D Braun
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93229 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Braun |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Braun |
| ASSINATURA | BRAUN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0974-747X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 360 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
How do fiscally decentralized federations fare in times of crisis? Insights from Switzerland
This article examines federal dynamics during times of crisis in fiscally decentralized federations using Switzerland as an example. Based on qualitative research, we analyse how the relationship between the federal government and the cantons evolved during the recent ‘Great Recession’ and ensuing financial crisis. We contend that fiscally decentralized structures, as well as the consensus-oriented institutions of the political system, protect th…
The context of hominin behaviour at Elandsfontien in the Mid-Pleistocene
Interdependency management in universities
There remains uncertainty in scientific discussions regarding the governance of universities in new public management regimes in terms of who actually ‘rules’ in the university. Apparently, a strengthened management leadership is confronted with continuing elements of academic self-regulation and professional autonomy in knowledge production and diffusion. Organisational and academic rationales coexist in today's management of universities. This …
Federal dynamics in times of economic and financial crisis
The global economic and financial crisis is a challenge for all governments, but particularly for federal states because divided and/or shared territorial powers make federations susceptible to coordination problems in fiscal policy making. This article explores the effects of the ongoing crisis on federal relations. Three kinds of problems that may become the cause of federal tensions and conflicts are evoked: opportunism of subgovernments, cent…
Why do Scientists Migrate? A Diffusion Model
How Centralized Federations Avoid Over-centralization
The focus of this article is centralized types of federations that have been neglected both in the economic literature on federalism and in comparative federal studies. The starting point is that countries with centralized institutional solutions are subject to encroaching behaviour by the central government and are threatened with shifting further towards 'over-centralization'. 'Over-centralization' reduces federal member states to pure 'agents'…
Hochschulföderalismus zwischen Kooperationszwang und Blockadegefahr
In diesem Artikel werden jüngere Entwicklungen föderaler Koordinations‐ und Verflechtungsstrukturen in der Hochschulpolitik Deutschlands und der Schweiz untersucht. Seit rund zwanzig Jahren führen politische und funktionale Herausforderungen, beispielsweise die Anbindung nationaler Bildungspolitik an internationale Entwicklungen im Bildungsbereich, zu Anpassungszwängen hochschulpolitischer Governance‐Strukturen. Beide Länder waren aber für strukt…
Explaining Policy Stability and Change in Swiss Health Care Reforms
The article investigates recent health reforms and reform attempts in Switzerland. A substantial reform, the revision of the health insurance law in 1994, is followed by a long period of refused reform proposals and incremental change. In order to explain policy change and policy stability in health policies, we apply veto‐player theory to partisan and parliamentary debates on reform proposals of the health insurance from the end of the 1980s unt…
Making Federalism More Efficient
Constitutional Change in Switzerland
The article presents a case of successful constitutional change in Switzerland, the “re-assignment of responsibilities between the federal government and the cantons and the new fiscal equalization scheme,” which was adopted in 2004 by referendum. By starting from the general assumption that ways and means are needed to strengthen general interests at the expense of distributive interests in constitutional discussions, the article endeavors to id…
Rationalitätskonzepte in der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns und in der Handlungstheorie Hartmut Essers
AuszugZiel dieses Artikels ist es, anhand des Rationalitätsbegriffes nachzuprüfen, inwiefern dem Anspruch Hartmut Essers, eine „integrative und nicht-reduktionistische erklärende Sozialtheorie“ vorzulegen, stattgegeben werden kann. Dies wird durch eine Gegenüberstellung von Essers Rationalitätsbegriff mit dem Rationalitätsbegriff der Systemtheorie, insbesondere der Systemtheorie von Niklas Luhmann, erreicht, dessen Theorie — aufgrund der diametra…
Recent research into oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya
Between Market-Preserving Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination
This article investigates Australia's economic success since the 1990s. As this was set in motion by fundamental political reforms, it asks to what extent Australian-type federalism has been an important factor in the reform process. By using two approaches - the market-preserving federalism approach of Weingast, which stresses the virtues of 'limited government', decentralisation and competition together with the intergovernmental coordination a…
Taking ‘Galton's Problem’ Seriously
This article builds on the recent policy diffusion literature and attempts to overcome one of its major problems, namely the lack of a coherent theoretical framework. The literature defines policy diffusion as a process where policy choices are interdependent, and identifies several diffusion mechanisms that specify the link between the policy choices of the various actors. As these mechanisms are grounded in different theories, theoretical accou…
Flake recovery rates and inferences of Oldowan hominin behavior
Wie nützlich darf Wissenschaft sein? Zur Systemintegration von Wissenschaft, Ökonomie und Politik
Das Problem der Systemintegration basiert auf der Denkfigur, dass die funktional differenzierten Teilsysteme der Gesellschaft die Neigung zu „operationaler Geschlossenheit“ haben und hierdurch notwendige Koordination erschwert wird. Dem Rationalitätsgewinn, der durch Differenzierung entsteht, steht ein Integrationsverlust gegenüber. Je nach Theorie werden unterschiedliche Lösungen für dieses Problem präsentiert, die von der „organischen Solidarit…
From Divergence to Convergence
This contribution analyses recent developments in science and technology policy in two countries ‐ Japan and Switzerland ‐ that are often assumed to be of very different traditions and structures: politically, economically and culturally. The main argument is to demonstrate that despite of these differences we find an astonishing convergence of science and technology policies since the 90s, though their basic organisational features remain, of co…
Dezentraler und unitarischer Föderalismus. Die Schweiz und Deutschland im Vergleich
In this article it is endeavoured to analyse the different functioning of “decentralised” (Switzerland) and “unitary” (Germany) federalism. This is done by discussing the cultural and political autonomy of member states, the possibilities of member states to control and influence federal decision‐making, the ways to implement federal legislation, and the redistribution of resources. There are, despite of “equi‐functional” structures, considerable…
Principal-agent theory and research policy
Journal Article Principal-agent theory and research policy: An introduction Get access Dietmar Braun, Dietmar Braun Professor Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales, Université de Lausanne, BFSH 2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Tel: +41 21 6923132; Fax: +41 21 6923145; E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David H Guston David H Guston Professor Department of Public P…
The influence of federalism on fiscal policy making
This article attempts to refine the statement that federal states face difficulties in fiscal policy making because of the territorial division of powers by comparing two federal countries, Canada and Germany. These two countries differ in terms of their type of federalism: Canada displaying a power‐separation system and Germany corresponding to a power‐sharing type. According to the authors, the territorial factor influences fiscal policy making…
Regulierungsmodelle und Machtstrukturen an Universitäten
Auch in der Bundesrepublik mehren sich die Zeichen, dass an grundlegenden Reformen der Regulierung und Organisation von Universitäten gearbeitet wird. In Ländern wie Großbritannien oder den Niederlanden wurden bereits vor geraumer Zeit Umstrukturierungen vorgenommen, die mit den vorherigen Selbstverwaltungsorganisationen nicht mehr viel gemein haben. Die „wirkungsorientierte Verwaltungsführung“ oder, im Englischen, das New Public Management, lief…
Niklas Luhmann et la gouvernance
Niklas Luhmann and gouvernance Dietmar Braun et Yannis Papadopoulos The legacy of the sociologist Niklas Luhmann's work still has an important influence on the public policy analysis in Germany, mainly on the debates and critics implicated by his approach in terms of tuning. After having shortly presented Luhmann's approach of social differentiation into different social sub-systems, this paper sums up some aspects about German controversies on t…
Politische Steuerung zwischen System und Akteur
Theorien rationalen Handelns in der Politikwissenschaft
Die politische Steuerung der Wissenschaft
Die Institutionalisierung der Forschungsförderung bildet ein bisher vernachlässigtes Gebiet der forschungspolitischen Analysen. Auf der Grundlage einer historischen und international vergleichenden Beschreibung wird in diesem Buch untersucht, inwiefern Fördersysteme als Vermittlungsmechanismus zwischen Politik und Wissenschaft beitragen können, die Steuerungsfähigkeit heutiger Systeme zu erhöhen. Die Studie ist als ein Beitrag sowohl zu praktisch…
Taking ‘Galton's Problem’ Seriously
This article builds on the recent policy diffusion literature and attempts to overcome one of its major problems, namely the lack of a coherent theoretical framework. The literature defines policy diffusion as a process where policy choices are interdependent, and identifies several diffusion mechanisms that specify the link between the policy choices of the various actors. As these mechanisms are grounded in different theories, theoretical accou…
Who Governs Intermediary Agencies? Principal-Agent Relations in Research Policy-Making
The role of semi-public intermediary institutions is underestimated in political research. This paper elaborates the dynamics of the interaction pattern of mission-agencies, promoting and conducting research in the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. The principal-agent-model serves as the organizing theoretical concept. By stressing the role of the third party, usually neglected in the model, it is shown that intermediary agencies …
Principal-agent theory and research policy
Journal Article Principal-agent theory and research policy: An introduction Get access Dietmar Braun, Dietmar Braun Professor Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales, Université de Lausanne, BFSH 2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Tel: +41 21 6923132; Fax: +41 21 6923145; E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David H Guston David H Guston Professor Department of Public P…
Recent research into oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya
Constitutional Change in Switzerland
The article presents a case of successful constitutional change in Switzerland, the “re-assignment of responsibilities between the federal government and the cantons and the new fiscal equalization scheme,” which was adopted in 2004 by referendum. By starting from the general assumption that ways and means are needed to strengthen general interests at the expense of distributive interests in constitutional discussions, the article endeavors to id…
Federal dynamics in times of economic and financial crisis
The global economic and financial crisis is a challenge for all governments, but particularly for federal states because divided and/or shared territorial powers make federations susceptible to coordination problems in fiscal policy making. This article explores the effects of the ongoing crisis on federal relations. Three kinds of problems that may become the cause of federal tensions and conflicts are evoked: opportunism of subgovernments, cent…
Dezentraler und unitarischer Föderalismus. Die Schweiz und Deutschland im Vergleich
In this article it is endeavoured to analyse the different functioning of “decentralised” (Switzerland) and “unitary” (Germany) federalism. This is done by discussing the cultural and political autonomy of member states, the possibilities of member states to control and influence federal decision‐making, the ways to implement federal legislation, and the redistribution of resources. There are, despite of “equi‐functional” structures, considerable…
How Centralized Federations Avoid Over-centralization
The focus of this article is centralized types of federations that have been neglected both in the economic literature on federalism and in comparative federal studies. The starting point is that countries with centralized institutional solutions are subject to encroaching behaviour by the central government and are threatened with shifting further towards 'over-centralization'. 'Over-centralization' reduces federal member states to pure 'agents'…
The influence of federalism on fiscal policy making
This article attempts to refine the statement that federal states face difficulties in fiscal policy making because of the territorial division of powers by comparing two federal countries, Canada and Germany. These two countries differ in terms of their type of federalism: Canada displaying a power‐separation system and Germany corresponding to a power‐sharing type. According to the authors, the territorial factor influences fiscal policy making…
Making Federalism More Efficient
Between Market-Preserving Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination
This article investigates Australia's economic success since the 1990s. As this was set in motion by fundamental political reforms, it asks to what extent Australian-type federalism has been an important factor in the reform process. By using two approaches - the market-preserving federalism approach of Weingast, which stresses the virtues of 'limited government', decentralisation and competition together with the intergovernmental coordination a…
Flake recovery rates and inferences of Oldowan hominin behavior
The Limits of Political Control
Even to the most outright optimist it is obvious that the contemporary economic crisis cannot be labelled a ‘recession’ any more. Faced with the present political and economic circumstances in the advanced capitalist democracies, people are being forced to modify their views on both the strength and the weakness, on the possibilities and the limitations, of the political control of economy by the state.
How do fiscally decentralized federations fare in times of crisis? Insights from Switzerland
This article examines federal dynamics during times of crisis in fiscally decentralized federations using Switzerland as an example. Based on qualitative research, we analyse how the relationship between the federal government and the cantons evolved during the recent ‘Great Recession’ and ensuing financial crisis. We contend that fiscally decentralized structures, as well as the consensus-oriented institutions of the political system, protect th…
Political Immobilism and Labour Market Performance
A political-institutional explanation of the deteriorating labour market performance of the Netherlands during the economic crisis of the 1970s is suggested. By comparing the macroeconomic and labour market strategies of the Netherlands and full employment countries the economic feasibility of Dutch solutions to the unemployment problem is estimated. Dutch strategies turn out to have been of a fragile and contradictory character, while full emplo…
Hochschulföderalismus zwischen Kooperationszwang und Blockadegefahr
In diesem Artikel werden jüngere Entwicklungen föderaler Koordinations‐ und Verflechtungsstrukturen in der Hochschulpolitik Deutschlands und der Schweiz untersucht. Seit rund zwanzig Jahren führen politische und funktionale Herausforderungen, beispielsweise die Anbindung nationaler Bildungspolitik an internationale Entwicklungen im Bildungsbereich, zu Anpassungszwängen hochschulpolitischer Governance‐Strukturen. Beide Länder waren aber für strukt…
The context of hominin behaviour at Elandsfontien in the Mid-Pleistocene
Interdependency management in universities
There remains uncertainty in scientific discussions regarding the governance of universities in new public management regimes in terms of who actually ‘rules’ in the university. Apparently, a strengthened management leadership is confronted with continuing elements of academic self-regulation and professional autonomy in knowledge production and diffusion. Organisational and academic rationales coexist in today's management of universities. This …
Why do Scientists Migrate? A Diffusion Model
Explaining Policy Stability and Change in Swiss Health Care Reforms
The article investigates recent health reforms and reform attempts in Switzerland. A substantial reform, the revision of the health insurance law in 1994, is followed by a long period of refused reform proposals and incremental change. In order to explain policy change and policy stability in health policies, we apply veto‐player theory to partisan and parliamentary debates on reform proposals of the health insurance from the end of the 1980s unt…
From Divergence to Convergence
This contribution analyses recent developments in science and technology policy in two countries ‐ Japan and Switzerland ‐ that are often assumed to be of very different traditions and structures: politically, economically and culturally. The main argument is to demonstrate that despite of these differences we find an astonishing convergence of science and technology policies since the 90s, though their basic organisational features remain, of co…
Changing Governance Models in Higher Education
Universities are subject to profound changes of political management. The article endeavors – from a comparative point of view – to assess to what extent the new managerialism and the new public management respectively have infiltrated governmental strategies and modified existing governance models of higher education. This is done by, first, developing a revised heuristic framework of governance models; second, by assessing the merits and proble…
Biomedical research in a period of scarcity
The Limits of Political Control
Even to the most outright optimist it is obvious that the contemporary economic crisis cannot be labelled a ‘recession’ any more. Faced with the present political and economic circumstances in the advanced capitalist democracies, people are being forced to modify their views on both the strength and the weakness, on the possibilities and the limitations, of the political control of economy by the state.
Economic interdependence, international regimes, and domestic strategies of industrial adjustment
This review attempts to assess the validity and usefulness of the arguments of the so‐called ‘International Regimes’ approach and the political‐institutional view with respect to economic policy formation and economic performance. In particular, the works of Keohane and Krasner on the one hand, and of Katzenstein on the other are examined. It turns out that both viewpoints can largely contribute to a better understanding of why economic interdepe…
Political Immobilism and Labour Market Performance
A political-institutional explanation of the deteriorating labour market performance of the Netherlands during the economic crisis of the 1970s is suggested. By comparing the macroeconomic and labour market strategies of the Netherlands and full employment countries the economic feasibility of Dutch solutions to the unemployment problem is estimated. Dutch strategies turn out to have been of a fragile and contradictory character, while full emplo…
Grenzen politischer Regulierung
Aueh wenn es immer mehr ErkHirungen fiber Ursaehen und Verlauf der Arbeitslosigkeit gibt, lohnt es sieh, angesiehts der gesellsehaftliehen Tragweite und der Beharrliehkeit dieses Problems, weiterzuforsehen. Politikwissenschaft liche Ansatze scheinen dabei in erster Instanz wenig zu konkreten Hand lungsempfehlungen beitragen zu konnen. Dies liegt nieht zuletzt daran, daj3 sie hiiufig wenig kurzfristig beeinfluj3bare Faktoren in den Vordergrund sch…
Dating and Marriage
Biomedical research in a period of scarcity
Who Governs Intermediary Agencies? Principal-Agent Relations in Research Policy-Making
The role of semi-public intermediary institutions is underestimated in political research. This paper elaborates the dynamics of the interaction pattern of mission-agencies, promoting and conducting research in the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. The principal-agent-model serves as the organizing theoretical concept. By stressing the role of the third party, usually neglected in the model, it is shown that intermediary agencies …
Forschungsförderung der Europäischen Union
Theorien rationalen Handelns in der Politikwissenschaft
Changing Governance Models in Higher Education
Universities are subject to profound changes of political management. The article endeavors – from a comparative point of view – to assess to what extent the new managerialism and the new public management respectively have infiltrated governmental strategies and modified existing governance models of higher education. This is done by, first, developing a revised heuristic framework of governance models; second, by assessing the merits and proble…
Politische Steuerung zwischen System und Akteur
Regulierungsmodelle und Machtstrukturen an Universitäten
Auch in der Bundesrepublik mehren sich die Zeichen, dass an grundlegenden Reformen der Regulierung und Organisation von Universitäten gearbeitet wird. In Ländern wie Großbritannien oder den Niederlanden wurden bereits vor geraumer Zeit Umstrukturierungen vorgenommen, die mit den vorherigen Selbstverwaltungsorganisationen nicht mehr viel gemein haben. Die „wirkungsorientierte Verwaltungsführung“ oder, im Englischen, das New Public Management, lief…
Niklas Luhmann et la gouvernance
Niklas Luhmann and gouvernance Dietmar Braun et Yannis Papadopoulos The legacy of the sociologist Niklas Luhmann's work still has an important influence on the public policy analysis in Germany, mainly on the debates and critics implicated by his approach in terms of tuning. After having shortly presented Luhmann's approach of social differentiation into different social sub-systems, this paper sums up some aspects about German controversies on t…
The influence of federalism on fiscal policy making
This article attempts to refine the statement that federal states face difficulties in fiscal policy making because of the territorial division of powers by comparing two federal countries, Canada and Germany. These two countries differ in terms of their type of federalism: Canada displaying a power‐separation system and Germany corresponding to a power‐sharing type. According to the authors, the territorial factor influences fiscal policy making…
Dezentraler und unitarischer Föderalismus. Die Schweiz und Deutschland im Vergleich
In this article it is endeavoured to analyse the different functioning of “decentralised” (Switzerland) and “unitary” (Germany) federalism. This is done by discussing the cultural and political autonomy of member states, the possibilities of member states to control and influence federal decision‐making, the ways to implement federal legislation, and the redistribution of resources. There are, despite of “equi‐functional” structures, considerable…
Principal-agent theory and research policy
Journal Article Principal-agent theory and research policy: An introduction Get access Dietmar Braun, Dietmar Braun Professor Institut d'Etudes Politiques et Internationales, Université de Lausanne, BFSH 2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Tel: +41 21 6923132; Fax: +41 21 6923145; E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David H Guston David H Guston Professor Department of Public P…
Wie nützlich darf Wissenschaft sein? Zur Systemintegration von Wissenschaft, Ökonomie und Politik
Das Problem der Systemintegration basiert auf der Denkfigur, dass die funktional differenzierten Teilsysteme der Gesellschaft die Neigung zu „operationaler Geschlossenheit“ haben und hierdurch notwendige Koordination erschwert wird. Dem Rationalitätsgewinn, der durch Differenzierung entsteht, steht ein Integrationsverlust gegenüber. Je nach Theorie werden unterschiedliche Lösungen für dieses Problem präsentiert, die von der „organischen Solidarit…
From Divergence to Convergence
This contribution analyses recent developments in science and technology policy in two countries ‐ Japan and Switzerland ‐ that are often assumed to be of very different traditions and structures: politically, economically and culturally. The main argument is to demonstrate that despite of these differences we find an astonishing convergence of science and technology policies since the 90s, though their basic organisational features remain, of co…
Flake recovery rates and inferences of Oldowan hominin behavior
Recent research into oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya
Between Market-Preserving Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination
This article investigates Australia's economic success since the 1990s. As this was set in motion by fundamental political reforms, it asks to what extent Australian-type federalism has been an important factor in the reform process. By using two approaches - the market-preserving federalism approach of Weingast, which stresses the virtues of 'limited government', decentralisation and competition together with the intergovernmental coordination a…
Taking ‘Galton's Problem’ Seriously
This article builds on the recent policy diffusion literature and attempts to overcome one of its major problems, namely the lack of a coherent theoretical framework. The literature defines policy diffusion as a process where policy choices are interdependent, and identifies several diffusion mechanisms that specify the link between the policy choices of the various actors. As these mechanisms are grounded in different theories, theoretical accou…
Rationalitätskonzepte in der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns und in der Handlungstheorie Hartmut Essers
AuszugZiel dieses Artikels ist es, anhand des Rationalitätsbegriffes nachzuprüfen, inwiefern dem Anspruch Hartmut Essers, eine „integrative und nicht-reduktionistische erklärende Sozialtheorie“ vorzulegen, stattgegeben werden kann. Dies wird durch eine Gegenüberstellung von Essers Rationalitätsbegriff mit dem Rationalitätsbegriff der Systemtheorie, insbesondere der Systemtheorie von Niklas Luhmann, erreicht, dessen Theorie — aufgrund der diametra…
Making Federalism More Efficient
Constitutional Change in Switzerland
The article presents a case of successful constitutional change in Switzerland, the “re-assignment of responsibilities between the federal government and the cantons and the new fiscal equalization scheme,” which was adopted in 2004 by referendum. By starting from the general assumption that ways and means are needed to strengthen general interests at the expense of distributive interests in constitutional discussions, the article endeavors to id…
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