Die Politische Vierteljahresschrift im Urteil der Profession: Ergebnisse einer Umfrage unter den Mitgliedern der DVPW

The authors present results from a survey conducted among members of the German Political Science Association (?Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft“, DVPW) pertaining to the usage and evaluation of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift in the context of other national and international political science journals. The results show that 50 years after its inception the PVS is an accepted part of the profession in Germany. Its articles are widely read, although mostly in a selective manner, differentiated by subdisciplines. As a place for publishing research findings it is of interest for almost all respondents. The journal’s evaluations are overall positive. From the perspective of its addressees the PVS fulfils its professional mission. However, in some respects its performance is seen as improvable.     

Ties, stories and events. Pl?doyer für eine prozessuale Netzwerktheorie

Networks and processes??two sociological concepts that stand in a relationship of tension to each other. While networks are mostly conceived as synchronic relations between ??ties??, processes??as diachronic phenomena??are represented in the form of ??stories??. More recently, attempts have been made from within the ranks of network theory or relational sociology to combine these ??ties?? and ??stories??. In this respect, the conceptions of Harrison C. White and Charles Tilly need to be mentioned in particular. The present paper offers an analysis of both approaches and points out that their missing time-theoretical foundation is a problematic issue concerning both conceptions.     

Ermittlung von Geruchsimmissionen nach §§24, 26 BImSchg

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Ministerialentwürfe

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Keine Klagebefugnis eines Bürgers gegen die Allgemeinverfügung über die Freigabe des Abschusses eines Braunbären

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Creating Demand for Global Governance: The Making of a Global Money-laundering Problem*

In most studies on global governance, problems are treated as exogenous factors. Even constructivist global governance approaches normally concentrate on persuasion about global norms and rules, but take the existence of global problems as given. This ignores the fact that it may be necessary to persuade rule addressees of the existence of a problem in the first place. States comply with global rules voluntarily only if they agree that there is a problem. Hence international rule makers have to “problematise” the issue they attempt to regulate, i.e. to construct the issue as a global problem that requires global rules in order to be solved. This article inquires into the why and how of “problematisation” by international regulators. To this end it reconstructs how the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has turned the issue of money-laundering, which was not considered a problem until the late 1980s, into a global problem requiring a global solution.