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 -