@misc{Bunselmeyer2024,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Bunselmeyer, Lena},
  title     = {Die Agenda 2030 in kommunalen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-63487},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-634873},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {64},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {Die 2016 verabschiedeten Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der Vereinten Nationen sind Referenzrahmen von Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien auf Bundes- Landes- und kommunaler Ebene geworden. St{\"a}dte r{\"u}ckten im Zuge der Agenda 2030 in den Mittelpunkt. Ihre Verwaltungen befinden sich dabei in einem herausfordernden Spannungsfeld: Einerseits haben die SDGs den holistischen Anspruch, vollst{\"a}ndig in das Handeln der Kommunen integriert zu werden. Andererseits ist f{\"u}r eine effektive Umsetzung eine starke Anpassung der SDGs an den lokalen Kontext notwendig. Die vorliegende Arbeit betrachtet anhand einer Fallstudie die Frage, wie Kommunen die Nachhaltigkeitsziele der Vereinten Nationen in ihre Handlungsprogramme und Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien {\"u}bersetzen, und welche Faktoren Einfluss auf diesen Prozess haben. Dabei wird ein translationstheoretischer Ansatz verwendet, der die {\"U}bertragung einer Idee in einen lokalen Kontext als aktiven Transfer versteht, bei dem das Handeln der beteiligten Akteure und deren Konstruktion der aufzunehmenden Idee im Fokus steht. Die Translation wird mit Hilfe von qualitativen Interviews nachvollzogen und analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die SDGs zwar anhand ihrer Relevanz f{\"u}r die Kommune gefiltert werden, der normative Anspruch der SDGs aber erhalten bleibt und angesichts des als gering beurteilten Fortschritts der Kommune besonderes Gewicht erh{\"a}lt. Zentrale Einflussfaktoren f{\"u}r die Translation sind die verf{\"u}gbaren personellen und finanziellen Ressourcen, die Akzeptanz f{\"u}r die SDGs in Verwaltung, Politik und Gesellschaft und nicht zuletzt das pers{\"o}nliche Engagement einzelner Verwaltungsmitarbeiter*innen.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Nasery2019,
  author    = {Nasery, Mustafa},
  title     = {The success and failure of civil service reforms in Afghanistan},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-44473},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-444738},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {viii, 258},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The Government will create a motivated, merit-based, performance-driven, and professional civil service that is resistant to temptations of corruption and which provides efficient, effective and transparent public services that do not force customers to pay bribes. — (GoIRA, 2006, p. 106) We were in a black hole! We had an empty glass and had nothing from our side to fill it with! Thus, we accepted anything anybody offered; that is how our glass was filled; that is how we reformed our civil service. — (Former Advisor to IARCSC, personal communication, August 2015) How and under what conditions were the post-Taleban Civil Service Reforms of Afghanistan initiated? What were the main components of the reforms? What were their objectives and to which extent were they achieved? Who were the leading domestic and foreign actors involved in the process? Finally, what specific factors influenced the success and failure Afghanistan's Civil Service Reforms since 2002? Guided by such fundamental questions, this research studies the wicked process of reforming the Afghan civil service in an environment where a variety of contextual, programmatic, and external factors affected the design and implementation of reforms that were entirely funded and technically assisted by the international community. Focusing on the core components of reforms—recruitment, remuneration, and appraisal of civil servants—the qualitative study provides a detailed picture of the pre-reform civil service and its major human resources developments in the past. Following discussions on the content and purposes of the main reform programs, it will then analyze the extent of changes in policies and practices by examining the outputs and effects of these reforms. Moreover, the study defines the specific factors that led the reforms toward a situation where most of the intended objectives remain unachieved. Doing so, it explores and explains how an overwhelming influence of international actors with conflicting interests, large-scale corruption, political interference, networks of patronage, institutionalized nepotism, culturally accepted cronyism and widespread ethnic favoritism created a very complex environment and prevented the reforms from transforming Afghanistan's patrimonial civil service into a professional civil service, which is driven by performance and merit.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HickmannFuhrHoehneetal.2017,
  author    = {Hickmann, Thomas and Fuhr, Harald and H{\"o}hne, Chris and Lederer, Markus and Stehle, Fee},
  title     = {Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation-State: The Reconfiguration of Public Authority in Developing Countries},
  series = {Public administration and development},
  volume    = {37},
  journal   = {Public administration and development},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0271-2075},
  doi       = {10.1002/pad.1814},
  pages     = {331 -- 343},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Several scholars concerned with global policy-making have recently pointed to a reconfiguration of authority in the area of climate politics. They have shown that various new carbon governance arrangements have emerged, which operate simultaneously at different governmental levels. However, despite the numerous descriptions and mapping exercises of these governance arrangements, we have little systematic knowledge on their workings within national jurisdictions, let alone about their impact on public-administrative systems in developing countries. Therefore, this article opens the black box of the nation-state and explores how and to what extent two different arrangements, that is, Transnational City Networks and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, generate changes in the distribution of public authority in nation-states and their administrations. Building upon conceptual assumptions that the former is likely to lead to more decentralized, and the latter to more centralized policy-making, we provide insights from case studies in Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, and India. In a nutshell, our analysis underscores that Transnational City Networks strengthen climate-related actions taken by cities without ultimately decentralizing climate policy-making. On the other hand, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation tends to reinforce the competencies of central governments, but apparently does not generate a recentralization of the forestry sector at large.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{PedersenJohannsen2004,
  author    = {Pedersen, Karin Hilmer and Johannsen, Lars},
  title     = {The real challenge for change : public administration in new EU member states},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-46718},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {Executive responsibility for EU policies is by tradition delegated to the member states and their internal administrative bodies. It is therefore of outmost importance that the new Central and East European members have the capacity to administer the acquis communitaire once they are full members of the EU. Based on a survey among current and former top-level decision-makers (ministers), this article argues that although there are significant implementation problems, efficiency gains can be made through administrative reform and not the least education aimed at changing the worldview and knowledge of the individual civil servant. However, there seem to be significant differences in how these countries tackle implementation problems and administrative reform.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Kuhl2000,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Kuhl, Mara},
  title     = {Die staatliche Initiative zur Frauenf{\"o}rderung in der Privatwirtschaft in Belgien},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-31047},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2000},
  abstract  = {Die Politikfeldanalyse der belgischen Frauenf{\"o}rderpolitik f{\"u}r die Privatwirtschaft wird anhand eines Analyserasters f{\"u}r Gleichstellungspolitik durchgef{\"u}hrt. Nach einer Einf{\"u}hrung in das politische System Belgiens und die gesellschaftspolitischen Bedingungen f{\"u}r Gleichstellungspolitik wird die staatliche Initivative f{\"u}r Gleichstellung in der Privatwirtschaft dargestellt. Die Analyse der Policy bezieht die relevanten politischen, verwaltungstechnischen und gesellschaftlichen Faktoren ein und nutzt Analyseinstrumente der Verwaltungswissenschaft und der feministischen Politikwissenschaft.},
  language  = {de}
}