This Article argues that the conventional (rationalist) approach to world politics characterized by political bargain cannot fully capture the new social reality under the contemporary global ambience where ideational factors such as ideas, values, culture, and norms have become more salient and...

We analyze managerial discourse in corporate communication (‘CEO-speak') during a six month period following a legitimacy-threatening event in the form of an incident in a German nuclear power plant. As discourses express specific stances expressed by a group of people who share particular...

Политическая система любого государства, в том числе и России, неизбежно изменяется, эволюционирует, отвечая на вызовы окружающего мира. Далеко не последнее...

The financial crisis of 2007-09 soon morphed into a crisis of public debt. This paper argues that the way the Eurozone crisis was discursively constructed led to a large scale entrenchment of European welfare states. First of all, how the crisis was constructed did not reflect its actual causes...

Der Gründungszuschuss ist das bedeutendste Förderinstrument zur Existenzgründung aus Arbeitslosigkeit. Während umfangreiche Evaluationsstudien zu seinen arbeitsmarktpolitischen Wirkungen vorliegen, gibt es bislang kaum theoriegeleitete Arbeiten, die seine Vergabe in den Arbeitsagenturen...

After communicative planning theory (CPT) emerged in the 1980's, challenging assumptions and prevailing theories of planning, debates ensued among planning theorists that led to apparently opposing groups with little space for mutual learning. The most difficult obstacle is that critiques of CPT...

In this working paper, we treat legitimacy and legitimation as interactive, discursive and relational concepts: Legitimacy is socially constructed in the public spheres of (democratic) political regimes, that is, in discursive exchanges of political elites and citizens about the acceptability of...

Studiengebühren sind nicht ungerecht, sie haben im Gegenteil das Potenzial, das Bildungssystem gerechter zu machen. Hochschulabsolventen erzielen einen hohen privaten Nutzen, der die staatlichen Erträge der akademischen Ausbildung eher noch übersteigt. Einiges deutet darauf hin, dass die gut...