TY - RPRT A1 - Preuß, Ulrich K. T1 - Equality of states : its meaning in a constitutionalized global order T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 15 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-734 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Offe, Claus T1 - Die genetische Entschlüsselung der politischen Ordnung : Jon Elster über Selbstbindung und die Verfassungsprozesse in Osteuropa N2 - Verfassungen beschränken den Spielraum zukünftigen Handelns. Durch Selbstbindung schützen sich Akteure, so scheint es, vor sich selbst, d. h. vor den selbstverursachten Handlungsfolgen, die sie sonst zu bedauern hätten und vor denen sie diese Selbstbindung verschont. So gesehen steigern Akteure sogar ihr Handlungspotential,wenn sie sich selbst binden und dadurch, unbeeinträchtigt durch eigene Fehler, weiter handeln und mit anderen Akteuren in eine beiderseits kalkulierbare Kooperation treten können. Dieser wohltätige Zusammenhang von Selbstbindung und Freiheit ist immer schon am klugen Umgang des Odysseus mit den Verlockungen der Sirenen gerühmt worden. Der Beitrag untersucht am Beispiel von Elsters Analyse der postsozialistischen Verfassungspolitik, dass und warum der ve rmeintliche Segen einer kollektiven Selbstbindung bei der Gründung einer ne uen konstitutionellen Ordnung nur sehr bedingt zur Geltung kommt. N2 - Constitutions are constraints on future action. As precommitments, they seem to protect actors from acts that they would have to regret in retrospective. They even seem to enhance actors' potential for continued action and for cooperation with others. This benign link between rational self-binding and freedom to act has always been praised in the case of Ulysses and the Sirens, including in earlier work of Elster himself. Yet in his analysis of the politics of post-Communist constitution-making, a number of doubts emerge concerning the apparent moral and political virtue of the making of collective precommitments. The essay reviews some of the reasons for such doubts and points out some limitations of Elster's sociology of constitution-making. T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 13 Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Offe, Claus T1 - Governance - "Empty signifier" oder sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsprogramm? T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 12 Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Ivanović, Nevena T1 - Family policies in the United Kingdom : work-family balance policies as a paradigm shift? N2 - This report seeks to examine major changes that occurred in the last 10 years in the UK in the sphere of family policies, or more specifically, the introduction of policies aimed at the reconciliation of working and family life. The changes were addressed from two perspectives. On the one hand, Peter Hall’s concept of three different types of changes in policy – change in levels of existing instruments, changes to the instruments themselves, and changes in policy goals, has been employed, and a conclusion reached that there has been a paradigmatic shift: policy goals themselves changed. Family welfare and reconciliation of work and family life became legitimate policy goals. The other approach was to look at the changes from the perspective of gendered welfare state discussions, and ask the question in what way has the character of the UK gendered welfare state changed – specifically concerning state support for a different division of care and paid labour between men and women? The preliminary conclusion is that new UK policies make a beginning commitment in this respect but fall short of effectively encouraging major change: they do facilitate the reconciliation of work and family for women, but still provide moderate to weak levels of support for the involvement of men in child-rearing. T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 11 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-707 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Ante, Christine T1 - Pension policy reforms in Germany N2 - This paper states that German pension policies have taken a new path. After describing the major characteristics of the German post-war pension system, the paper will analyse the major reforms since 1989 and the way they changed and challenged the main characteristics of the pension system. As a next step, the paper will revise the reforms in several different aspects. Firstly it will argue that the way of decision-making changed: the role of the social partners and of inter-party consensus-building diminished; the actors’ constellation became more pluralistic. Secondly, policy change will be discussed in light of Peter Hall’s concept, concluding that a policy paradigm change took place - incrementally. Thirdly, against the background of Esping- Andersen’s welfare typologies, it will argue that there is an initial shift (especially in ideas) from a conservative pension model towards a liberal one. T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 10 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-698 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Ognyanova, Diana T1 - Health Care Reforms in Poland N2 - Health care reforms carried out in Poland since 1990 have led to the decentralization of ownership and financial and management responsibility of health care establishments; privatization of health care providers; stronger reliance on private expenditure on health care with rising out-of-pocket and informal payments; exclusion of some services from the package of universal health services; and restricted access to some health services in form of waiting lists.1 Even though the official aim of the reforms was to preserve a state guaranteed egalitarian health care system while ensuring optimal use of resources by the introduction of market-type mechanisms, smaller than expected gains in efficiency, together with demographic and technological pressure on health care costs and a political and economic climate unable to significantly increase public spending, resulted in a more privatized and unequal system than intended.2 Hence, the reforms of the health system as part of the general transformation of the economy and the welfare state illustrate a shift towards a hybrid “post-communist European type”3 of welfare state which has inherited some features of the socialist regime, but is increasingly shaped by liberal ideas. T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 9 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-685 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Schiller, Christof A1 - Kuhnle, Stein T1 - Redesigning the German Welfare State T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 8 Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Fuchs, Susanne A1 - Offe, Claus T1 - Welfare State Formation in the enlarged European Union : patterns of reform in the post-communist new member states T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 14 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-660 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Förster, Michael A1 - Gomez, Andrew ED - Förster, Michael ED - Gomez, Andrew T1 - The Future of Labour N2 - The world of labour has undergone tremendous changes throughout the last years. Globalisation, de-industrialisation and the constant change of labour environments are posing challenges to labour markets. Schlossplatz3 discusses a number of these challenges and will show different angles of how "The Future of Labour" can be incorporated in policy discourse and policy-making. T3 - Schlossplatz³ - 8 Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-388 IS - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Förster, Michael A1 - Rimmele, Monika ED - Förster, Michael ED - Rimmele, Monika T1 - Crisis N2 - Crisis as an omnipresent part of our daily lives has become engrained in our mindsets. We should, however, not resort to apathy, but instead attempt to differentiate between those issues sold to us as crises. The new Schlossplatz³ issue shows how crises are managed in various examples and how they can serve as instances of learning. T3 - Schlossplatz³ - 7 Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-372 IS - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Armanski, Sophia A1 - Förster, Michael A1 - McArthur, Shaughn A1 - Rimmele, Monika ED - Armanski, Sophia ED - Förster, Michael ED - McArthur, Shaughn ED - Rimmele, Monika T1 - Citizenship N2 - The turn of the century has witnessed the beginning of a new era in international politics. What are the implications for citizenship, an institution that, like few others, defines who we are and how we organise political life? This issue of Schlossplatz³ provides a snapshot of the ongoing debate on the past and future of citizenship. T3 - Schlossplatz³ - 6 Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-368 IS - 6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Armanski, Sophia A1 - McArthur, Shaughn ED - Armanski, Sophia ED - McArthur, Shaughn T1 - Water N2 - All human life depends on water and air. The sustainable management of both is a major challenge for today's public policy makers. This issue of Schlossplatz³ taps the streams and flows of the current debate on the right water governance. T3 - Schlossplatz³ - 5 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-355 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Armanski, Sophia A1 - McArthur, Shaughn A1 - Nover, Tim A1 - Staemmler, Johannes ED - Armanski, Sophia ED - McArthur, Shaughn ED - Nover, Tim ED - Staemmler, Johannes T1 - Cities N2 - The editorial team of Schlossplatz³ has regrouped and now includes a number of MPP students from the new class of 2009. For the fourth issue of the student magazine of the Hertie School of Governance, the new team has focused on urban governance as the central topic. T3 - Schlossplatz³ - 4 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-344 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Muturi, Raphael A1 - Nover, Tim A1 - Staemmler, Johannes ED - Muturi, Raphael ED - Nover, Tim ED - Staemmler, Johannes T1 - The renewed importance of international institutions N2 - It is our pleasure to introduce you to the third issue of Schlossplatz³. We, a group of students at the Hertie School of Governance, had the pleasure to gather another respectable potpourri of interviews and articles from scholars, practitioners, and students of public policy. T3 - Schlossplatz³ - 3 Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-332 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boege, Johannes A1 - Moje, Carolin A1 - Nover, Tim A1 - von Schoeler, Caspar ED - Boege, Johannes ED - Moje, Carolin ED - Nover, Tim ED - von Schoeler, Caspar T1 - Perspectives on the changing nature of security in the 21st century N2 - The second issue of Schlossplatz³ tackles a complex concept: Security. It does so in a way which perfectly emphasises the approach that HSoG tries to embody in its teaching of and research on public policy. It reminds us of the intricacies and challenges that need to be confronted by all modern public policies. T3 - Schlossplatz³ - 2 Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-328 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krisch, Nico T1 - The pluralism of global administrative law JF - European Journal of International Law N2 - As public power is increasingly exercised in structures of global governance, principles of domestic law and politics are extended to the global level, with serious repercussions for the structure of international law. Yet, as this article seeks to show for the emerging global administrative law, this extension is often problematic. Using administrative law mechanisms to enhance the accountability of global regulation faces the problem of fundamental contestation over the question of to whom global governance should be accountable. National, international and cosmopolitan constituencies are competing for primacy, and this results in an often disorderly interplay of accountability mechanisms at different levels and in different regimes. This pluralist structure, based on pragmatic accommodation rather than clear decisions, strongly contrasts with the ideals of coherence and unity in modern constitutionalism and domestic administrative law. However, given the structure of global society, it is likely to endure and it is also normatively preferable to alternative, constitutionalist approaches. It helps avoid the friction that may result from a federal-type distribution of powers and the practical problems of a consociational order, and by denying all constituencies primacy it reflects the legitimacy deficits of each of them. Mirroring divergent views on the right scope of the political order, it also respects everybody’s equal right to political participation. A pluralist global administrative law thus presents an alternative to problematic domestic models for ensuring accountability in the circumstances of global governance. Y1 - 2006 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chi163 SN - 0938-5428 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 247 EP - 278 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kemppainen-Bertram, Katri T1 - Future Strategies for HIV/ AIDS Policy-Recommendations for the German Federal Health Ministry in the Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Estonia N2 - This study provides recommendations to the German Federal Health Ministry (BMG) for positioning itself with respect to the multitude of actors involved in international HIV/AIDS policy in Eastern Europe, in particular in the Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Estonia. A particular focus is placed on different coordination mechanisms, whereby the benefits and costs of the coordination strategies are analysed in terms of their effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability. The study concludes that different countries not only require different HIV/AIDS policies, but also require different coordination strategies. Estonia, Russia and the Ukraine require not only different policies in terms of the comprehensiveness of policies. Engagement in the three countries also needs to differ with regard to the time horizon (short or long term) and whether existing networks can or should be used. The most comprehensive engagement of the BMG is recommended for the Ukraine, the least for Estonia. T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 7 Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-186 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kildal, Nanna A1 - Kuhnle, Stein T1 - Universal Old Age Pensions : arguments at time of introduction in Canada, Mauritius and Norway N2 - If combating poverty is a major political goal of social policy, and combating poverty among the old population in particular, what type of old age pension or income support policies are preferable? What is the status of knowledge as to the effects of various designs of pension programmes? Studies indicate that universal old age pension programmes are conducive to poverty alleviation and less income inequality, but strikingly few countries have introduced universal pension programmes since New Zealand as the first country in the world introduced such a scheme in 1938. We wonder what arguments were expressed and were decisive for the introduction of the universal schemes that after all exist, and a first analysis of the basic arguments for establishing universal old age pensions in three selected countries is made. The three countries are Canada, Mauritius and Norway which all introduced universal pensions in the 1950s, and belong to the group of pioneering countries in this respect. Even if an idea of a “one-size-fits-all” policy is not necessarily subscribed to, it is of interest to do a comparison of arguments for one specific policy solution, universal pensions, in countries belonging to different continents, existing in different international contexts, having different cultures and traditions, being at different levels of economic development, having different political history, and which are different in territorial and population size. An overview of pension systems in all countries of the world is given, and the historical arguments for universal pension systems in the three elected countries are presented and compared. One finding is that the ambition to reduce poverty was an important motivation in two of the countries, but the main consideration cutting across all three countries was the moral aversion to means testing and the desire to respect human dignity. Another argument found in all three countries was the pragmatic one that a universal scheme would lead to a reduction of administrative cost of old age provision. T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 6 Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Halsch, Volker T1 - Die Finanzbeziehungen zwischen Bund und Ländern : Plädoyer für einen praktikablen Neuanfang T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 5 Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-163 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Seitz, Helmut T1 - Finanzpolitik in Berlin zwischen Eigenanstrengungen und Haushaltsnotlagenhilfe N2 - Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht vor dem Hintergrund des anstehenden Haushaltsnotlagenverfahrens des Landes Berlin die Frage, ob sich Berlin in einer extremen Haushaltsnotlage befindet. Hierzu wird zunächst die Entwicklung der Berliner Finanzlage seit der Wende ausführlich untersucht, wobei ein zentrales Augenmerk der Frage gilt, ob und in welchem Umfang das Land Berlin Eigenanstrengungen zur Bewältigung seine Haushaltsnotlage erbracht hat. Diesbezüglich zeigen unsere Berechnungen, dass Berlin insbesondere in der jüngsten Vergangenheit - ausgehend allerdings von einem deutlich überhöhten Ausgabenniveau - erhebliche Eigensanierungsleistungen bislang erbracht hat. In einem weiteren Schritt wird basierend auf Nachhaltigkeitsmodellen die Frage untersucht, ob Berlin in der Lage ist aus eigener Kraft eine nachhaltige Finanzpolitik zu betreiben, ohne Gefahr zu laufen seinen Aufgabenverpflichtungen nicht mehr nachkommen zu können. Letzteres wird gemessen an einer Primärausgabenuntergrenze, d.h. an einem Pro-Kopf- Primärausgabenniveau des Landes Berlin im Vergleich zum Durchschnitt der alten Länder. Als Nachhaltigkeitsziel wird eine Stabilisierung der Schuldenquote auf dem Niveau des Jahres 2004 vorgegeben. Die Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Berlin ohne fremde Hilfe eine solche Nachhaltigkeitspolitik nicht betreiben kann und daher - allerdings unter erheblichen weiteren Eigenanstrengungen - auf Hilfe durch die Solidargemeinschaft angewiesen ist. Ergänzend nimmt der Beitrag ausführlich zum Problem der Haushaltsnotlagenprävention Stellung. Angemahnt wird, die vom Bundesverfassungsgericht bereits im Jahr 1992 eingeforderte Regelungen zur Verhinderung von Haushaltsnotlagen umzusetzen. T3 - Hertie School Working Papers Series - 4 Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-84 ER -