Before and during the Civil Rights era, mass protests were very effective
in bringing attention to blatant racial inequalities. How do black churches address
racism that seemingly is not there in a post-Civil Rights colorblind era? A growing
trend amongst black churchgoers in the post-Civil Rights period is that of
megachurches and neo-Pentecostalism.

The CCP government has adopted a very pragmatic strategy of
“performance legitimacy” since China began its reform. It means that the
government relies on accomplishing concrete goals such as economic growth, social
stability, strengthening national power, and “good governance” (governing competence
and accountability) to retain its legitimacy.

The CCP government has adopted a very pragmatic strategy of “performance legitimacy” since China began its reform. It means that the government relies on accomplishing concrete goals such as economic growth, social stability, strengthening national power, and “good governance” (governing competence and accountability) to retain its legitimacy. While it is able to attain considerable domestic support by implementing this strategy, it has no particular interest in pursuing democratization. This chapter tries to make sense of the main reasons why it has adopted this strategy and to evaluate the political and social outcome of its policies. The chapter intends to discover if China’s adaptation strategy is a “path dependent” decision, and if it will function as a potential catalyst for significant political change in the future. The chapter also explores what the Chinese government has achieved through its adaptation strategy and what and why it has been unwilling or unable to do to obtain an “original justification” of power. Zhu skillfully travels back and forth between the terrains of theory and practice to make better sense of legitimacy and governance in China’s experiences.

We present the argument that the meaning of child care and the policies that address it are explicitly linked with national ideologies, work force participation, economic success, and child outcomes. The relationship between family and child care policies is cyclical in nature, with a nation’s ideology and vision of family often driving child care policies, while child care policies in turn drive and support a nation’s ideology. We examine the interrelatedness of child care policy and national ideologies of family in selected industrialized countries. Specifically, this paper first defines child care policy and discusses the national ideological frameworks that provide the impetus for child care policy formation and implementation. Second, the paper explores current child care policies and their connection to the historical and political context of several countries within, including France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Belgium, the Nordic countries, and the United States. Lastly, recommendations are offered for the future of child care policy development with specific recommendations for child care policy development in the United States.

Die Lehrbefähigung, die Hochschullehrenden mit der Berufung bescheinigt wird, ist an die Lizenz gebunden, die Welt – im Falle des Lernens der Studierenden deren Lernprozesse – ‚in Ordnung‘ zu bringen, d. h. zu unterrichten, auszurichten, anzuleiten, zu beraten, anzuregen – welcher Lehrauffassung man auch immer anhängt. Kaum hat man je aus deutschen Hochschulen vernommen, dass Habilitationen oder Berufungen an der Feststellung mangelnder Eignung für die Lehre gescheitert seien.