TY - RPRT A1 - Kurban, Dilek T1 - Report on Measures to Combat Discrimination: Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC, Country Report Turkey: 2012 N2 - The report, drafted for the European Network of Legal Experts in the non-discrimination field (on the grounds of race or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion or belief and sexual orientation), is part of a study into measures to combat discrimination in the EU Member States and candidate countries, funded by the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity – PROGRESS. The report provides an overview of Turkey's implementation of the EU anti-discrimination Directives up to 1 January 2013 and precedes and follows earlier reports drafted by the author for the same project. KW - Anti-discrimination in Turkey Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-17505 UR - http://www.migpolgroup.com/portfolio/country-reports-measures-combat-discrimination-2012/ ER - TY - GEN A1 - Römmele, Andrea A1 - Banthien, Henning T1 - Empowering Citizens: Studies in Colloborative Democracy N2 - Governments are increasingly challenged by citizens who demand for more than just classical representation through elections. Citizen movements call for modes of continuous and issue-oriented participation. This volume addresses the question to what extent new forms of citizen participation enhance democratic legitimacy and where the limits are. N2 - Regierungen geraten zunehmend unter Druck, da ihre Bürger mehr als die klassischen Formen der demokratischen Repräsentation einfordern. Engagierte Bürger erstreiten sich wiederkehrende und themenspezifische Beteiligung. Dieser Band untersucht daher, ob neue Arten der Bürgerbeteiligung demokratische Legitimation unterstützen und wo deren Grenzen liegen. Die drei Beiträge untersuchen die Fragen: Genügen unkonventionelle Formen der Bürgerbeteiligung den Kriterien Gleichheit, demokratisches Lernen sowie Effektivitätssteigerung der Regierung? Erzielen Bürgerdialoge die gewünschten Erfolge, die die deliberative Demokratietheorie vorhersagt? Wie ergebnisoffen gehen Verwaltungen in Dialogprozesse? Die Autoren dieses Bandes erarbeiten theoretische Zugänge, analysieren Bürgerbeteiligungen in Deutschland und entwickeln Empfehlungen für Politik, Verwaltung und Gesellschaft. Mit Beiträgen von Steven Schmerz, Steven Lauwers und Johannes Erhardt, Olga Chala, Lena Bringenberg sowie einer Einleitung von Andrea Römmele und Henning Banthien. Y1 - 2013 SN - 9783832979195 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - GEN A1 - Römmele, Andrea A1 - Schober, Henrik T1 - The Governance of Large-Scale Projects N2 - Der Band zeigt neue Perspektiven des Themenkomplexes auf und bringt die Blickwinkel verschiedener Disziplinen zusammen. Im Fokus des ersten Teils steht das Framing von Großprojekten, anschließend werden Inklusion und Deliberation analysiert und Fallbeispiele dargestellt. Abschließend gibt der Band einen Ausblick auf zukünftige Entwicklungen. N2 - Experiences from all around the world show that citizens increasingly articulate their discontent with large-scale projects. Still, public debates often leave politics, administrations, corporations and citizens unsatisfied. How can we improve mutual understanding, provide political legitimacy and facilitate economic efficiency? This book pinpoints the opportunities and challenges of participatory modes of governance by offering theoretical accounts and analyses of large-scale projects focusing on infrastructure, communication and public administration. With contributions by: Marko Bachl, Henning Banthien, Sarah Bastgen, Daniela Ciaffi, Christopher Gohl, Andreas Hoffelder, Kjetil Holgeid, Mathias König, Wolfgang König, Thamy Pogrebinschi, Martina Richwien, Claudia Ritzi, Andrea Römmele, Fabiano Santos, Emanuela Saporito, Stefan Schaible, Henrik Schober, Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Carmen Sirianni, Arne Spieker, Johannes Staemmler, Mark Thompson, Andrea Versteyl, Paul Webb, Katrin Winkler Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-8329-7879-2 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hassel, Anke T1 - Priorität: Geringverdiener JF - Berliner Republik: Debattenmagazin Y1 - 2013 SN - 1616-4903 N1 - Volltext / Fulltext: http://www.b-republik.de/archiv/prioritaet-geringverdiener VL - 2013 IS - 5 PB - Berliner Vorwärts-Verlagsges. CY - Berlin ET - Wahl 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hassel, Anke T1 - Die neue Frauenfrage JF - Berliner Republik: das Debattenmagazin Y1 - 2013 SN - 1616-4903 N1 - Volltext / Fulltext: http://www.b-republik.de/archiv/die-neue-frauenfrage VL - 2013 IS - 3 PB - Berliner Vorwärts-Verlagsges. CY - Berlin ET - Wofür wir zahlen wollen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hassel, Anke T1 - Von Wachstum und Wohlstand JF - Berliner Republik Y1 - 2013 VL - 2013 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hassel, Anke T1 - Wunsch und Wirklichkeit JF - Berliner Republik Y1 - 2013 VL - 2013 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Römmele, Andrea A1 - Schober, Henrik T1 - Viele Optionen, keine Auswahl?: Politikberatung durch Agenturen und Think-Tanks JF - Bürger im Staat Sonderheft (Wissen und Expertise in Politik und Verwaltung) Y1 - 2013 SP - 12 EP - 38 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Stasiak, Dorota A1 - Czaputowicz, Jacek ED - Brooks, Stephen ED - Stasiak, Dorota ED - Żyro, Tomasz T1 - Political Expertise in Poland in the Field of Foreign Policy and the Emergence of Think Tanks T2 - Policy Expertise in Contemporary Democracies Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781409452508 SP - 165 EP - 182 PB - Ashgate CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kurban, Dilek A1 - Gulalp, Haldun T1 - A complicated affair: Turkey’s Kurds and the European Court of Human Rights T2 - The European Court of Human Rights: Implementing Strasbourg’s Judgments on Domestic Policy N2 - Obsessed with the preservation of national unity and homogeneity, the Turkish state has since its inception had little tolerance for Kurdish demands for greater legal recognition and a measure of autonomy. However, its 1987 decision to give its citizens the right to petition the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to enhance its chances for membership to the European Union (EU) obliged the state to confront, at the transnational level, the Kurdish demands for human rights protection and equal treatment. The cases taken to the ECtHR by Kurdish civilians revealed that cloaked in the language of ‘war on terrorism’, the Turkish military had committed egregious violations including the forced displacement of civilians , the destruction of property, the burning of forests, as well as extra-judicial killings, disappearances and torture. Turkey’s EU candidacy increased the existing international pressure on the government to revise its mode of dealing with the insurgency and with Kurdish political and cultural demands more generally. The EU demanded that Turkey first and foremost execute the ECtHR’s judgments on Kurdish issues, but also grant the Kurds limited linguistic rights in order to fulfil minority rights protection as part of the membership accession criteria. Yet, as argued in this chapter, although there has been some improvement, the problem has not been eradicated nor has there been any substantive change in government policy on the Kurdish question. KW - The implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgments on the Kurdish conflict in Turkey Y1 - 2013 SN - 978 0 7486 7057 4 SP - 166 EP - 187 PB - Edinburgh Univ. Press CY - Edinburgh ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kurban, Dilek T1 - Not a Roadmap for Peace: Erdoğan’s Democratisation Package Defies Kurdish Expectations N2 - Despite Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s emphasis to the contrary, the “democratisation package” announced on September 30 was expected to be more than just another bundle of EU-induced reforms. The much-awaited package came nearly a year after the initiation of informal peace talks between the government and Abdullah Öcalan – the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organisation by the EU and the US – and six months after Öcalan made a historic call to his fighters to end the armed struggle. The package was anticipated as the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government’s response to Öcalan’s three-stage road map for peace. Yet, rather than legislative changes for a political settlement on the Kurdish question, Erdoğan announced a generic harmonisation package, a move which has put into question his government’s commitment to the peace process. The fragility of the cease fire between the PKK and the Turkish military and the urgency of radical reforms to prevent a deadlock in the peace process render the AKP’s piecemeal approach to democratisation too costly at this point in time. With the EU’s opening of negotiations on Chapter 22 on regional policy, which pertains to decentralisation in governance and is thus relevant for a political solution to the Kurdish question, there is a real and urgent need for European policy makers to be involved in the peace process in Turkey. KW - Democratization and EU reforms in Turkey Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-16429 N1 - Volltext / Fulltext: http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/swp-comments-en/swp-aktuelle-details/article/turkey_democratisation_package_no_roadmap_for_peace.html PB - SWP: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kurban, Dilek T1 - To Europe and Back: The Three Decades of Kurdish Struggle in Turkey T2 - Global Turkey in Europe (Policy Brief No.7) N2 - Europe has been a primary actor in Turkey’s democratization process and for the Kurdish political struggle carried out simultaneously by the PKK and civilian actors since the late 1980s. The European Union and the European Court of Human Rights have had an indispensable role in raising awareness and documenting the plight of the Kurds on the one hand and inducing Turkey to embark on political reform on the other. Since the mid-2000s, however, the dynamics between Europe, the Turkish government and the Kurdish political movement have drastically changed, diminishing the role, legitimacy and significance of European institutions in Turkey and forcing the Turkish state and the Kurds to develop a “home grown” solution to the conflict. While the “peace process” launched by the government in late 2012 raises hopes for a peaceful settlement, the mismatch between the parties’ expectations render it extremely fragile. KW - European influence on Turkey's Kurdish policies Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-16438 N1 - Volltext / Fulltext: http://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/GTE_PB_07.pdf VL - 2013 IS - 7 PB - IAI: Instituto Affari Internazionali [u.a.] CY - Rom [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Römmele, Andrea T1 - Konkurrenten um die Kanzlerschaft?: Angela Merkel und Peer Steinbrück JF - Der Bürger im Staat N2 - Politische Botschaften werden seit jeher mit einem "Gesicht" verknüpft. Bei anstehenden Wahlen rücken die Kandidaten deshalb vermehrt ins Rampenlicht. [Die Autorin] erörtert am aktuellen Beispiel des Bundestagswahlkampfes mit Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und dem Spitzenkandidaten der SPD, Peer Steinbrück, das Phänomen der Personalisierung von Wahlkämpfen. In einem ersten Schritt wird der Begriff der Personalisierung mittels dreier Dimensionen definiert. Daran anschließend werden die beiden Spitzenkandidaten der Bundestagswahl 2013 analysiert: Wo liegen ihre Stärken und Schwächen? Welche Themen favorisieren und präsentieren sie? In einem weiteren Schritt werden Angela Merkel und Peer Steinbrück aus der Sicht der Wählerschaft diskutiert. Und schließlich geht es um die Fragen, welche Rolle Kandidaten in den unterschiedlichen Modellen der Wahlentscheidung spielen und wie es um die Gewichtung von Parteiidentifikation, Themen und Personen beim Wahlentscheid bestellt ist. Y1 - 2013 SN - 0007-3121 VL - 63 IS - 3 SP - 182 EP - 189 PB - Weinmann CY - Filderstadt ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Römmele, Andrea A1 - Schober, Henrik T1 - How to Link Citizens and the State: Reasons For - and First Steps Towards - a Participatory Mode of Governance T2 - The Governance of Large-Scale Projects Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845243566-11 SP - 6 EP - 21 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Diamond, Larry ED - Plattner, Marc F. T1 - Controlling Corruption Through Collective Action JF - Journal of Democracy N2 - Control of corruption in a society is an equilibrium between resources and costs which either empowers or constraints elites predatory behavior. While most research and practice focuses on legal constraints, this paper investigates normative constraints, deemed to be more important, especially civil society and the press. Fresh evidence—both historical and statistical—is found to support Tocqueville’s assertions regarding the importance of collective action and the joint action of media and associations in not only creating a democratic society, but controlling corruption as well. However, little is known on how to build normative constraints. KW - Civil society KW - Corruption KW - Normative constraints KW - Legal constraints KW - Press Y1 - 2013 UR - http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/article/controlling-corruption-through-collective-action SN - 1045-5736 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 101 EP - 115 PB - Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hurrelmann, Klaus A1 - Ruo-Xi, Yu A1 - Köcher, Wolfgang A1 - Darvin, Maxim E. A1 - Büttner, Monika A1 - Jung, Sora A1 - Lee, Bich Na A1 - Klotter, Christoph A1 - Meinke, Martina C. A1 - Lademann, Jürgen T1 - Spectroscopic biofeedback on cutaneous carotenoids as part of a prevention program could be effective to raise health awareness in adolescents JF - Journal of Biophotonics N2 - The cutaneous carotenoid concentration correlates with the overall antioxidant status of a person and can be seen as biomarker for nutrition and lifestyle. 50 high school students were spectroscopically measured for their cutaneous carotenoid concentrations initially in a static phase, followed by an intervention phase with biofeedback of their measured values, living a healthy lifestyle and on healthy food this time. The volunteers showed higher carotenoid concentrations than found in previous studies. A significant correlation of healthy lifestyle habits and a high antioxidant status could be determined. Subjects improved their nutritional habits and significantly increased their carotenoid concentration during intervention. Follow-up five months later showed a consolidation of the increase. The investigations show that a healthy diet and a well-balanced lifestyle correlate with a high cutaneous antioxidant concentration and that spectroscopic biofeedback measurement of cutaneous carotenoids as part of an integrated prevention program is a feasible and effective means to raise the health awareness in adolescents. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201300134 SN - 1864-063X VL - 7 IS - 11-12 SP - 926 EP - 937 PB - WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Mack, Arien T1 - Becoming Denmark: Historical Designs of Corruption Control JF - Social Research: An International Quarterly N2 - This paper conceptualizes public corruption as part of a broader social order context. It argues that corruption should not be conceived of as a social ‘malady’ to be eradicated, but rather as a default governance regime. People naturally favor their own, be it family, clan, race or ethnic group: treating the rest of the world fairly seems to be a matter of extensive social evolution and sufficient resources. Very few societies have evolved from this natural state of affairs to produce a state which can be expected to treat everyone equally and fairly, and to put public above private interest, when entrusted with the management of common affairs and resources. The paper surveys the approaches to anticorruption of three distinct political regimes, monarchy, medieval republic and modern democracy to conclude that current anticorruption should be conceptualized as solving collective action problems rather than as repression of deviance. KW - Corruption KW - Universalism KW - Patrimonialism KW - Collective action KW - Modernization KW - Favoritism KW - Principal agent Y1 - 2013 SN - 0037-783X VL - 80 IS - 4 SP - 1259 EP - 1286 PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Bastin, Sonja T1 - Blurred memory, deliberate misreporting, or “true tales”? How different survey methods affect respondents’ reports of partnership status at first birth N2 - This paper examines the reliability of biographical information gathered retrospectively. It draws on data from the German Family Panel (pairfam), which collected information on the partnership status at first birth using two different methods. The first method is based on data on partnership and fertility histories collected retrospectively. The second method uses data gathered through the use of a “landmark question” on the respondents’ partnership status when their first children were born. We find that in almost 20 percent of the cases, the information collected using the first method did not correspond with the information collected using the second method. Partnership dissolution and “turbulence” in the partnership biography are strong predictors for discrepancies in the information gathered through the two different survey methods. We conclude by drawing attention to the limitations of the retrospective collection of partnership histories at a time when divorce and separation rates are increasing. T2 - MPIDR Working Paper WP-2013-017 KW - Germany, family Y1 - 2013 UR - https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2013-017.pdf ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Stavins, Robert A1 - Stowe, Robert T1 - Identifying Options for a New International Climate Regime Arising from the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action: Policy Brief, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Jakob, Michael A1 - Lessmann, Kai T1 - The Atmosphere as a Global Commons – Challenges for International Cooperation and Governance. MCC working paper 1-2013, and Discussion Paper 2013-58, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Flachsland, Christian T1 - Globale Energiewende – Wege zu einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung T2 - Rolle der Wissenschaft im Globalen Wandel. Nova Acta Leopoldina Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-8047-3210-0 SP - 275 EP - 295 PB - Leopoldina CY - Halle ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar T1 - Auf mehreren Ebenen Agieren JF - Politische Ökologie Y1 - 2013 IS - 133 SP - 108 EP - 117 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ueckerdt, Falko A1 - Hirth, Lion A1 - Luderer, Gunnar A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar T1 - System LCOE: What are the costs of variable renewables? JF - Energy N2 - 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. KW - Renewable energy KW - Integration costs KW - Levelized costs of electricity (LCOE) KW - Power generation economics KW - Market integration Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22942 SN - 0360-5442 VL - 63 SP - 61 EP - 75 PB - Elsevier Ltd ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Hirth, Lion A1 - Knopf, Brigitte A1 - Pahle, Michael A1 - Schlömer, Steffen A1 - Schmid, Eva A1 - Ueckerdt, Falko T1 - On the Economics of Renewable Energy Sources JF - Energy Economics N2 - 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. KW - Energy KW - Mitigation KW - Integrated assessment modeling KW - Variable renewables KW - Electricity market design KW - Renewable policy Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22965 SN - 0140-9883 N1 - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Energy Economics. The final authenticated version is available online at: DOI 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.09.015 VL - 40 IS - S1 SP - S12 EP - S23 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hirth, Lion A1 - Ueckerdt, Falko T1 - Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy: The Electricity Market JF - Energy Policy N2 - 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. KW - Carbon tax KW - Emission trading KW - Redistribution KW - Consumer surplus KW - Producer surplus KW - Wind power generation KW - Electricity market modeling Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22886 SN - 0301-4215 N1 - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Energy Policy. The final authenticated version is available online at: DOI 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.055 VL - 62 SP - 934 EP - 947 PB - Elsevier Ltd ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hirth, Lion T1 - The market value of variable renewables: The effect of solar wind power variability on their relative price JF - Energy Economics N2 - 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. KW - Variable renewables KW - Wind and Solar power KW - Market integration of renewables KW - Electricity markets KW - Intermittency KW - Cost-benefit analysis Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22900 SN - 0140-9883 N1 - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Energy Economics. The final authenticated version is available online at the DOI 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.02.004. VL - 38 SP - 218 EP - 236 PB - Elsevier B.V. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Çalı, Başak A1 - Koch, Anne A1 - Bruch, Nicola T1 - The social legitimacy of Human Rights Courts: a grounded interpretivist analysis of the European Court of Human Rights JF - Human Rights Quarterly N2 - 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. KW - European Court of Human Rights KW - legitimacy KW - elite opinion KW - interpretivism Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2013.0057 SN - 1085-794X VL - 35 IS - 3 SP - 955 EP - 984 PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press ER - TY - GEN A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Lupu, Raluca T1 - Citigroup: Targeting leadership in global growth KW - Corporate Strategy KW - Estados Unidos, México Y1 - 2013 UR - http://protectedpdf.iese.edu/descargas/DG-1439-E-1725903.pdf PB - IESE Business School CY - Barcelona ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kaytaz, Esra A1 - Costello, Cathryn T1 - Building Empirical Research into Alternatives to Detention: Perceptions of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Toronto and Geneva N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://www.fmreview.org/detention/costello-kaytaz ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaack, Lynn A1 - Katul, Gabriel T1 - Fifty years to prove Malthus right JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences N2 - 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 … Y1 - 2013 UR - https://www.pnas.org/content/110/11/4161 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301246110 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Salazar-Morales, Diego A1 - Calmet, Yasmín T1 - VRAEM: Políticas de Seguridad Pública en Zona de conflicto JF - Revista de Sociología de la Guerra: Cuadernos de Marte N2 - Las políticas de seguridad desarrolladas por el Estado peruano durante los años 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 narcotráfico (el VRAEM), la atención a las políticas y estrategias desarrolladas por el Estado para afrontar esta problemática es crucial. En tal sentido, este artículo reseña las principales decisiones del gobierno peruano desde el año 2000 hasta la actualidad, en materia de políticas de seguridad para la zona en conflicto denominada VRAEM desentrañado las estrategias utilizadas para afrontar a Sendero Luminoso y cómo estas han violado, reiteradamente, los derechos fundamentales de las poblaciones aledañas a la zona en conflicto. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://bit.ly/2qTBqEk SN - 1852-9879 VL - 5 SP - 157 EP - 186 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Salazar-Morales, Diego A1 - Prieto Barragán, Tracy A1 - Alza, Carlos T1 - Oportunidad para Servir. El caso de la creación del Cuerpo de Gerentes Públicos en el Perú T2 - Aprender de la Experiencia. Ocho estudios de caso para enseñar Políticas Públicas y Gestión Pública N2 - El Cuerpo de Gerentes Públicos de SERVIR nace de un proceso de aprendizaje enriquecedor que supone un reto para la reconversión de la burocracia nacional tradicional hacia una moderna y más eficiente a partir de experiencias latinoamericanas similares. SERVIR, mediante esta experiencia, nos demuestra que la política pública no es un proceso de una sola dirección, que las fases pueden variar y que la creatividad es un aspecto fundamental para imaginar opciones y alternativas frente a un número de retos que la gestión pública nos presenta. Pero no solo es creatividad, también se trata de instinto al identificar los precisos momentos en los que apostar por un proyecto y cuándo salir. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://bit.ly/2HlNZDu SP - 191 EP - 200 PB - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru CY - Lima ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Salazar-Morales, Diego T1 - Crónica de un Conflicto anunciado. El caso del conflicto social en Bagua (5 y 6 de junio de 2009) T2 - Aprender de la Experiencia. Ocho casos para enseñar Políticas Públicas N2 - Los acontecimientos que se suscitaron el 5 de junio de 2009 en el poblado amazónico de Bagua presentan una serie de antecedentes, decisiones y estrategias adoptadas por parte del Estado y a una serie de actores políticos 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 política nacional. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://bit.ly/2HpvWZk SP - 121 EP - 150 PB - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru CY - Lima ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Fourcade, Marion A1 - Steiner, Philippe A1 - Streeck, Wolfgang T1 - Moral Categories in the Financial Crisis T2 - MaxPo Discussion Paper N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_1854550_1/component/file_1854548/content VL - 13 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Emiliano, Grossman A1 - Woll, Cornelia T1 - Saving the Banks: The Political Economy of Bailouts JF - Comparative Political Studies N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414013488540 VL - 47 IS - 4 SP - 574 EP - 600 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Johnson, Juliet A1 - Mugge, Daniel A1 - Seabrooke, Leonard A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Grabel, Ilene A1 - Gallagher, Kevin P. T1 - The future of international political economy: Introduction to the 20th anniversary issue of RIPE JF - Review of International Political Economy Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2013.835275 VL - 20 IS - 5 SP - 1009 EP - 1023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Streeck, Wolfgang A1 - Steiner, Philippe A1 - Fourcade, Marion T1 - Moral categories in the financial crisis JF - Socio-Economic Review N2 - 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. KW - financial crisis KW - ethics KW - inequality KW - moral norms KW - political economy Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwt012 VL - 11 IS - 3 SP - 601 EP - 627 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Schmidt, Vivien A. ED - Schmidt, Vivien A. ED - Thatcher, Mark T1 - The state: The bête noire of neo-liberalism or its greatest conquest? T2 - Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy N2 - 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 bête 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). Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781139857086 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139857086 SP - 112 EP - 142 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Woll, Cornelia ED - Mikler, John T1 - Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade Organization T2 - The Handbook of Global Companies N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781118326152 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326152 SP - 257 EP - 271 PB - John Wiley and Sons, Ltd CY - Chichester ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marques, Marcelo A1 - Alves, Natália T1 - O Programa Novas Oportunidades numa agenda globalmente estruturada para a educação. [The New Opportunities Program in a globally structured agenda for education] JF - Perspectiva N2 - Este artigo apresenta uma análise crítica da criação e implementação da mais emblemática medida política para o campo de jovens e adultos pouco escolarizados em Portugal: o Programa Novas Oportunidades. Recorrendo à proposta de Roger Dale sobre a agenda globalmente estruturada para a educação, discutiu-se a fabricação desta medida a partir de um cenário de regulação transnacional. Através da análise documental de um conjunto de documentos europeus e nacionais entre o período de 2000 e 2010 para o campo da educação de jovens e adultos, verificou-se que Programa Novas Oportunidades é consequência de um fortalecimento do processo de regulação das políticas educativas, levado a cabo pela União Europeia. Este fortalecimento resultou na construção de um programa político para o campo da educação de jovens e adultos em Portugal que comunga não só das mesmas ideologias instrumentais para a educação da União Europeia, como de uma gestão tecnocrática das políticas educativas, assente na procura de resultados. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2013v31n2p425 VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 425 EP - 448 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Woll, Cornelia T1 - Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World, by Giorgio Riello 2013. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press JF - Review of International Political Economy Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2014.953355 VL - 21 IS - 5 SP - 1133 EP - 1135 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Lindberg, Henrik T1 - Institutions and forms of knowledge: Organizing policy advice. T2 - Knowledge and Policy Change Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781443842327 SP - 42 EP - 59 PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kayser, Mark A. A1 - Stanig, Piero ED - Anheier, Helmut K. T1 - Governance Indicators: Some Proposals T2 - Governance Challenges and Innovations: Financial and Fiscal Governance Y1 - 2013 SN - 9780199674930 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674930.001.0001 SP - 189 EP - 220 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kayser, Mark A. A1 - Leininger, Arndt T1 - A Benchmarking Forecast of the 2013 Bundestag Election Y1 - 2013 UR - www.researchgate.net/publication/254147383 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Anheier, Helmut K. A1 - Stanig, Piero A1 - Kayser, Mark A. T1 - Introducing a New Generation of Governance Indicators T2 - The Governance Report 2013 N2 - 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) Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-0-19-967442-8 N1 - Available as print in your Hertie Library. Als Druckversion in der Hertie Bibliothek verfügbar. SP - 117 EP - 148 PB - Oxford Univ.Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - THES A1 - Lepenies, Robert F. T1 - Losers in Trade: Economics and Normative Justifications N2 - 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. (...) T3 - Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School - 01/2013 Y1 - 2013 N1 - Shelf mark: 2015D001 + 2015D002 ER - TY - THES A1 - Staemmler, Johannes T1 - Wie Städte sich neu finden BT - Chancen und Grenzen von Governance mit Zivilgesellschaft in struktur-schwachen Städten N2 - In Städten verdichten sich wie nirgendwo sonst ökonomische, soziale und kulturelle Facetten menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Hier entstehen wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Impulse. 84 Prozent der deutschen Bevölkerung lebt in Städten. Doch sind nicht alle Städte gleichermaßen Orte von Wachstum und Innovation. Mit dem Ende der Industrialisierung und dem Übergang in die Dienstleistungsgesellschaft (vgl. Bell 1999) sind einige Städte aus dem größeren Arbeits-kreislauf der Gesellschaft herausgefallen. Sie haben aufgehört, zentrale Orte des Wirtschaftens zu sein. Ihre Bevölkerungen schrumpfen, Gebäude bleiben ungenutzt und die öffentliche Hand verfügt nur über unzureichende und schwindende Mittel, dem entgegenzuwirken. Es sind strukturschwache Städte. Kommunale Schrumpfungsprozesse sind aus dem 20. Jahrhundert kaum bekannt, obwohl zwei Kriege in Deutschland tobten und unvorstellbare Verwüstungen hinterlassen haben. (...) T3 - Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School - 02/2013 KW - Germany KW - Municipal/local policy KW - Structural economic change KW - Comparative analysis Y1 - 2013 N1 - Shelf mark: 2013D001 + 2013D001+1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Waeger, Daniel A1 - Mena, Sébastien T1 - The diffusion of contested practices across environments: Social movements’ boundary-bridging role JF - Best Paper Proceedings of the 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2013.193 SN - 2151-6561 VL - 2013 IS - 1 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Graf, Lukas T1 - The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-24323 SN - 978-3-86388-043-9 PB - Budrich UniPress Ltd. CY - Opladen, Berlin & Toronto ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela ED - Dong, Lisheng ED - Wang, Zhengxu ED - Dekker, Henk T1 - Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans T2 - Chinese Views of the EU: Public Support for a Strong Relation Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781136753244 N1 - Chapter 10 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hirth, Lion A1 - Ziegenhagen, Inka T1 - Wind, Sonne, und Regelleistung BT - Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft, Recht, Technik und Umwelt JF - Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen : et Y1 - 2013 UR - https://www.neon-energie.de/Hirth-Ziegenhagen-2013-Wind-Sonne-Regelleistung.pdf SN - 0013-743X - 0720-6240 IS - 10 SP - 59 PB - EW Medien und Kongresse GmbH CY - Frankfurt am Main ET - 13 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hirth, Lion A1 - Ueckerdt, Falko ED - Stolten, Detlef ED - Scherer, Viktor T1 - The Decreasing Market Value of Variable Renewables: Integration Options and Deadlocks T2 - Transition to Renewable Energy Systems KW - variable renewables KW - market value KW - integration costs Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3527332397 SN - 9783527673872 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527673872.ch6 SP - 75 EP - 92 PB - Wiley VCH CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Çalı, Başak ED - Føllesdal, Andreas ED - Schaffer, Johan Karlsson ED - Ulfstein, Geir T1 - The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence T2 - The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-1-107-03460-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139540827.006 SP - 141 EP - 164 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Pisani-Ferry, Jean T1 - Le Réveil des Démons: la crise de l’euro et comment nous en sortir N2 - On croyait les démons assagis : à la faveur de la crise financière de 2008, les Etats avaient repris le dessus sur les marchés financiers et les politiques économiques savaient répondre et conjurer la dépression. Mais la tempête qui a ébranlé la zone euro entre 2009 et 2012, au départ crise banale dans une petite économie périphérique, la Grèce, a gagné un pays après l’autre et a menacé d’emporter tout l’édifice monétaire européen. Dans ce brillant essai, Jean Pisani-Ferry retrace les étapes de la crise et analyse les solutions adoptées. Si l’Europe a fait preuve d’un remarquable sens de la survie, elle souffre aujourd’hui d’une dangereuse absence de communauté de projets. Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-2818503126 PB - Pluriel CY - Paris ET - Nouvelle éd., revue et augmentée ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cederman, Lars-Erik A1 - Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede A1 - Salehyan, Idean A1 - Wucherpfennig, Julian T1 - Transborder Ethnic Kin and Civil War JF - Inernational Organization N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818313000064 VL - 67 IS - 2 SP - 389 EP - 410 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Quenzel, Gudrun A1 - Hurrelmann, Klaus T1 - The growing gender gap in education JF - International Journal of Adolescence and Youth N2 - 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. KW - Gender gap KW - Education KW - Development Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2012.665168 SN - 0267-3843 VL - 18 IS - 2 SP - 69 EP - 84 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kostka, Genia A1 - Moslener, U. A1 - Andreas, J. T1 - Barriers to increasing energy efficiency: Evidence from small- and medium-sized enterprises in China JF - Journal of Cleaner Production N2 - 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. KW - Energy efficiency KW - Small and medium-sized enterprises KW - China KW - Energy policies KW - Information access KW - Energy saving activity Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.06.025 SN - 0959-6526 VL - 57 SP - 59 EP - 68 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kostka, Genia A1 - Hobbs, W. T1 - Embedded interests and the managerial local state: the political economy of methanol fuel-switching in China JF - Journal of Contemporary China N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2012.734078 SN - 1067-0564 VL - 22 IS - 80 SP - 204 EP - 218 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kostka, Genia A1 - Mol, Arthur P.J. T1 - Innovations and participation in China JF - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning N2 - 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. KW - Environmental politics KW - Chinese politics KW - Environmental governance KW - Innovation KW - Policy implementation KW - Participation Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2013.763629 SN - 1522-7200 VL - 15 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 16 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kostka, Genia T1 - Environmental protection bureau leadership at the provincial level in China: Examining diverging career backgrounds and appointment patterns JF - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning N2 - 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. KW - Agency KW - Environmental protection KW - Policy implementation KW - Networks KW - Leadership KW - China Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2012.752184 SN - 1522-7200 VL - 15 IS - 1 SP - 41 EP - 63 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kostka, Genia A1 - Shin, Kyoung T1 - Energy conservation through energy service companies JF - Energy Policy Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.034 SN - 0301-4215 VL - 52 SP - 748 EP - 759 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gandrud, Christopher T1 - Competing risks and deposit insurance governance convergence JF - International Political Science Review N2 - 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. KW - Deposit insurance KW - Event history analysis KW - Financial policy KW - Diffusion KW - Banking crisis Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512113485333 SN - 1460373X VL - 35 IS - 2 SP - 195 EP - 215 PB - Sage CY - Los Angeles [u.a.] ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kostka, Genia A1 - Mol, A. T1 - Local environmental politics in China: Challenges and innovations Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-0415723299 PB - Routledge CY - London [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Eaton, Sarah A1 - Kostka, Genia T1 - Does cadre turnover help or hinder China's green rise?: Evidence from Shanxi province T2 - Chinese environmental policy: Dynamics, challenges, and prospects in a changing society Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781137350688 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Regulatory Impact Assessment: Ambition, Design and Politics T2 - Handbook on the Politics of Regulation Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-0857937599 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857936110.00045 SP - 397 EP - 410 PB - Elgar Publ. CY - Cheltenham [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Enderlein, Henrik T1 - Solidarität in der Europäischen Union: Die ökonomische Perspektive T2 - Europäische Solidarität und nationale Identität Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-16-152814-9 SP - 83 EP - 97 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Enderlein, Henrik A1 - Müller, Camillo von T1 - German Fiscal Federalism at the Crossroads: Between Crisis and Reform T2 - The global debt crisis: haunting U.S. and European federalism Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-0-8157-2417-9 SP - 134 EP - 158 PB - Brookings Inst. Press CY - Washington, D.C. ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Barlösius, Eva A1 - Döhler, Marian A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Philipps, Axel T1 - Governance staatlicher Forschung im Spannungsfeld von Staat, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft Y1 - 2013 UR - http://edok01.tib.uni-hannover.de/edoks/e01fb14/797457658.pdf N1 - Schlussbericht zum Forschungsprojekt „Ressortforschung unter Anpassungsdruck: Governance im Spannungsfeld von Staat, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft" PB - Leibniz Universität Hannover CY - Hannover ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bach, Tobias T1 - Behördenorganisation und Steuerungsbeziehungen bei der Umsetzung des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes (EEG): Gutachten im Rahmen des Vorhabens "Rechtliche und instrumentelle Weiterentwicklung des EEG" Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Enderlein, Henrik T1 - Das erste Opfer der Krise ist die Demokratie: Wirtschaftspolitik und ihre Legitimation in der Finanzkrise 2008-2013 JF - PVS: Politische Vierteljahresschrift N2 - 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. KW - Wirtschaftspolitik KW - Legitimation KW - Demokratie KW - Politische Ökonomie KW - Finanzmarktkrise Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/0032-3470-2013-4-714 SN - 0032-3470 VL - 54 IS - 4 SP - 714 EP - 739 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Enderlein, Henrik A1 - von Bogdandy, Armin A1 - Calliess, Christian A1 - Fratzscher, Marcel A1 - Fuest, Clemens A1 - Mayer, Franz C. A1 - Schwarzer, Daniela A1 - Steinbeis, Maximilian A1 - Stelzenmüller, Constanze A1 - Wolff, Guntram A1 - von Weizsäcker, Jakob T1 - Aufbruch in die Euro-Union JF - ZRP: Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik Y1 - 2013 SN - 0514-6496 IS - 8 SP - 248 EP - 250 PB - Beck CY - München [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Philipps, Axel A1 - Barlösius, Eva A1 - Döhler, Marian T1 - Governance von Ressortforschungseinrichtungen T2 - Neue Governance der Wissenschaft : Reorganisation - externe Anforderungen - Medialisierung Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-8376-2272-0 SP - 139 EP - 162 PB - Transcript CY - Bielefeld ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Enderlein, Henrik T1 - Das erste Opfer der Krise ist die Demokratie: Wirtschaftspolitik und ihre Legitimation in der Finanzmarktkrise 2008-2013 T2 - Die Versprechen der Demokratie Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-8487-0230-5 SP - 45 EP - 75 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Innovation and Scale: A Tough Balancing Act JF - Stanford Social Innovation Review KW - Social Innovation KW - Scaling KW - Organizational Innovation Y1 - 2013 VL - Spring 2013 IS - Special Supplement: Innovation for a Complex World SP - 12 EP - 14 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fellner, Gerlinde A1 - Sausgruber, Rupert A1 - Traxler, Christian T1 - Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information JF - Journal of the European Economic Association N2 - We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailings, a threat treatment which makes a high detection risk salient has a significant deterrent effect. Neither appealing to morals nor imparting information about others’ behavior enhances compliance on aggregate. However, the information condition has a weak positive effect in municipalities where evasion is believed to be common. KW - field experiments KW - enforcement strategies KW - compliance KW - perceptions Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-19704 N1 - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of the European Economic Association. The final authenticated version is available online at: DOI 10.1111/jeea.12013| VL - 11 IS - 3 SP - 634 EP - 660 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glöckner, Andreas A1 - Towfigh, Emanuel A1 - Traxler, Christian T1 - Development of legal expertise JF - Instructional Science N2 - In a comprehensive empirical investigation (N = 71,405) we analyzed the development of legal expertise in a critical 1-year period of academic legal training in which advanced law students start practicing to solve complex cases. We were particularly interested in the functional form of the learning curve and inter-individual differences in learning. Performance increases monotonically with the number of practice exams following a slightly concave learning curve without any considerable kinks. Considering the performance development over time, however, the curve is not monotonic and shows intermediate drops in performance. We provide evidence which suggests that these drops are due to cyclic drops in motivation. There are about equally sized marginal effects of practicing law exams in general and practicing exams in the specific area of law. However, students with high (vs. low) initial performance profit more from practicing exams within a specific area of law whereas students with low initial performance profit more from practicing exams in general. The concave increase in performance with the number of practicing exams is mainly driven by individuals with low initial performance. Those with high initial performance mainly display a linear learning trend. We discuss the practical implications of these findings for academic legal training. KW - Expertise KW - Legal decision making KW - Training KW - Learning curves Y1 - 2013 VL - 41 IS - 6 SP - 989 EP - 1007 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina A1 - Bratu, Roxana A1 - Charron, Nicholas A1 - Dimulescu, Valentina A1 - Doroftei, Madalina A1 - Fazekas, Mihály A1 - Kasemets, Aare A1 - King, Lawrence Peter A1 - Martinez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto A1 - Pop, Raluca A1 - Tóth, István János ED - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Controlling Corruption in Europe T2 - The Anticorruption Report N2 - Corruption has an impact. It is about time that anticorruption starts having an impact, too. This is the first annual policy report of the European Seventh Framework Research Project ANTICORRP, which has started in 2012 and will continue until 2018. Based on the work of 21 different research centers and universities gathering original data, ANTICORRP offers yearly updates on the latest from corruption research, analyzing both the consequences of corruption and the impact of policies attempting to curb it. This first report offers a methodology to evaluate corruption risk and quality of government at country, region and sector level by means of corruption indicators that are sensitive to change and policy intervention. The aim of the project is to offer testable, easy to handle policies which reduce corruption risk. Corruption distorts market competition, bolsters deficits on behalf of discretionary spending, hurts real investment in public health and education, reduces tax collection, detriments the absorption rate of EU funds, and generates vulnerable employment and brain drain. This study estimates that if EU member states would all manage to control corruption at the Danish level, tax collection in Europe would increase by 323 billion Euro per year – double of the EU budget for 2013. KW - Anticorruption, European Union, transformative power Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-8474-0125-4 VL - 1 PB - Budrich CY - Opladen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hall, Nina T1 - Moving beyond its mandate? UNHCR and climate change displacement JF - Journal for International Organizations Studies Y1 - 2013 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 91 EP - 108 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tobias, Jutta M. A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Barbosa-Leiker, Celestina T1 - Toward a theory of transformative entrepreneuring: Poverty reduction and conflict resolution in Rwanda's entrepreneurial coffee sector JF - Journal of Business Venturing N2 - This study illustrates how entrepreneurship may catalyze prosperity as well as peace in entrenched poverty–conflict zones. We bring to life a conceptualization of transformative entrepreneuring by assessing interrelationships between poverty and conflict indicators from the perspective of rural dwellers in Rwanda's entrepreneurial coffee sector. Our findings suggest that individuals' perceptions of poverty alleviation and conflict reduction are sequentially linked, notably via increased quality of life. This enables us to advance theory on entrepreneuring by unpacking the mechanisms through which entrepreneurial processes may transform the lives of such ‘ordinary’ entrepreneurs in settings where economic and social value creation are desperately needed. KW - Social entrepreneurship KW - Entrepreneuring KW - Poverty KW - Conflict KW - Rwanda Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.03.003 VL - 28 IS - 6 SP - 728 EP - 742 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rasmussen, Anne A1 - Reh, Christine T1 - The consequences of concluding codecision early: trilogues and intra-institutional bargaining success JF - Journal of European Public Policy N2 - One of the most important changes in the history of codecision has been the steep increase in early agreements since 1999. Early agreements have enhanced the efficiency of European Union legislation, but they have been criticized for giving a subset of actors disproportionate control over the legislative agenda and negotiation process. Yet, no study has systematically shown whether and how early agreements have indeed redistributed influence between actors within the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. Our contribution fills this gap by comparing actors’ bargaining success across readings under codecision in a dataset of salient files. Contrary to our theoretical predictions, we do not find evidence of distributional consequences when controlling for inter-institutional conflict and file characteristics. Where codecision is concluded early, the final legislative outcomes are not located closer to the policy positions held by the party group of the Parliament's rapporteur or by the Council Presidency. KW - Bargaining success, codecision, early agreements, party groups, presidency, rapporteur Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2013.795391 SN - 0143-814 VL - 20 IS - 7 SP - 1006 EP - 1023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jankin, Slava A1 - De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel A1 - Dawes, Christopher T. A1 - Christakis, Nicholas A. A1 - Fowler, James H. T1 - Born to Lead? A Twin Design and Genetic Association Study of Leadership Role Occupancy JF - The Leadership Quarterly N2 - We address leadership emergence and the possibility that there is a partially innate predisposition to occupy a leadership role. Employing twin design methods on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the heritability of leadership role occupancy at 24%. Twin studies do not point to specific genes or neurological processes that might be involved. We therefore also conduct association analysis on the available genetic markers. The results show that leadership role occupancy is associated with rs4950, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) residing on a neuronal acetylcholine receptor gene (CHRNB3). We replicate this family-based genetic association result on an independent sample in the Framingham Heart Study. This is the first study to identify a specific genotype associated with the tendency to occupy a leadership position. The results suggest that what determines whether an individual occupies a leadership position is the complex product of genetic and environmental influences, with a particular role for rs4950. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.08.001 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 45 EP - 60 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baturo, Alexander A1 - Jankin, Slava T1 - Life of Brian Revisited: Assessing Informational and Non-Informational Leadership Tools JF - Political Science Research and Methods N2 - Recent literature models leadership as a process of communication in which leaders’ rhetorical signals facilitate followers’ co-ordination. While some studies have explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and sub-national legislative addresses in Russia, this article empirically demonstrates that followers react to informational signals from leaders. It further theorizes that leaders use a combination of informational and non-informational tools to solve the co-ordination problem. The findings show that a mixture of informational and non- informational tools shapes followers’ strategic calculi. Ignoring non-informational tools — and particularly the interrelationship between informational and non-informational tools - can threaten the internal validity of causal inference in the analysis of leadership effects on co-ordination. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2013.3 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 139 EP - 157 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China KW - China KW - Authoritarianism KW - Media KW - Commercialization Y1 - 2013 UR - 9781107018440 SN - 9781107469624 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana T1 - The State of State Capacity: a review of concepts, evidence and measures T2 - MERIT Working Papers N2 - This working paper is part of the research programme on Institutions, Governance and Longterm Economic Growth, a partnership between the French Development Agency AFD and the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance Maastricht University UNUMerit. The research builds on the Institutional Profiles Database IPD, jointly developed by AFD and the French Ministry of the Economy since 2001.What is state capacity and how does it affect development The concept of state capacity acquired centrality during the late seventies and eighties, sponsored by a rather compact set of scholarly works. It later permeated through several disciplines and has now earned a place within the many governance dimensions affecting economic performance. The present article aims to provide a historical account of the evolution and usage of the state capacity concept, along with its various operationalizations. It examines in particular a the growing distance in the usage of the concept by different disciplinary and thematic fields; b the process of branching out of the concept from restricted to more multidimensional definitions; c the problems with construct validity and concept stretching, and d the generalized lack of clarity that exists regarding the institutional sources of state capacity. KW - state capacity KW - statebuilding KW - fiscal performance KW - bureaucracies KW - neopatrimonialism Y1 - 2013 UR - https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5017 N1 - MERIT Working Papers 053, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). ET - #2013-053 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - De Hoyos, Rafael E T1 - Economic Performance under NAFTA: A Firm-Level Analysis of the Trade-productivity Linkages JF - World Development N2 - Did the North American Free Trade Agreement make Mexican firms more productive? If so, through which channels? This paper addresses these questions by deploying an innovative microeconometric approach that disentangles the various channels through which integration with the global markets (via international trade) can affect firm-level productivity. The results show that the North American Free Trade Agreement stimulated the productivity of Mexican plants via: (1) an increase in import competition and (2) a positive effect on access to imported intermediate inputs. However, the impact of trade reforms was not identical for all integrated firms, with fully integrated firms (i.e. firms simultaneously exporting and importing) benefiting more than other integrated firms. Contrary to previous results, once self-selection problems are solved, the analysis finds a rather weak relationship between exports and productivity growth. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.09.008 VL - 44 SP - 180 EP - 193 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cardot, Olivier A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - Pierola, Martha Denisse A1 - Rauch, Ferdinand T1 - Success and failure of African exporters JF - Journal of Development Economics N2 - Using a new dataset with transaction-level export data from four African countries (Malawi, Mali, Senegal and Tanzania), this paper explores the determinants of success upon entry into export markets, defined as survival beyond the first year at the firm-product-destination level. We find that the probability of success rises with the number of same-country firms exporting the same product to the same destination, suggesting the existence of cross-firm externalities. We explore several conjectures on the determinants of these externalities and provide evidence suggestive of information spillovers, possibly mediated through the banking system. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.12.004 VL - 101 SP - 284 EP - 296 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - Rauch, Ferdinand A1 - Winters, L Alan T1 - Trade as an engine of creative destruction: Mexican experience with Chinese competition JF - Journal of International Economics N2 - This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 to evaluate the effects of a competition shock from a low wage competitor for producers in an important middle-income country, Mexico. We find that this shock causes selection and reallocation at both firm and product levels and that its impact is highly heterogeneous at the intensive and extensive margins. Sales of smaller plants and more marginal products are compressed and are more likely to cease, whereas those of larger plants and core products seem relatively impervious to the shock. This implies a reallocation in terms of market shares within firms and between firms. We also show that the impact of expanded access to cheaper Chinese intermediate inputs has a similar effect, with larger plants benefiting more from the availability of cheaper imported inputs. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.09.002 VL - 89 IS - 2 SP - 379 EP - 392 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - Zahler, Andrés A1 - Mattoo, Aaditya T1 - Trade and innovation in services: Evidence from a developing economy JF - The World Economy N2 - Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as important for services. Moreover, the few existing studies on services focus only on industrial countries, although in many developing countries services are already the largest sector in the economy and an important determinant of overall productivity growth. Using a recent firm-level innovation survey for Chile to compare the manufacturing and "tradable" services sector, this paper reveals some novel patterns. First, although services firms have on average a much lower propensity to export than manufacturing firms, services exports are less dominated by large firms and tend to be more skill intensive than manufacturing exports. Second, services firms appear to be as innovative as -- and in some cases more innovative than -- manufacturing firms, in terms of both inputs and outputs of "technological" innovative activity, although services innovations more often take a "non-technological" form. Third, services exporters (like manufacturing exporters) tend to be significantly more innovative than non-exporters, with a wider gap for innovations close to the global technological frontier. These findings suggest that the growing faith in services as a source of both trade and innovative dynamism may not be misplaced. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/twec.12117 VL - 37 IS - 7 SP - 953 EP - 979 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - Ramachandran, Vijaya A1 - Schmidt, Martin T1 - Stunted growth: why don't African firms create more jobs? T2 - Policy Research Working Papers N2 - Many countries in Africa suffer high rates of underemployment or low rates of productive employment; many also anticipate large numbers of people to enter the workforce in the near future. This paper asks the question: Are African firms creating fewer jobs than those located elsewhere? And, if so, why? One reason may be that weak business environments slow the growth of firms and distort the allocation of resources away from better-performing firms, hence reducing their potential for job creation. The paper uses data from 41,000 firms across 119 countries to examine the drivers of firm growth, with a special focus on African firms. African firms, at any age, tend to be 20–24 percent smaller than firms in other regions of the world. The poor business environment, driven by limited access to finance, and the lack of availability of electricity, land, and unskilled labor have some value in explaining this difference. Foreign ownership, the export status of the firm, and the size of the market are also significant determinants of firm size. However, even after controlling for the business environment and for characteristics of firms and markets, about 60 percent of the size gap between African and non-African firms remains unexplained. Y1 - 2013 UR - https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6727 PB - World Bank Group ET - 6727 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - González, Alvaro S. A1 - Subhash, Hari T1 - Russian volatility: Obstacle to firm survival and diversification T2 - Policy Research Working Paper N2 - The need for economic diversification receives a great deal of attention in Russia. This paper looks at a way to improve it that is essential but largely ignored: how to help diversifying firms better survive economic cycles. By definition, economic diversification means doing new things in new sectors and/or in new markets. The fate of emerging firms, therefore, should be of great concern to policy makers. This paper indicates that the ups and downs -- the volatility -- of Russian economic growth are key to that fate. Volatility of growth is higher in Russia than in comparable economies because its slumps are both longer and deeper. They go beyond the cleansing effects of eliminating the least efficient firms; relatively efficient ones get swept away as well. In fact, an incumbency advantage improves a firm's chances of weathering the ups and downs of the economy, regardless of a firm's relative efficiency. Finally, firms in sectors where competition is less intense are less likely to exit the market, regardless of their relative efficiency. Two policy conclusions emerge from these findings -- one macroeconomic and one microeconomic. First, the importance of countercyclical policies is heightened to include efficiency elements. Second, strengthening competition and other factors that support the survival of new, emerging and efficient firms will promote economic diversification. Efforts to help small and medium enterprises may be better spent on removing the obstacles that young, infant firms face as they attempt to enter, survive and grow. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15828 PB - World Bank Group CY - Washington, D. C. ET - 6605 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - Aterido, Reyes A1 - Beck, Thorsten T1 - Access to Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Gender Gap? JF - World Development N2 - We show the existence of an unconditional gender gap in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, when key observable characteristics of the enterprises or individuals are taken into account the gender gap disappears. In the case of enterprises, we explain our finding with differences in key characteristics and a potential selection bias. In the case of individuals, the lower use of formal financial services by women can be explained by gender gaps in other dimensions related to the use of financial services, such as their lower level of income and education, and by their household and employment status. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.02.013 VL - 47 SP - 102 EP - 120 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Snower, Dennis A1 - Graham, Liam T1 - Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation JF - Macroeconomic Dynamics N2 - The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan, King, and Wolman [Review of Economic Studies 10 (4), 825–860] uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard New Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic discounting, small positive rates of inflation can be optimal. In our baseline calibration, the optimal rate of inflation is 2.1% and remains positive across a wide range of calibrations. KW - Optimal Monetary Policy, Inflation Targeting, Phillips Curve, Nominal Inertia, Monetary Policy Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100511000393 VL - 17 IS - 3 SP - 591 EP - 620 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassel, Anke ED - Hinte, Klaus ED - Zimmermann, Klaus T1 - Die Zukunft der Sozialpartnerschaft: Individualisierung versus Arbeitnehmerschutz? T2 - Zeitenwende auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Wie der demografische Wandel die Erwerbsgesellschaft verändert Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-8389-0292-0 SP - 213 EP - 230 PB - Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung CY - Bonn ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Analyzing Policy Advice: The Case of Climate Policy in Germany JF - Central European Journal of Public Policy N2 - Research in public administration and public policy is remarkably split between institutional approaches and policy analytical approaches. Whereas institutional approaches, most often in (comparative) public administration, identify features of politico-administrative systems to account for policy-making such as politicization or the role of the centre, policy perspectives explain policy-making by factors related to the respective policy domain, e.g. frames or agenda-setting. This divide becomes crucial in the analysis of policy advice. On the one hand, advisory systems are affected by features of politico-administrative systems because bureaucrats represent important sources of advice to ministers. On theother hand, advisory systems also vary across policy domains. The paper aims to reconcile the two approaches by analyzing the constitution of policy advisory systems as affected by both institutional and policy factors. The article argues that the composition and role of advisory systems and their components basically depend upon how the problem structure of a given policy domain prompts the involved actors to use the institutional context to impose their specific problem perception, and hence to determine the relevant knowledge in policy advice. Hence, the paper focuses on the question which institutional and policy-level factors affect the constitution of the policy advisory system in climate policy-making in German federal government. Y1 - 2013 SN - 1802-4866 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 88 EP - 110 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reh, Christine A1 - Héritier, Adrienne A1 - Bressanelli, Edoardo A1 - Koop, Christel T1 - The Informal Politics of Legislation JF - Comparative Polical Studies N2 - This article investigates a widespread yet understudied trend in EU politics: the shift of legislative decision making from public inclusive to informal secluded arenas and the subsequent adoption of legislation as “early agreements.” Since its introduction in 1999, “fast-track legislation” has increased dramatically, accounting for 72% of codecision files in the Sixth European Parliament. Drawing from functionalist institutionalism, distributive bargaining theory, and sociological institutionalism, this article explains under what conditions informal decision making is likely to occur. The authors test their hypotheses on an original data set of all 797 codecision files negotiated between mid-1999 and mid-2009. Their analysis suggests that fast-track legislation is systematically related to the number of participants, legislative workload, and complexity. These findings back a functionalist argument, emphasizing the transaction costs of intraorganizational coordination and information gathering. However, redistributive and salient acts are regularly decided informally, and the Council presidency’s priorities have no significant effect on fast-track legislation. Hence, the authors cannot confirm explanations based on issue properties or actors’ privileged institutional positions. Finally, they find a strong effect for the time fast-track legislation has been used, suggesting socialization into interorganizational norms of cooperation. KW - European Parliament, fast-track legislation, informal politics, functionalist institutionalism, distributive bargaining, socialization Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414011426415 SN - 0010-4140 VL - 46 IS - 9 SP - 1112 EP - 1142 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burns, Charlotte A1 - Rasmussen, Anne A1 - Reh, Christine T1 - Legislative codecision and its impact on the political system of the European Union JF - Journal of European Public Policy N2 - The European Union (EU) has experienced a remarkable degree of change during its history: it legislates in an ever wider range of policy areas, and its institutions and decision-making processes have been reformed repeatedly. One of the most important institutional changes was the introduction of the codecision procedure in 1993, which empowered the European Parliament (EP) and transformed the EU system of governance. Following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon the majority of legislation is now subject to codecision under the ordinary legislative procedure. Consequently, the operation of codecision has major implications for our understanding and analysis of the EU's legislative outputs and for studies of supranational policy-making and systemic evolution more generally. This collection takes stock of 20 years of practising and studying codecision and examines the procedure's long-term implications for the EU's institutions, politics and policies. KW - Bicameralism, codecision, legitimacy, political system Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2013.795366 VL - 20 IS - 7 SP - 941 EP - 952 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Graf, Lukas T1 - Besser verzahnt: Berufs- und Hochschulbildung in Österreich und der Schweiz JF - WZBrief Bildung Y1 - 2013 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10993/5917 VL - 24 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bernhard, Nadine A1 - Graf, Lukas A1 - Powell, Justin J. W. ED - Soeffner, Hans-Georg T1 - Durch Europäisierung zu mehr Durchlässigkeit? Wandel im Verhältnis von Berufsbildungs- und Hochschulsystemen in Deutschland, Frankreich und Österreich T2 - Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen. Verhandlungen des 35. Kongresses der DGS N2 - [en] Die europäischen Bildungsminister beschlossen 1999 einen einheitlichen europäischen Hochschulraum zu schaffen; der so genannte Bologna Prozess wurde in Gang gesetzt. Mit der Unterzeichnung der Kopenhagener Erklärung nur drei Jahre später entschlossen sich die Nationalstaaten, auch im Bereich der beruflichen Bildung stärker zusammenzuarbeiten. Vor allem soll die nationale wie internationale Vergleichbarkeit von Bildungsabschlüssen verbessert werden. Beide Prozesse zielen darauf ab, Durchlässigkeit zwischen den organisatorischen Feldern berufliche Bildung und Hochschulbildung zu erhöhen, und zwar mit Hilfe von gemeinsam entwi- ckelten Standards wie dem Europäischen und Nationalen Qualifikationsrahmen, einem System zur Validierung und Anerkennung unterschiedlicher Lernformen, der Ermöglichung flexibler Bildungswege und der Einführung von Kreditpunkte- systemen (Powell/Solga 2008, 2010, 2011). Heute, nach einem Jahrzehnt seit Beginn dieser Prozesse stellt sich die Frage, wie diese in den europäischen Nationalstaaten bisher schon gewirkt und wie sie das Verhältnis von Hochschul- und Berufsbildung verändert haben – Veränderungen, die mit vielfältigen Implikationen für die Bildungs- und soziale Mobilität einherge- hen können (Bernhard/Powell/Graf 2010): Die Frage nach Durchlässigkeit zwi- schen beruflicher und Hochschulbildung ist dabei insbesondere deswegen wichtig, da stratifizierte (Aus-)Bildungssysteme ohne Brücken zwischen einzelnen Bildungs- sektoren den möglichst gleichen Zugang zu Bildungs- und Beschäftigungsopportu- nitäten behindern. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10993/5479 SN - 978-3-531-18971-0 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bernhard, Nadine A1 - Graf, Lukas A1 - Powell, Justin J. W. ED - Amos, Karin ED - Schmid, Josef ED - Schrader, Josef ED - Thiel, Ansgar T1 - Auswirkungen des neuen europäischen Bildungsmodells auf die Verknüpfung zwischen Berufs- und Hochschulbildung in Deutschland, Österreich und Frankreich T2 - Europäischer Bildungsraum. Europäisierungsprozesse in Bildungspolitik und Bildungspraxis KW - vocational training ; higher education ; Europe ; Germany ; France ; Austria ; Europeanization ; Bologna process ; Copenhagen process Y1 - 2013 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10993/11423 SN - 978-3-8487-0841-3 SP - 175 EP - 192 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ebner, Christian A1 - Graf, Lukas A1 - Nikolai, Rita ED - Michael, Windzio T1 - New Institutional Linkages between Dual Vocational Training and Higher Education - A Comparative Analysis of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland T2 - Integration and Inequality in Education Institutions N2 - Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have traditionally provided a large proportion of their workforces with qualifications obtained in the dual vocational training system. However, due to the growing demand for abstract and codified knowledge, all three countries aim at increasing the permeability and individual mobility between the dual training sector and the higher education system. In this chapter we analyse the ways in which Germany, Austria and Switzerland have tried to establish institutional linkages between dual vocational training and higher education. We begin by discussing options for creating such linkages: (1.) upgrading of vocational education and training courses, (2.) introducing dual courses of study, (3.) facilitating attendance of general upper secondary schools for people with vocational qualifications, (4.) enabling the parallel acquisition of a dual vocational training qualification and a higher education entrance qualification, (5.) allowing admission to higher education on the basis of prior dual vocational training qualifications and a certain amount of work experience, and (6.) recognising prior learning as an element in higher education programmes. Our analysis shows that, recently, Germany has relied strongly on the admission to higher education based on vocational training certificates in combination with work experience. Switzerland and Austria are rather pushing the comprehensive introduction of programmes that enable the parallel acquisition of a dual vocational training qualification and a higher education entrance qualification. Finally, we raise questions about the risk of institutional ambiguity and institutional task overload KW - Dual vocational training, Higher education, Permeability, Institutional change Y1 - 2013 UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-6119-3_14 SN - 978-94-007-6118-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6119-3_14 SP - 281 EP - 298 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER -