TY - JOUR A1 - Dörfler, Thomas A1 - Gehring, Thomas T1 - Wie internationale Organisationen durch die Strukturierung von Entscheidungsprozessen Autonomie gewinnen BT - der Weltsicherheitsrat und seine Sanktionsausschüsse als System funktionaler Ausdifferenzierung JF - Politische Vierteljahresschrift : PVS ; Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft. Sonderheft: Internationale Organisationen: Autonomie, Politisierung, interorganisationale Beziehungen und Wandel Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-8452-4851-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845248516-59 IS - 49 SP - 54 EP - 80 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhu, Jinshan T1 - Assessing China’s price review policy on Clean Development Mechanism projects JF - European Journal of Law and Economics N2 - The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows developed countries to meet part of their obligational emission reductions by carrying out emission reduction projects in developing countries. China imposed a price floor to the CDM carbon credits produced in China through its price review policy. Scholars have not agreed on the purpose of China’s price review policy. With a theoretical model and a coherent empirical study, the present study shows that the price floor imposed by China’s price review is more likely to protect those domestic project owners against price discrimination, rather than to distort the CDM market. Nevertheless, China’s price review has its own flaws. Although a regression study shows month of approval, types of projects and location of project can explain 55% of price floor designation, the operation of price review remains quite random and unpredictable in individual cases. This would bring extra bureaucratically uncertainty on its way to curb market uncertainty. Its function can be fulfilled by alternative policy tools with better economic efficiency and legal legitimacy, such as mandatory price disclosure and trading forum, which doesn’t have such drawback, but still be able to alleviate possible price discrimination in individual cases. KW - CDM KW - China KW - Price review KW - Price floor KW - Law and economics Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-016-9550-3 SN - 0929-1261 SN - 1572-9990 VL - 43 SP - 285 EP - 316 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borgnäs, Kajsa T1 - Indicators as ‘circular argumentation constructs’? BT - an input–output analysis of the variable structure of five environmental sustainability country rankings JF - Environment, Development and Sustainability N2 - This paper is concerned with the normative underpinnings of popular sustainability indicators and country rankings. Attempts to quantify national sustainability in the form of composite indicators and rankings have increased rapidly over past decades. However, questions regarding validity and interpretability remain. This article combines theoretical and statistical tools to explore how input variables in five popular sustainability indicators can be related to different theoretical paradigms: weak and strong sustainability. It is shown that differences in theoretical interpretations affect input variable selection, which in turn affects indicator output. This points towards the risk of indicators becoming a sort of ‘circular argumentation construct’. The article argues that sustainability indicators and country rankings must be treated as theoretical just as much as statistical instruments. It is proposed that making underlying normative assumptions explicit, and making input variable selection more clear in a theoretical sense, can enhance indicator validity and usability for policy makers and researchers alike. KW - Sustainability indicators KW - Rankings KW - Weak and strong sustainability KW - Measurement theory KW - Circular argumentation Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-016-9764-0 SN - 1387-585X SN - 1573-2975 VL - 19 SP - 769 EP - 790 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Mele, Vincenzo T1 - The corrosion of character BT - Work and personality in the modern age JF - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - The topic of this imaginary dialogue between Georg Simmel and Max Weber is the relation between work – in the sense of labour – and personality. Its aim is to show that the thinking of these ‘founding fathers’ of sociology can furnish valuable insight into the current issue of the corrosion of character in contemporary post-Fordist society. The concept of work still represents one of the major factors determining modern individuals’ ability (or inability) to formulate personal, stable identities that enable them to become fully socialized. Both Simmel and Weber make reference to a common theoretical background that views the human being as a creature with originally rational potential, who is faced with the task of becoming a personality by means of consciously chosen life behaviour: This is evident in the parallelism between Simmel’s interest in the concept of ‘style of life’ (Der Stil des Lebens) and Weber’s research on the ‘life conduct’ (Lebensführung) that arose in Western rationalistic culture. KW - Character KW - conduct of life KW - flexibility KW - identity KW - lifestyle KW - personality KW - Simmel KW - Weber KW - work Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17693436 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 143 EP - 155 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgardt, Iris T1 - Politisches Denken JF - Young Citizens : Handbuch politische Bildung in der Grundschule Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-7425-0777-8 SP - 180 EP - 188 PB - bpb, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung CY - Bonn ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgardt, Iris T1 - Berufswelt JF - Young Citizens : Handbuch politische Bildung in der Grundschule Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-7425-0777-8 SP - 292 EP - 298 PB - bpb, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung CY - Bonn ER - TY - BOOK ED - Baumgardt, Iris ED - Lange, Dirk T1 - Young citizens BT - Handbuch politische Bildung in der Grundschule T3 - Schriftenreihe / Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung ; Band 10777 Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-7425-0777-8 PB - Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung CY - Bonn ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgardt, Iris A1 - Lange, Dirk T1 - Einleitung JF - Young citizens : Handbuch politische Bildung in der Grundschule Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-7425-0777-8 SP - 12 EP - 15 PB - bpb, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung CY - Bonn ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Koss, Michael T1 - The politics of party funding BT - state funding to political parties and party competition in Western Europe T3 - Comparative politics N2 - 'The Politics of Party Funding' analyses an increasingly popular institutional choice - the introduction of state funding to political parties - and represents a first step towards a theory which explains differences and similarities in party funding regimes. Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-19-957275-5 SN - 978-0-19-159510-3 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eppner, Sebastian A1 - Ganghof, Steffen T1 - Institutional veto players and cabinet formation BT - the veto control hypothesis reconsidered JF - European journal of political research : official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research N2 - Are potential cabinets more likely to form when they control institutional veto players such as symmetric second chambers or minority vetoes? Existing evidence for a causal effect of veto control has been weak. This article presents evidence for this effect on the basis of conditional and mixed logit analyses of government formations in 21 parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies between 1955 and 2012. It also shows that the size of the effect varies systematically across political-institutional contexts. The estimated causal effect was greater in countries that eventually abolished the relevant veto institutions. It is suggested that the incidence of constitutional reform is a proxy for context-specific factors that increased the incentives for veto control and simultaneously provided a stimulus for the weakening of institutional veto power. KW - government formation KW - veto players KW - second chambers Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12172 SN - 0304-4130 SN - 1475-6765 VL - 56 IS - 1 SP - 169 EP - 186 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER -