Debating the European debt crisis: Government leadership, party ideology and supranational integration as focal points of parliamentary debates in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom. ACES Cases No. 2012.3

Parliamentary debates about the resolution of the EU debt crisis seem to provide a good example for the frequently assumed “politicizationˮ of European governance. Against this background, the paper argues that in order to make sense of this assumption, a clearer differentiation of three thematic focal points of controversies – with regard to the assessment of government leadership, concerning the debate between competing party ideologies within the left/right dimension, and with regard to the assessment of supranational integration – is needed. Applying this threefold distinction, the paper uses a theory of differential Europeanization to explain differences in the thematic structure of debates in the Austrian Nationalrat, the British House of Commons, and the German Bundestag. Empirically, the paper is based on data gained from the computer-based coding of plenary debates about the resolution of the European debt crisis between 2010 and 2011.

The Legal Construction of Membership: Nationality Law in Germany and the United States. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers No. 00.5, 2000

The argument of this paper is that several empirical puzzles in the citizenship literature are rooted in the failure to distinguish between the mainly legal concept of nationality and the broader, political concept of citizenship. Using this distinction, the paper analysis the evolution of German and American nationality laws over the last 200 years. The historical development of both legal structures shows strong communalities. With the emergence of the modern system of nation states, the attribution of nationality to newborn children is ascribed either via the principle of descent or place of birth. With regard to the naturalization of adults, there is an increasing ethnization of law, which means that the increasing complexities of naturalization criteria are more and more structured along ethnic ideas. Although every nation building process shows some elements of ethnic self-description, it is difficult to use the legal principles of ius sanguinis and ius soli as indicators of ethnic or non-ethnic modes of community building.

Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in Germany and the United States. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.1, 13 December, 2004

Over the twentieth century, a growing group of students has been transferred into considerably expanded special education systems. These programs serve children with diagnosed impairments and disabilities and students with a variety of learning difficulties. Children and youth “with special educational needs” constitute a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, and physical disadvantages. An increasingly large percentage of those students at risk of leaving school without credentials participate in special education, a highly legitimated low status (and stigmatizing) school form. While most countries commit themselves to school integration or inclusive education to replace segregated schools and separate classes, cross-national and regional comparisons of special education’s diverse student bodies show considerable disparities in their (1) rates of classification, (2) provided learning opportunities, and (3) educational attainments. Analyzing special education demographics and organizational structures indicates which children and youth are most likely to grow up less educated and how educational systems distribute educational success and failure. Findings from a German-American comparison show that which students bear the greatest risk of becoming less educated depends largely on definitions of “special educational needs” and the institutionalization of special education systems.

Critical Tasks Facing Western Europe and the United States in a Period of Change and Transition. Address by Martin J. Hillenbrand, Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. Department of State Bulletin, 441.2 (103). 7 June, 1971

No abstract.

Impacts of sediment and nutrients on biota in surface waters of the United States /

"Grant no. R804868020."

Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817 /

"Printed by A. Strahan ... London" -- Colophon

Evaluation of the handling of the Branch Davidian stand-off in Waco, Texas by the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation /

"October 8, 1993."

A new and complete treatise on the arts of tanning, currying, and leather-dressing : comprising all the discoveries and improvements made in France, Great Britain, and the United States : edited from notes and documents of Messrs. Sallerou, Grouvelle, Duval, Dessables, Labarraque, Payen, René, de Fontenelle, Malepeyre, etc. etc. /

Spine title: Tanning, currying and leather dressing.

List of plant breeders in Canada and the United States of America; a reference list of classified information giving the addresses and activities of plant breeders in these countries.

Supplement; World list of plant breeders. (105 p.) issued in 1952 (Rome, Italy)

Our visit to Toronto, the Niagara Falls and the United States of America; being a short account of a tour in connection with the meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held at Toronto, Canada, August 18 to 25, 1897,

A trip to Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, the Catskills, Hudson River, and New York City.

Arbitration of the title to islands in Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy : mixed commission under Article IV of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of December 24, 1814.

Added t.-p.: Moore, J. B. International adjudications, ancient and modern ... Modern series. vol. VI.

Poison-ivy and poison-sumac; their growth habits and variations, including distribution in Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the United States, with special reference to Illinois.

Bibliography: p. 35-36.

The credit system in France, Great Britain, and the United States.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms (n.d.) (American Culture Series, Reel 378.10)

The Canadian crisis and Lord Durham's mission to the North American colonies : with remarks, the result of personal observation in the colonies and the United States, on the remedial measures to be adopted in the North American colonies.

Signed: M.N.O.