@phdthesis{Stachursky2013, author = {Stachursky, Banjamin}, title = {The Promise and Perils of transnationalization: NGO activism and the socialization of women's human rights in Egypt and Iran}, series = {Routledge advances in internaional relations and global politics}, volume = {102}, journal = {Routledge advances in internaional relations and global politics}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-3-415-66202-4}, pages = {294 S.}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{vanLeeuwenKern2013, author = {van Leeuwen, Judith and Kern, Kristine}, title = {The External Dimension of European Union Marine Governance: Institutional Interplay between the EU and the International Maritime Organization}, series = {Global environmental politics}, volume = {13}, journal = {Global environmental politics}, number = {1}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1526-3800}, doi = {10.1162/GLEP_a_00154}, pages = {69 -- +}, year = {2013}, abstract = {This article focuses on the emergence of a decentralized institutional complex, interplay management, and the institutional interplay between the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the EU in the issue area of environmental shipping policies. It shows that the synergistic relationship between both institutions has been driven primarily by commitment and compliance mechanisms. By influencing IMO decision-making and improving the implementation and effectiveness of IMO conventions, the EU has become a driving force in international environmental shipping policies, and its new initiatives may even enhance its leadership role within the IMO in the future. Despite the still-existing lack of cognitive leadership by the EU, the synergies between both institutions provide evidence for the EU's leadership capacities in global environmental politics.}, language = {en} } @article{JannJantz2013, author = {Jann, Werner and Jantz, Bastian}, title = {The development of policy analysis in Germany : practical problems and theoretical concepts}, isbn = {978-1- 44730-625-2}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @misc{Kumarasingham2013, author = {Kumarasingham, Harshan}, title = {Semi-presidentialism and democracy}, series = {Political studies review}, volume = {11}, journal = {Political studies review}, number = {2}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {1478-9299}, doi = {10.1111/1478-9302.12016_10}, pages = {263 -- 264}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{MoellersHaelterlein2013, author = {M{\"o}llers, Norma Tamaria and H{\"a}lterlein, Jens}, title = {Privacy issues in public discourse the case of "smart" CCTV in Germany}, series = {Innovation : the European journal of social sciences}, volume = {26}, journal = {Innovation : the European journal of social sciences}, number = {1-2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1351-1610}, doi = {10.1080/13511610.2013.723396}, pages = {57 -- 70}, year = {2013}, abstract = {In dealing with surveillance, scholars have widely agreed to refute privacy as an analytical concept and defining theme. Nonetheless, in public debates, surveillance technologies are still confronted with issues of privacy, and privacy therefore endures as an empirical subject of research on surveillance. Drawing from our analysis of public discourse of so-called smart closed-circuit television (CCTV) in Germany, we propose to use a sociology of knowledge perspective to analyze privacy in order to understand how it is socially constructed and negotiated. Our data comprise 117 documents, covering all publicly available documents between 2006 and 2010 that we were able to obtain. We found privacy to be the only form of critique in the struggle for the legitimate definition of smart CCTV. In this paper, we discuss the implications our preliminary findings have for the relationship between privacy issues and surveillance technology and conclude with suggestions of how this relationship might be further investigated as paradoxical, yet constitutive.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Casertano2013, author = {Casertano, Stefano}, title = {Our Land, our oil! : natural resources, local nationalism, and violent secession}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-531-19442-4}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-531-19443-1}, pages = {311 S.}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{JantzJann2013, author = {Jantz, Bastian and Jann, Werner}, title = {Mapping accountability changes in labour market administrations from concentrated to shared accountability?}, series = {International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration}, volume = {79}, journal = {International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {0020-8523}, doi = {10.1177/0020852313477764}, pages = {227 -- 248}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The article explores how recent changes in the governance of employment services in three European countries (Denmark, Germany and Norway) have influenced accountability relationships. The overall assumption in the growing literature about accountability is that the number of actors involved in accountability arrangements is rising, that accountability relationships are becoming more numerous and complex, and that these changes may lead to contradictory accountability relationships, and finally to multi accountability disorder'. The article tries to explore these assumptions by analysing the different actors involved and the information requested in the new governance arrangements in all three countries. It concludes that the considerable changes in organizational arrangements and more managerial information demanded and provided have led to more shared forms of accountability. Nevertheless, a clear development towards less political or administrative accountability could not be observed.}, language = {en} } @article{JannJantz2013, author = {Jann, Werner and Jantz, Bastian}, title = {Mapping accountability changes in labour market administration : from concentrated to shared accountability?}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Patz2013, author = {Patz, Ronny}, title = {Information flows in the context of EU policy-making : affiliation networks and the post-2012 reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-70732}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Information flows in EU policy-making are heavily dependent on personal networks, both within the Brussels sphere but also reaching outside the narrow limits of the Belgian capital. These networks develop for example in the course of formal and informal meetings or at the sidelines of such meetings. A plethora of committees at European, transnational and regional level provides the basis for the establishment of pan-European networks. By studying affiliation to those committees, basic network structures can be uncovered. These affiliation network structures can then be used to predict EU information flows, assuming that certain positions within the network are advantageous for tapping into streams of information while others are too remote and peripheral to provide access to information early enough. This study has tested those assumptions for the case of the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy for the time after 2012. Through the analysis of an affiliation network based on participation in 10 different fisheries policy committees over two years (2009 and 2010), network data for an EU-wide network of about 1300 fisheries interest group representatives and more than 200 events was collected. The structure of this network showed a number of interesting patterns, such as - not surprisingly - a rather central role of Brussels-based committees but also close relations of very specific interests to the Brussels-cluster and stronger relations between geographically closer maritime regions. The analysis of information flows then focused on access to draft EU Commission documents containing the upcoming proposal for a new basic regulation of the Common Fisheries Policy. It was first documented that it would have been impossible to officially obtain this document and that personal networks were thus the most likely sources for fisheries policy actors to obtain access to these "leaks" in early 2011. A survey of a sample of 65 actors from the initial network supported these findings: Only a very small group had accessed the draft directly from the Commission. Most respondents who obtained access to the draft had received it from other actors, highlighting the networked flow of informal information in EU politics. Furthermore, the testing of the hypotheses connecting network positions and the level of informedness indicated that presence in or connections to the Brussels sphere had both advantages for overall access to the draft document and with regard to timing. Methodologically, challenges of both the network analysis and the analysis of information flows but also their relevance for the study of EU politics have been documented. In summary, this study has laid the foundation for a different way to study EU policy-making by connecting topical and methodological elements - such as affiliation network analysis and EU committee governance - which so far have not been considered together, thereby contributing in various ways to political science and EU studies.}, language = {en} } @article{Kumarasingham2013, author = {Kumarasingham, Harshan}, title = {Exporting executive accountability? - Westminster legacies of executive power}, series = {Parliamentary affairs : a journal of representative politics}, volume = {66}, journal = {Parliamentary affairs : a journal of representative politics}, number = {3}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0031-2290}, doi = {10.1093/pa/gss008}, pages = {579 -- 596}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The Westminster system places great power upon the Executive with minimal accountabilities. Despite the dissolution of the British Empire, so many countries maintained the Westminster system whether it was transplanted or implanted to their soil. The Westminster system provides various actors with a great potential of increasing power autonomy over others due to the high levels of flexibility and manoeuvrability. Political actors, especially following independence, were able to operate generally unencumbered by fixed and formal institutional expectations. This allowed the countries and their executive, particularly the Prime Minister, the ability to mould and establish constitutional traditions, which in turn shaped the nascent polity that surrounded the real and constitutional independence. This article examines the Westminster systems critical legacy to accountability and its impact on executive power.}, language = {en} }