TY - JOUR
A1 - Gehring, Thomas
A1 - Dörfler, Thomas
T1 - Constitutive mechanisms of UN Security Council practices
BT - precedent pressure, ratchet effect, and council action regarding intrastate conflicts
JF - Review of International Studies
N2 - Based upon the current debate on international practices with its focus on taken-for-granted everyday practices, we examine how Security Council practices may affect member state action and collective decisions on intrastate conflicts. We outline a concept that integrates the structuring effect of practices and their emergence from interaction among reflective actors. It promises to overcome the unresolved tension between understanding practices as a social regularity and as a fluid entity. We analyse the constitutive mechanisms of two Council practices that affect collective decisions on intrastate conflicts and elucidate how even reflective Council members become enmeshed with the constraining implications of evolving practices and their normative implications. (1) Previous Council decisions create precedent pressure and give rise to a virtually uncontested permissive Council practice that defines the purview for intervention into such conflicts. (2) A ratcheting practice forces opponents to choose between accepting steadily reinforced Council action, as occurred regarding Sudan/Darfur, and outright blockade, as in the case of Syria. We conclude that practices constitute a source of influence that is not captured by the traditional perspectives on Council activities as the consequence of geopolitical interests or of externally evolving international norms like the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P).
KW - Security Council
KW - International Practices
KW - Constitutive Mechanism
KW - Responsibility to Protect
KW - Precedent
KW - Ratchet Effect
Y1 - 2018
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210518000268
SN - 0260-2105
SN - 1469-9044
VL - 45
IS - 1
SP - 120
EP - 140
PB - Univ.
CY - Cambridge
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Dörfler, Thomas
A1 - Gehring, Thomas
T1 - Analogy-based collective decision-making and incremental change in international organizations
JF - European journal of international relations
N2 - We examine how analogy-based collective decision-making of member states contributes to the endogenous emergence of informal rules and the incremental change of international organizations (IOs). Decision-making by analogy is an important characteristic of day-to-day decision-making in IOs. Relating current decisions to previous ones through analogies drives incremental change and simultaneously reinforces organizational resilience. Whereas the foreign policy analysis literature shows that analogies can be used as cognitive shortcuts in fuzzy and complex foreign policy situations, we focus on their use to overcome social ambiguity (indeterminacy) of coordination situations in IOs. Drawing on psychological conceptions, we develop two micro-level mechanisms that elucidate the effects of analogy-based collective decision-making in member-driven IOs. Analogy-based collective decisions emphasizing similarity between a current situation and previous ones follow an established problem schema and produce expansive and increasingly well-established informal rules. Collective decisions that are analogy-based but emphasize a crucial difference follow different problem schemas and trigger the emergence of additional informal rules that apply to new classes of cases. The result is an increasingly fine-grained web of distinct organizational solutions for a growing number of problems. Accordingly, an IO can increasingly facilitate collective decision-making and gains resilience. Empirically, we probe these propositions with a documentary analysis of decision-making in the Yugoslavia sanctions committee, established by the United Nations Security Council to deal with a stream of requests for exempting certain goods or services from the comprehensive economic embargo imposed on Yugoslavia in response to the War in the Balkans.
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066120987889
SN - 1354-0661
SN - 1460-3713
VL - 27
IS - 3
SP - 753
EP - 778
PB - Sage
CY - London
ER -
TY - CHAP
A1 - Dörfler, Thomas
A1 - Hosli, Madeleine O.
T1 - Reforming the United Nations Security Council
BT - proposals, strategies and preferences
T2 - Routledge Handbook of International Organization
Y1 - 2013
SN - 978-0-415-50143-9
U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203405345.ch28
SP - 377
EP - 390
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
TY - BOOK
A1 - Dörfler, Thomas
T1 - Security council sanctions governance
BT - the power and limits of rules
T3 - Routledge research on the United Nations ; 6
N2 - Little is known about how far-reaching decisions in UN Security Council sanctions committees are made. Developing a novel committee governance concept and using examples drawn from sanctions imposed on Iraq, Al-Qaida, Congo, Sudan and Iran, this book shows that Council members tend to follow the will of the powerful, whereas sanctions committee members often decide according to the rules. This is surprising since both Council and committees are staffed by the same member states.
Offering a fascinating account of Security Council micro-politics and decision-making processes on sanctions, this rigorous comparative and theory-driven analysis treats the Council and its sanctions committees as distinguishable entities that may differ in decision practice despite having the same members. Drawing extensively on primary documents, diplomatic cables, well-informed press coverage, reports by close observers and extensive interviews with committee members, Council diplomats and sanctions experts, it contrasts with the conventional wisdom on decision-making within these bodies, which suggests that the powerful permanent members would not accept rule-based decisions against their interests.
This book will be of interest to policy practitioners and scholars working in the broad field of international organizations and international relations theory as well as those specializing in sanctions, international law, the Security Council and counter-terrorism.
Y1 - 2019
SN - 978-0-42944-232-2
SN - 978-1-138-33749-7
SN - 978-0-4298-0874-6
SN - 978-0-4298-0873-9
U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429442322
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin
T1 - Gender in the United Nations’ agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
JF - International feminist journal of politics
N2 - The United Nations (UN) policy agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) promotes a “holistic” approach to counterterrorism, which includes elements traditionally found in security and development programs. Advocates of the agenda increasingly emphasize the importance of gender mainstreaming for counterterrorism goals. In this article, I scrutinize the merging of the goals of gender equality, security, and development into a global agenda for counterterrorism. A critical feminist discourse-analytical reading of gender representations in P/CVE shows how problematic imageries of women as victims, economic entrepreneurs, and peacemakers from both the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the Women, Peace and Security agenda are reproduced in core UN documents advocating for a “holistic” P/CVE approach. By highlighting the tensions that are produced by efforts to merge the different gender discourses across the UN’s security and development institutions, the article underlines the relevance of considering the particular position of P/CVE at the security–development nexus for further gender-sensitive analysis and policies of counterterrorism.
KW - Counterterrorism
KW - gender mainstreaming
KW - security–development nexus
KW - discourse
KW - United Nations
KW - feminism
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2020.1827967
SN - 1461-6742
SN - 1468-4470
VL - 22
IS - 5
SP - 720
EP - 741
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Reiners, Nina
T1 - Despite or Because of Contestation?
BT - how water became a human right
JF - Human Rights Quarterly
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 - 1085-794X
SN - 0275-0392
VL - 43
IS - 2
SP - 329
EP - 343
PB - Johns Hopkins Univ.
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Liese, Andrea Margit
A1 - Reiners, Nina
T1 - The Eye of the Beholder?
BT - The Contestation of Values and International Law ; Comment on Tiyanjana Maluwa
JF - The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?
Y1 - 2019
SN - 0191879398
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0021
SP - 335
EP - 343
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - THES
A1 - Reiners, Nina
T1 - Transnational lawmaking coalitions for human rights
Y1 - 2017
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Seyfried, Markus
A1 - Ansmann, Moritz
T1 - Unfreezing higher education institutions?
BT - understanding the introduction of quality management in teaching and learning in Germany
JF - Higher Education
N2 - Quality management (QM) in teaching and learning has strongly “infected” the higher education sector and spread around the world. It has almost everywhere become an integral part of higher education reforms. While existing research on QM mainly focuses on the national level from a macro-perspective, its introduction at the institutional level is only rarely analyzed. The present article addresses this research gap. Coming from the perspective of organization studies, it examines the factors that were crucial for the introduction of QM at higher education institutions in Germany. As the introduction of QM can be considered to be a process of organizational change, the article refers to Kurt Lewin’s seminal concept of “unfreezing” organizations as a theoretical starting point. Methodologically, a mixed methods approach is applied by combining qualitative data derived from interviews with institutional quality managers and quantitative data gathered from a nationwide survey. The results show that the introduction of QM is initiated by either internal or external processes. Furthermore, some institutions follow a rather voluntary approach of unfreezing, while others show modes of forced unfreezing. Consequently, the way how QM was introduced has important implications for its implementation.
KW - Quality management
KW - Organizational change
KW - Higher education
KW - Mixed methods
Y1 - 2018
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0185-2
SN - 0018-1560
SN - 1573-174X
VL - 75
IS - 6
SP - 1061
EP - 1076
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fuhr, Harald
T1 - The rise of the Global South and the rise in carbon emissions
JF - Third world quarterly
N2 - Jointly with the Global North, the rise of the Global South has come at a high cost to the environment. Driven by its high energy intensity and the use of fossil fuels, the South has contributed a significant portion of global emissions during the last 30 years, and is now contributing some 63% of today's total GHG emissions (including land-use change and forestry). Similar to the Global North, the Global South's emissions are heavily concentrated: India and China alone account for some 60% and the top 10 countries for some 78% of the group's emissions, while some 120 countries account for only 22%. Without highlighting such differences, it makes little sense to use the term 'Global South'. Its members are affected differently, and contribute differently to global climate change. They neither share a common view, nor do they pursue joint interests when it comes to international climate negotiations. Instead, they are organised into more than a dozen subgroups of the global climate regime. There is no single climate strategy for the Global South, and climate action will differ enormously from country to country. Furthermore, just and equitable transitions may be particularly challenging for some countries.
KW - Climate change
KW - international development
KW - energy
KW - environmental policy
KW - Global South
KW - transition policy
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1954901
SN - 0143-6597
SN - 1360-2241
VL - 42
IS - 11
SP - 2724
EP - 2746
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kalczewiak, Mariusz
T1 - Yiddish Buenos Aires and the struggle to leave the margins
JF - East European Jewish affairs
N2 - Yiddish culture developed in Argentina within the context of a self-perception that figured Buenos Aires as a marginal and peripheral locale on the global Yiddish map. Against this backdrop, Argentine Yiddish culturalists argued for the strengthening of local Yiddish culture with a goal of elevating Buenos Aires's status within the international hierarchies of Yiddish culture. Buenos Aires indeed emerged in the 1920s as a producer of Yiddish cultural contents, maintained networks of international cultural contacts with other Yiddish centers, financially supported Eastern European Yiddish establishments, and hoped that these contacts would allow for solving Buenos Aires reputation problems. The pre-World War II preoccupation with the status of Buenos Aires as a center of Yiddish culture provided a basis upon which post-Holocaust discourse of Argentine Jewish responsibility for the maintenance of Yiddish culture was constructed.
KW - Argentina
KW - Buenos Aires
KW - marginality
KW - peripherality
KW - Yiddish culturalism
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2020.1774275
SN - 1350-1674
SN - 1743-971X
VL - 50
IS - 1-2
SP - 115
EP - 133
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
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 - 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 - 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 - Schmidt, Peter
T1 - Market failure vs. system failure as a rationale for economic policy?
BT - A critique from an evolutionary perspective
JF - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
N2 - This paper reconsiders the explanation of economic policy from an evolutionary economics perspective. It contrasts the neoclassical equilibrium notions of market and government failure with the dominant evolutionary neo-Schumpeterian and Austrian-Hayekian perceptions. Based on this comparison, the paper criticizes the fact that neoclassical reasoning still prevails in non-equilibrium evolutionary economics when economic policy issues are examined. This is more than surprising, since proponents of evolutionary economics usually view their approach as incompatible with its neoclassical counterpart. In addition, it is shown that this "fallacy of failure thinking" even finds its continuation in the alternative concept of "system failure" with which some evolutionary economists try to explain and legitimate policy interventions in local, regional or national innovation systems. The paper argues that in order to prevent the otherwise fruitful and more realistic evolutionary approach from undermining its own criticism of neoclassical economics and to create a consistent as well as objective evolutionary policy framework, it is necessary to eliminate the equilibrium spirit. Finally, the paper delivers an alternative evolutionary explanation of economic policy which is able to overcome the theory-immanent contradiction of the hitherto evolutionary view on this subject.
KW - Market failure
KW - System failure
KW - Economic policy
KW - Policy advice
KW - Evolutionary economics
KW - Non-equilibrium economics
Y1 - 2018
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-018-0564-6
SN - 0936-9937
SN - 1432-1386
VL - 28
IS - 4
SP - 785
EP - 803
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - THES
A1 - Gasser, Lucy
T1 - East and South
BT - mapping other Europes
T2 - Transdisciplinary souths
N2 - "What is 'Europe' in academic discourse? While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the 'West', neither the 'West' nor 'Europe' are homogeneous spaces. Though postcolonial studies have long been debunking Eurocentrism in its multiple guises, there is still work to do in fully comprehending how its imaginations and discursive legacies conceive the figure of Europe, as not all who live on European soil are understood as equally 'European'. This volume explores this immediate need to rethink the axis of postcolonial cultural productions, to disarticulate Eurocentrism, to recognise Europe as a more diverse, plural and fluid space, to draw forward cultural exchanges and dialogues within the Global South. Through analyses of literary texts from East-Central Europe and beyond, this volume sheds light on alternative literary cartographies - the multiplicity of Europes and being European which exist both as they are viewed from the different geographies of the global South, and within the continent itself. Covering a wide spatial and temporal terrain in postcolonial and European cultural productions, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, Global South studies and European studies"
Y1 - 2022
SN - 978-0-367-72225-8
SN - 978-0-367-77271-0
SN - 978-1-00-041097-6
PB - Routledge
CY - London
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 - Schmidt, Max Oliver
T1 - Church asylum as ultima ratio
BT - fighting for access to German society
JF - The condition of democracy. - Volume 2: Contesting citizenship
Y1 - 2022
SN - 978-0-367-74536-3
SN - 978-1-00-315837-0
SP - 36
EP - 53
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -