@article{Knobloch2015,
  author    = {Knobloch, J{\"o}rn},
  title     = {Die Gegenwart der Zukunft},
  series = {Kultursoziologie},
  volume    = {2015},
  journal   = {Kultursoziologie},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Welttrends},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {0941-343X},
  pages     = {70 -- 77},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{FleischerSeyfried2015,
  author    = {Fleischer, Julia and Seyfried, Markus},
  title     = {Drawing from the bargaining pool: Determinants of ministerial selection in Germany},
  series = {Party politics : an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations},
  volume    = {21},
  journal   = {Party politics : an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Sage Publ.},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {1354-0688},
  doi       = {10.1177/1354068813487108},
  pages     = {503 -- 514},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition governments and analyses why ministerial candidates succeed in acquiring a cabinet position after general elections. It argues that political parties bargain over potential office-holders during government-formation processes, selecting future cabinet ministers from an emerging bargaining pool'. The article draws upon a new dataset comprising all ministrable candidates discussed by political parties during eight government-formation processes in Germany between 1983 and 2009. The conditional logit regression analysis reveals that temporal dynamics, such as the day she enters the pool, have a significant effect on her success in achieving a cabinet position. Other determinants of ministerial selection discussed in the existing literature, such as party and parliamentary expertise, are less relevant for achieving ministerial office. The article concludes that scholarship on ministerial selection requires a stronger emphasis for its endogenous nature in government-formation as well as the relevance of temporal dynamics in such processes.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KorffBalboMillsetal.2015,
  author    = {Korff, Valeska P. and Balbo, Nicoletta and Mills, Melinda and Heyse, Liesbet and Wittek, Rafael},
  title     = {The impact of humanitarian context conditions and individual characteristics on aid worker retention},
  series = {Disasters : the journal of disaster studies, policy and management},
  volume    = {39},
  journal   = {Disasters : the journal of disaster studies, policy and management},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0361-3666},
  doi       = {10.1111/disa.12119},
  pages     = {522 -- 545},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {High employee turnover rates constitute a major challenge to effective aid provision. This study examines how features of humanitarian work and aid workers' individual characteristics affect retention within one humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Holland. The study extends existing research by providing new theoretical explanations of employment opportunities and constraints and by engaging in the first large-scale quantitative analysis of aid worker retention. Using a database of field staff (N=1,955), a logistic regression is performed of the likelihood of reenlistment after a first mission. The findings demonstrate that only 40 per cent of employees reenlist for a second mission with MSF Holland, and that workplace location and security situation, age, and gender have no significant effect. Individuals are less likely to reenlist if they returned early from the first mission for a personal reason, are in a relationship, are medical doctors, or if they come from highly developed countries. The paper reflects on the findings in the light of policy.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Entrich2015,
  author    = {Entrich, Steve R.},
  title     = {The Decision for Shadow Education in Japan: Students' Choice or Parents' Pressure?},
  series = {Social science Japan journal : an international journal of social science research on Japan},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {Social science Japan journal : an international journal of social science research on Japan},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {1369-1465},
  doi       = {10.1093/ssjj/jyv012},
  pages     = {193 -- 216},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Following decision theory (Boudon, Raymond. 1974. Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality: Changing Prospects in Western Society. New York: Wiley.), social origin strongly affects educational decisions, especially at transition points in educational attainment. In Japan, the fierce competition in gaining access to the next level of schooling intensifies the impact of educational decisions on students' future careers. In addition to selecting a certain school, families are forced to decide whether or not to invest in shadow education. Thus far, socioeconomic background and parents' educational aspirations, in conjunction with students' academic achievement, have been deemed influential to such decisions in Japan. The agency of the student is rarely even considered. Based on calculations from the 2011 Hyogo High School Students' (HHSS) survey, the theoretical approach presented in this article stresses the importance of acknowledging the existence of a multitude of actors involved in each phase of the decision-making process, including the students themselves, especially when explaining inequalities in modern societies.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ganghof2015,
  author    = {Ganghof, Steffen},
  title     = {Four Visions of Democracy: Powell's Elections as Instruments of Democracy and beyond},
  series = {Political studies review},
  volume    = {13},
  journal   = {Political studies review},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {1478-9299},
  doi       = {10.1111/1478-9302.12069},
  pages     = {69 -- 79},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The article critically reviews the conceptual ideas of G. Bingham Powell's Elections as Instruments of Democracy and explores ways to develop them further. Powell's conceptual alternative to the Westminster model - the 'proportional' vision of democracy - comes in two variants, one focusing on proportional representation ( PR) and the other on proportional legislative influence. If one focuses on the former, it is possible to distinguish four visions of parliamentary democracy based on the main stage at which majorities are formed. The four stages are: party, alliance, cabinet, and law formation. The corresponding normative visions can be placed on a conceptual continuum between 'simple' and 'complex' majoritarianism. This article discusses the goals and trade-offs associated with them as well as their underlying institutional designs. It also re-emphasises Powell's insight that the congruence between policy makers and the median voter in a unidimensional policy space is a more appropriate normative standard for some visions of democracy than for others.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PickeringSkovgaardKimetal.2015,
  author    = {Pickering, Jonathan and Skovgaard, Jakob and Kim, Soyeun and Roberts, J. Timmons and Rossati, David and Stadelmann, Martin and Reich, Hendrikje},
  title     = {Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States},
  series = {World development},
  volume    = {68},
  journal   = {World development},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0305-750X},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.033},
  pages     = {149 -- 162},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Developed countries have relied heavily on aid budgets to fulfill their pledges to boost funding for addressing climate change in developing countries. However, little is known about how interaction between aid and other ministries has shaped contributors' diverse approaches to climate finance. This paper investigates intra-governmental dynamics in decision-making on climate finance in seven contributor countries (Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, and the US). While aid agencies retained considerable control over implementation, environment and finance ministries have played an influential and often contrasting role on key policy issues, including distribution between mitigation and adaptation and among geographical regions. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KarolewskiMehlhausenSus2015,
  author    = {Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel and Mehlhausen, Thomas and Sus, Monika},
  title     = {The Polish EU Council Presidency in 2011: Master or Servant?},
  series = {Journal of European integration},
  volume    = {37},
  journal   = {Journal of European integration},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {0703-6337},
  doi       = {10.1080/07036337.2015.1053085},
  pages     = {667 -- 684},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The point of departure of this article is limited systematic research on the rotating EU Council Presidency after the Lisbon Treaty. In order to assess rotating presidencies the paper proposes a three-tier approach which includes a functional, a behavioural and a contingency dimension. These dimensions are supplemented by the institutional changes of the Lisbon Treaty referring to the rotating presidencies. Next, the paper applies this evaluation framework to the Polish Presidency that took place in the second half of 2011. Finally, it draws conclusions from the Polish case for both the leadership capacity of the rotating Council Presidency in the post-Lisbon European Union and the performance of Poland's EU Council Presidency.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BruttelFriehe2015,
  author    = {Bruttel, Lisa Verena and Friehe, Tim},
  title     = {A note on making humans randomize},
  series = {Journal of behavioral and experimental economics},
  volume    = {58},
  journal   = {Journal of behavioral and experimental economics},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {2214-8043},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.socec.2015.06.008},
  pages     = {40 -- 45},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {This note presents results from an experiment studying a two person 4 4 pure coordination game. We explore different strategy labels in an attempt to implement the mixed strategy equilibrium that selects all four strategies with equal probability. Such strategy labels must be free from salient properties that might be used by participants to coordinate. Testing 23 different sets of strategy labels, we identify two sets that produce a distribution of subjects' choices which approximate the uniform distribution quite well. Our results are relevant for studies intending to compare the behavior of subjects who play against a random mechanism with that of participants who play against human counterparts.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KuhlmannBogumil2015,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine and Bogumil, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {Legitimation von Verwaltungshandeln - Ver{\"a}nderungen und Konstanten},
  series = {Der moderne Staat : dms ; Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Public Policy, Recht und Management},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {Der moderne Staat : dms ; Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Public Policy, Recht und Management},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Budrich},
  address   = {Leverkusen},
  issn      = {1865-7192},
  pages     = {237 -- 251},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Der Beitrag untersucht das Wechsel- und Zusammenspiel von {\"o}ffentlichem Verwaltungshandeln und Legitimit{\"a}t. Ausgegangen wird davon, dass in den letzten Jahren sowohl die Input- als auch die Outputdimension staatlicher Legitimationsbeschaffung signifikante Ver{\"a}nderungen durchlaufen haben, die die {\"o}ffentliche Verwaltung intensiv ber{\"u}hren. Mit R{\"u}ckgriff auf die anderen Beitr{\"a}ge des Schwerpunktheftes und unter Hinzuziehung weiterer Erkenntnisse wird {\"u}berblicksartig untersucht, ob sich die Legitimationsproduktion durch Verwaltungshandeln ver{\"a}ndert hat und wenn ja, inwiefern. Im Ergebnis ergibt sich ein partieller Wandel hinsichtlich der Legitimationsquellen von Verwaltungshandeln. Sowohl im Input-Bereich (Transparenzgesetze, vorgezogene B{\"u}rgerbeteiligung) als auch im Output-Bereich (z.B. Normenkontrollrat) gibt es neue bzw. einen st{\"a}rkeren Einsatz schon bekannter Instrumente (Expertenkommissionen). Ob dieser Wandel der Instrumente und der potenziellen Quellen von Legitimation allerdings tats{\"a}chlich die Legitimit{\"a}t des Verwaltungshandelns ver{\"a}ndert, also zu einer Legitimit{\"a}tssteigerung f{\"u}hrt, wird teils skeptisch beurteilt und bedarf daher weiterer empirischer Untersuchung.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Kuhlmann2015,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine},
  title     = {Verwaltung und Verwaltungsrefomen im internationalen Vergleich},
  series = {Modernisierung des {\"o}ffentlichen Sektors / Sonderband ; 45},
  journal   = {Modernisierung des {\"o}ffentlichen Sektors / Sonderband ; 45},
  editor    = {D{\"o}hler, Marian and Franzke, Jochen and Wegrich, Kai},
  publisher = {Nomos, Ed. sigma},
  address   = {Baden-Baden},
  isbn      = {978-3-8487-2062-0},
  issn      = {0945-1072},
  pages     = {109 -- 132},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {de}
}