Die Infrastrukturen digitaler Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien durchdringen in Form kabelloser Netzwerke den Raum. Mobile Medien wie Laptop und Handy erlauben orts- und zeitunabhängigen Zugriff auf virtuell verfügbare Informationen und Dienste. Am Beispiel des Mobilen...

Innovative Expertensysteme stehen als Teil von sozio-technischen Konstellationen vor der Herausforderung, Neues mit Altem zu verbinden. Die bestehenden Konstellationen lassen sich dabei als Blackbox beschreiben, da sie unhinterfragt bleiben, so lange sie nicht von Experten problematisiert und...

Kultur und Kreativität gelten gegenwärtig als neue Schlüsselressourcen im Aufbau wettbewerbsfähiger und wissensbasierter Dienstleistungsökonomien. Der wachstumsdynamische Branchenmix Kreativwirtschaft steht exemplarisch für diese Entwicklung und verkörpert einen stetig expandierenden...

Many studies show that political participation at the individual level is fragmented, multidimensional and non-cumulative, but comparison of 22 nations in Europe shows that different kinds of social and political participation at the country level are cumulative, unidimensional. The result is a...

Democracy is feasible in multinational states. Substate nationalism in Europe has grown stronger, not weaker, during the last decades. And this has taken place because of democracy and not in spite of it. The cohabitation of democracy and nationalism is guaranteed by the establishment of...

This paper explores the institutional changes of international tax governance in response to growing politicization and contestation of international direct tax issues. I show that politicization – which is a very recent phenomenon in international taxation – results from a governance gap....

In this paper I argue that the politicization of civil society can lead non-state actors to create new international institutions which compete with traditional intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) to provide global public goods; this competition over resources and authority, in turn, can put...

In recent years a new type of political actor has become increasingly important - cosmopolitan individuals acting transnationally in support of the rights and well-being of their “fellow citizens of the world.” The emerging transnational political awareness of private individuals might be...

This paper examines the politicization of the United Nations Security Council (SC) and seeks to explore the causes and effects of this process. I will first demonstrate that the SC has expanded both its scope and authority after the end of the Cold War. With the SC becoming more powerful I then...