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Evaluationskultur auf kantonaler Ebene: politikfeld- oder kantonsspezifische Entwicklungspfade?
Dieses Kapitel beschreibt die Entwicklung der Evaluationskultur in sechs kantonalen Verwaltungseinheiten im Zeitraum von 2000 bis 2013 und geht der Frage nach, ob sich die Evaluationskultur der jeweiligen Verwaltungseinheiten eher politikfeld- oder eher kantonsspezifisch entwickelt hat. Zur Untersuchung der Entwicklung der Evaluationskultur wurde ein Analyserahmen verwendet, der sich...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2017
Les services d'eau et la Gestion Intégrée de la Ressource en Eau (GIRE)
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2017
Les déchets militaires dans les lacs suisses : Des pollutions en héritage aux enjeux d’une gestion résiliente des territoires
Bien que neutre, la Suisse s’est retrouvée dans la nécessité de s’armer pour faire face aux menaces de la seconde guerre mondiale. La paix revenue, elle a disposé d’un important stock d’armement. Deux catastrophes – mai 1946 et décembre 1947 – entourant le stockage terrestre de munitions enclenchent le processus public de décision relatif à la gestion de cet excédent. Pour faire face...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2017
Macroeconomic conditions, inequality shocks and the politics of redistribution, 1990-2013
This paper explores common trends in inequality and redistribution across OECD countries from the late 1980s to 2013. Low-end inequality rises during economic downturns while rising top-end inequality is associated with economic growth. Most countries retreated from redistribution from the mid-1990s until the onset of the Great Recession and compensatory redistribution in response to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Solidaristic unionism and support for redistribution in contemporary Europe
Using data from the European Social Survey (2002-14), this paper explores the effect of union membership on support for redistribution. We hypothesize that the wage-bargaining practices of unions promote egalitarian distributive norms, which lead union members to support redistribution, and that this effect is strongest among high-wage workers. Consistent with our expectations, the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Paper stones revisited: class voting, unionization and the decline of the mainstream left
Relying on post-election surveys, this paper analyzes how class and union membership condition voters’ abandonment of mainstream Left parties and the alternatives chosen by former mainstream-Left voters in the period 2001-14. Inspired by Przeworski and Sprague’s Paper Stones (1986), our analysis shows that Left parties face a trade-off between working-class and middle-class support...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Etude sur le revenu et les charges des parlementaires fédéraux
Sur demande de la Délégation administrative de l'Assemblée fédérale, les Services du Parlement ont mandaté des chercheurs de l'Université de Genève (Département de science politique et relations internationales et Institut de recherche appliquée en économie et gestion) pour réaliser une étude scientifique devant répondre à trois questions: • Quel est le montant du revenu...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2017
Blame and contention: how perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action
In this paper we analyse the extent to which perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis impacted on the political behaviour of European citizens. This includes contentious political activities such as attending public meetings, participating in demonstrations, and joining strikes, but also electoral behaviour in the form of voting against the incumbent. We examine...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Interests groups in parliament: exploring MPs' interest affiliations (2000-2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of Swiss MPs' interest ties between 2000-2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties per MP has more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid-2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties between MPs and interest groups, showing the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Les déchets militaires : De la conception aux impacts territoriaux
Classiquement, la notion de déchet est articulée autour de deux concepts distincts : les déchets ménagers et les déchets industriels. Etant donné le polymorphisme de cette notion et les nombreuses représentations lui incombant, le terme de déchet s’est construit autour de diverses catégories établies dans une triple logique : (i) en fonction de leurs sources de production – déchets...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2017
Frictions in Regulation and Governance: Policy implications for public utilities
The Institutional Resource Regime framework appears successful in comparing natural resource governance systems but unable to provide a common and persuasive explanation of the evolution of these systems. To fill this gap, the concepts of institutional complexity trap and transversal transaction costs (TTC) have been recently put forward. IRRs tend to fall into an institutional...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Workplace characteristics and working class vote for the old and new right
This article focuses on the role of plant size for working class vote. We argue that workplace size does matter for political behaviour. Workers in smaller plants are less unionised and therefore base their voting decisions more strongly on their cultural attitudes, which undermines the support for social democratic parties. Using data from the European Social Survey (2002-2010), we...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2017
Un risque invisible : Le cas des munitions immergées dans les lacs suisses
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2017
Solidarity in times of inequality: trade union politics and union membership effects
Europe has been marked by many profound changes since the 1980s. Among those prominently discussed in the political economy literature are the massive decline in trade union membership, the alarming rise in income inequality, and the increasingly disproportionate distribution of labor market risks. This thesis combines these issues and explores how unionization relates to income and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Short-term dynamics in issue-ownership and vote conversion
In this paper, my primary goal is to test if vote conversion is in line with voters' perceptions of parties' competence, i.e. if the competence change in favor of a party during the political campaign triggers vote conversion in favor of this same party. Then, I assess the moderating role of saliency and political knowledge and the difference between ‘valence' and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
For the sake of market access: Comparing EU and US approaches to liberalize public procurement in Brazil, India and China
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
On the fringes of the European peace project: The neighbourhood policy's functionalist hubris and political myopia
The destabilization of Eastern Europe and of the Southern Mediterranean has exposed the limits of the European peace project. Obviously, the European Neighbourhood Policy has not succeeded in boosting peace and prosperity. This article attributes this failure to a combination of functionalist hubris and political myopia that emanates from the European Union's peculiar...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
The limits of governance: How far does policy analysis travel in international relations?
This article retraces the mutual rapprochement between Policy Analysis and International Relations and addresses its limits. Looking beyond the circle of advanced liberal-democratic economies, three limits are discussed: the need to specify the prerequisites of different modes of governance; to consider the relations of power and domination in these processes; and to look beyond...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Labour rights promotion in the absence of conditionality ? How the EU and the US engage China and India
Labour standards are one of the most contested issues in economic relations between developed countries and emerging markets. As attempts to codify such standards in the WTO have failed, the EU and the US have intensified their efforts to promote them in bilateral and regional Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Whereas this practice has been quite consistent across the globe, the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
The EU as a Global Actor in Reforming the International Investment Regime in Light of Sustainable Development
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
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