@incollection{Steiger2019,
  author    = {Steiger, Dominik},
  title     = {International law and new challenges to democracy in the digital age},
  series = {Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting},
  booktitle = {Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting},
  editor    = {Witzleb, Normann and Paterson, Moira and Richardson, Janice},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address   = {London},
  isbn      = {9780429288654},
  doi       = {10.4324/9780429288654},
  pages     = {71 -- 98},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {This chapter aims to analyse whether and how democracy is actually threatened by big-data-based operations and what role international law can play to respond to this possible threat. It shows how big-data-based operations challenge democracy and how international law can help in defending it. The chapter focuses on both state and non-state actors may undermine democracy through big data operations; although democracy as such is a rather underdeveloped concept in international law, which is often more concerned with effectivity than legitimacy - international law protects against these challenges via a democracy-based approach rooted in international human rights law on the one hand, and the principle of non-intervention on the other hand. Thus, although democracy does not play a major role in international law, international law nevertheless is able to protect democracy against challenges from the inside as well as outside.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{SchmidtWellenburgBernhard2020,
  author    = {Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian and Bernhard, Stefan},
  title     = {Charting transnational fields},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address   = {London},
  isbn      = {978-0-367-22418-9},
  doi       = {10.4324/9780429274947},
  pages     = {xi, 263},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on the seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization and certification or supranational political structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and beyond the nation state. Part 1 on "Methodological Foundations" discusses the consequences of Bourdieu's epistemology and methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational phenomena. The contributions show the import of field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on "Investigating Political Fields" presents exemplary case studies in diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy. While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of transnationalization. The volume is an invitation for sociologists, political scientists and scholars in adjacent research areas to engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to further develop field-theoretical thought.},
  language  = {en}
}