TY  - GEN
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
A1  - Lebaron, Frederic
T1  - There is no such thing as "the Economy"
BT  - Economic phenomena analysed from a field-theoretical perspective
BT  - Zur Analyse ökonomischer Phänomene aus feldtheoretischer Perspektive
T2  - Historical Social Research
N2  - This introductory essay to the HSR Special Issue “Economists, Politics, and Society” argues for a strong field-theoretical programme inspired by Pierre Bourdieu to research economic life as an integral part of different social forms. Its main aim is threefold. First, we spell out the very distinct Durkheimian legacy in Bourdieu’s thinking and the way he applies it in researching economic phenomena. Without this background, much of what is actually part of how Bourdieu analysed economic aspects of social life would be overlooked or reduced to mere economic sociology. Second, we sketch the main theoretical concepts and heuristics used to analyse economic life from a field perspective. Third, we focus on practical methodological issues of field-analytical research into economic phenomena. We conclude with a short summary of the basic characteristics of this approach and discuss the main insights provided by the contributions to this special issue.
T2  - 'Die Ökonomie‘ gibt es nicht!
KW  - Economic sociology
KW  - field
KW  - Bourdieu
KW  - methodology
KW  - discourse
KW  - domination
KW  - state
KW  - economy
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.7-38
SN  - 0172-6404
VL  - 43
IS  - 3
SP  - 7
EP  - 38
PB  - GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
CY  - Cologne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bertels, Jana
A1  - Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena
T1  - Mapping the black box of intraministerial organization
BT  - An analytical approach to explore structural diversity below the portfolio level
JF  - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions
N2  - 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.
KW  - continuity
KW  - government
KW  - impact
KW  - public management
KW  - reforms
KW  - state
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12486
SN  - 0952-1895
SN  - 1468-0491
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
SP  - 171
EP  - 189
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Duit, Andreas
A1  - Lim, Sijeong
A1  - Sommerer, Thomas
T1  - The state and the environment
BT  - environmental policy and performance in 37 countries 1970–2010
JF  - Politics & policy
N2  - 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.
KW  - comparative environmental politics
KW  - ecological modernization
KW  - environmental degradation
KW  - environmental policy effects
KW  - environmental policy performance
KW  - national ecological footprint
KW  - policy output
KW  - regulation
KW  - state
KW  - treadmill of production
KW  - política ambiental comparada
KW  - modernización ecológica
KW  - huella ecológica
KW  - regulación estatal
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12561
SN  - 1555-5623
SN  - 1747-1346
VL  - 51
IS  - 6
SP  - 1046
EP  - 1068
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
ER  -