320 Politikwissenschaft
Refine
Year of publication
- 2019 (79) (remove)
Document Type
- Article (57)
- Postprint (6)
- Monograph/Edited Volume (5)
- Doctoral Thesis (4)
- Review (3)
- Other (2)
- Bachelor Thesis (1)
- Part of a Book (1)
Is part of the Bibliography
- yes (79)
Keywords
- governance (3)
- international organizations (3)
- Deutschland (2)
- Germany (2)
- Governance (2)
- Security Council (2)
- electoral systems (2)
- food security governance (2)
- inter-organizational order (2)
- inter-organizational relations (2)
Institute
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften (21)
- WeltTrends e.V. Potsdam (20)
- Sozialwissenschaften (17)
- Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft (11)
- Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät (3)
- Philosophische Fakultät (2)
- Fachgruppe Soziologie (1)
- Forschungsbereich „Politik, Verwaltung und Management“ (1)
- Historisches Institut (1)
- Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (1)
Öffentliches Rechnungswesen
(2019)
We analyse the top tail of the wealth distribution in France, Germany, and Spain using the first and second waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be under-represented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate a Pareto distribution, and impute the missing rich. In addition to the Forbes list, we rely on national rich lists since they represent a broader base of the big fortunes in those countries. As a result, the top 1% wealth share increases notably for the three selected countries after imputing the top wealth. We find that national rich lists can improve the estimation of the Pareto coefficient in particular when the list of national USD billionaires is short.
The contribution summarises the scientific discussion and research activities of the EGPA Permanent Study Group 4 (PSG 4) “Local Governance and Local Democracy”, founded in 2005. The impetus for proposing this specific PSG was the growing importance of the local level within the multi-level governance system in the European Union and most of its member states. The PSG 4 acts as a European network of research activities inside and outside EGPA, producing joint publications and organising scientific debates on many problems of the development of municipalities and local authorities. Our focus was on discussing both how to improve democracy by increased participation and deliberation, and how to secure provision of services in an efficient way in developed welfare societies. This includes analysing several forms of administrative changes and reforms at the local level and research of representative, direct and cooperative democracy at local level in a cross-European comparison.
Die EU ist kein Werte-Wart!
(2019)
Deutsche Hörer!
(2019)
DDR-Bürger und Perestroika
(2019)
Die DDR und Polen
(2019)
Little is known about how far-reaching decisions in UN Security Council sanctions committees are made. Developing a novel committee governance concept and using examples drawn from sanctions imposed on Iraq, Al-Qaida, Congo, Sudan and Iran, this book shows that Council members tend to follow the will of the powerful, whereas sanctions committee members often decide according to the rules. This is surprising since both Council and committees are staffed by the same member states.
Offering a fascinating account of Security Council micro-politics and decision-making processes on sanctions, this rigorous comparative and theory-driven analysis treats the Council and its sanctions committees as distinguishable entities that may differ in decision practice despite having the same members. Drawing extensively on primary documents, diplomatic cables, well-informed press coverage, reports by close observers and extensive interviews with committee members, Council diplomats and sanctions experts, it contrasts with the conventional wisdom on decision-making within these bodies, which suggests that the powerful permanent members would not accept rule-based decisions against their interests.
This book will be of interest to policy practitioners and scholars working in the broad field of international organizations and international relations theory as well as those specializing in sanctions, international law, the Security Council and counter-terrorism.