TY - JOUR
A1 - Debre, Maria Josepha
T1 - Clubs of autocrats
BT - regional organizations and authoritarian survival
JF - The review of international organizations
N2 - While scholars have argued that membership in Regional Organizations (ROs) can increase the likelihood of democratization, we see many autocratic regimes surviving in power albeit being members of several ROs. This article argues that this is the case because these regimes are often members in "Clubs of Autocrats" that supply material and ideational resources to strengthen domestic survival politics and shield members from external interference during moments of political turmoil. The argument is supported by survival analysis testing the effect of membership in autocratic ROs on regime survival between 1946 to 2010. It finds that membership in ROs composed of more autocratic member states does in fact raise the likelihood of regime survival by protecting incumbents against democratic challenges such as civil unrest or political dissent. However, autocratic RO membership does not help to prevent regime breakdown due to autocratic challenges like military coups, potentially because these types of threats are less likely to diffuse to other member states. The article thereby adds to our understanding of the limits of democratization and potential reverse effects of international cooperation, and contributes to the literature addressing interdependences of international and domestic politics in autocratic regimes.
KW - regional organizations
KW - authoritarian resilience
KW - democratization
KW - survival analysis
KW - domestic politics
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-021-09428-y
SN - 1559-7431
SN - 1559-744X
VL - 17
IS - 3
SP - 485
EP - 511
PB - Springer
CY - Boston
ER -
TY - BOOK
A1 - Tallberg, Jonas
A1 - Bäckstrand, Karin
A1 - Aart Scholte, Jan
A1 - Sommerer, Thomas
T1 - SNS Democracy Council 2023
BT - global governance: fit for purpose?
N2 - 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.
KW - democracy
KW - globalization
KW - international trade
Y1 - 2023
UR - https://snsse.cdn.triggerfish.cloud/uploads/2023/04/sns-democracy-council-2023-global-governance--fit-for-purpose.pdf
SN - 978-91-89754-06-5
PB - SNS Förlag
CY - Stockholm
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Sommerer, Thomas
A1 - Squatrito, Theresa
A1 - Tallberg, Jonas
A1 - Lundgren, Magnus
T1 - Decision-making in international organizations
BT - institutional design and performance
JF - The review of international organizations
N2 - International organizations (IOs) experience significant variation in their decision-making performance, or the extent to which they produce policy output. While some IOs are efficient decision-making machineries, others are plagued by deadlock. How can such variation be explained? Examining this question, the article makes three central contributions. First, we approach performance by looking at IO decision-making in terms of policy output and introduce an original measure of decision-making performance that captures annual growth rates in IO output. Second, we offer a novel theoretical explanation for decision-making performance. This account highlights the role of institutional design, pointing to how majoritarian decision rules, delegation of authority to supranational institutions, and access for transnational actors (TNAs) interact to affect decision-making. Third, we offer the first comparative assessment of the decision-making performance of IOs. While previous literature addresses single IOs, we explore decision-making across a broad spectrum of 30 IOs from 1980 to 2011. Our analysis indicates that IO decision-making performance varies across and within IOs. We find broad support for our theoretical account, showing the combined effect of institutional design features in shaping decision-making performance. Notably, TNA access has a positive effect on decision-making performance when pooling is greater, and delegation has a positive effect when TNA access is higher. We also find that pooling has an independent, positive effect on decision-making performance. All-in-all, these findings suggest that the institutional design of IOs matters for their decision-making performance, primarily in more complex ways than expected in earlier research.
KW - international organizations
KW - institutional design
KW - decision-making
KW - global governance
KW - performance
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-021-09445-x
SN - 1559-7431
SN - 1559-744X
VL - 17
IS - 4
SP - 815
EP - 845
PB - Springer
CY - Boston
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lundgren, Magnus
A1 - Squatrito, Theresa
A1 - Sommerer, Thomas
A1 - Tallberg, Jonas
T1 - Introducing the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD)
JF - The review of international organizations
N2 - 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.
KW - international organizations
KW - policy
KW - policy agendas
KW - decision-making
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-023-09492-6
SN - 1559-7431
SN - 1559-744X
VL - 19
SP - 117
EP - 146
PB - Springer
CY - Boston
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lundgren, Magnus
A1 - Tallberg, Jonas
A1 - Sommerer, Thomas
A1 - Squatrito, Theresa
T1 - When are international organizations responsive to policy problems?
JF - International studies quarterly : the journal of the International Studies Association
N2 - 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.
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad045
SN - 0020-8833
SN - 1468-2478
VL - 67
IS - 3
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
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 -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rockström, Johan
A1 - Kotzé, Louis
A1 - Milutinović, Svetlana
A1 - Biermann, Frank
A1 - Brovkin, Victor
A1 - Donges, Jonathan
A1 - Ebbesson, Jonas
A1 - French, Duncan
A1 - Gupta, Joyeeta
A1 - Kim, Rakhyun
A1 - Lenton, Timothy
A1 - Lenzi, Dominic
A1 - Nakicenovic, Nebojsa
A1 - Neumann, Barbara
A1 - Schuppert, Fabian
A1 - Winkelmann, Ricarda
A1 - Bosselmann, Klaus
A1 - Folke, Carl
A1 - Lucht, Wolfgang
A1 - Schlosberg, David
A1 - Richardson, Katherine
A1 - Steffen, Will
T1 - The planetary commons
BT - a new paradigm for safeguarding earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
N2 - The Anthropocene signifies the start of a no- analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is fundamentally different from the Holocene. This new trajectory is characterized by rising risks of triggering irreversible and unmanageable shifts in Earth system functioning. We urgently need a new global approach to safeguard critical Earth system regulating functions more effectively and comprehensively. The global commons framework is the closest example of an existing approach with the aim of governing biophysical systems on Earth upon which the world collectively depends. Derived during stable Holocene conditions, the global commons framework must now evolve in the light of new Anthropocene dynamics. This requires a fundamental shift from a focus only on governing shared resources beyond national jurisdiction, to one that secures critical functions of the Earth system irrespective of national boundaries. We propose a new framework—the planetary commons—which differs from the global commons framework by including not only globally shared geographic regions but also critical biophysical systems that regulate the resilience and state, and therefore livability, on Earth. The new planetary commons should articulate and create comprehensive stewardship obligations through Earth system governance aimed at restoring and strengthening planetary resilience and justice.
KW - anthropocene
KW - earth system governance
KW - global commons
KW - international law
KW - planetary boundaries
Y1 - 2024
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301531121
SN - 1091-6490
SN - 1877-2014
VL - 121
IS - 5
PB - National Academy of Sciences
CY - Washington, DC
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Turner, Bryan S.
T1 - Book review: Populism in the civil sphere / edited: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto, Giuseppe Sciortino. - Cambridge ; Medford : Polity, 2021. - ISBN 978-1-5095-4474-5 ; 978-1-5095-4473-8
JF - Journal of classical sociology : JCS
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X21996104
SN - 1468-795X
SN - 1741-2897
VL - 21
IS - 3-4
SP - 357
EP - 360
PB - Sage Publ.
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tuttnauer, Or
A1 - Wegmann, Simone
T1 - Voting for Votes
BT - opposition parties' legislative activity and electoral outcomes
JF - American political science review
N2 - Scholars frequently expect parties to act strategically in parliament, hoping to affect their electoral fortunes. Voters assumingly assess parties by their activity and vote accordingly. However, the retrospective voting literature looks mostly at the government's outcomes, leaving the opposition understudied. We argue that, for opposition parties, legislative voting constitutes an effective vote-seeking activity as a signaling tool of their attitude toward the government. We suggest that conflictual voting behavior affects voters through two mechanisms: as a signal of opposition valence and as means of ideological differentiation from the government. We present both aggregate- and individual-level analyses, leveraging a dataset of 169 party observations from 10 democracies and linking it to the CSES survey data of 27,371 respondents. The findings provide support for the existence of both mechanisms. Parliamentary conflict on legislative votes has a general positive effect on opposition parties' electoral performance, conditional on systemic and party-specific factors.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422000338
SN - 0003-0554
SN - 1537-5943
VL - 116
IS - 4
SP - 1357
EP - 1374
PB - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Stehle, Fee
T1 - Rezension zu: Jordan, Andrew; Huitema, Dave; Asselt Harro van; Foster, Johanna (eds.): Governing climate change: polycentricity in action? - Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2018. - xv, 389 S. - ISBN 978-1-108-41812-6
JF - Global environmental politics
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_r_00596
SN - 1536-0091
SN - 1526-3800
VL - 21
IS - 1
SP - 157
EP - 159
PB - MIT Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Gorupec, Natalia
A1 - Brehmer, Nataliia
A1 - Tiberius, Victor
A1 - Kraus, Sascha
T1 - Tackling uncertain future scenarios with real options
BT - a review and research framework
JF - The Irish journal of management : incorporating IBAR
N2 - Real options are widely applied in strategic and operational decision-making, allowing for managerial flexibility in uncertain contexts. Increased scholarly interest has led to an extensive but fragmented research landscape. We aim to measure and systematize the research field quantitatively. To achieve this goal, we conduct bibliometric performance analyses and bibliographic coupling analyses with an in-depth content review. The results of the performance analyses show an increasing interest in real options since the beginning of the 2000s and identity the most influential journals and authors. The science mappings reveal six and seven research clusters over the last two decades. Based on an in-depth analysis of their themes, we develop a research framework comprising antecedents, application areas, internal and external contingencies, and uncertainty resolution through real option valuation or reasoning. We identify several gaps in that framework, which we propose to tackle in future research.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - decision processes
KW - real options
KW - research
KW - framework
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2022-0003
SN - 1649-248X
SN - 2451-2834
VL - 41
IS - 1
SP - 69
EP - 88
PB - Orpen Press
CY - Dublin
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lambert, Karras
A1 - Fegley, Tate
A1 - Candela, Rosolino
A1 - Boettke, Peter
A1 - Phelan, Steven
A1 - Wenzel, Nikolai G.
A1 - Dapprich, Jan Philipp
T1 - Reply and Counter-Reply
BT - on cybersocialism
JF - Journal of economic behavior & organization
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.03.026
SN - 0167-2681
IS - 212
SP - 300
EP - 310
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Ganghof, Steffen
T1 - Justifying types of representative democracy
BT - a response
JF - Critical review of international social and political philosophy
N2 - This article responds to critical reflections on my Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism by Sarah Birch, Kevin J. Elliott, Claudia Landwehr and James L. Wilson. It discusses how different types of representative democracy, especially different forms of government (presidential, parliamentary or hybrid), can be justified. It clarifies, among other things, the distinction between procedural and process equality, the strengths of semi-parliamentary government, the potential instability of constitutional designs, and the difference that theories can make in actual processes of constitutional reform.
KW - political equality
KW - semi-parliamentarism
KW - presidentialism
KW - institutional design
KW - executive personalism
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2159665
SN - 1369-8230
SN - 1743-8772
SP - 1
EP - 12
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tsebelis, George
A1 - Thies, Michael
A1 - Cheibub, José Antonio
A1 - Dixon, Rosalind
A1 - Bogéa, Daniel
A1 - Ganghof, Steffen
T1 - Review symposium
BT - beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism
JF - European political science
N2 - Steffen Ganghof’s Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers (Oxford University Press, 2021) posits that “in a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentration of executive power in a single human being is not” (Ganghof, 2021). To consider, examine and theorise about this, Ganghof urges engagement with semi-parliamentarism. As explained by Ganghof, legislative power is shared between two democratically legitimate sections of parliament in a semi-parliamentary system, but only one of those sections selects the government and can remove it in a no-confidence vote. Consequently, power is dispersed and not concentrated in the hands of any one person, which, Ganghof argues, can lead to an enhanced form of parliamentary democracy. In this book review symposium, George Tsebelis, Michael Thies, José Antonio Cheibub, Rosalind Dixon and Daniel Bogéa review Steffen Ganghof’s book and engage with the author about aspects of research design, case selection and theoretical argument. This symposium arose from an engaging and constructive discussion of the book at a seminar hosted by Texas A&M University in 2022. We thank Prof José Cheibub (Texas A&M) for organising that seminar and Dr Anna Fruhstorfer (University of Potsdam) for initiating this book review symposium.
KW - semi-parliamentary government
KW - presidentialism
KW - parliamentary government
KW - separation of powers
KW - legislatures
KW - executives
KW - parliamentary democracy
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-023-00426-9
SN - 1680-4333
SN - 1682-0983
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
A1 - Bezes, Philippe
A1 - Yesilkagit, Kutsal
T1 - Political time in public bureaucracies
BT - explaining variation of structural duration in European governments
JF - Public administration review
N2 - Structural duration conveys stability but also resilience in central government and is therefore a key issue in the debate on the structure and organization of government. This paper discusses three core variants of structural duration to study the explanatory relevance of politics. We compare these durations across ministerialunits in four European democracies (Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Norway) from 1980 to 2013, totaling over 17,000 units. Our empirical analyses show that cabinets’ ideological turnover and extremism are the most significant predictors of all variants of duration, whereas polarization in parliament as well as new prime ministers without office experience yield the predicted significant negative effects for most models. We discuss these findings and avenues for futureresearch that acknowledge the definition and measures for structural change as well as temporal aspects of the empirical phenomenon more explicitly.
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13740
SN - 0033-3352
SN - 1540-6210
VL - 83
IS - 6
SP - 1813
EP - 1832
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Yesilkagit, Kutsal
A1 - Bezes, Philippe
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
T1 - What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy
JF - Public administration
N2 - In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra-ministerial units. We constructed a dataset containing more than 17,000 observations on name changes of ministerial units between 1980 and 2013 from the central governments of Germany, the Netherlands, and France. We regress a series of generalized estimating equations (GEE) with population averaging models for binary outcomes. Finding variations across the three political-bureaucratic systems, we overall report positive effects of governmental change and ideological positions on name changes within ministries.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12827
SN - 0033-3298
SN - 1467-9299
VL - 100
IS - 4
SP - 1091
EP - 1106
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
A1 - Wanckel, Camilla
T1 - Creativity in policy capacity
BT - organizational and individual determinants
JF - Public administration review
N2 - Creativity is a crucial part of policy capacity in governments. Existing studies on creative behavior in the public sector assess employees' openness to new ideas and creative solutions, and they confirm the relevance of organizational and individual determinants for pro-creativity attitudes. Yet we lack systemic evidence on the explicit level of work-related creativity among policy officials in government organizations. At the same time, novel technologies and particularly social networking services change the working environment of policy officials radically, alter organizational features, and may also yield crucial individual effects. Our study analyses “policy creativity” of policy officials in three European governments. We demonstrate the importance of organizational and individual features, including the stress triggered by using social networking services. Our study captures officials' creativity explicitly and adds to debates on creativity and innovation in the public sector as well as the micro-level foundations of the digital transformation in the public sector.
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13676
SN - 0033-3352
SN - 1540-6210
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
A1 - Wanckel, Camilla
T1 - Job satisfaction and the digital transformation of the public sector
BT - the mediating role of job autonomy
JF - Review of Public Personnel Administration
N2 - Worldwide, governments have introduced novel information and communication technologies (ICTs) for policy formulation and service delivery, radically changing the working environment of government employees. Following the debate on work stress and particularly on technostress, we argue that the use of ICTs triggers “digital overload” that decreases government employees’ job satisfaction via inhibiting their job autonomy. Contrary to prior research, we consider job autonomy as a consequence rather than a determinant of digital overload, because ICT-use accelerates work routines and interruptions and eventually diminishes employees’ freedom to decide how to work. Based on novel survey data from government employees in Germany, Italy, and Norway, our structural equation modeling (SEM) confirms a significant negative effect of digital overload on job autonomy. More importantly, job autonomy partially mediates the negative relationship between digital overload and job satisfaction, pointing to the importance of studying the micro-foundations of ICT-use in the public sector.
KW - digital transformation
KW - digital overload
KW - job autonomy
KW - job satisfaction
KW - civil service survey
Y1 - 2023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X221148403
SN - 0734-371X
SN - 1552-759X
PB - Sage
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
A1 - Bezes, Philippe
A1 - James, Oliver
A1 - Yesilkagit, Kutsal
T1 - The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe
JF - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions
N2 - The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general elections or to wide-ranging structural reforms. Instead, governments reorganize and adjust their machinery of government all the time. This paper aims to assess these structural choices with a particular focus at the core of the state, comparing four Western European democracies (Germany, France, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom) from 1980 to 2013. Our empirical analysis shows that stronger shifts in cabinets' ideological profiles in the short- and long-term as well as the units' proximity to political executives yield significant effects. In contrast, Conservative governments, commonly regarded as key promoters of reorganizing governments, are not significant for the likelihood of structural change. We discuss the effects of this politics of government reorganization for different research debates assessing the inner workings of governments.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12670
SN - 0952-1895
SN - 1468-0491
VL - 36
IS - 1
SP - 255
EP - 274
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
A1 - Pruin, Andree
T1 - Organizational reputation in executive politics
BT - citizen-oriented units in the German federal bureaucracy
JF - International review of administrative sciences
N2 - In recent years, governments have increased their efforts to strengthen the citizen-orientation in policy design. They have established temporary arenas as well as permanent units inside the machinery of government to integrate citizens into policy formulation, leading to a “laboratorization” of central government organizations. We argue that the evolution and role of these units herald new dynamics in the importance of organizational reputation for executive politics. These actors deviate from the classic palette of organizational units inside the machinery of government and thus require their own reputation vis-à-vis various audiences within and outside their parent organization. Based on a comparative case study of two of these units inside the German federal bureaucracy, we show how ambiguous expectations of their audiences challenge their organizational reputation. Both units resolve these tensions by balancing their weaker professional and procedural reputation with a stronger performative and moral reputation. We conclude that government units aiming to improve citizen orientation in policy design may benefit from engaging with citizens as their external audience to compensate for a weaker reputation in the eyes of their audiences inside the government organization. Points for practitioners: many governments have introduced novel means to strengthen citizen-centered policy design, which has led to an emergence of novel units inside central government that differ from traditional bureaucratic structures and procedures ; this study analyzes how these new units may build their organizational reputation vis-à-vis internal and external actors in government policymaking. ; we show that such units assert themselves primarily based on their performative and moral reputation.
KW - citizen participation
KW - government policymaking
KW - organizational reputation
Y1 - 0023
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523221132228
SN - 0020-8523
SN - 1461-7226
PB - Sage
CY - Los Angeles, Calif.
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Reiners, Nina
T1 - Despite or because of contestation?
BT - how water became a human right
JF - Human rights quarterly : a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities, and law
N2 - Almost twenty years after its recognition in international human rights law, the human right to water continues to spark discussions about its scope and meaning. This article revisits the evolution and contestation of the right's first international legal framework, General Comment No. 15 from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The analysis highlights the contestation of economic and social rights as a universal phenomenon at multiple levels, but argues that these meaning-making practices can support their validation and recognition.
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2021.0021
SN - 0275-0392
SN - 1085-794X
VL - 43
IS - 2
SP - 329
EP - 343
PB - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
CY - Baltimore
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tjaden, Jasper Dag
A1 - Dunsch, Felipe Alexander
T1 - The effect of peer-to-peer risk information on potential migrants
BT - evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Senegal
JF - World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development
N2 - In response to mounting evidence on the dangers of irregular migration from Africa to Europe, the number of information campaigns which aim to raise awareness about the potential risks has rapidly increased. Governments, international organizations and civil society organizations implement a variety of campaigns to counter the spread of misinformation accelerated by smuggling and trafficking networks. The evidence on the effects of such information interventions on potential migrants remains limited and largely anecdotal. More generally, the role of risk perceptions in the decision-making process of potential irregular migrants is rarely explicitly tested, despite the fact that the concept of risk pervades conventional migration models, particularly in the field of economics. We address this gap by assessing the effects of a peer-to-peer information intervention on the perceptions, knowledge and intentions of potential migrants in Dakar, Senegal, using a randomized controlled trial design. The results show that - three months after the intervention - peer-to-peer information events increase potential migrants' subjective information levels, raise risk awareness, and reduce intentions to migrate irregularly. We find no substantial effects on factual migration knowledge. We discuss how the effects may be driven by the trust and identification-enhancing nature of peer-to-peer communication.
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KW - Randomized controlled trial
KW - Migration
KW - Information
KW - Decision-making
KW - Communication for development
KW - Peer-to-peer
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105488
SN - 0305-750X
VL - 145
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Munnes, Stefan
A1 - Harsch, Corinna
A1 - Knobloch, Marcel
A1 - Vogel, Johannes S.
A1 - Hipp, Lena
A1 - Schilling, Erik
T1 - Examining Sentiment in Complex Texts. A Comparison of Different Computational Approaches
JF - Frontiers in Big Data
N2 - Can we rely on computational methods to accurately analyze complex texts? To answer this question, we compared different dictionary and scaling methods used in predicting the sentiment of German literature reviews to the "gold standard " of human-coded sentiments. Literature reviews constitute a challenging text corpus for computational analysis as they not only contain different text levels-for example, a summary of the work and the reviewer's appraisal-but are also characterized by subtle and ambiguous language elements. To take the nuanced sentiments of literature reviews into account, we worked with a metric rather than a dichotomous scale for sentiment analysis. The results of our analyses show that the predicted sentiments of prefabricated dictionaries, which are computationally efficient and require minimal adaption, have a low to medium correlation with the human-coded sentiments (r between 0.32 and 0.39). The accuracy of self-created dictionaries using word embeddings (both pre-trained and self-trained) was considerably lower (r between 0.10 and 0.28). Given the high coding intensity and contingency on seed selection as well as the degree of data pre-processing of word embeddings that we found with our data, we would not recommend them for complex texts without further adaptation. While fully automated approaches appear not to work in accurately predicting text sentiments with complex texts such as ours, we found relatively high correlations with a semiautomated approach (r of around 0.6)-which, however, requires intensive human coding efforts for the training dataset. In addition to illustrating the benefits and limits of computational approaches in analyzing complex text corpora and the potential of metric rather than binary scales of text sentiment, we also provide a practical guide for researchers to select an appropriate method and degree of pre-processing when working with complex texts.
KW - sentiment analysis
KW - German literature
KW - dictionary
KW - word embeddings
KW - automated text analysis
KW - computer-assisted text analysis
KW - scaling method
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2022.886362
SN - 2624-909X
VL - 5
PB - Frontiers Media
CY - Lausanne
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
A1 - Patt, Anthony
A1 - Bersalli, Germán
T1 - On the quality of emission reductions
BT - observed effects of carbon pricing on investments, innovation, and operational shifts. A response to van den Bergh and Savin (2021)
JF - Environmental and Resource Economics
N2 - To meet the Paris Agreement targets, carbon emissions from the energy system must be eliminated by mid-century, implying vast investment and systemic change challenges ahead. In an article in WIREs Climate Change, we reviewed the empirical evidence for effects of carbon pricing systems on technological change towards full decarbonisation, finding weak or no effects. In response, van den Bergh and Savin (2021) criticised our review in an article in this journal, claiming that it is "unfair", incomplete and flawed in various ways. Here, we respond to this critique by elaborating on the conceptual roots of our argumentation based on the importance of short-term emission reductions and longer-term technological change, and by expanding the review. This verifies our original findings: existing carbon pricing schemes have sometimes reduced emissions, mainly through switching to lower-carbon fossil fuels and efficiency increases, and have triggered weak innovation increases. There is no evidence that carbon pricing systems have triggered zero-carbon investments, and scarce but consistent evidence that they have not. Our findings highlight the importance of adapting and improving climate policy assessment metrics beyond short-term emissions by also assessing the quality of emission reductions and the progress of underlying technological change.
KW - Carbon pricing
KW - Climate policy
KW - Decarbonisation
KW - Technological change
KW - Energy transition
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00708-8
SN - 0924-6460
SN - 1573-1502
VL - 83
IS - 3
SP - 733
EP - 758
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Danielsen, Ole Andreas
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
T1 - The effects of political design and organizational dynamics on structural disaggregation and integration in Norway 1947-2019
JF - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration
N2 - In countries with long-standing agency traditions, the creation of new agencies rarely comes as a large-scale reform but rather as one structural choice of many possible, most notably a ministerial division. In order to make sense of these choices, the article discusses the role of political design-focusing on the role of political motivations, such as ideological turnover, replacement risks and ideological stands toward administrative efficiency-and organizational dynamics-focusing on the role of administrative legacies and existing organizational palettes. The article utilizes data on organizational creations in the Norwegian central state between 1947 and 2019, in order to explore how political design and organizational dynamics help us understand the creation of agencies relative to ministry divisions over time. We find that political motives matter a great deal for the structural choices made by consecutive Norwegian governments, but that structural path dependencies may also be at play.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12669
SN - 1468-0491
VL - 36
IS - 1
SP - 299
EP - 320
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schöniger, Franziska
A1 - Thonig, Richard
A1 - Resch, Gustav
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
T1 - Making the sun shine at night
BT - comparing the cost of dispatchable concentrating solar power and photovoltaics with storage
JF - Energy sources. B, Economics, planning and policy
N2 - Sustainable electricity systems need renewable and dispatchable energy sources. Solar energy is an abundant source of renewable energy globally which is, though, by nature only available during the day, and especially in clear weather conditions. We compare three technology configurations able to provide dispatchable solar power at times without sunshine: Photovoltaics (PV) combined with battery (BESS) or thermal energy storage (TES) and concentrating solar power (CSP) with TES. Modeling different periods without sunshine, we find that PV+BESS is competitive for shorter storage durations while CSP+TES gains economic advantages for longer storage periods (also over PV+TES). The corresponding tipping points lie at 2-3 hours (current cost), and 4-10 hours if expectations on future cost developments are taken into consideration. PV+TES becomes only more competitive than CSP+TES with immense additional cost reductions of PV. Hence, there remain distinct niches for two technologies: PV+BESS for short storage durations and CSP+TES for longer ones.
KW - Concentrating solar power (CSP)
KW - dispatchable renewable electricity
KW - thermal energy storage
KW - photovoltaics
KW - utility-scale batteries
KW - flexibility
KW - energy system modeling
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2020.1843565
SN - 1556-7249
SN - 1556-7257
VL - 16
IS - 1
SP - 55
EP - 74
PB - Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Philadelphia
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hecke, Steven van
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Wolfs, Wouter
T1 - The politics of crisis management by regional and international organizations in fighting against a global pandemic
BT - the member states at a crossroads
JF - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration
N2 - Despite new challenges like climate change and digitalization, global and regional organizations recently went through turbulent times due to a lack of support from several of their member states. Next to this crisis of multilateralism, the COVID-19 pandemic now seems to question the added value of international organizations for addressing global governance issues more specifically. This article analyses this double challenge that several organizations are facing and compares their ways of managing the crisis by looking at their institutional and political context, their governance structure, and their behaviour during the pandemic until June 2020. More specifically, it will explain the different and fragmented responses of the World Health Organization, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund/World Bank. With the aim of understanding the old and new problems that these international organizations are trying to solve, this article argues that the level of autonomy vis-a-vis the member states is crucial for understanding the politics of crisis management.
Points for practitioners
As intergovernmental bodies, international organizations require authorization by their member states. Since they also need funding for their operations, different degrees of autonomy also matter for reacting to emerging challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The potential for international organizations is limited, though through proactive and bold initiatives, they can seize the opportunity of the crisis and partly overcome institutional and political constraints.
KW - autonomy
KW - COVID-19
KW - crisis management
KW - European Union
KW - International
KW - Monetary Fund
KW - international organizations
KW - multilateralism
KW - World Bank
KW - World Health Organization
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852320984516
SN - 0020-8523
SN - 1461-7226
VL - 87
IS - 3
SP - 672
EP - 690
PB - Sage
CY - Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.]
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Bonomi Savignon, Andrea
A1 - Meneguzzo, Marco
A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1 - Cepiku, Denita
T1 - Guest editorial: Interinstitutional performance management
BT - theory and practice of performance indicators at organizational boundaries
JF - International journal of public sector management : IJPSM
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-03-2021-0057
SN - 0951-3558
SN - 1758-6666
VL - 34
IS - 3
SP - 241
EP - 246
PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
CY - Bingley
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Sælen, Håkon
A1 - Hovi, Jon
A1 - Sprinz, Detlef F.
A1 - Underdal, Arild
T1 - How US withdrawal might influence cooperation under the Paris climate agreement
JF - Environmental science & policy
N2 - Using a novel agent-based model, we study how US withdrawal might influence the political process established by the Paris Agreement, and hence the prospects for reaching the collective goal to limit warming below 2 degrees C. Our model enables us to analyze to what extent reaching this goal despite US withdrawal would place more stringent requirements on other core elements of the Paris cooperation process. We find, first, that the effect of a US withdrawal depends critically on the extent to which member countries reciprocate others' promises and contributions. Second, while the 2 degrees C goal will likely be reached only under a very small set of conditions in any event, even temporary US withdrawal will further narrow this set significantly. Reaching this goal will then require other countries to step up their ambition at the first opportunity and to comply nearly 100% with their pledges, while maintaining high confidence in the Paris Agreements institutions. Third, although a US withdrawal will first primarily affect the United States' own emissions, it will eventually prove even more detrimental to other countries' emissions.
KW - climate change
KW - Paris agreement
KW - President Trump
KW - 2 degrees C target
KW - agent-based modeling
KW - reciprocity
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.011
SN - 1462-9011
SN - 1873-6416
VL - 108
SP - 121
EP - 132
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - CHAP
A1 - Lederer, Markus
A1 - Höhne, Chris
A1 - Stehle, Fee
A1 - Hickmann, Thomas
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
ED - Wurzel, Rüdiger K. W.
ED - Andersen, Mikael Skou
ED - Tobin, Paul
T1 - Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia
BT - domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South
T2 - Climate governance across the globe : Pioneers, leaders and followers
N2 - Focusing on forest policy and urban climate politics in Brazil and Indonesia, the primary objective of this chapter is to identify domestic pioneers and leaders who, compared to other sectors, governmental levels or jurisdictions within the same nation-state, move ‘ahead of the troops’ (Liefferink and Wurzel, 2017: 2-3). The chapter focuses especially on the role of multilevel governance in bringing about pioneership and leadership and on the different types of that have emerged. It also explores whether and, if so, to what extent domestic pioneers and leaders attract followers and whether there are signs of sustained domestic leadership. The chapter identifies the actors that constitute pioneers and leaders and assesses the processes which lead to their emergence. The chapter authors take up Wurzel et al.’s (2019) call to open up the black box of the nation-state. But instead of stressing the role of non-state actors, the chapter authors focus on vertical interactions among different governmental levels within nation states. The main argument put forward is that international and transnational processes, incentives, and ideas often trigger the development of domestic pioneership and leadership. Such processes, however, cannot be understood properly if domestic politics and dynamics across governmental levels within the nation-state are not taken into account.
Y1 - 2020
SN - 978-1-003-01424-9
SN - 978-0-367-65047-6
SN - 978-0-367-43436-6
U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014249
SP - 101
EP - 119
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Bünning, Mareike
A1 - Hipp, Lena
T1 - How can we become more equal?
BT - public policies and parents’ work–family preferences in Germany
JF - Journal of European social policy
N2 - This study examines how public policies affect parents' preferences for a more egalitarian division of paid and unpaid work. Based on the assumption that individuals develop their preferences within a specific policy context, we examine how changes in three policies affect mothers' and fathers' work-family preferences: the availability of high-quality, affordable childcare; the right to return to a full-time job after having reduced hours to part-time and an increase in the number of 'partner months' in parental leave schemes. Analysing a unique probability sample of parents with young children in Germany from 2015 (N = 1756), we find that fathers would want to work slightly fewer hours if they had the right to return to a full-time position after working part-time, and mothers would want to work slightly more hours if childcare opportunities were improved. Full-time working parents, moreover, are found to prefer fewer hours independent of the policy setting, while non-employed parents would like to work at least some hours. Last but not least, our analyses show that increasing the number of partner months in the parental leave scheme considerably increases fathers' preferences for longer and mothers' preferences for shorter leave. Increasing the number of partner months in parental schemes hence has the greatest potential to increase gender equality.
KW - work-family policies
KW - parental leave
KW - childcare
KW - working time
KW - regulations
KW - parenthood
KW - working hours
KW - gender equality
KW - preferences
KW - capabilities framework
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287211035701
SN - 0958-9287
SN - 1461-7269
VL - 32
IS - 2
SP - 182
EP - 196
PB - Sage Publ.
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
A1 - Melliger, Marc André
A1 - Ollier, Lana
A1 - Schmidt, Tobias S.
A1 - Steffen, Bjarne
T1 - Understanding and accounting for the effect of exchange rate fluctuations on global learning rates
JF - Nature energy
N2 - Learning rates are a central concept in energy system models and integrated assessment models, as they allow researchers to project the future costs of new technologies and to optimize energy system costs. Here we argue that exchange rate fluctuations are an important, but thus far overlooked, determinant of the learning-rate variance observed in the literature. We explore how empirically observed global learning rates depend on where technologies are installed and which currency is used to calculate the learning rate. Using global data of large-scale photovoltaic (>= 5 MW) plants, we show that the currency choice can result in learning-rate differences of up to 16 percentage points. We then introduce an adjustment factor to correct for the effect of exchange rate and market focus fluctuations and discuss the implications of our findings for innovation scholars, energy modellers and decision makers.
Learning rates are a measure of reduction in costs of energy from technologies such as solar photovoltaics. These are often estimated internationally with all monetary figures converted to a single currency, often US dollars. Lilliestam et al. show that such conversions can significantly affect the learning rate estimates.
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0531-y
SN - 2058-7546
VL - 5
IS - 1
SP - 71
EP - 78
PB - Nature Publishing Group
CY - Berlin
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tröndle, Tim
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
A1 - Marelli, Stefano
A1 - Pfenninger, Stefan
T1 - Trade-offs between geographic scale, cost, and infrastructure requirements for fully renewable electricity in Europe
JF - Joule
N2 - The European potential for renewable electricity is sufficient to enable fully renewable supply on different scales, from self-sufficient, subnational regions to an interconnected continent. We not only show that a continental-scale system is the cheapest, but also that systems on the national scale and below are possible at cost penalties of 20% or less. Transmission is key to low cost, but it is not necessary to vastly expand the transmission system. When electricity is transmitted only to balance fluctuations, the transmission grid size is comparable to today's, albeit with expanded cross-border capacities. The largest differences across scales concern land use and thus social acceptance: in the continental system, generation capacity is concentrated on the European periphery, where the best resources are. Regional systems, in contrast, have more dispersed generation. The key trade-off is therefore not between geographic scale and cost, but between scale and the spatial distribution of required generation and transmission infrastructure.
KW - energy decarbonization
KW - self-sufficiency
KW - cooperation
KW - trade
KW - transmission
KW - regional equity
KW - land use
KW - acceptance
KW - flexibility
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.07.018
SN - 2542-4351
VL - 4
IS - 9
SP - 1929
EP - 1948
PB - Cell Press
CY - Cambridge , Mass.
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Melliger, Marc André
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
T1 - Effects of coordinating support policy changes on renewable power investor choices in Europe
JF - Energy policy : the international journal of the political, economic, planning, environmental and social aspects of energy
N2 - The economic context for renewable power in Europe is shifting: feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctioned premiums as the main support schemes. As renewables approach competitiveness, political pressure mounts to phase out support, whereas some other actors perceive a need for continued fixed-price support. We investigate how the phase-out of support or the reintroduction of feed-in tariffs would affect investors' choices for renewables through a conjoint analysis. In particular, we analyse the impact of coordination - the simultaneousness - of policy changes across countries and technologies. We find that investment choices are not strongly affected if policy changes are coordinated and returns unaffected. However, if policy changes are uncoordinated, investments shift to still supported - less mature and costlier - technologies or countries where support remains or is reintroduced. This shift is particularly strong for large investors and could potentially skew the European power mix towards an over-reliance on a single, less mature technology or specific generation region, resulting in a more expensive power system. If European countries want to change their renewable power support policies, and especially if they phase out support and expose renewables to market competition, it is important that they coordinate their actions.
KW - Policy change
KW - Policy coordination
KW - Renewable energy
KW - Investment
KW - decision
KW - Choice experiment
KW - Adaptive conjoint analysis
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111993
SN - 0301-4215
VL - 148
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
A1 - Ollier, Lana
A1 - Labordena Mir, Mercè
A1 - Pfenninger, Stefan
A1 - Thonig, Richard
T1 - The near- to mid-term outlook for concentrating solar power
BT - mostly cloudy, chance of sun
JF - Energy sources. B, Economics, planning and policy
N2 - The history of concentrating solar power (CSP) is characterized by a boom-bust pattern caused by policy support changes. Following the 2014-2016 bust phase, the combination of Chinese support and several low-cost projects triggered a new boom phase. We investigate the near- to mid-term cost, industry, market and policy outlook for the global CSP sector and show that CSP costs have decreased strongly and approach cost-competitiveness with new conventional generation. Industry has been strengthened through the entry of numerous new companies. However, the project pipeline is thin: no project broke ground in 2019 and only four projects are under construction in 2020. The only remaining large support scheme, in China, has been canceled. Without additional support soon creating a new market, the value chain may collapse and recent cost and technological advances may be undone. If policy support is renewed, however, the global CSP sector is prepared for a bright future.
KW - concentrating solar power
KW - technological learning
KW - value chain analysis
KW - energy policy
KW - industry development
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2020.1773580
SN - 1556-7249
SN - 1556-7257
VL - 16
IS - 1
SP - 23
EP - 41
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - London [u.a.]
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fruhstorfer, Anna
A1 - Hudson, Alexander
T1 - Costs and benefits of accepting presidential term limits
BT - should I stay or should I go?
JF - Democratization
N2 - As presidents approach the end of their constitutionally defined term in office, they face a number of difficulties, most importantly the deprivation of sources of power, personal enrichment, and protection from prosecution. This leads many of them to attempt to circumvent their term limits. Recent studies explain both the reasons for the extension or full abolition of term limits, and failed attempts to do so. Key explanations include electoral competition and the post-term fate of previous post holders. What we do not know yet is how compliance with term limits may be tied to the current president's expectations for their post-term fate. In particular, we do not know whether leaders who attempt to remove term limits and fail to do so jeopardize their post-term career as a result, and conversely, whether leaders who comply will have better outcomes in terms of security, prestige, and economic gain. Hence, we ask how the decision of a leader to comply or not comply with term limits is conditioned by the expectation of their post-term fate. To address this question, this article introduces new data on the career trajectories of term-limited presidents and its systematic effect on term limit compliance.
KW - Presidents
KW - head of state
KW - term limits
KW - executives
KW - corruption
KW - prestige
KW - institutional change
KW - constitutions
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1960314
SN - 1351-0347
SN - 1743-890X
VL - 29
IS - 1
SP - 93
EP - 112
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
A1 - Patt, Anthony
A1 - Bersalli, German
T1 - The effect of carbon pricing on technological change for full energy decarbonization
BT - a review of empirical ex-post evidence
JF - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews : Climate change
N2 - In order to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, the world must reach net-zero carbon emissions around mid-century, which calls for an entirely new energy system. Carbon pricing, in the shape of taxes or emissions trading schemes, is often seen as the main, or only, necessary climate policy instrument, based on theoretical expectations that this would promote innovation and diffusion of the new technologies necessary for full decarbonization. Here, we review the empirical knowledge available in academic ex-post analyses of the effectiveness of existing, comparatively high-price carbon pricing schemes in the European Union, New Zealand, British Columbia, and the Nordic countries. Some articles find short-term operational effects, especially fuel switching in existing assets, but no article finds mentionable effects on technological change. Critically, all articles examining the effects on zero-carbon investment found that existing carbon pricing scheme have had no effect at all. We conclude that the effectiveness of carbon pricing in stimulating innovation and zero-carbon investment remains a theoretical argument. So far, there is no empirical evidence of its effectiveness in promoting the technological change necessary for full decarbonization. This article is categorized under: Climate Economics > Economics of Mitigation
KW - carbon pricing
KW - climate policy
KW - decarbonization
KW - technological change
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.681
SN - 1757-7780
SN - 1757-7799
VL - 12
IS - 1
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - BOOK
A1 - Cockshott, William Paul
A1 - Cottrell, Allin
A1 - Dapprich, Jan Philipp
T1 - Economic planning in an age of climate crisis
N2 - 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.
Y1 - 2022
SN - 979-8-36012-556-3
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hipp, Lena
A1 - Bünning, Mareike
A1 - Munnes, Stefan
A1 - Sauermann, Armin
T1 - Commentary zu: Schaurer, Ines; Weiß, Bernd: Investigating selection bias of online surveys on coronavirus-related behavioral outcomes
JF - Survey research methods
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7751
SN - 1864-3361
VL - 14
IS - 2
SP - 107
EP - 108
PB - European Survey Research Association
CY - Duisburg
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - Rezension zu: Geopolitical economy of energy and anvironment : China and the European Union / Hrsg.: Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi ; Yang, Guang. - Leiden: Brill, 2017. - ISBN: 978-90-04-27310-8
JF - Comparative sociology
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341522
SN - 1569-1322
SN - 1569-1330
VL - 19
IS - 1
SP - 151
EP - 153
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Ollier, Lana
A1 - Melliger, Marc André
A1 - Lilliestam, Johan
T1 - Friends or foes?
BT - Political synergy or competition between renewable energy and energy efficiency policy
JF - Energies : open-access journal of related scientific research, technology development and studies in policy and management
N2 - Energy efficiency measures and the deployment of renewable energy are commonly presented as two sides of the same coin-as necessary and synergistic measures to decarbonize energy systems and reach the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. Here, we quantitatively investigate the policies and performances of the EU Member States to see whether renewables and energy efficiency policies are politically synergistic or if they rather compete for political attention and resources. We find that Member States, especially the ones perceived as climate leaders, tend to prioritize renewables over energy efficiency in target setting. Further, almost every country performs well in either renewable energy or energy efficiency, but rarely performs well in both. We find no support for the assertion that the policies are synergistic, but some evidence that they compete. However, multi-linear regression models for performance show that performance, especially in energy efficiency, is also strongly associated with general economic growth cycles, and not only efficiency policy as such. We conclude that renewable energy and energy efficiency are not synergistic policies, and that there is some competition between them.
KW - energy efficiency
KW - renewable energy
KW - climate policy
KW - policy cycle
KW - EU
KW - policy competition
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/en13236339
SN - 1996-1073
VL - 13
IS - 23
PB - MDPI
CY - Basel
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hipp, Lena
A1 - Bünning, Mareike
A1 - Munnes, Stefan
A1 - Sauermann, Armin
T1 - Problems and pitfalls of retrospective survey questions in COVID-19 studies
JF - Survey research methods
N2 - This paper examines and discusses the biases and pitfalls of retrospective survey questions that are currently being used in many medical, epidemiological, and sociological studies on the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing the consistency of answers to retrospective questions provided by respondents who participated in the first two waves of a survey on the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, we illustrate the insights generated by a large body of survey research on the use of retrospective questions and recall accuracy.
KW - COVID-19
KW - retrospective questions
KW - recall accuracy
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7741
SN - 1864-3361
VL - 14
IS - 2
SP - 109
EP - 113
PB - European Survey Research Association
CY - Konstanz
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin
T1 - Global-local dynamics in anti-feminist discourses
BT - an analysis of Indian, Russian and US online communities
JF - International affairs
N2 - Women's rights are a core part of a global consensus on human rights. However, we are currently experiencing an increasing popularity of anti-feminist and misogynist politics threatening to override feminist gains. In order to help explain this current revival and appeal, in this article I analyse how anti-feminist communities construct their collective identities at the intersection of local and global trends and affiliations. Through an in-depth analysis of representations in the collective identities of six popular online anti-feminist communities based in India, Russia and the United States, I shed light on how anti-feminists discursively construct their anti-feminist 'self' and the feminist 'other' between narratives of localized resistance to change and backlash against the results of broader societal developments associated with globalization. The results expose a complex set of global-local dynamics, which provide a nuanced understanding of the differences and commonalities of anti-feminist collective identity-building and mobilization processes across contexts. By explicitly focusing on the role of discursively produced locations for anti-feminist identity-building and providing new evidence on anti-feminist communities across three different continents, the article contributes to current discussions on transnational anti-feminist mobilizations in both social movement studies and feminist International Relations.
KW - International Relations Theory
KW - Americas
KW - South Asia
KW - Russia and Eurasia
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa130
SN - 0020-5850
SN - 1468-2346
VL - 96
IS - 5
SP - 1367
EP - 1385
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Bobzien, Licia
A1 - Kalleitner, Fabian
T1 - Attitudes towards European financial solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
BT - evidence from a net-contributor country
JF - European societies
N2 - Whilst the Covid-19 pandemic affects all European countries, the ways in which these countries are prepared for the health and subsequent economic crisis varies considerably. Financial solidarity within the European Union (EU) could mitigate some of these inequalities but depends upon the support of the citizens of individual member states for such policies. This paper studies attitudes of the Austrian population - a net-contributor to the European budget - towards financial solidarity using two waves of the Austrian Corona Panel Project collected in May and June 2020. We find that individuals (i) who are less likely to consider the Covid-19 pandemic as a national economic threat, (ii) who believe that Austria benefits from supporting other countries, and (iii) who prefer the crisis to be organized more centrally at EU-level show higher support for European financial solidarity. Using fixed effects models, we further show that perceiving economic threats and preferring central crisis management also explain attitude dynamics within individuals over time. We conclude that cost-benefit perceptions are important determinants for individual support of European financial solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic.
KW - Covid-19
KW - financial solidarity
KW - European Union
KW - Austria
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1836669
SN - 1461-6696
SN - 1469-8307
VL - 23
IS - Sup. 1
SP - S791
EP - S804
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fleischer, Julia
A1 - Reiners, Nina
T1 - Connecting international relations and public administration
BT - toward a joint research agenda for the study of international bureaucracy
JF - International studies review
N2 - The recent debate on administrative bodies in international organizations has brought forward multiple theoretical perspectives, analytical frameworks, and methodological approaches. Despite these efforts to advance knowledge on these actors, the research program on international public administrations (IPAs) has missed out on two important opportunities: reflection on scholarship in international relations (IR) and public administration and synergies between these disciplinary perspectives. Against this backdrop, the essay is a discussion of the literature on IPAs in IR and public administration. We found influence, authority, and autonomy of international bureaucracies have been widely addressed and helped to better understand the agency of such non-state actors in global policy-making. Less attention has been given to the crucial macro-level context of politics for administrative bodies, despite the importance in IR and public administration scholarship. We propose a focus on agency and politics as future avenues for a comprehensive, joint research agenda for international bureaucracies.
N2 - El reciente debate sobre los organismos administrativos en las organizaciones internacionales ha generado diversas perspectivas teóricas, marcos analíticos y enfoques metodológicos. A pesar de estos esfuerzos por mejorar el conocimiento sobre estos actores, el programa de investigación sobre las administraciones públicas internacionales (International Public Administration, IPA) ha perdido dos oportunidades importantes: la reflexión sobre la erudición en las relaciones internacionales y la administración pública y las sinergias entre estas perspectivas disciplinarias. Con este trasfondo, en el ensayo se analiza la literatura sobre las administraciones públicas internacionales en las relaciones internacionales y la administración pública. Descubrimos que la influencia, la autoridad y la autonomía de las burocracias internacionales se han abordado ampliamente y ayudaron a comprender mejor la función de dichos agentes no estatales en la formulación de políticas a nivel mundial. Se ha prestado menos atención al contexto clave a nivel macro de la política de los organismos administrativos, a pesar de su importancia en las relaciones internacionales y la erudición en la administración pública. Proponemos enfocarnos en la agencia y la política como futuras vías para implementar un programa de investigación conjunta y exhaustiva para las burocracias internacionales.
N2 - Le récent débat sur les organes administratifs des organisations internationales a mis en avant plusieurs perspectives théoriques, cadres analytiques et approches méthodologiques. Malgré ces efforts pour faire progresser la connaissance de ces acteurs, le Programme de recherche sur les administrations publiques internationales a manqué deux opportunités majeures : une réflexion sur les recherches en relations internationales et administration publique ainsi que sur les synergies entre ces perspectives des disciplines. Cet essai s'appuie sur cette toile de fond pour établir une discussion au sujet de la littérature abordant les administrations publiques internationales dans les domaines des relations internationales et de l'administration publique. Nous avons constaté que l'influence, l'autorité et l'autonomie des bureaucraties internationales avaient été largement abordées, ce qui permettait de mieux comprendre le pouvoir de tels acteurs non-étatiques dans l’établissement des politiques internationales. Toutefois, malgré son importance dans les recherches en relations internationales et administration publique, une moins grande attention a été accordée au contexte macro des politiques des organes administratifs alors qu'il est crucial. Nous proposons de mettre l'accent sur le pouvoir et les politiques comme pistes futures pour un programme de recherche conjoint complet sur les bureaucraties internationales.
KW - international bureaucracies
KW - international organizations
KW - public
KW - administration
KW - nonstate actors
KW - palabras clave
KW - burocracias internacionales
KW - organizaciones internacionales
KW - administración pública
KW - agentes no estatales
KW - mots clés
KW - bureaucraties internationales
KW - organisations internationales
KW - administration publique
KW - acteurs non-étatiques
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaa097
SN - 1521-9488
SN - 1468-2486
VL - 23
IS - 4
SP - 1230
EP - 1247
PB - Oxford Univ. Press
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Dapprich, Jan Philipp
A1 - Cockshott, William Paul
T1 - Input-output planning and information
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
N2 - In this paper, we show how socialist planning can be based on input-output data. We argue that the information required for this can be obtained by a central planning agency and thus dismiss Hayek’s information argument against socialism. We further show how economic planning can be made responsive to consumer demand through a feedback control mechanism. Output targets of products would be adjusted in response to observed consumer demand or based on predictions about future demand. Planners can use machine learning to make more accurate forecasts. The valuation of goods plays an important role in the feedback control mechanism. The values of goods can either be measured by the labour time necessary for their production (labour values) or through shadow prices based on linear programming.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.043
SN - 0167-2681
IS - 205
SP - 412
EP - 422
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kohler, Ulrich
T1 - Survey Research Methods during the COVID-19 Crisis
JF - Survey research methods
KW - COVID-19
KW - Survey Research Methods
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7769
SN - 1864-3361
VL - 14
IS - 2
SP - 93
EP - 94
PB - European Survey Research Association
CY - Konstanz
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Ramakrishnan, Anjali
A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias
A1 - Ahmad, Sohail
A1 - Creutzig, Felix
T1 - Keeping up with the Patels
BT - conspicuous consumption drives the adoption of cars and appliances in India
JF - Energy research & social science
N2 - End-users base their consumption decisions not only on available budget and direct use value, but also on their social environment. The underlying social dynamics are particularly important in the case of consumer goods that implicate high future energy demand and are, hence, also key for climate mitigation. This paper investigates the impact of social factors, with a focus on 'status perceptions', on car and appliance ownerships by urban India households. Using two rounds of the household-level data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS, 2005 and 2012), we test for the impact of social factors in addition to economic, demographic, locational, and housing on ownership levels. Starting with factor analysis to categorise appliances by their latent characteristics, we then apply the bivariate ordered probit model to identify drivers of consumption among the urban households. We find that while income and household demographics are predominant drivers of car and appliance uptake, the household's perception of status, instrumented by a variable measuring expenditure on conspicuous consumption, emerges as a key social dimension influencing the uptake. The results indicate how households identify themselves in society influences their corresponding car and appliance consumption. A deeper understanding of status-based consumption is, therefore, essential to designing better demand-side solutions to low carbon consumption.
KW - Residential energy demand
KW - Perceived socioeconomic status
KW - Social
KW - drivers
KW - Energy policy
KW - Car ownership
KW - Appliance diffusion
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101742
SN - 2214-6296
SN - 2214-6326
VL - 70
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Angerer, Marie-Luise
T1 - Moving Forces
T2 - The minnesota review
N2 - Throughout a large part of the twentieth century, the body was interpreted as a field of signs, the meaning of which pointed to an unconscious dimension. At the height of the popularity of structuralism, Jacques Lacan deemed the unconscious to be “structured like a language.” Starting in the early 1990s, however, a deep shift occurred in the way the body was interpreted. A new movement cast tremendous doubt on the hegemony of language and instead advocated a performative, pictorial, and affective approach — the so-called material turn — which encompassed all of these. In the words of Karen Barad, this turn inquired as to why meaning, history, and truth are assigned to language only, whereas the movements of materiality are given less prominence: “How did language come to be more trustworthy than matter? Why are language and culture granted their own agency and historicity while matter is figured as passive and immutable?” With this shift toward the material, bodies began to be seen in a different light and their materiality understood as something that follows its own laws and movements, which cannot be understood exclusively in terms of social-cultural codes. Instead, these laws and movements call into question the very dichotomies of nature/culture and body/spirit.
KW - mattering
KW - wondering
KW - contingent encounters
KW - affect
KW - blind feeling
KW - sensation
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-3787414
SN - 0026-5667
SN - 2157-4189
VL - 88
SP - 83
EP - 95
PB - Duke Univ. Press
CY - Durham
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Neubauer, Kai
A1 - Wanko, Philipp
A1 - Schaub, Torsten H.
A1 - Haubelt, Christian
T1 - Enhancing symbolic system synthesis through ASPmT with partial assignment evaluation
T2 - Proceedings of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2017
N2 - The design of embedded systems is becoming continuously more complex such that efficient system-level design methods are becoming crucial. Recently, combined Answer Set Programming (ASP) and Quantifier Free Integer Difference Logic (QF-IDL) solving has been shown to be a promising approach in system synthesis. However, this approach still has several restrictions limiting its applicability. In the paper at hand, we propose a novel ASP modulo Theories (ASPmT) system synthesis approach, which (i) supports more sophisticated system models, (ii) tightly integrates the QF-IDL solving into the ASP solving, and (iii) makes use of partial assignment checking. As a result, more realistic systems are considered and an early exclusion of infeasible solutions improves the entire system synthesis.
Y1 - 2017
SN - 978-3-9815370-9-3
U6 - https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE.2017.7927005
SN - 1530-1591
SP - 306
EP - 309
PB - IEEE
CY - New York
ER -