TY - JOUR
A1 - Busch, Per-Olof
A1 - Feil, Hauke
A1 - Heinzel, Mirko Noa
A1 - Herold, Jana
A1 - Kempken, Mathies
A1 - Liese, Andrea
T1 - Policy recommendations of international bureaucracies
BT - the importance of country-specificity
JF - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration
N2 - Many international bureaucracies give policy advice to national administrative units. Why is the advice given by some international bureaucracies more influential than the recommendations of others? We argue that targeting advice to member states through national embeddedness and country-tailored research increases the influence of policy advice. Subsequently, we test how these characteristics shape the relative influence of 15 international bureaucracies' advice in four financial policy areas through a global survey of national administrations from more than 80 countries. Our findings support arguments that global blueprints need to be adapted and translated to become meaningful for country-level work.
Points for practitioners
National administrations are advised by an increasing number of international bureaucracies, and they cannot listen to all of this advice. Whereas some international bureaucracies give 'one-size-fits-all' recommendations to rather diverse countries, others cater their recommendations to the national audience. Investigating financial policy recommendations, we find that national embeddedness and country-tailored advice render international bureaucracies more influential.
KW - financial policy
KW - international administration
KW - international
KW - organizations
KW - multi-level government
KW - regime complexity
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523211013385
SN - 0020-8523
SN - 1461-7226
VL - 87
IS - 4
SP - 775
EP - 793
PB - Sage Publ.
CY - Los Angeles, Calif.
ER -
TY - CHAP
A1 - Hosli, Madeleine O.
A1 - Dörfler, Thomas
ED - Lesage, Dries
ED - Van de Graaf, Thijs
T1 - The United Nations Security Council
BT - the Challenge of Reform
T2 - Rising powers and multilateral institutions (International Political Economy Series)
N2 - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the most important multilateral institutions having the ambition to shape global governance and the only organ of the global community that can adopt legally binding resolutions for the maintenance of international peace and security and, if necessary, authorize the use of force. Created in the aftermath of World War II by its victors, the UNSC’s constellation looks increasingly anachronistic, however, in light of the changing global distribution of power. Adapting the institutional structure and decision-making procedures of the UNSC has proven to be one of the most difficult challenges of the last decades, while it is the institution that has probably been faced with the most vociferous calls for reform. Although there have been changes to the informal ways in which outside actors are drawn into the UNSC’s work and activities, many of the major players in the current international system seem to be deprived from equal treatment in its core patterns of decision-making. Countries such as Brazil, Germany, India and Japan, alongside emerging African nations such as Nigeria and South Africa, are among the states eager to secure permanent representation on the Council. By comparison, selected BRICS countries, China and Russia - in contrast to their role in other multilateral institutions - are permanent members of the UNSC and with this, have been “insiders” for a long time. This renders the situation of the UNSC different from global institutions, in which traditionally, Western powers have dominated the agenda.
KW - Security Council
KW - Winning Coalition
KW - Veto Player
KW - Social Choice Theory
KW - Decision Probability
Y1 - 2015
SN - 978-1-349-48504-8
SN - 978-1-137-39760-7
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137397607_8
SP - 135
EP - 152
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Dörfler, Thomas
A1 - Holzinger, Katharina
A1 - Biesenbender, Jan
T1 - Constitutional Dynamics in the European Union
BT - Success, Failure, and Stability of Institutional Treaty Revisions
JF - International Journal of Public Administration
N2 - Despite high institutional hurdles for constitutional change, one observes surprisingly many EU treaty revisions. This article takes up the questions of what determines whether a treaty provision is successfully changed and why provisions are renegotiated at subsequent Intergovernmental Conferences. The article presents an institutionalist theory explaining success and renegotiation and tests the theory using all core institutional provisions by means of Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The causal analysis shows that low conflict potential of an issue is sufficient for successfully changing the treaties. Furthermore, high conflict potential of an issue and its fundamental change are sufficient for it to be renegotiated.
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2017.1295267
SN - 0190-0692
SN - 1532-4265
VL - 40
IS - 14
SP - 1237
EP - 1249
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - Philadelphia
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Yilmaz, Zafer
T1 - Revising the culture of political protest after the gezi uprising in Turkey
BT - radical imagination, affirmative resistance, and the new politics of desire and dignity
JF - Mediterranean Quarterly
N2 - The Gezi uprising can be considered a crucial turning in Turkish politics. As a response to countrywide democratic protests, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government revived the security state, escalated authoritarian tendencies, and started to organize a nationalist, Islamist, and conservative backlash. This essay argues that the Gezi Park protests revealed both the fragility of the AKP's hegemony and the limits of the dominant political group habitus, which were promoted by the party to consolidate political polarization in favor of the party's hegemony. Moreover, it is argued that the Gezi uprising transformed the culture of political protests in the country and paved the way for the emergence of affirmative resistance, radical imagination, and a new politics of desire and dignity against authoritarian and neoliberal policies.
KW - Erdogan
KW - Turkish politics
KW - democracy
KW - authoritarianism
KW - AKP
Y1 - 2018
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/10474552-7003168
SN - 1047-4552
SN - 1527-1935
VL - 29
IS - 3
SP - 55
EP - 77
PB - Duke Univ. Press
CY - Durham
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Wenzel, Bertolt
T1 - Rational instrument or symbolic signal?
BT - Explaining coordination structures in the Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs of the European Commission
JF - Public Policy and Administration
N2 - This article examines the reorganization of formal coordination structures in the Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs of the European Commission. While rational approaches in organization theory emphasize functional efficiency as an explanation for organizational design and coordination structures, the findings of this study indicate that the reorganization was not driven primarily for reasons of efficiency and to increase the coordination capacity of the organization. The study demonstrates that, even in a highly technical policy area such as fisheries management in the European Union, the (re-)design of formal organizational structures does not follow primarily a technical-instrumental rationale. Instead, the formal coordination structures have also been adapted to live up to changing expectations in the institutional environment, to modern management concepts in marine governance, and to ensure the legitimacy of the organization. However, although the empirical findings of this study substantiate the theoretical assumptions of an institutional perspective, institutional explanations alone are insufficient to comprehensively understand why organizational structures are reorganized and changed.
KW - Coordination structures
KW - European Commission
KW - fisheries policy
KW - marine governance
KW - organizational reform
KW - organization theory
Y1 - 2018
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076716683764
SN - 0952-0767
SN - 1749-4192
VL - 33
IS - 2
SP - 149
EP - 169
PB - Sage Publ.
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hartmann, Eddy
A1 - Lang, Felix
T1 - The crisis of social trust in non-violent routines
BT - social mobilization of right-wing violence in Germany
JF - The condition of democracy. - Volume 2: Contesting citizenship
Y1 - 2022
SN - 978-0-367-74536-3
SN - 978-1-00-315837-0
SP - 104
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
A1 - Hickmann, Thomas
A1 - Kern, Kristine
T1 - The role of cities in multi-level climate governance
BT - local climate policies and the 1.5 degrees C target
JF - Current opinion in environmental sustainability
N2 - The past two decades have witnessed widespread scholarly interest in the role of cities in climate policy-making. This research has considerably improved our understanding of the local level in the global response to climate change. The present article synthesizes the literature on local climate policies with respect to the 1.5 degrees C target. While most studies have focused on pioneering cities and networks, we contend that the broader impacts of local climate actions and their relationship to regional, national, and international policy frameworks have not been studied in enough detail. Against this backdrop, we introduce the concept of upscaling and contend that local climate initiatives must go hand in hand with higher-level policies and be better integrated into the multi-level governance system.
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.10.006
SN - 1877-3435
SN - 1877-3443
VL - 30
SP - 1
EP - 6
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Burkert, Rebecca
T1 - Moving mountains?
BT - Palestinian clain making from
JF - The condition of democracy. - Volume 3 : Postcolonial and settler colonial contexts
Y1 - 2022
SN - 978-0-367-74538-7
SN - 978-1-003-15838-7
SP - 110
EP - 127
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
ED - Lian, Yuru
ED - Krämer, Raimund
T1 - China und Deutschland in einer turbulenten Welt
BT - 50 Jahre diplomatische Beziehungen
N2 - Vor 50 Jahren nahmen China und Deutschland diplomatische Beziehungen auf. Das ist der Anlass für diesen Sammelband. Er umfasst chinesische und deutsche Autoren und gibt dem deutschen Publikum profunde Einblicke in die aktuellen Entwicklungen in China und die chinesische Diplomatie auf den verschiedenen Feldern der Weltpolitik. Sie vermitteln chinesische Weltsichten, die hierzulande wahrgenommen und respektiert werden sollten. In einer Zeit, in der auch das Verhältnis zwischen China und Deutschland schwieriger ist, ist es wichtig, offen für das Andere zu sein.
Y1 - 2022
SN - 978-3-949887-01-7
PB - WeltTrends
CY - Potsdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Crome, Erhard
T1 - Chinas Aufstieg und die BRICS-Gruppe
JF - China und Deutschland in einer turbulenten Welt : 50 Jahre diplomatische Beziehungen
Y1 - 2022
SN - 978-3-949887-01-7
SP - 171
EP - 176
PB - WeltTrends
CY - Potsdam
ER -