches Beispiel

“…Dies lässt sich an der großen Zahl der Publikationen festmachen, die gerade in den letzten Jahren entstanden sind und sich hauptsächlich theoretisch, teilweise aber auch praktisch mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen (Hafeneger, Jansen, Niebling 2005;Münch 2006;Brocke, Karsten 2007;Krüger 2008;Boje, Potucek 2011;Friedrich 2011;Widmaier, Nonnenmacher 2011 (Dorgeloh, Höck, Waldmann 2003;Gensicke et al 2009;Barthel 2010) von denen sich keine mit den transnationalen Aspekten explizit beschäftigt.…”

Explaining Collaboration and Commitment in Danish Non-Profit Organizations: Linking Institutional Environments to Outcomes

“…Two important dimensions were identified: Collaboration and organizational commitment. Both elements are highly relevant for the increasing political focus on collaboration across sectors and organizations, as well as for the increasing focus on active citizenship, user involvement and voluntary work (Boje 2011;Thøgersen 2012;Produktivitetskommissionen 2014). Collaboration is operationalized as the welfare providers' relations with other providers as well as with the municipality.…”

“…The institutional environment also affects organizational commitment among leaders, employees and users -operationalized by organizational involvement and voluntary work which are important aspects of active citizenship (Hvinden and Johansson 2007;Boje 2011). Among the selected institutional elements in the analytical framework, results show that legal rules, the degree of regulation and the characteristics of funding are of particular interest: These factors affect possibilities for self-determination, which again affects the degree of organizational commitment among leaders, employees and users.…”

“…In the new political climate where collaboration between sectors and hybrid constellations have become more common (Evers 2005;Smith 2010), it is important to investigate how collaboration within and between sectors actually unfolds, and how the institutional environment affects this collaboration. Moreover, in light of sparse financial resources and increasing focus on voluntary work, it is important to analyse how the institutional environment affects organizational commitment, -corresponding to the notion of active citizenship (Hvinden and Johansson 2007;Boje 2011) -a concept with political focus in many Danish municipalitiesincluding the case municipalities in this study.…”