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Aktuelle Publikationen (Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft)

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  • (2022): Aiding War or Peace? : the Insiders’ View on Aid to Postconflict Transitions The Journal of Politics. University of Chicago Press. 2022, 84(3), pp. 1370-1383. ISSN 0022-3816. eISSN 1468-2508. Available under: doi: 10.1086/718353

    Aiding War or Peace? : the Insiders’ View on Aid to Postconflict Transitions

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    International aid donors now allocate the majority of development assistance to conflict-affected countries. Aid scholarship largely classifies this subset of recipients as poorly governed countries where donors bypass the government in favor or third-party implementers. We argue that further disaggregation shows how donors use different aid types—humanitarian, transitional, development, and budgetary aid—to support postconflict transitions. We expect that when a postconflict country signals progression toward peace, donors will give development and budgetary aid to the government and withdraw humanitarian and transitional aid; when the country signals regression toward violence, donors will do the inverse. To test our expectations, we use an original survey-embedded experiment completed by 1,130 aid experts around the globe. Our findings generally support our expectations, although they reveal important nuances. In particular, they show that experts are more certain of how donors aid countries that are progressing toward peace than those that are returning to war.

  • (2022): European Institutional Integration, Trade Unions, and Income Inequality Socio-Economic Review. Oxford University Press. 2022, 20(1), pp. 351-371. ISSN 1475-1461. eISSN 1475-147X. Available under: doi: 10.1093/ser/mwz053

    European Institutional Integration, Trade Unions, and Income Inequality

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    What are the distributional implications of European institutional integration? This article argues that European institutional integration exerts a moderating effect on the relationship between trade union strength and income inequality—particularly inequality at the top—within countries of the European Union (EU). I contend that European institutional integration reduces the bargaining power of trade unions due to rising market competition and decreasing union control over the supply of labor. Thus, the effectiveness of trade unions in reducing inequality should decline with progressing European institutional integration. On the basis of a long-term within-country analysis of the EU15, I will show that the effect of trade unions on inequality varies strongly with European institutional integration. Consistent with the theoretical argument, the inequality-reducing effect of trade unions becomes substantially lower the more a country integrates in the EU.

  • New Normal, but Good Normal? : Three Studies on Employees' Adaption to the Digitalization, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Mobile Work

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  • Hagen, Loni; Solvak, Mihkel; Hwang, Sungsoo (Hrsg.) (2022): The Implementation of a Digital Strategy in the Austrian Public Sector HAGEN, Loni, ed., Mihkel SOLVAK, ed., Sungsoo HWANG, ed.. The Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DGO2022) : Intelligent Technologies, Governments and Citizens. New York, NY: ACM, 2022, pp. 391-399. ISBN 978-1-4503-9750-6. Available under: doi: 10.1145/3543434.3543640

    The Implementation of a Digital Strategy in the Austrian Public Sector

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    The European Commission's eGovernment report states that “eGovernment in Europe is characterized by a “virtuous circle”: public administrations develop better and better digital services because user demand is high; and more and more users access government services online because these services are available and easy to use” [1]. In this report, Austria ranks among the top five in the delivery of public services, high on indicators such as transparency and the key enablers that facilitate digital interactions between governments and users, help to standardize process flows and thus help both citizens and businesses in their dealings with the government. Yet in the most current Digital European Society Index Austria ranks only 10th and is described as being slow in improving the use of digital services, connectivity and integration of digital technology. In this study, we aim to investigate the strategies implemented for the digitalization of services and processes in Austrian public administrations in order to explain such incongruous scores.

  • (2022): Neither Left-Behind nor Superstar : Ordinary Winners of Digitalization at the Ballot Box The Journal of Politics. University of Chicago Press. 2022, 84(1), pp. 418-436. ISSN 0022-3816. eISSN 1468-2508. Available under: doi: 10.1086/714920

    Neither Left-Behind nor Superstar : Ordinary Winners of Digitalization at the Ballot Box

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    The nascent literature on the political consequences of technological change studies either left-behind voters or successful technology entrepreneurs ("superstars"). However, it neglects the large share of skilled workers who bene t from limited but steady economic improvements in the knowledge economy. This paper examines how workplace digitalization a ects political preferences among the entire active labor force by combining individual-level panel data from the United Kingdom with industry-level data on ICT capital stocks between 1997-2017. We rst demonstrate that digitalization was economically bene cial for workers with middle and high levels of education. We then show that growth in digitalization increased support for the Conservative Party, the incumbent party, and voter turnout among bene ciaries of economic change. Our results hold in an instrumental variable analysis and multiple robustness checks. While digitalization undoubtedly produces losers (along with some superstars), ordinary winners of digitalization are an important stabilizing force content with the political status quo.

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    Zohlnhöfer, Reimut; Engler, Fabian (Hrsg.) (2022): Inkrementeller Wandel mit transformativer Wirkung? : Eine Bilanz der Bildungspolitik der vierten Regierung Merkel (2018–2021) ZOHLNHÖFER, Reimut, ed., Fabian ENGLER, ed.. Das Ende der Merkel-Jahre : Eine Bilanz der Regierung Merkel 2018-2021. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022, pp. 297-323. ISBN 978-3-658-38001-4. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-38002-1_12

    Inkrementeller Wandel mit transformativer Wirkung? : Eine Bilanz der Bildungspolitik der vierten Regierung Merkel (2018–2021)

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    In diesem Kapitel werden die bildungspolitischen Entscheidungen der vierten Regierung Merkel in den Jahren 2018 bis 2021 untersucht. Auch wenn der Bildungsföderalismus deutscher Prägung eigentlich wenig grundsätzliche Veränderungen erwarten lässt, ist die zentrale These dieses Artikels, dass sich in den letzten Jahren ein langjähriger Trend des inkrementellen Wandels mit langfristig transformativer Wirkung fortgesetzt hat. Im Bereich der Hochschulpolitik haben speziell die Verstetigung der Exzellenzstrategie und die Verabschiedung des „Zukunftsvertrags“ zur Hochschulfinanzierung das Potenzial, die Kompetenzverteilung zwischen Bund und Ländern, insbesondere bei der Finanzierung der Hochschulen, nachhaltig zu verändern. Im Bereich der beruflichen Bildung könnte die Allianz für Aus- und Weiterbildung zu einem inklusiveren Modell des Korporatismus führen, dass neben den klassischen Sozialpartnern auch andere Akteure in berufsbildungspolitische Prozesse einbindet. Auch bei der Schulbildung deuten sich Verschiebungen an: Selbst wenn hier die Etablierung eines Nationalen Bildungsrats weitestgehend gescheitert ist, stellt die Einrichtung des „Digitalpakts Schule“ und die dafür umgesetzte Grundgesetzänderung eine potenziell folgenreiche faktische Lockerung des Kooperationsverbots dar. Diese sich andeutende Trendumkehr in der Kooperation von Bund und Ländern in der Schulpolitik könnte sich zudem durch die Umsetzung des Rechtsanspruchs auf Ganztagsbetreuung in Schulen weiter verfestigen.

  • (2022): Connections result in a general upsurge of protests : egocentric network analysis of social movement organizations after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Social Movement Studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2022, 21(1-2), pp. 79-102. ISSN 1474-2837. eISSN 1474-2829. Available under: doi: 10.1080/14742837.2020.1770067

    Connections result in a general upsurge of protests : egocentric network analysis of social movement organizations after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

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    Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011 (3/11), Japan has witnessed a nationwide upsurge of antinuclear demonstrations as well as protests against diverse concerns. Why did this upsurge of protests occur beyond the antinuclear concerns? The exact mechanism that caused this general upsurge of protests has not been explored in detail. Given the limited number of first-time participants, this phenomenon can be fully explained only through an analysis of network-building processes among social movement organizations (SMOs). Based on the first nationwide survey of SMOs conducted in Japan by our team in February 2018, covering 308 groups, we analyzed the constellation of the SMOs’ networks after 3/11, their logic of coalition building, and their network effects on mobilization. We observed that the new characteristics of the constellation of the SMOs’ networks are twofold. The first feature is that the networks of various SMOs were bridged by antinuclear groups. Antinuclear organizations served as the hub of SMOs’ networks, enabling the mobilization to cross different concerns. The second feature is the connections between the citizen groups and labor unions. Labor unions increase the participation during events by mobilizing their partner unions. Both new connections contributed to the general upsurge in large-scale demonstrations for various concerns after 3/11. Our paper contributes to the general discussion on the relation between coalition of SMOs and mobilization by focusing on the dyadic level of networks, and analyzing its effect for mobilization through egocentric network analysis.

  • (2022): Co-production in digital transformation of public administration and public value creation : The case of Denmark Government Information Quarterly. Elsevier. 2022, 39(1), 101650. ISSN 0740-624X. eISSN 1872-9517. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2021.101650

    Co-production in digital transformation of public administration and public value creation : The case of Denmark

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    Public administrations are investing in the digital transformation of their citizen-oriented services and internal administrative processes. They are using co-production approaches and include different types of stakeholders into these transformative processes to increase service quality and generate public value. In this study, we investigate how these co-production approaches are implemented in both digital strategy formulation and implementation in Denmark. We identify four different types of public value: citizen, economic, administrative and societal public value.

  • Wenzelburger, Georg; Zohlnhöfer, Reimut (Hrsg.) (2022): Bildungspolitik WENZELBURGER, Georg, ed., Reimut ZOHLNHÖFER, ed.. Handbuch Policy Forschung. living reference work. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-05678-0_26-1

    Bildungspolitik

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    Bildungspolitik war lange ein vernachlässigtes Feld der vergleichenden Policy-Forschung. In den letzten Jahren haben viele neue Forschungsarbeiten begonnen, diese Lücke zu schließen. Diese sollen zusammen mit den Klassikern des Forschungsfelds in diesem Überblickskapitel vorgestellt werden. Zunächst zeichnet das Kapitel jedoch anhand von ausgewählten Daten die Konturen des Politikfeldes Bildung im internationalen Vergleich nach. Es folgt eine kritische Würdigung und Diskussion der einschlägigen Forschung entlang von vier Themenbereichen: erstens, Beiträge zur Erklärung der Varianz von bildungspolitischem Output; zweitens, neuere Arbeiten zur Analyse von Konvergenz- und Diffusionsprozessionen in der Steuerung (Governance) von Bildungssystemen, die mit der Internationalisierung von Bildungspolitik zusammenhängen; drittens, Forschungsansätze, die Bildung aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden politischen Ökonomie und Kapitalismusforschung analysieren; und viertens, Forschung zu den Effekten von Bildungssystemen.

  • Göbl, Barbara; van der Spek, Erik; Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud; McCall, Rod (Hrsg.) (2022): Workshop on Social and Ethical Issues in Entertainment Computing GÖBL, Barbara, ed., Erik VAN DER SPEK, ed., Jannicke Baalsrud HAUGE, ed., Rod MCCALL, ed.. Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2022 : 21st IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2022, Bremen, Germany, November 1–3, 2022, Proceedings. Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 429-435. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 13477. ISSN 0302-9743. eISSN 1611-3349. ISBN 978-3-031-20211-7. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20212-4_36

    Workshop on Social and Ethical Issues in Entertainment Computing

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    Entertainment computing spans anything from a single player game on a console through to large-scale multiplayer online virtual worlds. This workshop focuses on a range of issues which impact on the design, use and adoption of entertainment computing systems from an ethical and social perspective. Issues to be explored include the composition of those working in the industry from the perspectives of diversity and inclusion, how this impacts on design and how groups are represented within games and other entertainment platforms. We will further explore issues relating to monetization, incentives, and potential addiction. We will explore how to design for ethical and social issues while also looking at problems which have arisen and the potential challenges of the future.

  • (2022): The Myth of Equal Opportunity in Germany? : Wage Inequality and the Role of (Non-)academic Family Background for Differences in Capital Endowments and Returns on the Labour Market Social Indicators Research. Springer. 2022, 159(2), pp. 455-493. ISSN 0303-8300. eISSN 1573-0921. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11205-021-02719-2

    The Myth of Equal Opportunity in Germany? : Wage Inequality and the Role of (Non-)academic Family Background for Differences in Capital Endowments and Returns on the Labour Market

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    While providing equal opportunities to all members of society independent of an individual’s socio-economic background is a major objective of German policy makers, educational opportunities of children with a non-academic family background are still unequally obstructed. When analysing the labour market implications of this disadvantage, social capital as an additional source of inequality often lacks attention. Drawing on the instrumental value of rather loose contacts (i.e. weak ties) on the labour market as revealed by Granovetter (Getting a job. A study of contacts and careers, The University of Chicago Press, Cambridge, 1974), this paper goes beyond the human capital approach and includes a measure of instrumental social capital in the form of weak-tie career support in the earnings function. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and quantile regressions, we find a significant average wage gap between those with and without an academic family background. A large part can be explained by deficits that those from less educated families incur with respect to human and instrumental social capital: Lower educational attainment accounts for more than half of the wage gap between the two groups while fewer career support explains around five percent of the differential. Additionally, a non-academic family background is associated with a significant deficit in returns to their instrumental social capital along the wage distribution. The findings therefore suggest that inequalities of opportunity on the German labour market occur beyond the education system, as not only the quantity but also the quality of career supporting networks of those from a non-academic family are inferior.

  • Keeping a Watchful Eye : Parliamentary Oversight of EU institutions during Crises

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    dc.contributor.author: Genovese, Federica; Schneider, Gerald

  • Busemeyer, Marius R.; Kemmerling, Achim; Marx, Paul; van Kersbergen, Kees (Hrsg.) (2022): Digitalization and the Future of the Democratic Welfare State BUSEMEYER, Marius R., ed., Achim KEMMERLING, ed., Paul MARX, ed., Kees VAN KERSBERGEN, ed.. Digitalization and the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 373-392. ISBN 978-0-19-284836-9. Available under: doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192848369.003.0021

    Digitalization and the Future of the Democratic Welfare State

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    This concluding chapter summarizes the main take-away point from the chapters of this volume, focusing on the core research questions identified in the introduction: How does digitalization affect the changing policy space as well as the political space of contemporary welfare states? The chapters provide multifaceted and differentiated responses to these questions, which are summarized here. We also discuss the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for our findings. In the second part of the concluding chapter, we turn towards the future by identifying a number of dilemmas that policy-makers are likely to confront in the coming years as well as various scenarios about the future of the democratic welfare state in the age of digitalization.

  • (2022): Social media sharing of low-quality news sources by political elites PNAS Nexus. Oxford University Press. 2022, 1(4), pgac186. eISSN 2752-6542. Available under: doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac186

    Social media sharing of low-quality news sources by political elites

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    Increased sharing of untrustworthy information on social media platforms is one of the main challenges of our modern information society. Because information disseminated by political elites is known to shape citizen and media discourse, it is particularly important to examine the quality of information shared by politicians. Here, we show that from 2016 onward, members of the Republican Party in the US Congress have been increasingly sharing links to untrustworthy sources. The proportion of untrustworthy information posted by Republicans versus Democrats is diverging at an accelerating rate, and this divergence has worsened since President Biden was elected. This divergence between parties seems to be unique to the United States as it cannot be observed in other western democracies such as Germany and the United Kingdom, where left–right disparities are smaller and have remained largely constant.

  • (2022): Europe's migration crisis : Local contact and out‐group hostility European Journal of Political Research. Wiley. 2022, 61(1), pp. 268-280. ISSN 0304-4130. eISSN 1475-6765. Available under: doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12455

    Europe's migration crisis : Local contact and out‐group hostility

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    Does a large influx of asylum seekers in the local community lead to a backlash in public opinion towards foreign populations? We assess the effects of asylum seeker presence using original survey and macro-level municipality data from Austria, exploiting exogenous elements of the placement of asylum seekers on the municipality level. Methodologically, we draw on entropy balancing for causal identification. Our findings are threefold. First, respondents in municipalities receiving asylum seekers report substantially higher exposure on average, but largely without the stronger contact that would allow for meaningful interaction. Second, hostility towards asylum seekers on average increased in areas that housed them. Third, this backlash spilt over: general attitudes towards Muslims and immigrants are less favourable in contexts with local asylum seeker presence, while vote intention for the main anti-immigration party is higher. Our findings go beyond existing work by examining contact directly as a mechanism, by showing a backlash effect in the medium term, and by focusing on a broad set of attitudinal and behavioural measures. Our results point to a need to design policy interventions that minimise citizen backlash against rapid migration inflows.

  • (2022): Tracking the SDGs : A methodological note on measuring deaths caused by collective violence The Economics of Peace and Security Journal. Economists for Peace and Security. 2022, 17(2), pp. 32-46. ISSN 1749-852X. Available under: doi: 10.15355/epsj.17.2.32

    Tracking the SDGs : A methodological note on measuring deaths caused by collective violence

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    As part of recording the progress toward promoting peaceful societies as envisioned in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16, it is important to provide accurate estimates of violence-related deaths (SDG 16.1). These estimations face a number of methodological challenges, resulting in rather conservative estimates in the social sciences. In this article, we discuss SDG indicator 16.1.2 on conflict-related deaths, proposing its enlargement to cover different forms of collective violence. Various types of collective violence, their definition, measurement, and methods to combine them without double counting are reviewed. Comparing the Georeferenced Events Dataset (GED) to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) shows that events of armed conflict and terrorism overlap to a certain degree. Our argument is that merging data from different event databases can provide a more accurate account of collective violence. We augment the GED data on organized armed conflict with data on terrorism—as a result, our estimates of the numbers of collective violence-related deaths are indeed significantly higher than suggested by GED (one of the most widely used databases in the social sciences).

  • (2022): Using Social Media Data to Capture Emotions Before and During COVID-19 World Happiness Report 2022. New York, NY: Sustainable Development Solutions Network, pp. 75-104

    Using Social Media Data to Capture Emotions Before and During COVID-19

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    dc.contributor.author: Metzler, Hannah; Pellert, Max; Garcia, David

  • (2022): The Effect of Ethnic and Racial Diversity on School Funding across the Urban-Rural Divide Journal of Education Finance. University of Illinois Press. 2022, 47(3), pp. 275-295. ISSN 0098-9495. eISSN 1944-6470

    The Effect of Ethnic and Racial Diversity on School Funding across the Urban-Rural Divide

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    dc.contributor.author: Berriochoa, Kattalina

  • (2022): Legislative communities : Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations Journal of International Relations and Development. Springer. 2022, 25(2), pp. 523-555. ISSN 1408-6980. eISSN 1581-1980. Available under: doi: 10.1057/s41268-021-00251-x

    Legislative communities : Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations

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    Besides the increasing scope of transnational activities of civil society actors, international relations of national legislatures have long been expanding, yet without attracting substantial scholarly attention. We can observe that national Members of Parliament meet in various bi-and multilateral organisational forms within and beyond international organisations to fulfil parliamentary functions. We present a conceptual framework differentiating between two forms of international parliamentary relations: multilateral vs. bilateral organisation. We argue that multilateral participation is mostly driven by the supply of such organisations and can mainly be found in Europe and Africa. On the contrary, the capacity of chambers can explain the realisation of bilateral channels. We test our claims with data for the international relations of 144 national parliaments. Our explorative empirical study is the first to jointly analyse bi- and multilateral transnational parliamentary relations and shows that international parliamentary cooperation varies over legislatures and regions, generating genuine clusters of institutionalised communities. Our findings help to embed the existing research on international parliamentary institutions and diplomacy in a larger context of international relations. Furthermore, our global relational account of national parliaments speaks to research on diverse topics of domestic outcomes, such as democratisation, norm and legal diffusion, and governmental control.

  • Scoping GovTech dynamics in the EU

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    This report provides background information on GovTech dynamics in the EU. It starts by giving an overview of the current state of public procurement for innovation (PPI). The report highlights the rather uniform defini-tions of PPI, its purpose, existing barriers and obstacles, and explains different types of procurement models and their processes. Based on empirical evidence from scoping interviews with start-ups, founders and GovTech programmes, the report then reflects on how the existing schemes apply to recently planned GovTech initiatives, shows the reasons why governments might be investing in GovTech, and highlights a series of recommendations for countries in the process of implementing their own GovTech initiatives.

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