*Expansion of EDI bureaucracy has been fuelled by government regulation, not by market forces or rising prejudice *Growth of EDI undermines meritocracy, replacing fairness and talent with group quotas and targets *Previous estimates suggest direct public sector EDI costs of £557m a year, with...

Randomized controlled trials remain underutilized in informing policy design, despite their potential. Moral objections to experimentation ("experiment aversion") have been proposed as an explanation. We present three studies with members of the general public and policy-makers that allow us to...

Die demokratische Revolution in der DDR und die anschließende politische, wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Transformation stellten die Menschen in Ostdeutschland vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen, die bis heute nachwirken. Die Beiträger*innen nehmen die Bereiche Landwirtschaft, Bahn und...

Die derzeitige Evaluierungspraxis und Evidenzorientierung politischer Prozesse ist in Deutschland noch deutlich ausbaufähig. Internationale Erfahrungen zeigen die großen Vorteile einer systematischen, evidenzbasierten Politikgestaltung. In wirtschaftlich und politisch angespannten Zeiten ist...

Wie ließe sich Wissenschaftsfreiheit definieren? Paradigmatische Möglichkeiten, das zu beantworten, was als Wissenschaftsfreiheit beschrieben wird, bietet die Systemtheorie Bielefelder Provenienz. Wird entsprechend bei dem Beschreiben angesetzt, denn Beschreibung gehört zu den Ordnungsformen...

The project "Building capacity for evidence informed policymaking (EIPM) in governance and public administration in post-pandemic Europe" supported seven European Union (EU) member states (Estonia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia and the Netherlands) in building capacity...

This paper analyses political developments in Uganda from independence in 1962 until 2021. It applies a version of the political settlement approach in which power relations in society are analysed along the following five dimensions: vertical relations, horizontal relations, regime financing,...

Die Broschüre stellt den Prozess und die Ergebnisse des Forschungsvorhabens "Zivilgesellschaftliche Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen auf dem Weg in nachhaltige Politik stärken, skalieren, vernetzen" vor. Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen verfügen über ein großes Potenzial, um Transformationsprozesse...

This study assesses the extent to which policy frameworks at EU and national level are equipped to tackle the socioeconomic impacts associated with climate action policies, identifies gaps and outlines recommendations for action that could be taken up by the European Parliament in future policy...

This study assesses the extent to which policy frameworks at EU and national level are equipped to tackle the socioeconomic impacts associated with climate action policies, identifies gaps and outlines recommendations for action that could be taken up by the European Parliament in future policy...

The project "Building capacity for evidence informed policymaking (EIPM) in governance and public administration in post-pandemic Europe" supports seven European Union (EU) member states in building capacity to improve the effectiveness of their public administrations, through greater capacity...

During recent crises in Europe, new heterogeneous protest movements have emerged that are difficult to label and classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters is primarily the lack of political trust. Therefore, these new protest movements offer favorable...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integral to global economies and societies, the need for effective AI governance has never been more urgent. The rapid advancement in AI technologies and their widespread adoption across many sectors, such as healthcare, finance, agriculture,...

This paper analyses political developments in Uganda from independence in 1962 until 2021. It applies a version of the political settlement approach in which power relations in society are analysed along the following five dimensions: vertical relations, horizontal relations, regime financing,...

Afrika zwischen Klischee und Wirklichkeit – 54 Länder, 54 Realitäten -- Afrikas historisches Erbe prägt die Gegenwart -- Wie entwickelt sich Afrika wirtschaftlich? -- Eine Wachstumsgeschichte -- Fortschritt durch Innovationskraft -- Afrikas grüne Energie –Lieferant für die Welt? --...

Vorwort von S.E. François Marie Delattre, Französischer Botschafter in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland -- Einleitung – Die Relevanz des deutsch-französischen Motors für die europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik -- Historische Entwicklung der deutsch-französischen...

Ever since the rivalry between America and China flared up during President Trump's term in office, the question has been raised about the extent that a situation could develop in which the rivalry between established and new power could lead to a conflict that would exhaust both. The article...

In diesem Buch wird der politisch-ästhetische Diskurs über öffentliche Gebäude im Berlin des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert nachgezeichnet. Mit einem interdisziplinären Ansatz werden ästhetische Merkmale der Architektur in Bezug zu politischen Aussagen und Handlungen gesetzt. In...

This study assesses the extent to which policy frameworks at EU and national level are equipped to tackle the socioeconomic impacts associated with climate action policies, identifies gaps and outlines recommendations for action that could be taken up by the European Parliament in future policy...

We study the impact of hiring former government officials on firms’ tax evasion using a unique administrative employee-employer matched data from Moscow, Russia. We find that firms hiring former top-level city government officials experience increased tax evasion: reported salaries of the...

Nudging has been used to make public policies widely, in various fields such as personal finance, health, education, environment/climate, privacy, law, and human well-being. Nonetheless, with an increase in the applications of nudging, the toolkit of nudges also expanded massively, which...

This article collects, categorises and analyses responses (n=239) to online disinformation from 103 countries, ten international and regional organisations across six continents (through 2021). We categorised each initiative into eleven non-mutually exclusive categories according to intent,...

The SDG Summit will take place on 18-19 September 2023 in New York. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called it the “centrepiece” of the UN’s work this year. Numerous reports for this year’s mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs will lament the “lack of political...

We use novel data to describe the evolution of party differences in parliamentary speech in Finland during 1907-2018. We find a peak in left-right polarization in the 1970s, driven by the extreme left party, and co-occuring with a high prevalance of Soviet Union related phrases, perhaps...

Das Ziel der Treibhausgasneutralität bis zum Jahr 2045 stellt die Fernwärmesysteme vor große Herausforderungen, die durch den Krieg in der Ukraine noch verschärft werden. Um Kohle als Energieträger für die Versorgung von Wärmenetzen zu ersetzen und eine langfristig klimaneutrale, von...

We use a new machine learning-enabled, social network based measurement technique to assemble a novel dataset of firms' political connections in India. Leveraging this data along with a long panel of detailed financial transactions of firms, we study how political connections matter during an...

In dieser Dissertation wird die Wechselwirkung zwischen der Wirtschaft und den Wahlen, Politikern und Politik untersucht. Um die Wähler über die Folgen ihrer Wahlentscheidung zu informieren, ist das Verständnis der Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen der Wirtschaft, den politischen Akteuren und den...