Gerald Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 280677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0091-6217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1082 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Introduction: Johan Galtung—His Work and How It Stands Up over Time
In this special issue, an international group of scholars takes stock of the contributions made to the study of war and peace by Johan Galtung, a highly cited and controversial scholar, public intellectual, and institution builder. Some of the authors assess his conceptual contributions, while others evaluate the continued empirical validity of his ideas. His articles on international economic sanctions and the structure of imperialism are exampl…
A Classic Despite Its Errors? Evaluating Johan Galtung’s Seminal Sanction Study
Johan Galtung’s article on economic coercion remains a classic contribution 60 years after its publication, despite its contentious evaluation of the sanctions against the supremacist regime of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. This review essay argues that the enduring impact of the World Politics (1967) study arises from its theoretically rich and measured appraisal of economic statecraft, which continues to enhance sanctions research and see…
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions
This article examines the biases the two most important senders of economic sanctions, the European Union and the United States, frequently introduce into their coercive measures. Distinguishing between sanction incidence and intensity, our study identifies the conditions under which the two senders over- or under-sanctioned their targets during the post-Cold War era. Theoretically, we conceive of the executive branch of the two senders as opport…
Illiberal Norms, Media Reporting, and Bureaucratic Discrimination: Evidence from State-Citizen Interactions in Germany
Recent research on the rise of radical right-wing parties highlights the activation of deeply rooted illiberal norms in society, including hostility toward marginalized groups. Negative media reporting on immigration may reinforce this trend. Although previous studies have examined the effect of far-right normalization on voting, little is known about its broader societal impacts. Therefore, we ask how regional variation in anti-immigrant sentime…
Subnational principals and Turkish passports: Administrative inequality in German citizenship policy
This article analyses inequalities in the implementation of citizenship policy in Germany. In this key migrant destination, federal authorities decide on citizenship law but delegate its implementation to regional and local governments. Before a reform of 2024, national regulation required third-country nationals to renounce their prior citizenship upon naturalisation. However, frontline officials could exempt applicants from this requirement. Ma…
Counterfactual coercion: Could harsher sanctions against Russia have prevented the worst
Numerous studies show that properly designed economic sanctions can force the target to refrain from violating international norms. However, policymakers cannot integrate this finding into their ex ante assessments of whether more forceful coercive measures could prevent military coups, human rights violations, or a war of aggression such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In this article, we address this shortcoming and introduce counterfactual…
Sage Award for the best article published in European Union Politics , Volume 23
Mission partly accomplished: European Union Politics at 25
In this article, we analyze how European Union Politics has evolved over the last 25 years. Our analysis demonstrates that the goals the editorial team has pursued over this quarter century have only partly been reached. While the journal has helped to consolidate EU studies as a field of research in its own rights, several problems of representation persist in the journal and the social sciences in general. We identify besides the well-known gen…
Under-represented, cautious, and modest: The gender gap at European Union Politics
The gender gap pervades many core aspects of political science. This article reports that females continue to be under-represented as authors and reviewers in European Union Politics and that these differences have only diminished slightly since the second half of the 2000s. We also report that females use more cautious and modest language in their correspondence with the editorial office, but do not find evidence that this under-studied aspect o…
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data
This article addresses the discrepancy between the explanation and the prediction of political violence through the development of different models that approximate the decision-making on war and peace. Borrowing from the crisis bargaining literature, the prediction models particularly consider the situational attributes through which players can challenge the status quo. We distinguish between direct and indirect proxies of a weakening of the st…
Moving from Norms Rhetorics to Norms Empirics: A Rejoinder to ‚Local Gender Norms: Persistence or Change?‘ by Clara Neupert-Wentz
We have recently established together with Ingeborg Hess Elgersma that different ownership arrangements in the extractive industry affect gender equality in contrasting ways (Krauser et al. 2019).While international investment in the mining industry lowers female labor market integration, it also reduces the risk of intimate partner violence.These results add to the proposition of our earlier studies that the resource curse literature needs to co…
Post-Cold War sanctioning by the EU, the UN, and the US: Introducing the EUSANCT Dataset
The European Union, the United Nations, and the United States frequently use economic sanctions. This article introduces the EUSANCT Dataset—which amends, merges, and updates some of the most widely used sanctions databases—to trace the evolution of sanctions after the Cold War. The dataset contains case-level and dyadic information on 326 threatened and imposed sanctions by the EU, the UN, and the US. We show that the usage and overall success o…
The Micro-Foundations of the Resource Curse: Mineral Ownership and Local Economic Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa
The quantitative evidence on whether extractive industries generate economic wealth at the local level is far from conclusive. In line with recent studies highlighting the moderating role of institutions and governance structures in the resource–development nexus, we argue that the effect of mining on local economic well-being is largely driven by different control rights regimes. We claim that domestic mineral production stimulates local income …
Forty-Eight Shades of Germany: Positive and Negative Discrimination in Federal Asylum Decision Making
Individual asylum seekers fail to obtain refugee status at considerably different rates cross- and sub-nationally. However, we do not know whether asylum seekers also face similar discriminatory potential when they appeal a negative decision and, if their appeal fails, when the authorities decide about their deportation. To fill this research gap, we examine inequities in these three stages of asylum decision making across the sixteen German Länd…
ViEWS: A political violence early-warning system
This article presents ViEWS - a political violence early-warning system that seeks to be maximally transparent, publicly available, and have uniform coverage, and sketches the methodological innovations required to achieve these objectives. ViEWS produces monthly forecasts at the country and subnational level for 36 months into the future and all three UCDP types of organized violence: state-based conflict, non-state conflict, and one-sided viole…
Ownership matters: Natural resources property rights and social conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
The oracle or the crowd? Experts versus the stock market in forecasting ceasefire success in the Levant
The forecasting literature has come to mistrust the predictions made by experts who forecast political events in mass media. Distinguishing between judgements made by one or few individuals ('oracles') and assessments made by larger groups ('crowds'), we contrast journalistic predictions with forecasts stemming from the financial industry. These two competing views were evaluated in a quantitative analysis of the ex ante success of 24 ceasefire a…
The core or the winset? Explaining decision-making duration and policy change in the European Union
The Eurotower Strikes Back: Crises, Adjustments, and Europe’s Austerity Protests
The 2008 global financial crisis came with fears—and, for some, hopes—that a new wave of public mobilization would emerge in industrialized countries. Especially throughout the European Union (EU), the epicenter of the crisis, large protests were expected. Yet, the energy with which social groups mobilized against the proposed austerity measures quickly fizzled. This article provides new evidence for why this was the case. In line with Neo-Keynes…
Ordered Rape: A Principal–Agent Analysis of Wartime Sexual Violence in the DR Congo
Policy makers and academics often contend that organizational anarchy permits soldiers to perpetrate sexual violence. A recent United Nations report supports this thesis especially with regard to the massive sexual abuse in the Congolese civil war. We challenge the anarchy argument and maintain, based on a principal–agent framework, that opportunistic military commanders can order their soldiers to rape through the use of sanctions and rewards. O…
Money Makes theEUGo Round: The Objective Foundations of Conflict in theCouncil ofMinisters
Many examinations of the dimensions of conflict in theEuropeanUnionCouncil ofMinisters focus on the ideological roots of contestation in theEU. This article examines the extent to which structural attributes of theMember States explain the conflict within theCouncil ofMinisters in general as well as in selected policy domains (agriculture, fisheries, environment, economic affairs). Drawing on the political economy literature of legislative decisi…
Nothing Succeeds like Success: The Past and Future of European Political Science
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Peace through globalization and capitalism? Prospects of two liberal propositions
The security externalities of globalization and capitalism continue to play an influential role in peace research. Typical contributions to these interrelated areas of scientific inquiry address the hope that the external openness (commercial liberalism) and the internal freedom of an economy (capitalist peace) pacify interstate as well as intrastate relations. I claim, despite the empirical support both theses have received, that they face consi…
The Illusion of ‘Peace Through Power-Sharing’: Constitutional Choice in the Shadow of Civil War
(2013). The Illusion of ‘Peace Through Power-Sharing’: Constitutional Choice in the Shadow of Civil War. Civil Wars: Vol. 15, Institutions for Sustainable Peace? Determinants and Effects of Institutional Choices in Divided Societies, pp. 44-70
There is No such Thing as a Free Open Sky: Financial Markets and the Struggle over E uropean Competences in International Air Transport
Aviation is a prime example of a policy area where the clash over supranational regulatory responsibilities had pronounced economic repercussions. In this article, we examine the economic effects of the E uropean C ommission's struggle to obtain competences in international air transport. Stock market reactions to key events in the political conflict between 1995 and 2004 unravel whether investor beliefs about the distribution of power in the EU …
The Contested Council: Conflict Dimensions of an Intergovernmental EU Institution
Recent research has tried to uncover the political space in which the Council of Ministers of the European Union decides. Rather than the left-right conflict or a cleavage between governments with national and supranational attitudes, this article shows that a redistributive dimension, decisively shapes the interactions in this most important legislative body of the European Union. In contrast to extant studies, we employ ex ante rather than ex p…
Same Menu, Seperate Tables: The Institutionalist Turn in Political Science and the Study of European Integration
Recent research on European integration has largely profited from the institutionalist turn in political science. Theoretical progress has, however, been hampered by the diverse understandings of this new research tradition. This paper tries to tackle the conceptual diversity in a positive way. We first analyze the neo–institutionalist turn in political science and European studies and then move on to a detailed analysis and comparison of the thr…
The change of tide in political cooperation: A limited information model of European integration
European integration follows a puzzling stop-and-go pattern that traditional international reations theories cannot fully explain. The predominating paradigms only account for either the achievements or the setbacks of the integration process. An information based explanation makes it possible to move beyond structural accounts provided by realist and functionalist scholarship. Such an approach yields solid micro-level foundations of internationa…
Money Makes theEUGo Round: The Objective Foundations of Conflict in theCouncil ofMinisters
Many examinations of the dimensions of conflict in theEuropeanUnionCouncil ofMinisters focus on the ideological roots of contestation in theEU. This article examines the extent to which structural attributes of theMember States explain the conflict within theCouncil ofMinisters in general as well as in selected policy domains (agriculture, fisheries, environment, economic affairs). Drawing on the political economy literature of legislative decisi…
The Punishment Trap: Integration Referendums as Popularity Contests
It is widely believed that voters care little about foreign policy, transforming referendums on international agreements into tests of a government's popularity. The authors analyze this notion and present two-level games characterized by asymmetric information. The article demonstrates that the linking of domestic issues to an international treaty does not convert referendums into pure plebiscites. However, the two-level decision creates a sever…
Bargaining Power in the European Union: An Evaluation of Competing Game-Theoretic Models
This article evaluates, by drawing on Barry's distinction between ‘power’ and ‘luck’, the predictive accuracy of competing bargaining models. We explore whether models that take various facets of political power into account predict legislative outcomes more precisely than purely preference-based models like the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS). Our empirical examination compares how well different formal models predict the outcome of 66 legislativ…
When Globalization Discontent Turns Violent: Foreign Economic Liberalization and Internal War
One of the disputed consequences of global economic integration is the possible effect that foreign economic liberalization exerts on social cohesion. Proponents of commercial liberalism see stabilization as an indirect consequence of growing economic interdependence, while globalization critics are much more skeptical. They expect, at least during the liberalization process, destabilizing effects. We examine in this paper the contradictory claim…
European Union Politics: Editorial Statement
Globalization and Peace: Assessing New Directions in the Study of Trade and Conflict
`Globalization' has largely superseded the term `economic interdependence' to describe the rapidly growing links between nations, economies, and societies. The effects that the internationalization of the world system has on social equality, the environment, and economic growth are, however, still largely disputed. In this article, we discuss the literature that covers another intensively debated issue and which attempts to assess the relationshi…
War and the World Economy: Stock Market Reactions to International Conflicts
One of the perennial questions in the scientific study of war is how war affects the economy. The authors examine the influence that the political developments within three war regions had on global financial markets (CAC, Dow Jones, FTSE) from 1990 to 2000. They embed a rational expectation framework within commercial liberalism, a theoretical strand that tries to assess the interrelationship between war and economic exchanges. Time-series analy…
The Eurotower Strikes Back: Crises, Adjustments, and Europe’s Austerity Protests
The 2008 global financial crisis came with fears—and, for some, hopes—that a new wave of public mobilization would emerge in industrialized countries. Especially throughout the European Union (EU), the epicenter of the crisis, large protests were expected. Yet, the energy with which social groups mobilized against the proposed austerity measures quickly fizzled. This article provides new evidence for why this was the case. In line with Neo-Keynes…
Rules That Matter: Political Institutions and the Diversity-Conflict Nexus
One controversy in the study of civil war relates to the role that institutions play in ethnically diverse societies. `Constitutional engineers' advance various institutional arrangements, ranging from democracy in general to specific constitutional and electoral rules, as those mechanisms that help divided societies to resolve disputes peacefully. Political sociologists, by contrast, maintain that political institutions are largely an epiphenome…
Post-Cold War sanctioning by the EU, the UN, and the US: Introducing the EUSANCT Dataset
The European Union, the United Nations, and the United States frequently use economic sanctions. This article introduces the EUSANCT Dataset—which amends, merges, and updates some of the most widely used sanctions databases—to trace the evolution of sanctions after the Cold War. The dataset contains case-level and dyadic information on 326 threatened and imposed sanctions by the EU, the UN, and the US. We show that the usage and overall success o…
Discriminating Decentralization: Federalism and the Handling of Asylum Applications in Switzerland, 1988-1996
Federalism belongs to those institutions that usually attract more admirers than critics. This study investigates whether decentralized decision making in the asylum domain undermines the principle of equality in the handling of individual cases. The externalities that power delegation creates are examined, and a principal/agent framework is developed to show how state discretion in the implementation of a unifying federal measure arises. The mod…
Polarization and Conflict: Theoretical and Empirical Issues
Recent formal and empirical research in political science and economics strongly indicates that various forms of political and social polarization increase the risk of violent conflict within and between nation states. The articles collected for this issue explore this crucial relationship and provide answers to a variety of topics: First, contributors address how institutions and other contingent factors mediate the conflict potential in polariz…
Forecasting in International Relations: One Quest, Three Approaches
We consider the advantages and disadvantages of three different approaches that are used for forecasting international politics
With a little help from the state: Interest intermediation in the domestic pre-negotiations of EU legislation
Theories of interest intermediation maintain that the formation of bargaining positions in the European Union follows a distinctive bargaining style. This article evaluates such claims empirically. It compares the predictive accuracy of Nash bargaining models which take the salient features of five types of interest intermediation into account. We show that the interaction between government agencies, interest groups and parties in the formation …
Who Mediates? the Political Economy of International Conflict Management
Studies on international mediation have traditionally focused on the effectiveness of international efforts to settle or resolve militarized conflicts. In this article, we start from a different perspective and examine the identity of mediators and the factors determining the choice of mediators. We build an integrative theoretical framework to explain the number of mediation mandates an international actor receives. The hypotheses we derive are …
The Capitalist Peace: The Origins and Prospects of a Liberal Idea
This special issue on the capitalist peace explores whether and how new findings alter the liberal research agenda. To this end, we have organized a debate that unites leading capitalist peace scholars as well as some prominent sceptics. In this introduction, we discuss the main research traditions and assess their relative merits before moving on to a presentation of the research articles and the challenges that future research has to confront
The Limits of Self-Reform: Institution-Building in the European Union
In this article, I investigate the potential for reform within the European Union (EU). Spatial models are employed to explore the extent to which domestic considerations prevent the organization from intensifying cooperation among member states. I show that intergovernmentalism will ultimately remain the predominant decision-making mode despite recent introduction of the codecision procedure which yields unconditional blocking power to the Europ…
The Dynamics of Mass Killings: Testing Time-Series Models of One-Sided Violence in the Bosnian Civil War
Many observers contend that wartime civilian victimization is an instrument of political leaders to achieve a particular goal. This article examines whether retaliation for similar acts by the other side, the developments on the battlefield, or the behavior of international actors accounts for the ups and downs of this so-called one-sided violence. Using information from the Konstanz One-Sided Violence Event Dataset and other sources, we evaluate…
Eliciting Substance from ‘Hot Air: Financial Market Responses to EU Summit Decisions on European Defense
The results of deliberations in multilateral fora are often considered ineffective. Decision making in the European Union (EU) and in particular its key intergovernmental body, the European Council, poses no exception. Especially in the domain of EU foreign and security affairs, the unanimity requirement governing this institution allegedly allows nationalist governments to torpedo any attempt to build up a credible European defense force and a u…
Ordered Rape: A Principal–Agent Analysis of Wartime Sexual Violence in the DR Congo
Policy makers and academics often contend that organizational anarchy permits soldiers to perpetrate sexual violence. A recent United Nations report supports this thesis especially with regard to the massive sexual abuse in the Congolese civil war. We challenge the anarchy argument and maintain, based on a principal–agent framework, that opportunistic military commanders can order their soldiers to rape through the use of sanctions and rewards. O…
ViEWS: A political violence early-warning system
This article presents ViEWS - a political violence early-warning system that seeks to be maximally transparent, publicly available, and have uniform coverage, and sketches the methodological innovations required to achieve these objectives. ViEWS produces monthly forecasts at the country and subnational level for 36 months into the future and all three UCDP types of organized violence: state-based conflict, non-state conflict, and one-sided viole…
Exploring the Past, Anticipating the Future: A Symposium
Anticipating the future is both a social obligation and intellectual challenge that no scientific discipline can escape. The field of international studies is no exception to this, and we believe that few other disciplines reflect so deeply about their own capacity to provide accurate forecasts and to deliver useful early warning schemes
Personality, unilateralism, or bullying: What caused the end of the cold war
This study evaluates the controversy about the importance duly attributed to domestic and international sources of the end of the Cold War. Our quasi‐experimental research supports the hypothesis that Gorbachev's accession to power was largely responsible for the historic improvement in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. The leadership change also enabled the Soviets to pursue unilateral initiatives although conflict…
The change of tide in political cooperation: A limited information model of European integration
European integration follows a puzzling stop-and-go pattern that traditional international reations theories cannot fully explain. The predominating paradigms only account for either the achievements or the setbacks of the integration process. An information based explanation makes it possible to move beyond structural accounts provided by realist and functionalist scholarship. Such an approach yields solid micro-level foundations of internationa…
Die innenpolitische Manipulation der Aussenpolitik: Die Logik von Ratifikationsdebatten in der direkten Demokratie
In den letzten Jahren ist das Interesse an den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Aussenpolitik und direkter Demokratie neu erwacht. In diesem Aufsatz untersuchen wir mit Hilfe eines Rational Choice‐Modells, inwiefern sich Abstimmungen zu internationalen Verträgen manipulieren lassen. Solche Beeinflussungsversuche sind etwa bei der Auswahl der Kampagnenthemen relevant. So ist bei den Kontrahenten das Bestreben erkenntlich, statt auf die Propaganda des Geg…
The Limits of Self-Reform: Institution-Building in the European Union
In this article, I investigate the potential for reform within the European Union (EU). Spatial models are employed to explore the extent to which domestic considerations prevent the organization from intensifying cooperation among member states. I show that intergovernmentalism will ultimately remain the predominant decision-making mode despite recent introduction of the codecision procedure which yields unconditional blocking power to the Europ…
The Punishment Trap: Integration Referendums as Popularity Contests
It is widely believed that voters care little about foreign policy, transforming referendums on international agreements into tests of a government's popularity. The authors analyze this notion and present two-level games characterized by asymmetric information. The article demonstrates that the linking of domestic issues to an international treaty does not convert referendums into pure plebiscites. However, the two-level decision creates a sever…
Wer kommt als Vermittler zum Zuge?Überschätzte und unterschätzte Anforderungsfaktoren für Mediationstätigkeiten
In der quantitativ orientierten Konfliktforschung wurde bis jetzt vorab untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen Vermittlungsaktionen von Erfolg gekrönt sind. In diesem Aufsatz gehen wir hingegen den Kriterien nach, unter denen ein Staat überhaupt ein Mediationsmandat erhält. Aus schweizerischer Perspektive besonders interessant ist, dass neutrale Staaten unterdurchschnittlich häufig angefragt werden und, falls sie überhaupt einmal zu Zug kommen, au…
Enforcing Cooperation: Risky States and Intergovernmental Management of Conflict
Eliciting collaboration from “risky” states: The limits of conventional multilateralism in security affairs
The emergence of an increasing number of states with a high conflict propensity constitutes a major challenge to international relations theory. While realist approaches dismiss the capacity of international governmental organisations to deal with "risky" states, liberal approaches largely focus on the successful multilateral management of peace. In this article, we examine how international institutions can counter the threats posed by "risky" s…
Twelve Tongues, One Voice: An Evaluation of European Political Cooperation
Traditional integration theories disagree over the scope of the main foreign policy instrument of the European Union (EU), the so-called European Political Cooperation (EPC). While intergovernmentalism suggests that EPC actions are weak, neofunctionalism maintains that cooperation within the EPC framework is characterised by strong measures. In this article, we present a game-theoretic and statistical analysis of these conflicting propositions an…
Twelve tongues, one voice: An evaluation of European political cooperation
Traditional integration theories disagree over the scope of the main foreign policy instrument of the European Union (EU), the so called European Political Cooperation (EPC).While intergovernmentalism suggests that EPC actions are weak, neofunctionalism maintains that cooperation within the EPC framework is characterised by strong measures.In this arti cle, we present a game theoretic and statistical analysis of these conflicting propositions and…
Diener dreier Herren? Kantonalbehörden und die Vollzugsvielfalt der arbeitsmarktlichen Bestimmungen im schweizerischen Asylrecht
Einer der viel beschworenen Vorteile des Föderalismus ist die Flexibilität, mit der sich zentralstaatliche Anliegen den regionalen Gegebenheiten anpassen lassen. Wir untersuchen diese Vorstellung am Beispiel des Asylrechts. Ausgangspunkt ist die Überlegung, dass die Vollzugsdelegation an die Kantone zu Prinzipal‐Agent‐Problemen führt und die Kantonalbehörden zu Dienern dreier Herren macht – der Bundesverwaltung, dern einheimischen Bevölkerung und…
Globalization and Peace: Assessing New Directions in the Study of Trade and Conflict
`Globalization' has largely superseded the term `economic interdependence' to describe the rapidly growing links between nations, economies, and societies. The effects that the internationalization of the world system has on social equality, the environment, and economic growth are, however, still largely disputed. In this article, we discuss the literature that covers another intensively debated issue and which attempts to assess the relationshi…
Bringing Putnam to the European Regions: On the Relevance of Social Capital for Economic Growth
One of the most influential contributions to the study of political culture of the 1990s was Robert D. Putnam’s book on the positive impact that interpersonal trust supposedly has on economic welfare and the effectiveness of political institutions in Italy. Making Democracy Work showed in bivariate correlations that progress depends largely on the social capital manifest in the Italian regions. We evaluate this hypothesis in a wider sample of reg…
The Impact of Legislative Deterrence Measures on the Number of Asylum Applications in Switzerland (1986–1995)
In the late eighties and early nineties, almost all Western European nations adopted an increasingly restrictive policy towards the growing number of asylum seekers. We develop a push-and-pull model and evaluate whether these newly created deterrence measures had a significant impact on the number of asylum applications in Switzerland. The statistical tests in the form of Box-Tiao intervention analyses shows that states are only partially able to…
The Impact of Legislative Deterrence Measures on the Number of Asylum Applications in Switzerland (1986-1995)
Thomas Holzer, Gerald Schneider, Thomas Widmer, The Impact of Legislative Deterrence Measures on the Number of Asylum Applications in Switzerland (1986-1995), The International Migration Review, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 1182-1216
The power of legislative hot air: Informal rules and the enlargement debate in the European parliament
Integration theorists disagree over the extent to which the European Parliament can substantially influence policy‐making processes in the absence of formal agenda‐setting power. This article discusses the impact the European Parliament had on the current enlargement negotiations. Although the legislature does not yet possess the means to alter the stance of the European Council, it has tried to reverse the status quo through the use of its infor…
Same Menu, Seperate Tables: The Institutionalist Turn in Political Science and the Study of European Integration
Recent research on European integration has largely profited from the institutionalist turn in political science. Theoretical progress has, however, been hampered by the diverse understandings of this new research tradition. This paper tries to tackle the conceptual diversity in a positive way. We first analyze the neo–institutionalist turn in political science and European studies and then move on to a detailed analysis and comparison of the thr…
Discriminating Decentralization: Federalism and the Handling of Asylum Applications in Switzerland, 1988-1996
Federalism belongs to those institutions that usually attract more admirers than critics. This study investigates whether decentralized decision making in the asylum domain undermines the principle of equality in the handling of individual cases. The externalities that power delegation creates are examined, and a principal/agent framework is developed to show how state discretion in the implementation of a unifying federal measure arises. The mod…
European Union Politics: Editorial Statement
Who Mediates? the Political Economy of International Conflict Management
Studies on international mediation have traditionally focused on the effectiveness of international efforts to settle or resolve militarized conflicts. In this article, we start from a different perspective and examine the identity of mediators and the factors determining the choice of mediators. We build an integrative theoretical framework to explain the number of mediation mandates an international actor receives. The hypotheses we derive are …
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Who is Afraid of Comulative Research?: Improving Data on EU Politics
Introduction: Democratic Institutions for a New Europe
Institutional reforms have up to now always preceded or immediately followed any major enlargement round of the European Union, fueling functionalist hopes that the organization will ultimately become a nation-state. Yet the prolonged failure to redistribute power effectively between member states, the Commission, the Parliament, and the European Court of Justice means that these past successes have also stretched the size and the institutions of…
Faire Formeln: Psychologische und prozedurale Einflussfaktoren auf die Lösung von distributiven Konflikten
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