TY - CHAP A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Veit, Sylvia A1 - Bogumil, Jörg T1 - Public Service Systems at Subnational and Local Levels of Government : a British-German-French Comparison T2 - Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-1-137-32578-5 SP - 162 EP - 184 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Hampshire ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine T1 - Politikevaluation/Evaluationsforschung T2 - Kleines Lexikon der Politik Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-406-68106-6 SP - 480 EP - 483 PB - C. H. Beck CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Bogumil, Jörg T1 - Legitimation von Verwaltungshandeln - Veränderungen und Konstanten BT - Einleitung JF - Der moderne Staat : dms ; Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management N2 - Der Beitrag untersucht das Wechsel- und Zusammenspiel von öffentlichem Verwaltungshandeln und Legitimität. Ausgegangen wird davon, dass in den letzten Jahren sowohl die Input- als auch die Outputdimension staatlicher Legitimationsbeschaffung signifikante Veränderungen durchlaufen haben, die die öffentliche Verwaltung intensiv berühren. Mit Rückgriff auf die anderen Beiträge des Schwerpunktheftes und unter Hinzuziehung weiterer Erkenntnisse wird überblicksartig untersucht, ob sich die Legitimationsproduktion durch Verwaltungshandeln verändert hat und wenn ja, inwiefern. Im Ergebnis ergibt sich ein partieller Wandel hinsichtlich der Legitimationsquellen von Verwaltungshandeln. Sowohl im Input-Bereich (Transparenzgesetze, vorgezogene Bürgerbeteiligung) als auch im Output-Bereich (z.B. Normenkontrollrat) gibt es neue bzw. einen stärkeren Einsatz schon bekannter Instrumente (Expertenkommissionen). Ob dieser Wandel der Instrumente und der potenziellen Quellen von Legitimation allerdings tatsächlich die Legitimität des Verwaltungshandelns verändert, also zu einer Legitimitätssteigerung führt, wird teils skeptisch beurteilt und bedarf daher weiterer empirischer Untersuchung. Y1 - 2015 SN - 1865-7192 SN - 2196-1395 VL - 8 IS - 2 SP - 237 EP - 251 PB - Budrich CY - Leverkusen ER - TY - INPR A1 - Kohler, Ulrich T1 - Maintaining quality T2 - Survey research methods N2 - Survey Research Methods has slightly revised its publication policies. Firstly, starting with the publication of this Editorial, SRM will accept - under specified conditions - manuscripts that discuss experiments in non-probability samples for peer-review. Secondly, SRM will require authors to publish replication materials of their study as Online supplement to their article. Finally, Survey Research Methods will publish replication studies of articles published in the journal. This Editorial gives reasons for these changes. KW - Editorial policies KW - non-probability samples KW - experiments KW - TOP-Guidelines Y1 - 2015 SN - 1864-3361 VL - 9 IS - 3 SP - 139 EP - 140 PB - European Survey Research Association CY - Duisburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ganghof, Steffen T1 - Four Visions of Democracy: Powell's Elections as Instruments of Democracy and beyond JF - Political studies review N2 - 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. KW - G. Bingham Powell KW - visions of democracy KW - ideological congruence KW - simple majoritarianism KW - complex majoritarianism Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12069 SN - 1478-9299 SN - 1478-9302 VL - 13 IS - 1 SP - 69 EP - 79 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pickering, Jonathan A1 - Skovgaard, Jakob A1 - Kim, Soyeun A1 - Roberts, J. Timmons A1 - Rossati, David A1 - Stadelmann, Martin A1 - Reich, Hendrikje T1 - Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States JF - World development N2 - 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. KW - climate policy KW - climate finance KW - development assistance KW - bureaucratic politics Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.033 SN - 0305-750X VL - 68 SP - 149 EP - 162 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scheller, Henrik T1 - Framing Citizen Participation: Participatory Budgeting in France, Germany and the United Kingdom JF - German politics Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2015.1032511 SN - 0964-4008 SN - 1743-8993 VL - 24 IS - 2 SP - 210 EP - 211 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Entrich, Steve R. T1 - The Decision for Shadow Education in Japan: Students' Choice or Parents' Pressure? JF - Social science Japan journal : an international journal of social science research on Japan N2 - 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. KW - shadow education KW - educational aspirations KW - decision theory KW - juku KW - Hyogo Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyv012 SN - 1369-1465 SN - 1468-2680 VL - 18 IS - 2 SP - 193 EP - 216 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Korff, Valeska P. A1 - Balbo, Nicoletta A1 - Mills, Melinda A1 - Heyse, Liesbet A1 - Wittek, Rafael T1 - The impact of humanitarian context conditions and individual characteristics on aid worker retention JF - Disasters : the journal of disaster studies, policy and management N2 - 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. KW - aid worker KW - humanitarian organisations KW - personnel policy KW - retention KW - staff turnover Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12119 SN - 0361-3666 SN - 1467-7717 VL - 39 IS - 3 SP - 522 EP - 545 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Seyfried, Markus T1 - Drawing from the bargaining pool: Determinants of ministerial selection in Germany JF - Party politics : an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations N2 - 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. KW - Candidates KW - Germany KW - government-formation Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068813487108 SN - 1354-0688 SN - 1460-3683 VL - 21 IS - 4 SP - 503 EP - 514 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER -