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The social legitimacy of Human Rights Courts: a grounded interpretivist analysis of the European Court of Human Rights
No full textThis article offers an empirically grounded interpretivist theory of the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights based on domestic judicial and political elite accounts of the legitimacy of the Court in Turkey, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. The central argument of the article is that the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights is based on a constant comparison between the values and goals of domestic institutions and the values and goals of the European Court of Human Rights. More specifically, the social legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights is grounded in the logic of a fair compromise: What actors think they lose by according legitimacy to the European Court of Human Rights must be balanced by what they perceive to gain in return. Three factors organise how actors in different domestic settings struck a fair compromise in their domestic contexts: a) perception of domestic human rights conditions, b) commitment to cosmopolitan ideals of human rights and international law and c) commitment to domestic institutions
Schulen werden zu "Agenturen für Lernarbeit". Die Generationen Y und Z tragen die digitale Revolution in die Pädagogik
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How the Qaddafi regime was driven into nuclear disarmament
No full textHow can we drive atomic renegades – states that run illegal nuclear weapons programs – into disarmament with the help of negotiations? This question, which puts the design of negotiation strategies at the focus of attention, has puzzled foreign policy makers for decades. It has, thus far, lost nothing of its relevance. But despite its importance, bargaining dynamics with atomic renegade states – so-called Nuclear Reversal Negotiations (NRN) – were largely omitted in International Relations (IR) literature. A systematic and theoretically grounded analysis on NRN is still missing.[...
New Governance in the EU after the Euro Crisis: Retired or Re-born?
No full textThis working paper discusses the future of the EU’s ‘new governance’ paradigm, as a particular
category of the EU’s legal acts in light of developments in EU economic governance following the
Euro crisis. [...
Betrieblich-hochschulbasierte Ausbildungsformen in Deutschland und den USA: Eine (Re)Konzeptualisierung
No full textDer vorliegende Artikel untersucht und vergleicht alternierende Ausbildungsformen in Deutschland und den USA. Traditionell wird in diesem Zusammenhang zwischen der korporatistisch organisierten dualen Lehre in Deutschland und den stärker marktgesteuerten apprenticeships in den USA unterschieden. Diese klassische Einteilung kann allerdings die Ausbreitung betrieblich-hochschulbasierter Ausbildungsgänge, die sich in beiden Ländern beobachten lässt, nicht adäquat erfassen. Der Artikel schlägt vor diesem Hintergrund eine (Re-)Konzeptualisierung für den Vergleich von alternierenden Ausbildungsformen in Deutschland und den USA vor. Wie die institutionelle Analyse zeigt, sind zwischen den betrieblich-hochschulbasierten Ausbildungsformen der beiden Länder signifikante Ähnlichkeiten vorzufinden
The Promise of Digital Government
No full textDigital technology in business is indispensable and over the last decades revolutionized production and operations on a global level. In politics, however, most countries are still far from having “digital governments”. Many countries possess strategies for the digitalization of governance, although those differ greatly in desired outcome and definitions of the term “digital”. This chapter compares and categorizes different approaches to digital governance in several countries and regions such as USA, UK, Europe and Singapore. It distinguishes between the two notions of eGovernment and Digital Government in focus and approach, showing the opportunities and challenges both can bring about. While opportunities include citizen services, cost savings and growth, common risks of increased digital governance are security concerns, impacts on the labor market and difficulties in change management. The chapter provides a comprehensive summary of recent empirical analyses on the “digital” discourse, concluding that the goals of measurable citizen outcomes, transformative service delivery and public governance are not yet met, but that the way is paved for future improvement
Applying the Varieties of Capitalism Approach to Higher Education: Comparing the Internationalization of German and British Universities
No full textIn recent years, the global market for higher education has expanded rapidly, while internationalisation strategies have been developed at university, national and European levels to increase the competitiveness of higher education institutions. This article asks how institutional settings prevailing in national models of capitalism motivate distinct national approaches with regard to the internationalisation, globalisation, and Europeanisation of higher education systems. While the university is defined as an organisational actor embedded in the higher education system, the higher education system itself represents an institutional subsystem within the national model of capitalism. An analytical framework is then developed on the basis of the Varieties of Capitalism approach to compare the internationalisation of German and British universities. Findings indicate that the relations between the various actors involved in the internationalisation of universities are based largely on market coordination in the British case. In contrast, this process in Germany relies more on strategic interactions between the various organisational actors in higher education. The development paths in the internationalisation of universities are found to be influenced by and reflect the specific mode of coordination in the respective higher education system and the national model of capitalism more generally. This comparative case study shows that recent conceptions of path dependence as well as conceptual tools developed in the Varieties of Capitalism literature, such as institutional complementarity and comparative institutional advantage, may be fruitfully applied to research on institutional change in higher education systems
Greasing the Reels: Advertising as a Means of Campaigning on Chinese Television
No full textAlso published in: Chinese Media, Volume I: Politics and Communication (2014), Edited by Michael Keane, Wanning Sun, ISBN 9780415623544.
This article examines a major change in campaigning through the means of mass media during the reform era. As the media commercialized and partially privatized, the state has tried increasingly to involve societal actors in the production of public service advertisements (PSAs) on television. Today, PSA campaigns are initiated by state and Party units, but their funding, production and broadcasting is made possible by a collaborative effort between broadcasters, advertising companies and commercial enterprises who voluntarily support their further development. I conducted 27 in-depth interviews with officials, broadcasters and producers in Beijing to tap into the policy rationale behind the use of public service advertisements in campaigning and the incentive structure facilitating collaboration between companies and state units. Interviews with judges of PSA competitions and content analysis of price-winning advertisements reveal the standards of the central government to employ public service advertising as a means of campaigning