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2. Sicher ist sicher? Ein laborexperimenteller Vergleich der Risikopräferenzen von Studierenden der öffentlichen Verwaltung mit Studierenden der Wirtschafts- und der Rechtswissenschaften
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Prokop, Christine and Tepe, Markus
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- 2013
3. Educational Business Cycles: The Political Economy of Teacher Hiring across German States, 1992-2004
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Tepe, Markus and Vanhuysse, Pieter
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- 2009
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4. Are Aging OECD Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy? Evidence from 18 Democracies, 1980-2002
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Tepe, Markus and Vanhuysse, Pieter
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- 2009
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5. Rezension: Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, & Vashdi, R. Dana (Eds.) (2020): Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, Management and Policy
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Tepe, Markus
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Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ,Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ,Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ,ddc:350 ,Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft ,Public administration ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,ddc:300 ,Administrative Science ,Verwaltungswissenschaft ,Social sciences, sociology, anthropology - Abstract
The "Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, Management and Policy", offers researchers, students, and practitioners a comprehensive and application-oriented insight into established and newer research designs and analytical methods in empirical administrative science. With this approach, the handbook fills a gap in the existing literature on methods in administrative science. The handbook chapters follow a two-part structure, in which the respective method is, first, presented and discussed theoretically and conceptually. The second part of the chapter provides an example of how the specific research design or method is applied to an administrative science research question. Therefore, the handbook can be used both in methods courses and as an aid for doctoral students who want to familiarize themselves with current and innovative methods in empirical administrative science in a short time.
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- 2021
6. Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental versus intrinsic motives
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Harms, Philipp, primary, Landwehr, Claudia, additional, Lutz, Maximilian, additional, and Tepe, Markus, additional
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- 2021
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7. Outsourcing legislative responsibility? An explorative study on purchasing legal advice in the German law-drafting process
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Streb, Sebastian and Tepe, Markus
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Law firms -- Outsourcing ,Outsourcing ,Cabinet officers ,Outsourcing ,Government ,International relations ,Political science ,Regional focus/area studies - Abstract
The topic of private law firms that provide draft bills on behalf of federal ministries has received much media attention but as yet little academic interest. Drawing on the policy advice and contracting out literature, purchasing legal advice in the law drafting process at the German federal level is conceptualized as a highly specific (formulation of a draft bill) and formalized (contractual relationship) form of policy advice that takes place between the ministerial bureaucracy and private law firms. In order to inform this conceptualization with explorative empirical evidence, this study relies on a small scale questionnaire distributed among conference participants and count data from a minor interpellation. According to the questionnaire, the growing complexity of legal issues and time pressure on law drafting are seen as potential push factors for purchasing legal advice. In contrast, evidence from the interpellation indicates that reductions in ministerial staff seem to have little explanatory power for the purchase of legal advice. Zusammenfassung Das Thema von Anwaltskanzleien, die im Auftrag von Bundesministerien Gesetzentwurfe erstellen, wurde aus politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive bisher kaum untersucht. Ausgehend von der Literatur zur Politikberatung und zum Contracting Out wird der Einkauf von juristischer Expertise im vorliegenden Artikel als eine hochgradig spezifische (Formulierung eines Gesetzentwurfs) und formalisierte (Vertragsverhaltnis) Form der Politikberatung konzeptualisiert, die zwischen der Ministerialburokratie und Anwaltskanzleien stattfindet. Um diese Konzeptualisierung empirisch zu unterfuttern, wird auf eine Umfrage unter KonferenzteilnehmerInnen sowie auf Daten aus einer Kleinen Bundestagsanfrage zuruckgegriffen. Die Umfrageergebnisse zeigen, dass die gestiegene Komplexitat von zu regelnden Sachverhalten sowie gestiegener Zeitdruck als potentielle Ursachen fur den Einkauf juristischen Wissens wahrgenommen werden. Im Gegensatz dazu liefern die Informationen aus der Kleinen Anfrage Hinweise darauf, dass der Abbau von Personal in der Ministerialverwaltung kaum Erklarungskraft zu besitzen scheint., 1 Introduction In 2009, a letterhead of the international law firm Linklaters was found on a draft version of the Law Amending the Banking Act. (2) At the peak of [...]
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- 2012
8. Are aging OECD welfare states on the path to gerontocracy?: evidence from 18 democracies,1980-2002
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Tepe, Markus and Vanhuysse, Pieter
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Australia -- Economic aspects ,Belgium -- Economic aspects ,Canada -- Economic aspects ,Gross domestic product -- Forecasts and trends ,Pension funds -- Forecasts and trends ,Market trend/market analysis ,Government ,Political science ,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Published
- 2009
9. Public Sector Employment Regimes : Transformations of the State as an Employer
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Gottschall, Karin, Hils, Sylvia, Kittel, Bernhard, Streb, Sebastian, Tepe, Markus, and Briken, Kendra
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HD28 - Abstract
Public employment regimes are changing. New forms of service provision based on performance assessment have replaced the traditional model of the civil servant who offers obedience and loyalty in exchange for privileged employment conditions. This book explores the extent to which the material and ideological driving forces of change have actually resulted in a transformation of public employment regimes in Western countries. By analyzing reform processes in energy market regulation, waste collection, and the police in Germany, France, and Sweden, and contrasting these against the implementation of New Public Management in the United Kingdom, the authors show how institutional structures, legal traditions, functional requirements of specific public services, and labour market conditions have influenced the pathways of reform. They demonstrate how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of public service, contesting the idea that the state remains a 'good' and 'model' employer.
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- 2015
10. Für die Kleinen ist uns nichts zu teuer? Kindergartengebühren und ihre Determinanten in Deutschlands 95 bevölkerungsreichsten Städten zwischen 2007 und 2010
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Tepe, Markus and Goerres, Achim
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öffentliche Ausgaben ,Economics ,Politikwissenschaft ,party politics ,local politics ,Federal Republic of Germany ,Sozialpolitik ,Beitragssatz ,Kindergarten ,social policy ,Kommunalpolitik ,Gebühr ,ddc:330 ,Parteipolitik ,Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ,Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ,Wirtschaft ,insurance premium rate ,public expenditures ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Öffentliche Finanzen und Finanzwissenschaft ,Public Finance ,Familienpolitik, Jugendpolitik, Altenpolitik ,ddc:300 ,fee ,Family Policy, Youth Policy, Policy on the Elderly - Abstract
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die polit-ökonomischen Determinanten der Elternbeiträge für kommunale Kindergärten und diskutiert die Steuerungsfunktion und Politisierung der Beiträge. Erstens erklären strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen wie die Ausgaben des Landes für Kinder im Vorschulalter, das Schuldenniveau und die Bevölkerungsdichte die Beitragshöhe gemäß einer einfachen Ressourcenthese: je mehr Mittel zur Verfügung stehen, desto geringer sind die Elternbeiträge. Demographische Faktoren, die gerontokratische Dynamiken oder die Nachfrageintensität nach Plätzen einfangen, haben hingegen keinen nennenswerten Einfluss. Zweitens sind linke Mehrheiten mit höheren Gebühren für mittlere und höhere Einkommensgruppen assoziiert. Drittens können Muster substanzieller Repräsentation durch weibliche Abgeordnete festgestellt werden, wonach ein höherer Anteil von Frauen im Gemeinde- bzw. Stadtrat mit niedrigeren Gebühren für höhere Einkommensgruppen verbunden ist. Es liegt somit eine parteipolitische Konfliktlinie entlang der sozioökonomischen Links-Rechts-Dimension vor, die in kommunaler Politik selten zu finden ist. Zudem reagieren die Gebühren auf die politische Repräsentation von Betroffenen in den Entscheidungsgremien. This article examines the political-economic determinants of fees for municipal kindergartens and discusses the influence of these fees on demand and their level of politicization. Firstly, fees are a function of available resources. These resources are determined by federal investments in pre-schoolers, cities’ level of debt and population density. The more resources are available, the lower is the average fee. Demographic factors that would capture gerontocratic dynamics and demand for spots in kindergartens have no clear effect on fees. Secondly, left council majorities are associated with higher fees for middle and higher income groups, revealing a classic left-right cleavage that is rarely visible at local level. Thirdly, there is evidence for substantive representation by female councilors. The larger the proportion of women in the city council, the lower is the average fee, especially for higher family-income groups from whom female councilors are likely to come. In sum, the evidence points towards a socioeconomic left-right party-political cleavage rarely found in German local politics. Also, fees react to the political representation of those profiting from childcare facilities in local councils.
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- 2013
11. Positionen, Fraktionen und Mandate: eine Anwendung der quantitativen Textanalyse auf die Kurzbiographien der Abgeordneten des 17. Deutschen Bundestages
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Marcinkiewicz, Kamil and Tepe, Markus
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content analysis ,political attitude ,politische Einstellung ,Textanalyse ,empirisch-quantitativ ,Fraktion ,Political science ,politisches Mandat ,Berichterstattung ,Abgeordneter ,quantitative empirical ,reporting ,Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ,Bundestag ,communication ,empirisch ,self-assessment ,development of methods ,representative ,Methodenentwicklung ,ddc:300 ,strategy ,Inhaltsanalyse ,Politikwissenschaft ,party politics ,biography ,faction ,Strategie ,basic research ,Datengewinnung ,Parteipolitik ,Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture ,Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ,Biographie ,Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ,politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ,quantitative Methode ,Selbsteinschätzung ,Kommunikation ,text analysis ,political mandate ,quantitative method ,data capture ,Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods ,recruitment ,ddc:320 ,Rekrutierung ,empirical ,Grundlagenforschung - Abstract
"Verfahren der quantitativen Textanalyse wurden wiederholt erfolgreich genutzt, um politische Positionen aus Parteiprogrammen und parlamentarischen Reden zu extrahieren. Dieser Beitrag thematisiert die Übertragbarkeit der quantitativen Textanalyse auf neue Textkategorien am Beispiel der selbstverfassten Kurzbiographien der Bundestagsabgeordneten. Unter der Annahme, dass sich partei- und mandatsspezifische Rekrutierungsmuster im Vokabular der Kurzbiographien niederschlagen, werden die Kurzbiographien mit wordfish/ Austin skaliert. Auf diese Weise können erstmalig Positionen für alle Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestags erzeugt werden. Im Zuge der empirischen Analyse wird gezeigt, dass sich die Kurzbiographien im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Berichterstattung des politischen Werdegangs und strategischer Kommunikation bewegen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die quantitative Textanalyse hohe Anforderungen an die Strukturiertheit des Textkorpus stellt. Je besser es gelingt, äußere und formgebende Faktoren wie Redekontext, Zielsetzung und Textlänge konstant zu halten, desto eher können die Positionen der skalierten Dokumente zur Identifikation einer inhaltlichen Dimension genutzt werden." (Autorenreferat), "Techniques of quantitative text analysis have successfully been utilized to extract policy positions from party manifestos and parliamentary speeches. This paper discusses the application of quantitative text analysis to new types of texts using the example of self-reported biographical notes from the Members of the German Parliament (MP). Arguing that party- and mandate-specific recruitment patterns shape the vocabulary MPs' utilize in their biographical notes, the authors scale these texts using the wordfish/ Austin approach. For the first time, they get a measure of the positions of all MP in the German Bundestag. In the course of the empirical study we show that this texts balance between the reporting of political careers on the one hand and strategic political communication on the other. They conclude that quantitative text analysis puts rather high requirements on the structure of the text corpus. The more successful external and formative factors, such as the purpose, context and length of the documents, are kept constant, the more helpful is quantitative text analysis for the identification of a substantially meaningful dimension." (author's abstract)
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- 2012
12. The effect of reciprocal motives, personality traits and wage differnences on public employee's job satisfaction
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Tepe, Markus
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Lohnstruktur ,Arbeitszufriedenheit ,Austauschtheorie (Soziologie) ,Persönlichkeitspsychologie ,ddc:330 ,Öffentlicher Dienst ,Deutschland ,Schätzung - Abstract
This study explores the determinants of public employees' job satisfaction. We are focusing on three concepts - reciprocal motives, personality traits and wage differences - to explain job satisfaction and production sector affiliation. Estimation results obtained from multivariate analyses on individual level data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) can be summarized in three points: First, in contrast to reciprocal motives, personality traits have a unique and direct effect on public and private sector employees' job satisfaction. Second, even though we cannot proof that public employees at the high-end of the earnings distribution trade a loss in pecuniary benefits against an increase in non-pecuniary benefits, the empirical analysis strongly supports the notion that public employees' job satisfaction function varies across the earnings distribution. Finally, public employees' personal characteristics can be associated with lower levels of negative reciprocity, conscientiousness and neuroticism, pointing out to a potential self-selection and recruitment bias in the public sector. Diese Studie untersucht die Determinanten der Arbeitszufriedenheit von Beschäftigten im öffentlichen Dienst. Wir konzentrieren uns auf drei Konzepte - reziprokes Verhalten, Persönlichkeitsmerkmale und Lohndifferenzen - um Arbeitszufriedenheit und Produktionssektorzugehörigkeit zu erklären. Die vorläufigen Ergebnisse der multivariaten Analyse auf Basis der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) 2005 können in drei Punkten zusammengefasst werden: Erstens, im Gegensatz zur Reziprozität, haben die Persönlichkeitsmerkmale einen distinkten und direkten Einfluss auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit im öffentlichen und privaten Sektor. Zweitens, wir finden systematische Variation in den Determinanten der Arbeitszufriedenheit öffentlich und privat Beschäftigter in Abhängigkeit von deren Position in der Lohneinkommensverteilung. Drittens, die empirische Analyse liefert Anhaltspunkte, dass Personen mit geringerer negativer Reziprozität, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Neurotizismus tendenziell eher im öffentlichen Sektor beschäftigt sind.
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- 2010
13. Public administration employment in 17 OECD nations from 1995 to 2005
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Tepe, Markus and University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe)
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public administration employment ,public employees' compensation expenditure ,Baumol's cost disease ,cross-sectional time-series regression ,öffentliche Ausgaben ,Economics ,Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft ,öffentliche Verwaltung ,human resources development ,ddc:350 ,Personalentwicklung ,ddc:330 ,OECD member country ,Administrative Science ,OECD-Staat ,Personal ,Public administration ,Lohnkosten ,öffentlicher Sektor ,public sector ,Wirtschaft ,Economic Sectors ,wage costs ,Verwaltungswissenschaft ,public expenditures ,Wirtschaftssektoren ,Beschäftigung ,employment ,personnel - Abstract
Although cross-national evidence on public employment is rather fragmented or outdated, downsizing and inherently growing personnel costs have been acknowledged as two distinctive features of public employment in affluent democracies. This study employs a new panel dataset on the size and costs of public administration employment in 17 OECD nations from 1995 to 2005 to explore these presumptions empirically. First, by decomposing public sector employment we find that the health and education sector has been the primary venue of employment reform, whereas “core” public administration employment has hardly changed over the last 10 years. Second, although public employees’ compensation expenditure appears to demand a growing fraction of government budgets, the majority of countries managed to contain public personnel expenditure in absolute terms. Thirdly, exploring the functional relationship between the costs and the size of public administration employment indicates that policymakers reduce public administration employment in response to overall fiscal constraints rather than growing personnel costs. In sum, these results neither support alarmist predictions of a looming public personnel cost-explosion nor a radical downsizing of pubic employment.
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- 2009
14. Regimes, institutions and temporality in the political economy of welfare reform
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Tepe, Markus
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political economy ,social expenditure ,welfare regimes ,old age security ,welfare reform ,300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft ,path dependence - Abstract
1\. General Introduction (p. 5) 2\. Traveling without Moving? Pension regime change in mature welfare states (p. 9) 3\. Are Mature Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy? Evidence from 18 OECD countries, 1980-2003 (p. 73) 4\. What Makes Stabilization Reforms Happen? Temporality in the political economy of welfare spending (p. 137) German summary (p. 227), This dissertation is a collection of three papers written within the DFG supported Doctoral Program Research on Organizational Paths. The first part, entitled “Traveling without Moving? Pension regime change in mature welfare states”, explores how inherited social and economic arrangements in old age security provision; referred to as pension regimes, restrict reform options available to policymakers today. Results of the explorative multiple correspondence and hierarchical cluster analyses on a sample of up to 18 OECD countries (1988-2003) indicate that these legacies are responsible for the convergence of pension reform trajectories within regimes, suggesting that pension reforms in mature welfare states are following a logic of “bounded change”, where change takes place but pension regime differences persist. In a nutshell, the classification of old age security systems obtained from the correspondence analysis will be utilized in the second part of the analysis. The second paper “Are Mature Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy? Evidence from 18 OECD countries, 1980-2003”, focuses on concrete pension financing rules rather than regime arrangements. Within the median voter framework it investigates how institutional differences mediate the effect of population ageing on the size and generosity of public pensions. Although mature pension systems face relatively similar challenges, tentative evidence from panel regression analysis indicates that majority voting in aging societies has two opposite effects: it increases overall pension spending as a percentage of GDP but decreases the generosity of pension benefits, depending on whether public pension entitlements are closely linked to contributions. Moreover, while issues of horizontal redistribution appear to matter less in voting on old age security, estimation results indicate that projected growth in population ageing creates momentum for reductions in pension spending and benefit generosity. The third paper, which has been titled “What Makes Stabilization Reforms Happen? Temporality in the political economy of welfare spending”, takes a different view on temporal aspects in welfare reform policies. Instead of looking at long-term historical legacies, it investigates how temporal contexts influence the effectiveness of political determinants in welfare spending. To do so, the empirical analysis employs interactive dynamic panel regression and event history analysis on a dataset covering 21 OECD countries (1980-2003). While prior research indicates that popular theories of partisanship, electioneering and institutional rigidity are too general to explain recent developments in the dynamics of social expenditure, findings from the empirical analysis suggest that the influence of these political determinants re-emerges if temporal contexts are taken into consideration. Thus, it can be shown that politics still matters in welfare spending, but it matters in a more subtle way than in previous decades., Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus drei Aufsätzen, die im Rahmen des DFG Graduierenskollegs „Pfade organisatorischer Prozesse“ verfasst wurden. Am Beispiel der staatlichen Altersvorsorge untersucht der erste Aufsatz „Traveling without Moving? Pension regime change in mature welfare states”, ob und in welchem Umfang führzeitige institutionelle Entscheidungen die gegenwärtige Verfügbarkeit von Reformoptionen einschränken. Der Vergleich der Rentensysteme in 18 OECD Staaten von 1980-2003 legt den Schluss nahe, dass die Wahl der Reformoptionen einem Muster folgen, das als “Bounded Change” beschrieben wird. Demnach konvergieren Reformenstrategien innerhalb eines wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Regimes während Differenzen zwischen Regimes fortbestehen. Der zweite Beitrag trägt den Titel „Are Mature Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy? Evidence from 18 OECD countries”. Vor dem Hintergrund des Median Wähler Paradigmas wird die Wirkung der gesellschaftlichen Alterung auf den Umfang und Generosität der staatlichen Rentenausgaben untersucht. Die Ergebnisse der Regressionsanalyse für 18 OECD Staaten von 1980-2003 zeigen, dass bei steigendem Rentnerquotienten die absoluten Rentenausgaben steigen, während die individuellen Rentenausgaben unverändert bleiben oder sinken. Die Intensität dieses Effekts hängt jedoch von institutionellen Faktoren ab – je stärker der Zusammenhang zwischen Beiträgen und zukünftiger Rente desto stärker kann der gesellschaftliche Alterungsprozess mit steigenden Rentenausgaben in Verbindung gebracht werden. Der dritte Beitrag „What Makes Stabilization Reform Happen? Temporality in the political economy of welfare spending”, untersucht den Einfluss von Wahlzyklen und parteipolitischen Differenzen auf das Wachstum der Sozialausgaben im Kontext fiskalischer Krisen. Auf Basis von 21 OECD Staaten (1980-2003) und mit Hilfe einer interaktiven Modellspezifikation können empirische Belege für diesen Konditionaleffekt identifiziert werden. Betrachtet man den Einfluss von Wahlzyklen und parteipolitischen Differenzen auf die Dauer einer politischen Anpassungsreaktion im Rahmen einer Event History Analyse wird die zunehmende Relevanz politischer Determinanten in Krisenzeiten ebenfalls bestätigt. Insgesamt stützen die Befunde die These das “politics still matters“, sofern der temporale Kontext in der Analyse berücksichtigt wird.
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- 2008
15. Sicher ist sicher?
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Prokop, Christine, primary and Tepe, Markus, additional
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- 2013
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16. Lukrativer Staatsdienst? Lohndifferenzen zwischen öffentlichem Dienst und Privatwirtschaft
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Kroos, Daniela, primary and Tepe, Markus, additional
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- 2010
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17. Educational business cycles
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Tepe, Markus, primary and Vanhuysse, Pieter, additional
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18. Educational business cycles.
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Tepe, Markus and Vanhuysse, Pieter
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BUSINESS cycles ,ECONOMICS ,EMPLOYMENT of teachers ,VOTERS ,GERMAN states ,ELECTIONS - Abstract
Strong institutional constraints and better-informed voters may lead re-election seeking incumbents to shift the use of political business cycle mechanisms away from monetary and fiscal policy towards other policy domains that are more easily manipulable, targetable, and timeable. We investigate teacher employment patterns at the state level in Germany and find strong evidence of cycling mechanisms, in the form of electioneering and honeymooning. Against a backdrop of a continuously shrinking total teachers’ pool, German state-level incumbents accelerate the hiring of new teachers during election periods and partly reverse this during politically safer points in the electoral cycle. Cycles are mediated by issue salience: heightened attention to German public schooling after the notorious PISA-2000 tests further strengthens the manipulation of new teacher hiring for electoral purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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