TY  - GEN
A1  - Hustedt, Thurid
A1  - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
T1  - Ensuring political responsiveness
BT  - politicization mechanisms in ministerial bureaucracies
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Although politicization is a perennial research topic in public administration to investigate relationships between ministers and civil servants, the concept still lacks clarification. This article contributes to this literature by systematically identifying different conceptualizations of politicization and suggests a typology including three politicization mechanisms to strengthen the political responsiveness of the ministerial bureaucracy: formal, functional and administrative politicization. The typology is empirically validated through a comparative case analysis of politicization mechanisms in Germany, Belgium, the UK and Denmark. The empirical analysis further refines the general idea of Western democracies becoming ‘simply’ more politicized, by illustrating how some politicization mechanisms do not continue to increase, but stabilize – at least for the time being.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 387 
KW  - central administration
KW  - ministers and civil servants
KW  - political advisers
KW  - political responsiveness
KW  - politicization
KW  - public administration
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404117
IS  - 387
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Bondü, Rebecca
A1  - Beier, Sophia
T1  - Two of a kind?
BT  - differences and similarities of attacks in schools and in institutes of higher education
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - School attacks are attracting increasing attention in aggression research. Recent systematic analyses provided new insights into offense and offender characteristics. Less is known about attacks in institutes of higher education (e.g., universities). It is therefore questionable whether the term “school attack” should be limited to institutions of general education or could be extended to institutions of higher education. Scientific literature is divided in distinguishing or unifying these two groups and reports similarities as well as differences. We researched 232 school attacks and 45 attacks in institutes of higher education throughout the world and conducted systematic comparisons between the two groups. The analyses yielded differences in offender (e.g., age, migration background) and offense characteristics (e.g., weapons, suicide rates), and some similarities (e.g., gender). Most differences can apparently be accounted for by offenders’ age and situational influences. We discuss the implications of our findings for future research and the development of preventative measures.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 391 
KW  - school  attack
KW  - IHE  attack
KW  - rampage
KW  - higher  education
KW  - characteristics
KW  - prevention
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404199
IS  - 391
ER  -