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The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic government in three
Die Politik wird in ihrer wachsenden Regulierungsdichte auch immer komplexer. Um die Akzeptanz gegenüber dem demokratischen Prozess zu erhalten, müssen Bürger wissen, wie Gesetze erlassen werden und wie sie selber von diesen betroffen sind. Vollständiger Artikel
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The chair of Empirical Theories of Politics is pleased to announce that Sarah Dingler will start her research fellowship with us in April. Her stay at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute will be in the course of her scholarship with the Laufer Foundation.
Steinebach, Yves / Knill, Christoph (2017). Social policies during economic crises: an analysis of cross-national variation coping strategies from 1980 to 2013, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1336565 This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between economic crises and social policy change for 13 European countries. Based on the degree of policy expansion and dismantling, we identify three
Budde, Emma T. / Knill, Christoph / Fernandez-i-Marín, Xavier / Preidel, Caroline (2017). A matter of timing: The religious factor and morality policies, DOI: 10.1111/gove.12296 The question of whether or not religion accounts for variance in the governance of moral issues, between and within countries over time, has long been debated but never conclusively answered. A novel data set
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Call for Papers: Policy Making in Hard Times: Deregulation, Dismantling and Compensation 15.-17. November 2017 Barcelona Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich (LMU Munich) Prof. Dr. Susana Narotzky (University of Barcelona) Workshop organised by: Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill (LMU) Prof. Dr. Jacint Jordana (UPF) Dr. Eva-Maria Euchner (LMU) Yves Steinebach (LMU) The workshop aims to
Adam, Christian / Knill, Christoph / Fernandez-i-Marín, Xavier (2016). Rule growth and government effectiveness: why it takes the capacity to learn and coordinate to constrain rule growth. Policy Science, DOI: 10.1007/s11077-016-9265-x This paper asks whether strong bureaucracies can effectively constrain the continuously growing stock of rules in modern democracies through organizational coordination and learning. To answer this question, the paper analyzes