EV gegen vereinsinterne Disziplinarmaßnahme / Vorrang des vereinsinternen Instanzenzuges

Vereinsinterne Ma?nahmen – hier der Ausschluss eines Fu?ballspielers von der Teilnahme an Pflichtspielen – k?nnen gem §§ 7 und 8 VerG erst nach Aussch?pfung des vereinsinternen Instanzenzuges oder nach Ablauf von sechs Monaten gerichtlich überprüft werden. Das schlie?t es aber nicht aus, dass bei Drohen eines unwiederbringlichen Schadens durch einstweilige Verfügung der (erst künftig einklagbare) Anspruch auf Feststellung der Unwirksamkeit oder Unterlassung gesichert werden kann. Die gerichtliche überprüfung von Vereinsbeschlüssen ist jedenfalls insoweit zul?ssig, als grundlegende Verfahrensregeln missachtet wurden oder der Beschlussinhalt gesetz- oder sittenwidrig ist.     

Antrag auf VU gegen den nicht erschienenen Kläger / Mündlichkeitsgrundsatz

Der Grundsatz der Mündlichkeit der Verhandlung gilt insofern nicht, als er durch Sondernormen eingeschr?nkt ist. § 396 ZPO ist eine solche Sondernorm. Neben einem Antrag auf F?llung eines Vers?umungsurteils gegen einen nicht erschienenen Kl?ger bedarf es daher nicht auch noch des Vortrags des in der Klagebeantwortung erstatteten Vorbringens und der Wiederholung des Antrags auf Klagsabweisung.     

Tauglichkeit eines Erpressungsversuchs

Wenn ein Opfer auch ohne erpresserische N?tigung zur verlangten Leistung bereit ist, fehlt es an der Kausalit?t zwischen T?terverhalten und Taterfolg, weshalb von einer im Versuchsstadium stecken gebliebenen Tat auszugehen ist. Absolute Untauglichkeit dieses Versuchs war im vorliegenden Fall nicht anzunehmen.     

Zum Erfordernis eines Teilurteils trotz "Außerstreitstellung" des Mietzinsrückstandes

Bei Verbindung von Mietzins- und R?umungsbegehren ist ein Teilurteil auch dann zwingend zu erlassen, wenn zwar die H?he des qualifizierten Mietzinsrückstandes im darauf gestützten R?umungsprozess nicht strittig ist, aber der Mieter behauptet, er sei nach § 1096 ABGB von der Mietzinszahlung ganz oder teilweise befreit; dies gilt auch bei Au?erstreitstellung des Rückstandes der H?he nach. Das Teilurteil geht bei der Kombination von Mietzinsund R?umungsklage dem Rückstandsbeschluss zwingend vor.     

Reproduktion als Praxis

The interdependency of ?production“ and ?reproduction“ has increasingly attracted the attention of the scientific community and the media. Biological and social reproductions are topics of family and gender studies: In family research reproduction is analysed as a basic function of the family; in gender research reproduction is mainly studied as a factor that effects social inequality. While sociological research was for a long-time concentrated on the ?conciliation“ of ?work“ and ?(family) life“, nowadays a change of perspective is necessary: How can employees maintain their psychological and physical strength when the work sphere becomes more and more flexible? How can they safeguard their social relationships? The article connects the categories ?work-strength –life-strength “ as a perspective that considers the structural and contradictory relationship of ?work“ and ?life“. With the concept of ?doing reproduction“, individual efforts are brought in the centre of research. Hereby is shown that the functionality of reproduction as a social sphere is fundamentally based on reproduction as an individual practice.     

Erzählungen des Kindes‐ und Erwachsenenschutzes: Eine Anwendung und Erweiterung des Narrative Policy Frameworks

The Child and Adult Protection Authorities (KESB) have been the subject of controversial discussion since their establishment in 2013. The reform of the Guardianship Law provided for an institutional shift away from local guardianship authorities to regional specialist authorities. This article uses the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine the history of today’s controversy, simultaneously proposing an analytic strengthening of said framework. Previous NPF studies summarize policy actors into opponents and proponents. As a result, we do not know whether different actors use different narratives. We therefore separate the expert from the MP discourse. The analysis shows that the experts' arguments for a new institutional arrangement and a person‐oriented narrative dominated, which put the fundamental rights of the persons affected by guardianship measures up front. The study contributes to the understanding of the current controversy, in which a person‐oriented narrative seems to be dominant again, directed against the new authorities.     

Policy Adoption and Policy Intensity: Emergence of Climate Adaptation Planning in U.S. States

The United States is experiencing growing impacts of climate change but currently receives a limited policy response from its national leadership. Within this policy void, many state governments are stepping up and taking action on adaptation planning. Yet we know little about why some states adopt State Adaptation Plans (SAPs), while others do not. This article investigates factors that predict the emergence of SAPs, both in terms of policy adoption and policy intensity (goal ambitiousness). Applying the diffusion of innovation theory, I consider the relative influence of internal state characteristics, regional pressures, and test for conditional effects between government ideologies and severity of the problem. The results show interesting differences between predictors that influence policy adoption and ambitiousness. States are more motivated to adopt a policy when faced with greater climate vulnerability, have more liberal citizenry, and where governments have crossed policy hurdles by previously passing mitigation plans. The intensity of policies and goal setting, moreover, is more likely to be driven by interest group politics and diffuse through policy learning or sharing information among neighboring states in Environmental Protection Agency regions. These findings support an emerging scholarship that uses more complex dependent variables in policy analysis. These variables have the potential to differentiate symbolic from substantive policies and capture finer information about predictors of importance.     

Making a Place for Alternative Technologies: The Case of Agricultural Bio‐Inputs in Argentina

This article characterizes the ways in which the actors in charge of designing and implementing public policies intervene to promote the emergence of alternatives to problematic technologies. It is based on a case study conducted in Argentina that focuses on initiatives to promote the development of biological agricultural inputs in the context of increasingly controversial chemical inputs. The study spotlights the political, institutional, and semantic efforts made by policy makers and public administrations to ensure these new inputs find their way into organizations and onto their agendas. Their work consists in attenuating the boundaries between chemical and biological inputs, and reducing opposition by creating categories and organizations that downplay potential dissension and highlight the possible coexistence of technological paradigms. Contrary to what the injunctions of technological substitution suggest, we show that putting alternative technologies on the public agenda depends largely on their inclusion in institutional and regulatory infrastructures originally designed for technologies that are likely to decline. More broadly, it relies on the construction of continuity between the two types of technologies.