TY - JOUR A1 - Juchler, Ingo T1 - Von Menschen und anderen Tieren im Berliner Tiergarten JF - Atopien im Politischen : Politische Bildung nach dem Ende der Zukunft Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-8376-5201-7 SP - 105 EP - 132 PB - Transcript CY - Bielefeld ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nuesiri, Emmanuel O. T1 - Strengths and Limitations of Conservation NGOs in Meeting Local Needs JF - the Anthropology of Conservation NGOS N2 - Conservation nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are often involved in the design and implementation of global forest management initiatives such as the REDD+, which currently is being rolled out by the UNFCCC, the UN-REDD Programme and the World Bank as part of efforts to mitigate climate change. Nigeria joined the UN-REDD in 2010 and submitted its REDD+ readiness proposal in 2011. The proposal has a national component and subnational forestry activities in the Cross River State (CRS) as the pilot site. This chapter examines the involvement of local NGOs in the CRS consultative participatory meetings to validate the Nigeria-REDD proposal. It shows that political representation of local communities in the validation exercise was through customary authorities and NGOs who claim to speak for and are recognised as advocates for the communities. Local government authorities, the substantive political representatives of local communities were left out of the process. The chapter also shows how the CRS Forestry Commission, which organised the validation exercise, used NGOs as pawns to legitimise it, and how these NGOs were powerless to challenge the Forestry Commission. In contrast, local governments, the third tier of government and political authority routinely disrespected by state-level administrators, regularly challenge such higher level government actors in the courts and the national legislature. Thus, local NGOs may speak and work for local social development but compared to the substantive political representatives at the local level (e.g., local government authorities), local NGOs have limited resources to challenge the political shenanigans of the state. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-60579-1 SN - 978-3-319-60578-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60579-1_8 SP - 203 EP - 225 PB - Palgrave CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jakupec, Viktor T1 - A Critique of the development aid discourse JF - Development aid—populism and the end of the neoliberal agenda N2 - Despite the fact that development aid has broadened from economic growth theory to include human and social capital, there is a lack of a general agreement as to its benefits. This critical review and analyses of the development aid academic and institutional discourse identifies some major shortcomings. The dominance of economics at the expense of politics, and the imposition of development aid neoliberal conditionalities act as barriers to socio-economic development in aid recipient countries. An inference is offered to recast development aid through reconciliation within critical frameworks of different sides of the political spectrum. KW - Development aid KW - Aid conditionalities KW - Political economy Socio-economic development KW - Neoliberalism KW - Development aid criticism 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_3 SN - 2211-4548 SN - 2211-4556 SP - 37 EP - 52 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Germany: the smooth and silent emergence of advisory roles JF - Ministers, minders and Mandarins : an international study of relationships at the executive summit of parliamentary democracies (2018) Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-78643-169-1 SN - 978-1-78643-168-4 SP - 72 EP - 90 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing LTD CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Elsässer, Joshua Philipp A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Stehle, Fee T1 - The Role of Cities in South Africa’s Energy Gridlock JF - Case Studies in the Environment N2 - South Africa’s energy sector finds itself in a gridlock situation. The sector is controlled by the state-owned utility Eskom holding the monopoly on the generation and transmission of electricity, which is almost exclusively produced from domestically extracted coal. At the same time, the constitutional mandate enables municipalities to distribute and sell electricity generated by Eskom to local consumers, which constitutes a large part of the cities’ municipal income. This is a strong disincentive for city governments to promote reductions in energy consumption and substantially limits the scope for urban action on energy efficiency and renewable energies. In the present case study, we portray the current development in South Africa’s energy policy and trace how deadlocked legal, financial, and institutional barriers block the transition from a coal-based energy system toward a greener and more sustainable energy economy. We furthermore point to the efforts of major South African cities to introduce low-carbon strategies in their jurisdictions and highlight key challenges for the future development of the country’s energy sector. By engaging with this case study, readers will become familiar with a prime example of the wider phenomenon of national political–economic obstacles to the progress in sustainable urban development. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001297 SN - 2473-9510 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - University of California Press CY - Oakland ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scheller, Henrik T1 - German Federalism: On the Way to a "Cooperative Centralism"? JF - Identities, trust, and cohesion in federal systems: public perspectives N2 - Germany has a long tradition of federalism extending far back in history (Ziblatt 2004; Broschek 2011). This tradition has always been characterized by a discrepancy between the attitudes of the public to its federalism and the reform ideas of the (political) elites. While the public has a strong desire for an equality of living conditions, solidarity, social cohesion, and cooperation between the orders of government, academic discourse is shaped by calls for wide-ranging federalism reforms, which are oriented toward the American model of "dual federalism." Against this background, this chapter contrasts public attitudes on key aspects of the federal system with long-lasting academic recommendations for reform. Light will be shed on the general perception of the federal system as a whole, the division of powers, and in particular the issue of joint decision-making (Politikverflechtung) between the orders of government-all issues that have been repeatedly interrogated in various surveys. A further aspect of these polls is the question of the extent to which solidarity or competition shall be realized between the federal and Land governments-a question that is highly controversial in politics and academia (especially in the fiscal equalization debate), though public perceptions are quite different. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-55339-535-5 SN - 978-1-55339-536-2 SP - 255 EP - 279 PB - McGill-Queens University Press CY - Montreal ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dittberner, Jürgen T1 - Die Freien Wähler und die Krise der Parteiendemokratie JF - Bürgerland Brandenburg : Demokratie und Demokratiebewegungen zwischen Elbe und Oder Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-7338-0368-1 SP - 22 EP - 25 PB - Koehler & Amelang CY - Leipzig ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rashidi, Laleh T1 - Wohin steuert der Iran? BT - zur wachsenden Rolle der Revolutionsgarden JF - Welttrends : das außenpolitische Journal Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-947802-87-6 SN - 0944-8101 VL - 30 IS - 188 SP - 9 EP - 12 PB - WeltTrends CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Angelow, Jürgen T1 - Rapallo BT - Paradigma für Realismus in der Außenpolitik JF - Welttrends : das außenpolitische Journal Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-947802-87-6 SN - 0944-8101 VL - 30 IS - 188 SP - 59 EP - 63 PB - WeltTrends CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kailitz, Steffen A1 - Wurster, Stefan A1 - Tanneberg, Dag T1 - Autokratische Regimelegitimation und soziale Entwicklung JF - Zeitschrift für vergleichende Politikwissenschaft : ZfVP N2 - Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem sozialen Entwicklungsstand einer Autokratie und ihrem Legitimationsanspruch? Dieser Frage geht der Beitrag am Beispiel der Säuglingssterblichkeit nach. Unter Berücksichtigung von 321 Autokratien aus 120 Ländern im Zeitraum von 1960 bis 2010 zeigen sich Unterschiede in der sozialen Entwicklung zwischen sechs Autokratietypen mit verschiedenen Legitimationsstrategien: elektorale Autokratien, kommunistische Ideokratien, Monarchien, Einparteiautokratien, Militärautokratien und personalistische Autokratien. Insbesondere, dass kommunistische Ideokratien im Vergleich besser abschneiden als (nicht-ideokratische) Einparteiautokratien, spricht dafür, dass sich die Art der Legitimationsstrategie auf die soziale Entwicklung auswirkt. Allerdings sollte der Einfluss von Legitimationsstrategien auf die soziale Entwicklung nicht überschätzt werden, vor allem da sich die Ergebnisse im Rahmen eines Wachstumskurvenmodells als vorläufig erweisen. N2 - Is the social development of an autocracy linked to its claim of legitimation? This question is examined in the article with regard to infant mortality. Taking into account 321 autocracies from 120 countries in the period from 1960 to 2010, we find distinct patterns of social development for six types of autocracy with different legitimation strategies: electoral autocracies, communist ideocracies, monarchies, one-party autocracies, military autocracies, and personalist autocracies. In particular, because communist ideocracies are better off than (non-ideocratic) one-party autocracies it seems that legitimation strategies affect social development. However, the influence of legitimation strategies on social development should not be overestimated, most notably as the results of our growth curve models prove to be provisional. T2 - Autocratic regime legitimation and social development KW - Legitimation strategies KW - Autocratic regimes KW - Social development KW - Infant mortality KW - Legitimationsstrategien KW - Autokratische Regime KW - Soziale Entwicklung KW - Kindersterblichkeit Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-017-0330-4 SN - 1865-2646 SN - 1865-2654 VL - 11 SP - 275 EP - 299 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER -