@incollection{EdenhoferFlachsland, author = {Edenhofer, Ottmar and Flachsland, Christian}, title = {Globale Energiewende - Wege zu einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung}, series = {Rolle der Wissenschaft im Globalen Wandel. Nova Acta Leopoldina}, booktitle = {Rolle der Wissenschaft im Globalen Wandel. Nova Acta Leopoldina}, publisher = {Leopoldina}, address = {Halle}, isbn = {978-3-8047-3210-0}, pages = {275 -- 295}, language = {de} } @article{FlachslandEdenhofer, author = {Flachsland, Christian and Edenhofer, Ottmar}, title = {Auf mehreren Ebenen Agieren}, series = {Politische {\"O}kologie}, journal = {Politische {\"O}kologie}, number = {133}, pages = {108 -- 117}, language = {de} } @article{UeckerdtHirthLudereretal., author = {Ueckerdt, Falko and Hirth, Lion and Luderer, Gunnar and Edenhofer, Ottmar}, title = {System LCOE: What are the costs of variable renewables?}, series = {Energy}, volume = {63}, journal = {Energy}, publisher = {Elsevier Ltd}, issn = {0360-5442}, doi = {10.1016/j.energy.2013.10.072}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22942}, pages = {61 -- 75}, abstract = {Levelized costs of electricity (LCOE) are a common metric for comparing power generating technologies. However, there is criticism particularly towards evaluating variable renewables like wind and solar PV power based on LCOE because it ignores variability and integration costs. We propose a new metric System LCOE that accounts for integration and generation costs. For this purpose we develop a new mathematical definition of integration costs that directly relates to economic theory. As a result System LCOE allow the economic comparison of generating technologies and deriving optimal quantities in particular for VRE. To demonstrate the new concept we quantify System LCOE from a simple power system model and literature values. We find that at high wind shares integration costs can be in the same range as generation costs of wind power and conventional plants in particular due to a cost component "profile costs" captured by the new definition. Integration costs increase with growing wind shares and might become an economic barrier to deploying VRE at high shares. System LCOE help understanding and resolving the challenge of integrating VRE and can guide research and policy makers in realizing a cost-efficient transformation towards an energy system with potentially high shares of variable renewables.}, language = {en} } @article{EdenhoferHirthKnopfetal., author = {Edenhofer, Ottmar and Hirth, Lion and Knopf, Brigitte and Pahle, Michael and Schl{\"o}mer, Steffen and Schmid, Eva and Ueckerdt, Falko}, title = {On the Economics of Renewable Energy Sources}, series = {Energy Economics}, volume = {40}, journal = {Energy Economics}, number = {S1}, issn = {0140-9883}, doi = {10.1016/j.eneco.2013.09.015}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22965}, pages = {S12 -- S23}, abstract = {With the global expansion of renewable energy (RE) technologies, the provision of optimal RE policy packages becomes an important task. We review pivotal aspects regarding the economics of renewables that are relevant to the design of an optimal RE policy, many of which are to date unresolved. We do so from three interrelated perspectives that a meaningful public policy framework for inquiry must take into account. First, we explore different social objectives justifying the deployment of RE technologies, including potential co-benefits of RE deployment, and review modelbased estimates of the economic potential of RE technologies, i.e. their socially optimal deployment level. Second, we address pivotal market failures that arise in the course of implementing the economic potential of RE sources in decentralized markets. Third, we discuss multiple policy instruments curing these market failures. Our framework reveals the requirements for an assessment of the relevant options for real-world decision makers in the field of RE policies. This review makes it clear that there are remaining white areas on the knowledge map concerning consistent and socially optimal RE policies.}, language = {en} } @article{HirthUeckerdt, author = {Hirth, Lion and Ueckerdt, Falko}, title = {Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy: The Electricity Market}, series = {Energy Policy}, volume = {62}, journal = {Energy Policy}, publisher = {Elsevier Ltd}, issn = {0301-4215}, doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.055}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22886}, pages = {934 -- 947}, abstract = {Energy and climate policies are usually seen as measures to internalize externalities. However, as a side effect, the introduction of these policies redistributes wealth between consumers and producers, and within these groups. While redistribution is seldom the focus of the academic literature in energy economics, it plays a central role in public debates and policy decisions. This paper compares the distributional effects of two major electricity policies: support schemes for renewable energy sources, and CO2 pricing. We find that the redistribution effects of both policies are large, and they work in opposed directions. While renewables support transfers wealth from producers to consumers, carbon pricing does the opposite. More specifically, we show that moderate amounts of wind subsidies can increase consumer surplus, even if consumers bear the subsidy costs. CO2 pricing, in contrast, increases aggregated producer surplus, even without free allocation of emission allowances; however, not all types of producers benefit. These findings are derived from an analytical model of electricity markets, and a calibrated numerical model of Northwestern Europe. Our findings imply that if policy makers want to avoid large redistribution they might prefer a mix of policies, even if CO2 pricing alone is the first-best climate policy in terms of allocative efficiency.}, language = {en} } @article{Hirth, author = {Hirth, Lion}, title = {The market value of variable renewables: The effect of solar wind power variability on their relative price}, series = {Energy Economics}, volume = {38}, journal = {Energy Economics}, publisher = {Elsevier B.V.}, issn = {0140-9883}, doi = {10.1016/j.eneco.2013.02.004}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22900}, pages = {218 -- 236}, abstract = {This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the market value of variable renewable energy (VRE). The inherent variability of wind speeds and solar radiation affects the price that VRE generators receive on the market (market value). During windy and sunny times the additional electricity supply reduces the prices. Because the drop is larger with more installed capacity, the market value of VRE falls with higher penetration rate. This study aims to develop a better understanding on how the market value with penetration, and how policies and prices affect the market value. Quantitative evidence is derived from a review of published studies, regression analysis of market data, and the calibrated model of the European electricity market EMMA. We find the value of wind power to fall from 110\% of the average power price to 50-80\% as wind penetration increases from zero to 30\% of total electricity consumption. For solar power, similarly low value levels are reached already at 15\% penetration. Hence, competitive large-scale renewable deployment will be more difficult to accomplish than as many anticipate.}, language = {en} } @article{CalıKochBruch, author = {{\c{C}}al{\i}, Ba{\c{s}}ak and Koch, Anne and Bruch, Nicola}, title = {The social legitimacy of Human Rights Courts: a grounded interpretivist analysis of the European Court of Human Rights}, series = {Human Rights Quarterly}, volume = {35}, journal = {Human Rights Quarterly}, number = {3}, publisher = {The Johns Hopkins University Press}, issn = {1085-794X}, doi = {10.1353/hrq.2013.0057}, pages = {955 -- 984}, abstract = {This article offers an empirically grounded interpretivist theory of the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights based on domestic judicial and political elite accounts of the legitimacy of the Court in Turkey, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. The central argument of the article is that the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights is based on a constant comparison between the values and goals of domestic institutions and the values and goals of the European Court of Human Rights. More specifically, the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights is grounded in the logic of a fair compromise: What actors think they lose by according legitimacy to the European Court of Human Rights must be balanced by what they perceive to gain in return. Three factors organise how actors in different domestic settings struck a fair compromise in their domestic contexts: a) perception of domestic human rights conditions, b) commitment to cosmopolitan ideals of human rights and international law and c) commitment to domestic institutions.}, language = {en} } @misc{MairLupu, author = {Mair, Johanna and Lupu, Raluca}, title = {Citigroup: Targeting leadership in global growth}, publisher = {IESE Business School}, address = {Barcelona}, pages = {18}, language = {en} } @techreport{KaytazCostello, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Kaytaz, Esra and Costello, Cathryn}, title = {Building Empirical Research into Alternatives to Detention: Perceptions of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Toronto and Geneva}, abstract = {Recent research in Toronto and Geneva indicates that asylum seekers and refugees are predisposed to be cooperative with the refugee status determination (RSD) system and other immigration procedures, and that the design of alternatives to detention can create, foster and support this cooperative predisposition - or can undermine or even demolish it.}, language = {en} } @article{KaackKatul, author = {Kaack, Lynn and Katul, Gabriel}, title = {Fifty years to prove Malthus right}, series = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1301246110}, abstract = {A major question confronting sustainability research today is to what extent our planet, with a finite environmental resource base, can accommodate the faster than exponentially growing human population. Although these concerns are generally attributed to Malthus (1766-1834), early attempts to estimate the maximum sustainable population (ergo, the carrying capacity K) were reported by van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) to be at 13 billion people (1). Since then, the concept of carrying capacity has evolved to accommodate many resource limitations originating from available water, energy, and other ecosystem goods and services (1, 2). In PNAS, Suweis et al.(3) apply the concept of carrying capacity using fresh water availability on a national scale as the limiting resource to infer the global K. They estimate a decline in global human population by the middle of this century. We ask to what extent models that are …}, language = {en} } @article{SalazarMoralesCalmet, author = {Salazar-Morales, Diego and Calmet, Yasm{\´i}n}, title = {VRAEM: Pol{\´i}ticas de Seguridad P{\´u}blica en Zona de conflicto}, series = {Revista de Sociolog{\´i}a de la Guerra: Cuadernos de Marte}, volume = {5}, journal = {Revista de Sociolog{\´i}a de la Guerra: Cuadernos de Marte}, issn = {1852-9879}, pages = {157 -- 186}, abstract = {Las pol{\´i}ticas de seguridad desarrolladas por el Estado peruano durante los a{\~n}os 80 han sido causantes de innumerables muertes, desapariciones y violaciones de derechos humanos. En la actualidad, con remanentes subversivos y una zona infestada por el narcotr{\´a}fico (el VRAEM), la atenci{\´o}n a las pol{\´i}ticas y estrategias desarrolladas por el Estado para afrontar esta problem{\´a}tica es crucial. En tal sentido, este art{\´i}culo rese{\~n}a las principales decisiones del gobierno peruano desde el a{\~n}o 2000 hasta la actualidad, en materia de pol{\´i}ticas de seguridad para la zona en conflicto denominada VRAEM desentra{\~n}ado las estrategias utilizadas para afrontar a Sendero Luminoso y c{\´o}mo estas han violado, reiteradamente, los derechos fundamentales de las poblaciones aleda{\~n}as a la zona en conflicto.}, language = {es} } @incollection{SalazarMoralesPrietoBarraganAlza, author = {Salazar-Morales, Diego and Prieto Barrag{\´a}n, Tracy and Alza, Carlos}, title = {Oportunidad para Servir. El caso de la creaci{\´o}n del Cuerpo de Gerentes P{\´u}blicos en el Per{\´u}}, series = {Aprender de la Experiencia. Ocho estudios de caso para ense{\~n}ar Pol{\´i}ticas P{\´u}blicas y Gesti{\´o}n P{\´u}blica}, booktitle = {Aprender de la Experiencia. Ocho estudios de caso para ense{\~n}ar Pol{\´i}ticas P{\´u}blicas y Gesti{\´o}n P{\´u}blica}, publisher = {Pontifical Catholic University of Peru}, address = {Lima}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {191 -- 200}, abstract = {El Cuerpo de Gerentes P{\´u}blicos de SERVIR nace de un proceso de aprendizaje enriquecedor que supone un reto para la reconversi{\´o}n de la burocracia nacional tradicional hacia una moderna y m{\´a}s eficiente a partir de experiencias latinoamericanas similares. SERVIR, mediante esta experiencia, nos demuestra que la pol{\´i}tica p{\´u}blica no es un proceso de una sola direcci{\´o}n, que las fases pueden variar y que la creatividad es un aspecto fundamental para imaginar opciones y alternativas frente a un n{\´u}mero de retos que la gesti{\´o}n p{\´u}blica nos presenta. Pero no solo es creatividad, tambi{\´e}n se trata de instinto al identificar los precisos momentos en los que apostar por un proyecto y cu{\´a}ndo salir.}, language = {es} } @incollection{SalazarMorales, author = {Salazar-Morales, Diego}, title = {Cr{\´o}nica de un Conflicto anunciado. El caso del conflicto social en Bagua (5 y 6 de junio de 2009)}, series = {Aprender de la Experiencia. Ocho casos para ense{\~n}ar Pol{\´i}ticas P{\´u}blicas}, booktitle = {Aprender de la Experiencia. Ocho casos para ense{\~n}ar Pol{\´i}ticas P{\´u}blicas}, publisher = {Pontifical Catholic University of Peru}, address = {Lima}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {121 -- 150}, abstract = {Los acontecimientos que se suscitaron el 5 de junio de 2009 en el poblado amaz{\´o}nico de Bagua presentan una serie de antecedentes, decisiones y estrategias adoptadas por parte del Estado y a una serie de actores pol{\´i}ticos que hacen que su estudio sea particularmente interesante. Nos encontramos frente a un suceso que cambia la manera de entender y manejar los conflictos sociales en la pol{\´i}tica nacional.}, language = {es} } @techreport{WollFourcadeSteineretal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Woll, Cornelia and Fourcade, Marion and Steiner, Philippe and Streeck, Wolfgang}, title = {Moral Categories in the Financial Crisis}, series = {MaxPo Discussion Paper}, volume = {13}, journal = {MaxPo Discussion Paper}, number = {1}, pages = {33}, abstract = {Karl Marx observed long ago that all economic struggles invite moral struggles, or masquerade as such. The reverse may be true as well: deep moral-political conflicts may be waged through the manipulation of economic resources. Using the recent financial and Eurozone crises as empirical backgrounds, the four papers gathered here propose four different perspectives on the play of moral judgments in the economy, and call for broader and more systematic scholarly engagement with this issue. Focusing on executive compensation, bank bailouts, and the sovereign debt crisis, the symposium builds on a roundtable discussion held at the opening of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) in Paris on November 29, 2012.}, language = {en} } @article{EmilianoWoll, author = {Emiliano, Grossman and Woll, Cornelia}, title = {Saving the Banks: The Political Economy of Bailouts}, series = {Comparative Political Studies}, volume = {47}, journal = {Comparative Political Studies}, number = {4}, doi = {10.1177/0010414013488540}, pages = {574 -- 600}, abstract = {How much leeway did governments have in designing bank bailouts and deciding on the height of intervention during the 2007-2009 financial crisis? By analyzing the variety of bailouts in Europe and North America, we will show that the strategies governments use to cope with the instability of financial markets does not depend on economic conditions alone. Rather, they take root in the institutional and political setting of each country and vary in particular according to the different types of business-government relations banks were able to entertain with public decision makers. Still, "crony capitalism" accounts overstate the role of bank lobbying. With four case studies of the Irish, Danish, British, and French bank bailout, we show that countries with close one-on-one relationships between policy makers and bank management tended to develop unbalanced bailout packages, while countries where banks negotiated collectively developed solutions with a greater burden-sharing from private institutions.}, language = {en} } @article{JohnsonMuggeSeabrookeetal., author = {Johnson, Juliet and Mugge, Daniel and Seabrooke, Leonard and Woll, Cornelia and Grabel, Ilene and Gallagher, Kevin P.}, title = {The future of international political economy: Introduction to the 20th anniversary issue of RIPE}, series = {Review of International Political Economy}, volume = {20}, journal = {Review of International Political Economy}, number = {5}, doi = {10.1080/09692290.2013.835275}, pages = {1009 -- 1023}, language = {en} } @article{WollStreeckSteineretal., author = {Woll, Cornelia and Streeck, Wolfgang and Steiner, Philippe and Fourcade, Marion}, title = {Moral categories in the financial crisis}, series = {Socio-Economic Review}, volume = {11}, journal = {Socio-Economic Review}, number = {3}, doi = {10.1093/ser/mwt012}, pages = {601 -- 627}, abstract = {Karl Marx observed long ago that all economic struggles invite moral struggles, or masquerade as such. The reverse may be true, too: deep moral-political conflicts may be waged through the manipulation of economic resources and the design of policy devices. Using the recent financial and Eurozone crises as empirical backgrounds, the short papers presented here by Philippe Steiner, Cornelia Woll, Wolfgang Streeck and Marion Fourcade propose four different perspectives on the play of moral judgments in the economy and call for a broader and more systematic scholarly engagement with this issue. Focusing on executive compensation, bank bailouts and the sovereign debt crisis, the discussion forum builds on a roundtable discussion held at the opening of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) in Paris on November 29, 2012.}, language = {en} } @incollection{WollSchmidt, author = {Woll, Cornelia and Schmidt, Vivien A.}, title = {The state: The b{\^e}te noire of neo-liberalism or its greatest conquest?}, series = {Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy}, booktitle = {Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy}, editor = {Schmidt, Vivien A. and Thatcher, Mark}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {9781139857086}, doi = {10.1017/CBO9781139857086}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {112 -- 142}, abstract = {Neo-liberalism has had one central message for the state: scale back, cut back, cut out, transform. This brings to mind Winston Churchill's reply to an opponent who asked, 'How much is enough?' to Churchill's repeated push to spend increasingly more on defence in the 1930s. Churchill's rejoinder came in the form of a story about a Brazilian banker with whom he had just had lunch. The banker had received a cable informing him of the death of his mother-in-law and asking for instructions. He cabled back: 'embalm, cremate, bury at sea; leave nothing to chance'. This take on neo-liberalism - as burying the state - is certainly exaggerated because neo-liberalism comes in many different forms with many different policy applications. Only the recommendations of the most radical strands come close to the Brazilian banker's response to his mother-in-law's death. Yet the story as a metaphor for neo-liberal views of the state nonetheless somehow rings true. This is largely because neo-liberals have been more anti-state in their rhetoric than in their actions. The state has been neo-liberalism's b{\^e}te noire, as its main focus of attack, because neo-liberals - whatever their differences - have viewed the state as consistently doing too much in the wrong ways with the worst consequences not only for the markets but also for democracy, by endangering individual freedom through its interventions. As a provider of public goods, the state had to be scaled back to leave room for the market, which would assure more efficiency. However, the state has also been neo-liberalism's greatest conquest, as its main locus of action, because it has been primarily through the state that neo-liberals have been able to realize their vision(s).}, language = {en} } @incollection{Woll, author = {Woll, Cornelia}, title = {Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade Organization}, series = {The Handbook of Global Companies}, booktitle = {The Handbook of Global Companies}, editor = {Mikler, John}, publisher = {John Wiley and Sons, Ltd}, address = {Chichester}, isbn = {9781118326152}, doi = {10.1002/9781118326152}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {257 -- 271}, abstract = {This chapter examines business lobbying at the WTO. It argues that the role of companies in multilateral trade is tightly linked to the evolution of the trading system, with the most decisive influence during the creation of the WTO institutions. In an initial phase, business lobbying concentrated on tariff barriers. As the GATT expanded its scope during the Uruguay Round, large US companies became very active participants and crucially shaped the agenda, in particular with respect to service trade and intellectual property rights. In other areas, however, active lobbying was less effective, most notably investment protection and textiles. With the establishment of the WTO, lobbying has begun to partially shift to the supranational level. Some relationships exist between the WTO secretariat and companies, but the most important new pillar of political activity relates to dispute settlement. At the same time, the WTO secretariat tries to reach out to a more diverse set of stakeholders. In many ways, the influence of global companies on WTO affairs is much more indirect today than it was during its creation.}, language = {en} } @article{MarquesAlves, author = {Marques, Marcelo and Alves, Nat{\´a}lia}, title = {O Programa Novas Oportunidades numa agenda globalmente estruturada para a educa{\c{c}}{\~a}o. [The New Opportunities Program in a globally structured agenda for education]}, series = {Perspectiva}, volume = {31}, journal = {Perspectiva}, number = {2}, doi = {10.5007/2175-795X.2013v31n2p425}, pages = {425 -- 448}, abstract = {Este artigo apresenta uma an{\´a}lise cr{\´i}tica da cria{\c{c}}{\~a}o e implementa{\c{c}}{\~a}o da mais emblem{\´a}tica medida pol{\´i}tica para o campo de jovens e adultos pouco escolarizados em Portugal: o Programa Novas Oportunidades. Recorrendo {\`a} proposta de Roger Dale sobre a agenda globalmente estruturada para a educa{\c{c}}{\~a}o, discutiu-se a fabrica{\c{c}}{\~a}o desta medida a partir de um cen{\´a}rio de regula{\c{c}}{\~a}o transnacional. Atrav{\´e}s da an{\´a}lise documental de um conjunto de documentos europeus e nacionais entre o per{\´i}odo de 2000 e 2010 para o campo da educa{\c{c}}{\~a}o de jovens e adultos, verificou-se que Programa Novas Oportunidades {\´e} consequ{\^e}ncia de um fortalecimento do processo de regula{\c{c}}{\~a}o das pol{\´i}ticas educativas, levado a cabo pela Uni{\~a}o Europeia. Este fortalecimento resultou na constru{\c{c}}{\~a}o de um programa pol{\´i}tico para o campo da educa{\c{c}}{\~a}o de jovens e adultos em Portugal que comunga n{\~a}o s{\´o} das mesmas ideologias instrumentais para a educa{\c{c}}{\~a}o da Uni{\~a}o Europeia, como de uma gest{\~a}o tecnocr{\´a}tica das pol{\´i}ticas educativas, assente na procura de resultados.}, language = {es} } @misc{Woll, author = {Woll, Cornelia}, title = {Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World, by Giorgio Riello 2013. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press}, series = {Review of International Political Economy}, volume = {21}, journal = {Review of International Political Economy}, number = {5}, doi = {10.1080/09692290.2014.953355}, pages = {1133 -- 1135}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Institutions and forms of knowledge: Organizing policy advice.}, series = {Knowledge and Policy Change}, booktitle = {Knowledge and Policy Change}, editor = {Lindberg, Henrik}, publisher = {Cambridge Scholars Publishing}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {9781443842327}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {42 -- 59}, language = {en} } @incollection{KayserStanig, author = {Kayser, Mark A. and Stanig, Piero}, title = {Governance Indicators: Some Proposals}, series = {Governance Challenges and Innovations: Financial and Fiscal Governance}, booktitle = {Governance Challenges and Innovations: Financial and Fiscal Governance}, editor = {Anheier, Helmut K.}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780199674930}, doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674930.001.0001}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {189 -- 220}, language = {en} } @article{KayserLeininger, author = {Kayser, Mark A. and Leininger, Arndt}, title = {A Benchmarking Forecast of the 2013 Bundestag Election}, language = {en} } @incollection{AnheierStanigKayser, author = {Anheier, Helmut K. and Stanig, Piero and Kayser, Mark A.}, title = {Introducing a New Generation of Governance Indicators}, series = {The Governance Report 2013}, booktitle = {The Governance Report 2013}, publisher = {Oxford Univ.Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-0-19-967442-8}, pages = {117 -- 148}, abstract = {This Report is about the state of governance. Few would doubt that the conditions of governance have changed — and continue to change — as the early 21st century seems to enter a period of profound uncertainty. Yet, at the same time, the world seems alive with a cacophony of approaches — old and new — on how to improve governance and, ultimately, policy outcomes. This Report — the first in a series of annual editions produced by the Hertie School of Governance — seeks to address the implications of the current state of the world in terms of "good governance", that is, the effective, efficient, and reliable set of legitimate institutions and actors dedicated to dealing with matters of public concern, be it in the field of financial markets, health care, security, or migration, and across local, national, and international levels. Following an introduction that offers a framework of basic concepts and models, The Governance Report 2013 then goes on to explore a number of global challenges and the reasons behind seemingly lacklustre responses and highlight the need for responsible sovereignty; examine in depth the challenges of financial and fiscal governance with a focus on the trade-offs and ways to address them; analyse key governance innovations and their potential for success; and assess existing indicators of governance, while proposing a new framework for collecting, interpreting, and applying governance-related information. The findings lead to a set of concrete proposals on the way ahead.(About the Book)}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Lepenies, author = {Lepenies, Robert F.}, title = {Losers in Trade: Economics and Normative Justifications}, school = {Hertie School}, pages = {XV, 273}, abstract = {Should there be free trade? This question finds different, and often contradicting answers in philosophy and economics. Among economists, there is a remarkable consensus that free markets are desirable. It is this curious consensus that motivates this study. This dissertations aims to explain, reconstruct and contest the neoclassical vision in mainstream trade theory. It is argued that economic justifications for free trade policies rely on an array of implicit and explicit normative premises,and that economists take positions on topics that are usually dealt with by political philosophers. Taken together, these premises and positions amount to what will be called the neoclassical vision. It is argued that throughout the history of economics, economic doctrines were inescapably normative. Tracing the intellectual and historical origins of this neoclassical vision, it is shown how a specific view of what justice demands in the economy came to be constitutive of today's economic arguments. I hence attempt to treat economics today as it has historically been: as a branch of political philosophy, and as inextricably normative. Normative trade theory and the theoretical arguments put forward by international economists will serve as the case study on which basis the neoclassical vision is reconstructed. In turn, the vision will be critically assessed from a liberal egalitarian perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the question of the role of politics in how losers from economic activity are treated. Following this critical analysis, I argue for the need of a normative 'countervision'that is most convincingly provided by John Rawls's early work. It will then be outlined how Rawls could respond and overcome the pitfalls of the neoclassical vision - even though Rawls is deeply influenced by conventional economic thought himself. (...)}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Staemmler, author = {Staemmler, Johannes}, title = {Wie St{\"a}dte sich neu finden}, school = {Hertie School}, pages = {195}, abstract = {In St{\"a}dten verdichten sich wie nirgendwo sonst {\"o}konomische, soziale und kulturelle Facetten menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Hier entstehen wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Impulse. 84 Prozent der deutschen Bev{\"o}lkerung lebt in St{\"a}dten. Doch sind nicht alle St{\"a}dte gleichermaßen Orte von Wachstum und Innovation. Mit dem Ende der Industrialisierung und dem {\"U}bergang in die Dienstleistungsgesellschaft (vgl. Bell 1999) sind einige St{\"a}dte aus dem gr{\"o}ßeren Arbeits-kreislauf der Gesellschaft herausgefallen. Sie haben aufgeh{\"o}rt, zentrale Orte des Wirtschaftens zu sein. Ihre Bev{\"o}lkerungen schrumpfen, Geb{\"a}ude bleiben ungenutzt und die {\"o}ffentliche Hand verf{\"u}gt nur {\"u}ber unzureichende und schwindende Mittel, dem entgegenzuwirken. Es sind strukturschwache St{\"a}dte. Kommunale Schrumpfungsprozesse sind aus dem 20. Jahrhundert kaum bekannt, obwohl zwei Kriege in Deutschland tobten und unvorstellbare Verw{\"u}stungen hinterlassen haben. (...)}, language = {de} } @article{WaegerMena, author = {Waeger, Daniel and Mena, S{\´e}bastien}, title = {The diffusion of contested practices across environments: Social movements' boundary-bridging role}, series = {Best Paper Proceedings of the 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting}, volume = {2013}, journal = {Best Paper Proceedings of the 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting}, number = {1}, issn = {2151-6561}, doi = {10.5465/ambpp.2013.193}, abstract = {We examine the diffusion across country institutional environments of a corporate practice that is contested by potential adopters. We show that the diffusion process is in crucial ways driven by the mobilization of social movement activists in favour of the corporate practice in the target institutional environment. We further show that social movement activism is particularly relevant for the pioneering introduction of a foreign practice into a new institutional environment in the early stages of the diffusion process, while more conventional institutional pressures become relevant at later stages of the process. Results from the study of the adoption of the corporate governance practice 'say on pay' by Swiss companies between 2007 and 2012 largely support our hypotheses and underline the boundary-bridging role of transnationally connected social movement activists.}, language = {en} } @book{Graf2013, author = {Graf, Lukas}, title = {The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland}, publisher = {Budrich UniPress Ltd.}, address = {Opladen, Berlin \& Toronto}, isbn = {978-3-86388-043-9}, doi = {10.3224/86388043}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24323}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {304}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Austria, Germany, and Switzerland are increasingly relying on hybridization at the nexus of vocational training and higher education to increase permeability and reform their highly praised systems of collective skill formation. This historical and organizational institutionalist study compares these countries to trace the evolution of their skill regimes from the 1960s to today's era of Europeanization, focusing especially on the impact of the Bologna and Copenhagen processes.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Stockmann, author = {Stockmann, Daniela}, title = {Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans}, series = {Chinese Views of the EU: Public Support for a Strong Relation}, booktitle = {Chinese Views of the EU: Public Support for a Strong Relation}, editor = {Dong, Lisheng and Wang, Zhengxu and Dekker, Henk}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {9781136753244}, language = {en} } @article{HirthZiegenhagen, author = {Hirth, Lion and Ziegenhagen, Inka}, title = {Wind, Sonne, und Regelleistung}, series = {Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen : et}, journal = {Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen : et}, number = {10}, edition = {13}, publisher = {EW Medien und Kongresse GmbH}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, issn = {0013-743X - 0720-6240}, pages = {59}, language = {de} } @incollection{HirthUeckerdt, author = {Hirth, Lion and Ueckerdt, Falko}, title = {The Decreasing Market Value of Variable Renewables: Integration Options and Deadlocks}, series = {Transition to Renewable Energy Systems}, booktitle = {Transition to Renewable Energy Systems}, editor = {Stolten, Detlef and Scherer, Viktor}, publisher = {Wiley VCH}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-3527332397}, doi = {10.1002/9783527673872.ch6}, pages = {75 -- 92}, language = {en} } @incollection{Calı, author = {{\c{C}}al{\i}, Ba{\c{s}}ak}, title = {The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence}, series = {The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives}, booktitle = {The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives}, editor = {F{\o}llesdal, Andreas and Schaffer, Johan Karlsson and Ulfstein, Geir}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {978-1-107-03460-0}, doi = {10.1017/CBO9781139540827.006}, pages = {141 -- 164}, language = {en} } @book{PisaniFerry, author = {Pisani-Ferry, Jean}, title = {Le R{\´e}veil des D{\´e}mons: la crise de l'euro et comment nous en sortir}, edition = {Nouvelle {\´e}d., revue et augment{\´e}e}, publisher = {Pluriel}, address = {Paris}, isbn = {978-2818503126}, pages = {249}, abstract = {On croyait les d{\´e}mons assagis : {\`a} la faveur de la crise financi{\`e}re de 2008, les Etats avaient repris le dessus sur les march{\´e}s financiers et les politiques {\´e}conomiques savaient r{\´e}pondre et conjurer la d{\´e}pression. Mais la temp{\^e}te qui a {\´e}branl{\´e} la zone euro entre 2009 et 2012, au d{\´e}part crise banale dans une petite {\´e}conomie p{\´e}riph{\´e}rique, la Gr{\`e}ce, a gagn{\´e} un pays apr{\`e}s l'autre et a menac{\´e} d'emporter tout l'{\´e}difice mon{\´e}taire europ{\´e}en. Dans ce brillant essai, Jean Pisani-Ferry retrace les {\´e}tapes de la crise et analyse les solutions adopt{\´e}es. Si l'Europe a fait preuve d'un remarquable sens de la survie, elle souffre aujourd'hui d'une dangereuse absence de communaut{\´e} de projets.}, language = {fr} } @article{CedermanGleditschSalehyanetal., author = {Cederman, Lars-Erik and Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede and Salehyan, Idean and Wucherpfennig, Julian}, title = {Transborder Ethnic Kin and Civil War}, series = {Inernational Organization}, volume = {67}, journal = {Inernational Organization}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1017/S0020818313000064}, pages = {389 -- 410}, abstract = {A series of studies has shown that civil wars are caused not only by factors inside countries, but also by effects operating across state borders. Whereas a first wave of quantitative studies demonstrated that such effects make the "closed-polity" assumption untenable, more recently researchers have identified particular causal mechanisms driving conflict. Despite these recent advances, a central puzzle remains unresolved, namely why ethnic groups that at least in theory could count on support from large transborder ethnic kin (TEK) groups often have remained surprisingly peaceful, such as the stranded Russian populations in the "near abroad." We propose a theoretical framework that extends the analysis from the primary dyad between the incumbent and the challenger group by adding a secondary dyad that pits the incumbent against the TEK group. We postulate a curvilinear effect of the TEK group's relative size on conflict onset. Using a new data set on transnational ethnic links, we find that that the risk of conflict increases within the middle range of the size spectrum, consistent with our main hypothesis. This means that large TEK groups have a conflict-dampening effect, provided that they control their own state. Excluded TEK groups, however, are not associated with lower conflict probabilities.}, language = {en} } @article{QuenzelHurrelmann2012, author = {Quenzel, Gudrun and Hurrelmann, Klaus}, title = {The growing gender gap in education}, series = {International Journal of Adolescence and Youth}, volume = {18}, journal = {International Journal of Adolescence and Youth}, number = {2}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0267-3843}, doi = {10.1080/02673843.2012.665168}, pages = {69 -- 84}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Young women, and not young men, acquire the privileged diplomas offered by the educational system, and it is they who obtain the more promising career prospects. In this paper, we seek to identify factors that account for the declining school performance of boys and young men. After reviewing and analysing the international literature on gender and education, we integrate various explanatory approaches into a comprehensive socialisation model. The model focuses on the developmental tasks young men face during adolescence. Our central thesis is that the declining school performance of young men cannot be fully explained by their failure to cope with the developmental task 'qualification'. Rather, the three other central clusters of developmental tasks - 'social attachment', 'regeneration', and 'participation' - have to be incorporated. The crucial implication is that supporting young men at school will show only limited results. Rather, to improve the school performance of young men, it is also necessary to address their deficits in coping with the other developmental tasks.}, language = {en} } @article{KostkaMoslenerAndreas, author = {Kostka, Genia and Moslener, U. and Andreas, J.}, title = {Barriers to increasing energy efficiency: Evidence from small- and medium-sized enterprises in China}, series = {Journal of Cleaner Production}, volume = {57}, journal = {Journal of Cleaner Production}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]}, issn = {0959-6526}, doi = {10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.06.025}, pages = {59 -- 68}, abstract = {This paper analyzes financial, informational and organizational barriers to energy efficiency investments for small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. Its findings are based on a survey of 480 SMEs in Zhejiang province, and complemented by semi-structured interviews with enterprises contained in the survey sample. Responses reveal that only a minority of SMEs in China actively perform energy saving activities at a significant level. The survey data suggest, further, that informational barriers are the core bottleneck inhibiting energy efficiency improvements in China's SME sector. Financial and organizational barriers also influence a company's energy saving activities, with interview-based evidence stronger than statistical evidence. The interviews point out three additional barriers to energy saving activities: the role of family ownership structures, lax enforcement of government regulations and the absence of government support as well as a lack of skilled labor. More than 40\% of enterprises in the sample declared themselves unaware of energy saving equipment or practices in their respective business area, indicating that there are high transaction costs for SMEs to gather, assess, and apply information about energy saving potentials and relevant technologies. One policy implication of the study is that the Chinese government could play a more active role in fostering the dissemination of energy-efficiency related information in the SME sector.}, language = {en} } @article{KostkaHobbs2012, author = {Kostka, Genia and Hobbs, W.}, title = {Embedded interests and the managerial local state: the political economy of methanol fuel-switching in China}, series = {Journal of Contemporary China}, volume = {22}, journal = {Journal of Contemporary China}, number = {80}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {London [u.a.]}, issn = {1067-0564}, doi = {10.1080/10670564.2012.734078}, pages = {204 -- 218}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This paper analyzes the determinants of Chinese government support for methanol automobile fuel development. At the national level, a preference for low carbon alternatives, ongoing bureaucratic restructuring, and profitability concerns of the national oil companies (NOCs) help to explain a lack of support for methanol fuel. At the local level, a short-term and localized view of industry development explains why some governments actively promote methanol fuel through local standardization, subsidies, and management of NOC opposition. The case of methanol fuel illustrates how local governments with strong, embedded interests have filled in the national-level policy vacuum on this issue. These findings contribute to the ongoing debate on the evolving central-local relations in China and hold lessons for alternative fuel adoption efforts underway in many parts of the world.}, language = {en} } @article{KostkaMol, author = {Kostka, Genia and Mol, Arthur P.J.}, title = {Innovations and participation in China}, series = {Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning}, volume = {15}, journal = {Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {London [u.a.]}, issn = {1522-7200}, doi = {10.1080/1523908X.2013.763629}, pages = {3 -- 16}, abstract = {With its recently published 12th Five-Year Plan (FYP, 2011-2015) China's leaders have set ambitious national environmental targets and goals for developing a more sustainable economy and society. Past records, however, show that ambitious goals and regulations too often fail due to shortcomings in local implementation and civil society participation. At the sub-national level, economic, political, and social interests continue to dictate the political agenda and the participation of non-state actors remains limited. This article analyses these implementation and participation gaps and reviews recent innovations and experiments to address these gaps in local environmental politics in China. Although many ongoing experiments and new institutional arrangements can be identified, these projects and initiatives remain limited in scope and geographical spread. Further advances in policy enforcement and in opening up policy design to citizens and other non-state actors at the local level are needed in order to turn the article ambitions of the 12th FYP into reality.}, language = {en} } @article{Kostka, author = {Kostka, Genia}, title = {Environmental protection bureau leadership at the provincial level in China: Examining diverging career backgrounds and appointment patterns}, series = {Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning}, volume = {15}, journal = {Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {London [u.a.]}, issn = {1522-7200}, doi = {10.1080/1523908X.2012.752184}, pages = {41 -- 63}, abstract = {This paper analyses the career backgrounds of local government officials in provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) in China and explains the appointment patterns of Chinese EPB bureaucrats. Using biographical information of provincial EPB heads and drawing on fieldwork conducted in Shanxi Province and Inner Mongolia, this paper finds that only one-fourth of the provincial EPB heads were promoted through the bureau ranks within the EPBs, while the remaining three-fourths were appointed from positions outside the environment field. Further, nearly all EPB heads' professional backgrounds and associated networks can be clearly categorized as environmental, business, provincial government, or local government oriented. This paper delineates these four types of Chinese EPB leaders and explains why an awareness of the different professional orientations is critical to understanding environmental regulation and protection in China. These findings have implications for inferring the unique characteristics of a province's EPB leadership, the implementation capacities of provincial EPBs, and the appointment preferences of provincial leaders.}, language = {en} } @article{KostkaShin, author = {Kostka, Genia and Shin, Kyoung}, title = {Energy conservation through energy service companies}, series = {Energy Policy}, volume = {52}, journal = {Energy Policy}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]}, issn = {0301-4215}, doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.034}, pages = {748 -- 759}, language = {en} } @article{Gandrud, author = {Gandrud, Christopher}, title = {Competing risks and deposit insurance governance convergence}, series = {International Political Science Review}, volume = {35}, journal = {International Political Science Review}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {Los Angeles [u.a.]}, issn = {1460373X}, doi = {10.1177/0192512113485333}, pages = {195 -- 215}, abstract = {Why do policies often seem to converge across countries at the same time? This question has been studied extensively in the diffusion literature. However, past research has not examined complex choice environments, especially where there are many alternatives. This article fills this gap in the literature. I show how Fine and Gray's Competing Risks Event History Analysis can be used to tease apart the causes of policy convergence. I apply the method to an examination of the reasons why, from the mid-1990s to 2007, many countries created independent deposit insurers. I find an interaction between international recommendations and regional peers' choices, particularly in the European Union. However, convergence appears to slow under the particular conditions of a banking crisis, regardless of how well independence is promoted. Possibly due to electoral incentives, democracies seem to have been more likely to create independent insurers. Ultimately, I demonstrate how competing risks analysis can help enable future research on policy choices, complementing methods previously applied in political economy.}, language = {en} } @misc{KostkaMol, author = {Kostka, Genia and Mol, A.}, title = {Local environmental politics in China: Challenges and innovations}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London [u.a.]}, isbn = {978-0415723299}, pages = {144}, language = {en} } @incollection{EatonKostka, author = {Eaton, Sarah and Kostka, Genia}, title = {Does cadre turnover help or hinder China's green rise?: Evidence from Shanxi province}, series = {Chinese environmental policy: Dynamics, challenges, and prospects in a changing society}, booktitle = {Chinese environmental policy: Dynamics, challenges, and prospects in a changing society}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Basingstoke [u.a.]}, isbn = {9781137350688}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wegrich, author = {Wegrich, Kai}, title = {Regulatory Impact Assessment: Ambition, Design and Politics}, series = {Handbook on the Politics of Regulation}, booktitle = {Handbook on the Politics of Regulation}, publisher = {Elgar Publ.}, address = {Cheltenham [u.a.]}, isbn = {978-0857937599}, doi = {10.4337/9780857936110.00045}, pages = {397 -- 410}, language = {en} } @incollection{Enderlein, author = {Enderlein, Henrik}, title = {Solidarit{\"a}t in der Europ{\"a}ischen Union: Die {\"o}konomische Perspektive}, series = {Europ{\"a}ische Solidarit{\"a}t und nationale Identit{\"a}t}, booktitle = {Europ{\"a}ische Solidarit{\"a}t und nationale Identit{\"a}t}, publisher = {Mohr Siebeck}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-16-152814-9}, pages = {83 -- 97}, language = {de} } @incollection{EnderleinMueller, author = {Enderlein, Henrik and M{\"u}ller, Camillo von}, title = {German Fiscal Federalism at the Crossroads: Between Crisis and Reform}, series = {The global debt crisis: haunting U.S. and European federalism}, booktitle = {The global debt crisis: haunting U.S. and European federalism}, publisher = {Brookings Inst. Press}, address = {Washington, D.C.}, isbn = {978-0-8157-2417-9}, pages = {134 -- 158}, language = {en} } @techreport{BarloesiusDoehlerBachetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Barl{\"o}sius, Eva and D{\"o}hler, Marian and Bach, Tobias and Philipps, Axel}, title = {Governance staatlicher Forschung im Spannungsfeld von Staat, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft}, publisher = {Leibniz Universit{\"a}t Hannover}, address = {Hannover}, pages = {56}, language = {de} } @techreport{JannBach, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Jann, Werner and Bach, Tobias}, title = {Beh{\"o}rdenorganisation und Steuerungsbeziehungen bei der Umsetzung des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes (EEG): Gutachten im Rahmen des Vorhabens "Rechtliche und instrumentelle Weiterentwicklung des EEG"}, language = {de} } @article{Enderlein, author = {Enderlein, Henrik}, title = {Das erste Opfer der Krise ist die Demokratie: Wirtschaftspolitik und ihre Legitimation in der Finanzkrise 2008-2013}, series = {PVS: Politische Vierteljahresschrift}, volume = {54}, journal = {PVS: Politische Vierteljahresschrift}, number = {4}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Baden-Baden}, issn = {0032-3470}, doi = {10.5771/0032-3470-2013-4-714}, pages = {714 -- 739}, abstract = {Severe economic and financial market crises exacerbate collective action problems and thus trigger challenges to legitimacy in democracies. The article presents a typology of decision-making modes in economic policy-making in normal times and crisis times. It shows that problems of time-inconsistency in combination with high uncertainty over re-distributive implications lead to an "ad-hoc-technocratization" of economic policy-making. The separation of decision-taking from input-based legitimacy-procedures is relevant for scholars of democracy because the redistributive implications of crisis policies are high. The "democratic deficit" of crisis policies is thus not a symptom of "Post-Democracy" but of the specific context arising in an economic crisis.}, language = {de} }