23. September 2017
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This paper analyses why middle-income countries incentivize renewable energy despite inexpensive domestic fossil fuel resources and lack of international support. We examine the politics of renewable energy programs in Mexico, South Africa and Thailand. All three countries hold abundant local … Continue reading
23. September 2017
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While mixed methods designs can in principle combine a large variety of methods, the de facto standard in political science is currently a combination of case studies with regression analysis. To broaden this perspective, we introduce an integrated multi-dimensional mixed … Continue reading
18. January 2017
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Vier Beiträge der Tagung Sozialstaat 4.0 sind im Januar 2017 als Schwerpunkt der Zeitschrift für Sozialreform erschienen. Im Editorial sprechen Frank Nullmeier und ich einige zentrale Aspekte der Diskussion um die Zukunft des Sozialstaats in einer digitalen Ökonomie an.
9. May 2016
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In a widely cited article Boyle suggests that a movement against the growing propertization of knowledge should develop a mobilization frame centered around the idea of the public domain. Based on an analysis of the framing strategies in the two … Continue reading
4. May 2016
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Research on social movements in Germany started late and has never really managed to establish a stable foothold within the German university system. A lively social movement sector with frequent and large-scale protests on many issues has not changed the … Continue reading
4. May 2016
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Mummery – i.e. all practices to conceal one’s identity, usually by (partially) covering the face – has a long tradition as a repertoire of contention. In this chapter I discuss how and why this practice became part of social movements’ … Continue reading
5. February 2016
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The protests in 1980 and 1981 have been labeled as ‘youth movement’, ‘youth protest’, ‘youth unrest’, ‘youth rebellion’, or ‘youth revolt’. The chapter reflects upon the implications and assumptions of these concepts with the aim to situate these concepts in … Continue reading
5. February 2016
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Fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance practices, privacy is a widely discussed issue today. But despite the eminent visibility of privacy issues in the media, its political salience is questionable. Concrete privacy-enhancing political measures are few and … Continue reading