@article{DuitLimSommerer2023,
  author    = {Duit, Andreas and Lim, Sijeong and Sommerer, Thomas},
  title     = {The state and the environment},
  series = {Politics \& policy},
  volume    = {51},
  journal   = {Politics \& policy},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken, NJ},
  issn      = {1555-5623},
  doi       = {10.1111/polp.12561},
  pages     = {1046 -- 1068},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The limitations and possibilities of the state in solving societal problems are perennial issues in the political and policy sciences and increasingly so in studies of environmental politics. With the aim of better understanding the role of the state in addressing environmental degradation through policy making, this article investigates the nexus between the environmental policy outputs and the environmental performance. Drawing on three theoretical perspectives on the state and market nexus in the environmental dilemma, we identify five distinct pathways. We then examine the extent to which these pathways are manifested in the real world. Our empirical investigation covers up to 37 countries for the period 1970-2010. While we see no global pattern of linkages between policy outputs and performance, our exploratory analysis finds evidence of policy effects, which suggest that the state can, under certain circumstances, improve the environment through policy making.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BertelsSchulzeGabrechten2020,
  author    = {Bertels, Jana and Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena},
  title     = {Mapping the black box of intraministerial organization},
  series = {Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions},
  volume    = {34},
  journal   = {Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0952-1895},
  doi       = {10.1111/gove.12486},
  pages     = {171 -- 189},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This article explores the structural diversity of intraministerial organization over time. Based on organization theory, it proposes a generic typology for intraministerial units applicable to any hierarchically structured government organization. We empirically investigate the critical case of the German federal bureaucracy. By classifying its subunits, we analyze the longitudinal development of structural differentiation and its correspondence to denominational variety. The data stem from a novel international dataset, covering all ministries between 1980 and 2015. We find that intraministerial structure differentiates over time, across and within ministries. A stable core of traditional Weberian structure is complemented by structurally innovative intraministerial units. We conclude that the German federal bureaucracy is more diverse than suggested in previous literature. Our findings indicate that less Weberian bureaucracies are at least as structurally diverse and that more reform-driven bureaucracies will have experienced at least as many changes in structural diversity.},
  language  = {en}
}