Nils Röper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4375030 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nils Röper |
| NOMBRES | Nils |
| APELLIDO | Röper |
| FIRMA | RÖPER N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6303-5137 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Mixed Framing
This article is concerned with the political communication of unpopular retrenchment reforms. It proposes a further conceptual and empirical integration of the key concepts of blame avoidance and credit‐claiming. Contrary to dominant perspectives arguing that blame avoidance strategies dominate in an era of austerity, it is argued that even when communicating unpopular retrenchment reforms, governments engage in mixed messaging. They employ both …
Working with ideas
Literatures on institutional, ideational and policy change have made great strides in dynamically conceptualizing agency within structure. What continues to be insufficiently understood, however, is how actors actually work with ideas, that is, how broad policy ideas become concrete and implementable. One concept that has gained some traction in understanding actors' application of ideas is bricolage, understood as the stabilization or changing o…
Bookkeepers of catastrophes
Reinsurers are often overlooked producers and translators of climate change knowledge. • Unique perspective linking question of climate change to real-life damages and losses. • Damage and risk perspective on climate change began to emerge in the 1970s. • Internal sensemaking highlights the thorny nature of interpreting climate-related data. • Analysis draws on expert interviews, confidential archival sources and text analysis. Global warming had…
The Origins of Policy Ideas in German Pension Debates
Understanding the origins of policy ideas can be crucial when trying to explain dynamics of political change and continuity. Paradigmatic changes in the German pension system have been attributed to the import of “foreign” neoliberal policy ideas from transnational organizations and other countries. The literature describes such processes as policy diffusion, transfer, or translation. In contrast, this article argues that foreign pension ideas di…
The other side of agency
Agency has received much attention in recent historical institutionalist theorizing of change processes, but remains largely disconnected from questions about mechanisms that stabilize institutions. To help fill this lacuna, the paper presents bricolage as one key mechanism through which actors stabilize an institutional setup. It suggests that institutions may be defended by keeping intact the institutional logic on which the incumbent coalition…
Between substantive and symbolic influence
Diffusion, transfer and translation literatures assume that policy ideas are conceived exogenously, while domestic perspectives such as bricolage consider policy innovations as reactivated local ideas. Cases where foreign ideas do not shape local actors’ preferences, but still feature saliently in public discourse therefore appear in a conceptual blind spot. The paper develops a distinction between the symbolic and substantive functions of foreig…
Invasion From Within
How do institutional logics travel within a political economy? Employing insights from historical and ideational institutionalist theory, this article offers a novel understanding of change dynamics as driven by actors’ creation of institutional interlinkages. It develops the causal mechanism of “invasion from within,” consisting of a three-stage process: the progressive weakening of a policy paradigm within one institutional site coinciding with…
German Finance Capitalism
This article is concerned with the genesis of German financial liberalisation. A refined inventory of financial system change – including new meso-level data on finance pattern and the marketisation of banking – reveals a varied pattern of change across German finance. It is argued that this financial diversification can only be understood with careful reference to the underlying ideational factors. An analytical narrative traces how technocratic…
The other side of agency
Agency has received much attention in recent historical institutionalist theorizing of change processes, but remains largely disconnected from questions about mechanisms that stabilize institutions. To help fill this lacuna, the paper presents bricolage as one key mechanism through which actors stabilize an institutional setup. It suggests that institutions may be defended by keeping intact the institutional logic on which the incumbent coalition…
German Finance Capitalism
This article is concerned with the genesis of German financial liberalisation. A refined inventory of financial system change – including new meso-level data on finance pattern and the marketisation of banking – reveals a varied pattern of change across German finance. It is argued that this financial diversification can only be understood with careful reference to the underlying ideational factors. An analytical narrative traces how technocratic…
Invasion From Within
How do institutional logics travel within a political economy? Employing insights from historical and ideational institutionalist theory, this article offers a novel understanding of change dynamics as driven by actors’ creation of institutional interlinkages. It develops the causal mechanism of “invasion from within,” consisting of a three-stage process: the progressive weakening of a policy paradigm within one institutional site coinciding with…
Working with ideas
Literatures on institutional, ideational and policy change have made great strides in dynamically conceptualizing agency within structure. What continues to be insufficiently understood, however, is how actors actually work with ideas, that is, how broad policy ideas become concrete and implementable. One concept that has gained some traction in understanding actors' application of ideas is bricolage, understood as the stabilization or changing o…
Between substantive and symbolic influence
Diffusion, transfer and translation literatures assume that policy ideas are conceived exogenously, while domestic perspectives such as bricolage consider policy innovations as reactivated local ideas. Cases where foreign ideas do not shape local actors’ preferences, but still feature saliently in public discourse therefore appear in a conceptual blind spot. The paper develops a distinction between the symbolic and substantive functions of foreig…
Mixed Framing
This article is concerned with the political communication of unpopular retrenchment reforms. It proposes a further conceptual and empirical integration of the key concepts of blame avoidance and credit‐claiming. Contrary to dominant perspectives arguing that blame avoidance strategies dominate in an era of austerity, it is argued that even when communicating unpopular retrenchment reforms, governments engage in mixed messaging. They employ both …
German Finance Capitalism
This article is concerned with the genesis of German financial liberalisation. A refined inventory of financial system change – including new meso-level data on finance pattern and the marketisation of banking – reveals a varied pattern of change across German finance. It is argued that this financial diversification can only be understood with careful reference to the underlying ideational factors. An analytical narrative traces how technocratic…
Invasion From Within
How do institutional logics travel within a political economy? Employing insights from historical and ideational institutionalist theory, this article offers a novel understanding of change dynamics as driven by actors’ creation of institutional interlinkages. It develops the causal mechanism of “invasion from within,” consisting of a three-stage process: the progressive weakening of a policy paradigm within one institutional site coinciding with…
Between substantive and symbolic influence
Diffusion, transfer and translation literatures assume that policy ideas are conceived exogenously, while domestic perspectives such as bricolage consider policy innovations as reactivated local ideas. Cases where foreign ideas do not shape local actors’ preferences, but still feature saliently in public discourse therefore appear in a conceptual blind spot. The paper develops a distinction between the symbolic and substantive functions of foreig…
The other side of agency
Agency has received much attention in recent historical institutionalist theorizing of change processes, but remains largely disconnected from questions about mechanisms that stabilize institutions. To help fill this lacuna, the paper presents bricolage as one key mechanism through which actors stabilize an institutional setup. It suggests that institutions may be defended by keeping intact the institutional logic on which the incumbent coalition…
Bookkeepers of catastrophes
Reinsurers are often overlooked producers and translators of climate change knowledge. • Unique perspective linking question of climate change to real-life damages and losses. • Damage and risk perspective on climate change began to emerge in the 1970s. • Internal sensemaking highlights the thorny nature of interpreting climate-related data. • Analysis draws on expert interviews, confidential archival sources and text analysis. Global warming had…
The Origins of Policy Ideas in German Pension Debates
Understanding the origins of policy ideas can be crucial when trying to explain dynamics of political change and continuity. Paradigmatic changes in the German pension system have been attributed to the import of “foreign” neoliberal policy ideas from transnational organizations and other countries. The literature describes such processes as policy diffusion, transfer, or translation. In contrast, this article argues that foreign pension ideas di…
Mixed Framing
This article is concerned with the political communication of unpopular retrenchment reforms. It proposes a further conceptual and empirical integration of the key concepts of blame avoidance and credit‐claiming. Contrary to dominant perspectives arguing that blame avoidance strategies dominate in an era of austerity, it is argued that even when communicating unpopular retrenchment reforms, governments engage in mixed messaging. They employ both …
Working with ideas
Literatures on institutional, ideational and policy change have made great strides in dynamically conceptualizing agency within structure. What continues to be insufficiently understood, however, is how actors actually work with ideas, that is, how broad policy ideas become concrete and implementable. One concept that has gained some traction in understanding actors' application of ideas is bricolage, understood as the stabilization or changing o…
Political science (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 obras) · Positive economics (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Bricolage (4 obras)