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The Energy Transition requires social innovation to mobilise the necessary financing, increase acceptance towards technologies and trigger behavioural change. This thesis investigates consumer (co-)ownership in renewable energy as one possible solution to these challenges. It is argued that as such this instrument can contribute to expand renewable energy and bring the Energy Transition forward, both in countries that have been pioneering renewables, such as Germany, as well as in countries like Poland that have lagged behind.
With the Clean Energy for All Europeans Package the EU for the first time lay the ground for “citizen energy” embracing both the role of citizens as active consumers on the energy markets and as co-investors. The transposition of new EU rules into national laws is pending and expected to take years.
Therefore, it is crucial to determine the indispensable elements (1) of the most competitive consumer model and (2) of the facilitating framework that allows for the participation of heterogeneous actors without discriminating individual households. For that, this study examines conventional models for consumer (co-)ownership and investigates an innovative financing technique – the Consumer Stock Ownership Plan (CSOP) – to modernise established schemes while meeting prerequisites for the governance of energy communities introduced by the relevant European directives.
Based on a detailed analysis of the energy policies, support systems, existing models for collective projects and the feasibility of the CSOP in Germany and Poland, this study presents a range of recommendations for national frameworks.
Territorial Stigmatisation: Urban Renewal and Displacement in a Central Istanbul Neighbourhood
(2023)
In Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalised residents speak about belonging, stigma, and what their community means to them. Based on a long-term ethnographic study that includes interviews, photographs, and archival research, Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatisation is weaponised by the state and how differently stigmatised groups try to fight against the vilification of their neighbourhood. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio-demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades.
This open access book presents an actor-centered study on Europeanization, based on the assumption that EU-driven reforms are highly dependent on the behavior and interests of the key domestic actors. Whether or not a state pursues a European and democratic agenda depends on domestic lawmakers. Further, political elites are pre-eminent in deciding on the nature, form and content of any law, and on the extent to which the rule of law is actually enforced. Elites can overcome structural or institutional barriers that stand in the way of achieving their goals. The empirical study on Romania presented here lends this observation a more profound meaning: it shows how, in contexts where high level corruption is the norm rather than the exception, self-serving political elites cannot be expected to genuinely commit to adopting sound anti-corruption reform. The book is an inquiry into the motivations that drive legislators to make particular decisions, but also into the structural characteristics and dynamics of the elite that invite a selfish rather than responsible and responsive behaviour.
This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany.
In the past three decades, radical right parties had the opportunity to directly influence political developments from the highest public office in many post-communist Central and Eastern European countries. Oliver Kossack provides the first comprehensive study on government formation with radical right parties in these countries. Even after the turn of the millennium, some distinct features of the post-communist context persist, such as coalitions between radical right and centre-left parties. In addition to original empirical insights, the time-sensitive approach of this study also advances the discussion about concepts and methodological approaches within the discipline.
In 2011, Sebastian Thrun, a Solingen-born professor at Stanford University, made his course "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", including the final exam, fully accessible on his YouTube channel. Within a few weeks, thousands of people signed up for the course, while three months later, 160,000 people from 190 countries had attended the course, with 23,000 of them taking the online final exam. Just as ripples spreading out when a single pebble is dropped into water, MOOCs, which began in the USA and then spread around the world, had caught the attention of media outlets both inside and outside the U.S. This widespread attention to MOOCs, an online educational alternative, in the daily press has sparked the interest of media scientists from various countries. This study builds on the achievements of their researches, but extends the previous researches with question. Question 1 – What are the similarities and differences in the content of MOOC coverage in the American and Chinese media? Question 2 – If the analysed MOOC coverage in the USA and in the PRC satisfy the criteria of media hype identified?
The first question is addressed with a content analysis of all MOOC-related articles in the New York Times (USA) and Guangming Daily (China) for the period 2011 to 2020. The analysis reveals major differences in the content of MOOC coverage between the USA and the PRC, which can be primarily attributed to the varying challenges faced by the respective education systems of the two countries. To answer the second question, the paper employed the criteria defined by Dutch media scholar Peter Vastermann to identify media hype. The comparison of the two news outlets shows that the New York Times’ MOOC coverage meets all the criteria for media hype, while the coverage of the Guangming Daily is characterized by a growing interest in the topic of MOOC, but does not satisfy any of the Vastermann criteria.