TY - THES A1 - Kiefer, Farina T1 - ‚Wir‘ und ‚die Anderen‘ - Konstruktionen des Liberalismus und ihre Wirkungen auf die Politik der Europäischen Union T1 - On the construction of otherness - a Foucauldian discourse analysis of liberalism in the European Union BT - eine foucaultsche Diskursanalyse N2 - Die aktuelle Politik der Europäischen Union hat im Umgang mit flüchtenden Menschen das Mittelmeer in ein Massengrab verwandelt. Dass auch im Jahr 2021 täglich Menschen an den EU-Außengrenzen sterben hängt dabei mit dem Ausbau von Sicherheitsmechanismen zum Zweck eines verstärkten Grenzschutzes zusammen. Durch Sicherheitsmechanismen wie bspw. den Ausbau von Frontex und die elektronische Erfassung von Ein- und Ausreisedaten schottet sich die EU dabei immer weiter ab während gleichzeitig die Thematik der Flucht und Migration eine zunehmende ‚Versicherheitlichung‘ erfährt. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht davon aus, dass die Grundzüge der Versicherheitlichung von Flucht und Migration bereits im liberalen Staatsverständnis der EU angelegt sind. Mithilfe einer foucaultschen Diskursanalyse hinterfragt die Arbeit daher die historisch entstandenen und im Liberalismus inbegriffenen Vorannahmen über nicht-europäische Menschen und deren Fortentwicklung in die heutigen Politiken der EU. Dabei geht die Arbeit einerseits der Frage nach, wie sich die zunehmende Versicherheitlichung der Migration und der damit verbundene Umgang mit Nicht-Europäer*innen an den EU-Außengrenzen erklären lässt. Vertieft wird gefragt, inwieweit sich die konstruierten Wissensmuster über das europäische ‚wir‘ und die nicht-europäischen ‚Anderen‘ aus dem Liberalismus in der heutigen EU-Politik wiederfinden. Auf Basis der Werke Michel Foucaults führt die Arbeit in die Entwicklung liberaler Staatlichkeit seit dem 17. Jahrhundert ein. Ergänzt werden diese Darstellungen um eine postkoloniale Perspektive, die eine Darstellung des liberalen Denkens über das europäische ‚Außen‘ vermittelt. Gemeinsam legen diese beiden Perspektiven die Strukturen liberalen Denkens offen, die im späteren Verlauf der Analyse in aktuellen EU-Dokumenten wiedererkannt werden. Als Analysedokumente dienen dabei sechs von der EU veröffentlichte Agenden, Verordnungen und Strategien, die die thematische Schnittstelle zwischen Sicherheit und Migration umfassen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich ein ‚Othering‘ - die historisch entstandene Gruppenbildung des homogen begriffenen europäischen ‚Wirs‘ gegenüber den nicht-europäischen ‚Anderen‘ - in der heutigen Politik der EU an deren Außengrenzen reproduziert. Das im 17. Jahrhundert entstandene Sicherheitsdenken des liberalen Staates wird über die Reproduktion bestimmter Wissensmuster in Form von ‚Stories‘ auf die heutigen EU-Außengrenzen übertragen. Nach ‚innen‘ handelt die EU dabei nach einem Grundsatz der ‚gemeinsamen Stärke‘ der europäischen Staaten bzw. der EU-Mitgliedstaaten, während nach ‚außen‘ eine zweckrationale Kooperation mit Drittstaaten verfolgt wird. Statt um die Wahrung von Menschenleben geht es damals wie heute v.a. um den Vorteil Europas bzw. der EU. Von diesen Ergebnissen ausgehend wird die Zunahme der Versicherheitlichung von Flucht und Migration an den EU-Außengrenzen durch die Reproduktion des geschichtlich entstandenen Sicherheitsdenkens erklärt. N2 - The current EU policies have transformed the Mediterranean into a mass grave. Even in 2021 refugees die at the EU borders every day due to the expansion of security mechanisms and an intensified border protection. Throughout this process which includes for example the expansion of Frontex, the EU is becoming a fortress while the topic of flight and migration is ‘securitized’. This thesis presumes that the fundamentals of the securitization of flight and migration are already included in the liberal conception of statehood of the EU. Drawing on a Foucauldian discourse analysis the thesis is questioning historical European assumptions about non-European people and how these assumptions are transferred into current EU policies. The first central question asked is: How can the increasing securitization of flight and migration and the treatment of non-Europeans at the EU border be explained? The second central question askes: In how far the constructed liberal patterns of knowledge about the European ‘we’ and the non-European ‘them’ can be found in current EU policies? To answer these questions the thesis introduces the development of liberal statehood since the 17. century based on Michel Foucault´s writings. Additionally, a postcolonial perspective is introduced which describes the EU ‘outside’ from a liberal perspective. Together these two angles describe the structures of liberal thinking which is later rediscovered in current EU documents. The documents analysed are six agendas, regulations and strategies which are dealing with the topics of security and migration. The results of the thesis reveal an ‘othering’ – meaning an historically developed formation of homogeneous conceptionalized groups, in this case a European ‘we’ and a non-European ‘them’ – which is reproduced in the current EU policies concerning the external border. This historically developed security mentality of liberal states is reproduced in the storytelling about the external borders by the EU. Instead of saving human lives the current EU is taking advantage of the situation by strengthening its homogeneous group identity. Based on these results the increased securitization of flight and migration is described as a reproduction of the historically formed liberal paradigms of security. KW - Othering KW - Storytelling KW - Liberalismus KW - Foucault KW - EU-Außengrenzen KW - soziale Schließung KW - Sicherheit KW - othering KW - storytelling KW - liberalism KW - EU external borders KW - social closure Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-515975 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Hellstrom, Mikael A1 - Ramberg, Ulf A1 - Reiter, Renate T1 - Tracing divergence in crisis governance BT - responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Germany and Sweden compared JF - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration N2 - This cross-country comparison of administrative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Germany and Sweden is aimed at exploring how institutional contexts and administrative cultures have shaped strategies of problem-solving and governance modes during the pandemic, and to what extent the crisis has been used for opportunity management. The article shows that in France, the central government reacted determinedly and hierarchically, with tough containment measures. By contrast, the response in Germany was characterized by an initial bottom-up approach that gave way to remarkable federal unity in the further course of the crisis, followed again by a return to regional variance and local discretion. In Sweden, there was a continuation of 'normal governance' and a strategy of relying on voluntary compliance largely based on recommendations and less - as in Germany and France - on a strategy of imposing legally binding regulations. The comparative analysis also reveals that relevant stakeholders in all three countries have used the crisis as an opportunity for changes in the institutional settings and administrative procedures. Points for practitioners COVID-19 has shown that national political and administrative standard operating procedures in preparation for crises are, at best, partially helpful. Notwithstanding the fact that dealing with the unpredictable is a necessary part of crisis management, a need to further improve the institutional preparedness for pandemic crises in all three countries examined here has also become clear. This should be done particularly by way of shifting resources to the health and care sectors, strengthening the decentralized management of health emergencies, stocking and/or self-producing protection material, assessing the effects of crisis measures, and opening the scientific discourse to broader arenas of experts. KW - administrative culture KW - containment KW - crisis KW - governance KW - multi-level system KW - policy advice KW - public health KW - window of opportunity Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852320979359 SN - 0020-8523 SN - 1461-7226 VL - 87 IS - 3 SP - 556 EP - 575 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Marienfeldt, Justine ED - Klenk, Tanja ED - Nullmeier, Frank ED - Wewer, Göttrik T1 - Digitalisierung und Automatisierung in der Sachbearbeitung T2 - Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung N2 - Die Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IKT), Fachverfahren und die Automatisierung von Prozessen verändern die Sachbearbeitung und Leistungserstellung in der Verwaltung und somit die Tätigkeiten, Arbeitsbedingungen und Personalstrukturen. Bei der Antragsbearbeitung und Bescheiderstellung in der Ordnungs- und Leistungsverwaltung erhält IKT nicht nur eine unterstützende, sondern zunehmend auch eine leitende oder entscheidende Rolle. Abhängig von der konkreten Ausgestaltung kann die fortschreitende Digitalisierung eine ganzheitliche Sachbearbeitung ermöglichen, aber auch einschränken. Insgesamt kann sie zu einer Neuordnung des Berufsfeldes öffentlicher Dienst führen. KW - Sachbearbeitung KW - Ordnungsverwaltung KW - Leistungsverwaltung KW - Automatisierung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Künstliche Intelligenz Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-658-23669-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_89-1 N1 - Teil eines "Living reference work entry" SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Bogumil, Jörg A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Heuberger, Moritz A1 - Marienfeldt, Justine T1 - Bürgernahe Verwaltung digital? I-Kfz und digitaler Kombiantrag BT - Elternleistung im Praxistest T3 - FES Diskurs Y1 - 2022 UR - https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-p-b/19351.pdf SN - 978-3-98628-187-8 PB - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung CY - Bonn ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krause, Werner A1 - Gahn, Christina T1 - Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls? JF - European journal of political research N2 - Public opinion polls have become vital and increasingly visible parts of election campaigns. Previous research has frequently demonstrated that polls can influence both citizens' voting intentions and political parties' campaign strategies. However, they are also fraught with uncertainty. Margins of error can reflect (parts of) this uncertainty. This paper investigates how citizens' voting intentions change due to whether polling estimates are presented with or without margins of error. Using a vignette experiment (N=3224), we examine this question based on a real-world example in which different election polls were shown to nationally representative respondents ahead of the 2021 federal election in Germany. We manipulated the display of the margins of error, the interpretation of polls and the closeness of the electoral race. The results indicate that margins of error can influence citizens' voting intentions. This effect is dependent on the actual closeness of the race and additional interpretative guidance provided to voters. More concretely, the results consistently show that margins of error increase citizens' inclination to vote for one of the two largest contesting parties if the polling gap between these parties is small, and an interpretation underlines this closeness. The findings of this study are important for three reasons. First, they help to determine whether margins of error can assist citizens in making more informed (strategic) vote decisions. They shed light on whether depicting opinion-poll uncertainty affects the key features of representative democracy, such as democratic accountability. Second, the results stress the responsibility of the media. The way polls are interpreted and contextualized influences the effect of margins of error on voting behaviour. Third, the findings of this paper underscore the significance of including methodological details when communicating scientific research findings to the broader public. KW - elections KW - vote choice KW - public opinion polls KW - margins of error Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12633 SN - 0304-4130 SN - 1475-6765 VL - Early view PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cohen, Denis A1 - Krause, Werner A1 - Abou-Chadi, Tarik T1 - Comparative vote switching BT - a new framework for studying dynamic multiparty competition JF - The journal of politics N2 - Large literatures focus on voter reactions to parties’ policy strategies, agency, or legislative performance. While many inquiries make explicit assumptions about the direction and magnitude of voter flows between parties, comparative empirical analyses of vote switching remain rare. In this article, we overcome three challenges that have previously impeded the comparative study of dynamic party competition based on voter flows: we present a novel conceptual framework for studying voter retention, defection, and attraction in multiparty systems, showcase a newly compiled data infrastructure that marries comparative vote switching data with information on party behavior and party systems in over 250 electoral contexts, and introduce a statistical model that renders our conceptual framework operable. These innovations enable first-time inquiries into the polyadic vote switching patterns underlying multiparty competition and unlock major research potentials on party competition and party system change. KW - vote switching KW - party competition KW - multi-party systems KW - data and methods Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1086/726952 SN - 0022-3816 SN - 1468-2508 VL - 86 IS - 2 SP - 597 EP - 607 PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL ER - TY - BOOK ED - Rodrian-Pfennig, Margit ED - Oppenhäuser, Holger ED - Gläser, Georg ED - Dannemann, Udo T1 - Dirty capitalism BT - politische Ökonomie (in) der politischen Bildung N2 - Von Garzweiler bis zum Great Pacific Garbage Patch zeigt sich offenkundig: Die kapitalistische Vergesellschaftung ist dreckig. Umso mehr braucht kritische politisch-ökonomische oder sozio-ökonomische Bildung einen gesellschaftstheoretisch fundierten Kapitalismusbegriff. Der Ansatz des Dirty Capitalism leistet hierzu einen expliziten Beitrag. Er greift die vielfältige Kritik an Vorstellungen und analytischer Reichweite eines "reinen" Kapitalismus, wie sie z.B. auch im Ansatz des racial capitalism formuliert wird, auf und erweitert die Analyseperspektive über Klassenverhältnisse hinaus auf Rassismus, (Post-)Kolonialismus, Geschlechter- und Naturverhältnisse. Im Band wird das Konzept weiterentwickelt und als Zugang für die kritische politische Bildung und Politikdidaktik diskutiert und empirisch genutzt. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-89691-092-9 SN - 978-3-98634-168-8 PB - Westfälisches Dampfboot CY - Münster ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Wegmann, Simone T1 - The power of opposition BT - how legislative organization influences democratic consolidation N2 - Proposing a novel way to look at the consolidation of democratic regimes, this book presents important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of democratic consolidation, legislative organization, and public opinion. Theoretically, Simone Wegmann brings legislatures into focus as the main body representing both winners and losers of democratic elections. Empirically, Wegmann shows that the degree of policy-making power of opposition players varies considerably between countries. Using survey data from the CSES, the ESS, and the LAPOP and systematically analyzing more than 50 legislatures across the world and the specific rights they grant to opposition players during the policy-making process, Wegmann demonstrates that neglecting the curial role of the legislature in a democratic setting can only lead to an incomplete assessment of the importance of institutions for democratic consolidation. The Power of Opposition will be of great interest to scholars of comparative politics, especially those working on questions related to legislative organization, democratic consolidation, and/or public opinion. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-0-367-43731-2 SN - 978-1-032-28245-9 SN - 978-1-003-00536-0 SN - 978-1-000-59828-5 SN - 978-1-000-59832-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003005360 PB - Routledge CY - New York ER - TY - BOOK A1 - von Winter, Thomas T1 - Lobbyismus in der deutschen Politik N2 - Der Band präsentiert eine systematische Aufbereitung empirischer Befunde zum Lobbyismus in Deutschland und vermittelt, wie Lobbyist*innen, Entscheidungsträger*innen und institutionelle Rahmen miteinander interagieren. Untersucht werden politische Aktivitäten von sozialen Bewegungen, Verbänden, Unternehmen und Beratungsfirmen im Bundestag, der Bundesregierung und der Öffentlichkeit. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-8252-6210-5 SN - 978-3-8385-6210-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838562100 PB - Verlag Barbara Budrich CY - Opladen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin T1 - The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’ JF - Big data & society N2 - In recent years, there have been a growing number of online and offline attacks linked to a loosely connected network of misogynist and antifeminist online communities called ‘the manosphere’. Since 2016, the ideas spread among and by groups of the manosphere have also become more closely aligned with those of other Far-Right online networks. In this commentary, I explore the role of what I term ‘evidence-based misogyny’ for mobilization and radicalization into the antifeminist and misogynist subcultures of the manosphere. Evidence-based misogyny is a discursive strategy, whereby members of the manosphere refer to (and misinterpret) knowledge in the form of statistics, studies, news items and pop-culture and mimic accepted methods of knowledge presentation to support their essentializing, polarizing views about gender relations in society. Evidence-based misogyny is a core aspect for manosphere-related mobilization as it provides a false sense of authority and forges a collective identity, which is framed as a supposed ‘alternative’ to mainstream gender knowledge. Due to its core function to justify and confirm the misogynist sentiments of users, evidence-based misogyny serves as connector between the manosphere and both mainstream conservative as well as other Far-Right and conspiratorial discourses. KW - misogyny KW - male supremacy KW - far right KW - discourse KW - incels KW - radicalization KW - antifeminist KW - men's rights KW - manosphere Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221145671 SN - 2053-9517 VL - 10 IS - 1 PB - Sage CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. ER -