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dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management
1-2025: Europe’s Green Transition – Policy Instruments and their Politicization
hrsg. von Viktoria Brendler & Jan Pollex
Themenschwerpunkt
Viktoria Brendler / Jan Pollex: Contested Transitions: Policy Instruments as Sites of Conflict in Europe’s Green Transition
Laura Porak: Displacing ordoliberalism in favour of EU sovereignty: An analysis of green EU industrial policy from a Cultural Political Economy perspective
Anne Gerstenberg / Kai-Uwe Schnapp: Instruments as Belief-Driven Entities: Reconceptualizing the Interplay of Beliefs and Policy Instruments
Anne Gerstenberg / Kai-Uwe Schnapp: The Politics of Climate Instruments: Investigating Policymakers’ Belief Systems in EU Climate Policymaking
Noa Steiner / Michael Grunenberg / Christian Henning: EU Common Fisheries Policy failure? Assessing the role of informational lobbying and policy belief updating processes
Anna Wenz-Temming: The long haul or a short run of policy change? The introduction of German CO2-pricing on transport and heating within the European multilevel system
Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen: Exploring the System Security Veil: Uncovering Domestic Motivation to Establish Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs)
Rafael Postpischil: Micropolitics in Carbon Pricing: Ethnographic Insights into the Introduction of Germany’s Emissions Trading System
Daniela Braun / Martin Gross: Who engages with environmental issues in a multi-level system? An exploratory analysis of German parties’ issue emphasis
Johanna Kuenzler: Measuring Discursive Lock-In with the Narrative Policy Framework: An Analysis of Public Debates on Fossil Gas in Germany
Abhandlungen
Nikolas Daub: Soziale Wohnraumförderung in den deutschen Bundesländern: Wohnraum zwischen Markt und Dekommodifizierung
Tobias Krause: Wie und warum verwenden zukünftige Verwaltungsentscheider*innen KI-basierte Informationen? Empirische Erkenntnisse auf Basis einer nicht-experimentellen Fallvignette bei Hochschulstudent*innen
Essay
Sven Kette / Stefan Kühl: Beaufsichtigen. Über die Herausforderung, Unschädlichkeit zu organisieren
Rezensionen
Christian Schachtner: Lühr, Henning (2023). Der IT-Planungsrat. Funktionswandel der digitalen Transformation in den öffentlichen Verwaltungen. Eine rechts- und verwaltungswissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Entwicklung der „Digital Governance“ im föderalen politischen System Deutschlands. Kellner Science Verlag. 360 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-95651-320-6.
Markus Hinterleitner: Lucas, Patrick, Nabatchi, Tina, O’Flynn, Janine, & ’t Hart, Paul (eds.) (2024). Pathways to Positive Public Administration: An International Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Hardback, 490 pages, ISBN: 978 1 80392 916 3.
Holger Straßheim: Sunstein, Cass R. & Reisch, Lucia A. (2023). Research Handbook on Nudges and Society. Cheltenham. UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. Hardback, 337 Seiten, ISBN: 9781035303021.
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| Publisher | |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1865-7192 |
| eISSN | 2196-1395 |
| Volume | 18. Jahrgang 2025 |
| Edition | 1-2025 |
| Date of publication | 13.08.2025 |
| Scope | 280 Seiten |
| Language | Deutsch |
| Format | 17 x 24 cm |
| DOI | |
| Homepage |
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KeywordsAdvocacy Coalition Framework, agiles Verwaltungshandeln, Arten der Verwendung, Aufsichtsbehörden, August 2025, belief system approach, belief systems, Bürokratische Strukturen, capacity remuneration mechanisms, carbon pricing, climate policy, Cultural Political Economy, Dekommodifizierung, discursive lock-in, ecological transition, Einflussfaktoren, electricity markets, Elites, emissions trading, energy politics, energy transition, energy transitions, environment, environmental policy instruments, EU environmental policy, European Green Deal, European Multilevel Governance, European Union, Fehlerkultur, fossil gas, fsQCA, Föderalismus, geo-economics, Germany, Implementation, Industrial policy, instrument beliefs, instrumentation, issue emphasis, Künstliche Intelligenz, lobbying, micropolitics, multi-party systems multi-level systems, narrative policy framework, Neoliberalism, organisationale Entscheidungsfindung, policy formulation, policy instruments, policy learning, policy networks, Policy Process Research, Policy-Varianz, Political Ethnography, politicization, prinzipienbasierte Regulierung, public policy, soziale Wohnraumförderung, Verwendung von KI-Informationen
Abstracts
Contested Transitions: Policy Instruments as Sites of Conflict in Europe’s Green Transition (Viktoria Brendler, Jan Pollex)
The European Green Deal (EGD) represents the EU’s central strategy for achieving climate neutrality by 2050. It has sparked broad scholarly interest, particularly regarding its governance innovations, discursive framing, and eco-social implications. While Europe’s green agenda has proven resilient in times of crisis, questions remain about its transformative potential. In this introduction, we set the stage for the Symposium Europe’s Green Transition – Policy Instruments and their Politicization by shifting focus from high-level ambitions to the contested politics of implementation. We explore key dimensions of political contestation within the EU’s ecological transition and argue that policy instruments are crucial yet underexplored sites of conflict in Europe’s green transition. As the contributions to this Symposium illustrate, the politics of policy instrument choice offer a valuable analytical lens for understanding why ecological change often unfolds incrementally and how it is shaped and limited by structural, institutional, and discursive constraints. Keywords: European Green Deal, Ecological Transition, Politicization, Policy Instruments, Implementation, EU environmental policy
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Displacing ordoliberalism in favour of EU sovereignty: An analysis of green EU industrial policy from a Cultural Political Economy perspective (Laura Porak)
This paper analyses the multi-layered and sometimes contradictory new industrial policy of the European Union (EU) in the context of the climate crisis and shifting global power dynamics. Using the framework of Cultural Political Economy (CPE), which emphasizes the interdependence of the cultural and social levels. The findings show that the EU is reassessing its perspective and position in the global market in light of current crises, incorporating economic security concerns, and accordingly adapting its industrial strategy. Based on the different objectives reflected in the EU’s economic imaginary, the paper reconstructs four strategic selectivities of the emerging EU industrial policy. The paper concludes that neoliberalism is increasingly displaced in the EU’s economic imaginary and strategic selectivities, but not entirely – leaving room for its potential return to EU industrial policy in the future. The paper thus contributes to scholarly debates on EU industrial policy and the political economy of neoliberalism. Keywords: industrial policy, neoliberalism, geo-economics, European Union, Cultural Political Economy
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Instruments as Belief-Driven Entities: Reconceptualizing the Interplay of Beliefs and Policy Instruments (Anne Gerstenberg, Kai-Uwe Schnapp)
In order to understand the processes of policy instrumentation, it is of crucial importance to understand the reasoning and motivation of policymakers’ choices. In this contribution, we combine the belief system approach of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) with insights from constructivist policy instrument theory and develop an analytical tool for analyzing the role of policymakers’ beliefs in instrumentation. We argue that policy instruments are not only empirical “tools” but are cognitive and political entities to which policymakers assign meaning. Policy instruments are value-laden carriers of beliefs and embody problem representations, values, objectives, instrument-impact expectations and strategies of individual policymakers. Their selection is not solely based on technical criteria; instrumentation as a process is characterized by contention regarding problem representations and their appropriate solutions. This suggests that the belief levels within the ACF may not be strictly hierarchical, but rather interrelated in a web and inform each other mutually. As a result, we call for a reconsideration of the hierarchical conceptualization of belief levels within the ACF’s concept of belief systems. This has the following consequences: a change in secondary beliefs may affect changes in core beliefs. Moreover, we argue strategic considerations should be added to the belief system concept as its own category. Keywords: policy instruments, instrumentation, belief systems, Advocacy Coalition Framework, policy formulation
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The Politics of Climate Instruments: Investigating Policymakers’ Belief Systems in EU Climate Policymaking (Anne Gerstenberg, Kai-Uwe Schnapp)
Common policy process theories underrepresent the politics of policy formulation, and ignore instruments as normatively charged meaning structures. We applied the belief systems approach of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to analyse the European Union’s (EU) multi-level climate policy-making in the realm of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS), to uncover EU and German policymakers’ beliefs. Our results demonstrate that climate policy is politicized through instruments, despite goal-unanimity. In five ‘worlds of thought’, we explicate ‘appropriate’ solutions (instrument belief) as part of implicit ideational frames, constituted by a problem-representation (policy-core beliefs), and visions of a climate-mitigated world (deep-core beliefs). The main cleavage moves around the statemarket relationship, between carbon pricing purists and more helps more policymakers. Many former purists accept a policy mix after ‘instrument-based learning’. Discursively marginalized degrowth-supporters back the ETS pragmatically, while other false-flag policymakers support it rhetorically, but undermine it for industry protection. Keywords: climate policy, policy instruments, instrument beliefs, Advocacy Coalition Framework, belief system approach
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EU Common Fisheries Policy failure? Assessing the role of informational lobbying and policy belief updating processes (Noa Steiner, Michael Grunenberg, Christian Henning)
Since the foundation of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), and despite incremental progress, the policy continues to be criticized for failing to achieve its key objectives. Examining the underlying drivers of this inefficiency by applying an integrated non-cooperative bargaining model and a social network analysis, we show that although, individually, policy makers and other stakeholder organizations mostly prefer environmental goals, overfishing decisions are still an equilibrium outcome of the CFP key instrument. Theoretically, belief updating and policy learning processes should occur in the CFP stakeholder network through lobbying. However, empirically, communicational lobbying is only partially explaining the outcomes of this collective action problem. Therefore, beyond communication lobbying, biased initial beliefs of decision makers on how specific policy measures impact environmental outcomes constitutes a central cause of ineffective decisionmaking. These biases are further shaped by oversimplified narratives, which act as barriers for achieving the EU green and blue transition. Keywords: Policy Networks, Lobbying, Politicization, Policy learning, Elites
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The long haul or a short run of policy change? The introduction of German CO2-pricing on transport and heating within the European multilevel system (Anna Wenz-Temming)
In 2019, the German government decided to introduce a national system of emissions trading on transport and heating (nETS) starting on 1st January 2021. The policy design of the nETS was heavily criticized for being labelled as emissions trading while operating in its initial phase as CO2 tax. However, the question of policy design appears to have been rather neglected so far. Moreover, dynamics of the European multilevel system have been of significant importance. The threat of non-fulfillment of European sanctionequipped emission targets, as well as the perspective of a European rather than a national carbon pricing, received increasing attention. To capture the different causes behind policy design choice, the multi-factor Political Process-inherent Dynamics Approach (PIDA) is applied. In addition, the analysis draws on multilevel governance scholarship. The article seeks to contribute to the literature on policy design choice under the circumstances of climate change and multilevel governance. Keywords: Environmental Policy Instruments, Carbon Pricing, European Multilevel Governance, Climate Policy
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Exploring the System Security Veil: Uncovering Domestic Motivation to Establish Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs) (Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen)
Nation states face critical trade-offs between energy security, efficiency, and climate goals when implementing Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs). This study investigates factors influencing CRM adoption and design choices (targeted strategic reserves versus market-wide approaches) across EU member states from 2008–2021. Using logistic regression analysis on a new dataset, the research examines techno-economic, socio-technical, and political influences. Results show that while renewable integration creates legitimate security challenges, state responses reflect political preferences as much as technical necessities. Key adoption predictors include electricity heating dependence and gas energy share as well as intermittent energy, while interconnection capacity strongly predicts non-adoption—suggesting technical decisions often reflect deeper preferences about energy autonomy versus market integration. The choice between targeted and market-wide designs is influenced by party ideology, carbon intensity, and existing energy mix interests. This research reveals how functional pressures, generator interests, and politicization shape responses to system security concerns, which implies different decarbonization pathways. Keywords: Electricity markets, Capacity remuneration mechanisms, Energy transitions, public policy, Energy politics
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Micropolitics in Carbon Pricing: Ethnographic Insights into the Introduction of Germany’s Emissions Trading System (Rafael Postpischil)
Carbon pricing is considered a key instrument against the climate crisis, yet adoption remains hesitant. Existing research offers limited insights into its real-world policy processes, especially regarding aspects of power and micropolitics. Therefore, I conducted an ethnographic analysis of the introduction of the national Emissions Trading System (nETS) in Germany. Despite being a key climate actor, Germany has long been hesitant in pricing ist emissions. The nETS-introduction in 2019 was thus unexpected by policymakers and advisors. Using sensitizing concepts of factors, means, and levels of power, I conducted two months of participant observation at the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) and 17 semistructured interviews. Key factors for the nETS-introduction include noticeable climate impacts, large-scale protests, and EU climate-targets with potential penalty payments. Advocacy from BMU actors, pro-climate Conservatives, scientific advisors, businesses, and labor unions overcame longstanding resistance. Different means of power and micropolitics within these factors proved essential to understand the nETS-introduction. These include personal experiences of climate impacts, becoming aware of EU penalties, close relations between advisors and decision-makers, and partisan framing to enable compromises. The study underscores that micropolitics—such as interpersonal trust, tacit beliefs, and internal conflicts—can substantially shape policy processes. Keywords: Policy Process Research; Micropolitics; Political Ethnography; Carbon Pricing; Emissions Trading
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Who engages with environmental issues in a multi-level system? An exploratory analysis of German parties’ issue emphasis (Daniela Braun, Martin Gross)
Environmental policies are central to contemporary politics. Consequently, parties are incentivized to shape public discourse on environmental issues – a tendency particularly pronounced for left-wing parties. Within the European Union’s (EU) multi-level political system, this is a complex undertaking, as environmental policies are frequently decided and implemented across various political tiers. Utilizing a newly developed dictionary focused on environmental issues, we examine German parties’ emphasis on these issues in EU, federal, regional, and local election manifestos from 1989 to 2021. Our findings indicate that parties’ strategic considerations are the primary factors correlating with variations in their environmental issue emphasis across political levels. Particularly non-left-wing parties place less emphasis on environmental issues when facing electoral competition from successful Green parties at the same political level. Moreover, left-wing parties have a stronger incentive to emphasize environmental policies, including explicit state interventions. Yet, this electoral challenge is significant only within the same political level and not across different levels. Furthermore, the economic context in which parties compete is crucial: they tend to place greater emphasis on environmental issues when economic conditions are more favorable. Keywords: environment, issue emphasis, Germany, multi-party systems multi-level systems
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Measuring Discursive Lock-In with the Narrative Policy Framework: An Analysis of Public Debates on Fossil Gas in Germany (Johanna Kuenzler)
This article measures the phenomenon of discursive lock-in via narratives, as conceptualized by the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF). Discursive lock-in underlies other forms of carbon lock-in that hinder societies from phasing out fossil fuels. Thus, being able to assess the characteristics of discursive lock-in is fundamental for its destabilization. In applying the proposed measurement to German newspaper articles on fossil gas that appeared both before and after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the analysis shows that although attention towards fossil gas rose, the discursive lock-in got reinforced, with the proportion of narratives not questioning gas usage remaining stable and critical narratives bemoaning the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure. These findings highlight the resilience of fossilfriendly narratives even in the face of EU-level policy shifts such as the Green Deal and REPowerEU. The combination of discursive lock-in and the NPF proves to be fruitful and opens avenues for future research. Keywords: Fossil Gas; Discursive Lock-In; Narrative Policy Framework; Germany; Energy Transition
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Soziale Wohnraumförderung in den deutschen Bundesländern: Wohnraum zwischen Markt und Dekommodifizierung (Nikolas Daub)
Der soziale Mietwohnungsbau ist neben dem Wohngeld und den Kosten der Unterkunft (KdU) das zentrale wohnungspolitische Instrument zur Wohnraumversorgung unterstützungsbedürftiger Haushalte in Deutschland. Die Kompetenz für den sozialen Wohnungsbau liegt seit der Föderalismusreform 2006 in der Gesetzgebungskompetenz der Länder. Die vorliegende Untersuchung fragt, welche Unterschiede bei der Ausgestaltung des wohnungspolitischen Instrumentes auf Ebene der Bundesländer bestehen, welche Wirkung dies für den Grad der Dekommodifizierung von Sozialwohnungen hat und wie sich die bestehende Policy-Varianz erklären lässt. Dazu erfolgt in einem ersten Schritt ein systematischer Vergleich der Länderpolicies anhand wesentlicher Förderdimensionen des sozialen Mietwohnungsbaus. Im Anschluss versucht der Aufsatz, die Policy-Varianz mit Hilfe einer Fuzzy-Set QCA zu erklären. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass die Förderprogramme der Länder in unterschiedlichem Grad dekommodifizierend auf den geförderten Wohnraum wirken. Dabei legen die Daten ein Muster offen, bei dem verschiedene Bedingungskombinationen aus parteipolitischer Zusammensetzung der Regierung, Anspannungstendenzen auf regionalen Wohnungsmärkten und die unterschiedliche Finanzkraft zur Erklärung stärker dekommodifizierter Mietwohnraumförderung beitragen können. Schlagwörter: soziale Wohnraumförderung, Policy-Varianz, Föderalismus, Dekommodifizierung, fsQCA
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Wie und warum verwenden zukünftige Verwaltungsentscheider*innen KI-basierte Informationen? Empirische Erkenntnisse auf Basis einer nicht-experimentellen Fallvignette bei Hochschulstudent*innen (Tobias Krause)
Anwendungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz haben für die Reform des öffentlichen Sektors besondere Bedeutung erlangt, da sich auch große Datenmengen in kurzer Zeit verarbeiten lassen. Ausgehend von einem KI-Blackbox-Szenario mit ungewissem Ausgang (sog. nicht-experimentelle Fallvignette) befragten wir 109 Student*innen in Studiengängen der Bundesverwaltung zu ihren Wahrnehmungen eines Algorithmus-gestützten Dashboards. Auf Basis der Einflussfaktoren KI-Leistungsvermögen, Einfachheit der Nutzung, eigenes Kompetenzerleben, KI-Expertenvertrauen, KI-Überlegenheit und Datenschutzbedenken untersucht diese Studie verschiedene Nutzungsintentionen von KI-generierten Empfehlungen. In Anlehnung an Thea Snow (2021) wird zwischen vier Strategien – einer direkten Übernahme von Empfehlungen, einer reflektierten Verwendung von Empfehlungen, einer reinen Kenntnisnahme und einem bewussten Ignorieren des KI-Outputs unterschieden. Schlagwörter: Künstliche Intelligenz, Verwendung von KI-Informationen, Einflussfaktoren, Arten der Verwendung
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Beaufsichtigen. Über die Herausforderung, Unschädlichkeit zu Organisieren (Sven Kette, Stefan Kühl)
Der Beitrag untersucht die spezifischen Herausforderungen, die mit der Einführung agiler Prinzipien in Aufsichtsbehörden verbunden sind. Während eine prinzipienbasierte Regulierung zunehmend flexible und zukunftsorientierte Entscheidungsfindungen fordert, bleibt der Druck zur genauen Einhaltung rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen bestehen. Gezeigt wird, wie hieraus eine Spannung zwischen Genauigkeit und Geschwindigkeit des Entscheidens resultiert. Diese Spannungen reichen Aufsichtsorganisationen an ihr Personal weiter, wodurch sich neue Zumutungen ergeben, verstärkt Verantwortung zu übernehmen und Unsicherheiten zu handhaben. Abschließend skizziert der Beitrag Ansatzpunkte, die Zumutungen an das Personal organisationsstrukturell abzufedern und damit die Spannung von Genauigkeit und Geschwindigkeit handhabbar zu gestalten. Schlagwörter: Agiles Verwaltungshandeln, Aufsichtsbehörden, Bürokratische Strukturen, Fehlerkultur, organisationale Entscheidungsfindung, Prinzipienbasierte Regulierung
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Inhalt
Inhalt
dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management
1-2025: Europe’s Green Transition – Policy Instruments and their Politicization
hrsg. von Viktoria Brendler & Jan Pollex
Themenschwerpunkt
Viktoria Brendler / Jan Pollex: Contested Transitions: Policy Instruments as Sites of Conflict in Europe’s Green Transition
Laura Porak: Displacing ordoliberalism in favour of EU sovereignty: An analysis of green EU industrial policy from a Cultural Political Economy perspective
Anne Gerstenberg / Kai-Uwe Schnapp: Instruments as Belief-Driven Entities: Reconceptualizing the Interplay of Beliefs and Policy Instruments
Anne Gerstenberg / Kai-Uwe Schnapp: The Politics of Climate Instruments: Investigating Policymakers’ Belief Systems in EU Climate Policymaking
Noa Steiner / Michael Grunenberg / Christian Henning: EU Common Fisheries Policy failure? Assessing the role of informational lobbying and policy belief updating processes
Anna Wenz-Temming: The long haul or a short run of policy change? The introduction of German CO2-pricing on transport and heating within the European multilevel system
Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen: Exploring the System Security Veil: Uncovering Domestic Motivation to Establish Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs)
Rafael Postpischil: Micropolitics in Carbon Pricing: Ethnographic Insights into the Introduction of Germany’s Emissions Trading System
Daniela Braun / Martin Gross: Who engages with environmental issues in a multi-level system? An exploratory analysis of German parties’ issue emphasis
Johanna Kuenzler: Measuring Discursive Lock-In with the Narrative Policy Framework: An Analysis of Public Debates on Fossil Gas in Germany
Abhandlungen
Nikolas Daub: Soziale Wohnraumförderung in den deutschen Bundesländern: Wohnraum zwischen Markt und Dekommodifizierung
Tobias Krause: Wie und warum verwenden zukünftige Verwaltungsentscheider*innen KI-basierte Informationen? Empirische Erkenntnisse auf Basis einer nicht-experimentellen Fallvignette bei Hochschulstudent*innen
Essay
Sven Kette / Stefan Kühl: Beaufsichtigen. Über die Herausforderung, Unschädlichkeit zu organisieren
Rezensionen
Christian Schachtner: Lühr, Henning (2023). Der IT-Planungsrat. Funktionswandel der digitalen Transformation in den öffentlichen Verwaltungen. Eine rechts- und verwaltungswissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Entwicklung der „Digital Governance“ im föderalen politischen System Deutschlands. Kellner Science Verlag. 360 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-95651-320-6.
Markus Hinterleitner: Lucas, Patrick, Nabatchi, Tina, O’Flynn, Janine, & ’t Hart, Paul (eds.) (2024). Pathways to Positive Public Administration: An International Perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Hardback, 490 pages, ISBN: 978 1 80392 916 3.
Holger Straßheim: Sunstein, Cass R. & Reisch, Lucia A. (2023). Research Handbook on Nudges and Society. Cheltenham. UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. Hardback, 337 Seiten, ISBN: 9781035303021.
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| Publisher | |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1865-7192 |
| eISSN | 2196-1395 |
| Volume | 18. Jahrgang 2025 |
| Edition | 1-2025 |
| Date of publication | 13.08.2025 |
| Scope | 280 Seiten |
| Language | Deutsch |
| Format | 17 x 24 cm |
| DOI | |
| Homepage |
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KeywordsAdvocacy Coalition Framework, agiles Verwaltungshandeln, Arten der Verwendung, Aufsichtsbehörden, August 2025, belief system approach, belief systems, Bürokratische Strukturen, capacity remuneration mechanisms, carbon pricing, climate policy, Cultural Political Economy, Dekommodifizierung, discursive lock-in, ecological transition, Einflussfaktoren, electricity markets, Elites, emissions trading, energy politics, energy transition, energy transitions, environment, environmental policy instruments, EU environmental policy, European Green Deal, European Multilevel Governance, European Union, Fehlerkultur, fossil gas, fsQCA, Föderalismus, geo-economics, Germany, Implementation, Industrial policy, instrument beliefs, instrumentation, issue emphasis, Künstliche Intelligenz, lobbying, micropolitics, multi-party systems multi-level systems, narrative policy framework, Neoliberalism, organisationale Entscheidungsfindung, policy formulation, policy instruments, policy learning, policy networks, Policy Process Research, Policy-Varianz, Political Ethnography, politicization, prinzipienbasierte Regulierung, public policy, soziale Wohnraumförderung, Verwendung von KI-Informationen
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Contested Transitions: Policy Instruments as Sites of Conflict in Europe’s Green Transition (Viktoria Brendler, Jan Pollex)
The European Green Deal (EGD) represents the EU’s central strategy for achieving climate neutrality by 2050. It has sparked broad scholarly interest, particularly regarding its governance innovations, discursive framing, and eco-social implications. While Europe’s green agenda has proven resilient in times of crisis, questions remain about its transformative potential. In this introduction, we set the stage for the Symposium Europe’s Green Transition – Policy Instruments and their Politicization by shifting focus from high-level ambitions to the contested politics of implementation. We explore key dimensions of political contestation within the EU’s ecological transition and argue that policy instruments are crucial yet underexplored sites of conflict in Europe’s green transition. As the contributions to this Symposium illustrate, the politics of policy instrument choice offer a valuable analytical lens for understanding why ecological change often unfolds incrementally and how it is shaped and limited by structural, institutional, and discursive constraints. Keywords: European Green Deal, Ecological Transition, Politicization, Policy Instruments, Implementation, EU environmental policy
» Einzelbeitrag kaufen (Budrich Journals)
Displacing ordoliberalism in favour of EU sovereignty: An analysis of green EU industrial policy from a Cultural Political Economy perspective (Laura Porak)
This paper analyses the multi-layered and sometimes contradictory new industrial policy of the European Union (EU) in the context of the climate crisis and shifting global power dynamics. Using the framework of Cultural Political Economy (CPE), which emphasizes the interdependence of the cultural and social levels. The findings show that the EU is reassessing its perspective and position in the global market in light of current crises, incorporating economic security concerns, and accordingly adapting its industrial strategy. Based on the different objectives reflected in the EU’s economic imaginary, the paper reconstructs four strategic selectivities of the emerging EU industrial policy. The paper concludes that neoliberalism is increasingly displaced in the EU’s economic imaginary and strategic selectivities, but not entirely – leaving room for its potential return to EU industrial policy in the future. The paper thus contributes to scholarly debates on EU industrial policy and the political economy of neoliberalism. Keywords: industrial policy, neoliberalism, geo-economics, European Union, Cultural Political Economy
» Einzelbeitrag kaufen (Budrich Journals)
Instruments as Belief-Driven Entities: Reconceptualizing the Interplay of Beliefs and Policy Instruments (Anne Gerstenberg, Kai-Uwe Schnapp)
In order to understand the processes of policy instrumentation, it is of crucial importance to understand the reasoning and motivation of policymakers’ choices. In this contribution, we combine the belief system approach of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) with insights from constructivist policy instrument theory and develop an analytical tool for analyzing the role of policymakers’ beliefs in instrumentation. We argue that policy instruments are not only empirical “tools” but are cognitive and political entities to which policymakers assign meaning. Policy instruments are value-laden carriers of beliefs and embody problem representations, values, objectives, instrument-impact expectations and strategies of individual policymakers. Their selection is not solely based on technical criteria; instrumentation as a process is characterized by contention regarding problem representations and their appropriate solutions. This suggests that the belief levels within the ACF may not be strictly hierarchical, but rather interrelated in a web and inform each other mutually. As a result, we call for a reconsideration of the hierarchical conceptualization of belief levels within the ACF’s concept of belief systems. This has the following consequences: a change in secondary beliefs may affect changes in core beliefs. Moreover, we argue strategic considerations should be added to the belief system concept as its own category. Keywords: policy instruments, instrumentation, belief systems, Advocacy Coalition Framework, policy formulation
» Einzelbeitrag kaufen (Budrich Journals)
The Politics of Climate Instruments: Investigating Policymakers’ Belief Systems in EU Climate Policymaking (Anne Gerstenberg, Kai-Uwe Schnapp)
Common policy process theories underrepresent the politics of policy formulation, and ignore instruments as normatively charged meaning structures. We applied the belief systems approach of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to analyse the European Union’s (EU) multi-level climate policy-making in the realm of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS), to uncover EU and German policymakers’ beliefs. Our results demonstrate that climate policy is politicized through instruments, despite goal-unanimity. In five ‘worlds of thought’, we explicate ‘appropriate’ solutions (instrument belief) as part of implicit ideational frames, constituted by a problem-representation (policy-core beliefs), and visions of a climate-mitigated world (deep-core beliefs). The main cleavage moves around the statemarket relationship, between carbon pricing purists and more helps more policymakers. Many former purists accept a policy mix after ‘instrument-based learning’. Discursively marginalized degrowth-supporters back the ETS pragmatically, while other false-flag policymakers support it rhetorically, but undermine it for industry protection. Keywords: climate policy, policy instruments, instrument beliefs, Advocacy Coalition Framework, belief system approach
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EU Common Fisheries Policy failure? Assessing the role of informational lobbying and policy belief updating processes (Noa Steiner, Michael Grunenberg, Christian Henning)
Since the foundation of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), and despite incremental progress, the policy continues to be criticized for failing to achieve its key objectives. Examining the underlying drivers of this inefficiency by applying an integrated non-cooperative bargaining model and a social network analysis, we show that although, individually, policy makers and other stakeholder organizations mostly prefer environmental goals, overfishing decisions are still an equilibrium outcome of the CFP key instrument. Theoretically, belief updating and policy learning processes should occur in the CFP stakeholder network through lobbying. However, empirically, communicational lobbying is only partially explaining the outcomes of this collective action problem. Therefore, beyond communication lobbying, biased initial beliefs of decision makers on how specific policy measures impact environmental outcomes constitutes a central cause of ineffective decisionmaking. These biases are further shaped by oversimplified narratives, which act as barriers for achieving the EU green and blue transition. Keywords: Policy Networks, Lobbying, Politicization, Policy learning, Elites
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The long haul or a short run of policy change? The introduction of German CO2-pricing on transport and heating within the European multilevel system (Anna Wenz-Temming)
In 2019, the German government decided to introduce a national system of emissions trading on transport and heating (nETS) starting on 1st January 2021. The policy design of the nETS was heavily criticized for being labelled as emissions trading while operating in its initial phase as CO2 tax. However, the question of policy design appears to have been rather neglected so far. Moreover, dynamics of the European multilevel system have been of significant importance. The threat of non-fulfillment of European sanctionequipped emission targets, as well as the perspective of a European rather than a national carbon pricing, received increasing attention. To capture the different causes behind policy design choice, the multi-factor Political Process-inherent Dynamics Approach (PIDA) is applied. In addition, the analysis draws on multilevel governance scholarship. The article seeks to contribute to the literature on policy design choice under the circumstances of climate change and multilevel governance. Keywords: Environmental Policy Instruments, Carbon Pricing, European Multilevel Governance, Climate Policy
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Exploring the System Security Veil: Uncovering Domestic Motivation to Establish Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs) (Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen)
Nation states face critical trade-offs between energy security, efficiency, and climate goals when implementing Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms (CRMs). This study investigates factors influencing CRM adoption and design choices (targeted strategic reserves versus market-wide approaches) across EU member states from 2008–2021. Using logistic regression analysis on a new dataset, the research examines techno-economic, socio-technical, and political influences. Results show that while renewable integration creates legitimate security challenges, state responses reflect political preferences as much as technical necessities. Key adoption predictors include electricity heating dependence and gas energy share as well as intermittent energy, while interconnection capacity strongly predicts non-adoption—suggesting technical decisions often reflect deeper preferences about energy autonomy versus market integration. The choice between targeted and market-wide designs is influenced by party ideology, carbon intensity, and existing energy mix interests. This research reveals how functional pressures, generator interests, and politicization shape responses to system security concerns, which implies different decarbonization pathways. Keywords: Electricity markets, Capacity remuneration mechanisms, Energy transitions, public policy, Energy politics
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Micropolitics in Carbon Pricing: Ethnographic Insights into the Introduction of Germany’s Emissions Trading System (Rafael Postpischil)
Carbon pricing is considered a key instrument against the climate crisis, yet adoption remains hesitant. Existing research offers limited insights into its real-world policy processes, especially regarding aspects of power and micropolitics. Therefore, I conducted an ethnographic analysis of the introduction of the national Emissions Trading System (nETS) in Germany. Despite being a key climate actor, Germany has long been hesitant in pricing ist emissions. The nETS-introduction in 2019 was thus unexpected by policymakers and advisors. Using sensitizing concepts of factors, means, and levels of power, I conducted two months of participant observation at the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) and 17 semistructured interviews. Key factors for the nETS-introduction include noticeable climate impacts, large-scale protests, and EU climate-targets with potential penalty payments. Advocacy from BMU actors, pro-climate Conservatives, scientific advisors, businesses, and labor unions overcame longstanding resistance. Different means of power and micropolitics within these factors proved essential to understand the nETS-introduction. These include personal experiences of climate impacts, becoming aware of EU penalties, close relations between advisors and decision-makers, and partisan framing to enable compromises. The study underscores that micropolitics—such as interpersonal trust, tacit beliefs, and internal conflicts—can substantially shape policy processes. Keywords: Policy Process Research; Micropolitics; Political Ethnography; Carbon Pricing; Emissions Trading
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Who engages with environmental issues in a multi-level system? An exploratory analysis of German parties’ issue emphasis (Daniela Braun, Martin Gross)
Environmental policies are central to contemporary politics. Consequently, parties are incentivized to shape public discourse on environmental issues – a tendency particularly pronounced for left-wing parties. Within the European Union’s (EU) multi-level political system, this is a complex undertaking, as environmental policies are frequently decided and implemented across various political tiers. Utilizing a newly developed dictionary focused on environmental issues, we examine German parties’ emphasis on these issues in EU, federal, regional, and local election manifestos from 1989 to 2021. Our findings indicate that parties’ strategic considerations are the primary factors correlating with variations in their environmental issue emphasis across political levels. Particularly non-left-wing parties place less emphasis on environmental issues when facing electoral competition from successful Green parties at the same political level. Moreover, left-wing parties have a stronger incentive to emphasize environmental policies, including explicit state interventions. Yet, this electoral challenge is significant only within the same political level and not across different levels. Furthermore, the economic context in which parties compete is crucial: they tend to place greater emphasis on environmental issues when economic conditions are more favorable. Keywords: environment, issue emphasis, Germany, multi-party systems multi-level systems
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Measuring Discursive Lock-In with the Narrative Policy Framework: An Analysis of Public Debates on Fossil Gas in Germany (Johanna Kuenzler)
This article measures the phenomenon of discursive lock-in via narratives, as conceptualized by the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF). Discursive lock-in underlies other forms of carbon lock-in that hinder societies from phasing out fossil fuels. Thus, being able to assess the characteristics of discursive lock-in is fundamental for its destabilization. In applying the proposed measurement to German newspaper articles on fossil gas that appeared both before and after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the analysis shows that although attention towards fossil gas rose, the discursive lock-in got reinforced, with the proportion of narratives not questioning gas usage remaining stable and critical narratives bemoaning the building of new fossil fuel infrastructure. These findings highlight the resilience of fossilfriendly narratives even in the face of EU-level policy shifts such as the Green Deal and REPowerEU. The combination of discursive lock-in and the NPF proves to be fruitful and opens avenues for future research. Keywords: Fossil Gas; Discursive Lock-In; Narrative Policy Framework; Germany; Energy Transition
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Soziale Wohnraumförderung in den deutschen Bundesländern: Wohnraum zwischen Markt und Dekommodifizierung (Nikolas Daub)
Der soziale Mietwohnungsbau ist neben dem Wohngeld und den Kosten der Unterkunft (KdU) das zentrale wohnungspolitische Instrument zur Wohnraumversorgung unterstützungsbedürftiger Haushalte in Deutschland. Die Kompetenz für den sozialen Wohnungsbau liegt seit der Föderalismusreform 2006 in der Gesetzgebungskompetenz der Länder. Die vorliegende Untersuchung fragt, welche Unterschiede bei der Ausgestaltung des wohnungspolitischen Instrumentes auf Ebene der Bundesländer bestehen, welche Wirkung dies für den Grad der Dekommodifizierung von Sozialwohnungen hat und wie sich die bestehende Policy-Varianz erklären lässt. Dazu erfolgt in einem ersten Schritt ein systematischer Vergleich der Länderpolicies anhand wesentlicher Förderdimensionen des sozialen Mietwohnungsbaus. Im Anschluss versucht der Aufsatz, die Policy-Varianz mit Hilfe einer Fuzzy-Set QCA zu erklären. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass die Förderprogramme der Länder in unterschiedlichem Grad dekommodifizierend auf den geförderten Wohnraum wirken. Dabei legen die Daten ein Muster offen, bei dem verschiedene Bedingungskombinationen aus parteipolitischer Zusammensetzung der Regierung, Anspannungstendenzen auf regionalen Wohnungsmärkten und die unterschiedliche Finanzkraft zur Erklärung stärker dekommodifizierter Mietwohnraumförderung beitragen können. Schlagwörter: soziale Wohnraumförderung, Policy-Varianz, Föderalismus, Dekommodifizierung, fsQCA
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Wie und warum verwenden zukünftige Verwaltungsentscheider*innen KI-basierte Informationen? Empirische Erkenntnisse auf Basis einer nicht-experimentellen Fallvignette bei Hochschulstudent*innen (Tobias Krause)
Anwendungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz haben für die Reform des öffentlichen Sektors besondere Bedeutung erlangt, da sich auch große Datenmengen in kurzer Zeit verarbeiten lassen. Ausgehend von einem KI-Blackbox-Szenario mit ungewissem Ausgang (sog. nicht-experimentelle Fallvignette) befragten wir 109 Student*innen in Studiengängen der Bundesverwaltung zu ihren Wahrnehmungen eines Algorithmus-gestützten Dashboards. Auf Basis der Einflussfaktoren KI-Leistungsvermögen, Einfachheit der Nutzung, eigenes Kompetenzerleben, KI-Expertenvertrauen, KI-Überlegenheit und Datenschutzbedenken untersucht diese Studie verschiedene Nutzungsintentionen von KI-generierten Empfehlungen. In Anlehnung an Thea Snow (2021) wird zwischen vier Strategien – einer direkten Übernahme von Empfehlungen, einer reflektierten Verwendung von Empfehlungen, einer reinen Kenntnisnahme und einem bewussten Ignorieren des KI-Outputs unterschieden. Schlagwörter: Künstliche Intelligenz, Verwendung von KI-Informationen, Einflussfaktoren, Arten der Verwendung
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Beaufsichtigen. Über die Herausforderung, Unschädlichkeit zu Organisieren (Sven Kette, Stefan Kühl)
Der Beitrag untersucht die spezifischen Herausforderungen, die mit der Einführung agiler Prinzipien in Aufsichtsbehörden verbunden sind. Während eine prinzipienbasierte Regulierung zunehmend flexible und zukunftsorientierte Entscheidungsfindungen fordert, bleibt der Druck zur genauen Einhaltung rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen bestehen. Gezeigt wird, wie hieraus eine Spannung zwischen Genauigkeit und Geschwindigkeit des Entscheidens resultiert. Diese Spannungen reichen Aufsichtsorganisationen an ihr Personal weiter, wodurch sich neue Zumutungen ergeben, verstärkt Verantwortung zu übernehmen und Unsicherheiten zu handhaben. Abschließend skizziert der Beitrag Ansatzpunkte, die Zumutungen an das Personal organisationsstrukturell abzufedern und damit die Spannung von Genauigkeit und Geschwindigkeit handhabbar zu gestalten. Schlagwörter: Agiles Verwaltungshandeln, Aufsichtsbehörden, Bürokratische Strukturen, Fehlerkultur, organisationale Entscheidungsfindung, Prinzipienbasierte Regulierung
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