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Authors and Papers:

Heinz Suenker: (Faculty of Pedagogy, Center for International Studies in Social Policy and Social Services, University of Wuppertal, Germany. E-mail: suenker@uni-wuppertal.de): "Globalization, education and participation".

Vera Vratusa: (Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology Cika Ljubina 18-20, Beograd, Yugoslavia. E-mail: vvratusa@f.bg.ac.yu or vvratusa@sezampro.yu): "Globalization of Recolonization Complex Disaster by and for Financial Capital versus Globalization of Democratic Participation by and for the Working People".

Susana Salgado: (Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail: susana.salgado@ics.ul.pt): "Media and Politics Nowadays".

Michal Palgi: (Emek Yezreel College, Israel. E-mail: palgi@yvc.ac.il):"Commitment, Trust, Social Justice and the Quality of Social Existence".

Bock, Bettina, Wageningen University, Netherlands. E-mail: Bettina.Bock@wur.nl and Papadopoulos Apostolos, Harokopion University Athens, Greece. E-mail: apospapa@hua.gr.
Analysing effective stakeholder participation in new rural governance arrangements across countries: A comparison of the Netherlands and Greece.

Enserink, Bert, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. E-mail: b.enserink@tbm.tudelft.nl.
The ants in the kingdom of elephants. An explorative study into public participation in policy making in India and China.

Imbrasaitė, Jūratė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. E-mail: j.imbrasaite@ti.vdu.lt.

Development of NGOs in Rural and Urban Communities of Lithuania: Human, Social and Symbolic Capital.

Lagergren, Morten, Stockholm Gerontology Research Centre, Sweden. E-mail: marten.lagergren@aldrecentrum.se. Do elderly persons in need for care get what they want? - Questions about coverage, expectations and satisfaction in the Swedish care of the elderly system as revealed by the SNAC-study.

Rozanova, Julia, University of Alberta, Canada. E-mail: jrozanova@mail.ru.
Social engagement of older men and women in Canada: a critical comparison among the provinces.

Vasecka, Michal, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic. E-mail: mvasecka@fss.muni.cz.
Prospects for Integration of minority groups in EU 25. Do they have where to integrate?

Maciej Frykowski, Świętokrzyska Academy, Piotrkow, Poland and Paweł Starosta University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
E-mail: macfryko@poczta.onet.pl. Patterns of civic participation and types of social capital in rural communities of central Poland.

Economou, Aikaterina, Univ. of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. E-mail: vic_pec@yahoo.com.
“The social aspects of modern firms’ behaviour in the new competitive business environment”

Fafaliou, Irene, Univ. of Piraeus, E-mail: fafaliou@unipi.gr&Donaldson, John, Univ. of Leicester,E-mail: jed5124@fsbdial.co.uk.
“Privatization’s narrative of state-owned services: panacea or threat to businesses and labour forces democracy”

Kreissig, Volkmar IBB Minsk, Belarus. E-mail: volkmar@ibb.com.b; &ieb.chemnitz@chemonline.de:
"Participation and Privatisation in Enterprises - Comparison between Germany, Russia, Bulgaria and Belarus".

Lavy, Chaim, Bar Ilan University. E-mail: lavych@mail.biu.c.il:
“The Impact of Arab Jewish joint educational encounter”

Pazarzis, Michael, University of Piraeus, Maritime Studies Dept. and Nina-Pazarzi, Eleni, University of Piraeus.E-mail: enina@unipi.gr:
“Privatization and SME. Access to alternative dispute resolution in Greece”

Pekka-EconomouVictoria. University of Piraeus, e-mail:[[mailto:vic_pec@yahoo.com|vic­pec@yahoo.com]]).
“How privatization procedure and its perspective social implications, really benefit society and conduct to improved democracy?”

Symeonidou, Haris, National Centre for Social Research EKKE . E-mail: hsymeonidou@ekke.gr.
“Gender Participation in the Market and the Family. A Study of Southern European Countries”

Tsourvakas, George (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. E-mail: gtsourv@jour.auth.gr:
“The mixed model of 21st century Public organizations with profit and private organizations with social responsibility”

Daskalakis, Demosthenis, University of Athens, Dept of Primary Education. E-mail:ddaskal@primedu.uoa.gr.
“A view of organizational change from a global perspective: Reconsidering human experience, participation, and the role of culture”

Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. E-mail: Llang944@aol.com and Valentine Mohadam, Unesco, Paris,
vmmogha@yahoo.com. Cyber- democracy: The challenge to domination.

Tova Benski, Department of Behavioural Sciences, College of Management, Rishon-Leziyon Israel. E-mail: tbenski@colman.ac.il.
Women in Black and the struggle over a voice in the public space.

Janet McIntyre, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, Flinders University, Australia. E-mail: janet.mcintyre@flinders.edu.au.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself: implications for addressing democracy and ‘the enemies within'.

Hacek, Miro and Marjan Brezovsek, Ljubljana University, Slovenia. E-mail: miro.hacek@fdv.uni-lj.si.
The modernization processes of citizens participation in local government.

Mirella Baglioni, Department of Economics, University of Parma, Italy. E-mail:mirella.baglioni@unipr.it.
"Representative Participation: EWCs, Works Councils and sectoral unionism".

Shane Godfrey, Labour and Enterprise Project, University of Cape Town, South Africa. E-mail:godfrey@humanities.uct.ac.za.
"Management's ambivalence to worker participation schemes as a way of improving enterprise performance: Case studies in South Africa's fish processing industry".

Sabine Gensior, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany, sgensior@tu-cottbus.de and Lothar Lappe, Berliner Institut für Sozialforschung, Germany, lotharlappe@t-online.de.Self-Management of Work in the New Economy.

Marta Kahancova, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Holland. E-mail:m.kahancova@uva.nl.
"Local Solutions to Global Needs: Human Resource Management, Employee Participation and Effects on Organizational Performance and Employee Welfare in a Multinational Company".

Dmitry Khodyakov,Rutgers University,Department of Sociology, USA, E-mail: dkhodyakov@sociology.rutgers.edu.
"Trust, Control, and Optimal Distinctiveness in Creative Organizations: Insights from a Qualitative Analysis of a Conductorless Orchestra"