Political Scandals,Newspapers, and the Election Cycle

Political Behavior - Election outcomes are often influenced by political scandals. While a scandal usually has negative consequences for the ones being accused of a transgression, political...     

Extreme Pessimists? Expected Socioeconomic Downward Mobility and the Political Attitudes of Young Adults

Political Behavior - In recent decades, and especially since the economic crisis, young people have been finding it more difficult to maintain or exceed the living standards of their parents. As a...     

Vassilis K. Fouskas,Shampa Roy-Mukherjee,Qingan Huang and Ejike Udeogu,China & the USA: Globalisation and the Decline of America’s Supremacy

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Wiederaufnahme,Erschleichungstatbestand, Verhältnis zu sukzessiver Gerichtszuständigkeit

Ein iSd § 289 StGB falsches Gutachten eines Amtssachverst?ndigen, dessen Erstattung gerichtlich strafbar ist, das demnach vors?tzlich abgelegt wurde – die inhaltliche Unrichtigkeit allein genügt nicht –, ist an sich ein tauglicher Wiederaufnahmegrund. Die Auffassung, der Tatbestand des "Erschleichens" komme nur in Betracht, wenn der Bescheid seitens der Partei durch eine verp?nte Einflussnahme auf die Entscheidungsgrundlagen veranlasst werde, nicht aber bei einem Handeln der Beh?rde selbst, ist unzutreffend. Die M?glichkeit, einen Bescheid durch Klage bei einem ordentlichen Gericht – im Wege der sukzessiven Kompetenz – zumWegfall zu bringen, steht einerWiederaufnahme entgegen, wenn vor dem Gericht die entscheidungsrelevanten Umst?nde geltend gemacht werden k?nnen. Eine Wiederaufnahme des Verwaltungsverfahrens ist daher erst dann zul?ssig, wenn die Klagsfrist abgelaufen ist.     

Die Reform des Bundeshaushaltsrechts

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Ausländisches Unternehmen,Vertreter

Die Rechts- und Handlungsf?higkeit der in einem Mitgliedstaat der EU errichteten Gesellschaft beurteilt sich nach dem Gründungsrecht, auch wenn sie im Gründungsstaat nur ihren statutarischen Sitz hat und dort keine Gesch?ftst?tigkeit entfaltet; ihr Gesellschaftsstatut ist das Recht des Gründungsstaats. Das Gesellschaftsstatut (Personalstatut der Gesellschaft) ist für die Partei- und Prozessf?higkeit, für die Rechte und Pflichten der Organe und deren Vertretungsmacht und auch für das Ende der Gesellschaft (ihrer Rechtsf?higkeit) ma?geblich. Wer zur Vertretung nach au?en (§ 9 Abs 1 VStG) für ein in London situiertes Unternehmen für eine übertretung des TKG 2003 (Zusendung von SMS ohne vorherige Einwilligung des Empf?ngers) berufen ist, bestimmt sich nach dem in London geltenden Recht. Da es sich bei dem für London geltenden Recht um fremdes Recht handelt, auf das der Grundsatz "iura novit curia" keine Anwendung findet, ist dieses in einem amtswegigen Ermittlungsverfahren festzustellen. ISd § 4 IPR-Gesetz sind zul?ssige Hilfsmittel für diese Ermittlung auch die Mitwirkung der Beteiligten, Auskünfte des Bundesministeriums für Justiz und Sachverst?ndigengutachten.     

The private value of patents by patent characteristics: evidence from Finland

I use renewal rates and fees to estimate the private value of Finnish patents by patent characteristic. I disaggregate the value estimations by applicant, patent breadth, and technology. Firm patents are 1.5 times more valuable than patents owned by individuals. This holds also when controlling for technology and breadth. There are large differences in values between technologies but in contrast to the usual assumption made in the theoretical literature, broader patents are not necessarily more valuable than narrower ones. Patent value is skewed and therefore the number of patents should be weighted by an index when measuring technological change. I construct this index for Finnish patents and find that renewing a patent one more year signals a 1.5 times more valuable patent.      

Cream-skimming at the frontline: The role of administrative literacy

The notion of cream-skimming—defined as the propensity to prioritize clients who have a higher likelihood of meeting bureaucratic success criteria, including organizational goals—is at the heart of street-level bureaucracies. However, there is often no direct information available to street-level bureaucrats whether clients will actually meet bureaucratic success criteria. This study argues that street-level bureaucrats assess clients' potential to reach these criteria via their administrative literacy—a client's capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services from public administrations—as displayed in social interactions. Therefore, this study elaborates on the role of clients' administrative literacy and its effects on cream-skimming behavior. Using data from two experiments, we show that public employees prioritize clients with higher levels of preparedness and effective communication strategies. These findings suggest that cream-skimming is not just a rational cost–benefit analysis, but strongly influenced by social dynamics within public encounters.     

United Nations Security Council Reform Revisited: A Proposal

The United Nations [UN] came into being following the Second World War. Resembling earlier efforts of co-operation by the most powerful states of the international system, it was an attempt to effect global governance through the maintenance of international peace and security amongst states. However, led by its main executive organ, the Security Council, the UN has been unable to prevent and effectively deal with armed conflicts and mass atrocities in a number of situations. Over the years, the inability of the UN Security Council to take collective action has resulted in its ineffectiveness in dealing with war and humanitarian crises. This situation has led to calls for Security Council reform and has generated several initiatives to that end. This analysis discusses major shortcomings of the Security Council, analyses prominent reform initiatives, and introduces a proposal, the “Two-Layered Regional Model,” for Security Council reform.     

Litigation process of social movements as a driver of norm transformation?

The political science and international relations literature has extensively analysed the role of norm entrepreneurs, states, and international institutions as relevant actors generating norm transformation. However, although social movements’ reliance on courts to address core social problems has become a significant phenomenon, the role of the litigation process of social movements in norm transformation is understudied. Social movements have an ambiguous relationship with litigation. On the one hand, social movements perceive litigation to be the tool of the powerful, reproducing the status quo; on the other hand, it is argued that even when social movements lose their cases before the courts in the short term, legal mobilization can provide longer-term achievements. This article constructs a theory about the process through which the litigation of social movements impacts norm transformation. It proposes four mechanisms through which litigation plays a role in norm transformation: legal framing, legal interpretation, precedent setting and public attention. Through the examination of the Sardar Sarovar Dam as a case study, the analysis reveals that the role of the litigation process of social movements in norm transformation depends on how litigation mechanisms impact norm transformation in specific cases.