@article{ZaklanCullmannNeumannetal.2012, author = {Zaklan, Aleksandar and Cullmann, Astrid and Neumann, Anne and von Hirschhausen, Christian}, title = {The globalization of steam coal markets and the role of logistics an empirical analysis}, series = {Energy economics}, volume = {34}, journal = {Energy economics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0140-9883}, doi = {10.1016/j.eneco.2011.03.001}, pages = {105 -- 116}, year = {2012}, abstract = {In this paper, we provide a comprehensive multivariate cointegration analysis of three parts of the steam coal value chain - export, transport and import prices. The analysis is based on a rich dataset of international coal prices: in particular, we combine data on steam coal prices with freight rates, covering the period December 2001 until August 2009 at weekly frequency. We then test whether the demand and supply side components of steam coal trade are consistently integrated with one another. In addition, export and import prices as well as freight rates for individual trading routes, across regions and globally are combined. We find evidence of significant yet incomplete integration. We also find heterogeneous short-term dynamics of individual markets. Furthermore, we examine whether logistics enter coal price dynamics through transportation costs, which are mainly determined by oil prices. Our results suggest that this is generally not the case.}, language = {en} } @article{YangBao2012, author = {Yang, Ling and Bao, Hongwei}, title = {Queerly intimate friends, fans and affective communication in a Super Girl fan fiction community}, series = {Cultural studies : theorizing politics, politicizing theory}, volume = {26}, journal = {Cultural studies : theorizing politics, politicizing theory}, number = {6}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0950-2386}, doi = {10.1080/09502386.2012.679286}, pages = {842 -- 871}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This article examines the rise of the Girls' Love (GL) fan fiction community in contemporary China. More specifically, we focus on the 'Pink Super Girl Bar', an online fan fiction community devoted to the pairing of the contestants of the 2006 season of Super Girl, an entertainment program featured on Hunan Satellite TV that enjoys great popularity in the Sinophone world. Through an ethnographic account of the formation, convention and performativity of identities and socialities in this community, we demonstrate how Super Girl GL fans mobilize their emotional capital to create artworks, to have fun and to enrich their everyday lives. We argue that the GL fan fiction community has become a space of female homosociality, intimacy and affect in which a new generation of young Chinese women actively enact friendship and female subjectivity in a way that refuses the normalization of gender, sexuality and social relations. Moreover, by linking fan studies to affect studies and emotional geography, and by paying particular attention to indigenous concepts and cultural practices in mainland China's fan communities, we wish to contribute to fan studies with feminist, queer and transnational perspectives.}, language = {en} } @article{Wobbe2012, author = {Wobbe, Theresa}, title = {Making up People occupational classification patterns, gendered categorization, and economic inclusion around 1900 in Germany}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie}, volume = {41}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie}, number = {1}, publisher = {Lucius \& Lucius}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0340-1804}, pages = {41 -- 57}, year = {2012}, abstract = {According to gender and labor market research, differentiation of male and female work is not primarily grounded in specific tasks but rather rooted in male and female features attributed to work. In this paper, the effects of classification patterns are related to the categories used in occupational statistics. According to this argument statistical patterns contribute to gradual processes of inclusion into society by categorizing people. Put more precisely, this process of "making up people" (Hacking 1986) is conflated with gendered views of persons. This conceptual conflation is examined in the historical context of emerging occupational statistics, social sciences, and law in Germany around 1900. Inasmuch as statistical observation differentiated between economically productive and non-productive work, gendered distinctions were deeply encoded in its categories. These distinctions were institutionalized by means of the social scientific definition of role models as well as legal codification. In the conclusion, the sociology of knowledge approach followed in this paper is extended toward a discussion of broader questions of inclusion and gender inequality. In order to explain the persistence of gendered classifications in the organization of work in society, further gender inequality research needs to account for the enduring social evidence and symbolic relevance of sex classifications at the meso and macro levels.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Tarvenkorn2012, author = {Tarvenkorn, Alexander}, title = {Aufstiege aus der Mittelschicht : soziale Aufstiegsmobilit{\"a}t von Haushalten zwischen 1984 und 2010}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-65331}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Die Dissertation widmet sich den intragenerationalen Aufstiegsprozessen von Haushalten aus der Mittelschicht zu den Wohlhabenden. Intragenerationale Mobilit{\"a}tsforschung wird bislang vor allem als arbeitsmarktbezogene Inidivualmobilit{\"a}t angesehen. Diese Dissertation erweitert den Ansatz auf die Ebene des Haushaltes. Dem liegt der Gedanke zugrunde, dass die soziale Position eines Individuums nicht allein durch sein Erwerbseinkommen determiniert wird. Ebenso entscheidend ist der Kontext des Haushaltes. Dieser bestimmt dar{\"u}ber, wie viele Personen zum Einkommen beitragen k{\"o}nnen und wie viele daran partizipieren. Weiterhin kommt der Haushaltsebene in Paar-Haushalten die Rolle des Aushandlungsortes zu. Hier wird {\"u}ber Familienplanung, Kinderwunsch und damit in Zusammenhang stehend auch {\"u}ber die Erwerbsbeteiligung der Partner entscheiden. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht diese Annahmen mithilfe von Daten des Sozio{\"o}konomischen Panels (SOEP) der Jahre 1984 bis 2010. Der Fokus liegt auf der Erwerbsbeteiligung und dem Bildungsniveau des Haushaltes, seiner Struktur, sowie dem Beruf des Haushaltsvorstandes. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass dies die Hauptfaktoren sind, die {\"u}ber die finanziellen M{\"o}glichkeiten eines Haushaltes entscheiden. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt in der Ber{\"u}cksichtigung des historischen Kontextes, da anzunehmen ist, dass die oben benannten Faktoren sich und ihren Einfluss auf die Aufstiegsm{\"o}glichkeiten von Haushalten im historischen Verlauf ver{\"a}ndert haben.}, language = {de} } @article{Sutton2012, author = {Sutton, Katie}, title = {"We too deserve a place in the sun" the politics of transvestiteidentity in Weimar Germany}, series = {German studies review}, volume = {35}, journal = {German studies review}, number = {2}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins Univ. Press}, address = {Tempe}, issn = {0149-7952}, pages = {335 -- 354}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Cross-dressing took on new political meanings in Germany's Weimar Republic, with the emergence of organizations and periodicals aimed at promoting the interests of self-identified "transvestites." This new sexological category, developed by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910, formed the basis for a shared sense of identity and belonging among individuals who identified as members of the "opposite" sex. Drawing on the experiences of the homosexual emancipation movement and discourses of bourgeois respectability, middle-class transvestites came together to demand legal and social recognition, including acknowledgement of "transsexual" desires. Their efforts represent a critical but forgotten moment in the history of transgender political activism.}, language = {en} } @misc{Stecker2012, author = {Stecker, Christian}, title = {The role of governments in legislative agenda setting}, series = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, volume = {53}, journal = {Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung f{\"u}r Politische Wissenschaft}, number = {4}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0032-3470}, pages = {703 -- 705}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @unpublished{Sprinz2012, author = {Sprinz, Detlef F.}, title = {Long-Term environmental policy challenges for research}, series = {The journal of environment \& development : a review of international policy}, volume = {21}, journal = {The journal of environment \& development : a review of international policy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {Thousand Oaks}, issn = {1070-4965}, doi = {10.1177/1070496511435667}, pages = {67 -- 70}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Long-term policy issues are a particularly vexing class of environmental policy issues which merit increasing attention due to the long-time horizons involved, the incongruity with political cycles, and the challenges for collective action. Following the definition of long-term environmental policy challenges, I pose three questions as challenges for future research, namely 1. Are present democracies well suited to cope with long-term policy challenges? 2. Are top-down or bottom-up solutions to long-term environmental policy challenges advisable? 3. Will mitigation and adaptation of environmental challenges suffice? In concluding, the contribution raises the issue of credible commitment for long-term policy issues and potential design options.}, language = {en} } @book{SpeckBackhausMaulFriedrichetal.2012, author = {Speck, Karsten and Backhaus-Maul, Holger and Friedrich, Peter and Krohn, Maud}, title = {Freiwilligenagenturen in Deutschland : Potenziale und Herausforderunen einer vielversprechenden intermedi{\"a}ren Organisation}, publisher = {Springer VS}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-531-18584-2}, pages = {211 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @article{Seyfried2012, author = {Seyfried, Markus}, title = {Problems and methods of quality evaluation in different policy fields}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Evaluation}, volume = {11}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Evaluation}, number = {2}, publisher = {Waxmann}, address = {M{\"u}nster}, issn = {1619-5515}, pages = {209 -- 232}, year = {2012}, abstract = {This article distinguishes methodological problems in quality evaluation and measurement in two policy fields, namely higher education and public broadcasting. Both are characterized by similar external and internal basic conditions and are thus suitable for comparative research. The difficulties of quality measurement and evaluation are discussed with respect to three main features: (1) definition of quality, (2) operationalization of quality and (3) interpretation of quality. Furthermore the identified difficulties in both areas are not always the same, because they depend on different research criteria. Thus the debates of quality measurement and evaluation in higher education and public broadcasting can learn from each other and increase the understanding of quality measurement in general. In addition the comparative design provides opportunities for the development of methods and perspectives.}, language = {de} } @book{Scholze2012, author = {Scholze, Nicole}, title = {Aktuelle familienpolitische Entwicklungen}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62722}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Inhalt: 1 Einleitung 2 Familienpolitik 2.1 Was ist „Familie"? 2.2 Begriffsbestimmung - Familienpolitik 2.2.1 Kurzer R{\"u}ckblick: Wandel der familialen Lebensform im Industriezeitalter 2.2.2 Warum Familienpolitik? Strukturelle Ver{\"a}nderungen der familialen Lebensform 2.2.3 Familienpolitische Wirkung auf die Bev{\"o}lkerung 2.3 Wohlfahrtslogiken nach G{\o}sta Esping-Andersen 2.4 Familienpolitische Leistungen in Schweden, Großbritannien und Deutschland 2.4.1 Monet{\"a}re Leistungen und Fiskalpolitik 2.4.2 Zeitwerte Anrechte 2.4.3 Infrastrukturelle Angebote der Kinderbetreuung 3 Fazit und Ausblick}, language = {de} }