englischIn recent decades, a subsystem for Internet policy has emerged in Germany’s political system. It is here where major decisions on the development and use of the Internet in Germany are made. This book provides a first detailed analysis of this development. On the one hand, it describes the [...]

englischThis study dissects a policy failure that is often overlooked: Nuclear energy policy in the US and Germany fell short of the goals it set itself at an early stage of deployment. Technological expansion in both countries came to a halt before the nuclear accidents in Harrisburg and Chernobyl. [...]

englischThis study analyses how service provision in basic income support for job seekers has changed regarding centralisation and decentralisation. The historical, institutionalist analysis of the reform process of the "Law to further develop the organisation of basic income support for job [...]

englischHow can consumer interests be defined and determined? How do public interest groups fulfil their fundamental function of interest aggregation? This study analyses how consumer interests are defined, aggregated and legitimised within the field of consumer policy. In Germany, these interests, [...]

englischTo achieve Germany’s climate protection goals, power generation has to be fundamentally transformed, which means that conventional power plants must be replaced with renewable energy and corresponding storage facilities. Up to now, the power plants have been situated around the country [...]

englischThis volume examines interaction in European court communities and their impact on national policy developments and fundamental rights in Europe. The Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights enjoy high regard, but only their interaction with national courts and other [...]

englischThis study analyses the stringency of EU environmental regulations. Contrary to the proposition of an economic “trading up” of standards, the positive theory of environmental federalism which is developed allows for an examination of political mechanisms and the effects of regulation. [...]

englischThis book examines the formation of internet policy in Germany between 2005 and 2011 by applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). As a first step, the author presents the framework, which, despite being based on American presidentialism, can still be applied to examples in [...]

englischPolitical actors develop temporal action strategies to pursue policy preferences. They try to apply a dual timing strategy for initiating reforms: actors use time periods to keep options for actions open, and they make targeted choices of points in time for decision-making. Hence, policy [...]

englischThis book offers an innovative perspective on the political science debate concerning implementation issues. It focuses explicitly on the theoretical and empirical aspects of previously unrecognized problem-solving potential of actors' knowledge relevant to decision-making on the [...]