TY - JOUR A1 - Garten, Felix T1 - The challenge of Chinese digital payment networks JF - 9Dashline Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.9dashline.com/article/the-challenge-of-chinese-digital-payment-networks ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gibson, Rachel A1 - Bon, Esmeralda A1 - Darius, Philipp A1 - Smyth, Peter T1 - Are Online Political Influencers Accelerating Democratic Deconsolidation? JF - Media and Communication N2 - Social media campaigning is increasingly linked with anti-democratic outcomes, with concerns to date centring on paid adverts, rather than organic content produced by a new set of online political influencers. This study systematically compares voter exposure to these new campaign actors with candidate-sponsored ads, as well as established and alternative news sources during the US 2020 presidential election. Specifically, we examine how far higher exposure to these sources is linked with key trends identified in the democratic deconsolidation thesis. We use data from a national YouGov survey designed to measure digital campaign exposure to test our hypotheses. Findings show that while higher exposure to online political influencers is linked to more extremist opinions, followers are not disengaging from conventional politics. Exposure to paid political ads, however, is confirmed as a potential source of growing distrust in political institutions. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i3.6813 SN - 2183-2439 VL - 11 IS - 3 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Goldzweig, Rafael A1 - Wachinger, Marie A1 - Stockmann, Daniela A1 - Römmele, Andrea T1 - Beyond Regulation: Approaching the challenges of the new media environment T2 - Dahrendorf Forum IV N2 - The spread of false information and hate speech has increased with the rise of social media. This paper critically examines this phenomenon and the reactions of governments and major corporations in Europe. Policymakers have turned towards national regulation as a means to manage false information and hate speech. This article looks into the legislative frameworks on the issue in Germany, France, the UK, the Czech Republic, and Italy and compares them. In response to such regulatory pressure, tech companies have been changing aspects of their platforms to deal with this trend, for example through content moderation. We propose tentative alternatives to this current approach towards reinforcing boundaries for freedom of expression. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.dahrendorf-forum.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Beyond-Regulation_Final.pdf VL - Working Paper No. 06 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Griffin, Rachel T1 - Climate Breakdown as a Systemic Risk in the Digital Services Act N2 - Digital technologies have substantial environmental impacts. The EU’s 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA) requires the largest platforms and search engines to regularly assess “systemic risks” to various social interests – including public health, physical wellbeing, security, and fundamental rights – and to reasonably and proportionately mitigate these risks. Climate change and other escalating environmental crises severely threaten these interests. Accordingly, this policy brief argues that the DSA requires these companies to take reasonable measures to reduce their environmental impacts. This should notably include following best practices to minimise energy and water usage, including “sustainability by design” obligations to pursue less energy- and resource-intensive technologies, design choices, and business practices wherever possible. It should also include measures addressing platforms’ indirect environmental impacts, such as the facilitation of environmentally-damaging behaviour by third-party businesses. Since the DSA’s risk mitigation obligations apply specifically to the largest platforms – which exercise significant influence over broader technological and commercial ecosystems – regulatory pressure on these companies to take such measures could have outsized environmental benefits. This policy brief by Rachel Griffin, PhD candidate at Sciences Po Law School, offers a legal analysis of the DSA’s relevance to environmental policy and explains why environmental risks are within its scope. It then outlines appropriate measures to mitigate platforms’ direct and indirect environmental impacts. It concludes with recommendations for platform companies, regulators, and civil society on how to realise the Digital Services Act’s potential to help secure a more sustainable tech industry. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-50755 UR - https://www.hertie-school.org/en/news/detail/content/climate-breakdown-as-a-systemic-risk-in-the-digital-services-act U6 - https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-5075 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard T1 - Zukunftspanel Staat & Verwaltung: Chancen und Trends der öffentlichen Verwaltung in der digitalen Revolution T2 - Zukunftskongress Staat & Verwaltung Y1 - 2015 IS - Juni 2015 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Palaric, Enora A1 - Rackwitz, Maike A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Meta-analysis of digitalisation strategies in eight European countries N2 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A large body of literature claims that ICT and digitalisation have triggered broad organisational and cultural changes in public organisations. These changes have led many to conclude that a new era has begun that is characterised by collaboration within intra-and intersectoral networks and this has become a key paradigm for public sector governance and innovation. Yet, empirical evidence of a shift towards “Networked Governance” remains limited, and few have explored further the linkages between digitalisation and collaboration in the public sector. Work Package 6 of the TROPICO project addresses this void by providing a meta-analysis of the design, coordination, and implementation of national digitalisation strategies in eight European countries with different administrative traditions (Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and UK). By coding the countries’ first significant and most recent strategies, we examine whether there is evidence supporting the argument of a paradigmatic shift with respect to public sector governance and collaboration. The final analysis is based on 8496 codes and on an additional questionnaire filled out by the relevant TROPICO partners’ country teams. Based on our results we cannot conclude that a Networked Governance is emerging in the era of digital government, but rather find confirmation that all reform paradigms are present in governments’ digitalisation efforts. In fact, the way in which digital transformation of the public sector is put forward in the strategies may strengthen hierarchical patterns of command and control. Findings further indicate that over time collaboration has changed regarding scope and motives, while its intensity has remained relatively weak. Moreover, administrative traditions do not serve as explanatory approach for country variations in the context of digitalisation strategies. Rather, divergences are explained by the different geneses and purposes of the documents. However, we observe similarities in the perceived success factors: a common vision, cultural change, accessibility, leadership and trust are main recurring themes. Furthermore, we find no conclusive evidence that governance paradigms and collaborative arrangements in the digitalisation strategies influencethe performance of digital government. Lastly, in the conclusion of the report, we address some recommendations to practitioners for designing and implementing digitalisation strategies Y1 - 2019 UR - https://tropico-project.eu/download/d6-1-meta-analysis-of-e-government-digitalisation-strategies/?wpdmdl=1137&refresh=5edd7192271831591570834 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Palaric, Enora A1 - Rackwitz, Maike A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Internal collaboration as a cornerstone of national digitalisation strategies Empirical findings and recommendations Y1 - 2019 UR - https://tropico-project.eu/download/d6-2-policy-brief-internal-collaboration-as-a-cornerstone-of-national-digitalisation-strategies-empirical-findings-and-recommendations/?wpdmdl=1172&refresh=5edd72debc8aa1591571166 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Palaric, Enora A1 - Rackwitz, Maike A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - A shift in paradigm? Collaborative public administration in the context of national digitalization strategies JF - Governance N2 - Despite claims of a paradigmatic shift toward the increased role of networks and partnerships as a form of governance—driven and enabled by digital technologies—the relation of “Networked Governance” with the pre-existing paradigms of “Traditional Weberian Public Administration” and “New Public Management” remains relatively unexplored. This research aims at collecting systematic evidence on the dominant paradigms in digitalization reforms in Europe by comparing the doctrines employed in the initial and most recent digitalization strategies across eight European countries: Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We challenge the claim that Networked Governance is emerging as the dominant paradigm in the context of the digitalization of the public sector. The findings confirm earlier studies indicating that information and communication technologies tend to reinforce some traditional features of administration and the recentralization of power. Furthermore, we find evidence of the continued importance of key features of “New Public Management” in the digital era. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12778 N1 - First published: 20 March 2023 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library VL - 37 IS - 2 SP - 411 EP - 430 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Raffer, Christian T1 - Drei Schritte zur Digitalen Verwaltung Trend JF - Magazin für Soziale Marktwirtschaft Y1 - 2017 UR - https://issuu.com/wirtschaftsrat/docs/1702265_trend152_150dpi_final_web IS - 4/2017 SP - 30 EP - 31 ER - TY - EDBOOK A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Van der Walle, Steven A1 - Andrews, Rhys A1 - Bezes, Philippe T1 - Public Administration Reforms in Europe BT - The View from the Top N2 - Based on a survey of more than 6700 top civil servants in 17 European countries, this book explores the impacts of New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms in Europe from a uniquely comparative perspective. It examines and analyses empirical findings regarding the dynamics, major trends and tools of administrative reforms, with special focus on the diversity of top executives’ perceptions about the effects of those reforms. Y1 - 2016 SN - 9781783475391 SN - 9781788117647 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA ER -