Revolution und Revisionismus in Sprache, Geschichte und Recht

'Die Revolution 1989 ermöglichte einen geeinten Nationalstaat in Europa. Dies ist bislang im Westen nicht angenommen und im Osten nicht verkraftet. Im Osten wirkt die revisionistische Sprache der Postkommunisten, im Westen dominiert eine Sprache der political correctness, die sich im Zuge einer 'Auschwitz-Identität' und der 'Selbstanerkennung' des westlichen Teilstaats ausgebildet hat. Auch in der Wissenschaft haben DDR-Themen an Bedeutung verloren. Häufig wird der Diktaturcharakter der DDR bestritten. Ähnliches gilt für das bundesdeutsche Rechtswesen, das die politischen Akte der Revolution nicht berücksichtigt oder gar als rechtsstaatswidrig deklariert. In unsrer politischen Kultur sind kaum Spuren des Fundamentes zu erkennen, auf dem die vereinte Republik ruht, die Revolution von 1989.' (Autorenreferat)'The Revolution of 1989 made a unified German national state in Europe possible. Up to the present day, the West has not accepted this, nor has the East been able to take it. In the East, the revisionist language of post-communists dominates, and in the West, there is a language of political correctness which developed in the course of an 'Auschwitz identity' and of the 'self-acknowledgement' of the Western partial state. In academic areas too, GDR topics have lost in importance. Often, the dictatorial character of the GDR is denied. It goes similarly for the Federal German system of justice, which does not know the political aspects of the Revolution, or even declares them as infringing the constitutional state. In our political culture, there are hardly any traces of the fundament on which the unified Republic rests, the Revolution of 1989.' (author's abstract)

Servant Leadership, Trust, and the Organizational Commitment of Public Sector Employees in China

Servant leaders strive selflessly and altruistically to assist others before themselves, work to develop their followers to their greatest potential, and seek to benefit the wider community. This paper examines the trust-based mechanisms by which servant leadership influences organizational commitment in the Chinese public sector, using data from a survey of civil servants. Quantitative analysis shows that servant leadership strongly influences affective and normative commitment, while having no impact on continuance commitment. Furthermore, we find that affective trust rather than cognitive trust is the mechanism by which servant leadership induces higher levels of commitment. Our findings suggest that in a time of decreasing confidence levels in public leaders, servant leadership behavior may be used to reestablish trust and create legitimacy for the Chinese civil service

How Servant Leadership Influences Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Roles of LMX, Empowerment and Proactive Personality

While the link between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has been established, the individual-level mechanisms underlying this relationship and its boundary conditions remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigate the salience of the mediating mechanisms of leader-member exchange (LMX) and psychological empowerment in explaining the process by which servant leaders elicit discretionary OCB among followers. We also examine the role of followers’ proactive personality in moderating the indirect effects of servant leadership on OCB through LMX and psychological empowerment. Analysis of survey data collected from 446 supervisor-subordinate dyads in a large Chinese multinational firm suggests that while servant leadership is positively related to subordinate OCB through LMX, psychological empowerment does not explain any additional variance in OCB above that accounted for by LMX. Moderated mediation tests confirm the moderating effect of proactive personality through LMX. By providing a nuanced understanding of how and when servant leadership leads followers to go above and beyond their job role, our study assists organizations in deciding how to develop and utilize servant leaders in their organizations

Charakteristika der staatlichen Einbindung von Eliten und Bevölkerung in Ideokratien

"This paper shows that ideocracies, especially communist ideocracies, have a specific pattern of cooptation and incorporation of elites and ordinary citizens, which is different from all other political regime types. Ideocracies dominate society through and through by a net of measures that make the citizens materially dependent on the state, from which the individual citizen cannot escape. The strong concentration of the distribution of goods and positions in the hands of the ideocratic state goes hand in glove with the great power to repress non - co - opted people. However, there are trade - offs in the ideocratic pattern of cooptation. The tendency of ideocracies to infantilize its citizens, may provoke reluctance even among otherwise politically indifferent citizens. Nevertheless, despite the trade - offs, the specific pattern of cooptation and incorporation of citizens and elites might help to explain why communist ideocracies were very durable in comparison to other types of political regimes." (author's abstract