@article{LundgrenSquatritoSommereretal.2023, author = {Lundgren, Magnus and Squatrito, Theresa and Sommerer, Thomas and Tallberg, Jonas}, title = {Introducing the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD)}, series = {The review of international organizations}, volume = {19}, journal = {The review of international organizations}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Boston}, issn = {1559-7431}, doi = {10.1007/s11558-023-09492-6}, pages = {117 -- 146}, year = {2023}, abstract = {There is a growing recognition that international organizations (IOs) formulate and adopt policy in a wide range of areas. IOs have emerged as key venues for states seeking joint solutions to contemporary challenges such as climate change or COVID-19, and to establish frameworks to bolster trade, development, security, and more. In this capacity, IOs produce both extraordinary and routine policy output with a multitude of purposes, ranging from policies of historic significance like admitting new members to the more mundane tasks of administering IO staff. This article introduces the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD), which covers close to 37,000 individual policy acts of 13 multi-issue IOs in the 1980-2015 period. The dataset fills a gap in the growing body of literature on the comparative study of IOs, providing researchers with a fine-grained perspective on the structure of IO policy output and data for comparisons across time, policy areas, and organizations. This article describes the construction and coverage of the dataset and identifies key temporal and cross-sectional patterns revealed by the data. In a concise illustration of the dataset's utility, we apply models of punctuated equilibria in a comparative study of the relationship between institutional features and broad policy agenda dynamics. Overall, the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset offers a unique resource for researchers to analyze IO policy output in a granular manner and to explore questions of responsiveness, performance, and legitimacy of IOs.}, language = {en} } @article{LundgrenTallbergSommereretal.2023, author = {Lundgren, Magnus and Tallberg, Jonas and Sommerer, Thomas and Squatrito, Theresa}, title = {When are international organizations responsive to policy problems?}, series = {International studies quarterly : the journal of the International Studies Association}, volume = {67}, journal = {International studies quarterly : the journal of the International Studies Association}, number = {3}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0020-8833}, doi = {10.1093/isq/sqad045}, pages = {14}, year = {2023}, abstract = {When are international organizations (IOs) responsive to the policy problems that motivated their establishment? While it is a conventional assumption that IOs exist to address transnational challenges, the question of whether and when IO policy-making is responsive to shifts in underlying problems has not been systematically explored. This study investigates the responsiveness of IOs from a large-n, comparative approach. Theoretically, we develop three alternative models of IO responsiveness, emphasizing severeness, dependence, and power differentials. Empirically, we focus on the domain of security, examining the responsiveness of eight multi-issue IOs to armed conflict between 1980 and 2015, using a novel and expansive dataset on IO policy decisions. Our findings suggest, first, that IOs are responsive to security problems and, second, that responsiveness is not primarily driven by dependence or power differentials but by problem severity. An in-depth study of the responsiveness of the UN Security Council using more granular data confirms these findings. As the first comparative study of whether and when IO policy adapts to problem severity, the article has implications for debates about IO responsiveness, performance, and legitimacy.}, language = {en} } @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} } @book{TallbergBaeckstrandAartScholteetal.2023, author = {Tallberg, Jonas and B{\"a}ckstrand, Karin and Aart Scholte, Jan and Sommerer, Thomas}, title = {SNS Democracy Council 2023}, publisher = {SNS F{\"o}rlag}, address = {Stockholm}, isbn = {978-91-89754-06-5}, pages = {199}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Transboundary problems such as climate change, military conflicts, trade barriers, and refugee flows require increased collaboration across borders. This is to a large extent possible using existing international organizations. In such a case, however, they need to be considerably strengthened - while current trends take us in the opposite direction, according to the researchers in the SNS Democracy Council 2023.}, language = {en} } @misc{Juchler2023, author = {Juchler, Ingo}, title = {Rezension zu: May, Michael ; Partetzke, Marc: Einf{\"u}hrung in die Politikdidaktik. Band 1: Geschichte, Essentials, Forschungs- und Entwicklungsfelder. - Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag, 2023. - 223 S. - (utb; 6045). - ISBN: 978-3-8385-6045-8}, series = {Polis}, volume = {27}, journal = {Polis}, number = {3}, publisher = {Wochenschau Verlag}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, issn = {1611-373X}, doi = {10.46499/2243.2834}, pages = {32 -- 32}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Gelungene Orientierung f{\"u}r die fachliche Ausbildung. Man ist gespannt auf den zweiten Band.}, language = {de} } @book{OPUS4-44406, title = {Eskalation}, editor = {Malthaner, Stefan and Teune, Simon and Ullrich, Peter}, publisher = {Technische Universit{\"a}t Berlin}, address = {Berlin}, doi = {10.14279/depositonce-7331}, pages = {91}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Die Ereignisse um den G20-Gipfel im Juli 2017 haben viele Menschen schockiert und die Hamburger Stadtgesellschaft gespalten. Sie stehen in starkem Kontrast zu dem Sicherheitsversprechen, das der Senat im Vorfeld abgegeben hat, ebenso wie zu der Ank{\"u}ndigung, der Gipfel werde ein „Festival der Demokratie". Dass ein Gipfelprotest in Unruhen mit breiter Beteiligung {\"u}berging aber auch das teils gewaltsame polizeiliche Vorgehen gegen Protestierende ist erkl{\"a}rungsbed{\"u}rftig. In der anhaltenden Diskussion {\"u}ber die Hintergr{\"u}nde der Auseinandersetzungen werden zumeist entweder die Polizei oder „gewaltbereite Gruppen" f{\"u}r das Ausmaß der Gewalt verantwortlich gemacht. Letzteres l{\"a}sst sich jedoch nur bedingt aus Motiven und vorgefassten Pl{\"a}nen bestimmter Akteure ableiten. Ein großer Teil der Gewalt entsteht - dies ger{\"a}t allzu oft aus dem Blick - maßgeblich in Prozessen der Eskalation, in denen die Handlungen der verschiedenen Beteiligten miteinander verflochten sind, insofern sie auf Grundlage ihrer Deutung vorangegangener Erfahrungen und ihrer Wahrnehmung des Gegen{\"u}bers aufeinander reagieren. Situationen der Gewalt haben zudem ihre eigene, in manchen F{\"a}llen kaum steuerbare, Dynamik. Der Bericht rekonstruiert, wie und warum die Gewalt in Hamburg in dieser Form eskalierte. Er enth{\"a}lt sich weitgehend einer moralischen Einordnung. Er beleuchtet konkrete Situationen des Aufeinandertreffens der Konfliktparteien und bettet sie in einen gr{\"o}ßeren Kontext ein, unter anderem in Hinblick auf die Konstitution der beteiligten Gruppen und in Hinblick auf die mediale Deutung des Geschehens. Der Bericht fasst die ersten Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes zusammen, an dem {\"u}ber acht Monate mehr als 20 Gewalt-, Protest- und Polizeiforscher*innen mitgewirkt haben. Er beruht auf einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Quellen: Interviews mit Beteiligten, Dokumente, Filmaufnahmen und Fotografien, die Kommunikation auf Twitter und die Berichterstattung in ausgew{\"a}hlten Tageszeitungen, Beobachtungsprotokolle aus der Protestwoche und danach. Die Analyse gliedert sich in drei Teile. (1) Die Ausgangskonstellation, in der sich die unmittelbar Beteiligten, Polizei und Protestierende, auf die Protestwoche einstellen und pr{\"a}gende Grundkonflikte sichtbar werden. (2) Schl{\"u}sselsituationen, in denen Konflikte ausgetragen werden und die Muster der Eskalation im Kleinen sichtbar machen. (3) Die mediale Deutung und Formung der Ereignisse, {\"u}ber die der Fokus auf „Gewalt" verst{\"a}rkt und die jeweils eigene Wahrnehmung best{\"a}tigt wird. F{\"u}r die Analyse der Entstehung von Gewalt ist der Fall ein eindr{\"u}ckliches Beispiel f{\"u}r die Verkettung von Ereignissen ebenso wie f{\"u}r die Eigendynamik situativer Konfrontationen. Dies bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass die Planungen, Erwartungen und Entscheidungen der Handelnden keine Rolle spielen w{\"u}rden. Die Dynamik des Geschehens verwirklicht sich, im Gegenteil, gerade darin, dass die Beteiligten in der Verflechtung ihrer Handlungen ihre Kalkulationen ver{\"a}ndern und Situationsdeutungen entwickeln, welche Gewalt m{\"o}glich oder notwendig erscheinen lassen}, language = {de} } @book{CockshottCottrellDapprich2022, author = {Cockshott, William Paul and Cottrell, Allin and Dapprich, Jan Philipp}, title = {Economic planning in an age of climate crisis}, isbn = {979-8-36012-556-3}, pages = {186}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Faced with an accelerating climate crisis caused by burning fossil fuels we have to change the way the economy works. We can no longer go on with a system that just maximises private profit without consideration for its effects. Instead we have to conciously plan how to change to a fossil fuel free society. The need is urgent. The transformation will be vast. Nothing similar has been done in the West since the days of wartime mobilisation. This book explains the basic science of climate change before looking at the transformations needed to our energy and basic industries. It looks at the previous successful history of deliberate planning practiced in the UK from 1939 to the 1960s and how, using modern computing techniques it will be possible to organise resources so as to effect the change.}, language = {en} } @article{DrekeHungerlandStoelting2022, author = {Dreke, Claudia and Hungerland, Beatrice and St{\"o}lting, Erhard}, title = {Einleitung}, series = {Kindheit in gesellschaftlichen Umbr{\"u}chen}, journal = {Kindheit in gesellschaftlichen Umbr{\"u}chen}, publisher = {Beltz}, address = {Weinheim}, isbn = {978-3-7799-5831-4}, pages = {9 -- 40}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @article{DrekeHungerlandStoelting2022, author = {Dreke, Claudia and Hungerland, Beatrice and St{\"o}lting, Erhard}, title = {Ausblick}, series = {Kindheit in gesellschaftlichen Umbr{\"u}chen}, journal = {Kindheit in gesellschaftlichen Umbr{\"u}chen}, publisher = {Beltz}, address = {Weinheim}, isbn = {978-3-7799-6508-4}, pages = {253 -- 258}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @article{KazepovVerwiebe2022, author = {Kazepov, Yuri and Verwiebe, Roland}, title = {Is Vienna still a just city?}, series = {Vienna}, journal = {Vienna}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-68011-4}, doi = {10.4324/9781003133827-1}, pages = {1 -- 14}, year = {2022}, language = {en} }