Mit dem Sächsischen Dienstrechtsneuordnungsgesetz vom 18.12.2013 ordnet nunmehr auch Sachsen die Professorenbesoldung mit Wirkung zum 01.04.2014 neu. Das BVerfG hatte mit seinem Urteil vom 14.02.2012 die Beamtenbesoldung in der Besoldungsgruppe W2 in Hessen als "evident unzureichend" verworfen...

The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat mit Urteil vom 14.2.2012 die Besoldung in der Besoldungsgruppe W2 in Hessen als "evident unzureichend" verworfen. Im Hinblick auf die gesetzte Frist wurden zwischenzeitlich in Hessen und Bayern Neuregelungen der Professorenbesoldung zum 1. Januar 2013 wirksam;...

In February 2012, the German Federal Constitutional Court declared the salaries of level W2 professors in the State of Hesse unconstitutional due to their lack of sufficient alimentation power. In the meantime, federal and nearly all state legislators have provided (draft) laws in order to...

In this paper, we employ a public choice perspective to analyze the development of policies for renewable energy sources (RES) in the EU in general and in Germany more specifically. In doing so, we explain the main characteristics of current RES policies in the EU by reference to the...

The literature on policy convergence has identified numerous aspects and possible causal drivers of convergence. We classify and condense these into a comprehensive framework, which is operationalized for support policies for renewable energy sources in the EU. Our analysis advances the...

In order to achieve cost-effective RES-E deployment it is often argued that technology-neutral support schemes for renewables are indispensable. Against this background, RES-E support policies making widely use of technology differentiation in remuneration settings, e.g. across the EU, are...

In this paper, we propose a comprehensive Public Choice framework to identify and categorize barriers to efficient public climate adaptation. Specifically, we distinguish three dimensions of public adaptation: extent, structure (form and timing) and organisation (vertical and horizontal). Within...

It is often argued that Germany's energy transition (the so-called Energiewende) needs to be Europeanized, so as to make the transition process more efficient. In particular, the German system of feed-in tariffs for renewables is criticized for being an obstacle to efficient European energy...