TY - JOUR A1 - Bach, Stefan A1 - Thiemann, Andreas A1 - Zucco, Aline T1 - Looking for the missing rich: tracing the top tail of the wealth distribution JF - International Tax and Public Finance N2 - We analyse the top tail of the wealth distribution in France, Germany, and Spain using the first and second waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be under-represented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate a Pareto distribution, and impute the missing rich. In addition to the Forbes list, we rely on national rich lists since they represent a broader base of the big fortunes in those countries. As a result, the top 1% wealth share increases notably for the three selected countries after imputing the top wealth. We find that national rich lists can improve the estimation of the Pareto coefficient in particular when the list of national USD billionaires is short. KW - Wealth distribution KW - Missing rich KW - Pareto distribution KW - HFCS Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-019-09578-1 SN - 0927-5940 SN - 1573-6970 VL - 26 IS - 6 SP - 1234 EP - 1258 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Guske, Anna-Lena A1 - Jacob, Klaus A1 - Hirschnitz-Garbers, Martin A1 - Peuckert, Jan A1 - Schridde, Stefan A1 - Stinner, Sven A1 - Wolff, Franziska A1 - Zahrnt, Dominik A1 - Ziesemer, Florence T1 - Stories that Change Our World? BT - Narratives of the sustainable economy JF - Sustainability N2 - Narratives are shaping our understanding of the world. They convey values and norms and point to desirable future developments. In this way, they justify and legitimize political actions and social practices. Once a narrative has emerged and this world view is supported by broad societal groups, narratives can provide powerful momentum to trigger innovation and changes in the course of action. Narratives, however, are not necessarily based on evidence and precise categories, but can instead be vague and ambiguous in order to be acceptable and attractive to different actors. However, the more open and inclusive a narrative is, the less impact can be expected. We investigate whether there is a shared narrative in research for the sustainable economy and how this can be evaluated in terms of its potential societal impact. The paper carves out the visions for the future that have been underlying the research projects conducted within the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funding programme "The Sustainable Economy". It then analyzes whether these visions are compatible with narratives dominating societal discourse on the sustainable economy, and concludes how the use of visions and narratives in research can contribute to fostering societal transformations. KW - narratives KW - sustainable economy KW - societal impact of research KW - research communication Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su11216163 SN - 2071-1050 VL - 11 IS - 21 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bergström, Tomas A1 - Copus, Colin A1 - Franzke, Jochen A1 - Ruano, Jose M. A1 - Schaap, Linze A1 - Vakkala, Hanna T1 - Combining European Research on Local Governance and Local Democracy JF - Public Administration in Europe : The Contribution of EGPA N2 - The contribution summarises the scientific discussion and research activities of the EGPA Permanent Study Group 4 (PSG 4) “Local Governance and Local Democracy”, founded in 2005. The impetus for proposing this specific PSG was the growing importance of the local level within the multi-level governance system in the European Union and most of its member states. The PSG 4 acts as a European network of research activities inside and outside EGPA, producing joint publications and organising scientific debates on many problems of the development of municipalities and local authorities. Our focus was on discussing both how to improve democracy by increased participation and deliberation, and how to secure provision of services in an efficient way in developed welfare societies. This includes analysing several forms of administrative changes and reforms at the local level and research of representative, direct and cooperative democracy at local level in a cross-European comparison. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-319-92855-5 SN - 978-3-319-92856-2 SP - 135 EP - 145 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wegmann, Simone A1 - Evequoz, Aurelien T1 - Legislative functions in newly democratised countries: the use of parliamentary questions in Kenya and Zambia JF - The Journal of Legislative Studies N2 - A large literature exists examining the functions of legislatures and the behaviour of MPs in established democracies. But little efforts have been made to observe how MPs behave in new democratic assemblies. This article seeks to address this shortcoming through an exploration of the use of parliamentary questions in two new democracies: Kenya and Zambia. Analysing an innovative dataset we offer one of the few attempts to directly measure legislative behaviour in new democracies. We examine how the factors found in the literature on parliamentary questions in liberal democracies react to this shift of context and to what degree legislatures in these countries fulfil their core functions. Results show that opposition MPs are not necessarily among the most active but that electoral incentives such as the margin by which MPs have won their seats or the number of voters they represent explain the use and content of parliamentary questions. KW - Parliamentary questions KW - new democracies KW - opposition KW - Sub-Sahara Africa Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2019.1697057 SN - 1357-2334 SN - 1743-9337 VL - 25 IS - 4 SP - 443 EP - 465 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ringeling, Arthur A1 - Reichard, Christoph T1 - Some Reflections on the Development of Educaton for Public Administration in Europe JF - Public Administration in Europe : The Contribution of EGPA Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-319-92855-5 SP - 203 EP - 212 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -