@phdthesis{GanghofHoennigStecker2009, author = {Ganghof, Steffen and H{\"o}nnig, Christoph and Stecker, Christian}, title = {Einleitung : Parlamente, Vetospieler und Agendakontrolle}, isbn = {978- 3-531-15297-4}, year = {2009}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{GanghofStecker2009, author = {Ganghof, Steffen and Stecker, Christian}, title = {Das institutionelle Design parlamentarischer Demokratien : zum Zusammenspiel von Wahl- und Gesetzessystemen}, isbn = {978- 3-531-15297-4}, year = {2009}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Stachursky2013, author = {Stachursky, Banjamin}, title = {The Promise and Perils of transnationalization: NGO activism and the socialization of women's human rights in Egypt and Iran}, series = {Routledge advances in internaional relations and global politics}, volume = {102}, journal = {Routledge advances in internaional relations and global politics}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-3-415-66202-4}, pages = {294 S.}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Stamp2010, author = {Stamp, Joachim}, title = {Geschichte und Selbstverst{\"a}ndnis der Jungen Liberalen von 1989 bis 2005 unter besonderer Ber{\"u}cksichtigung der Gr{\"u}ndung der Jungliberalen Aktion in der DDR und des Vereinigungsprozesses 1989/1990}, pages = {VIII, 487 S.}, year = {2010}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Nix2012, author = {Nix, Andreas}, title = {Zivilreligion und Aufkl{\"a}rung : der zivilreligi{\"o}se Strang der Aufkl{\"a}rung und die Frage nach einer europ{\"a}ischen Zivilreligion}, series = {Region - Nation - Europa}, volume = {71}, journal = {Region - Nation - Europa}, publisher = {LIT}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-643-11740-3}, pages = {412 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Hustedt2013, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Ministerialverwaltung im Wandel : Stuktur und Rolle der Leitungsbereiche im deutsch-d{\"a}nischen Vergleich}, series = {Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung}, volume = {18}, journal = {Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Baden-Baden}, isbn = {978-2-8487-0788-1}, pages = {547 S.}, year = {2013}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Polei2009, author = {Polei, Annika}, title = {Regel- versus prinzipienbasierte Normalsetzungsstrategien : Verwaltenswirkungen in der externen Rechnungslegung}, publisher = {Gabler}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-8349-2086-7}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-8349-8470-8}, pages = {315 S.}, year = {2009}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Meier2009, author = {Meier, Nicole}, title = {Jenseits von Internationalismus und Weltb{\"u}rgertum : Subjektive Handlungsoptionen bei Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt und Agnes Heller}, series = {Reegion - Nation - Europa}, volume = {57}, journal = {Reegion - Nation - Europa}, publisher = {Lit}, address = {M{\"u}nster}, isbn = {978-3-643-100097-9}, pages = {261 S.}, year = {2009}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Seyfried2011, author = {Seyfried, Markus}, title = {Unabh{\"a}ngigkeit und Wirksamkeit von Landesrechnungsh{\"o}fen : eine empirisch-vergleichende Bestandsaufnahme}, series = {Interdisziplin{\"a}re Organisations- und Verwaltungsforschung}, volume = {17}, journal = {Interdisziplin{\"a}re Organisations- und Verwaltungsforschung}, publisher = {VS Verlag f{\"u}r Sozialwissenschaften / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH Wiesbaden}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-531-92799-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-531-92799-2}, pages = {288 S.}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Bach2014, author = {Bach, Tobias}, title = {Autonomie und Steuerung verselbst{\"a}ndigter Beh{\"o}rden : eine empirische Analyse am Beispiel Deutschlands und Norwegens}, series = {Interdisziplin{\"a}re Organisations- und Verwaltungsforschung}, volume = {19}, journal = {Interdisziplin{\"a}re Organisations- und Verwaltungsforschung}, publisher = {Springer Fachmedien}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-04298-1}, pages = {357 S.}, year = {2014}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Remuss2018, author = {Remuß, Nina-Louisa}, title = {Theorising Institutional Change}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {231}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Kesselmann2018, author = {Kesselmann, Manuela}, title = {Entwicklung eines Instrumentes zur Messung von Pr{\"a}sentismus und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Reduktion}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {239}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Copercini2017, author = {Copercini, Marco}, title = {Produktionsnetzwerke und kreatives Feld des Modedesigns}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {211}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Reiher2019, author = {Reiher, Martin}, title = {Parlamentarier als Beruf}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Baden-Baden}, pages = {402}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Die politische Professionalisierung hat innerhalb der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen zur Sozialfigur des Berufspolitikers gef{\"u}hrt. Diese Entwicklung wird im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit hergeleitet und im empirischen Teil mit umfangreichen Daten belegt. Bemerkenswert ist, dass es dabei nicht zu erheblichen Ver{\"a}nderungen in den Rekrutierungsmustern und Karriereverl{\"a}ufen der Abgeordneten gekommen ist. Vielmehr erweisen sich die von Dietrich Herzog herausgearbeiteten Karrieretypen auch heute noch als g{\"u}ltig und mussten nur moderat angepasst werden. Es zeigt sich damit eine erstaunliche Kontinuit{\"a}t in der politischen Elitenbildung. Die in Deutschland sehr gefestigten institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen, die den Zugang und die Attraktivit{\"a}t politischer Karrieren determinieren, haben offensichtlich auch zu einer Stabilisierung der Karrieretypen gef{\"u}hrt.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Herold2019, author = {Herold, Jana}, title = {International Bureaucracies as Governance Actors}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {233}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This study assesses and explains international bureaucracies' performance and role as policy advisors and as expert authorities from the perspective of domestic stakeholders. International bureaucracies are the secretariats of international organizations that carry out their work including generating knowledge, providing policy advice and implementing policy programs and projects. Scholars increasingly regard them as governance actors that are able to influence global and domestic policy making. In order to explain this influence, research has mainly focused on international bureaucracies' formal features and/or staff characteristics. The way in which they are actually perceived by their domestic stakeholders, in particular by national bureaucrats, has not been systematically studied. Yet, this is equally important, given that they represent international bureaucracies' addressees and are actors that (potentially) make use of international bureaucracies' policy advice, which can be seen as an indicator for international bureaucracies' influence. Accordingly, I argue that domestic stakeholders' assessments can likewise contribute to explaining international bureaucracies' influence. The overarching research questions the study addresses are what are national stakeholders' perspectives on international bureaucracies and under which conditions do they consider international bureaucracies' policy advice? In answering these questions, I focus on three specific organizational features that the literature has considered important for international bureaucracies' independent influence, namely international bureaucracies' performance and their role as policy advisors and as expert authorities. These three features are studied separately in three independent articles, which are presented in Part II of this article-based dissertation. To answer the research questions, I draw on novel data from a global survey among ministry officials of 121 countries. The survey captures ministry officials' assessments of international bureaucracies' features and their behavior with respect to international bureaucracies' policy advice. The overall sample comprises the bureaucracies of nine global and nine regional international organizations in eight thematic areas in the policy fields of agriculture and finance. The overall finding of this study is that international bureaucracies' performance and their role as policy advisors and expert authorities as perceived by ministry officials are highly context-specific and relational. These features vary not only across international bureaucracies but much more intra-organizationally across the different thematic areas that an international bureaucracy addresses, i.e. across different thematic contexts. As far as to the relational nature of international bureaucracies' features, the study generally finds strong variation across the assessments by ministry officials from different countries and across thematic areas. Hence, the findings highlight that it is likewise important to study international bureaucracies via the perspective of their stakeholders and to take account of the different thematic areas and contexts in which international bureaucracies operate. The study contributes to current research on international bureaucracies in various ways. First, it directly surveys one important type of domestic stakeholders, namely national ministry officials, as to how they evaluate certain aspects of international bureaucracies instead of deriving them from their structural features, policy documents or assessments by their staff. Furthermore, the study empirically tests a range of theoretical hypotheses derived from the literature on international bureaucracies' influence, as well as related literature. Second, the study advances methods of assessing international bureaucracies through a large-N, cross-national expert survey among ministry officials. A survey of this type of stakeholder and of this scope is - to my knowledge - unprecedented. Yet, as argued above, their perspectives are equally important for assessing and explaining international bureaucracies' influence. Third, the study adapts common theories of international bureaucracies' policy influence and expert authority to the assessments by ministry officials. In so doing, it tests hypotheses that are rooted in both rationalist and constructivist accounts and combines perspectives on international bureaucracies from both International Relations and Public Administration. Empirically supporting and challenging these hypotheses further complements the theoretical understanding of the determinants of international bureaucracies' influence among national bureaucracies from both rationalist and constructivist perspectives. Overall, this study advances our understanding of international bureaucracies by systematically taking into account ministry officials' perspectives in order to determine under which conditions international bureaucracies are perceived to perform well and are able to have an effect as policy advisors and expert authorities among national bureaucracies. Thereby, the study helps to specify to what extent international bureaucracies - as global governance actors - are able to permeate domestic governance via ministry officials and, thus, contribute to the question of why some international bureaucracies play a greater role and are ultimately able to have more influence than others.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Balke2015, author = {Balke, Gregor}, title = {Episoden des Allt{\"a}glichen - Sitcoms und Gesellschaft}, publisher = {Velbr{\"u}ck Wiss.}, address = {Weilerswist}, isbn = {978-3-95832-073-4}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {613}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Die Popul{\"a}rkultur hat mit der Sitcom ein eigent{\"u}mliches Genre im Fernsehen etabliert. W{\"a}hrend Fernsehserien oft hinausblicken in jene Bereiche, die sich zum Teil drastisch von der Lebenswelt des Zuschauers unterscheiden, widersetzt sich die Sitcom seit {\"u}ber einem halben Jahrhundert dieser Blickrichtung. Stattdessen lenkt sie die popul{\"a}rkulturelle Aufmerksamkeit auf Themen, die diesseits unseres lebensweltlichen Horizonts verortet sind und liefert Alltagsbeschreibungen in pointierter Form. Damit b{\"u}ndelt sie eine F{\"u}lle von gesellschaftlichen Relevanzen und situiert sie dort, wo sie zugleich ihr Publikum findet: zu Hause, in den eigenen vier W{\"a}nden. Situation Comedies erweisen sich nicht nur deswegen als soziologische Erkenntnismittel, die - gerade weil es sich bei ihnen um Wirklichkeitskonstruktionen zweiter Ordnung handelt - normativ aufgeladene Bilder des Alltags zeigen. Im Genre der Sitcom wird dem Alltag als Sujet gleichsam ein medialer Ort innerhalb der Popul{\"a}rkultur zugewiesen. Die damit einhergehenden soziologischen und medialen Facetten ergr{\"u}ndet die vorliegende Studie - als erste deutschsprachige Monografie zu dem Thema - im Hinblick auf verschiedene Topoi wissenssoziologisch und hermeneutisch am Beispiel ausgew{\"a}hlter Sitcoms der zur{\"u}ckliegenden 20 Jahre. Als beeindruckend erweisen sich hierbei die tiefgreifenden und bildhaften Analysen der Sitcoms und ihre R{\"u}ckbindungen an wissens-, kultur- und allgemeinsoziologische Erkenntnisse. Die Sitcom erscheint als Unter-haltungsformat, das nicht nur Alltagsgeschichten erz{\"a}hlt, sondern die Produktions- und Rezeptionsbedingungen dieser Geschichten immer auch miterz{\"a}hlt. Es handelt sich mithin um mediale Artefakte, die gleichsam als unterhaltsame Mittel gesellschaftlicher Wahrnehmung und medialer Selbstwahrnehmung auftreten. Angelegt als qualitative Studie an der Schnittstelle von Medien- und Sozialwis-senschaften, f{\"u}gt das Buch dem gegenw{\"a}rtigen Diskurs um Popul{\"a}rkultur, Fernsehserien und Kulturwissenschaften eine soziologisch fundierte Perspektive hinzu, die f{\"u}r Sozial- und Medienwissenschaftler ebenso anregend ist wie f{\"u}r jene, die mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die gegenw{\"a}rtige akademische Rezeption von TV-Serien schauen - kenntnisreich dargelegt in einer klaren und zug{\"a}nglichen Sprache}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Silbermann2015, author = {Silbermann, Alexandra}, title = {Gesundheitsbewusstes Konsumentenverhalten}, publisher = {Springer Gabler}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {978-3-658-09680-9}, pages = {341}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Alexandra Silbermann entwickelt einen neuartigen, systematischen Ansatz, der eine ganzheitliche Analyse und Erkl{\"a}rung des Bewusstseins f{\"u}r einen gesunden Konsum zul{\"a}sst und die Identifikation bedeutender Einflussfaktoren, die f{\"u}r Maßnahmen zug{\"a}nglich sind, erm{\"o}glicht. Ohne fundierte Kenntnisse der kognitiven Prozesse, die dem gesundheitsbewussten Konsumentenverhalten zugrunde liegen, k{\"o}nnen Marketing- bzw. Interventionsmaßnahmen nur begrenzt wirkungsvoll sein. Die Autorin leitet Implikationen f{\"u}r eine effizientere F{\"o}rderung gesundheitsbewussten Konsums ab. Die Systematisierung ist {\"u}ber den Gesundheitsbezug hinaus einsetzbar. Der Inhalt Arten des Bewusstseins als Systematisierungsansatz zentraler sozial-kognitiver Konstrukte der Verhaltensforschung Theoretische Darstellung der Determinanten gesundheitsbewussten Konsumentenverhaltens Empirische Pr{\"u}fung des Modells zur Erkl{\"a}rung gesundheitsbewussten Konsumentenverhaltens Diskussion der Einflussfaktoren und deren Beziehungsstrukturen Implikationen f{\"u}r Marketingwissenschaft und -management Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Gesundheitswissenschaften mit den Schwerpunkten Konsumentenverhalten, Marktforschung sowie pr{\"a}ventive Gesundheitsf{\"o}rderung Praktiker in Marketing und Marktforschung bei Anbietern von Konsumg{\"u}tern und in der pr{\"a}ventiven Gesundheitsf{\"o}rderung Die AutorIn Alexandra Silbermann ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam bei Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Balderjahn am Lehrstuhl f{\"u}r Marketing I.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Kanter2016, author = {Kanter, Heike}, title = {Ikonische Macht}, series = {Sozialwissenschaftliche Ikonologie: Qualitative Bild- und Videointerpretationen ; 7}, journal = {Sozialwissenschaftliche Ikonologie: Qualitative Bild- und Videointerpretationen ; 7}, publisher = {Budrich}, address = {Opladen}, isbn = {978-3-8474-0146-9}, pages = {309}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Bilder sind Teil der medialen {\"O}ffentlichkeit. Sie konstruieren Gesellschaft. Wie machtvoll sind sie? Die Studie analysiert die soziale Gestaltung von Pressefotografien in Tageszeitungen. In Feininterpretationen werden die gestalterischen Routinen der Redaktionen nachgezeichnet. Zudem wird gezeigt, wie bei der Ver{\"o}ffentlichung um die Auslegung der Bilder gerungen wird. Die Autorin entwickelt die qualitative Bildanalyse innovativ weiter und liefert zugleich einen eigenst{\"a}ndigen Beitrag zur Diskussion der ,Macht der Bilder'.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Mueller2015, author = {M{\"u}ller, Magnus Thomas}, title = {Erkl{\"a}rungsmodell f{\"u}r die Bildungsbeteiligung beruflich qualifizierter Personen zwischen beruflicher und akademischer Bildungsentscheidungen}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {146, lv}, year = {2015}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Jantz2015, author = {Jantz, Bastian}, title = {The dynamics of accountability in public sector reforms}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-78131}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {182}, year = {2015}, abstract = {This PhD thesis is essentially a collection of six sequential articles on dynamics of accountability in the reformed employment and welfare administration in different countries. The first article examines how recent changes in the governance of employment services in three European countries (Denmark, Germany and Norway) have influenced accountability relationships from a very wide-ranging perspective. It starts from the overall assumption in the literature that accountability relationships are becoming more numerous and complex, and that these changes may lead to multiple accountability disorder. The article explores these assumptions by analyzing the different actors involved and the information requested in the new governance arrangements in all three countries. It concludes that the considerable changes in organizational arrangements and more managerial information demanded and provided have led to more shared forms of accountability. Nevertheless, a clear development towards less political or administrative accountability could not be observed. The second article analyzes how the structure and development of reform processes affect accountability relationships and via what mechanisms. It is distinguished between an instrumental perspective and an institutional perspective and each of these perspectives takes a different view on the link between reforms and concrete action and results. By taking the welfare reforms in Norway and Germany as an example, it is shown that the reform outcomes in both countries are the result of a complex process of powering, puzzling and institutional constraints where different situational interpretations of problems, interests and administrative legacies had to be balanced. Accountability thus results not from a single process of environmental necessity or strategic choice, but from a dynamic interplay between different actors and institutional spheres. The third article then covers a specific instrument of public sector reforms, i.e. the increasing use of performance management. The article discusses the challenges and ambiguities between performance management and different forms of accountability based on the cases of the reformed welfare administration in Norway and Germany. The findings are that the introduction of performance management creates new accountability structures which influence service delivery, but not necessarily in the direction expected by reform agents. Observed unintended consequences include target fixation, the displacement of political accountability and the predominance of control aspects of accountability. The fourth article analyzes the accountability implications of the increasingly marketized models of welfare governance. It has often been argued that relocating powers and discretion to private contractors involve a trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency. However, there is limited empirical evidence of how contracting out shapes accountability or is shaped by alternative democratic or administrative forms of accountability. Along these lines the article examines employment service accountability in the era of contracting out in Germany, Denmark and Great Britain. It is found that market accountability instruments are complementary instruments, not substitutes. The findings highlight the importance of administrative and political instruments in legitimizing marketized service provision and shed light on the processes that lead to the development of a hybrid accountability model. The fifth and sixth articles focus on the diagonal accountability relationships between public agencies, supreme audit institutions (SAI) and parental ministry or parliament. The fifth article examines the evolving role of SAIs in Denmark, Germany and Norway focusing particularly on their contribution to public accountability and their ambivalent relationship with some aspects of public sector reform in the welfare sector. The article analyzes how SAIs assess New Public Management inspired reforms in the welfare sector in the three countries. The analysis shows that all three SAIs have taken on an evaluative role when judging New Public Management instruments. At the same time their emphasis on legality and compliance can be at odds with some of the operating principles introduced by New Public Management reforms. The sixth article focuses on the auditing activities of the German SAI in the field of labor market administration as a single in-depth case study. The purpose is to analyze how SAIs gain impact in diagonal accountability settings. The results show that the direct relationship between auditor and auditee based on cooperation and trust is of outstanding importance for SAIs to give effect to their recommendations. However, if an SAI has to rely on actors of diagonal accountability, it is in a vulnerable position as it might lose control over the interpretation of its results.}, language = {en} }