Volker Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 188907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Volker Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Volker |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5908-3347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 408 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Germany’s Energy and Climate Policy as an Ecology of Games
This article analyses a key shift in German energy and climate policy. Following the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the German government decided to shut down eight old nuclear reactors in the short term, and to phase-out the remaining reactors within the next seven years. At the same time, its ambitious climate policy goals relied on energy security through a growing share of renewable energies, an expanded energy grid, improved energy efficiency,…
Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface: Climate policy networks in Germany and Japan
We examined how scientific information influences policy beliefs among organizations in climate change policy networks in Germany and Japan. Different combinations of information types, policy beliefs, and organizational roles were found to play instrumental roles. Ideational influence can occur when (1) the sender is a credible information source, (2) the receiver can understand the “message,” and (3) the receiver depends on the sender’s informa…
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries
Collaboration between public administration organizations and various stakeholders is often prescribed as a potential solution to the current complex problems of governance, such as climate change. According to the Advocacy Coalition Framework, shared beliefs are one of the most important drivers of collaboration. However, studies investigating the role of beliefs in collaboration show mixed results. Some argue that similarity of general normativ…
Söders Ökofeuerwerk und die Grünfärbung der CSU: Diskursnetzwerke im bayrischen Themenwettbewerb
Umwelt- und Klimapolitik ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem äußerst relevanten Themenfeld des Parteienwettbewerbs in Deutschland avanciert, an welchem sich gut beobachten lässt, welche bedeutende Rolle spezifische Themen und Probleme im Wettbewerb um Wählerstimmen spielen. In diesem Artikel demonstrieren wir erstmalig, wie die Methode der Diskursnetzwerkanalyse zur Analyse solcher Themenwettbewerbe eingesetzt werden kann. Diskursnetzwerkanalysen …
Tavares, Miguel Sousa: Equador
Das 2003 erschienene Romandebüt wurde innerhalb kurzer Zeit zu einem Bestseller und diente 2008 als Vorlage für eine gleichnamige Telenovela im portugiesischen Privatfernsehen. Vor dem Hintergrund der portugiesischen Kolonialpolitik der außen- und innenpolitisch instabilen letzten Regierungsjahre Dom Carlos‘ I. (1889–1908) erzählt der historische Roman die sich in den Jahren zwischen 1905 und 1908 zusammendrängende Geschichte des fiktiven Protago…
Why do junctures become critical? Political discourse, agency, and joint belief shifts in comparative perspective
Why do junctures become critical in some cases but not in others? Building on the critical juncture framework and perspectives on the formation and diffusion of beliefs, we develop a theoretically parsimonious and empirically traceable account of divergence in institutional outcomes. By illuminating the role of agency and joint belief shifts we further open the “black box” of critical junctures. In particular, we develop the argument that the rol…
The Dynamics of System Development in a Comparative Perspective: Interactive Videotex in Germany, France and Britain
This chapter describes the several different videotex systems and the - similarly different - utilization patterns which develop in response to the opportunity structures thus created. The major regulatory aspects of videotex concern equity of access, consumer protection, and data protection. Comparatively speaking, the German Bildschirmtext is the most heavily regulated videotex system. Interactive videotex belongs to that class of technical sys…
Climate change policy networks: Why and how to compare them across countries
Why do some countries enact more ambitious climate change policies than others? Macro level economic and political structures, such as the economic weight of fossil fuel industries, play an important role in shaping these policies. So do the national science community and the national culture of science. But the process by which such macro-structural factors translate into political power and national climate change policies can be analyzed throu…
Gesundheitspädagogik
A network science approach to the Internet
During the past decades considerable progress has been made in developing research methods that are particularly suited to examining network relations in the Internet and their consequences for outcomes such as the diffusion of applications and services, the winner-take-all dynamics of digital markets, and the spread of malware. Social scientists have long recognized the importance of interdependencies among agents in social systems and the need …
Studying Policy Advocacy Through Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis (SNA) conceptualizes a policy-making process as a network of actors. It can assess if an interest group (IGs) occupies a leading central position within this policy network, if it belongs to various ad hoc coalitions or if it plays a brokering role between different stakeholders. Such network variables are crucial to capture how IGs mobilize and gain access to policymakers, and to explain their goal achievements and potent…
Complex Democracy: Varieties, Crises, and Transformations
Staat und Technische Kommunikation: Die Politische Entwicklung der Telekommunikation in Den USA, Japan, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien
Information Exchange in Policy Networks
Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity, influence reputation, social trust, and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political opportunity structures and transaction costs play another crucial role and estimate a rich statistical network model on tie formation in the German toxic chemicals policy domain. The results indicate that the effect of preference similarity is absorbed by institutional…
Institutional Communication Revisited: Preferences, Opportunity Structures and Scientific Expertise in Policy Networks
Politiknetzwerke
No abstract available.
Politiknetzwerke: Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen
Politiknetzwerke: Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen
Europeanization and the retreat of the state
Is the state on the retreat? We examine this question through an analysis of changing patterns of government involvement in infrastructure provision, which is generally considered to be one of the main functions of the modern state. Based on an analysis of the extent of privatization of infrastructure companies between 1970 and 2000 across 20 OECD countries, we find that there is indeed a general trend towards less public infrastructure provision…
Politikfeldanalyse: Akteure, Diskurse und Netzwerke in der öffentlichen Politik
Politikfeldanalyse
Durch die Politikfeldanalyse hat sich die Politikwissenschaft als theoriegeleitete und gleichwohl anwendungsorientierte empirische Wissenschaft bedeutend weiterentwickelt Im Mittelpunkt ihres Analyseinteresses stehen politische Entscheidungen und deren Umsetzung in konkreten Handlungszusammenhängen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer Bedingungsfaktoren. Der vorliegende Band führt umfassend in die Forschungsperspektiven der Politikfeldanalyse ein. Zunäch…
Politikfeldanalyse: Akteure, Diskurse und Netzwerke in der öffentlichen Politik
Redes de políticas públicas e a condução de sociedades complexas
This article has the objective of conceiving policy networks as a new way of political governance. In the first place it discusses the problem of governance and of policy networks from the State theory point of view. It follows the discussion on the conditions that drove the appearance of the concepts of governance and policy networks and is presented some concrete examples of those networks. At the end it is mentioned some implications of this n…
Buying Out the State: A Comparative Perspective on the Privatization of Infrastructures
The article describes the retreat of the state from public infrastructures in advanced industrial countries and tests the power of theoretical approaches to explain this reform process. The authors’ data show changes in state ownership in formerly public monopoly enterprises in telecommunications, electricity, and aviation sectors of 26 countries between 1970 and 2000. Combining various analytical techniques, the authors use partial-order scalogr…
Evolution in Cyberspace: The Adaptation of National Videotext Systems to the Internet
Developpement parallele du systeme allemand (Bildchirmtext Btx, Datex-J et T-Online) et francais (Teletel-Minitel). Adaptation a l'Internet
Information Exchange in Policy Networks
Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity, influence reputation, social trust, and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political opportunity structures and transaction costs play another crucial role and estimate a rich statistical network model on tie formation in the German toxic chemicals policy domain. The results indicate that the effect of preference similarity is absorbed by institutional…
Global Governance through Private Organizations
Governance at international and global levels is not only provided through states and markets but also through a variety of private organizations. The business world is well represented through this kind of organization and contributes to global governance through self‐regulation across a number of industries. This article examines these efforts in the encompassing organization of global commerce, in the pharmaceutical industry and among dye stuf…
Corporate Actor Networks in European Policy‐Making: Harmonizing Telecommunications Policy
The European Community as a social configuration, with its complex division\nof competencies and action capacities between EC institutions and national\ngovernments, is still difficult to conceptualize. In this context the authors propose\nthe concept of corporate actor networks in order to understand more\nthoroughly the interaction processes of policy integration by which the European\ncommunity has accumulated increasing supranational action c…
Europeanization and the retreat of the state
Is the state on the retreat? We examine this question through an analysis of changing patterns of government involvement in infrastructure provision, which is generally considered to be one of the main functions of the modern state. Based on an analysis of the extent of privatization of infrastructure companies between 1970 and 2000 across 20 OECD countries, we find that there is indeed a general trend towards less public infrastructure provision…
Why do junctures become critical? Political discourse, agency, and joint belief shifts in comparative perspective
Why do junctures become critical in some cases but not in others? Building on the critical juncture framework and perspectives on the formation and diffusion of beliefs, we develop a theoretically parsimonious and empirically traceable account of divergence in institutional outcomes. By illuminating the role of agency and joint belief shifts we further open the “black box” of critical junctures. In particular, we develop the argument that the rol…
The structure of policy networks: A comparison of the ‘chemicals control’and ‘telecommunications’policy domains in Germany
This paper1 compares the structure of policy networks in two different policy domains. Policy networks are seen as clusters of relatively autonomous but interdependent actors that are incorporated into the process of public policy making. Policy networks have to be seen as specific actor configurations beyond ‘policy markets’and ‘policy hierarchies’.2 Their emergence is seen as a response to an increasing societal dispersion of resources, policy …
Buying Out the State: A Comparative Perspective on the Privatization of Infrastructures
The article describes the retreat of the state from public infrastructures in advanced industrial countries and tests the power of theoretical approaches to explain this reform process. The authors’ data show changes in state ownership in formerly public monopoly enterprises in telecommunications, electricity, and aviation sectors of 26 countries between 1970 and 2000. Combining various analytical techniques, the authors use partial-order scalogr…
Climate change policy networks: Why and how to compare them across countries
Why do some countries enact more ambitious climate change policies than others? Macro level economic and political structures, such as the economic weight of fossil fuel industries, play an important role in shaping these policies. So do the national science community and the national culture of science. But the process by which such macro-structural factors translate into political power and national climate change policies can be analyzed throu…
Explorations into the Visualization of Policy Networks
Visualization is an important aspect of both exploration and communication of categorical as well as relational data. Graphical displays of policy networks are particularly attractive, since they enable authors to display in a compact way the relevant actors in a network, how they are related to each other, and what the overall structure looks like. Sociograms were early companions of social network analysis, but have received surprisingly little…
The Strange Case of Regulating Lobbying in Germany
Journal Article The Strange Case of Regulating Lobbying in Germany Get access KARSTEN RONIT, KARSTEN RONIT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar VOLKER SCHNEIDER VOLKER SCHNEIDER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 559–567, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/51.4.559 Published: 01 October 1998
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration: Evidence from Climate Change Policy Subsystems in 11 Countries
Collaboration between public administration organizations and various stakeholders is often prescribed as a potential solution to the current complex problems of governance, such as climate change. According to the Advocacy Coalition Framework, shared beliefs are one of the most important drivers of collaboration. However, studies investigating the role of beliefs in collaboration show mixed results. Some argue that similarity of general normativ…
Studying Policy Advocacy Through Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis (SNA) conceptualizes a policy-making process as a network of actors. It can assess if an interest group (IGs) occupies a leading central position within this policy network, if it belongs to various ad hoc coalitions or if it plays a brokering role between different stakeholders. Such network variables are crucial to capture how IGs mobilize and gain access to policymakers, and to explain their goal achievements and potent…
Redes de políticas públicas e a condução de sociedades complexas
This article has the objective of conceiving policy networks as a new way of political governance. In the first place it discusses the problem of governance and of policy networks from the State theory point of view. It follows the discussion on the conditions that drove the appearance of the concepts of governance and policy networks and is presented some concrete examples of those networks. At the end it is mentioned some implications of this n…
The EC as an international corporate actor: Two case studies in economic diplomacy
Within the arena of international politics the European Community sometimes acts as an actor, but sometimes it does not. As is shown in this article:‘traditional’ European‐integration approaches fail to explain this. The authors introduce an actor concept which seems to overcome such shortcomings. This approach is applied to a study of two action domains of the EC: one on chemicals control policies and non‐tariff trade barriers, and the other on …
The Dynamics of Videotex Development in Britain, France and Germany: A Crossnational Comparison
The paper shows why the three major European videotex programs (Prestel in the UK, Télétel in France and Bildschirmtext in the FRG), although similar in their initial objectives, have led to markedly contrasting results. Each country, based on its particular macro context (technological environment, government-industry relations, political structures, etc.), pursued a different `implantation strategy', made up of specific clusters of technical an…
The EC as an international corporate actor: Two case studies in economic diplomacy
Within the arena of international politics the European Community sometimes acts as an actor, but sometimes it does not. As is shown in this article:‘traditional’ European‐integration approaches fail to explain this. The authors introduce an actor concept which seems to overcome such shortcomings. This approach is applied to a study of two action domains of the EC: one on chemicals control policies and non‐tariff trade barriers, and the other on …
Choix techniques et dynamiques sociales dans l'introduction du vidéotex en Allemagne Fédérale
RESUME Cet article analyse les raisons du malaise que l'on ressent aujourd'hui dans le développement du vidéotex allemand, inauguré en 1 983. L'échec du projet trouve son origine dans deux options techniques fondamentales : d'une part, le choix du téléviseur comme terminal et, d'autre part, le type d'architecture du système mis en place par IBM, très centralisé et fortement hiérarchisé. L'auteur montre que la plupart de ces choix résultent des in…
The Dynamics of Videotex Development in Britain, France and Germany: A Crossnational Comparison
The paper shows why the three major European videotex programs (Prestel in the UK, Télétel in France and Bildschirmtext in the FRG), although similar in their initial objectives, have led to markedly contrasting results. Each country, based on its particular macro context (technological environment, government-industry relations, political structures, etc.), pursued a different `implantation strategy', made up of specific clusters of technical an…
The structure of policy networks: A comparison of the ‘chemicals control’and ‘telecommunications’policy domains in Germany
This paper1 compares the structure of policy networks in two different policy domains. Policy networks are seen as clusters of relatively autonomous but interdependent actors that are incorporated into the process of public policy making. Policy networks have to be seen as specific actor configurations beyond ‘policy markets’and ‘policy hierarchies’.2 Their emergence is seen as a response to an increasing societal dispersion of resources, policy …
Corporate Actor Networks in European Policy‐Making: Harmonizing Telecommunications Policy
The European Community as a social configuration, with its complex division\nof competencies and action capacities between EC institutions and national\ngovernments, is still difficult to conceptualize. In this context the authors propose\nthe concept of corporate actor networks in order to understand more\nthoroughly the interaction processes of policy integration by which the European\ncommunity has accumulated increasing supranational action c…
The Strange Case of Regulating Lobbying in Germany
Journal Article The Strange Case of Regulating Lobbying in Germany Get access KARSTEN RONIT, KARSTEN RONIT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar VOLKER SCHNEIDER VOLKER SCHNEIDER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 559–567, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/51.4.559 Published: 01 October 1998
Staat und technische Kommunikation
Staatliche Politik und technische Kommunikation: Staatstheorien und Theorien der Staatstatigkeit - Technische Entwicklungslinien und sozio-politische Organisationsformen / Die politisch-administrative Entwicklung der Telekommunikation in den wichtigsten Industrielandern: USA - Japan - Grossbritannien - Deutschland - Frankreich - Italien / Interpretationen und Erklarungsversuche: Zur historischen Kontingenz und Pfadabhangigkeit von Staatstatigkeit…
Staat und technische Kommunikation: Die politische Entwicklung der Telekommunikation in den USA, Japan, Grossbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien
Explorations into the Visualization of Policy Networks
Visualization is an important aspect of both exploration and communication of categorical as well as relational data. Graphical displays of policy networks are particularly attractive, since they enable authors to display in a compact way the relevant actors in a network, how they are related to each other, and what the overall structure looks like. Sociograms were early companions of social network analysis, but have received surprisingly little…
Global Governance through Private Organizations
Governance at international and global levels is not only provided through states and markets but also through a variety of private organizations. The business world is well represented through this kind of organization and contributes to global governance through self‐regulation across a number of industries. This article examines these efforts in the encompassing organization of global commerce, in the pharmaceutical industry and among dye stuf…
Evolution in Cyberspace: The Adaptation of National Videotext Systems to the Internet
Developpement parallele du systeme allemand (Bildchirmtext Btx, Datex-J et T-Online) et francais (Teletel-Minitel). Adaptation a l'Internet
Buying Out the State: A Comparative Perspective on the Privatization of Infrastructures
The article describes the retreat of the state from public infrastructures in advanced industrial countries and tests the power of theoretical approaches to explain this reform process. The authors’ data show changes in state ownership in formerly public monopoly enterprises in telecommunications, electricity, and aviation sectors of 26 countries between 1970 and 2000. Combining various analytical techniques, the authors use partial-order scalogr…
Politikfeldanalyse
Durch die Politikfeldanalyse hat sich die Politikwissenschaft als theoriegeleitete und gleichwohl anwendungsorientierte empirische Wissenschaft bedeutend weiterentwickelt Im Mittelpunkt ihres Analyseinteresses stehen politische Entscheidungen und deren Umsetzung in konkreten Handlungszusammenhängen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer Bedingungsfaktoren. Der vorliegende Band führt umfassend in die Forschungsperspektiven der Politikfeldanalyse ein. Zunäch…
Politikfeldanalyse: Akteure, Diskurse und Netzwerke in der öffentlichen Politik
Redes de políticas públicas e a condução de sociedades complexas
This article has the objective of conceiving policy networks as a new way of political governance. In the first place it discusses the problem of governance and of policy networks from the State theory point of view. It follows the discussion on the conditions that drove the appearance of the concepts of governance and policy networks and is presented some concrete examples of those networks. At the end it is mentioned some implications of this n…
Politikfeldanalyse: Akteure, Diskurse und Netzwerke in der öffentlichen Politik
Europeanization and the retreat of the state
Is the state on the retreat? We examine this question through an analysis of changing patterns of government involvement in infrastructure provision, which is generally considered to be one of the main functions of the modern state. Based on an analysis of the extent of privatization of infrastructure companies between 1970 and 2000 across 20 OECD countries, we find that there is indeed a general trend towards less public infrastructure provision…
Politiknetzwerke
No abstract available.
Politiknetzwerke: Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen
Politiknetzwerke: Modelle, Anwendungen und Visualisierungen
Institutional Communication Revisited: Preferences, Opportunity Structures and Scientific Expertise in Policy Networks
Information Exchange in Policy Networks
Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity, influence reputation, social trust, and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political opportunity structures and transaction costs play another crucial role and estimate a rich statistical network model on tie formation in the German toxic chemicals policy domain. The results indicate that the effect of preference similarity is absorbed by institutional…
Staat und Technische Kommunikation: Die Politische Entwicklung der Telekommunikation in Den USA, Japan, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien
Complex Democracy: Varieties, Crises, and Transformations
A network science approach to the Internet
During the past decades considerable progress has been made in developing research methods that are particularly suited to examining network relations in the Internet and their consequences for outcomes such as the diffusion of applications and services, the winner-take-all dynamics of digital markets, and the spread of malware. Social scientists have long recognized the importance of interdependencies among agents in social systems and the need …
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