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Catholic Comments Podcast.
No full textResident Assistant Professor Max Engel discusses the ways in which Ignatian values impact the formation of teachers at Creighton University.
Engel holds a joint appointment in the Department of Theology and the Department of Education
Catholic Comments Podcast.
No full textDr. James J. Carney and Dr. Max Engel discuss a course they recently co-taught exploring the connections between spirituality and sports.
Dr. Carney (Theology) and Dr. Engel (Education/Theology) teach full time at Creighton University
Neopatrimonialism revisited : beyond a catch-all concept
No full textThe article provides a critical discussion of the literature on “patrimonialism” and "neopatrimonialism” as far as the use in Development Studies in general or African Studies in particular is concerned. To overcome the catch-all use of the concept the authors present their own definition of “neopatrimonialism” based on Max Weber’s concept of patrimonialism and legal-rational bureaucracy. However, in order to make the concept more useful for comparative empirical research, they argue, it needs a thorough operationalisation (qualitatively and quantitatively) and the creation of possible subtypes which, in combination, might contribute to a theory of neopatrimonial action.Der Artikel unterzieht die beiden Konzepte „Patrimonialismus“ und „Neopatrimonialismus“, wie sie in der entwicklungstheoretischen Literatur und in Afrikastudien Verwendung finden, einer kritischen Analyse. Damit dem Konzept des Neopatrimonialismus mehr als nur eine heuristische Bedeutung zukommen kann, präsentieren die Autoren eine eigene Definition des Begriffs, die sich eng an die Weber’schen Konzepte des Patrimonialismus und der legal-rationalen Bürokratie anlehnt. Darüber hinaus ist auf dieser Grundlage (1) eine sorgfältige (qualitative und/oder quantitative) Operationalisierung des Konzeptes und (2) die Bildung von möglichen Subtypen notwendig. Erst dann kann das Konzept sinnvoll für die vergleichende empirische Forschung eingesetzt und möglicherweise etwas wie eine neopatrimoniale Handlungstheorie entwickelt werden
Herrschaftsausübung bei offener Wirklichkeitsdefinition: das Proprium des Rechts aus der Perspektive des öffentlichen Rechts
No full textEventually, all law is about sovereign intervention. But public law is distinct from private law in that intervention is not only subsidiary. And it is distinct from criminal law in that intervention is undertaken with the intention to govern. This explains that taming sovereign powers features prominently in public law theory. In the second half of the 19th century, the founding father of German administrative law, Otto Mayer, has developed the control of sovereignty to perfection. In his system, administrative law is all about form. Purpose is legally irrelevant. The dynastic sovereign of his days was free to choose whatever purposes he deemed fit, provided he strictly respected legal form, and provided he got parliamentary approval whenever he intruded into freedom or property. In the meantime, all the preconditions for this definition of the discipline have disappeared. In Germany, Parliament is no longer the natural opponent of government. The constitution has reacted by material provisions that bind the legislator. The key topic of administrative law is purpose, not form. Administrative reality largely escapes legal formality. The legislator strives for social betterment, very broadly speaking, not just for providing citizens with an institutional framework for their dealings. Against this backdrop, the distinction between form and substance may no longer serve as the borderline between (administrative) law and the social sciences. This article offers an alternative demarcation. As in Otto Mayer's days, all law still is about the exercise of sovereign powers. But it also is about good governance. Both elements must be combined. Due to the first element, administrative law treats the second element in a way that differs from the approach in the social sciences. Specifically, administrative law is unable to precisely define the situation before it starts arguing about social betterment. It must permanently remain open to the unlikely features of the individual case
[Briefe und Postkarten an Carl Engel] / [Robert Musiol ; Theodor Mehring ; Gustav Gottschalk ; Karl Göttmann ; Welti ; Salomon ; Karl Theodor Gaedertz ; H. Elissen ; Rudolf Schäfer ; Max Grube]
No full text[BRIEFE UND POSTKARTEN AN CARL ENGEL] / [ROBERT MUSIOL ; THEODOR MEHRING ; GUSTAV GOTTSCHALK ; KARL GÖTTMANN ; WELTI ; SALOMON ; KARL THEODOR GAEDERTZ ; H. ELISSEN ; RUDOLF SCHÄFER ; MAX GRUBE]
[Briefe und Postkarten an Carl Engel] / [Robert Musiol ; Theodor Mehring ; Gustav Gottschalk ; Karl Göttmann ; Welti ; Salomon ; Karl Theodor Gaedertz ; H. Elissen ; Rudolf Schäfer ; Max Grube] (1)
Cover (1)
Brief von Karl Göttmann (5)
Postkarte von Dr. Welti (15)
Postkarte von Salomon (17)
Postkarte von Karl Theodor Gaedertz (19)
Postkarte von H. Elissen (21)
Postkarte von Rudolf Schäfer (23)
Brief von Max Grube (25)
Brief von Robert Musiol (27)
Brief von Theodor Mehring (31)
Brief von Gustav Gottschalk (33)
Briefumschlag von Robert Musiol (37
The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law
No full textMutual disdain is an effective border patrol at the demarcation lines between disciplines. Social scientists tend to react with disdain when they observe how their findings are routinely stripped of all the caveats, assumptions and careful limitations once they travel into law. Likewise, lawyers tend to react with disdain when they read all the laborious proofs and checks for what looks to them like a minuscule detail in a much larger picture. But mutual disdain comes at a high price. All cross-border intellectual trade is stifled. This paper explores the social science/law border from the legal side. The natural barriers turn out to be significant, but not insurmountable. Specifically the paper looks at the challenges of integrating rigorous descriptive social science into the application of the law in force by courts and administrative authorities. This is where the gap is most difficult to bridge. The main impediments are implicit value judgments inherent in models, conceptual languages and strictly controlled ways of generating empirical evidence; the difference between explanation, hypothesis testing and prediction, on the one hand, and decision-making, on the other; the ensuing difference between theoretical and practical reasoning, and the judicial tradition of engaging in holistic thinking; last but not least, the strife of the legal system for autonomy, in order to maintain its viability. If a legal academic assumes the position of an outside observer, she may entirely ignore all these concerns and simply follow the methodological standards of descriptive social science. This is, for instance, what most of law and economics does. The legal academic may, instead, choose to contribute to the making of new law. She will then find it advisable to partly ignore the strictures of rigorous methodology in order to be open to more aspects of the regulatory issue. But it is not difficult, at least, to follow the standards of the social sciences for analysing the core problem. The integration is most difficult if an academic does doctrinal work. But it is precisely here where the division of intellectual labour between legal practice and legal academia is most important. Academics who themselves are versatile in the respective social science translate the decisive insights into suggestions for a better reading of statutory provisions or case law.law and economics, law and statistics, explanation vs. decision-making, practical reasoning, psychology of judicial decision-making
At the origins of Engel curves estimation
No full textThis paper revisits Ernst Engel's (1857) original article in which he systematically investigated the relationship between consumption expenditure and income. While he is mainly remembered today for the discovery of Engel's law, we highlight how Engel addressed in a particular way the issue of the relation between statistical empirical analysis and economic theorizing. Inspired by an inductive methodology, Engel's method to inferempirical regularities made no a priori assumption on the estimated functional form and anticipates many aspects of current non-parametric regression methods. Furthermore, Engel devised a quasi-behavioral theory of consumption centered on the concept of wants to justify and explain his empirical results which he used to asses population living standards. Although incomplete, Engel's consumption theory tackles a much neglected issue in consumption theory: what accounts for the manner in which consumption patterns change as income rises
Satiation, escaping satiation, and structural change: Some evidence from the evolution of Engel curves
No full textCertain properties of Engel curves have been linked to the occurrence of structural change in the economy (Pasinetti 1981, Metcalfe et al. 2006, Saviotti 2001). From an empirical perspective, however, very little has been done to examine (i) whether indeed satiation is a general property of Engel curves; (ii) whether the rate at which Engel curves converge to satiation may significantly change over time; and (iii) how stable Engel curves are across time such that it may be appropriate to use them to make predictions about structural change. Using data from the UK Family Expenditure Survey, this paper examines these three issues
Comparing shapes of Engel curves
No full textWe measure how different the shapes of Engel curves are across 59 commodity groups. The same analysis is carried out for their derivatives and variances. While Engel curves possess a relatively homogeneous shape, significantly more heterogeneity is present in derivatives and when particular sub-classes of income are considered
Der Engel der Geduld und anderes [microform] : vier Erzählungen /
No full textFilmed with: Mein neuer Hut / Max Bernstein.Master Negative No. 96-0238.Der Engel der Geduld -- Das Lichtchen -- Das Kind im Schnee -- Der Hirtenknabe.Microfilm.Mode of access: Internet
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