Hartwig Pautz
Biographic Data
| ID | 188931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hartwig Pautz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hartwig |
| FAMILY NAME | Pautz |
| SIGNATURE | PAUTZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7490-3729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Generative artificial intelligence in policy analysis
This article explores the use of generative AI (GenAI) in policy analysis as it is conducted by think tank researchers in the United Kingdom. Think tanks focus their policy analysis activities on the three dimensions of problem recognition and definition, the development of policy ideas, and the influencing of the public, politicians and public servants. These three dimensions form the framework for analysis of survey and interview data. For the …
Care as A Golden Thread; Creating and Implementing A New National Outcome on Care in Scotland
Introduction: Governments create National Performance Framworks (NPF) to highlight the 'golden threads' they want all stakeholders to most focus on. Two years ago we presented at ICIC 2022 on the design and development of a new National Outcome for Care in Scotlands NPF, and the 11 existing outcomes in that which did not include Care explicitly, which was up for review. T We can now report that the campaign was a huge success, and the Scottish Go…
How to Make a Country Care – Performance Measurement Frameworks as Drivers of Care Policy Change
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the longstanding social care crisis across the United Kingdom. The need for thorough and sustained change in the entire policy domain of care – defined as paid care workers, including childcare workers, and unpaid carers and those experiencing care – is clear. To achieve such change, the prominence of care as a key policy issue needs to increase. This could be achieved through care becoming anchored in outcomes-b…
Policy making and artificial intelligence in Scotland
The article presents an exploratory qualitative single case study about whether and how artificial intelligence (AI) is used by the Scottish Government, about the key concerns relating to its usage, and about obstacles to, and drivers of AI usage. Besides the academic literature and published reports, the analysis rests on 12 semi-structured interviews. Interviewees include Scottish Government employees, experts from academia and representatives …
Covid-19 and the crisis of food insecurity in the UK
Over the past decade, food insecurity has been increasing across the United Kingdom. The 2020/21 Covid-19 global pandemic has further aggravated food insecurity. This article examines how Covid-19 affected food insecurity through, first, a review of existing literature on the UK and, second, through presenting research results from Scotland with a focus on four groups considered to be specifically vulnerable to food insecurity – namely people wit…
Towards Countries that Care; Advocating A new National Outcome on care for the National Performance Framework in Scotland
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Decent Work in Scotland, an Agenda-Setting Analysis
This article uses John Kingdon's multiple streams framework as an analytical tool to consider how the policy issue of 'job quality', in the guises of 'decent work' and 'fair work', developed a 'career' in Scotland between 2013 and 2017. The aim is to understand why, despite the efforts of a variety of policy entrepreneurs and the openness of the Scottish Government to this policy problem, job quality did not arrive on the Scottish Government's de…
The German New Right and Its Think Tanks
This article presents an analysis of how think tanks of the German New Right have sought to expand the reach of the New Right into far-right electoral politics, specifically those embodied by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Informed by social network analysis and document analysis, the research focuses on the years between 2013 and 2017, the period that saw the foundation of the AfD, its shift to the right toward embracing nationalis…
Constructing the ‘Immigrant
The article scrutinises how Germany’s non-political party radical left has discussed immigration and ‘cultural’ or ‘national’ identity in the context of past and current immigration into Germany, with a focus on the refugee crisis of 2015. Three types of radical left discourse are identified. First, some in the radical left have come to regard immigrants, in particular refugees, as an ‘ersatz proletariat’ and therefore as potential revolutionary …
Think tanks in 'hard times' - the Global Financial Crisis and economic advice
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession that ensued had reverberations that were not only social, political and economic. The crises also led to increased doubt in the value and usefulness of policy expertise and in its producers. This 'epistemic crisis' is the starting point of this thematic issue dedicated to think tanks in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession. The Introduction to the issue has fo…
Think tanks, Tories and the austerity discourse coalition
Political parties change their policy positions for a variety of reasons. Among these can be changing interpretations of economic or other kinds of knowledge. The article investigates whether think tanks, as producers, synthesisers and disseminators of knowledge, may have contributed to changes in the British Conservative Party’s positions on public spending, debt and deficit following the Global Financial Crisis and the onset of the Great Recess…
Digital Communication and Representational Interactivity
The potential of the Internet to address deficits in the relationship between representatives and represented has been discussed for some time. This article analyses whether ‘www.WriteToThem.com’, an online tool allowing people to contact their elected members of local, subnational, national and European parliaments, promotes ‘interactivity’ between elected and electors. The analysis uses data from a survey and interviews with Scottish local coun…
In search of social democracy
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
Decent Work for Scotland’s Low-Paid Workers
This report presents findings from a unique research project aimed at establishing what low-paid workers in Scotland value as important when it comes to 'decent work'. While recognizing variations for specific groups, the research has identified remarkable consistency in respondents' priorities for decent work. There is a significant job to be done to improve the quality of work which is available in Scotland. However, by ensuring the priorities …
Managing the crisis? Think-tanks and the British response to Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession
Ideas matter – but how they do so, and what allows some ideas to become more influential than others is less clear. Certainly, the debate about policy ideas and the many people and organizations producing them continues to occupy researchers. This is also true, more specifically, with regards to the policy responses of British governments to Global Financial Crisis and subsequent Great Recession.The article presents an analysis of the role of one…
British Think-Tanks and Their Collaborative and Communicative Networks
This article looks at UK-based think-tanks and their communicative and cooperative networks with other actors in Britain and beyond. Which institutions and people do British think-tanks talk to most to exert influence on domestic public policy? What forms do such communications take? What are British think-tanks' objectives for cooperation with non-UK organisations? This article is based on a survey with analysts at British think-tanks that was c…
Occupy
In November 2011, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was forced to leave New York's Zuccotti Park after a few months in the park. In January 2012, ‘Occupy the London Stock Exchange’ was broken up and in Augu
Reacting to ‘Austerity Politics
Masked activists, self-identifying as anarchists, taking from supermarkets and handing goods to passers-by are the topic of this profile. Over 50 such acts have occurred across Greece since the onset of the financial, political and social crisis in 2008. We present a snapshot of the phenomenon of collective expropriation and position it within a context of further market-oriented forms of resistance to 'austerity politics
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe
The Think Tanks behind ‘Cameronism’
Think tanks are omnipresent in the British media as sources of expertise for journalists and politicians; they themselves claim that their ideas form the basis of new policies and that they have influenced the thinking of leading decision-makers. This article aims to shed light on whether think tanks have played a role in the modernisation of the Conservative party under David Cameron between 2005 and 2010. The institutions focused on here are Po…
Introduction
The question of how to finance public services and infrastructure has been a contentious issue in the United Kingdom at least since the Conservative Government in Westminster, in 1992, introduced the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement method to secure private funding for public services and infrastructure. After 1997, the new Labour Government in Westminster essentially endorsed its predecessor's po…
New Labour in government
Apprenticeship Training in England
This article is a critical comparison of the development in apprenticeship training in Britain with that in other European countries, particularly Germany. In both countries, the apprenticeship system displays high levels of gender segregation where men dominate the ‘traditional’ apprenticeships in craft, technical and engineering occupations, while women dominate the mainly service or care sector occupations. Attempts to improve and expand appre…
Revisiting the think-tank phenomenon
This article revisits the discussion about what a think-tank is, what it does and how it does what it does. The article argues that the definition of what constitutes a think-tank should focus on the functions that it fulfils and not so much on the organizational form, as is the case with dominant perspectives. The article offers a revised think-tank definition and, as a second step, discusses a Gramsci-inspired critical approach to understanding…
Think Tanks in the United Kingdom and Germany
This article describes and analyses the role that think tanks in the United Kingdom and Germany played in the modernisation of the British Labour party and the Social Democratic party of Germany between 1992 and 2008. In these years, both parties were de-traditionalised. Especially, their central objective, that of achieving a socially just society, was redefined under the banner of the ‘Third Way’. Policy experts from outside the political parti…
The politics of identity in Germany
Germany is not a country of immigration' is a fiction of national homogeneity that came under increased pressure with the advent, in 1998, of a centre-left government. New laws for immigration, integration and citizenship were to be introduced, eradicating the concept of Volk tied together by ius sanguinis. But the opposition Christian Democratic Union made an electoral issue of 'Ausländerpolitik', especially integration, accusing the government …
Revisiting the think-tank phenomenon
This article revisits the discussion about what a think-tank is, what it does and how it does what it does. The article argues that the definition of what constitutes a think-tank should focus on the functions that it fulfils and not so much on the organizational form, as is the case with dominant perspectives. The article offers a revised think-tank definition and, as a second step, discusses a Gramsci-inspired critical approach to understanding…
The Think Tanks behind ‘Cameronism’
Think tanks are omnipresent in the British media as sources of expertise for journalists and politicians; they themselves claim that their ideas form the basis of new policies and that they have influenced the thinking of leading decision-makers. This article aims to shed light on whether think tanks have played a role in the modernisation of the Conservative party under David Cameron between 2005 and 2010. The institutions focused on here are Po…
Think tanks in 'hard times' - the Global Financial Crisis and economic advice
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession that ensued had reverberations that were not only social, political and economic. The crises also led to increased doubt in the value and usefulness of policy expertise and in its producers. This 'epistemic crisis' is the starting point of this thematic issue dedicated to think tanks in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession. The Introduction to the issue has fo…
Think Tanks in the United Kingdom and Germany
This article describes and analyses the role that think tanks in the United Kingdom and Germany played in the modernisation of the British Labour party and the Social Democratic party of Germany between 1992 and 2008. In these years, both parties were de-traditionalised. Especially, their central objective, that of achieving a socially just society, was redefined under the banner of the ‘Third Way’. Policy experts from outside the political parti…
British Think-Tanks and Their Collaborative and Communicative Networks
This article looks at UK-based think-tanks and their communicative and cooperative networks with other actors in Britain and beyond. Which institutions and people do British think-tanks talk to most to exert influence on domestic public policy? What forms do such communications take? What are British think-tanks' objectives for cooperation with non-UK organisations? This article is based on a survey with analysts at British think-tanks that was c…
Scottish Think-Tanks and Policy Networks
Think tanks, Tories and the austerity discourse coalition
Political parties change their policy positions for a variety of reasons. Among these can be changing interpretations of economic or other kinds of knowledge. The article investigates whether think tanks, as producers, synthesisers and disseminators of knowledge, may have contributed to changes in the British Conservative Party’s positions on public spending, debt and deficit following the Global Financial Crisis and the onset of the Great Recess…
In search of social democracy
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
The Role of Think Tanks in the Modernisation of the SPD
This article analyses the relationship between the activities of think tanks and the development of the party-programmatic discourse of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). It addresses the years between 1994 and 2005 during which the SPD underwent a programmatic revision resulting in the adaptation of ‘Third Way’ Social Democracy. Description and analysis of the interaction of the various policy field stakeholders establish what it is that …
New Labour in government
Covid-19 and the crisis of food insecurity in the UK
Over the past decade, food insecurity has been increasing across the United Kingdom. The 2020/21 Covid-19 global pandemic has further aggravated food insecurity. This article examines how Covid-19 affected food insecurity through, first, a review of existing literature on the UK and, second, through presenting research results from Scotland with a focus on four groups considered to be specifically vulnerable to food insecurity – namely people wit…
Constructing the ‘Immigrant
The article scrutinises how Germany’s non-political party radical left has discussed immigration and ‘cultural’ or ‘national’ identity in the context of past and current immigration into Germany, with a focus on the refugee crisis of 2015. Three types of radical left discourse are identified. First, some in the radical left have come to regard immigrants, in particular refugees, as an ‘ersatz proletariat’ and therefore as potential revolutionary …
Managing the crisis? Think-tanks and the British response to Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession
Ideas matter – but how they do so, and what allows some ideas to become more influential than others is less clear. Certainly, the debate about policy ideas and the many people and organizations producing them continues to occupy researchers. This is also true, more specifically, with regards to the policy responses of British governments to Global Financial Crisis and subsequent Great Recession.The article presents an analysis of the role of one…
Reacting to ‘Austerity Politics
Masked activists, self-identifying as anarchists, taking from supermarkets and handing goods to passers-by are the topic of this profile. Over 50 such acts have occurred across Greece since the onset of the financial, political and social crisis in 2008. We present a snapshot of the phenomenon of collective expropriation and position it within a context of further market-oriented forms of resistance to 'austerity politics
The Internet, Political Participation and Election Turnout
Germany's parliamentary democracy appears to be in crisis. The major parties' membership is in decline and barely existing in East Germany, election turnout is decreasing at all levels, and the reputation of politicians has never been worse. At the same time, however, Germans are more interested in politics than in the 1990s, overwhelmingly support democracy, and are keen on participating particularly in local political decision making. Out of th…
Policy making and artificial intelligence in Scotland
The article presents an exploratory qualitative single case study about whether and how artificial intelligence (AI) is used by the Scottish Government, about the key concerns relating to its usage, and about obstacles to, and drivers of AI usage. Besides the academic literature and published reports, the analysis rests on 12 semi-structured interviews. Interviewees include Scottish Government employees, experts from academia and representatives …
The German New Right and Its Think Tanks
This article presents an analysis of how think tanks of the German New Right have sought to expand the reach of the New Right into far-right electoral politics, specifically those embodied by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Informed by social network analysis and document analysis, the research focuses on the years between 2013 and 2017, the period that saw the foundation of the AfD, its shift to the right toward embracing nationalis…
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe
Introduction
The question of how to finance public services and infrastructure has been a contentious issue in the United Kingdom at least since the Conservative Government in Westminster, in 1992, introduced the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement method to secure private funding for public services and infrastructure. After 1997, the new Labour Government in Westminster essentially endorsed its predecessor's po…
Germany's Social Democrats in Search of a New Party Programme
This article explores the development of the meaning of social justice in the German Social Democratic Party's (SPD) discourse by juxtaposing the 1989 Berlin Programme with various programmatic initiatives by the party leadership and with the new 2007 Hamburg Programme. In order to understand the context in which the meaning of social justice changed, the article also outlines some of the social policy changes under Gerhard Schröder's SPD-led gov…
The politics of identity in Germany
Germany is not a country of immigration' is a fiction of national homogeneity that came under increased pressure with the advent, in 1998, of a centre-left government. New laws for immigration, integration and citizenship were to be introduced, eradicating the concept of Volk tied together by ius sanguinis. But the opposition Christian Democratic Union made an electoral issue of 'Ausländerpolitik', especially integration, accusing the government …
Scottish Think-Tanks and Policy Networks
Germany's Social Democrats in Search of a New Party Programme
This article explores the development of the meaning of social justice in the German Social Democratic Party's (SPD) discourse by juxtaposing the 1989 Berlin Programme with various programmatic initiatives by the party leadership and with the new 2007 Hamburg Programme. In order to understand the context in which the meaning of social justice changed, the article also outlines some of the social policy changes under Gerhard Schröder's SPD-led gov…
Think Tanks in the United Kingdom and Germany
This article describes and analyses the role that think tanks in the United Kingdom and Germany played in the modernisation of the British Labour party and the Social Democratic party of Germany between 1992 and 2008. In these years, both parties were de-traditionalised. Especially, their central objective, that of achieving a socially just society, was redefined under the banner of the ‘Third Way’. Policy experts from outside the political parti…
The Internet, Political Participation and Election Turnout
Germany's parliamentary democracy appears to be in crisis. The major parties' membership is in decline and barely existing in East Germany, election turnout is decreasing at all levels, and the reputation of politicians has never been worse. At the same time, however, Germans are more interested in politics than in the 1990s, overwhelmingly support democracy, and are keen on participating particularly in local political decision making. Out of th…
The Role of Think Tanks in the Modernisation of the SPD
This article analyses the relationship between the activities of think tanks and the development of the party-programmatic discourse of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). It addresses the years between 1994 and 2005 during which the SPD underwent a programmatic revision resulting in the adaptation of ‘Third Way’ Social Democracy. Description and analysis of the interaction of the various policy field stakeholders establish what it is that …
New Labour in government
Apprenticeship Training in England
This article is a critical comparison of the development in apprenticeship training in Britain with that in other European countries, particularly Germany. In both countries, the apprenticeship system displays high levels of gender segregation where men dominate the ‘traditional’ apprenticeships in craft, technical and engineering occupations, while women dominate the mainly service or care sector occupations. Attempts to improve and expand appre…
Revisiting the think-tank phenomenon
This article revisits the discussion about what a think-tank is, what it does and how it does what it does. The article argues that the definition of what constitutes a think-tank should focus on the functions that it fulfils and not so much on the organizational form, as is the case with dominant perspectives. The article offers a revised think-tank definition and, as a second step, discusses a Gramsci-inspired critical approach to understanding…
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe
The Think Tanks behind ‘Cameronism’
Think tanks are omnipresent in the British media as sources of expertise for journalists and politicians; they themselves claim that their ideas form the basis of new policies and that they have influenced the thinking of leading decision-makers. This article aims to shed light on whether think tanks have played a role in the modernisation of the Conservative party under David Cameron between 2005 and 2010. The institutions focused on here are Po…
Introduction
The question of how to finance public services and infrastructure has been a contentious issue in the United Kingdom at least since the Conservative Government in Westminster, in 1992, introduced the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement method to secure private funding for public services and infrastructure. After 1997, the new Labour Government in Westminster essentially endorsed its predecessor's po…
Occupy
In November 2011, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was forced to leave New York's Zuccotti Park after a few months in the park. In January 2012, ‘Occupy the London Stock Exchange’ was broken up and in Augu
Reacting to ‘Austerity Politics
Masked activists, self-identifying as anarchists, taking from supermarkets and handing goods to passers-by are the topic of this profile. Over 50 such acts have occurred across Greece since the onset of the financial, political and social crisis in 2008. We present a snapshot of the phenomenon of collective expropriation and position it within a context of further market-oriented forms of resistance to 'austerity politics
British Think-Tanks and Their Collaborative and Communicative Networks
This article looks at UK-based think-tanks and their communicative and cooperative networks with other actors in Britain and beyond. Which institutions and people do British think-tanks talk to most to exert influence on domestic public policy? What forms do such communications take? What are British think-tanks' objectives for cooperation with non-UK organisations? This article is based on a survey with analysts at British think-tanks that was c…
Decent Work for Scotland’s Low-Paid Workers
This report presents findings from a unique research project aimed at establishing what low-paid workers in Scotland value as important when it comes to 'decent work'. While recognizing variations for specific groups, the research has identified remarkable consistency in respondents' priorities for decent work. There is a significant job to be done to improve the quality of work which is available in Scotland. However, by ensuring the priorities …
Managing the crisis? Think-tanks and the British response to Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession
Ideas matter – but how they do so, and what allows some ideas to become more influential than others is less clear. Certainly, the debate about policy ideas and the many people and organizations producing them continues to occupy researchers. This is also true, more specifically, with regards to the policy responses of British governments to Global Financial Crisis and subsequent Great Recession.The article presents an analysis of the role of one…
Think tanks, Tories and the austerity discourse coalition
Political parties change their policy positions for a variety of reasons. Among these can be changing interpretations of economic or other kinds of knowledge. The article investigates whether think tanks, as producers, synthesisers and disseminators of knowledge, may have contributed to changes in the British Conservative Party’s positions on public spending, debt and deficit following the Global Financial Crisis and the onset of the Great Recess…
Digital Communication and Representational Interactivity
The potential of the Internet to address deficits in the relationship between representatives and represented has been discussed for some time. This article analyses whether ‘www.WriteToThem.com’, an online tool allowing people to contact their elected members of local, subnational, national and European parliaments, promotes ‘interactivity’ between elected and electors. The analysis uses data from a survey and interviews with Scottish local coun…
In search of social democracy
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
Constructing the ‘Immigrant
The article scrutinises how Germany’s non-political party radical left has discussed immigration and ‘cultural’ or ‘national’ identity in the context of past and current immigration into Germany, with a focus on the refugee crisis of 2015. Three types of radical left discourse are identified. First, some in the radical left have come to regard immigrants, in particular refugees, as an ‘ersatz proletariat’ and therefore as potential revolutionary …
Think tanks in 'hard times' - the Global Financial Crisis and economic advice
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession that ensued had reverberations that were not only social, political and economic. The crises also led to increased doubt in the value and usefulness of policy expertise and in its producers. This 'epistemic crisis' is the starting point of this thematic issue dedicated to think tanks in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession. The Introduction to the issue has fo…
The German New Right and Its Think Tanks
This article presents an analysis of how think tanks of the German New Right have sought to expand the reach of the New Right into far-right electoral politics, specifically those embodied by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Informed by social network analysis and document analysis, the research focuses on the years between 2013 and 2017, the period that saw the foundation of the AfD, its shift to the right toward embracing nationalis…
Decent Work in Scotland, an Agenda-Setting Analysis
This article uses John Kingdon's multiple streams framework as an analytical tool to consider how the policy issue of 'job quality', in the guises of 'decent work' and 'fair work', developed a 'career' in Scotland between 2013 and 2017. The aim is to understand why, despite the efforts of a variety of policy entrepreneurs and the openness of the Scottish Government to this policy problem, job quality did not arrive on the Scottish Government's de…
Covid-19 and the crisis of food insecurity in the UK
Over the past decade, food insecurity has been increasing across the United Kingdom. The 2020/21 Covid-19 global pandemic has further aggravated food insecurity. This article examines how Covid-19 affected food insecurity through, first, a review of existing literature on the UK and, second, through presenting research results from Scotland with a focus on four groups considered to be specifically vulnerable to food insecurity – namely people wit…
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