Simon Fink
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4275873 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Simon Fink |
| PRENOMES | Simon |
| SOBRENOME | Fink |
| ASSINATURA | FINK S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3730-5137 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 196 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Regulatory Talk About Climate Policies
National energy and climate plans (NECPs) are a cornerstone of European Union (EU) climate policy. As ‘hard’ soft governance instruments, NECPs allow comparison of member state policies and monitoring of whether they reach EU aims. My argument is that NECPs can be analysed as regulatory talk, with both member states and the Commission using reputational strategies—performative, technical, procedural and moral—to lend authority to their policy des…
Balancing reputational strategies in the European administrative space
The reputational perspective on agencies has sparked fruitful research. We argue that this perspective can also be applied to private actors in regulatory governance. As they are incorporated into governance because of their expertise, we hypothesise that a technical reputation dominates private actors ́ regulatory talk. Furthermore, we test whether agencies have a more multi-dimensional reputational strategy than private actors. We analyse docum…
Self‐enforcing path dependent trajectories? A comparison of the implementation of the EU energy packages in Germany and the Netherlands
Since the 1990s, the EU has attempted to create a common electricity market. However, EU legislators are unsatisfied by the results. We argue that differentiated implementation of directives over time creates path dependencies that entrench national differences. The actor constellation of parties and incumbent operators at the beginning of the liberalization path determines how well countries implement liberalizing directives. The implementation,…
Party politics and the shaping of migration policy in the Council of Ministers
The Council of Ministers is still the European Union's decision‐making center in migration policy. However, we know little about the determinants of member state's policy positions. This article tests three hypotheses: member state positions might be influenced by socioeconomic conditions, by public opinion, or by partisan preferences. We conduct a quantitative analysis of two legislative proposals at the intersection of migration and welfare pol…
Emotional citizens, detached interest groups? The use of emotional language in public policy consultations
In public consultations, policymakers give stakeholders access to the policymaking process in exchange for technical or political information. Our article proposes to analyze not only the policy positions, but the emotional content of consultation contributions. In our descriptive study, we explore two conjectures: First, citizens contributions to public consultations display more emotions than contributions by corporate actors, and second, contr…
Kommunale Akteur
Der Beitrag von Simon Fink und Eva Ruffing analysiert die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung bei der Bedarfsplanung für Stromnetze. Der Beitrag analysiert dieses Beteiligungsverfahren anhand einer Kodierung aller Eingaben zur Konsultation des Netzentwicklungsplanes 2012. Er fragt, welche Akteur:innen teilnehmen, welche Argumente sie vorbringen, und ob das Verfahren Konflikte abzumildert. Ergebnis ist, dass die Konsultationen zwar von kommunalen Akteur:in…
Can parliament govern the transport transition? How the German Bundestag scrutinizes rail projects
Der Ausbau der deutschen Stromnetze
Der Ausbau der Stromtrassen ist ein zentrales Element der deutschen Energiewende. Die Forschung weiß aber noch wenig darüber, inwieweit dieses Politikfeld durch Parteiendifferenz strukturiert wird. Insbesondere über die lokale Ebene gibt es noch wenig Forschung. Der Beitrag formuliert zwei Hypothesen. Der ersten Hypothese zufolge sind lokale Parteipositionen zum Stromnetzausbau die selben Positionen wie die Positionen der Landesverbände. Die zwei…
Parteiendifferenz in der Umweltpolitik
Spatial diffusion and geographical patterns in the Turkish vote for pro-Islamist parties
Electoral geography is mostly concerned with the geographic distribution of voters and their attributes. We add a new argument to the discussion about electoral geography: that parties pursue geographically oriented stronghold strategies. Parties win electoral provinces, transform them into strongholds, and then use the stronghold ́s resources to systematically target nearby provinces. We illustrate our argument with a quantitative analysis of th…
Less complex language, more participation
Consultations are thought to increase the legitimacy of policies. However, this reasoning only holds if stakeholders really participate in the consultations. Current scholarship offers three explanations for participation patterns: Institutional rules, policy characteristics, and interest group resources determine participation. This article argues that additionally the linguistic complexity of consultation documents influences participation. Com…
Learning in iterated consultation procedures – The example of the German electricity grid demand planning
Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building
Stakeholder engagement is thought to increase the legitimacy of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). However, there is little research on how IRAs use the information that stakeholders contribute. We argue that the organizational reputation approach can explain different reactions to stakeholder engagement. IRAs usually rely on a reputation based on technical expertise. However, if IRAs have little capacities, they fall back on procedural or m…
Determinants of subnational party positions on electricity grid expansion in Germany
Going beyond dyadic consultation relationships
For decades, political scientists have observed the diffusion of complex governance arrangements including public participation procedures to ameliorate the democratic deficit inherent in these often-opaque structures. This article asks how the information provided in consultation statements is used by the consulting actors. To account for the multi-step character, the article combines exchange theory with a principal-agent approach, acknowledgin…
The Differentiated Implementation of European Participation Rules in Energy Infrastructure Planning. Why Does the German Participation Regime Exceed European Requirements
The building of electricity grids is a major challenge of infrastructure planning. According to Directive 2009/72/ EU , “ten‐year network development plans” outline which grids are to be built. Regulatory agencies have to consult “actual or potential system users” on these plans. However, Germany exceeds these requirements and conducts three rounds of full‐fledged public participation. Using rational choice and sociological institutionalism, this…
Varieties of capitalism and privatization in a globalized world
Different Chocolate Directives
The article analyses how the setting of EU simulations influences negotiation outcomes, that is, the content of the simulated directives. We have played the same simulation of the chocolate directive – the same roles and the same Commission proposal – in various settings (with different kinds of participants, various group sizes, for one or two days, with instructors or participants playing the European Parliament (EP)). A quantitative analysis e…
Repression as a Double‐edged Sword
The Arab world shows a puzzling variation of political violence. The region's monarchies often remain quiet, while other autocracies witness major upheaval. Institutional explanations of this variation suggest that monarchical rule solves the ruler's credible commitment problems and prevents elite splits. This article argues that institutional explanations neglect the role of repression: increasing the scope of repression raises the costs of rebe…
Policy Convergence with or without the E uropean U nion
The E uropean U nion ( EU ) is often seen as an institutional environment that facilitates the exchange of information about the effects of policies, and thus promotes convergence towards successful policies. However, current qualitative studies analyze only EU members and cannot dismiss the hypothesis that the relation between policy success and policy convergence is universal and not affected by EU membership. The article analyzes a dyadic data…
Different Paths of Regional I ntegration
This article argues that regional integration can follow three different developmental paths, depending on the centrality of external economic actors and economic asymmetries in regional trade networks. The first path causes intra‐regional interdependence, the second path reinforces dependence on extra‐regional actors, and the third path reinforces asymmetries in the region. The article illustrates this argument using diachronic network visualiza…
‘When I find myself in times of trouble …’
Most quantitative analyses of policy convergence treat transnational communication in international organisations and domestic economic problems as additive factors. By contrast, this article argues that domestic economic problems motivate governments to search for successful policies, while international organisations offer channels for policy learning. Thus, both factors interact, magnifying each other's effects. The argument is corroborated by…
Der Einfluss von Spielarten des Kapitalismus auf Privatisierungspolitik. Ein quantitativer Test
A Contagious Concept
Qualitative studies suggest that the spread of privatization of public utilities is due to a change of the economic paradigm and institutional isomorphism pressures. However, current quantitative studies mostly account for domestic factors. These factors can explain differences in national privatization trajectories but cannot explain the large trend. Based on a quantitative analysis of privatizations in the telecommunications sector in 21 OECD c…
Churches as Societal Veto Players
The article argues that the study of western democracies benefits from a conceptualisation of Christian churches as societal veto players characterised by three features: their power, which depends on their potential for mobilisation; their preferences, which can be deduced from churches' official statements and which are often outside the political spectrum; and their coherence, which determines the size of their indifference curve. Conceptualis…
Politics as Usual or Bringing Religion Back In
This article explains the variation of embryo research laws in the Western world. A quantitative analysis shows that theories of partisan influence, institutions, and economic interests are ill suited to explain this variation. Only when cultural factors are considered can the variation be explained. Catholic societies legislate more strictly, and the Catholic Church is an influential actor. This is surprising, as economic interests are very impo…
Churches as Societal Veto Players
The article argues that the study of western democracies benefits from a conceptualisation of Christian churches as societal veto players characterised by three features: their power, which depends on their potential for mobilisation; their preferences, which can be deduced from churches' official statements and which are often outside the political spectrum; and their coherence, which determines the size of their indifference curve. Conceptualis…
The Differentiated Implementation of European Participation Rules in Energy Infrastructure Planning. Why Does the German Participation Regime Exceed European Requirements
The building of electricity grids is a major challenge of infrastructure planning. According to Directive 2009/72/ EU , “ten‐year network development plans” outline which grids are to be built. Regulatory agencies have to consult “actual or potential system users” on these plans. However, Germany exceeds these requirements and conducts three rounds of full‐fledged public participation. Using rational choice and sociological institutionalism, this…
Buying Out the State
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…
A Contagious Concept
Qualitative studies suggest that the spread of privatization of public utilities is due to a change of the economic paradigm and institutional isomorphism pressures. However, current quantitative studies mostly account for domestic factors. These factors can explain differences in national privatization trajectories but cannot explain the large trend. Based on a quantitative analysis of privatizations in the telecommunications sector in 21 OECD c…
Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building
Stakeholder engagement is thought to increase the legitimacy of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). However, there is little research on how IRAs use the information that stakeholders contribute. We argue that the organizational reputation approach can explain different reactions to stakeholder engagement. IRAs usually rely on a reputation based on technical expertise. However, if IRAs have little capacities, they fall back on procedural or m…
Different Paths of Regional I ntegration
This article argues that regional integration can follow three different developmental paths, depending on the centrality of external economic actors and economic asymmetries in regional trade networks. The first path causes intra‐regional interdependence, the second path reinforces dependence on extra‐regional actors, and the third path reinforces asymmetries in the region. The article illustrates this argument using diachronic network visualiza…
Going beyond dyadic consultation relationships
For decades, political scientists have observed the diffusion of complex governance arrangements including public participation procedures to ameliorate the democratic deficit inherent in these often-opaque structures. This article asks how the information provided in consultation statements is used by the consulting actors. To account for the multi-step character, the article combines exchange theory with a principal-agent approach, acknowledgin…
Different Chocolate Directives
The article analyses how the setting of EU simulations influences negotiation outcomes, that is, the content of the simulated directives. We have played the same simulation of the chocolate directive – the same roles and the same Commission proposal – in various settings (with different kinds of participants, various group sizes, for one or two days, with instructors or participants playing the European Parliament (EP)). A quantitative analysis e…
Learning in iterated consultation procedures – The example of the German electricity grid demand planning
Policy Convergence with or without the E uropean U nion
The E uropean U nion ( EU ) is often seen as an institutional environment that facilitates the exchange of information about the effects of policies, and thus promotes convergence towards successful policies. However, current qualitative studies analyze only EU members and cannot dismiss the hypothesis that the relation between policy success and policy convergence is universal and not affected by EU membership. The article analyzes a dyadic data…
Less complex language, more participation
Consultations are thought to increase the legitimacy of policies. However, this reasoning only holds if stakeholders really participate in the consultations. Current scholarship offers three explanations for participation patterns: Institutional rules, policy characteristics, and interest group resources determine participation. This article argues that additionally the linguistic complexity of consultation documents influences participation. Com…
Repression as a Double‐edged Sword
The Arab world shows a puzzling variation of political violence. The region's monarchies often remain quiet, while other autocracies witness major upheaval. Institutional explanations of this variation suggest that monarchical rule solves the ruler's credible commitment problems and prevents elite splits. This article argues that institutional explanations neglect the role of repression: increasing the scope of repression raises the costs of rebe…
Balancing reputational strategies in the European administrative space
The reputational perspective on agencies has sparked fruitful research. We argue that this perspective can also be applied to private actors in regulatory governance. As they are incorporated into governance because of their expertise, we hypothesise that a technical reputation dominates private actors ́ regulatory talk. Furthermore, we test whether agencies have a more multi-dimensional reputational strategy than private actors. We analyse docum…
Emotional citizens, detached interest groups? The use of emotional language in public policy consultations
In public consultations, policymakers give stakeholders access to the policymaking process in exchange for technical or political information. Our article proposes to analyze not only the policy positions, but the emotional content of consultation contributions. In our descriptive study, we explore two conjectures: First, citizens contributions to public consultations display more emotions than contributions by corporate actors, and second, contr…
Determinants of subnational party positions on electricity grid expansion in Germany
Party politics and the shaping of migration policy in the Council of Ministers
The Council of Ministers is still the European Union's decision‐making center in migration policy. However, we know little about the determinants of member state's policy positions. This article tests three hypotheses: member state positions might be influenced by socioeconomic conditions, by public opinion, or by partisan preferences. We conduct a quantitative analysis of two legislative proposals at the intersection of migration and welfare pol…
Varieties of capitalism and privatization in a globalized world
Buying Out the State
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…
Forschungspolitik zwischen Innovation und Lebensschutz
Warum haben einige Staaten bereits frühzeitig eine Embryonenforschungspolitik, andere sind dagegen Nachzügler? Warum haben einige Staaten strikte Politiken zur Embryonenforschung, andere dagegen eher permissive Politiken?
Politics as Usual or Bringing Religion Back In
This article explains the variation of embryo research laws in the Western world. A quantitative analysis shows that theories of partisan influence, institutions, and economic interests are ill suited to explain this variation. Only when cultural factors are considered can the variation be explained. Catholic societies legislate more strictly, and the Catholic Church is an influential actor. This is surprising, as economic interests are very impo…
Churches as Societal Veto Players
The article argues that the study of western democracies benefits from a conceptualisation of Christian churches as societal veto players characterised by three features: their power, which depends on their potential for mobilisation; their preferences, which can be deduced from churches' official statements and which are often outside the political spectrum; and their coherence, which determines the size of their indifference curve. Conceptualis…
Der Einfluss von Spielarten des Kapitalismus auf Privatisierungspolitik. Ein quantitativer Test
A Contagious Concept
Qualitative studies suggest that the spread of privatization of public utilities is due to a change of the economic paradigm and institutional isomorphism pressures. However, current quantitative studies mostly account for domestic factors. These factors can explain differences in national privatization trajectories but cannot explain the large trend. Based on a quantitative analysis of privatizations in the telecommunications sector in 21 OECD c…
‘When I find myself in times of trouble …’
Most quantitative analyses of policy convergence treat transnational communication in international organisations and domestic economic problems as additive factors. By contrast, this article argues that domestic economic problems motivate governments to search for successful policies, while international organisations offer channels for policy learning. Thus, both factors interact, magnifying each other's effects. The argument is corroborated by…
Policy Convergence with or without the E uropean U nion
The E uropean U nion ( EU ) is often seen as an institutional environment that facilitates the exchange of information about the effects of policies, and thus promotes convergence towards successful policies. However, current qualitative studies analyze only EU members and cannot dismiss the hypothesis that the relation between policy success and policy convergence is universal and not affected by EU membership. The article analyzes a dyadic data…
Different Paths of Regional I ntegration
This article argues that regional integration can follow three different developmental paths, depending on the centrality of external economic actors and economic asymmetries in regional trade networks. The first path causes intra‐regional interdependence, the second path reinforces dependence on extra‐regional actors, and the third path reinforces asymmetries in the region. The article illustrates this argument using diachronic network visualiza…
Different Chocolate Directives
The article analyses how the setting of EU simulations influences negotiation outcomes, that is, the content of the simulated directives. We have played the same simulation of the chocolate directive – the same roles and the same Commission proposal – in various settings (with different kinds of participants, various group sizes, for one or two days, with instructors or participants playing the European Parliament (EP)). A quantitative analysis e…
Repression as a Double‐edged Sword
The Arab world shows a puzzling variation of political violence. The region's monarchies often remain quiet, while other autocracies witness major upheaval. Institutional explanations of this variation suggest that monarchical rule solves the ruler's credible commitment problems and prevents elite splits. This article argues that institutional explanations neglect the role of repression: increasing the scope of repression raises the costs of rebe…
The Differentiated Implementation of European Participation Rules in Energy Infrastructure Planning. Why Does the German Participation Regime Exceed European Requirements
The building of electricity grids is a major challenge of infrastructure planning. According to Directive 2009/72/ EU , “ten‐year network development plans” outline which grids are to be built. Regulatory agencies have to consult “actual or potential system users” on these plans. However, Germany exceeds these requirements and conducts three rounds of full‐fledged public participation. Using rational choice and sociological institutionalism, this…
Varieties of capitalism and privatization in a globalized world
Determinants of subnational party positions on electricity grid expansion in Germany
Going beyond dyadic consultation relationships
For decades, political scientists have observed the diffusion of complex governance arrangements including public participation procedures to ameliorate the democratic deficit inherent in these often-opaque structures. This article asks how the information provided in consultation statements is used by the consulting actors. To account for the multi-step character, the article combines exchange theory with a principal-agent approach, acknowledgin…
Learning in iterated consultation procedures – The example of the German electricity grid demand planning
Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building
Stakeholder engagement is thought to increase the legitimacy of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). However, there is little research on how IRAs use the information that stakeholders contribute. We argue that the organizational reputation approach can explain different reactions to stakeholder engagement. IRAs usually rely on a reputation based on technical expertise. However, if IRAs have little capacities, they fall back on procedural or m…
Spatial diffusion and geographical patterns in the Turkish vote for pro-Islamist parties
Electoral geography is mostly concerned with the geographic distribution of voters and their attributes. We add a new argument to the discussion about electoral geography: that parties pursue geographically oriented stronghold strategies. Parties win electoral provinces, transform them into strongholds, and then use the stronghold ́s resources to systematically target nearby provinces. We illustrate our argument with a quantitative analysis of th…
Less complex language, more participation
Consultations are thought to increase the legitimacy of policies. However, this reasoning only holds if stakeholders really participate in the consultations. Current scholarship offers three explanations for participation patterns: Institutional rules, policy characteristics, and interest group resources determine participation. This article argues that additionally the linguistic complexity of consultation documents influences participation. Com…
Kommunale Akteur
Der Beitrag von Simon Fink und Eva Ruffing analysiert die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung bei der Bedarfsplanung für Stromnetze. Der Beitrag analysiert dieses Beteiligungsverfahren anhand einer Kodierung aller Eingaben zur Konsultation des Netzentwicklungsplanes 2012. Er fragt, welche Akteur:innen teilnehmen, welche Argumente sie vorbringen, und ob das Verfahren Konflikte abzumildert. Ergebnis ist, dass die Konsultationen zwar von kommunalen Akteur:in…
Can parliament govern the transport transition? How the German Bundestag scrutinizes rail projects
Der Ausbau der deutschen Stromnetze
Der Ausbau der Stromtrassen ist ein zentrales Element der deutschen Energiewende. Die Forschung weiß aber noch wenig darüber, inwieweit dieses Politikfeld durch Parteiendifferenz strukturiert wird. Insbesondere über die lokale Ebene gibt es noch wenig Forschung. Der Beitrag formuliert zwei Hypothesen. Der ersten Hypothese zufolge sind lokale Parteipositionen zum Stromnetzausbau die selben Positionen wie die Positionen der Landesverbände. Die zwei…
Parteiendifferenz in der Umweltpolitik
Party politics and the shaping of migration policy in the Council of Ministers
The Council of Ministers is still the European Union's decision‐making center in migration policy. However, we know little about the determinants of member state's policy positions. This article tests three hypotheses: member state positions might be influenced by socioeconomic conditions, by public opinion, or by partisan preferences. We conduct a quantitative analysis of two legislative proposals at the intersection of migration and welfare pol…
Emotional citizens, detached interest groups? The use of emotional language in public policy consultations
In public consultations, policymakers give stakeholders access to the policymaking process in exchange for technical or political information. Our article proposes to analyze not only the policy positions, but the emotional content of consultation contributions. In our descriptive study, we explore two conjectures: First, citizens contributions to public consultations display more emotions than contributions by corporate actors, and second, contr…
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