TY - JOUR A1 - Kratky, Nicole A1 - Schröder-Abé, Michela T1 - A court file analysis of child protection cases BT - what do children say? JF - Child & family social work N2 - Children's participation in legal proceedings affecting them personally has been gaining importance. So far, a primary research concern has been how children experience their participation in court proceedings. However, little is known about the child's voice itself: Are children able to clearly express their wishes, and if so, what do they say in child protection cases? In this study, we extracted information about children's statements from court file data of 220 child protection cases in Germany. We found 182 children were asked about their wishes. The majority of the statements found came either from reports of the guardians ad litem or from judicial records of the child hearings. Using content analysis, three main aspects of the statements were extracted: wishes concerning main place of residence, wishes about whom to have or not contact with, and children granting decision-making authority to someone else. Children's main focus was on their parents, but others (e.g., relatives and foster care providers) were also mentioned. Intercoder agreement was substantial. Making sure that child hearings are as informative as possible is in the child's best interest. Therefore, the categories developed herein might help professionals to ask questions more precisely relevant to the child. KW - children's participation KW - child protection KW - child's voice KW - child KW - welfare KW - court files KW - family court Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12744 SN - 1356-7500 SN - 1365-2206 VL - 25 IS - S1 SP - 169 EP - 177 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seržant, Ilja A. A1 - Moroz, George A. T1 - Universal attractors in language evolution provide evidence for the kinds of efficiency pressures involved JF - Humanities & Social Sciences Communications N2 - Efficiency is central to understanding the communicative and cognitive underpinnings of language. However, efficiency management is a complex mechanism in which different efficiency effects-such as articulatory, processing and planning ease, mental accessibility, and informativity, online and offline efficiency effects-conspire to yield the coding of linguistic signs. While we do not yet exactly understand the interactional mechanism of these different effects, we argue that universal attractors are an important component of any dynamic theory of efficiency that would be aimed at predicting efficiency effects across languages. Attractors are defined as universal states around which language evolution revolves. Methodologically, we approach efficiency from a cross-linguistic perspective on the basis of a world-wide sample of 383 languages from 53 families, balancing all six macro-areas (Eurasia, North and South America, Australia, Africa, and Oceania). We explore the grammatical domain of verbal person-number subject indexes. We claim that there is an attractor state in this domain to which languages tend to develop and tend not to leave if they happen to comply with the attractor in their earlier stages of evolution. The attractor is characterized by different lengths for each person and number combination, structured along Zipf's predictions. Moreover, the attractor strongly prefers non-compositional, cumulative coding of person and number. On the basis of these and other properties of the attractor, we conclude that there are two domains in which efficiency pressures are most powerful: strive towards less processing and articulatory effort. The latter, however, is overridden by constant information flow. Strive towards lower lexicon complexity and memory costs are weaker efficiency pressures for this grammatical category due to its order of frequency. KW - Duration KW - Explanations KW - Redundancy KW - Pronouns KW - Usage Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01072-0 SN - 2662-9992 VL - 9 IS - 1 PB - Springer Nature CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Geiß, Robin A1 - Siegrist, Michael T1 - Has the armed conflict in Afghanistan affected the rules on the conduct of hostilities? T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Rechtswissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - The armed conflict in Afghanistan since 2001 has raised manifold questions pertaining to the humanitarian rules relative to the conduct of hostilities. In Afghanistan, as is often the case in so-called asymmetric conflicts, the geographical and temporal boundaries of the battlefield, and the distinction between civilians and fighters, are increasingly blurred. As a result, the risks for both civilians and soldiers operating in Afghanistan are high. The objective of this article is to assess whether - and if so how much - the armed conflict in Afghanistan has affected the application and interpretation of the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution - principles that form the core of legal rules pertaining to the conduct of hostilities. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Rechtswissenschaftliche Reihe - 4 Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412896 IS - 4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stollenwerk, Eric A1 - Dörfler, Thomas A1 - Schibberges, Julian T1 - Taking a new perspective BT - Mapping the Al Qaeda network through the eyes of the UN security council JF - Terrorism and political violence N2 - Network analysis has attracted significant attention when researching the phenomenon of transnational terrorism, particularly Al Qaeda. While many scholars have made valuable contributions to mapping Al Qaeda, several problems remain due to a lack of data and the omission of data provided by international organizations such as the UN. Thus, this article applies a social network analysis and subsequent mappings of the data gleaned from the Security Council's consolidated sanctions list, and asks what they can demonstrate about the structure and organizational characteristics of Al Qaeda. The study maps the Al Qaeda network on a large scale using a newly compiled data set. The analysis reveals that the Al Qaeda network consists of several hundred individual and group nodes connecting almost all over the globe. Several major nodes are crucial for the network structure, while simultaneously many other nodes only weakly and foremost regionally connect to the network. The article concludes that the findings tie in well to the latest research pointing to local and simultaneously global elements of Al Qaeda, and that the new data is a valuable source for further analyses, potentially in combination with other data. KW - Al Qaeda KW - network KW - social network analysis KW - terrorism KW - UN Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2014.987341 SN - 0954-6553 SN - 1556-1836 VL - 28 IS - 5 SP - 950 EP - 970 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - McLaughlin, Carly T1 - They don’t look like children BT - child asylum-seekers, the Dubs amendment and the politics of childhood T2 - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies N2 - In October 2016, following a campaign led by Labour Peer Lord Alfred Dubs, the first child asylum-seekers allowed entry to the UK under new legislation (the ‘Dubs amendment’) arrived in England. Their arrival was captured by a heavy media presence, and very quickly doubts were raised by right-wing tabloids and politicians about their age. In this article, I explore the arguments underpinning the Dubs campaign and the media coverage of the children’s arrival as a starting point for interrogating representational practices around children who seek asylum. I illustrate how the campaign was premised on a universal politics of childhood that inadvertently laid down the terms on which these children would be given protection, namely their innocence. The universality of childhood fuels public sympathy for child asylum-seekers, underlies the ‘child first, migrant second’ approach advocated by humanitarian organisations, and it was a key argument in the ‘Dubs amendment’. Yet the campaign highlights how representations of child asylum-seekers rely on codes that operate to identify ‘unchildlike’ children. As I show, in the context of the criminalisation of undocumented migrants‘, childhood is no longer a stable category which guarantees protection, but is subject to scrutiny and suspicion and can, ultimately, be disproved. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 150 KW - Politics of childhood KW - child asylum-seekers KW - innocence KW - humanitarianism KW - ‘refugee crisis’ Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412803 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Sultanow, Eldar A1 - Koch, Christian A1 - Cox, Sean T1 - Collatz Sequences in the Light of Graph Theory N2 - It is well known that the inverted Collatz sequence can be represented as a graph or a tree. Similarly, it is acknowledged that in order to prove the Collatz conjecture, one must demonstrate that this tree covers all (odd) natural numbers. A structured reachability analysis is hitherto not available. This paper investigates the problem from a graph theory perspective. We define a tree that consists of nodes labeled with Collatz sequence numbers. This tree will be transformed into a sub-tree that only contains odd labeled nodes. The analysis of this tree will provide new insights into the structure of Collatz sequences. The findings are of special interest to possible cycles within a sequence. Next, we describe the conditions which must be fulfilled by a cycle. Finally, we demonstrate how these conditions could be used to prove that the only possible cycle within a Collatz sequence is the trivial cycle, starting with the number 1, as conjectured by Lothar Collatz. KW - Collatz KW - Cayley Graph KW - Free Group KW - Reachability Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-441859 ET - 3rd version ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Sultanow, Eldar A1 - Koch, Christian A1 - Cox, Sean T1 - Collatz Sequences in the Light of Graph Theory N2 - It is well known that the inverted Collatz sequence can be represented as a graph or a tree. Similarly, it is acknowledged that in order to prove the Collatz conjecture, one must demonstrate that this tree covers all odd natural numbers. A structured reachability analysis is hitherto not available. This paper investigates the problem from a graph theory perspective. We define a tree that consists of nodes labeled with Collatz sequence numbers. This tree will be transformed into a sub-tree that only contains odd labeled nodes. The analysis of this tree will provide new insights into the structure of Collatz sequences. The findings are of special interest to possible cycles within a sequence. Next, we describe the conditions which must be fulfilled by a cycle. Finally, we demonstrate how these conditions could be used to prove that the only possible cycle within a Collatz sequence is the trivial cycle, starting with the number one, as conjectured by Lothar Collatz. KW - Collatz KW - Cayley Graph KW - Free Group KW - Reachability Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-443254 ET - 4th version ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ganghof, Steffen T1 - The Empirical Uses of Theoretical Models BT - the Case of Veto Player Theory JF - Political studies review N2 - Veto player theory is a powerful approach to comparative politics. This article argues that the debate about its explanatory success would benefit from more systematic distinctions. The theory not only comes in different theoretical variants, it is also used in radically different ways empirically. Starting from recent debates about the ‘testing’ of theoretical models, the article distinguishes five ways in which theoretical models can be used empirically: contrastive, axiomatic, exploratory, presumptive and modular. The typology is applied to veto player theory and illustrated with exemplary studies and debates. The article concludes that each type raises different questions that should be answered in individual studies. Moreover, while veto player theory has an excellent track record on four empirical uses, the picture on its contrastive use is far more nuanced. More explicitly contrastive testing of the theory is desirable. KW - veto player theory KW - theory testing KW - empirical implications of theoretical models KW - contrastive empiricism Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12098 SN - 1478-9299 SN - 1478-9302 VL - 15 SP - 49 EP - 59 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoffmann, Lisa A1 - Wilbert, Jürgen A1 - Lehofer, Mike A1 - Schwab, Susanne T1 - Are we good friends? BT - Friendship preferences and the quantity and quality of mutual friendships JF - European Journal of Special Needs Education N2 - Empirical studies already examined various facets of the friendship construct. Building on this, the present study examines the questions of how the number of friendships and their quality differ between students with and without SEN and whether a homophily-effect can be identified. The sample consists of 455 fourth-graders from 28 inclusive classes in Austria. The results indicate that students with SEN have fewer friends than students without SEN. Furthermore, students without SEN preferred peers without SEN as a friend. This homophily-effect was shown for students with SEN, too. However, students with and without SEN rated the quality of their friendships similarly and no interactions between the SEN status of oneself or of the friend was found for the quality of the friendship. The results show that, in the context of inclusion, the issue of friendship needs to be increasingly addressed to improve the situation of students with SEN. KW - social participation KW - friendship KW - quality of friendship KW - homophily KW - sociometric nomination Y1 - 2019 VL - 36 IS - 4 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yılmaz, Zafer A1 - Turner, Bryan S. T1 - Turkey’s deepening authoritarianism and the fall of electoral democracy JF - British journal of Middle Eastern studies Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2019.1642662 SN - 1353-0194 SN - 1469-3542 VL - 46 IS - 5 SP - 691 EP - 698 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pohlenz, Philipp A1 - Niedermeier, Frank T1 - The Bologna Process and the harmonisation of higher education systems in other world regions BT - a case from Southeast Asia JF - Innovation : the European journal of social sciences N2 - The Bologna Process has inspired harmonisation strategies for higher education systems in other parts of the world. However, developments in other contexts are not much under review in the European debate. The present article describes the case of Southeast Asia and the attempt to promote harmonisation of its higher education systems. It further compares the processes in ASEAN and the European Higher Education Area to then discuss open questions for future comparative research. To do so the authors re-contextualise data from a study in ASEAN against the background of future research needs in the field of higher education harmonisation. KW - ASEAN KW - Bologna Process KW - European Higher Education Area KW - higher education KW - quality assurance KW - harmonisation KW - regionalisation KW - diffusion KW - mobility Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2019.1637248 SN - 1351-1610 SN - 1469-8412 VL - 32 IS - 4 SP - 481 EP - 494 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chan, Sander A1 - Boran, Idil A1 - van Asselt, Harro A1 - Iacobuta, Gabriela A1 - Niles, Navam A1 - Rietig, Katharine A1 - Scobie, Michelle A1 - Bansard, Jennifer S. A1 - Delgado Pugley, Deborah A1 - Delina, Laurence L. A1 - Eichhorn, Friederike A1 - Ellinger, Paula A1 - Enechi, Okechukwu A1 - Hale, Thomas A1 - Hermwille, Lukas A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Honegger, Matthias A1 - Hurtado Epstein, Andrea A1 - Theuer, Stephanie La Hoz A1 - Mizo, Robert A1 - Sun, Yixian A1 - Toussaint, Patrick A1 - Wambugu, Geoffrey T1 - Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance JF - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews : Climate change KW - climate change KW - governance KW - nonstate actions KW - SDGs KW - sustainable development Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.572 SN - 1757-7780 SN - 1757-7799 VL - 10 IS - 3 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lewis, Simon T1 - Border Trouble: Ethnopolitics and Cosmopolitan Memory in Recent Polish Cinema JF - East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures N2 - The border shifts and population exchanges between Central and East European states agreed at the 1945 Potsdam Conference continue to reverberate in the culture and politics of those countries. Focusing on Poland, this article proposes the term “border trouble” to interpret the politicized split in memory that has run through Polish culture since the end of the Second World War. Border trouble is a form of cultural trauma that transcends binaries of perpetrator/victim and oppressor/oppressed; it is also a tool for analyzing the ways in which spatial imagination, memory, and identity interact in visual and literary narratives. A close analysis of four recent feature films demonstrates the emergence of a visual grammar of cosmopolitan memory and identity in relation to borderland spaces. Wojciech Smarzowski’s Róża (“Rose,” 2011) and Agnieszka Holland’s Pokot (“Spoor,” 2017) are both set in territories that were transferred from Germany to Poland in 1945. Wołyń (“Volhynia,” released internationally as “Hatred,” 2016) and W ciemności (“In Darkness,” 2011), also directed by Smarzowski and Holland respectively, are set in regions that were under Polish administration before the war but were transferred to Soviet Ukraine in 1945. All four productions break new ground in the memorialization of the post-war legacy in Poland. They deconstruct hitherto dominant discourses of simultaneity and ethnic homogeneity, engaging in Poland’s wars of symbols as a third voice: anti-nationalist, but also refusing to essentialize cosmopolitan identity. They show the evolution of border trouble in response to contemporary political and cultural developments. KW - cosmopolitanism KW - borderlands KW - memory KW - Agnieszka Holland KW - Wojciech Smarzowski Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325418815248 SN - 0888-3254 SN - 1533-8371 VL - 33 IS - 2 SP - 522 EP - 549 PB - Sage Publ. CY - Thousand Oaks ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yilmaz, Zafer T1 - The genesis of the ‘Exceptional’ Republic BT - the permanency of the political crisis and the constitution of legal emergency power in Turkey JF - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies N2 - Almost half of the political life has been experienced under the state of emergency and state of siege policies in the Turkish Republic. In spite of such a striking number and continuity in the deployment of legal emergency powers, there are just a few legal and political studies examining the reasons for such permanency in governing practices. To fill this gap, this paper aims to discuss one of the most important sources of the ‘permanent’ political crisis in the country: the historical evolution of legal emergency power. In order to highlight how these policies have intensified the highly fragile citizenship regime by weakening the separation of power, repressing the use of political rights and increasing the discretionary power of both the executive and judiciary authorities, the paper sheds light on the emergence and production of a specific form of legality based on the idea of emergency and the principle of executive prerogative. In that context, it aims to provide a genealogical explanation of the evolution of the exceptional form of the nation-state, which is based on the way political society, representation, and legitimacy have been instituted and accompanying failure of the ruling classes in building hegemony in the country. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2019.1634393 SN - 1353-0194 SN - 1469-3542 VL - 46 IS - 5 SP - 714 EP - 734 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Turner, Bryan S. T1 - Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Honor of Herminio Martins JF - European Journal of Social Theory Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431018824454 SN - 1368-4310 SN - 1461-7137 VL - 22 IS - 4 SP - 571 EP - 574 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Daviter, Falk T1 - The framing of EU policies JF - Handbook of European Policies Interpretive Approaches to the EU N2 - This chapter discusses how framing analysis can contribute to studies of policy making in the European Union (EU). Framing analysis is understood as an analytical perspective that focuses on how policy problems are constructed and categorised. This analytical perspective allows researchers to reconstruct how shifting problem frames empower competing constituencies and create changing patterns of political participation at the supranational level. Studies that assume a longitudinal perspective on EU policy development show how the framing of EU policy is constitutive of the way in which the jurisdictional boundaries and constitutional mandates of the EU evolve over time. Reviewing the growing body of empirical studies on EU policy framing in the context of the diverse theoretical origins of framing analysis, the chapter argues that framing research which takes seriously the notion that policy-making involves both puzzling and powering allows this analytical perspective to contribute a unique perspective on EU policy making. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-78471-936-4 SN - 978-1-78471-935-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501760701314474 SP - 91 EP - 112 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bunk, Bettina T1 - The dynamics of donor and domestic elite interaction in Mozambique BT - formal decentralisation and informal power structures JF - Conflict, Security & Development N2 - This paper analyses the interaction of domestic political elites and external donors against the backdrop of Mozambique’s decentralisation process. The empirical research at national and local levels supports the hypothesis that informal power structures influence the dynamics of this interaction. Consequently, this contributes to an outcome of externally induced democratisation different to what was intended by external actors. The decentralisation process has been utilised by ruling domestic elites for political purposes. Donors have rather focused on the technical side and ignored this informal dimension. By analysing the diverging objectives and perceptions of external and internal actors, as well as the instrumentalisation of formal democratic structures, it becomes clear, that the ‘informal has to be seen as normal’. At a theoretical level, the analysis contributes to elite-oriented approaches of post-conflict democratisation by adding ‘the informal’ as an additional factor for the dynamics of external-internal interaction. At a policy level, external actors need to take more into account informal power structures and their ambivalence for state-building and democratisation. KW - Decentralisation KW - democratisation KW - donors KW - elites KW - informal KW - interaction KW - legitimation KW - Mozambique KW - power Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2018.1483555 SN - 1467-8802 SN - 1478-1174 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 321 EP - 346 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jakupec, Viktor T1 - Development Aid BT - an historic-political overview JF - Development Aid—Populism and the End of the Neoliberal Agenda N2 - Development aid has been an important catalyst for economic development and international politics since the end of WWII. A critical analysis of the main political, social and economic advances in development aid, traces the development agenda from the advent of the Bretton Woods agreement, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, to the Washington Consensus and its neoliberal manifesto. The failure of the Washington Consensus and the rise of the post-Washington Consensus is analysed providing a backdrop for the critique of economic globalisation as a development aid cornerstone. Trump’s rejection of the neoliberal globalisation agenda and departure from post-WWII ideologies is discussed. KW - Bretton woods KW - Truman doctrine KW - Washington consensus Development aid KW - Neoliberalism KW - Populism KW - Globalisation Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-72748-6 SN - 978-3-319-72747-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72748-6_2 SN - 2211-4548 SN - 2211-4556 SP - 19 EP - 36 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jakupec, Viktor T1 - Trumponomics JF - Development Aid—Populism and the End of the Neoliberal Agenda N2 - Trump’s foreign policy vision and Trumponomics is deconstructed in an attempt to find a theoretical framework. It is shown that Trump projects a vision without much ideology but arguably a vision with sufficient potential for pragmatism and Realpolitik. Theoretical and conceptual frameworks, including philosophical, political and economic perspectives, and Trump’s mercantilist groundings are articulated. It is argued that Trumponomics contrasts with the ‘transformational diplomacy’ of previous USA administrations. Instead it is immersed in short-sighted ‘transactional diplomacy’, which will have a significant impact on the values of development aid. KW - Trumponomics KW - Populism KW - Mercantilism KW - Neoliberalism Populism theoretical framework KW - Populism restated KW - Philosophical perspectives Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-72748-6 SN - 978-3-319-72747-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72748-6_4 SN - 2211-4548 SN - 2211-4556 SP - 53 EP - 68 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - GEN A1 - Giebler, Heiko A1 - Ruth, Saskia P. A1 - Tanneberg, Dag T1 - Why choice matters BT - revisiting and comparing measures of democracy T2 - Politics and Governance N2 - Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research. KW - application KW - conceptualization KW - democracy KW - democratic quality KW - measurement Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1428 SN - 2183-2463 VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Cogitatio Press CY - Lisbon ER -