Klaus H Goetz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4373085 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Klaus H Goetz |
| NOMBRES | Klaus H |
| APELLIDO | Goetz |
| FIRMA | GOETZ K H |
| AFILIACIONES | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 681 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Presidents, commissioners, and time pressure
The evolution of the European Commission and its functioning has sparked a broad scholarly debate. However, we know little about how individual Commission members communicate policies. We propose a theoretical framework that presents time pressure as a critical communicative resource to indicate priority and discuss its function for members of the European Commission. Using a comprehensive mixed-methods design that combines state-of-the-art quant…
Synchronizing out of gridlock
Responding in time
The Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics
The close connection between time and politics is central to many political debates. Turbulence, emergencies, and crisis politics have led to criticism about the marginalization of deliberative institutions, notably parliaments, as time pressures appear to have concentrated decision-making in small circles. Nonmajoritarian institutions that do not follow electoral rhythms, such as central banks, are said to have gained in power. Some observers fe…
A gendered pattern? Publishing, submission and reviewing in West European Politics
Publication in peer-reviewed journals is of major importance to careers in academia. It has become clear that a considerable gender gap exists in political science journal publishing and a debate on how to confront this gap has got under way. This article examines the gender distribution in publishing (1978–2021), submissions and reviewing (2015 to end of 2020) for West European Politics . We identify a gender gap in publishing, but find a more p…
Covid‐19 and European Multi‐Level Democracy
The COVID-19 pandemic that hit Europe in early 2020 radically reshaped the political agenda at all levels of Europe's multi-level system within a matter of weeks. It continued to overshadow all other public concerns throughout 2021. The single most important development that distinguished the second year of the pandemic from the first was that, from early 2021, COVID-19 vaccines became widely available and were rolled out throughout Europe. Early…
Mandate or Donors? Explaining the UNHCR’s Country-Level Expenditures from 1967 to 2016
In recent decades, many international organizations have become almost entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Much existing literature suggests that major donors use their funding to refocus international organizations’ attention away from their core mandate and toward serving donors’ geostrategic interests. We investigate this claim in the context of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), examining whether donor influenc…
Accountability and Affective Styles in Administrative Reporting
This contribution theorizes on the emergence of affective styles in the accountability reporting of public agencies. Under conditions of multiple accountability towards heterogeneous stakeholders, public agencies are expected to make increased use of sentiment in their reporting. Agencies’ differentiated modulation of positive and negative sentiment results in four ideal-typical affective styles: technocratic, political, alarming, and self-praisi…
Covid-19
This article introduces a special issue of West European Politics on the COVID-19 crisis. It first sets out the dual challenge to democratic principles and democratic performance that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to European liberal democracies. Three bodies of scholarship are especially relevant in framing this dual democratic challenge: those that provide accounts of policy, institutional and legitimacy crises; accounts of the governance of …
How does staggered membership renewal affect parliamentary behaviour? Evidence from the French Senate
The staggered renewal of parliamentary mandates is widespread in upper chambers, yet little understood. Comparative work has found that all members of a chamber are affected by upcoming elections, not merely those whose terms are up for renewal. In this study, we explore for which activities, and under which conditions, staggered membership renewal is associated with class-specific parliamentary activity, defined as systematically differing behav…
Do electoral district size and diversity affect legislative behaviour
This paper analyses how the size and socio-economic diversity of their electorate affect parliamentarians legislative behaviour. We study the Australian senate, which wields considerable legislative influence and is marked by large differences in the size and socio-economic makeup of the districts that senators represent. We demonstrate that as the size of their district increases, senators ask more questions and introduce more bills and amendmen…
Secrecy in Europe
This article introduces a collection of papers devoted to the study of secrecy in European politics across a range of EU and national settings and policy domains. Academic interest in secret politics – those aspects of public activity intentionally concealed from the public eye – and the governance of secrecy – the political processes and regulatory frameworks governing secret keeping – is growing. This interest reflects technological, social and…
In memoriam
We mourn the passing of Jack Hayward. Jack was a member of the Editorial Board of West European Politics from its inception in 1978 until his death. He was a close friend of Vincent Wright, foundin
The electoral connection in staggered parliaments
This article explores whether differential time horizons in legislative chambers that result from staggered membership renewal affect legislative behaviour. The analysis focuses on patterns of bill initiation and the introduction of amendments in the upper chambers of Australia, France, Germany and Japan – all four of which contain two or more classes of members that face re‐election at different times. Drawing on original comparative data, clear…
Political leadership in the European Union
This article explores the connection between time and political leadership within the institutional setting of the European Union (EU). The discussion first notes how time is linked to power, legitimacy and efficiency, and how time rules, time budgets and time horizons influence the potential for both institutional and individual leadership. Next, the article sets out core features of political time in the EU, discusses their implications for lea…
Pressured budgets and the European Commission
Similar to many international public administrations (IPAs), the European Commission has been delegated a range of tasks related to budgeting. The Commission administration enjoys a high degree of autonomy in routine annual budget procedures leading to the adoption of the draft annual EU budgets; it also has a visible influence on inter-institutional budget negotiations. The present contribution analyses how the Commission administration has resp…
Set Free? Impending Retirement and Legislative Behaviour in the UK
Journal Article Set Free? Impending Retirement and Legislative Behaviour in the UK Get access David M. Willumsen, David M. Willumsen * Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Klaus H. Goetz Klaus H. Goetz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 254–279, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa…
Staggered Political Institutions
This article highlights the importance of staggered membership renewal in political institutions and draws attention to its policy effects. Staggering exists when the terms of elected or appointed members of an institution do not coincide. Instead, partial renewal of membership is the norm, leading to overlapping terms of office and the co-existence of two or more 'classes' of members whose mandates differ in remaining length. The article first r…
Introduction
This article surveys time, temporality and timescapes in the study of public administration and public policy. While references to temporal categories, such as timing, sequence, speed, duration, time budgets, time limits or time horizons, are ubiquitous in political science, there are few systematic treatments of time in administration and policy-making. The special issue which this article introduces focuses on analyses that seek to explain poli…
Time and Power in the European Commission
Major recent studies of the European Commission have emphasised the growing politicisation and centralisation as important trends transforming its organisation. The present article analyses the role that time rules and temporal practices that structure the operation of the Commission have played in these trends. It finds a clear temporal subtext to politicisation and centralisation. This becomes evident when one examines two key time-sensitive re…
A Question of Time
Since 2008, European crisis politics have thrown the importance of time in democracy into sharp relief. The need for rapid action by national authorities, the EU and international organisations conflicts with the time-consuming nature of democratic deliberation; short-term political firefighting has given little consideration to the long-term sustainability and time consistency of policies; and decentralised decisions threaten effective synchroni…
Peter Mair and West European Politics
Performing to Type? How State Institutions Matter in East Central Europe
While there is much research on the developmental trajectories of post-Communist state institutions and the external and domestic influences that have shaped their paths, much less is known about institutional performance, that is, the manner in which institutions operate and the extent to which they produce predictable patterns of effects. Academic analysis has been reluctant to shift attention from institutionalisation to effects, not least bec…
Political time in the EU
The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision-making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the distribution of power; efficiency and effectiveness of policy-making; and democratic legitimacy. This article makes a case for the systematic study of political …
How does the EU tick? Five propositions on political time
In what manner is political time institutionalized in the political system of the EU? This article advances five propositions on political time in the EU and highlights their implications for the workings of the EU. The propositions stress: (i) the absence of a dominant EU political cycle, which creates problems of mobilization and synchronization, but also allows for temporal plurality; (ii) an emphasis on linear political time, associated with …
Introduction
2000). Introduction: European integration and national political systems. West European Politics: Vol. 23, Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, pp. 1-26
Political time in the EU
The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision-making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the distribution of power; efficiency and effectiveness of policy-making; and democratic legitimacy. This article makes a case for the systematic study of political …
Making sense of post-communist central administration
Two main perspectives dominate in the study of central state administration in post-communist CEE: modernization and Europeanization. These perspectives can be characterized with reference to main drivers of administrative change: developmental objectives; the conceptualization of current institutional arrangements; and the decisive actor constellations that are thought to shape administrative trajectories. Modernization and Europeanization captu…
European integration and national executives
2000). European integration and national executives: A cause in search of an effect? West European Politics: Vol. 23, Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, pp. 211-231
Governmentalizing central executives in post-communist Europe
This article compares the institutionalization of central ministerial executives in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland since the late 1980s. Under communism, the policy formation and arbitration function of the central state apparatus was weakly developed; at the same time, the state bureaucracy was comprehensively politicized, as personnel policy emphasized political loyalty and reliability. In policy terms, state administration wa…
Introduction
This article surveys time, temporality and timescapes in the study of public administration and public policy. While references to temporal categories, such as timing, sequence, speed, duration, time budgets, time limits or time horizons, are ubiquitous in political science, there are few systematic treatments of time in administration and policy-making. The special issue which this article introduces focuses on analyses that seek to explain poli…
Governance as a Path to Government
During the 1970s, analyses of state and government in Western Europe were preoccupied with crises of governability and legitimacy. The early 1980s witnessed sharply differing responses to these crises, exemplified by the socialist experiment in France and Thatcherism in the UK. By the end of the 1980s, 'governance'– in both national and European arenas – began to be regarded as the dominant institutional response to problems of governability. Con…
How does the EU tick? Five propositions on political time
In what manner is political time institutionalized in the political system of the EU? This article advances five propositions on political time in the EU and highlights their implications for the workings of the EU. The propositions stress: (i) the absence of a dominant EU political cycle, which creates problems of mobilization and synchronization, but also allows for temporal plurality; (ii) an emphasis on linear political time, associated with …
The EU timescape
This article outlines how the notion of an EU timescape may be developed into a fruitful research agenda. It sets out central tasks involved, including clarification of the concept of an EU timescape; of the key empirical questions to be asked; and of the status of political time in variable-oriented research. The article illustrates the potential value-added of a time-centred approach to the study of the EU by highlighting temporal issues in EU …
A Question of Time
Since 2008, European crisis politics have thrown the importance of time in democracy into sharp relief. The need for rapid action by national authorities, the EU and international organisations conflicts with the time-consuming nature of democratic deliberation; short-term political firefighting has given little consideration to the long-term sustainability and time consistency of policies; and decentralised decisions threaten effective synchroni…
The Solitary Center
This article discusses the coordinative capacity of Centers of Government (COGs) in several Central and Eastern Europe countries. In formal terms, COGs are at the heart of the executive process; but their contribution to coherence in executive policymaking has remained limited. This observation applies both to coordination within the executive, and between the executive and other key participants in the political process. In important respects, t…
National Governance and European Integration
The impact of European integration on the governance of EU Member States bas received growing attention in recent years. In analysing the Europeanization of national political systems, intergovernmental relations are of special significance, particularly in strongly decentralized or federalized polities. Focusing on Germany, it can be shown that European integration has had a major impact on Federd‐Länder and inter‐Länder relations. However, rath…
Covid-19
This article introduces a special issue of West European Politics on the COVID-19 crisis. It first sets out the dual challenge to democratic principles and democratic performance that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to European liberal democracies. Three bodies of scholarship are especially relevant in framing this dual democratic challenge: those that provide accounts of policy, institutional and legitimacy crises; accounts of the governance of …
Acquiring Political Craft
Political craft is an essential qualification of senior officials in the German Federal ministerial administration. The emphasis on political craft as a vital complement to administrative‐technical competence reflects a policy‐making system that is characterized by multi‐party government, an assertive Parliament, a strong opposition, influential Lander , and growing informalization. In fostering political craft, three institutions play a key role…
Integration policy in a Europeanized state
Two perspectives dominate in the debate on European integration policy in the unified Germany. The first focuses on domestic inter‐institutional tensions and ideological inhibitions that restrict German leadership in the European Union. By contrast, the second highlights the dominant position of the German economy and the weakening of external constraints in the wake of unification. Both perspectives point to important aspects of integration poli…
Set Free? Impending Retirement and Legislative Behaviour in the UK
Journal Article Set Free? Impending Retirement and Legislative Behaviour in the UK Get access David M. Willumsen, David M. Willumsen * Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Klaus H. Goetz Klaus H. Goetz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 254–279, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa…
Performing to Type? How State Institutions Matter in East Central Europe
While there is much research on the developmental trajectories of post-Communist state institutions and the external and domestic influences that have shaped their paths, much less is known about institutional performance, that is, the manner in which institutions operate and the extent to which they produce predictable patterns of effects. Academic analysis has been reluctant to shift attention from institutionalisation to effects, not least bec…
Government, Parliament and Law-making in Poland
This paper examines the process of law-making in Poland during the 1997–2001 and 2001–2005 legislative terms. The analysis focuses on the initiation, amendment and finalisation stages of the legislative process within both the government and parliament and considers the boundary, content, temporal and information rules that shape this process. Within government, the preparation of, and decision-making on bills to be submitted to parliament are ch…
Secrecy in Europe
This article introduces a collection of papers devoted to the study of secrecy in European politics across a range of EU and national settings and policy domains. Academic interest in secret politics – those aspects of public activity intentionally concealed from the public eye – and the governance of secrecy – the political processes and regulatory frameworks governing secret keeping – is growing. This interest reflects technological, social and…
Time and Power in the European Commission
Major recent studies of the European Commission have emphasised the growing politicisation and centralisation as important trends transforming its organisation. The present article analyses the role that time rules and temporal practices that structure the operation of the Commission have played in these trends. It finds a clear temporal subtext to politicisation and centralisation. This becomes evident when one examines two key time-sensitive re…
Pressured budgets and the European Commission
Similar to many international public administrations (IPAs), the European Commission has been delegated a range of tasks related to budgeting. The Commission administration enjoys a high degree of autonomy in routine annual budget procedures leading to the adoption of the draft annual EU budgets; it also has a visible influence on inter-institutional budget negotiations. The present contribution analyses how the Commission administration has resp…
Staggered Political Institutions
This article highlights the importance of staggered membership renewal in political institutions and draws attention to its policy effects. Staggering exists when the terms of elected or appointed members of an institution do not coincide. Instead, partial renewal of membership is the norm, leading to overlapping terms of office and the co-existence of two or more 'classes' of members whose mandates differ in remaining length. The article first r…
Mandate or Donors? Explaining the UNHCR’s Country-Level Expenditures from 1967 to 2016
In recent decades, many international organizations have become almost entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Much existing literature suggests that major donors use their funding to refocus international organizations’ attention away from their core mandate and toward serving donors’ geostrategic interests. We investigate this claim in the context of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), examining whether donor influenc…
Prelims and Editorial
Keywords: West European PoliticsWEPSpecial IssueCurrent Contents/Social & Behavioural SciencesSocial Sciences Citation IndexSocial Science IndexSocial Science AbstractsCSA Political Science and GovernmentInternational Political Science AbstractsSocialogical AbstractsBritish Humanities Index
Political leadership in the European Union
This article explores the connection between time and political leadership within the institutional setting of the European Union (EU). The discussion first notes how time is linked to power, legitimacy and efficiency, and how time rules, time budgets and time horizons influence the potential for both institutional and individual leadership. Next, the article sets out core features of political time in the EU, discusses their implications for lea…
Rebuilding public administration in the New German Länder
The rebuilding of public administration in the new German Länder can be described as a process of increasing differentiation. The new states share the common legacy of 'democratic centralism' and face similar reform challenges; but the analysis of the establishment of state administrations, local government reform and personnel policy reveals important differences amongst the states. West‐East institutional transfer plays a decisive role in creat…
The basic law after unification
Throughout the history of the Federal Republic, the Basic Law and its interpretation by the Federal Constitutional Court have played a central role in shaping the German polity. It is, therefore, not surprising that the process of unification has also been decisively influenced by constitutional considerations. However, the Basic Law is confronted by internal and external challenges which threaten to undermine its centrality in the longer term. T…
Concluding theses on constitutional policy in unified Germany
The Basic Law has neither been fundamentally amended nor radically reinterpreted as a result of unification. Constitutional continuity has been the major response to the challenge of national integration. There has been an ambiguous response to the problems posed by the emerging European constitution. The reform debate has also failed to address systematically a number of issues of constitutional theory, with negative consequences for the quality…
National Governance and European Integration
The impact of European integration on the governance of EU Member States bas received growing attention in recent years. In analysing the Europeanization of national political systems, intergovernmental relations are of special significance, particularly in strongly decentralized or federalized polities. Focusing on Germany, it can be shown that European integration has had a major impact on Federd‐Länder and inter‐Länder relations. However, rath…
Integration policy in a Europeanized state
Two perspectives dominate in the debate on European integration policy in the unified Germany. The first focuses on domestic inter‐institutional tensions and ideological inhibitions that restrict German leadership in the European Union. By contrast, the second highlights the dominant position of the German economy and the weakening of external constraints in the wake of unification. Both perspectives point to important aspects of integration poli…
Acquiring Political Craft
Political craft is an essential qualification of senior officials in the German Federal ministerial administration. The emphasis on political craft as a vital complement to administrative‐technical competence reflects a policy‐making system that is characterized by multi‐party government, an assertive Parliament, a strong opposition, influential Lander , and growing informalization. In fostering political craft, three institutions play a key role…
Politique, fonctionnaires et légitimité administrative en Allemagne
Politics, Civil Servants and Administrative Legitimacy in Germany. Civil servants, as guarantors of the public interest, are supposed to act as a counterweight to changing and unstable political powers. However, civil servants' autonomy with respect to political power permits collaboration at the federal level between civil servants and political actors. The extent of politicisation ranges from patronage to political professionalism and is on the…
The Solitary Center
This article discusses the coordinative capacity of Centers of Government (COGs) in several Central and Eastern Europe countries. In formal terms, COGs are at the heart of the executive process; but their contribution to coherence in executive policymaking has remained limited. This observation applies both to coordination within the executive, and between the executive and other key participants in the political process. In important respects, t…
Introduction
2000). Introduction: European integration and national political systems. West European Politics: Vol. 23, Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, pp. 1-26
European integration and national executives
2000). European integration and national executives: A cause in search of an effect? West European Politics: Vol. 23, Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, pp. 211-231
Making sense of post-communist central administration
Two main perspectives dominate in the study of central state administration in post-communist CEE: modernization and Europeanization. These perspectives can be characterized with reference to main drivers of administrative change: developmental objectives; the conceptualization of current institutional arrangements; and the decisive actor constellations that are thought to shape administrative trajectories. Modernization and Europeanization captu…
Governmentalizing central executives in post-communist Europe
This article compares the institutionalization of central ministerial executives in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland since the late 1980s. Under communism, the policy formation and arbitration function of the central state apparatus was weakly developed; at the same time, the state bureaucracy was comprehensively politicized, as personnel policy emphasized political loyalty and reliability. In policy terms, state administration wa…
British Political Science and the Study of German Politics
The British study of the political system of the Federal Republic has evolved through four main phases, which have been dominated, respectively, by an interest in democratic consolidation; the foundations of Modell Deutschland; challenges to governability; and the effects of unification. In their substantive emphases, British contributions have spanned the Federal Republic's political system as a whole, although politics and public policy (in par…
Prelims and Editorial
Keywords: West European PoliticsWEPSpecial IssueCurrent Contents/Social & Behavioural SciencesSocial Sciences Citation IndexSocial Science IndexSocial Science AbstractsCSA Political Science and GovernmentInternational Political Science AbstractsSocialogical AbstractsBritish Humanities Index
Governance in Contemporary Germany
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, West Germany was considered to be one of the world's most successful economic and political systems. In his seminal 1987 analysis of West Germany's 'semisovereign' system of governance, Peter Katzenstein attributed this success to a combination of a fragmented polity, consensus politics and incremental policy changes. However, unification in 1990 has both changed Germany's institutional configuration and created ec…
Government, Parliament and Law-making in Poland
This paper examines the process of law-making in Poland during the 1997–2001 and 2001–2005 legislative terms. The analysis focuses on the initiation, amendment and finalisation stages of the legislative process within both the government and parliament and considers the boundary, content, temporal and information rules that shape this process. Within government, the preparation of, and decision-making on bills to be submitted to parliament are ch…
Trajectories of European Politics
This article introduces a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It highlights profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial restructuring; public sector reforms at European, national, regional and local levels; changes in democratic participation, protest, elections, political …
Governance as a Path to Government
During the 1970s, analyses of state and government in Western Europe were preoccupied with crises of governability and legitimacy. The early 1980s witnessed sharply differing responses to these crises, exemplified by the socialist experiment in France and Thatcherism in the UK. By the end of the 1980s, 'governance'– in both national and European arenas – began to be regarded as the dominant institutional response to problems of governability. Con…
Political time in the EU
The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision-making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the distribution of power; efficiency and effectiveness of policy-making; and democratic legitimacy. This article makes a case for the systematic study of political …
How does the EU tick? Five propositions on political time
In what manner is political time institutionalized in the political system of the EU? This article advances five propositions on political time in the EU and highlights their implications for the workings of the EU. The propositions stress: (i) the absence of a dominant EU political cycle, which creates problems of mobilization and synchronization, but also allows for temporal plurality; (ii) an emphasis on linear political time, associated with …
The EU timescape
This article outlines how the notion of an EU timescape may be developed into a fruitful research agenda. It sets out central tasks involved, including clarification of the concept of an EU timescape; of the key empirical questions to be asked; and of the status of political time in variable-oriented research. The article illustrates the potential value-added of a time-centred approach to the study of the EU by highlighting temporal issues in EU …
Performing to Type? How State Institutions Matter in East Central Europe
While there is much research on the developmental trajectories of post-Communist state institutions and the external and domestic influences that have shaped their paths, much less is known about institutional performance, that is, the manner in which institutions operate and the extent to which they produce predictable patterns of effects. Academic analysis has been reluctant to shift attention from institutionalisation to effects, not least bec…
Peter Mair and West European Politics
Introduction
This article surveys time, temporality and timescapes in the study of public administration and public policy. While references to temporal categories, such as timing, sequence, speed, duration, time budgets, time limits or time horizons, are ubiquitous in political science, there are few systematic treatments of time in administration and policy-making. The special issue which this article introduces focuses on analyses that seek to explain poli…
Time and Power in the European Commission
Major recent studies of the European Commission have emphasised the growing politicisation and centralisation as important trends transforming its organisation. The present article analyses the role that time rules and temporal practices that structure the operation of the Commission have played in these trends. It finds a clear temporal subtext to politicisation and centralisation. This becomes evident when one examines two key time-sensitive re…
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