Governing ideas: strategies for innovation in France and Germany
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In: Working paper series / Center for European studies, 49
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In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 119, Heft 820, S. 303-309
ISSN: 1944-785X
Comparing the virus responses in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States shows that in order for scientific expertise to result in effective policy, rational political leadership is required. Each of these three countries is known for advanced biomedical research, yet their experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic diverged widely. Germany's political leadership carefully followed scientific advice and organized public–private partnerships to scale up testing, resulting in relatively low infection levels. The UK and US political responses were far more erratic and less informed by scientific advice—and proved much less effective.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 119, Heft 820, S. 303-309
ISSN: 0011-3530
Comparing the virus response in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States shows that in order for scientific expertise to result in effective policy, rational political leadership is a must.
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In: West European politics, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 187-188
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: The journal of economic history, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 591-592
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Politics & society, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 195-221
ISSN: 1552-7514
In: Politics & society, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 195-222
ISSN: 0032-3292
In: American political science review, Band 89, Heft 3, S. 804-805
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 341-372
ISSN: 1086-3338
Most comparative studies of public strategies for competitiveness focus on the links between public agencies and industrial sectors. This paper argues that the professions—or knowledge-bearing elites—that animate these organizational links are equally significant. For public policies to promote technological advance, the visions and self-images of knowledge-bearing elites are particularly important. By examining administrative and technical elites in France and Germany in the 1980s, the paper identifies characteristics that enable these elites to implement policy in some cases but not in others. France's "state-created" elites were well positioned to initiate and implement large technology projects, such as digitizing the telecommunications network. By contrast, Germany's state-recognized elites were better positioned to facilitate framework-oriented programs aimed at the diffusion of new technologies throughout industry. The linkages between administrative and technical elites also explain why French policymakers had difficulty adapting policy to changing circumstances over time, whereas German policymakers managed in many cases to learn more from previous policy experiences and to adapt subsequent initiatives accordingly.
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 341-372
ISSN: 0043-8871
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In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 47, S. 341-372
ISSN: 0043-8871
Examines characteristics in the relationships between administrative and technical elites that enable implementing technology policy; case studies of engineers in the telecommunication and machine tool sectors during the 1980s.
In: American political science review, Band 85, Heft 1, S. 308-309
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Frankfurter Beiträge zu Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 1
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In: Politics & society, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 249-280
ISSN: 1552-7514
The financial crisis of 2008 raised the politics of regulation to a new level of practical and scholarly attention. We find that recent reforms in U.S. financial markets hinge on intellectual resources and new organizational actors that are missing from existing concepts of regulatory capture or business power. In particular, small advocacy groups have proven significantly more successful in opposing the financial services industry than existing theories predict. By maintaining the salience of reform goals, elaborating new analytic frameworks, and deploying specialized expertise in post-enactment debates, smaller organizations have contributed to a diffuse but often decisive network of pro-reform actors. Through the rule-writing process for macroprudential supervision and derivatives trading, these small organizations coalesced with other groups to form a new stability alliance that has so far prevented industry groups from dominating financial regulation to the degree that occurred in earlier cases of regulatory reform.