Der Sammelband verbindet zwei wichtige Trends in der aktuellen Entwicklung der öffentlichen Verwaltung und des Verwaltungsrechts. Er untersucht, wie Innovationen im institutionellen oder regulatorischen Bereich zum Krisenmanagement beitragen können. Hierzu versammelt der Band internationale...

How theory- and evidence-based are political and economic decisions before the backdrop of disruptive technologies and global crises? The contributions collected here examine this question for the areas of health policy, tax policy, antitrust law, commercial law, and corporate accounting before...

States of Fragility 2025 considers a world of shifting power dynamics, where the most severe impacts of crisis, conflict and instability converge in the 61 contexts identified with high and extreme fragility. Multidimensional fragility lies at the core of the geopolitical shifts that are...

Der Sammelband verbindet zwei wichtige Trends in der aktuellen Entwicklung der öffentlichen Verwaltung und des Verwaltungsrechts. Er untersucht, wie Innovationen im institutionellen oder regulatorischen Bereich zum Krisenmanagement beitragen können. Hierzu versammelt der Band internationale...

A self-enforcing constitution creates a political process that provides an alternative to civil conflict for resolving disputes among the constituent groups of the polity. This paper is concerned with discovering the conditions under which it is possible to design such a self-enforcing...

Wo zeigt sich bereits heute eine Haftungsunion? -- Inwiefern ist der Wiederaufbaufonds die Blaupause für einen fiskalisch-zentralistischen Europäischen Währungsfonds? -- Kommt ein Schuldenerlass? -- Sind griechische „Geuros“ und italienische „Minibots“ als Regierungsgeld die Lösung?...

Warum ist die Politik der Alternativlosigkeit so gefährlich? -- Was heißt „Krisenpolitik“ und weshalb wirken ihre Folgen desintegrativ? -- Was sind die Kosten der Niedrigzinspolitik? -- Wie hoch waren die Schuldenerleichterungen für Griechenland wirklich? -- Inwiefern gefährden...

States of Fragility 2022 arrives during an 'age of crises', where multiple, concurring crises are disproportionately affecting the 60 fragile contexts identified in this year's report. Chief among these crises are COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and climate change, with the root causes...

Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The severity and recurrent nature of these crises demand a fast understanding and quantification of their...

Purpose This paper analyses how the history of the Mongol invasions of Japan in the 13th century was used to create a collective national memory of modern Japan and how individuals and the Japanese public promoted these memories through a campaign of constructing memorials to strengthen Japan's...

Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The severity and recurrent nature of these crises demand a fast understanding and quantification of their...

Einführung -- Die Politik der Alternativlosigkeit: Wie es dazu kam und warum ein Wechsel angeraten ist -- Die Flüchtlings- und Eurokrise: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der politischen Handhabung -- Niedrigzinsen: Folgen und Gefahren -- Nivellierung der Risikoprämien durch die EZB --...

Das Handbuch untersucht interdisziplinär einen Schlüsselbegriff der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Es arbeitet für verschiedene Bereiche den Forschungsstand zu ‚Krisen‘ als politischen Handlungssituationen auf und betont zugleich die enge Verbindung zur politischen Praxis, die sich in...

"Based on qualitative, country-based fieldwork in Eastern and Southern Africa, Antoinette Handley examines how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises, often responding well in advance of the state. She reveals the surprising ways in which business responses...

States of Fragility 2020 sets a policy agenda for fragility at a critical turning point: the final countdown on Agenda 2030 is at hand, and the pandemic has reversed hard-fought gains. This report examines fragility as a story in two parts: the global state of fragility that existed before...

This essay is written for a Festschrift to commemorate Jürgen Backhaus's contributions to political economy on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Erfurt. Jürgen is a penetrating and wide-ranging scholar from whom I have learned much since we first met in 1974. It would be...

It doesn't have to be like this! -- The recent decline of American democratic integrity and the case for promoting new models in civic engagement -- Next stage strategies for restoring our democracy and civic vitality -- The limits of hyper-capitalism and material accumulation for the few -- New...

Attack on the welfare state in the context of Schumpeter's prediction of the decline of capitalism -- The ideological degradation of economics as a science and the introduction of false doctrinal concepts -- State crises and market malfunctions requiring systemic changes -- Crisis inducing...

The volume provides a collection of research papers elucidating the concept of crisis from a multidisciplinary standpoint. The authors, all academicians of Hakkâri University's (HU) Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, discuss the concept of crisis in the context of different case...

Intro -- Einleitung -- Stefan Rahmstorf: Der unterschätzte Klimawandel -- Alice Bows-Larkin, Kevin Anderson: Kipppunkte im Erdsystem und der notwendige Umbau der Gesellschaft -- George Monbiot: Der Kollaps der Natur und die drohende Nahrungsmittelkrise -- Vandana Shiva: Der Preis des Wachstums...

This study explores the different approaches to service delivery in fragile states by surveying donors' own evaluations of their existing fragile states policies. Because there is limited understanding of what works in risky environments, monitoring and evaluation are critical components of...

This paper analyzes the linkages between governance quality and country stress events. It focuses on two types of events: fiscal and political stress events, for which two innovative stress indicators are introduced. The results suggest that weaker governance quality is associated with a higher...

This paper analyzes the linkages between governance quality and country stress events. It focuses on two types of events: fiscal and political stress events, for which two innovative stress indicators are introduced. The results suggest that weaker governance quality is associated with a higher...