TY - THES A1 - Dahlsten, Ulf T1 - World market governance T1 - Weltmarktsteuerung BT - the alternative; how an international rule of law can reap the benefits of the global market economy and strengthen national and regional sovereignty N2 - Democratic capitalism or liberal democracy, as the successful marriage of convenience between market liberalism and democracy sometimes is called, is in trouble. The market economy system has become global and there is a growing mismatch with the territoriality of the nation-states. The functional global networks and inter-governmental order can no longer keep pace with the rapid development of the global market economy and regulatory capture is all too common. Concepts like de-globalization, self-regulation, and global government are floated in the debate. The alternatives are analysed and found to be improper, inadequate or plainly impossible. The proposed route is instead to accept that the global market economy has developed into an independent fundamental societal system that needs its own governance. The suggestion is World Market Governance based on the Rule of Law in order to shape the fitness environment for the global market economy and strengthen the nation-states so that they can regain the sovereignty to decide upon the social and cultural conditions in each country. Elements in the proposed Rule of Law are international legislation decided by an Assembly supported by a Council, and an independent Judiciary. Existing international organisations would function as executors. The need for broad sustained demand for regulations in the common interest is identified. N2 - Die erfolgreiche Zweckehe zwischen Marktliberalismus und Demokratie, auch als Demokratischer Kapitalismus oder Liberale Demokratie bezeichnet, befindet sich in einer Krise. Das System der Marktwirtschaft hat sich globalisiert und die Diskrepanz zur Territorialität der Nationalstaaten nimmt zu. Globale Netzwerke und die zwischenstaatliche Ordnung können nicht mehr Schritt halten mit der Entwicklungsgeschwindigkeit der globalen Marktwirtschaft, und die Vereinnahmung von Regulierungsinstanzen („regulatory capture“) ist ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen. Konzepte wie Deglobalisierung, Selbstregulierung und Weltregierung werden debattiert. Diese Alternativen werden in dieser Dissertationsschrift analysiert und stellen sich als unpassend, unzulänglich oder schlicht unmöglich heraus. Stattdessen wird vorgeschlagen, zu akzeptieren, dass sich die globale Marktwirtschaft zu einem unabhängigen fundamentalen gesellschaftlichen System entwickelt hat, das einer eigenen Steuerung bedarf. Vorgeschlagen wird ein System der Weltmarktsteuerung aufbauend auf dem Prinzip der Rechtsstaatlichkeit, in das die globale Marktwirtschaft eingebettet wird und das die Nationalstaaten stärkt, so dass sie Ihre Souveränität hinsichtlich Entscheidungen über nationale soziale und kulturelle Bedingungen wiedererlangen. Elemente des vorgeschlagenen gesetzesbasierten Steuerung sind eine internationale Gesetzgebung durch eine Versammlung, unterstützt durch einen Rat, und eine unabhängige Gerichtsbarkeit. Bestehende Internationale Organisationen würden als Exekutive fungieren. Dazu ist eine dauerhafte und umfängliche Nachfrage nach Regulierung im Gemeininteresse erforderlich. KW - Welt KW - Wirtschaft KW - Steuerung KW - Finanz KW - Markt KW - global KW - markets KW - governance KW - finance KW - economy Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-70168 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beisheim, Marianne A1 - Liese, Andrea Margit A1 - Vosseler, Christian T1 - Who governs partnershis? on the role board, donors, partners and other stakeholders Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-35925-0 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Beisheim, Marianne ED - Leise, Andrea T1 - Transnationale Partnerships : effectively providing for sustainable development? Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-35952-0 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beisheim, Marianne A1 - Liese, Andrea Margit A1 - Janetschek, Hannah A1 - Sarre, Johanna T1 - Transnational partnerships: conditions for successful service provision in areas of limited statehood JF - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12070 SN - 0952-1895 SN - 1468-0491 VL - 27 IS - 4 SP - 655 EP - 673 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Henn, Elisabeth V. T1 - The development of German jurisprudence on individual compensation for victims of armed conflicts the Kunduz case JF - Journal of international criminal justice N2 - In December 2013, the Court at first instance in Bonn ruled on whether Germany is required to pay compensation to victims of the International Security Assistance Force airstrike ordered by a German colonel in 2009 in Kunduz. Whereas the traditional approach rejects liability of the government for sovereign acts in armed conflicts, the Court held that the rules of German governmental liability (Amtshaftung) do-in principle-apply to illegal sovereign acts in contemporary armed conflicts. However, the Court did not admit the claim on its merits. This judgment can, nonetheless, be placed within the line of questions regarding international relations to be resolved by law and not politics. This article examines the history of German jurisprudence regarding victims' compensation for harm suffered resulting from violations of international humanitarian law. It summarizes and assesses the Kunduz judgment and explains why applying legal liability to the government for sovereign acts in bello is a logical step in the development of the rule of law. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqu035 SN - 1478-1387 SN - 1478-1395 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 615 EP - 637 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - THES A1 - Debre, Maria T1 - Testing the limits of civil society in Jordan T1 - Grenzen der Zivilgesellschaften in Jordanien BT - an action-based approach to the study of civil society in authoritarian regimes in the Middle East BT - ein handlungslogischer Ansatz für die Analyse von Zivilgesellschaft in Autoritären Regimen im Nahen Osten N2 - Civil society is either considered as a motor of democratization or stabilizer of authoritarian rule. This dichotomy is partly due to the dominance of domains-based definitions of the concept that reduce civil society to a small range of formally organized, independent and democratically oriented NGOs. Additionally, research often treats civil society as a ‘black box’ without differentiating between potential variations in impact of different types of civil society actors on existing regime structures. In this thesis, I present an alternative conceptualization of civil society based on the interactions of societal actors to arrive at a more inclusive understanding of the term which is more suited for analysis in non-democratic settings. The operationalization of the action-based approach I develop allows for an empirical assessment of a large range of societal activities that can accordingly be categorized from little to very civil society-like depending on their specific modes of interactions within four dimensions. I employ this operationalization in a qualitative case study including different actors in the authoritarian monarchy of Jordan which suggests that Jordanian societal actors mostly exhibit tolerant and democratically oriented modes of interaction and do not reproduce authoritarian patterns. However, even democratically oriented actors do not necessarily take on an oppositional positions vis-à-vis the authoritarian regime. Thus, the Jordanian civil society might not feature a high potential to challenge existing power structures in the country. N2 - Zivilgesellschaft wird entweder als förderlich für Demokratisierung oder als Stabilisator autoritärer Herrschaftsstrukturen gesehen. Dies ist zum Einen das Resultat der Dominanz bereichslogischer Definitionen des Konzepts, welche Zivilgesellschaft auf ein schmales Spektrum formal organisierter, unabhängiger und demokratisch orientierter NGOs von Bürgern reduziert. Zum Anderen wird Zivilgesellschaft in der Forschung meist als ‚black box‘ behandelt, ohne Differenzierung zwischen der potenziellen Wirkungsweise verschiedener Arten von gesellschaftlichen Akteuren vorzunehmen. Diese Arbeit stellt eine alternative Konzeptualisierung von Zivilgesellschaft als Interaktion gesellschaftlicher Akteure vor, um ein inklusiveres Verständnis zu ermöglichen. Die erarbeitete Operationalisierung dieses Ansatzes erlaubt die empirische Untersuchung einer großen Bandbreite an gesellschaftlichen Aktivitäten, welche je nach Interaktionsmuster innerhalb von vier Dimensionen eine sehr hohe bis sehr niedrige Eignung zum zivilgesellschaftlichen Handeln aufweisen können. Eine Fallstudie verschiedener Akteure im autoritären Regime Jordanien lässt annehmen, dass gesellschaftliche Akteure dort ein dominant tolerantes, demokratisches Interaktionsmuster aufweisen und nicht autoritäre Interaktionsmuster reproduzieren. Dennoch steht eine demokratische Gesinnung der Akteure nicht automatisch in Zusammenhang mit einer oppositionellen Position gegenüber dem autoritären Staat. Das Potenzial der Zivilgesellschaft zur politischen Herausforderung der bestehenden Herrschaftsstrukturen scheint somit gering. KW - civil society KW - authoritarianism KW - democratization KW - Jordan KW - qualitative case study KW - Zivilgesellschaft KW - Autoritarismus KW - Demokratisierung KW - Jordanien KW - qualitative Fallstudie Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-72974 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liese, Andrea Margit A1 - Beisheim, Marianne T1 - Research design : measuring and explaning the effectiveness of PPPs Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-35925-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Grohs, Stephan A1 - Bogumil, Jörg T1 - Reforming public administration in multilevel systems BT - an evaluation of performance changes in european local governments JF - Public administration and the modern state : assesing trends and impact Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-43748-8 SP - 205 EP - 222 PB - Palgrave CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borck, Rainald A1 - Wimbersky, Martin T1 - Political economics of higher education finance JF - Oxford economic papers Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gps042 SN - 0030-7653 SN - 1464-3812 VL - 66 IS - 1 SP - 115 EP - 139 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Campe, Sabine T1 - Partnerships for water and energy - special focus : knowledge transfer Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-35925-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kann, Christopher T1 - Partnerships for decent work and food - special focus : standard setting Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-35925-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sprinz, Detlef F. T1 - Long-term policy problems: definition, origins, and redponses JF - Predicting the Future in Science, Economics, and Politics Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-78347-186-7 SP - 126 EP - 143 PB - Elgar CY - Northampton ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beisheim, Marianne A1 - Liese, Andrea Margit A1 - Lorch, Jasmin T1 - Introduction : transnationale partnerships for sustainable development Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-35925-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meijering, Jurian V. A1 - Kern, Kristine A1 - Tobi, Hilde T1 - Identifying the methodological characteristics of European green city rankings JF - Ecological indicators : integrating monitoring, assessment and management N2 - City rankings that aim to measure the environmental sustainability of European cities may contribute to the evaluation and development of environmental policy of European cities. The objective of this study is to identify and evaluate the methodological characteristics of these city rankings. First, a methodology was developed to systematically identify methodological characteristics of city rankings within different steps of the ranking development process. Second, six city rankings (European Energy Award, European Green Capital Award, European Green City Index, European Soot-free City Ranking, RES Champions League, Urban Ecosystem Europe) were examined. Official websites and any methodological documents found on those websites were content analyzed using the developed methodology. Interviews with representatives of the city rankings were conducted to acquire any additional information. Results showed that the city rankings varied greatly with respect to their methodological characteristics and that all city rankings had methodological weaknesses. Developers of city rankings are advised to use the methodology developed in this study to find methodological weaknesses and improve their ranking. In addition, developers ought to be more transparent about the methodological characteristics of their city rankings. End-users of city rankings are advised to use the developed methodology to identify and evaluate the methodological characteristics of city rankings before deciding to act on ranking results. (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. KW - Methodology KW - Ranking KW - Index KW - Indicator KW - City KW - Environmental sustainability Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.02.026 SN - 1470-160X SN - 1872-7034 VL - 43 SP - 132 EP - 142 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jensen, Carsten A1 - Knill, Christoph A1 - Schulze, Kai A1 - Tosun, Jale T1 - Giving less by doing more? Dynamics of social policy expansion and dismantling in 18 OECD countries JF - Journal of European public policy N2 - Protection against social risks is generally popular among voters and should enjoy the benefits of institutional inertia. Yet retrenchment occurs rather frequently in advanced welfare states without this systematically leading to electoral punishment. We solve this paradox by, first, arguing that governments can avoid the blame of retrenchment by pursuing a strategy of expansionary dismantling' where new policies and instruments are used to compensate reform losers and to obfuscate cutbacks. Second, we test our argument with a huge new dataset consisting of changes in unemployment legislation and replacement rates in 18 OECD countries from 1976 to 2000. The statistical tests provide robust support for our argument, suggesting that the introduction of new policies and instruments leads to cutbacks in replacement rates. We also find that left-leaning governments are least likely to engage in expansionary dismantling. KW - Policy change KW - policy dismantling KW - social policy KW - welfare state retrenchment Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2013.866262 SN - 1350-1763 SN - 1466-4429 VL - 21 IS - 4 SP - 528 EP - 548 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - THES A1 - Hermawan, Romy T1 - Coordination and civil service reform in Indonesia (1999-2009) N2 - The background of civil service reform in Indonesia reveals the emergence of the reformation movement in 1998, following the fall of the authoritarian New Order regime. The reformation movement has seen the introduction of reforms in Indonesia's various governmental institutions, including the civil service. The civil service reforms were marked by the revision of Act 8/ 74 with Act 43 of 1999 on Civil Service Administration. The implementation of the civil service reform program, which was carried out by both central and local governments, required cooperation between the actors (in particular, Ministries, agencies and local governments), known as coordination. Currently, the coordination that occurs between actors tends to be rigid and hierarchical. As a result, targets are not efficiently and effectively met. Hierarchical coordination, without a strong public sector infrastructure, tends to have a negative impact on achieving the desired outcomes of the civil service reform program. As an intrinsic part of the New Order regime, hierarchical coordination resulted in inefficiency and lack of efficacy. Despite these inefficiencies, the administration and the political environment have changed significantly as a result of the reform process. Obvious examples of the reforms are changes in recruitment patterns, placement and remuneration policies. However, in the case of Indonesia, it appears that every state institution has its own policy. Thus, it appears that there has not been policy coherence in the civil service reform program, resulting in the lack of a sustainable program. The important thing to examine is how the coordination mechanisms of the civil service reform program in the central government have developed during the reform era in Indonesia The purpose of this study is to analyse the linkages between coordination mechanisms and the actual implementation of civil service reform programs. This is undertaken as a basis for intervention based on the structures and patterns of coordination mechanisms in the implementation of civil service reform programs. The next step is to formulate the development coordination mechanisms, particularly to create structures and patterns of civil service reforms which are more sustainable to the specific characteristics of public sector organisations in Indonesia. The benefits of this research are a stronger understanding of the linkages between the mechanisms of coordination and implementation of civil service reform programs. Through this analysis, the findings can then be applied as a basic consideration in planning a sustainable civil service reform program. In the basis of theoretical issues concerning the linkages between coordination mechanisms and implementation of civil service reform program sustainability, this book explores the type of coordination, which is needed to test the proportional and sustainable concept of the intended civil service reform program in Indonesia. Research conducted through studies, surveys and donors has shown that poor coordination is the major hindrance to the civil service program reform in Indonesia. This research employs a qualitative approach. In this study, the coordination mechanisms and implementations of civil service reform programs are demonstrated by means of case studies of the State Ministry for Administrative Reform, the National Civil Service Agency and the National Public Administration Institute. The coordination mechanisms in these Ministries and agencies were analysed using indicators of effective and efficient coordination. The analysis of the coordination mechanisms shows a tendency towards rigid hierarchical coordination. This raises concerns about fragmentation among departments and agencies at the central government level and calls for integrated civil service reform both at central and local governmental levels. In the context of implementation programs, a hierarchical mechanism of coordination leverages on various aspects, such as the program formulation, implementation flow of the program, the impact of policies, and achievement targets. In particular, there was a shift process of the mainstream civil service reform in the Ministries and agencies which are marked by the emergence of sectoral interest and inefficiencies in the civil service reform program. The primary result of successful civil service reform is increased professionalism in the civil service. The findings on hierarchical mechanisms and the prescriptions which will follow show that the professionalism of Indonesia’s civil service is at stake. The implementation of the program through coordination mechanisms in Ministries and agencies is measured in various dimensions: the centre of coordination, integration of coordination, sustainability of coordination and multidimensionality of coordination. The results of this analysis show that coordination mechanisms and the implementation of civil service reform are more successful when they are integration rather than hierarchical mechanisms. For a successful implementation of the reform program, it is crucial to intervene and change the type of coordination at the central government through the integration approach (hierarchy, market, and network). Furthermore, in order to move towards the integration type mechanism of coordination the separation of the administration and politics in the practice of good governance needs to be carried out immediately and simultaneously. Based on this analysis, it can be concluded that the integration type mechanism of coordination is a suitable for Indonesia for a sustainable civil service reform program. Finally, to achieve coherent civil service reforms, national policies developed according to the central government's priorities are indispensable, establishing a coordination mechanism that can be adhered to throughout all reform sectors. N2 - Seit dem Sturz des autoritären und dem Wechsel zum Regime des „New Order“ im Jahre 1998 haben die Reformbemühungen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Indonesien stark zugenommen. Ihren Ursprung nahmen sie mit der Revision des Gesetzes 8/74 und 43 im Jahre 1999 betreffend die Grundlagen der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Implementiert wurde die Reform sowohl durch die Zentralregierung als auch durch die Lokalregierungen. Jedoch erforderte die Implementierung dieses Programmes auch die Zusammenarbeit bzw. die Koordination verschiedener Akteure, wie beispielsweise Ministerien, Behörden, und Lokalregierungen. Die gegenwärtige Koordination zwischen diesen Akteuren ist rigide und hierarchisch. Daraus ergibt sich, dass die gesteckten Ziele nicht effizient und effektiv erreicht werden. Hierarchische Koordination ohne eine gefestigte Verwaltungsstruktur verhindert die Umsetzung des Reformprogrammes. Als intrinsisches Merkmal des „New Order“ Regimes führt die hierarchische Koordination zur Ineffizienz und einem Mangel an Effektivität. Trotz dieser Ineffizienzen haben die Reformen zu signifikanten Veränderungen in der Verwaltung und im politischen Umfeld geführt. Offensichtliche Beispiele der Verwaltungsreform sind Änderungen in der Einstellungs-, Beförderungs- und Entlohnungspraxis. Im Falle Indonesiens jedoch scheint jede einzelne Institution ihr eigenes Regelwerk zu besitzen. Dies deutet darauf hin, dass das Verwaltungsreformprogramm keine allzu große Kohärenz aufgewiesen hat. Es ist hierbei wichtig zu untersuchen wie die Koordinationsmechanismen dieses Programmes sich nach der Reformära in Indonesien entwickelt haben. Diese Studie hat die Absicht, die Verbindungen zwischen den Koordinationsmechanismen und den tatsächlichen Durchführung des Reformprogrammes der öffentlichen Verwaltung zu analysieren. Offensichtlich zeichnete sich dieseweder durch Kohärenz noch eine nachhaltige Implementierung aus. Es ist nun wichtig, eine Richtung zu bestimmen, wie die Koordinationsmechanismen sich entwickeln müssten um Strukturen und Mechanismen zu schaffen, die besser zu den spezifischen Charakteristiken der öffentlichen Verwaltungen in Indonesien passen. Diese Untersuchung trägt dazu bei, die Zusammenhänge zwischen Koordinationsmechanismen und des tatsächlichen Implementationserfolges von Reformprogrammen der öffentlichen Verwaltung zu verstehen. Ein solches Analyseergebnis kann dann zu nachhaltigen Reformbemühungen beitragen. Ausgehend von theoretischen Überlegungen bezüglich der Verbindung von Koordinationsmechanismen und der Implementierung von Reformprogrammen der öffentlichen Verwaltung, erforscht diese Studie verschiedene Aspekte des Koordinationstypus, der notwendig scheint, um das verhältnismäßige und nachhaltigeKonzept des beabsichtigten Reformprogrammes in Indonesien zu testen. Bisherige Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Koordination zeigt, dass das größte Hindernis für ein erfolgreiches Reformprogramm der öffentlichen Verwaltung ein Mangel an Koordination ist. Diese Studie wählt einen qualitativen Ansatz. Sie zeigt die Koordinationsmechanismen bei der Implementation von Reformprogrammen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung an den Fallbeispielen des „Staatsministeriums für Administrative Reformen“, der „Nationalen Agentur für den Öffentlichen Dienst“ und des „Nationalen Instituts für die Öffentliche Verwaltung“. Die Koordinationsmechanismen dieser Ministerien und Institute wurden dabei auf Grundlage von Indikatoren für effektive und effiziente Koordination untersucht. Die Analyse zeit tendenziell, dass die Koordination einerigide und hierarchische Form annimmt. Dies lässt Bedenken über die Fragmentierung der Abteilungen und Agenturen der Zentralregierung aufkommen und verdeutlicht die Notwendigkeit einer integrierten Reform der öffentlichen Verwaltung sowohl auf der Ebene der Zentralregierung als auch der Lokalregierungen. Im Kontext der Implementierungsbemühungen berührt eine hierarchische Koordination verschiedene Aspekte wie zum Beispiel die Formulierung des Programmes, der Ablauf der Implementation, der Einfluss des Regelwerks und die Erreichung der gesteckten Ziele. Insbesondere konnte beobachtet werden, dass sich der grundlegende Verwaltungsprozesses in den Ministerien und den Agenturen verlagert hat, was sich durch die Verstärkung sektoraler Interessen und zunehmender Ineffizienzen des Reformprogrammes ausdrückt. Das derzeitige Ergebnis ist im Wesentlichen eine zunehmende Professionalisierung des öffentlichen Dienstes. Die Befunde über hierarchische Mechanismen und die danach folgenden Vorgaben stellen die Professionalität des öffentlichen Dienstes in Indonesien in Frage. Die Implementierung des Reformprogrammes durch Koordinationsmechanismen in Ministerien und Agenturen werden auf mehreren Dimensionen gemessen: der Ausgangspunkt der Koordination, ihre Einbindung, Nachhaltigkeit und Mehrdimensionalität. Die Ergebnisse dieser Analyse zeigen, dass integrative Koordinationsmechanismen und Implementationen erfolgreicher sind als hierarchische. Um das restliche Reformprogramm erfolgreich zu einem Ende zu bringen, erscheint es wesentlich einzugreifen und die vorherrschende Koordination in der Zentralregierung durch einen integrativen Ansatz zu ersetzen (Hierarchie, Markt, Netzwerk). Darüber hinaus muss, um dies zu erreichen, die Trennung von Verwaltung und Politik im Sinne der guten Regierungsführung gleichzeitig umgesetzt werden. Auf Grundlage dieser Analyse kann gefolgert werden, dass der integrative Ansatz bei der Koordination geeignet erscheint, um das Reformprogramm der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Indonesien umzusetzen. Schlussendlich, um eine einheitliche Reform der öffentlichen Verwaltung zu erreichen bedarf es einer zentralen Koordinationsstrategie der Zentralregierung, die einheitlich in allen Reformsektoren befolgt wird. KW - Indonesien KW - Verwaltungsreform KW - Geschichte 1999-2009 KW - Coordination KW - Civil Service Reform KW - Bureaucracy Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-602-284-061-9 PB - Center of South South Cooperation Studies, Univ. CY - Brawijaya ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liese, Andrea Margit A1 - Jeanetschek, Hannah A1 - Sarre, Johanna T1 - Can PPPs make it anywhere? how limited statehood and other area factors influence PPP effectiveness Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-137-35925-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ganghof, Steffen T1 - Bicameralism as a form of government (Or: Why Australia and Japan do not have a parliamentary system) JF - Parliamentary affairs : a journal of representative politics N2 - The article analyses a certain type of bicameralism not merely as a form of legislative organisation, but as a form of government-as a hybrid between parliamentarism and presidentialism. A new typology of pure and hybrid forms of government is proposed, which classifies bicameralism in Australia and Japan as chamber-independent government. This type is systematically compared with other forms of government, including hybrids like semi-presidentialism, elected prime-ministerial government in Israel (from 1996 to 2002) and assembly-independent government in Switzerland. The article highlights how chamber-independent government has the potential to combine different visions of democracy without leading to presidentialisation of political parties. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss081 SN - 0031-2290 SN - 1460-2482 VL - 67 IS - 3 SP - 647 EP - 663 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fuertes, Vanesa A1 - Jantz, Bastian A1 - Klenk, Tanja A1 - McQuaid, Ronald T1 - Between cooperation and competition: The organisation of employment service delivery in the UK and Germany JF - International journal of social welfare N2 - The increased emphasis on labour market activation in many European countries has led to new forms of governance in recent decades. Primarily through qualitative data and document analysis, this article compares the restructuring of labour market service delivery in the UK and Germany. The comparison suggests the emergence of complex governance arrangements that seek to balance public regulation and accountability with the creation of room for market competition. As a result, we can observe in both countries a greater use of markets, but also of rules. While in both countries the relationships between different providers of labour market services can best be described as a mixture of cooperation and competition, differences exist in terms of instruments and the comprehensiveness of coordination initiatives. The findings suggest that the distinctions between governance models may be more important in theory than in practice, although the combinations of theoretical forms vary in different circumstances. KW - activation KW - coordination KW - employment services KW - Germany KW - governance KW - UK Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12100 SN - 1369-6866 SN - 1468-2397 VL - 23 SP - S71 EP - S86 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Daviter, Falk T1 - An information processing perspective on decision making in the European Union JF - Public administration N2 - Two decades after the introduction of the punctuated equilibrium model, information processing theory now offers one of the most comprehensive analytical perspectives on decision making in public administration and policy research. This article applies information processing analysis to the decision making process in the European Union (EU). Towards this end, the article inquires into the organizational foundations of information processing at successive levels of administrative and legislative decision making and shows how this analytical perspective can be used to gain a better understanding of policy dynamics at the supranational level. The article argues that information processing in the EU is likely to produce distinct policy dynamics in key respects. It identifies promising avenues for future research and discusses some of the issues this evolving theoretical framework should address in order to allow for a more comprehensive exploration of this analytical perspective in the context of the EU. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12071 SN - 0033-3298 SN - 1467-9299 VL - 92 IS - 2 SP - 324 EP - 339 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER -