German Policy Studies
German Policy Studies/Politikfeldanalyse (GPS/P) was an active journal from 2000-2013. It focused on policy research and studies (a) with an emphasis on German speaking countries, issues and studies (and/or) (b) which follow a comparative approach (and/or) (c) which can function as a bridge between the Anglo-Saxon and Continental-European/German tradition in policy research. German Policy Studies/Politikfeldanalyse (GPS/P) was a blind peer-reviewed journal; its archives are presented here as a service to the field.
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Past Issues
Vol. 9, No. 2
Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy
Introduction: What is the Role of Voluntary Approaches in German Environmental Policy – and Why?
by ANNETTE ELISABETH TÖLLER and MICHAEL BÖCHER
From government towards governance? Exploring the role of soft policy instruments
by RÜDIGER K.W. WURZEL, ANTHONY ZITO and ANDREW JORDAN
The Rise and Fall of Voluntary Agreements in German Environmental Policy
by ANNETTE ELISABETH TÖLLER
Voluntary Agreements: First Choice or Escape Strategy? – Invasive Alien Species as a Case
by CHRISTIANE HUBO and MAX KROTT
Patterns and Explanations of Corporate Voluntary Norm Compliance: Results from a Structured Focused Comparison of German G500 in the Global Reporting Initiative
by SANDRA SCHWINDENHAMMER
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 9, No. 1
Informality Matters. Perspectives for Studies on Political Communication
Introduction to the Special Issue: Informality Matters. Perspectives for Studies on Political Communication
by KLAUS KAMPS
Informal political communication cultures: Characteristics, Causes, Effects.
by PHILIP BAUGUT and CARSTEN REINEMANN
Does Informality Matter in German Local Policy Making?
by ANDREA WALTER
Communication within the Transport Policy Media and informal political communication – a case study
by KLAUS KAMPS, CHRISIN BAUMERT, CHRISTOPH BORSCHEL, DAVID HÖLTGEN, and ANNA-MARIA THEIN
Single Article: The Regulatory Use of Credit Ratings in Germany and the US: A Resource Dependence View on the Transfer of (Quasi-)Regulatory Authority
by ANDREAS KRUCK
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 8, No. 1
Introduction
by NILS C. BANDELOW, FRITZ SAGER, KLAUS SCHUBERT
An Explorative Study on Purchasing Legal Advice in the German Law-Drafting Process
by SEBASTIAN STREB and MARKUS TEPE
Political Deadlock in German Financial Market Policy
by STEFAN HANDKE
Political Institutions “Doing Gender”: The Limits of the Knowledge Approach
by HELGA OSTENDORF
The Status of Ideas in Controversies on Public Policy. Analyzing Beliefs as Dependent Variables: A Case study on Harm Reduction Policies in Switzerland
by CÉLINE MAVROT
Vol. 7, No. 3
Frontiers of Methodological Progress in Qualitative Research
Introduction
by JOACHIM BLATTER and FRITZ SAGER
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Public Policy Analysis: an Extensive Review
by BENOÎT RIHOUX, ILONA REZSÖHAZY and DAMIEN BOL
Method Parallelization and Method Triangulation: Method Combinations in the Analysis of Humanitarian Interventions
by JULIAN JUNK
Political valuation analysis and the legitimacy of international organizations
by HENNING SCHMIDTKE and FRANK NULLMEIER
Micro-politics: An Underestimated Field of Qualitative Research in Political Science
by ROLAND WILLNER
Critical Friend Approach: Policy Evaluation Between Methodological Soundness, Practical Relevance, and Transparency of the Evaluation Process
by ANDREAS BALTHASAR
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 7, No. 2
Governance of Transport Policy
Governance of Transport Policy: Introduction to the Special Issue
by NILS C. BANDELOW and STEFAN KUNDOLF
The Field of Transport Policy: An Initial Approach
by OLIVER SCHWEDES
Governance Failures in Integrated Transport Policy – On the Mismatch of ‘Co-opetition’ in Multi-Level Systems
by DETLEF SACK
The Logic of Access to European Commission Expert Groups: Assessing the Delay of the eCall Project
by CHRISTIANE MIETHE
Belief Systems and the Emergence of Advocacy Coalitions in Nascent Subsystems: A Case Study of the European GNSS Program Galileo
by NILS C. BANDELOW and STEFAN KUNDOLF
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 7, No. 1
European Labour Market Policies after the Lisbon Process – Results and Consequence
Introduction: European Labour Market Policies after the Lisbon Process – Results and Consequences
by FLORIAN BLANK and KARIN SCHULZE BUSCHOFF
The European Employment Strategy: Assessing the Status Quo
by J. TIMO WEISHAUPT and KATJA LACK
What Difference Does it Make? The Outcome Effects of the European Employment Strategy on the Transition from Education to Work
by CHRISTIAN BRZINSKY-FAY
Incoherent Strategies – Fragmented Outcomes: Raising Women’s Employment Rate in Germany
by SIGRID BETZELT and SILKE BOTHFELD
The Transition from Work to Retirement
by WERNER EICHHORST
Transition from Unemployment to Work and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies during the Lisbon Strategy Period and the Economic Crisis
by JANINE LESCHKE
Non-Standard Employment in Europe: Its Development and Consequences for the European Employment Strategy
by GÜNTHER SCHMID
Labour Market Politics through Jurisprudence: The Influence of the Judgements of the European Court of Justice (Viking, Laval, Rüffert, Luxembourg) on Labour Market Policies
by REINGARD ZIMMER
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 6, No. 3
Family Policies in the German-Speaking Countries: Reforms and Explanations
Introduction
by REGINA AHRENS, SONJA BLUM, and IRENE GERLACH
Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Switzerland
by OLIVIA THOENEN
The Development of All-Day Schooling in Germany: How was it possible in this Conservative Welfare State?
by SANDRA AUGUSTIN-DITTMANN
Between Instrument Tinkering and Policy Re-newal: Reforms of Parental Leave in Germany and Austria
by SONJA BLUM
The Role of Old Ideas in the New German Family Policy Agenda
by MARGITTA MÄTZKE and ILONA OSTNER
Policy Frames and Coalition Dynamics in the Recent Reforms of Swiss Family Policy
by SILJA HÄUSERMANN and DANIEL KÜBLER
Sustainability in German Family Policy and Politics
by REGINA AHRENS
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 6, No. 2
Evidence-Based Policy: A Concept in Geographical and Substantive Expansion
Introduction
by KATHRIN FREY and SIMONE LEDERMANN
Adversarial Policies and Evidence Utilization: Modeling the Changing Evidence and Policy Connection
by MARK MONAGHAN
Evidence, Learning and Intelligent Government: Reflections on Developments in Scotland
by IAN SANDERSON
The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy-Making: The Case of Denmark
by HANNE FOSS HANSEN and OLAF RIEPER
Pilot Projects for Evidence-Based Policy-Making: Three Pilot Projects in the Rhine Basin
by HELEEN VREUGDENHIL and PHILIPPE KER RAULT
Re-Framing of Childcare in Germany and England: From a Private Responsibility to an Economic Necessity
by ANNELI RÜLING
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 6, No. 1
Symposium on Transforming Bismarckian Welfare State: Turning Away from a Defined-Benefit System?
Editorial
by NILS C. BANDELOW, FRITZ SAGER and KLAUS SCHUBERT
Single Article: Towards Institutional Gridlock? The Limitations of Germany’s Consensus Democracy
by CHRISTIAN SCHWEIGER
Symposium on Transforming Bismarckian Welfare State: Turning Away from a Defined-Benefit System?
by Wolfram Lamping and Friedbert W. Rüb, editors
Introduction: Farewell to Bismarck, or Moving Forward Back to Bismarck?
by WOLFRAM LAMPING and FRIEDBERT W. RÜB
Activating Labor Market and Social Policies in Germany: From Status Protection to Basic Income Support
by WERNER EICHHORST, MARIA GRIENBERGER-ZINGERL and REGINA KONLE-SEIDL
Health Care Reform in Germany
by THOMAS GERLINGER
German Pension Policies: The Transformation of a Defined-Benefit System into…What?
by FRIEDBERT W. RÜB and WOLFRAM LAMPING
Implications of the Activation Paradigm on Poverty and Social Exclusion in Germany: Facts, Hypotheses, Uncertainties
by PETRA BÖHNKE
Farewell to the Family as We Know it: Family Policy Change in Germany
by ILONA OSTNER
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 5, No. 2
Contested Police Systems
Contested Police Systems
by ARIE VAN SLUIS and BERNHARD FREVEL
New Public Management Reforms in German Police Services
by ROLF RITSERT and MIRJAM PEKAR
Police Organization and Police Reform in Germany - The Case of North Rhine-Westphalia
by BERNHARD FREVEL and PHILIPP KUSCHEWSKI
Police Reform in The Netherlands – A Dance between National Steering and Local Performing
by LEX CACHET and PETER MARKS
‘National Standards, Local Delivery’ - Police Reform in England and Wales
by TREVOR JONES and ARIE VAN SLUIS
Evolving Patterns in the Police Systems of North Rhine- Westphalia, The Netherlands and England and Wales
by ARIE VAN SLUIS, ARTHUR RINGELING and BERNHARD FREVEL
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 5, No. 1
Health Policy and Marketization
Introduction
by ROMAN BÖCKMANN and THOMAS GERLINGER
A Long Farewell to the Bismarck System: Incremental Change in the German Health Insurance System
by THOMAS GERLINGER and ROLF SCHMUCKER
Economization and Marketization in the German Healthcare System: How Do Users Respond?
by BENJAMIN EWERT
Health Governance in the Aftermath of Traditional Corporatism: One Small Step for the Legislator, One Giant Leap for the Subsystem?
by NILS C. BANDELOW
Commercializing German Hospital Care? Effects of New Public Management and Managed Care under Neoliberal Conditions
by KAI MOSEBACH
Federalism and the "New Politics" of Hospital Financing
by KATHARINA BÖHM
The Private Health Insurance: Demarketization of a Welfare Market?
by ROMAN BÖCKMANN
Institutionalized Healthcare Reform in Germany? Error Correction or Political Strategy?
by SYLVIA PANNOWITSCH
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 4, No. 4
Politics 2.0: The Political Potential of the Internet
Preface
by Kathrin Kissau and Uwe Hunger
Political Online-Participation of Migrants in Germany
by Kathrin Kissau and Uwe Hunger
Political Potential and Capabilities of Online Communities
by Susanne In der Smitten
Political Protest on the Net
by Sigrid Baringhorst
Internet and the Integration of Immigrants in Germany and Israel: Characteristics and Potentials
by Inna Weiskopf and Kathrin Kissau
Nation Building Online: A Case Study of Kurdish Migrants in Germany
by Menderes Candan and Uwe Hunger
About the authors
by GPS
Vol. 4, No. 3
The Politics of Global Finance
Introduction
by HUBERT ZIMMERMAN
“Please Better Shut Their Mouths”: German Influence on U.S. Macroeconomic Policy under the Carter Administration
by WESLEY W. WIDMAIER
The Search for Autonomy: Governments, Central Banks, and the Formation of Monetary Preferences
by HUBERT ZIMMERMAN
States, Markets, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
by ERIC HELLEINER and TROY LUNDBLAD
Three Facets of Liquidity Illusion: Financial Innovation and the Credit Crunch
by ANASTASIA NESVETAILOVA
About the authors
by GPS
Vol. 4, No. 2
Transforming a Bismarckian Welfare State: Ideas, Interests and Voters in German Welfare State Reforms
Introduction: Moving bulky goods. How New Ideas and Partisan Politics Are Transforming the German Welfare State
by WOLFRAM LAMPING AND FRIEDBERT W. RÜB
On the Way to Social Investment? The Normative Recalibration of the German Welfare State
by ANTONIO BRETTSCHNEIDER
Reframing Social Policy: From Conservatism to Liberal Communitarianism
by MARTIN SEELEIB-KAISER
Between Corporatism and Lobbyism: German Welfare Associations in Transition
by KATRIN TOENS
Reforming the Welfare State in Times of Grey Majorities. The Myth of an Opposition between Younger and Older Voters in Germany
by ACHIM GOERRES
On the Horns of a Dilemma. The Imperative of a Grand Coalition Is Risky – Especially For the Social Democrats
by WOLFGANG MERKEL AND BERNHARD WEßELS
Vol. 4, No. 1
Re-Shaping Consumer Policy in Europe
Introduction: Re-Shaping Consumer Policy in Europe: Enabling Consumers to Act?
by CHRISTOPH STRÜNCK
Current State and Prospects of Consumer Policy: An Introductory Essay
by EDDA MÜLLER
Sustainability Policy and the Law
by JENS KARSTEN AND LUCIA A. REISCH
Risk Regulation without Political Conflicts? Regime Structures in Food Safety Politics in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands
by FRANK JANNING
New Players Enter the Game: Effects of Marketization of Social Policies
by FLORIAN BLANK
Consumer Citizen: The Constitution of Consumer Democracy in Sociological Perspective
by JÖRN LAMLA
Claiming Consumers’ Rights Patterns and Limits of Adversarial Legalism in European Consumer Protection
by CHRISTOPH STRÜNCK
Public Health in the EU: Is Europe subject to Americanization?
by PAULETTE KURZER
Legitimising Supranational Risk Regulation: The EU Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Regimes
by SEBASTIAN KRAPOHL
About the authors
by GPS
Vol. 3, No. 4
Biotechnology Policy
Biotechnology Policy Convergence in Continental Europe? Political Institutions, Problem Framing and Learning
by NILS C. BANDELOW
Explaining ART Policies in Switzerland and Germany: Similar Processes-Similar Results?
by CHRISTINE ROTHMAYR
Regulating Biomedicine in Belgium and France: Neighboring Countries, Diverging Policies
by NATHALIE SCHIFFINO and FRÉDÉRIC VARONE
Policy Learning in Policy Domains with Value Conflicts: The Austrian Cases of Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
by ERICH GRIEßLER and BERNHARD HADOLT
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy-Oriented Learning and Long-Term Change in Genetic Engineering Policy: An Interpretist View
by NILS C. BANDELOW
Vol. 3, No. 3
Pension Reform
Politics of Pension Policies: Editorial
by SIMON HEGELICH and KLAUS SCHUBERT
Personal Responsibility and its Contradiction in Terms
by FRANK NULLMEIER
Moving the Unmovable: Political Strategies of Pension Reform in Germany
by MARIUS R. BUSEMEYER
"Experimental Law-Making" and the Politics of German Pension Reforms
by WOLFRAM LAMPING and FRIEDBERT W. RÜB
Riester Pensions in Germany: Do they substitute or supplement public pensions? Positions in the debate on the new public policy on private pensions
by FRANK BERNER
Moving from "Defined Benefit" to "Undefined": The interests in the enhancement of supplementary provision for old age in Germany
by SIMON HEGELICH
Vol. 3, No. 2
Think Tanks
Introduction: Think Tanks in Austria, Switzerland and Germany--A Recalibration of Corporatist Policy Making?
by SVEN JOCHEM and ADRIAN VATTER
Governing by Commission: A Way to More Effective Democratic Governance or a Loss of Democratic Accountability?
by JULIA VON BUMENTHAL
The Development and Significance of Think Tanks in Germany
by MARTIN THUNERT
U.S. and German Think Tanks in Comparative Perspective
by JOSEF BRAML
Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reform--The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
by WERNER EICHHORST and OLE WINTERMANN
Switzerland: Think Tanks and Vested Interests in Swiss Policy Making
by ISABELLE STEFFEN and WOLF LINDER
The Long Shadow of Corporatism: Scope and Limits of Think Tank Activities in Austria
by FERDINAND KARLHOFER
Vol. 3, No. 1
Urban Safety
Editorial
by BERNHARD FREVEL
Security and the Urban Public Sphere
by WALTER SIEBEL and JAN WEHRHEIM
Political Culture as a Basis for Local Security and Crime Prevention: A Comparison of the Conditions in Germany and The Netherlands
by VERENA SCHULZ and HENNING VAN DEN BRINK
The Police, Changing Security Arrangements and Late Modernity: The Case of The Netherlands
by JAN TERPSTRA and KEES VAN DER VIJVER
Networked Policing: Towards a Public Marketing Approach to Urban Safety
by KUNO SCHEDLER
About the Authors
by GPS
Vol. 2, No. 4
The Stakes of Transport Policy in Social Science Research
Introduction
by FRITZ SAGER and VINCENT KAUFMANN
European Transport Policy – A Historical and Forward Looking Perspective
by LIANA GIORGI and MICHAEL SCHMIDT
Harmonisation And Convergence? National Responses To The Common European Transport Policy
by DIRK LEHMKUHL
Designing Sustainable Transportation Policy For Acceptance: A Comparison Of Germany, The Netherlands And Switzerland
by CHRISTIAN HIRSCHI, WALTER SCHENKEL, And THOMAS WIDMER
Impacts Of Institutional Change On Urban Transport Policy In Rome: An Update
by MARIO GUALDI and CARLO SESSA
Innovation Without Change?
by BERNARD JOUVE
Transport Policy And Policy Research: Some Concluding Remarks
by FRITZ SAGER and VINCENT KAUFMANN
Vol. 2, No. 3
German Higher Education Reform From A Comparative Perspective
Introduction
by ECE GÖZTEPE-ÇELEBI, FREIA STALLMANN and ANNETTE ZIMMER
Higher Education, Internationalisation, and the Nation-State
by JÜRGEN ENDERS
A Comparative View On Policy Trends In Western European Higher Education
by JEROEN HUISMAN and FRANS KAISER
Campus Europae
by CHRISTA THOBEN
Gender Inequality in German Academia and Strategies for Change
by AGNIESZKA MAJCHER
Theses On Status Quo And Future Challenges Of The German System Of Higher Education
by HANS-UWE ERICHSON
Reform or Re-labeling? A Student’s Perspective On The Introduction Of The Bachelor’s And Master’s Degree In German Higher Education
by FREIA STALLMANN
Vol. 2, No. 2
The Politics and Policies of Communist/Radical Socialist Parties after Communism
Communist/Radical Socialist Parties After Communism: An Introduction
by JONATHAN OLSEN
The Communist Party of Bohemia und Moravia: A Post-Communist Socialist or A Neo-Communist Party?
by MAXMILIAN STRMISKA
The Slovak Party of the Democratic Left: A Successful Post-Communist Party?
by LUBOMIR KOPEČEK
After the Deluge: The French Communist Party after the End of Communism
by FRANK WILSON
Vol. 2, No. 1
The German Welfare State: Dimensions - Innovations - Comparisons
Introduction - Concept of the Issue and Some Characteristics of the German Welfare State
by JOSEF SCHMID
Pension Reforms in Six West-European Countries. Which Lessons Can be Drawn for Germany?
by JOACHIM HULSMANN, JOSEF SCHMID, and SARAH SCHOLL
Gender Policies in the Welfare State - A Comparison of Germany and Denmark
by NORA FUHRMANN
Financial Incentives Within Social Assistance. Comparing Current Strategies in the U.S. and Germany
by DORIAN R. WOODS, LAURA CHADWICK, and JURGEN VOLKERT
Local Welfare Regimes and the Restructuring of the Welfare State - an Anglo-German Comparison
by BERNARD BLANKE and HENNING SCHRIDDE
The Welfare State and Education: A Comparison of Social and Educational Policy in Advanced Industrial Societies
by GUNTHER HEGA and KARL HOKENMAIER
Reforming The German Welfare State: Why Germany Is Slower Than Its Neighbors
by ROBERT HENRY COX
Vol. 1, No. 4
Policy of Adaptation: Efforts of East European Countries to Meet European Integration Standards
Eastern Enlargement Of The EU As A Subject Of Research Policy: Introduction To The Symposium
by PETR FIALA
The Context, The Actors And The Effects Of The Eastern Enlargement Of The European Union
by PETR FIALA
European Union Enlargement - Consequences And Problems
by WITCHARD WOYKE
Prioritisation Of Work - Preparing The Poland's Accession To The European Union
by FILIP JASINSKI
The EU Accession And ECE Parliaments: A Hungarian Approach
by ATTILA ÁGH
Implementation Of The Eu Law In The Czech Republic: A Comparative Perspective
by VOJTECH ŠIMÍCEK
Vol. 1, No. 3
Migration and Immigration Policies
Editorial
by DIETRICH THRÄNHARDT and PAUL HARRIS
Republicanism and the Politics of Citizenship in Germany and France: Convergence or Divergence?
by HEIKE HAGEDORN
Tainted Blood: The Ambivalence of Ethnic Migration in Israel, Japan, Korea, Germany and the United States
by DIETRICH THRÄNHARDT
Party Competition and Inclusion of Immigrants in Germany
by UWE HUNGER
Imagined Identity: Immigration, Ueberfremdung, and Cultural Chauvinism in German Far-Right Partisan Discourse
by PAUL A. HARRIS
Vol. 1, No. 2
Nonprofit Sector in Turbulent Environments
Editorial
by ANNETTE ZIMMER
Italy's Third Sector on Consolidation Course
by GIAN PAOLO BARBETTA
Changing Focus or Changing Role? The Swedish Nonprofit Sector in the 1990s
by FILIP WIJKSTRÖM
The Third Sector in France
by EDITH ARCHAMBAULT
The Third Sector and Labour market Policy in Germany
by ANNETTE ZIMMER and ECKHARD PRILLER
Vol. 1, No. 1
Changing Patterns of European Governance
Editorial
by KLAUS SCHUBERT
Introduction
by NILS C. BANDELOW
European Governance by The Emergence of a new Type of Package Deals
by
Regulation and Infrastructure Management: German Regulatory Regimes and the EU Framework
by BURKARD EBERLEIN and EDGAR GRANDE
The European Union as a Virtual Learning Forum for National Labour Market Policy? - Comments on a 'Late Vocation' Field of European Governance
by PAUL KLEMMER, DORTHEE BECKER-SOEST, and RÜDIGER WINK
Multi-Level Governance in the European Employment and Labour Market Policy: A Conceptual Outline and Some Empirical Evidence
by CHRISTIAN ROTH and JOSEF SCHMID
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