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Why choice matters
(2018)
Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research.
Wer ein Unternehmen gründet, trägt ein hohes Maß an Verantwortung – nicht nur für die eigene Person, sondern für den gesamten Betrieb. Entscheidungen wollen bedächtig und rational kalkuliert sein und nicht aus dem Bauch heraus getroffen werden. Manche von ihnen wiegen schwer. Auch scheitern viele kreative Köpfe mit ihrer Gründungsidee, noch bevor sie ihr volles Potenzial entfalten kann.
The newly collected “Potsdam Grievance Statistics File” (PGSF) holds data on the number and topics of grievances (“Eingaben”) that were addressed to local authorities of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the years 1970 to 1989. The PGSF allows quantitative analyses on topics such as participation, quality of life, and value change in the German Democratic Republic. This paper introduces the concepts of the data set and discusses the validity of its contents.
Territorial reform is the most radical and contested reorganisation of local government. A sound evaluation of the outcome of such reforms is hence an important step to ensure the legitimation of any decision on the subject. However, in our view the discourse on the subject appears to be one sided, focusing primarily on overall fiscal effects scrutinised by economists. The contribution of this paper is hence threefold: Firstly, we provide an overview off territorial reforms in Europe, with a special focus on Eastern Germany as a promising case for cross-country comparisons. Secondly, we provide an over-view of the analytical classifications of these reforms and context factors to be considered in their evaluation. And thirdly, we analyse the literature on qualitative performance effects of these reforms. The results show that territorial reforms have a significant positive impact on functional performance, while the effects on participation and integration are indeed ambivalent. In doing so, we provide substantial arguments for a broader, more inclusive discussion on the success of territorial reforms.
Social Entrepreneurship
(2018)
Nur mal kurz die Welt retten – und ganz nebenbei eine erfolgreiche Unternehmerin/ein erfolgreicher Unternehmer sein? Beispiele für das sogenannte Social Entrepreneurship findet man heutzutage viele. Hierunter versteht man die Bearbeitung gesellschaftlicher Probleme mit Hilfe des unternehmerischen Ansatzes. Unternehmerischer Gewinn steht hier jedoch nicht an erster Stelle, sondern der Beitrag zur Bewältigung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen. Aber auch in ganz „normalen“ Unternehmen spielen soziale, wie auch ökologische Faktoren heute eine wachsende Rolle.
Im vorliegenden Modul gewinnen die Schülerinnen und Schüler anhand des Films „Unternehmen wagen – 3 Wege in die Selbstständigkeit“ einen Einblick in die Unternehmerwelt. Sie lernen exemplarische Beispiele für (soziales) Unternehmertum kennen, analysieren diese vor dem Hintergrund des Konzepts Social Entrepreneurship und diskutieren verschiedene Facetten unternehmerischer Verantwortung.
Even though concerns about adverse distributional implications for the poor are one of the most important political challenges for carbon pricing, the existing literature reveals ambiguous results. For this reason, we assess the expected incidence of moderate carbon price increases for different income groups in 87 mostly low- and middle-income countries. Building on a consistent dataset and method, we find that for countries with per capita incomes of below USD 15,000 per year (at PPP-adjusted 2011 USD) carbon pricing has, on average, progressive distributional effects. We also develop a novel decomposition technique to show that distributional outcomes are primarily determined by differences among income groups in consumption patterns of energy, rather than of food, goods or services. We argue that an inverse U-shape relationship between energy expenditure shares and income explains why carbon pricing tends to be regressive in countries with relatively higher income. Since these countries are likely to have more financial resources and institutional capacities to deal with distributional issues, our findings suggest that mitigating climate change, raising domestic revenue and reducing economic inequality are not mutually exclusive, even in low- and middle-income countries.
Neue Talente braucht das Amt
(2018)
Stellenabbau und demografischer Wandel führen zu Rekrutierungsschwierigkeiten und einem Mangel an talentierten Nachwuchskräften in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Gleichzeitig stellen sich neue Anforderungen an öffentliche Behörden, die eine andere Qualifikation der Beschäftigten nach sich ziehen. Gerade öffentliche Dienste mit geschlossenen Personalsystemen brauchen daher eine stärkere Flexibilität in der Nachwuchsrekrutierung und -ausbildung. Traineeprogramme können hier Abhilfe schaffen.