Aktuelle Publikationen
Auf dieser Seite finden Sie die chronologisch geordneten Veröffentlichungen unserer Wissenschaftler*innen aus den vergangenen Jahren.
Aktuelle Publikationen (Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft)
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(2009): Vom ungeliebten Störenfried zum akzeptierten Paradigma? Zum Stand der (Neuen) Politischen Ökonomie in Deutschland Politische Vierteljahresschrift. 2009, 50(3), pp. 539-576. ISSN 0032-3470. eISSN 1862-2860. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11615-009-0147-0
Der Beitrag präsentiert den Stand der ökonomischen Analyse von Politik in Deutschland. Nach einer kurzen Skizze des Grundmodells, der Gegenstandsbereiche und des analytischen Instrumentariums wird der Forschungsstand in den einzelnen Teildisziplinen der Politikwissenschaft dargestellt. Dabei wird jeweils der deutsche Beitrag im Vergleich zum internationalen Stand beschrieben. In Deutschland wurden die ökonomischen Ansätze zunächst zögerlich aufgenommen. In jüngerer Zeit finden sich jedoch im Bereich der Wahl- und Parteienforschung, der Analyse der EU und der Theorie der Veto-Spieler viele Beiträge aus dieser Perspektive.
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(2009): Responsivität und strategische Adaption im Parteienwettbewerb in den deutschen Bundesländern HENNING, Christian, ed. and others. Parteienwettbewerb, Wählerverhalten und Koalitionsbildung : Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Franz Urban Pappi. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verl., 2009, pp. 27-46. ISBN 978-3-8329-4196-3. Available under: doi: 10.5771/9783845216065-27
Der Beitrag untersucht am Beispiel der deutschen Landesparteien die Dynamik der programmatischen Entwicklung von Parteien. Es werden zwei Hypothesen abgeleitet und empirisch getestet. Nach der Responsivitätshypothese sollten Parteien auf eine Veränderung der Wählernachfrage nach Politik reagieren, so daß beispielsweise eine Verschiebung der Verteilung der Wählerpräferenzen nach links mit einer Linksverschiebung der Parteipositionen einhergeht. Nach der Adaptionshypothese ist zu erwarten, daß der Parteienwettbewerb in einem Mehrparteiensystem bei nicht-vollständiger Information Parteien dazu zwingt, auf die programmatische Positionierung ihrer Mitbewerber strategisch zu reagieren. Datengrundlage sind die Wahlprogramme von Landesparteien in elf Bundesländern seit 1990 sowie Politikbarometer-Umfragen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen erstens, daß ein responsiver Zusammenhang zwischen Wählernachfrage und Parteipositionierung besteht. Zweitens gibt es Hinweise darauf, daß Parteien eine sogenannte Predator-Strategie anwenden, also versuchen, sich dem Sieger der letzten Wahl programmatisch anzunähern.
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This book offers empirical analyses of conflicts over the ownership, control, and use of knowledge and information in developed and developing countries.
Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C Shadlen, along with a collection of eminent contributors, focus on how business organizations, farmers, social movements, legal communities, state officials, transnational enterprises, and international organizations shape IP policies in areas such as health, information-communication technologies, indigenous knowledge, genetic resources, and many others. The innovative and original chapters examine conflicts over the rules governing various dimensions of IP, including patents, copyrights, traditional knowledge, and biosafety regulations.
Written from a political perspective, this book is a must-read for political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists who study IP and conflicts over property. It is also an essential read for stakeholders in institutions, NGOs and industry interested in knowledge governance and IP politics. -
An increasing number of public institutions of higher education are realizing that there is a need to integrate innovative technologies into their curricula in order to enable students to access and review academic content anytime and to connect with each other outside of the classroom. Many public institutions of higher education have recognized this need and are in the process of introducing new practices in order to meet changing market conditions. These practices are generally referred to as eLearning practices. Besides the intended outcomes of digital student support and access to teaching content, applying eLearning practices and integrating them into the traditional existing teaching routines challenges an organization in multiple ways. The aim here is to show the factors influencing this adoption decision process. To gain a deeper understanding of the patterns and success factors of the adoption of eLearning practices, a social network perspective was applied to the process through which innovative technologies adopted by faculty members.
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Im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Bereichen blieben internationale und europäische Einflüsse auf die Ausgestaltung nationaler Hochschulpolitiken lange Zeit begrenzt. Dieses Bild änderte sich jedoch ab den späten 1990er Jahren grundlegend mit der Etablierung des so genannten Bologna-Prozesses, mit dem die Schaffung eines gemeinsamen europäischen Hochschulraums angestrebt wird. Bislang wissen wir allerdings nur wenig darüber, ob und inwieweit die beschriebene Entwicklung zu einer Angleichung der nationalen Hochschulpolitiken hin zu einem gemeinsamen Modell geführt hat. Steuern nationale Hochschulpolitiken auf ein gemeinsames Modell zu oder werden die Reformen durch die länderspezifischen Ausgangssituationen geprägt, ohne eine Tendenz zu einem dominanten hochschulpolitischen Ansatz aufzuweisen? Im vorliegenden Artikel werden die beschriebenen Fragen mit dem Fokus auf mittel- und osteuropäische Länder analysiert, die sich durch unterschiedliche vorkommunistische Muster hochschulpolitischer Steuerung auszeichnen.
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(2009): Flexible Employment as a Unidirectional Career? : Results from Field Experiments Management review. 2009, 20(1), pp. 15-33. ISSN 0025-1895
Although the number of flexible workers is constantly growing, little is known about career paths built up on flexible employment. In this article, we investigate the chances of former flexible workers to be employed in a permanent full-time position. In two field experiments, we asked for employers evaluation of applicants with a flexible employment history. Results indicate that former part-time work is in fact perceived as a disadvantage for candidates when applying for a permanent full-time position while other types of flexible work (e.g., fixed term contracts, part-time work, and interorganizational mobility) are not. Implications of these results for individual careers and employers understanding of personnel are discussed.
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(2009): Asset specificity, institutional complementarities and the variety of skill regimes in coordinated market economies Socio-Economic Review. 2009, 7(3), pp. 375-406. ISSN 1475-1461. Available under: doi: 10.1093/ser/mwp009
The concept of asset specificity has become very prominent in the literature on skill formation, welfare states and labour markets. Building on the varieties of capitalism (VoC) school, this paper points out three distinct shortcomings of this literature: first, the VoC approach does not fully account for the variation of skill regimes in coordinated market economies (CMEs); second, the VoC approach underestimates the importance of authoritative certification in determining the real portability of vocational skills; and third, the complementarities between skill formation and social policies are different from what is expected in the VoC contributions. I argue that the variation of skill regimes in CMEs covers not one, but two separate dimensions: firms' involvement in skill formation and the vocational specificity of the education system. On the basis of three case studies, I demonstrate the existence of three distinct skill regimes in CMEs: the segmentalist (firm-based) skill regime of Japan, the integrationist (school-based occupational) skill regime of Sweden and the differentiated (workplace-based occupational) skill regime of Germany.
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(2009): Departmental status in light of a growing proportion of female staff: the case of human resource management European journal of international management. 2009, 3(4), pp. 457-477. Available under: doi: 10.1504/EJIM.2009.02885
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dc.contributor.author: Reichel, Astrid; Brandl, Julia; Mayrhofer, Wolfgang
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(2009): Flexible Beschäftigung – wer bevorzugt diese Beschäftigungsform und warum? 6. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Wien. 2009
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dc.contributor.author: Dütschke, Elisabeth
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(2009): Scenes and Social Movements JOHNSTON, Hank, ed.. Culture, social movements, and protest. Aldershot [u.a.]: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 255-276
Social movements operate in a realm between the public and private spheres. Researchers have long been aware of these intermediate spheres and have emphasized them as places where oppositional frames and collective identities are constructed. But even as the importance of free-space concepts has not been overlooked, we still know surprisingly little about their inner dynamics, the circumstances under which they arise, or their effect on social movement development.
In our contribution we propose to identify this intermediate sphere as scene that is simultaneously a network of people who share a common identity and a common set of subcultural or countercultural beliefs, values, norms, and convictions as well as a network of physical spaces where members of that group are known to congregate.
Drawing on data from two movement scenes in Germany we offer 10 propositions about movement-scene linkages that help to understand the roles scenes can play in movement processes related to mobilization, the construction and maintenance of collective identities, practices and organizational forms, and movement longevity. -
(2009): Governance in EU environmental policy TÖMMEL, Ingeborg, ed., Amy VERDUN, ed.. Innovative governance in the European Union : the politics of multilevel policymaking. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2009, pp. 45-62
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dc.contributor.author: Lenschow, Andrea
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(2009): Demokratisierung von außen : Der Beitrag externer Akteure zur politischen Transformation nach Kriegen und Intervention ERDMANN, Gero, ed. and others. Externe Faktoren der Demokratisierung. 1. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, pp. 103-126. ISBN 978-3-8329-4033-1
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A central issue of globalisation research is the question whether globalisation leads to the convergence of political institutions and policies or whether domestic responses to global challenges are too strongly influenced by existing domestic structures. In the field of environmental policy pressures towards increasing similarity of national policy repertoires are particularly pronounced. It is hence the objective of this article to investigate if and to what extent environmental policy convergence takes place. We analyse policy development by relying on a data set covering 40 different environmental policy measures in 24 OECD countries from 1970 to 2000. We find an increase in the number of individual environmental policies countries apply, an increase in the similarity of individual policies across countries, an increase in the homogeneity of the policy repertoires, and moreover, a clear increase in the strictness of regulations, as well as processes of catching up and overtaking among countries.
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(2009): What Role for the Party Group Leader? : a Latent Variable Approach to Leadership Effects on Party Group Cohesion in the European Parliament Journal of Legislative Studies. 2009, 15(4), pp. 355-378. Available under: doi: 10.1080/13572330903302455
Previous research has identified several structural and situational factors that affect party cohesion in parliamentary voting behaviour. The potential role of leadership has been neglected so far. The authors apply a latent variable approach to model leadership effects in roll call votes from the European Parliament (EP), 1979-2001. Other things being equal, their findings suggest that a small but significant 7 per cent share of the total variance in party group cohesion is due to the party group leaders. About 40 per cent of this leader component can be accounted for by their experience inside the European institutions, their career prospects, and their ideological positions.
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dc.contributor.editor: Vatter, Adrian
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(2009): Die konservative Partei in der bürgerlichen Allianz für Schweden : eine neue Volkspartei? RALF THOMAS BAUS, , ed.. Zur Zukunft der Volksparteien: das Parteiensystem unter den Bedingungen zunehmender Fragmentierung. Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2009, pp. 59-74
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(2009): Subnational governance approaches on the rise : reviewing a decade of Eastern European regionalization research Regional and Federal Studies. 2009, 19(3), pp. 327-347. Available under: doi: 10.1080/13597560902957450
This article reviews the past decade of decentralization and regionalization research on the new Eastern European member states of the EU (EU-10). We classify the existing literature according to focus of analysis, explanatory programme and methodological preferences, and propose a distinction between three different research agendas: system transformation, EU conditionality and subnational governance. We argue that with respect to the EU-10, scholarly interest in the perspectives of state transformation and conditionality is waning. By contrast, the subnational governance approach is growing in relevance because it represents the cornerstone of a multi-level governance perspective that is able to integrate what have up to now been separate debates about regionalism in Eastern and Western Europe.