Grenzen der Spezialität im internationalen Rechtsverkehr

Der Grundsatz der Spezialit?t der Auslieferung steht der Zul?ssigkeit einer Probezeitverl?ngerung nicht entgegen.     

The myth of success: the emergence and maintenance of a specialized gang unit in Stockholm,Sweden

Street gangs and organized crime groups pose a unique challenge to police departments across the globe. Given their penchant for public displays of affiliation through well-recognized signs and symbols, their presence is often associated with media attention and public scrutiny, which threatens the legitimacy of the police and creates added pressure to generate a specific and public response to the threat these groups pose. The current study documents how the Stockholm County, Sweden, police developed and maintained an anti-gang operation in response to an emerging gang problem. While police officials labeled the anti-gang initiative a success in the news media, analyses of prosecution statistics and internal police documents demonstrate a less than ideal effect of this operation. Potential reasons for the discrepancy in public pronouncements of programmatic success relative to evaluation of official data are discussed.     

Public Philanthropic Partnerships: The Changing Nature of Government/Foundation Relationships in the US

Relationships between foundations and the government in the United States have long been difficult with government attitudes ranging from hostile to at best indifferent in the past. American foundations have long claimed innovation as a distinctive function to perform in society in order to preserve their legitimacy. One hundred years after the rise of the large-scale American philanthropic foundation, however, the relationships between foundations and government have come into flux. Between demands from fiscally-strapped local governments and a new openness of state and federal governments to develop collaborative relationships, a variety of public-philanthropic partnerships have emerged that question the traditional roles and distribution of labor between philanthropy and the state. This article traces the historical development of the government/foundation relationship and discusses its changing nature using recession-induced ad hoc partnerships, the emergence of foundation liaison offices, and the Obama Administration’s Social Innovation Fund and Investing in Innovation program as examples.     

Der "gläserne" Abgeordnete? Transparenzregeln für Parlamentarier und ihre Folgen

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert – unter Bezugnahme auf eine ländervergleichende empirische Studie derselben Autoren – die Verhaltensregeln für Parlamentarier und die daraus resultierenden Konsequenzen. Dabei wird zunächst auf die Frage eingegangen, was unter Transparenzpflichten verstanden wird. Im Anschluss daran werden Hypothesen über den Zusammenhang von schärferen Transparenzpflichten und diversen Variablen dargelegt, gefolgt von einer kurzen Analyse der Implikationen für die verfassungsrechtlichen Argumente in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung auch der österreichischen Regelungen.     

Eating the Rich vs. Feeding the Poor: Borrowing Constraints and the Reluctance to Redistribute

This paper offers an explanation why most democracies arecharacterized by moderate taxation of wealth although thewealth distribution is persistently skewed to the right. Wemodel an economy in which agents have to acquire highereducation to qualify for skilled work and in which capitalmarket imperfections prevent poor individuals from making sucha profitable human capital investment. If these borrowingconstraints do not bind for members of the middle class, theymay rationally reject redistribution although both the currentand the future median of the wealth distribution are below themean.