TY - JOUR A1 - Robinson, Nicholas T1 - Open to open-source AI? Navigating AI model choice in public sector agencies JF - Government Information Quarterly N2 - Public sector Agencies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools. High quality open-source AI (OSAI) options are available, but much of their current attention is on proprietary options such as Copilot and ChatGPT. There are parallels with take-up of open-source software (OSS). While OSS has a foothold in niche functions of Agencies' technology suites, it has not seen widespread adoption despite backing from technical and political spheres and its potential to reduce costs and spur increased competition and innovation. Grounded in theoretical frameworks and evidence used to investigate OSS uptake, the study draws on interviews with 31 decision-makers on AI adoption in Australian, Canadian and German public sector Agencies to analyse key factors in the feasibility of open-source technologies in general and OSAI in particular, compared to their proprietary counterparts. In comparison to determinants of OSS adoption, technological characteristics like fit, control and the availability of hardware infrastructure are more influential in whether OSAI is adopted. Furthermore, organisational considerations like digital sovereignty and data protection were more prominent in the AI decisions. Conversely, AI models are more homogenous and easier to switch between than traditional software products, meaning that perceptions of usability, fears of vendor lock-in and availability of support were not as strong an influence as with OSS. Although AI is a fast-evolving technology, the choice to adopt OSAI or proprietary AI involves making commitments today — like investment in hardware and building internal sovereign capabilities — that will echo into the future. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2026.102133 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library. VL - 43 IS - 2 PB - Elsevier BV ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dušek, Libor A1 - Traxler, Christian T1 - Swiftness and delay of punishment JF - The Economic Journal N2 - We study how the swiftness and delay of punishment affect behaviour in the context of speeding offences. Using rich administrative data from automated speed cameras, we exploit two quasi-experimental sources of variation in the lag between an offence and the sending of a ticket. At the launch of the speed camera system, administrative bottlenecks created delays of up to three months. Later, we implemented a protocol that randomly assigned tickets to either swift or delayed processing. We present two main results. First, delays reduce payment compliance: timely payments fall by 7 to 9% when tickets are sent with delays of four or more weeks. We also provide evidence suggesting that very swift tickets – sent on the first or second day after the offence – increase timely payments. These findings align with predictions from expert scholars elicited through a survey. Second, speeding tickets cause a strong, immediate, and persistent decline in speeding. Although swift tickets generate sizable mechanical benefits, we find no robust differential effects of swiftness or delay on subsequent speeding behaviour. This challenges widely held beliefs, as reflected in our survey. Finally, we outline a simple framework of learning and updating that explains our findings. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag035 PB - Oxford University Press (OUP) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Prasad, Shubha Kamala T1 - Indian Foreign Policy and the Diaspora: Continuity or Change? JF - Indian Politics & Policy N2 - The Indian government’s engagement with the Indian diaspora has seen a major upswing since the early 2000s. However, very different political parties have steered the Indian government in the first quarter of the 21st century. Has the ideological preferences of the political parties in power shaped the Indian government’s engagement with the diaspora? To answer this question, this article analyzes the government’s rhetoric towards the diaspora from 2005– 2025. The author uses both quantitative and qualitative content analysis on speeches by politicians at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) to test the arguments. The main findings are that speeches contain more Hindutva themes after 2014 while they continue with economic themes but with a lesser frequency. The change indicates a stronger emphasis on Hindu ideology but continuity on engaging the diaspora for India’s economic development. Using primary sources such as speeches, party manifestoes, annual reports of government ministries, and media articles, the author explains the shift based on BJP’s civilizational foreign policy agenda, the effect of Modi’s personalist leadership, and the desire to promote India’s status on the global stage. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18278/inpp.5.3.6 SN - 2573-8054 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 93 EP - 120 PB - Policy Studies Organization ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaiser, Silke K. A1 - Rodrigues, Filipe A1 - Azevedo, Carlos Lima A1 - Kaack, Lynn H. T1 - Spatio-temporal graph neural network for urban spaces: Interpolating citywide traffic volume JF - Expert Systems with Applications N2 - Graph Neural Networks have shown strong performance in traffic volume forecasting, particularly on highways and major arterial networks. Applying these models to urban street networks, however, presents unique challenges: urban networks are structurally more diverse, traffic volumes are highly overdispersed with many zeros, spatial dependencies are complex, and sensor coverage is often very sparse. To address these challenges, we introduce the Graph Neural Network for Urban Interpolation (GNNUI), a model designed specifically for citywide traffic volume interpolation. GNNUI employs a designated masking strategy to learn interpolation, integrates node features to capture the different functional roles across the street network, and uses a loss function tailored to zero-inflated traffic distributions. We evaluate GNNUI on two newly constructed, large-scale urban traffic volume benchmarks, covering different transportation modes: Strava cycling data from Berlin and New York City taxi data. Across multiple evaluation metrics, GNNUI outperforms both the state-of-the-art graph-based interpolation model IGNNK and the widely used machine-learning baseline XGBoost, reducing MAE by at least 13% on Strava data and 7% on Taxi data while better capturing the empirical traffic distribution, and improving the identification of zero-traffic streets. Additionally, the model remains robust under the realistic case of extremely scarce ground truth sensor data. When sensor coverage is reduced from 90% to 1%, the MAE increases by approximately 48% on Strava and 76% on the taxi data, despite the near-complete removal of sensor information. We also examine how graph connectivity choices influence model performance, and find that a simple and computationally efficient binary adjacency matrix outperforms distance or similarity based ones. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.131823 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library. VL - 316 PB - Elsevier BV ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borońska-Hryniewiecka, Karolina A1 - Sus, Monika T1 - The illusion of convergence? Exploring the patterns of (de-) politicisation of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the European Parliament JF - Journal of European Integration N2 - The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 not only reshaped national security considerations but also influenced debates in the European Parliament (EP). This article examines how this external shock shaped supranational political discourse in the EP between 2022 and 2024. While crises often generate temporary depoliticising effects, we find that these were conditional and context-dependent. Based on a thematic discourse analysis of EP plenary debates, we show that support for Ukraine remained depoliticised, marked by broad cross-party consensus. However, politicisation re-emerged when the war was framed as an opportunity for EU institutional reform. Unusually, it was mainstream rather than challenger actors who used this strategic window to promote deeper integration. By demonstrating that crises do not automatically generate convergence but instead produce selective politicisation across issues, our findings advance debates on EU crisis governance. We show that even existential security shocks may strengthen coordination without prompting far-reaching institutional change. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2026.2619425 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library. VL - 48 IS - 2 SP - 209 EP - 227 PB - Informa UK Limited ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Orlando-Salling, Jennifer A1 - Steininger, Silvia T1 - Decolonising European Society JF - European Law Open N2 - Who is recognised within the concept of ‘European Society’, and, more importantly, who or what remains unseen? This article critically examines European Society through a decolonial lens, arguing that EU law is detached from the lived and diverse realities of European Society. Drawing on the work of sociologist Manuela Boatcă, the authors propose a decolonial approach that excavates coloniality of power, knowledge and, especially, belonging within EU law to reimagine European Society. Analysing cases in migration and the rule of law, the article reveals how EU law perpetuates hierarchical structures of inclusion and exclusion, and invisibilises the liminal—often deploying “Western” norms, values, and lifestyles as gatekeeping tools, especially in post-colonial contexts. At the heart of this argument is the necessity to move beyond Eurocentric assumptions of universality, neutrality, and totality in legal scholarship, instead embracing plurality of perspective, creolisation, and reflexivity. The authors contend that European Society should not be treated as a rigid legal construct but rather as a dynamic and inclusive one that amplifies marginalised voices, acknowledges and accounts for the liminal, and critically examines the law’s inherent limitations. Ultimately, the article calls for a radical reimagining of European Society through its decolonisation—one that confronts historical injustices, disrupts entrenched power structures, and steers EU law toward a more just, equitable, accountable and reconstructive future. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/elo.2025.10066 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library. PB - Cambridge University Press (CUP) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kayser, Mark A. A1 - Nalewajko, Kasia T1 - How Bad Can It Get? Polarization and the Public Interest When It Matters JF - British Journal of Political Science N2 - Scholars and political observers, alike, have associated political polarization with the weakening of democratic norms and the undermining of accountability, as partisans trade off the public interest against in-group loyalty. We probe how in-group bias shapes support for collective goods in actual high-stakes settings in an especially polarized democracy. Conducting survey experiments in Poland, we examine two scenarios: electoral integrity during the 2023 parliamentary election that could have entrenched authoritarian rule and national security after Russia’s 2022 invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Our findings show pronounced partisan bias undermining support for electoral integrity – approximately 40 per cent of party supporters with an average level of partisanship supported rerunning an election when their party unexpectedly lost – but less bias in judgments about national security, raising the possibility that individuals may view democracy as more of an instrumental than an intrinsic good. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425101257 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library. VL - 56 PB - Cambridge University Press (CUP) ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gohdes, Anita R. A1 - Koh, Allison W. A1 - Schumann, Maurice P. ED - Earl, Jennifer ED - Braithwaite, Jessica Maves T1 - 4 Digital Authoritarianism T2 - De Gruyter Handbook of Political Control Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111298559-005 SP - 75 EP - 89 PB - De Gruyter ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rogers, Sawyer B. T1 - How Demographic Data Can Strengthen Equity and Efficiency: The 21st Century Assistive Technology Act JF - Public Integrity N2 - The 21st Century Assistive Technology Act in December 2022 reauthorized federal funding for state programs to spread awareness and provide assistive technology services to the public. This article analyzes the effectiveness of the act in the areas of equity, efficiency, and savings. The article uses comparative and textual analysis of the bill and its past iterations and descriptive statistical analysis of disability demographics and program data to conduct this analysis. The article finds that the act improves equity for certain groups with higher rates of disability yet leaves out other groups, achieves cost-efficiency across most states, and creates substantial cost savings for consumers. The act does address some gaps in assistive technology among older adult and veteran populations yet does not explicitly increase representation for gender, LGBT, rural, or other demographic groups with higher prevalence of disability. This article recommends that policymakers utilize demographic figures to improve the equity and efficiency of funding allocation, increase the representation of LGBT, rural, and other groups with higher disability prevalence within the design and implementation process, and remove states’ ability to opt out of providing certain activities such as financing to improve the effectiveness of the act and savings for individuals. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2026.2632392 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library. ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Quaritsch, Luise T1 - How Has the DSA Performed in Protecting Election Integrity? N2 - The EU’s Digital Services Act is intended to protect the integrity of electoral processes and civic discourse on large online platforms. A look back at three recent national elections in Romania, Germany and Poland offers a sobering picture. While civil society organisations and media observed apparent failures by platforms to detect covert influence operations or correctly identify political advertising, it remains unclear whether that means platforms are not doing enough to protect election integrity. In addition, three risks might be underappreciated: political advertising, influencers and asymmetric amplification of political candidates. Y1 - 2026 UR - https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/publications/detail/publication/how-has-the-dsa-performed-in-protecting-election-integrity N1 - This policy position was originally published in TechPolicy.Press on 19 February 2026. https://www.techpolicy.press/how-has-the-dsa-performed-in-protecting-election-integrity/ ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - Progress and Polarization in South Korea: Remarkable Economic Ascent Masks Lingering Fractures T2 - 2024 Berggruen Governance Index N2 - On December 3rd, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol imposed martial law in what appeared to be an attempted coup, threatening the country’s hard-fought democracy. Although the attempt was unsuccessful and consequentially led to Yoon Suk-yeol’s removal from office, it exposed lingering challenges in a country that has been one of the century’s great democratic success stories. Using insights from the 2024 Berggruen Governance Index, we discuss South Korea’s remarkable success and trajectory, and the underlying fragilities in the country that pose threats to democratic stability and governance. Indeed, South Korea has made a remarkable transition from being a war-torn, impoverished, and autocratic nation to one of economic growth and impressive democratization. We find that South Korea consistently ranks very high in democratic accountability, public goods provision, and state capacity. Yet, emerging and ongoing challenges polarize the country. South Korea is in a precarious geopolitical situation with its rival neighbor North Korea, and continues to encounter issues such as gender polarization, economic inequality, and overwork. Moving forward, South Korea must grapple with these societal divisions and the legacy from its authoritarian past. Yet, it has one of the most highly educated societies in the world, a civically engaged population that will be key to protecting the remarkable democracy and economic success that it has already achieved. KW - Sociology Y1 - 2025 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/3fj98wa8p9yptz0cerf2ssdfb8hohipt PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - Canada 2025: Governance Challenges Between Resource Reliance and Geopolitical Vulnerability T2 - 2024 Berggruen Governance Index N2 - Although it is wealthy by global standards, Canada’s economy faces key vulnerabilities such as excessive reliance on extractive industries, shortages of critical goods such as housing, and heavy dependence on exports to the US. For many years, the country has failed to address these systemic problems. Despite scoring highly on most measures of the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI), its performance has been uneven over the last decade. Indeed, while Canada is generally ahead of the United States in terms of governance performance, its scores for state capacity and democratic accountability trail those of many Western European peers. This parallels a broader disillusionment with Canada’s institutions, as public trust in government steadily declined during the 2010s. Addressing systemic challenges will require strident and courageous measures that aim to improve economic diversification and tackle regional inequality. Will the Liberal Party, which has neglected needed reforms for too long—and is now favored to win the elections in April—finally be up to the task? KW - Sociology Y1 - 2025 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/5ospdh0cc7lcqg4uyh3shk90hqrx47od PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - ‘Lucky’ or Lacking? Economic Development and Political Institutions in Australia T2 - 2024 Berggruen Governance Index N2 - Ahead of an important federal election on May 3rd, Australia boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated political institutions and a wealthy economy. But does this veneer of success mask deeper structural issues? This report finds that, despite strong measures of GDP per capita and state capacity, Australia has long struggled to move its economy past a reliance on commodity exports—notably to China. At the same time, its democratic innovations such as compulsory electoral participation, early adoption of women’s suffrage, and preferential voting conceal a darker history of indigenous dispossession and racial discrimination. To move past these problems, Australia will have to leverage its impressive state capacity and strong educational system to develop a more advanced services sector and foster more complex manufacturing. Given the necessity of innovation clusters in its already-productive cities, this will also require addressing the severe housing crisis in state capitals and encouraging more migration and acceptance of minorities. Only with a more complex economy can Australia ensure future growth and reduce vulnerability to foreign powers like China and the US. KW - Sociology Y1 - 2025 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/m0ngzapoaa18cb9gppv2jbiybvp4jgvv PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - Steadying the Democratic Ship — or Sinking it? Economic Stagnation and Political Dysfunction in Italy T2 - 2024 Berggruen Government Index N2 - The combination of a sclerotic economy and a volatile political climate has defined Italy for decades. With far-right leader Giorgia Meloni’s election as prime minister in September 2022, it remains to be seen whether the country can finally break this cycle. Although her government has overseen modest economic growth and relative political stability—and Meloni remains popular—her controversial constitutional reforms and the June 2025 referenda pose significant tests. Those votes, held alongside local elections, address both citizenship liberalization and stronger workers’ rights. While they will reveal public sentiment about the current government, neither can resolve Italy’s deeper, long-term problems. To do so, policymakers must tackle high regional disparities, extreme wealth and inheritance inequality, and persistently low productivity. Investments and reforms aimed at bringing Italy’s state capacity in line with its Western European peers are essential to address these structural issues. KW - Sociology Y1 - 2025 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/21tt4jr2hvdk0d0qd4ofk25ark9ht65z PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - Economic Progress or Democratic Distress? Indonesia’s Governance Challenges T2 - 2024 Berggruen Government Index N2 - As the world’s third-largest democracy, with the largest Muslim population, and consisting of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia faces complex governance challenges. As indicated by the 2024 Berggruen Governance Index, the country reveals a decline in democratic accountability and stagnant state capacity, while its public goods provision has improved thanks to revenue from its extractive industries. Despite having experienced high economic growth in recent years, high levels of inequality linger, and significant regional discrepancies in living standards persist. Politically, authoritarian tendencies under President Prabowo Subianto threaten the fragile democratic gains of previous decades. To address this, Indonesia will have to continue its mostly successful economic policies while seeking to distribute gains more equitably and increase regional convergence through investments and decentralization. KW - Sociology Y1 - 2025 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/ct8sff4xe5mjqsj92lstgfgct24a6h85 PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - A Remedy for 'Dutch Disease'? Natural Resources and Political-Economic Development in Norway. T2 - 2024 Berggruen Government Index N2 - Ahead of parliamentary elections on September 8th, what is the state of Norway’s democracy, government, and economy? For decades, Norway has defied paradoxical misfortunates of ample natural resources (“Dutch Disease”), instead investing its natural riches into building a highly representative political system and robust state. In order to investigate how Norway has defied the conventional “resource curse” narrative, this report— with evidence from the 2024 Berggruen Governance Index— explores the history of Norway and examines current political challenges that could threaten to disrupt its relatively secure and stable status quo. We find that Norway has built its success so through a combination of historical processes which facilitated early democratization, important cultural dynamics that link representation and modernization, and deliberate policy choices that channeled resource rents into long-term investments rather than short-term political gains. Although emerging social fractures could pose a risk to its fortunate situation, Norway’s wealth and strong institutions leave it in a better place to combat political dysfunction and economic stagnation than many other developed countries. KW - Sociology Y1 - 2025 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/xq7sinef0iu0g4vet9hj6ysnwnrlbg1c PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - The Politics of Debt in Cameroon, Malawi, Ivory Coast, the Central African Republic, and Tanzania; the Politics of Debt T2 - 2024 Berggruen Government Index N2 - In 2025, Cameroon, Malawi, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and the Central African Republic held (or will hold) national elections. Across these cases, electoral processes were marked by accusations of fraud, political repression, and in some instances violent crackdowns, underscoring persistent weaknesses in democratic accountability and overall governance challenges. These political dynamics unfold within a broader postcolonial context of poverty, limited sovereignty, and heavy reliance on external financing. Despite these constraints, all five countries have recorded notable improvements in public goods provision since 2000, according to the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI). Although this reflects gains in areas such as infrastructure and social services, these advances have coincided with stagnation or decline in state capacity and democratic institutions. Rising public debt—driven by multilateral and Chinese lending—has enabled short-term development but increasingly constrains fiscal and political space. The report argues that without substantial improvements in state capacity, these countries risk remaining trapped in a vicious cycle of debt, weak governance, and political instability. KW - Sociology Y1 - 2025 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/ylcjxxv22992583jau436ywcf0pd0584 PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Saraceno, Joseph C. T1 - Development over Democracy? Economic Growth and Political Repression in Bangladesh T2 - 2024 Berggruen Government Index N2 - This election brief examines the critical juncture facing Bangladesh as it approaches the February 12, 2026, general election and concurrent referendum on the “July Charter.” Following the 2024 ouster of Sheikh Hasina and the subsequent transition to an interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh seeks to reverse a two-decade trend of democratic backsliding and stagnant state capacity. Utilizing data from the Berggruen Governance Index, this analysis highlights a striking paradox: while democratic accountability and state capacity have significantly withered since 2000, public goods provision has reached record highs, driven by a highly concentrated, export-oriented textile model and growing public debt. The report evaluates the sustainability of this “authoritarian developmentalism” in a deteriorating international environment characterized by U.S. protectionism and regional instability. It concludes that while the proposed constitutional reforms offer a framework for long-term stability, Bangladesh’s path to reconciling economic growth with democratic liberty remains precarious, requiring a departure from historical East Asian developmental models to suit a more fragmented geopolitical reality. KW - Sociology Y1 - 2026 UR - https://ucla.app.box.com/s/w00oniweqbgifmim9j6df13ruk6kj4yt PB - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs CY - Los Angeles ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Knudsen, Edward L. T1 - Dominanz ohne Hegemonie? Der neue Wettstreit um das Soft-Power-Vakuum der USA N2 - Mit der Umsetzung des Strategiepapiers Project 25 hat die zweite Trump-Re-gierung viele zentrale Elemente der Soft Power der USA zerschlagen. Seither nimmt die Soft Power des Landes stetig ab und hinterlässt ein Vakuum im Zentrum der globalen Kulturdiplomatie. Gleichzeitig setzen die USA ihre be-trächtliche wirtschaftliche und militärische Kraft ein, um Verbündete wie Rivalen gleichermaßen unter Druck zu setzen, indem sie international einen zunehmend transaktionalen bilateralen Ansatz verfolgen – Dominanz ohne kulturelle Hegemonie. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung sehen sich Europa – und insbesondere Deutschland – mit einer Reihe grundlegender Fragen in dieser veränderten geopolitischen und geoökonomischen Landschaft konfrontiert. Sie könnten die Außenkulturpolitik (ECP) nutzen, um universalistische libe-ral-demokratische Prinzipien voranzutreiben, und dazu eine zukunftsgerich-tete Vision mit einem eigenständiges Narrativ entwickeln, das mit der eigenen wirtschaftlichen Gesamtleistung und Lebensqualität, mit technologischen Errungenschaften und einem stabilen Militärbündnis zu untermauern wäre. Doch ein derartiges Vorgehen verlangt drastische Entscheidungen und einen politischen Willen, der den künftigen Herausforderungen gerecht wird. Wenn es Europa und Deutschland nicht gelingt, diese Bewährungsproben zu meistern, werden sie, als Mittelmächte, zunehmend zum Spielball der USA und Chinas. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17901/1588 PB - ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.) CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Toepler, Stefan A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. ED - List, Regina A. ED - Anheier, Helmut K. ED - Toepler, Stefan T1 - Theories of Nonprofit Sector, Economic T2 - International Encyclopedia of Civil Society KW - Civil Society KW - Sociology Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-319-99675-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99675-2_805-1 PB - Springer ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. ED - List, Regina A. ED - Anheier, Helmut K. ED - Toepler, Stefan T1 - Secret Societies T2 - International Encyclopedia of Civil Society KW - Civil Society Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-319-99675-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99675-2_120-1 PB - Springer ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Çalı, Başak A1 - Finnerty, Joseph ED - Istrefi, Kushtrim ED - Ratniece, Zane ED - Kamber, Krešimir T1 - Quality of law T2 - The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights Y1 - 2026 SN - 9789004541559 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541559 PB - Brill | Nijhoff ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Çalı, Başak A1 - Finnerty, Joseph ED - Istrefi, Kushtrim ED - Ratniece, Zane ED - Kamber, Krešimir T1 - Legitimate aim T2 - The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights Y1 - 2026 SN - 9789004541559 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541559 PB - Brill | Nijhoff ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Çalı, Başak A1 - Finnerty, Joseph ED - Istrefi, Kushtrim ED - Ratniece, Zane ED - Kamber, Krešimir T1 - Foreseeability of law T2 - The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights Y1 - 2026 SN - 9789004541559 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541559 PB - Brill | Nijhoff ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Çalı, Başak A1 - Finnerty, Joseph ED - Istrefi, Kushtrim ED - Ratniece, Zane ED - Kamber, Krešimir T1 - Accessibility of law T2 - The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights Y1 - 2026 SN - 9789004541559 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541559 PB - Brill | Nijhoff ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Steininger, Silvia T1 - They Not Like Us: Why the Danish ‘Ghetto Law’ violates EU law T2 - Verfassungsblog Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.59704/7df434a515a94342 PB - Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Steininger, Silvia T1 - What Are Human Rights For? On the May 2025 Danish-Italian Public Letter to the ECtHR T2 - Verfassungsblog Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.59704/ecbe94e125dadef0 PB - Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Nugraha, Ignatius Yordan T1 - Godly Constitution and Divine Enlightenment: The Indonesian Constitutional Court’s Recent Theocratic Judgment T2 - Verfassungsblog Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.59704/1bf50643de038c99 PB - Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steininger, Silvia T1 - Wilhelmstraße 92, 10117 Berlin: German Memory Culture in the Heart of Empire JF - Leiden Journal of International Law Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000591 VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 404 EP - 405 PB - Cambridge University Press (CUP) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moreno-Lax, Violeta T1 - Commission proposal for a revised Facilitation Directive: Targeted substitute impact assessment N2 - This study constitutes a targeted substitute impact assessment of the Commission’s proposal for a revised Facilitation Directive (COM(2023) 755), presented on 28 November 2023 as part of a package to address migrant smuggling. It provides a critical review of the existing legal and policy framework at EU level and its shortcomings regarding transposition and implementation. It also undertakes a critical and thorough appraisal of the proposed objectives and measures in terms of coherence, effectiveness and efficiency, including with a view to assessing the adequacy of the interplay between this proposal and the related draft Regulation on enhancing police cooperation (COM(2023) 754). It highlights the misalignment of the proposal with relevant international and key EU law standards. It raises concerns about definitional issues, the lack of sufficient human rights safeguards, and the absence of a clear distinction between facilitation offences and the legitimate provision of services and humanitarian assistance. The study also examines the legality and proportionality of the proposed measures and stresses the need for a thorough evaluation of wider impacts on civic space and democracy at large. Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2025)765787 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2861/0337452 PB - EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service CY - Brussels ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steininger, Silvia T1 - The Changing European Union: A Critical View on the Role of Law and the Courts edited by Tamara Capeta, Iris Goldner Lang, and Tamara Perišin (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022) JF - Common Market Law Review Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.54648/cola2025071 VL - 62 IS - 4 SP - 1223 EP - 1226 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Đuković, Mirko T1 - Algorithmic Risk in EU Migration & Asylum Governance: Reconciling the EU AI Act and the Council of Europe Framework Convention T2 - AFAR Policy Brief N2 - This policy brief by Mirko Đuković, postdoctoral researcher in the Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR) project, examines how automated decision-making (ADM) is increasingly embedded in Europe’s migration and asylum systems, from ETIAS triage at the border to mobile-phone data extraction in asylum procedures. These technologies routinely shape life-changing outcomes, yet operate with limited transparency and uneven safeguards for fairness and fundamental rights. The EU AI Act adopts a product-safety logic, categorising AI systems into four risk tiers and generally classifying migration-related systems as high-risk. By contrast, the Council of Europe’s AI Convention introduces a contextual, rights-centred methodology (HUDERIA), emphasising scale, scope, probability, and reversibility of risks. Both frameworks converge on the need for ex-ante risk assessment, but diverge on how such assessments should be carried out. Combining the AI Act’s regulatory certainty with the Convention’s richer human-rights analysis could yield stronger protections for migrants and asylum seekers while offering clarity to authorities. Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.hertie-school.org/en/news/detail/content/algorithmic-risk-in-eu-migration-asylum-governance-reconciling-the-eu-ai-act-and-the-council-of-europe-framework-convention PB - Hertie School ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steininger, Silvia T1 - Silvia Steininger, Review of Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen. The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context: Justice That Cannot Be Taken for Granted JF - European Journal of International Law Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chae062 VL - 35 IS - 4 SP - 1063 EP - 1068 PB - Oxford University Press (OUP) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Henke, Marina A1 - Kolonic, Dino A1 - Lemmer, Felix T1 - Russian roulette revisited: Does a limited nuclear strike constitute a winning strategy? JF - Contemporary Security Policy N2 - Russia has threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons repeatedly in its war on Ukraine to intimidate and break the cohesion of NATO. Does such a strike potentially constitute a winning strategy? This article addresses this question via four waves of vignette-based survey experiments, two prior and two post Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Germany and the United States, two critical NATO members with diverse cultural sensibilities. Contrary to our expectation, we find that public attitudes in both countries are remarkably similar and favor in the case of a Russian tactical nuclear strike not a conciliatory but a retaliatory NATO response. Moreover, public attitudes following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have grown even more hawkish. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2026.2624653 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library. SP - 1 EP - 25 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Palmiotto, Francesca A1 - Ozkul, Derya T1 - Climbing a Wall: Strategic Litigation Against Automated Systems in Migration and Asylum JF - German Law Journal N2 - Strategic litigation plays a crucial role in advancing human rights in the digital age, particularly in cases where data subjects, such as migrants and protection seekers, experience significant power imbalances. In this Article, we consider strategic litigation as part of broader legal mobilization efforts. Although some emerging studies have examined contestation against digital rights and migrant rights separately using legal mobilization frameworks, scholarship on legal mobilization concerning the use of automated systems on migrants and asylum seekers is scarce. This Article aims to address this gap by investigating the extent to which EU law empowers strategic litigants working at the intersection of technology and migration. Through an analysis of five specific cases of contestation and in-depth interviews, we explore how EU data protection law is leveraged to protect the digital rights of migrants and asylum seekers. This analysis takes a socio-legal perspective, analyzing the opportunities presented by EU data protection law and how civil society organizations (CSOs) utilize them in practice. Our findings reveal that the pre-litigation phase is particularly onerous for strategic litigants in this field, requiring a considerable investment of resources and time before even reaching the litigation stage. We illustrate this phase as akin to “climbing a wall,” characterized by numerous hurdles that CSOs face and the strategies they employ to overcome them. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2024.52 VL - 25 IS - 6 SP - 935 EP - 955 PB - Cambridge University Press (CUP) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Finnerty, Joseph T1 - Confronting Authoritarian Practices through Procedural-Based Review: The Case of the Polish Rule of Law Crisis JF - The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review N2 - This article examines how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or Court) has responded to authoritarian practices that seek to undermine judicial independence, particularly in the context of the Polish rule of law crisis. In contrast to the existing scholarly attention to and emphasis on the subjective right to judicial independence and ulterior purpose doctrines as response mechanisms to these particular authoritarian practices, this article finds that the principle of legality, understood as a ‘procedural’ as well as a ‘substantive’ notion under the European Convention on Human Rights, has done most of the heavy lifting in this context. The article argues that the procedural side of this bifurcated approach to legality may be conceptualised as a new form of procedural-based review in the Court’s broader case law, coining the term ‘procedural legality’, and further notes the unexpected role for procedural-based review in the context of autocratisation. Y1 - 2026 UR - https://brill.com/view/journals/eclr/aop/article-10.1163-26663236-bja10150/article-10.1163-26663236-bja10150.xml?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOorTKr_SBuSb4cv2DHk8H41kDM70DWl-sSAJx7BoiQ5oDwxhQd67&ebody=Abstract%2FExcerpt U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10150 SP - 1 EP - 25 PB - Brill | Nijhoff ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Finnerty, Joseph A1 - Çalı, Başak T1 - The Travaux Préparatoires and Progressive Treaty Interpretation: Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights JF - European Journal of International Law N2 - Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has become a central provision employed by the European Court of Human Rights in response to authoritarian practices in Europe over the last decade. Notwithstanding its increased use, important disagreements persist regarding the interpretation of the provision. Analysing the provision’s ordinary meaning, the convention’s travaux préparatoires as a whole and the interpretation of the provision by majority and minority judges of the Court, this article identifies three competing normative models for specifying Article 18’s purpose. Whilst the text is open for Article 18 to address all forms of abuse of power – authoritarian or democratic – the travaux suggest a purpose of detecting emerging authoritarian practices. The majority on the Court’s bench, on the other hand, view Article 18 as a narrow tool to respond to predominant and pronounced authoritarian practices. These normative disagreements are also reflected in concurring and dissenting opinions annexed to Article 18 judgments, with some minority judges defending the narrow normative model and others advocating for a more progressive interpretation, not only on familiar grounds of evolutive interpretation but also because the convention’s history calls for progressive interpretation of this particular provision. Our findings complicate the well-established presumption that progressive interpretation of the convention comes about by treating it as a ‘living instrument’ at the expense of the drafters’ intent, highlighting the turn to ‘progressive originalism’ in the interpretation of Article 18 of the ECHR. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chaf029 VL - 36 IS - 2 SP - 475 EP - 499 PB - Oxford University Press (OUP) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Finnerty, Joseph T1 - How Should the European Court of Human Rights Remedy Violations of Article 18 ECHR? The Case for Remedial Realignment JF - European Convention on Human Rights Law Review N2 - This article assesses whether the European Court of Human Right’s (Court) remedial reasoning in Article 18 European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) judgments coheres with the Court’s merits-based reasoning finding a violation of this particular provision. Article 18 violations have come to highlight structural problems in state parties, most notably complicity from domestic judiciaries and/or state prosecutors in state efforts to restrict Convention rights for anti-democratic ulterior purposes. The article finds that this substantive feature of Article 18 violations does not generally extend to the Court’s approach to formulating remedies and that the Article 18 violation judgments evidence the same remedial oversight generally present in the Court’s broader case law. The article argues, however, that the Court’s remedial approach in Article 18 violation judgments should be highly prescriptive and specific in respect of both individual and general measures on account of the reality that Article 18 serves both individual and constitutional justice and engages the positive dimension of subsidiarity. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10100 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 380 EP - 399 PB - Brill | Nijhoff ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Çalı, Başak A1 - Galand, Alexandre Skander T1 - A Tale of Disregard? Reception of the Jurisprudence of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities before the European Court of Human Rights JF - Human Rights Quarterly N2 - The Convention on the Rights of Persons Disabilities (CRPD) was hailed as a transformative human rights treaty when it came into force in 2008. The CRPD not only promises the remediation of the under-protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in international human rights law, but it also aims to transform the deep and structural inequalities underpinning the governance of disability through law and policy. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee) has adopted and extended this transformative ethos in its jurisprudence. In this article, we examine the reception of this jurisprudence by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and ask whether and how the CRPD Committee's interpretation of the CRPD has influenced the case law of the ECtHR. By focusing on the right to legal capacity, accessibility and reasonable accommodation, we demonstrate that the transformative jurisprudence of the CRPD Committee was met with visible disregard in Strasbourg. Our findings point to both the importance of specialized human rights treaties and jurisprudence in advancing the rights of historically discriminated groups and the challenges of judicially diffusing transformative protections for the rights of persons with disabilities into general human rights law. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2025.a965925 VL - 47 IS - 3 SP - 394 EP - 425 PB - Project MUSE ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Henke, Marina T1 - Germany’s new old nuclear dilemma JF - Engelsberg Ideas N2 - When it comes to nuclear weapons, the concerns that West Germany's first chancellor wrestled with during the Cold War have not disappeared – they have simply re-emerged in new forms. Y1 - 2025 UR - https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/germanys-new-old-nuclear-dilemma/ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Afonso, Alexandre A1 - Ausserladscheider, Valentina A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Kinderman, Daniel A1 - Scheiring, Gabor A1 - Rathgeb, Philip T1 - On Philip Rathgeb’s How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024 JF - Socio-Economic Review Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf039 PB - Oxford University Press ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Lee, Pit Jasper ED - Ebbinghaus, Bernhard ED - Nelson, Moira T1 - Growth regimes and welfare state reforms T2 - Handbook on Welfare State Reform N2 - This chapter proposes a growth-regime perspective for understanding welfare state reforms. Welfare states are closely linked to the economy, shaping supply and demand. To boost growth and employment, governments resort to welfare state reforms. Combining the supply-side perspective of the Varieties of Capitalism and the growth-model perspective's focus on aggregate demand, a comprehensive analysis of growth regimes helps explain the choices governments face when engaging with reform agendas. We demonstrate how the growing digital economy connects with education policies. Demand-led growth strategies link with financialization on the supply side. The regulation of private pensions and housing markets has become subject of policy reforms as new growth engines while having profound repercussions on the welfare state. Thus, national growth strategies affect welfare state institutions and vice versa. The chapter concludes by providing an outlook on how different growth regimes are affected by current crises. Y1 - 2025 SN - 9781839108792 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108808.00013 SP - 51 EP - 65 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Palier, Bruno ED - Regini, Marino T1 - The political economy of the welfare state: from power resources to varieties of capitalism to growth strategies T2 - Handbook of Comparative Political Economy N2 - The chapter reviews the recent advances in comparative political economy for social policy development. Welfare state research has long been divided between those who assume that social policy is adopted by governments against markets and those who emphasize the productive effects of social policies for the functioning of markets. Recently, we can observe a synthesis of both approaches in the framework of growth and welfare regimes. This new literature situates the welfare state as an important component of the political economy of advanced economies and assumes that governments situate their social policy reforms in wider growth strategies. The chapter develops the argument in four steps. First, we present a historical perspective on the welfare state. Second, we identify the contributions of the productive role of the welfare state and introduce the notion of growth regimes and their connections to welfare regimes. The next section presents five types of growth strategies and social policy reform. Finally, we address the political support for the welfare state in different growth regimes. Y1 - 2025 SN - 9781035327775 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035327782.00025 SP - 234 EP - 251 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Weil, Kilian ED - Hassel, Anke ED - Schroeder, Wolfgang T1 - Gelingt der Übergang von fossilen zu grünen Arbeitsplätzen? T2 - Was wird aus der Arbeit? N2 - Die grüne Transformation hat unmittelbare Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt. 1 Die angestrebte Entwicklung von fossilen hin zu grünen Arbeitsplätzen stellt Unternehmen und Beschäftigte in Deutschland vor große Herausforderungen. Lange beruhte der wirtschaftliche Erfolg Deutschlands nicht nur auf Exporten von energie-und fossilintensiven Gütern und zugleich auch der Energiemix hauptsächlich auf fossilen Brennstoffen. Für eine deutliche Reduzierung von Emissionen müssen bestimmte Industrien ab-und andere umgebaut werden. Im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien entstehen neue Arbeitsplätze. Insgesamt geht es also um einen tiefgreifenden Strukturwandel von zuvor emissionsintensiven sogenannten braunen zu emissionsschwachen grünen Arbeitsplätzen. Für die OECD-Länder wird erwartet, dass die Dekarbonisierung der Wirtschaft zu einem Nettogewinn an Arbeitsplätzen führt (Chateau und Mavroeidi 2020). Die Europäische Kommission rechnet mit einem Wachstum von über 1 Million neuer Arbeitsplätze bis 2030, wobei die europäische grüne Technologie zu einem Vorreiter für wachsende Exportmärkte werden soll (EC 2021). Aggregierte Trends geben jedoch keinen Aufschluss über das Ausmaß der Anpassungen, die für einzelne Arbeitnehmer: innen und Unternehmen erforderlich sind, und verdecken eine erhebliche Heterogenität zwischen Regionen und Sektoren. Konkret heißt dies, dass der Bedarf nach zusätzlichen Arbeitskräften in erneuerbaren Energien, zB in der Wind-oder Solarenergie oder bei Wärmepumpen, regional anders verteilt sind als die Arbeitsplätze, die im Kohlebergbau oder der Automobilindustrie… Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/was_wird_aus_der_arbeit-18483.html# SN - 9783593520377 SP - 211 EP - 216 PB - Campus Verlag CY - Frankfurt ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Lee, Pit Jasper ED - Hassel, Anke ED - Schroeder, Wolfgang T1 - Wie kann die Tarifbindung in Deutschland gesteigert werden? T2 - Was wird aus der Arbeit? N2 - Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeber auf Unternehmensebene, gilt die Tarifbindung nur für das jeweilige Unternehmen und es ist schwieriger, die Tarifbindung durch den Abschluss einzelner Vereinbarungen mit einzelnen Unternehmen zu erhöhen. Verhandeln die Sozialpartner hingegen auf sektoraler oder nationaler Ebene, ist es viel wahrscheinlicher, dass eine größere Gruppe von Unternehmen, wenn nicht sogar alle, von der Vereinbarung erfasst wird (Abbildung 1). Die Zentralisierung der Lohnverhandlung korreliert mit der Tarifbindung mit einem Wert von 0, 88. Andere Einflussfaktoren umfassen die Möglichkeit der Allgemeinverbindlichkeit von Tarifverträgen (Korrelationskoeffizient 0, 61), die Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft (0, 55) sowie dem Grad der Koordination und staatlicher Eingriffe. Die hohen Korrelationswerte zeigen, dass die Tarifbindung das Ergebnis von sich wechselseitig beeinflussender Faktoren ist, das auf rechtlichen Mechanismen, Institutionen und starken Akteuren beruht. Warum ist die Tarifbindungen in Deutschland in den letzten Jahrzenten gesunken? Es lassen sich drei zentrale Gründe für die Erosion der Tarifbindung ausmachen. Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/was_wird_aus_der_arbeit-18483.html# SN - 9783593520377 SP - 165 EP - 170 PB - Campus Verlag CY - Frankfurt ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Di Carlo, Donato ED - Hassel, Anke ED - Palier, Bruno T1 - Germany: Adjustments of an Export-Led Growth Regime T2 - Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions N2 - This chapter traces the evolution of Germany’s export-led growth regime across three distinct phases, focusing on the interplay between the growth regime and governments’ economic and social policy reforms. In the first phase (1990–2007), post-reunification challenges led to wage restraint, fiscal consolidation, and labor market dualization to restore competitiveness and strengthen exports. The second phase (2007–2019) saw a partial rebalancing, with labor market reregulation and moderate public investment addressing structural weaknesses. In the third phase (2020 onward), crises like COVID-19 and the energy shock prompted a shift toward interventionist industrial policy and Keynesian fiscal measures. These phases underscore how economic policies have evolved to sustain Germany’s export-driven model amidst shifting pressures and priorities. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198947516.003.0002 SP - 48 EP - 84 PB - Oxford Academic ER - TY - EDBOOK ED - Hassel, Anke ED - Palier, Bruno T1 - Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions N2 - This groundbreaking book uncovers how capitalist democracies are adapting to the sweeping forces of deindustrialization, financialization, digitalization, climate change, and the cascading crises of COVID-19, inflation, and geopolitical shocks. Introducing an innovative analytical framework centered on growth and welfare regimes, governmental strategies, and welfare reforms, the authors reveal why national paths are increasingly diverging rather than converging. The book builds on an earlier edited volume on growth and welfare regimes and looks more closely at the new growth trajectories of advanced industrialized countries, the way they shape the strategies of governments, and the impact of those strategies for the welfare state. Through a compelling exploration of seven distinct post-Fordist growth strategies and their associated welfare reform patterns, the book captures the current varieties of welfare capitalism. Anchored by three comparative chapters and ten detailed country studies written by the best specialists of their national cases, it offers a powerful lens to understand the evolving landscape of contemporary political economies and welfare regimes amidst technological, ecological, and global transformations. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198947516.001.0001 PB - Oxford Academic ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hadziabdic, Sinisa A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Palier, Bruno ED - Hassel, Anke ED - Palier, Bruno T1 - Growth and Welfare Regimes: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis T2 - Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms: How Nations Cope with Economic Transitions N2 - Adopting a quantitative comparative approach with a focus on welfare spending, this chapter provides a standardized comparative analysis of the welfare regimes associated with each growth regime across space and time. It confirms the relevance of the five growth and welfare regimes identified by Hassel and Palier (2021 and Chapter 1 of this volume). It shows that expenditure on old age is rising across the board. At the same time, growing pressure to implement social investment policies appears to be playing a role in the reorientation of welfare spending. However, the pace of change is related to the pre-existing legacy and the balance of power between social strata, with dualized welfare regimes being the slowest to increase social investment and socially inclusive or market-based systems being the fastest to further extend their lead in this area. The latter are also the regimes with the largest increases in private welfare spending. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198947516.003.0013 SP - 397 EP - 440 PB - Oxford Academic ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassel, Anke A1 - Lee, Pit Jasper A1 - Weil, Kilian ED - Schroeder, Wolfgang ED - Greef, Samuel T1 - Gewerkschaftsmodelle im internationalen Vergleich T2 - Handbuch Gewerkschaften in Deutschland N2 - Dieser Beitrag vergleicht Gewerkschaftsmodelle moderner Industriegesellschaften international. Historische Entstehungspfade, institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen und politische Verflechtungen ergeben vier grundlegende Modelle: sozialpartnerschaftlich, korporatistisch, politisch und liberal. Trotz gemeinsamer Trends wie rückläufiger Mitgliederzahlen sind weiterhin nationale Faktoren wie die Zentralisierung von Tarifsystemen, staatliche Unterstützung, Organisationsmacht und Handlungsstrategien prägend. Insbesondere staatliche Interventionen können neue Handlungsfelder eröffnen, aber auch strukturelle Anpassungszwänge verstärken. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48294-7_22 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hassel, Anke T1 - St. Denny, E. & Zittoun, P. (Eds.) (2024). Handbook of Teaching Public Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 564 pages, ISBN: 978 1 80037 810 0 JF - dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management N2 - Das von Emily St. Denny und Philippe Zittoun herausgegebene Handbook of Teaching Public Policy (2024) bietet erstmals eine umfassende Reflexion über die Lehre im Bereich von Public Policy. Das Buch behandelt unterschiedliche didaktische Ansätze, von Fallstudien, Planspiele und digitalem Lernen bis hin zu Methoden wie Process Tracing und QCA. Theorien wie Advocacy Coalition Framework oder Multiple Streams werden nicht als bloße Lerninhalte präsentiert, sondern als Werkzeuge, die in Diskussionen und Anwendung verankert werden müssen. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf praxisnahen Analyseinstrumenten und der Vermittlung von Methoden, um Studierende zu reflexiven Praktikern auszubilden. Zudem werden verschiedene Zielgruppen berücksichtigt – von Studierenden über Doktoranden bis hin zu Praktikern und breiter Öffentlichkeit. Regionale Perspektiven aus Afrika, Asien, Europa, Nord- und Südamerika erweitern den Horizont über eurozentrische Ansätze hinaus. Allerdings fehlen innovative Themen wie KI, Digitalisierung oder der Druck auf evidenzbasierte Politikgestaltung. Dennoch ist das Handbuch ein zentrales Referenzwerk für die Lehre von Public Policy und Policy Analysis. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v18i2.18 VL - 18 IS - 2-2025 SP - 536 EP - 539 ER -