Justice as a societal and political matter. Equality, social and legal security as conditions for democracy and the market
 

1st Changing Europe Summer School

Justice as a societal and political matter.

Equality, social and legal security as conditions for democracy and the market

Berlin (Germany) 24 – 29 July 2006

Organised by the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen together with the German Association for East European Studies. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.




Participants and papers

Selected papers have been published in the Changing Europe book series.


Maria Aluchna (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)

Emerging corporate governance in transition economies. Evidence from Poland




Aisalkyn Botoeva (Program Coordinator. Academic Fellowship Program, office in Central Asia and Mongolia, Open Society Institute, Higher Education Support Program, Kyrgyzstan)

The institutionalisation of novel shopping places in a post Soviet country. The case of supermarkets in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan




Oksana Danylenko, Oleg Danylenko (Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University, Ukraine, National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Ukraine)

Justice and "construction" of history: a lingua-conflictological analysis




Georgi Dimitrov (Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Culture, Institutional Change and Justice in Eastern Europe after 1989: The Case of Bulgaria




Aleksandra M. Duda (University of Birmingham, UK)

The Revolution of the Youth. Youth activism as the driving force behind the development of democratic opposition campaigns. A comparative study of the Georgian Kmara and Ukrainian Pora movements and their impact on emerging Russian youth movements




David Duncan (Queen's University Kingston.Ontario, Canada)

Multiculturalism as a Tool for Migrant Integration




Elke Fein (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany)

Re-defining justice and legitimacy in the post-Soviet space. The case of the first Russian Constitutional Court




Christina Gentzik (Centre for European Studies. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków )

The City of Danzig/Gdansk as a Common Place of Remembrance in Germany and Poland




Gheorghe Calin Goina (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Social stratification and re-stratification in a Transilvanian village from the 40’s until the 60’s – the transition to state-socialism.




Kiryl Haiduk (Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University)

Social Justice and Capital Taxation. Theory and the Experience of Selected EU Economies




Tor-Inge Harbo (Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo)

Justifying redistribution in the EU. An alternative approach




Stela Ivanova (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany)

In Search of a Just Balance between Opposing Interests. Enforcement of Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters in Eastern Europe with a Focus on Bulgaria




Noemi Kakucs (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)

Women in European Societies. Societal Justice East and West




Nadezhda Kapitsyna (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

Limits of tax reform efficiency. The influence of political and institutional factors




Elena Kapustkina (Department of Economic Sociology, St.-Petersburg State University)

Societal justice and corporate social responsibility in Russia.




Katerina Koleva (University of Saarland, Germany)

Restitution of Expropriated Property in Eastern Europe. The restrictive approach and available remedies with a special emphasis on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights related to restitution




E. Carina H. Keskitalo (Department of Political Science, University of Umeå, Sweden)

Vulnerability in forestry, fishing and reindeer herding systems in northern Europe and Russia




Csongor Kuti (Central European University, Hungary)

Justice and Reparation




Oksana Morgunova (PhD student and a researcher University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Making cakes in Scotland. Sweet memories and bitter experiences




Damiana Gabriela Otoiu (Bucharest University, Rumania/ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Restitution policies and national identity in post-communist Romania. The case of the Jewish Community




Sviatlana Parcheuskaya (Socio-Economic Department of the Trade Union Association of the Vitebsk Region, Belarus)

Jobs and Justice. Searching employment solutions for a ‘laggard’ transition economy




Filip Raciborski (Institute for Social Studies at Warsaw University, Poland)

Gender Inequality in Parliamentary Elections in Poland. Party Decisions or Voters’ Behaviour




Sigrid Rand (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main, Germany)

Skills Formation and the Knowledge Gap in the Learning Economy: The Case of Estonia




Anastasiya Ryabchuk (University of Cambridge)

Nostalgia and solidarity. Social suffering in post-communist societies




Slawomir Rzeszótko (Institute of International Studies, Wroclaw, Poland)

European Normative Power and the Risk of Unjustness through Identity Creation Practices




Alla M. Samoletova (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)

Does party system consolidation lead to political justice? Political party competition in a comparative perspective




Susanne Schatral (Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies, University of Bremen)

Stop Violence. Framing Strategies of Russian Women’s NGOs




Diana Schmidt (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Anti-Corruption Advocacy - in Contemporary Russia? Local Civil Society Actors between International and Domestic Contexts




Irina Tolmacheva (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

Democracy as a condition for the strengthening of presidential power in Russia




Alissa Tolstokorova (Head of the Centre for Research on Family. State Institute for Family and Youth Issues of the Ministry of Ukraine on Family, Youth and Sports)

The Linguistic Dimension of Gender Justice. Implications for Central and Eastern Europe




Kyriaki Topidi (Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland)

EU law, enlargement and minority protection. New rights v. new methods




Svetlana Tvorogova (Moscow State University, Higher School of Economics, Russia)

Toy of the rich or an instrument for change? Mapping youth political movements in Russia




Aleksandra Wyrozumska (Jean Monnet Center of European Studies, University of Bremen)

Enhancing Inclusion in the European Union. The European Stakeholder Citizenship Model




Anna Zaitseva (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

The Emergence of Social Justice as a Mechanism of Interest Coordination in Work Organisations