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Handbook of Aid and Development
With intellectual rigour, the Handbook of Aid and Development not only critically examines the relationship between aid and development, but also discusses recent trends within the field and judiciously considers its future prospects.
Quantitative Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung in die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungslogik und den quantitativen Forschungsprozess. Die einzelnen Phasen des Forschungsprozesses – Forschungsthema und Entwicklung einer Forschungsfrage, Konzeptspezifikation, Hypothesenbildung, Operationalisierung, Forschungsdesign, Auswahlverfahren und Datenerhebung – werden anhand politikwissenschaftlicher Beispiele dargestellt und erläutert. Zudem werden wichtige sozialwissenschaftliche Datensätze vorgestellt und die Bedeutung der Sekundäranalyse herausgearbeitet. Das Buch bietet damit zentrale Informationen, die für ein Verständnis der quantitativen Sozialforschung und die Auseinandersetzung mit empirischen Studien erforderlich sind.
Governing Modern Societies
This book explores democracy beyond the governmental structures and focuses on participatory governance in particular. It demonstrates that we need to change the way we think about democracy and our notion of democracy has to be re-conceptualised.
Minderheitenrechte und Interessenvermittlung
(Wie) Fördern Autonomie- und Konsultationsrechte indigene Selbstbestimmung? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, schlägt die Autorin einen vergleichenden, methodisch innovativen Ansatz vor, der die Ebene der (oft informellen) Interaktionsmuster zwischen unterschiedlichen Akteursgruppen besonders berücksichtigt und netzwerkanalytisch untersucht. Über die Kombination aus prozessanalytischen Fallstudien zu Entscheidungsverfahren über infrastrukturelle und extraktive Projekte in Kolumbien, Panama und Chile und deren vergleichender Analyse werden sowohl Wirkungszusammenhänge als auch kausale Muster aufgezeigt. Sonderrechte sind weniger ausschlaggebend als erwartet. Stattdessen wird die Bedeutung akteursspezifischer und interaktionsbasierter Voraussetzungen für die Wahrung indigener Selbstbestimmung betont: Formalisierte interne Handlungsmodi und Mobilisierungsressourcen indigener Organisationen sowie vorangehende Interaktionen mit staatlichen Institutionen sind entscheidend.
Local Public Finance in Europe
'...the book contains a good deal of useful information about local government finance in Europe.' - John Fender, Local Government Studies '...I would like to thank you for publishing the great book Local Public Finance in Europe. It is a rare source of institutional information and also great insights on the subject.' - Andrey Timofeev, Georgia State University, US 'In respect of the hard budget constraint imposed by the stability pact for Maastricht...and the fact that European central governments can no longer bail out sub-federal obligations for more than 3% deficit to GNP annually and 60% debt to GDP...the volume edited by B. Dafflon is important and highly welcome.... Insofar, it repre...
Challenges to Political Decision-making
This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions. The book examines why, in some contexts, individuals consider something as evident and relevant for their action while others perceive them as nonsense or simply as ‘fake news’. As such, the book follows a research perspective based on a concept emphasizing that the core function of knowledge is related to the selection and integration of data and other information which give them substance. Taking an interpretive political science perspective to knowledge, the book overcomes particular defic...
Local Public Finance
This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries. It analyzes both the regimes and the practices of local fiscal regulation in 21 European countries. The book brings together key findings of this research project. The regulatory discussion is not limited to the prominent issue of fiscal rules but focuses on every component of regulation. Beyond this, the book covers affiliated topics such as the impact of regulation for local governments, evolution of regulation, administrative costs and crisis prevention...
The Sociology of Space
In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic theory of space that accounts for the relational context in which space is constituted. This innovative view on the interdependency of material, social, and symbolic dimensions of space also permits a new perspective on architecture and urban development.
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