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Sebastian Eckardt - Accountability and Decentralized Service Delivery

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Accountability and Decentralized Service Delivery

2009

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Empirical Research Context S. 23-25

„… theoretical and empirical research has dealt with the impact of intergovernmental administrative and fiscal …” „… most likely to improve welfare outcomes is very limited.” 223. Empirical Research Context In order to …” „… their impact upon local government performance and public service delivery. The unfinished research …”

Research Methodology, Problems of Measurement, and Data Sources S. 34-40

„… Measurement, and Data Sources The primary empirical units of analysis in this research are local governments …” „… qualitative research tools. 59 The empirical part consists of two segments. First, I conducted a quantitative …” „… This distinguishes this study from most of the existing empirical research on decentralization and …”

Preference Heterogeneity and External Effects S. 43-48

„… chapters. Chapter 1 will review the existing theoretical and empirical literature on decentralization in …” „… hypotheses that will lead to the empirical part. 2. A Brief Review of the Literature on Decentralization and …” „… empirical literature. The existing literature offers many useful insights, numerous hypotheses, and many …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-12

„… ." Theoretical Research Context 21"3." Empirical Research Context 23"4." Research Design 25"4.1."Dependent …” „… Research Society (DFG)5Foreword I still recall quite clearly Sebastian Eckardt’s first steps in writing his …” „… of research in which the author has tried to cross some of the usual boundaries that have often …”

Discussion S. 58-61

„… empirical settings. Closest to my own research interests are the various contributions discussed under the …” „… competing hypothesis, loosely related arguments, and mixed empirical findings that all share an interest in …” „… theoretical framework or systematic empirical tests to assess the combined effects of decentralization and …”

Revisiting the hypotheses S. 208-221

„… how decentralization interacts with local conditions. This research has attempted to understand, both …” „… governments. On a theoretical level, the research has built on a stylized agency model of political incentives …” „… rather short-term nature of the empirical investigation naturally restrains any conclusive evaluation. At …”

Explaining Performance: Empirical Results and Hypotheses S. 134-142

„… to pursue the public interest.292 This finding merits more attention in subsequent empirical research …” „… . 3.3. Explaining Performance: Empirical Results and Hypotheses Did differences in local conditions for …” „… presented some empirical evidence on both perceptions of service quality and accountability variables …”

Overview S. 43

„… chapters. Chapter 1 will review the existing theoretical and empirical literature on decentralization in …” „… hypotheses that will lead to the empirical part. 2. A Brief Review of the Literature on Decentralization and …” „… empirical literature. The existing literature offers many useful insights, numerous hypotheses, and many …”

Theoretical Research Context S. 21-23

„… , most of the existing theoretical and empirical research has dealt with the impact of intergovernmental …” „… that are most likely to improve welfare outcomes is very limited.” 223. Empirical Research Context In …” „… Research Context The functioning of democratic local governments has long merited attention in both the …”

The Empirical Model S. 123-124

„… empirical research. Second, the analysis will suggest the relative importance (causal weight) of …” „… quantitative empirical evidence on the relationship between political accountability and performance of local …” „… of the empirical validity of the key hypothesis. Employing a dataset covering a randomised sample of …”

Key Hypotheses S. 33-34

„… in my research: H1: The degree of local governments’ political accountability to their constituents …” „… levels of performance in service delivery in the empirical analysis. In turn, I expect that cases of poor …” „… embedded into a general model of local government behaviour in the theoretical part. 4.5. Research …”

Democratic Decentralization S. 51-55

„… ensure accountability, more recent research has focused more explicitly on the voice mechanisms of …” „… delegate authority to others.”129 A number of empirical studies provide qualitative evidence that …” „… study on a different set of countries Crook and Manor (1998) found in their empirical investigation of …”

Case selection and research strategy S. 142-147

„… factors beyond our empirical model. These potentially include variations in the capacity of local …” „… will present qualitative empirical evidence on the performance and political accountability of four …” „… local governments selected for comparative case studies. Case study research calls for selecting a few …”

Local Government Capture S. 55-58

„… empirical settings. Closest to my own research interests are the various contributions discussed under the …” „… panel data from Indian states, they find supporting empirical evidence for their model.142In sum, the …” „… actors as determinants of decentralization outcomes is highly relevant to my research interest. In fact …”

Dependent Variable – Defining Government Performance S. 25-28

„… ways, it is this comprehensive data that first rendered a systematic empirical test of my hypothesis …” „… unique "quasi-experimental" setting with promising empirical evidence to carry out a comparative study of …” „… decentralization improves local government performance and public service delivery. 4. Research Design The …”

Summary S. 121-123

„… empirical research. Second, the analysis will suggest the relative importance (causal weight) of …” „… quality of service delivery. Finally- and most importantly in the context of this research, the initial …” „… quantitative empirical evidence on the relationship between political accountability and performance of local …”

Making local governments work – Some policy implications S. 221-226

„… beyond their academic value the research results will contribute to an improved understanding of local …” „… . The research findings should help these actors to find better, more effective instruments to realize …” „… this objective. Above all the research has illustrated the complexities underlying the emergence of …”

Control Variables S. 32-33

„… outcomes than one might expect. For empirical evidence in the health sector see (Filmer, Hammer et al. 2000 …” „… related hypothesis will be elaborated and partially tested in my research: H1: The degree of local …” „… , external accountability to exhibit higher levels of performance in service delivery in the empirical …”

Independent Variable – Defining Political Accountability S. 28-32

„… (Peters 1996) p. 112. Most research includes accountability into broader governance concepts. Estrella …” „… an empirical analysis of a household cross section from Uganda, Deininger and Mpuga (2004), find that …” „… ” which implies direct accountability of service providers to their clients. The focus of this research is …”

Behavioural Assumptions S. 40-42

„… individualism are considered less as hard empirical facts and more as useful benchmarks for examining …” „… empirical evidence from Indonesia. Section IV draws conclusions and presents the outlook for further …” „… research potentials. Each section is subdivided into chapters. The chapters are outlined in the overview …”

Bibliography S. 227-238

„… Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. Besley, T. and A …” „… ). "Are you satisfied? Citizen Feedback and Delivery of Urban Services." World Bank Policy Research …” „… research act. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall. Desai, V. (1996). "Access to Power and Participation …”

Structure of the Analysis S. 42

„… theoretical framework. Section III tests the theory against the empirical evidence from Indonesia. Section IV …” „… draws conclusions and presents the outlook for further research potentials. Each section is subdivided …”

A stylized model of local governance S. 76-89

„… that will guide the empirical investigation and allow me to verify, the theory against empirical data …” „… equilibrium model developed by Hellman (1998) is particularly relevant in the context of this research. In …” „… empirical investigation.229 Consistent with the general understanding of accountability the model envisages …”

Introduction S. 19-21

„… local governments more effective than others? Although the method of this study is empirical, part of …” „… decentralization policies and institutional frameworks in East Asia see (Worldbank 2005) 6 Many researchers have …” „… theoretically sound and empirically testable hypothesis. 2. Theoretical Research Context The functioning of …”

Inter-jurisdictional Competition S. 48-51

„… are not responsible to their local populations may not improve outcomes. Indeed, part of the empirical …” „… , and more articulate groups disproportionately exit.”111More fundamentally, a number of researchers …” „… mainly focuses on exit options as mechanisms to ensure accountability, more recent research has focused …”

Delegation and Controllability in Political Contracts S. 66-69

„… resources.182 (Moe 1984), p. 763. 183 See (Keefer and Khemani 2003), p. 1. 184 The growing body of empirical …” „… research by and large confirms this link. For example (Wade 1982; Mauro 1995; Hellman, Jones et al. 2000 …”

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Corinna Gayer

Gendered Intractability

2012

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Empirical research: Q-sorting and questionnaires S. 209-211

„… next part illuminates the actual Q-sorting process during the field study. 5.5 Empirical research …” „… empirical research process. 5.6 Reflections of unequal power relations between Israelis and Palestinians on …” „… the empirical research process Doing research on identity constructions and gender in the setting of …”

Reflections of unequal power relations between Israelis and Palestinians on the empirical research process S. 211-212

„… relations between Israelis and Palestinians that became obvious during the empirical research process. 5.6 …” „… Reflections of unequal power relations between Israelis and Palestinians on the empirical research process …” „… Doing research on identity constructions and gender in the setting of an intractable conflict is a …”

Exploring national identity constructions S. 81-86

„… biological sex into empirical analyses without an integration of feminist and gender-sensitive theories. In …” „… in this work. Integrating gender as an analytical category requires considering the entire research …” „… ideologies, and intractable conflicts The empirical analysis to approach this triangular …”

Methodological approach S. 21-34

„… translate into empirical inquiries. For one thing, socio-psychological researches predominantly focus on …” „… in empirical researches on identity and conflict – or, alternatively, added as another variable into …” „… , particularly those who are based on empirical research. Feminist theory and thought can thereby guide gendered …”

Interrelating national identity constructions, gender-role ideologies, and intractability S. 87-88

„… . Similar to studies on identity and war, also many empirical studies about gender and war are informed by …” „… peaceful than men – yet, fairly unsuccessfully. Another recent line of empirical studies suggests that atti …” „… high violent potentials (Seifert, 2003). As outlined above, the research interest will be tackled by …”

Violent conflict through gender-sensitive lenses S. 64-70

„… into academic research. This means that apart from the empirical operationalization of gender, the …” „… terms, feminist scholars criticize that the dismissal of gender in contemporary research leads to an …” „… connection of war with gender27 (Goldstein, 2001, pp. 1-58) also instigated empirical investigation. Many …”

National identity constructions, gender, and inter-group violence S. 298-308

„… empirical analysis, which aimed to investigate whether different identity constructions and gender-role …” „… similar in both societies. The findings of this research indicate that the invidious and ethno-centric …” „… generally low. Compared with public opinion polls that correspond to the time of the research, only 14% of …”

Statement collection S. 195-198

„… sample criteria that guided the empirical research were established (5.4). And then the actual field …” „… 195 5 Operationalization This chapter retraces the main steps of the empirical field study. In …” „… content validity, and ultimately, determines the sophistication of the entire research124. The Q-samples …”

Interrelating national identity constructions and gender-role ideologies S. 86-87

„… adversary, it is necessary to go beyond the proposed exploratory line of research. The first …” „… discursive production of masculinity and femininity. With regards to the empirical analysis, it is of …” „… constructions, but also aims to fill a gap in hitherto feminist and gender-sensitive researches on gender and …”

Content S. 7-12

„… Palestinians on the empirical research process 211 10 6 Analyses and results of the Q-methodological study 213 …” „… 200 Analysis of the pre-test Q-sorts 200 5.3 Final Q-Sample 201 5.4 P-set 207 5.5 Empirical …” „… research: Q-sorting and questionnaires 209 5.6 Reflections of unequal power relations between Israelis and …”

P-set S. 207-209

„… Q-sorting process during the field study. 5.5 Empirical research: Q-sorting and questionnaires During the …” „… research. In addition, efforts were made to meet the following criteria: First, the intention was to …” „… , Hizb At-Tahrir). At the time of the research, 28 percent of the West Bankers said they would vote for …”

National identity constructions in Israel and Palestine S. 277-285

„… and conflict. Three questions guided the comparative research in Israel and Palestine: What is the …” „… directions for future research (8.6). 278 8.1 National identity constructions in Israel and Palestine147 …” „… collective which prevail within empirical approaches to the analysis of identity conflict. And (2), against …”

Limitations and scope of the empirical findings S. 308-312

„… following chapter discusses the scope of this work and provides propositions for future research in the …” „… tractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 8.4 Limitations and scope of the empirical findings Critical …” „… “examining the boundaries of our categories, frameworks and research questions, and asking how […] they are …”

Israeli sample S. 253-256

„… continued fighting. The interest of this empirical section was to analyze the interlinkage of national …” „… need to interlink the social construction of identity to violence; as well as on empirical studies of …” „… academic career. This means that the research disproportionately attracted welleducated young people …”

Factor Analysis S. 188

„… empirical and wholly dependent on how the Q-sorters actually performed” (Brown, 1991, part 6). Factor …” „… offers the researcher the possibility to examine the data according to theoretical concerns. Due to its …” „… subjective nature, judgemental rotation is subdued to the criticism the researcher might rotate the factors …”

Interrelating national identity constructions and gender-role ideologies S. 258-266

„… ). As there were neither theoretical nor empirical reasons to assume that national identity …” „… & Hahn, 1997). This empirical observation led to the formulation of another sub-hypothesis assuming that …” „… difference was not of particular interest for this research. Acknowledging the different contextual location …”

Intractable Conflicts S. 41-47

„… empirical research aims to a) explore national identity constructions, b) to analyze their interconnectivity …” „… must thus precede its empirical application. The chapter is structured as follows. First, the …” „… , some of the main theoretical and empirical approaches of feminist scholars to peace and war are …”

Correlation matrix S. 187-188

„… are extracted from the correlation matrix “is purely empirical and wholly dependent on how the …” „… . Judgemental rotation is hardly used outside Q-methodology and offers the researcher the possibility to examine …” „… subdued to the criticism the researcher might rotate the factors ad libitum with the purpose of fitting it …”

Factor rotation S. 188-190

„… empirical and wholly dependent on how the Q-sorters actually performed” (Brown, 1991, part 6). Factor …” „… offers the researcher the possibility to examine the data according to theoretical concerns. Due to its …” „… subjective nature, judgemental rotation is subdued to the criticism the researcher might rotate the factors …”

Design S. 199-200

„… researcher. In a next step, the statements that were not ascribed in the same category, were discussed and …” „… research background and purpose. The interviewees were then reassured that the data collected would only be …” „… instructions they received further on were similar to those given in the main empirical study (see chapter 5.3 …”

Concourse S. 181-184

„… ) elaborates Stephenson’s intentions arguing 106 Even though this research is based on two empirical …” „… Q-methodology is to investigate the “research participants’ own perspectives, understandings and definitions …” „… general reading of the research results. 107 Q-methodology should be conceived as a whole of theories …”

Structure S. 37-40

„… three main lines of interest that guided the empirical research, i.e., the gendered national identity …” „… the political-practical implications of the research findings regarding the intractability or …” „… tractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (8.5). The work concludes with directions for future research …”

Palestinian sample S. 256-258

„… also in Palestine, the research attracted mostly well-educated young people. Due to the comparatively …” „… population. The sex distribution among supporters and opponents in the present research was unequal, with …” „… theoretical nor empirical reasons to assume that national identity constructions precede genderrole ideologies …”

Gender and nation S. 70-74

„… . This means that apart from the empirical operationalization of gender, the whole research needs to be …” „… location of the gender relations is to integrate gender as an analytical category into academic research …” „… nation Within feminist research, the essentialist understanding of ‘men’ and ‘women’ has by now been …”

National identity constructions and gender-role ideologies S. 285-298

„… comparison. In addition to that, the research results suggest including a fifth qualification to the concept …” „… served as a conceptual approach to the analysis of national identity constructions in this research …” „… single continuum160. In and of themselves, they are independent constructs which 159 In this research …”

References S. 321-346

„… ). The Rocky Road toward Peace: Beliefs on Conflict in Israeli textbooks. Journal of Peace Research, 35(6 …” „… Israeli-Palestinian peace process, 1993-2000. Journal of Peace Research, 42(6), 719. Barrett, Michele. (1987). The …” „… ), 339-343. Block, Jack. (1961). The Q-sort method in personality assessment and psychiatric research …”

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Anne-Kathrin Fischer - Dynamics of Public Risk Perception and Media Coverage

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Dynamics of Public Risk Perception and Media Coverage

2021

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3. Research Agenda and Empirical Approach S. 52-82

„… Research Agenda and Empirical Approach As seen in Chapter 2, several determinants and contexts have …” „… generic term are also referred to. 3. Research Agenda and Empirical Approach 54 ism, single-issue …” „… levels of concern for 3. Research Agenda and Empirical Approach 56 several years. Even in 2006 over 40 …”

1. Introduction S. 17-26

„… generation of public acceptability of risk (Bakir, 2010). Conceptual Design Previous empirical research on …” „… see the world. According to the sociologist and risk researcher Ulrich Beck, we now live in a “world …” „… categories (ibid.). In risk research such highly complex risks, with a high degree of uncertainty and a lack …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-16

„… Research Agenda and Empirical Approach3. 52 Research Agenda3.1 52 Terrorism3.1.1 54 Demographic Change3.1.2 …” „… Preface This work was part of of the research project “Big risks: perceptions, management and neuralgic …” „… 15 Introduction1. 17 Research Interest1.1 18 Conceptual Design1.2 20 Structure of the Thesis1.3 24 …”

References S. 227-239

„… Future of Risk in Social Science Theory and Research. Health, Risk & Society, 11(6), 487-492 …” „… Back Yard: Public Perceptions and Terrorism. Political Research Quarterly, 72(1), 90-103 …” „… (SARF). Journal of Risk Research, 8(7-8), 679-691. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669870500166898 Bakir, V …”

7. Concluding Remarks S. 206-216

„… an overview of the key findings from the empirical analyses. 7.1 Implemented Research Agenda 211 …” „… valuable insights into why public risk perception differs across countries. Implemented Research Agenda …” „… Before analyzing the dynamics of public risk perception, I examined existing research into the key …”

6. Time Series Analysis of Risk Salience in Germany S. 174-205

„… Politbarometer surveys conducted by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Institute for Election Research). The surveys …” „… change and demographic change influences their salience. For the research into legislative changes …” „… Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (established by the London School of …”

2. Theoretical Foundations: Determinants and Context of Risk Perception S. 27-51

„… 46 Empirical research also shows that reporting on risk clusters around key risk events. Therefore …” „… chapter, I present the research agenda and empirical approach. 2.3 Summary 51 …” „… and Contexts of Risk Perception The field of risk perception research is multidisciplinary and …”

5. Time Series Analysis of Risk Salience in the USA S. 142-173

„… change is a relatively new field of research with differing results. There are studies that show that …” „… in the USA 158 Empirical Results of Time Series Analysis In this section, I present the results of …” „… to get smaller (in absolute terms) or even revert. 5.4 5.4.1 5.4 Empirical Results of Time Series …”

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Julia Rückert - The European Water Framework Directive as a Driver for Good Water Governance in the Republic of Turkey

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The European Water Framework Directive as a Driver for Good Water Governance in the Republic of Turkey

Series: Weltwirtschaft und internationale Zusammenarbeit

Volume 16 2014

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Empirical research design and case study selection S. 139-144

„… includes the development of the empirical research design in chapter 7 as well as why and how it is adapted …” „… Turkey, finally derives as conclusion in chapter 12. 141 7 Empirical research design and case study …” „… selection Chapter 7 gives an overview of the empirical research design, which results in a qualitative …”

Introduction S. 26-33

„… encounter the 1.4 Current state of research, main aim and key questions 29 problems of the Turkish water …” „… provided support or not. 1.4 Current state of research, main aim and key questions In general, water …” „… resources management is a popular research topic, and a lot of research has been conducted on the …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-25

„… information on the on-going changes in Turkey’s water policy. During my research visits to Turkey, I had the …” „… Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics (Heidelberg University), which enabled me to do the necessary research in Turkey …” „… Current state of research, main aim and key questions 29 1.5 Methodological background, data and …”

Turkey’s socio-economic background and challenges S. 145-172

„… ), the EU accession process (cf. chapter 8.2) and some empirical evidence on good governance in Turkey …” „… , Turkish environmental NGOs concentrate on research, education and capacity building. Last, international …” „… Science and Research was the first and since last chapter that was opened and immediately provisionally …”

Water resources management: international discourse and major approaches S. 61-116

„… provide the above mentioned four elements with empirical data, a set of particular aspects is helpful …” „… water is scarce is still a prevailing question for the international research community. The two most …” „… , planning and management,  natural hazards,  public information, education, training and research …”

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Swantje Renfordt - Framing the Use of Force: An International Rule of Law in Media Reporting

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Framing the Use of Force: An International Rule of Law in Media Reporting

2011

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Law and Discourse – Empirical State of the Art and Research Questions S. 36-38

„… empirical research in this field at the expense of all others: the Yugoslav wars (Auerbach and Block-Elkon …” „… research questions as explicated in the introduction, one conceptual, the other empirical: Conceptually, I …” „… 36 Chapter 3 - Linking Law & Public Discourses 3.1 Law and Discourse – Empirical State of the Art …”

– Introduction S. 13-23

„… conceptual and an empirical perspective. It does so by tackling the following research questions: The first …” „… and variation in these discourses? The second set of research questions adopts an empirical …” „… establishes an empirical research design that allows for analysing long-term developments on the use of …”

Conceptual Departures – Merging Discourse Theory of Legitimate Law and Approaches from International Relations Theory S. 197-202

„… assumptions, aiming to provide an answer to the empirical research question of this study, which was whether …” „… continued the development of the empirical research design. It discussed the kind of content analytical …” „… with regard to the empirical research questions of this study? Table 15. Summary of Empirical …”

Table of Contents S. 7-10

„… – Empirical State of the Art and Research Questions 36 3.2 On Discourse, Law, Morality, and Politics - Core …” „… SCRIPT: THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH DESIGN 69 Chapter 5 - Content Analysis of Law Norms in Mass Media 70 5.1 …” „… Law, Discourse, and Morality 42 3.3 Giving the Discourse Theory Empirical Grounding Media Debates as …”

– Conclusion of Part Two S. 101-104

„… allowed the filling of an empirical gap in research to date. Chapter 6, finally, documented that this …” „… Part Two, I raised three questions addressing the research framework of this study. First, why does …” „… time span. Part Two focused on the qualitative part of the empirical analysis. Unlike other tools of …”

Frame Analysis as a Tool to Trace Meaning Structures in Media Debate S. 69-84

„… RESEARCH DESIGN Before presenting the empirical findings, this chapter discusses the methodological …” „… Chapter 3.1 pointed out, empirical research investigating foreign and security issues in media debates to …” „… 69 PART TWO –THE RULE OF LAW AS A WESTERN MEDIA SCRIPT: THE EMPIRICAL …”

Evaluation of Empirical Findings S. 202-207

„… empirical research questions of this study? Table 15. Summary of Empirical Findings, 1990 to 2005 …” „… 202 11.2 Evaluation of Empirical Findings Using this data, the empirical Part Three generated four …” „… the empirical findings in-depth. By and large, my results confirm the first institutionalist …”

– Conclusion of Part One S. 66-68

„… lack of research in this field to date. IR norm research has mainly focused on the faciticity dimension …” „… Law norms. This study aims to overcome this shortcoming. It contributes to IR norm research by …” „… uniformity in the Western countries analysed. Moreover, it adds to research by contributing to an …”

Operationalising an Investigation of ”International Law” as a Script in Media Debate S. 60-66

„… extensively tested. Political communication research employs the concept of “visibility” to describe the …” „… political influence and economic capabilities. In addition, the empirical framework of this examination …” „… easily allows for empirical extension by further country studies. To operationalise the test of a final …”

– Evaluation of Guiding Assumptions S. 189-197

„… 189 Chapter 10 – Evaluation of Guiding Assumptions This Part Three provided longitudinal empirical …” „… patterns, across countries. The main objective of Part Three was to test the empirical validity of these …” „… , the empirical analysis generated the following main findings which are condensed in Table 14. Table …”

Generalisability of Findings and Possibilities for Future Research S. 211-212

„… assumptions used more elaborated statistical analysis. Yet, as the overall empirical research design …” „… and Possibilities for Future Research This study has used qualitative methods for data generation and …” „… future research. As one of the first of its kind, this study provides a continuous and long term …”

Implications for Political Practice S. 209-211

„… empirical research design emphasised breadth over depth, I will discuss the generalisability of findings for …” „… application), is a worthwhile undertaking in international norm research. Public discourses of norm …” „… the theoretical relevance of studying media spaces for international norm research. What do the …”

Defining Discourse and Norms S. 24-29

„… with the empirical research design of this study. 27 in my study, I use the terms discourse and …” „… research project is inspired by the finding that there is a striking disparity between a multitude of …” „… these rules shapes social action in today’s international security politics. However, research that …”

How Visible is International Law in the Media? S. 105-118

„… 105 PART THREE – EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR LAW AS A MEDIA SCRIPT Publicity and …” „… understandings, this Part Three presents the empirical findings on the emergence of International Law as a …” „… dimensions of empirical findings: First: Visibility of Legal Framing – The visibility of law as a media …”

On Discourse, Law, Morality, and Politics - Core Assumptions of a Discourse Theory on Legitimate Law for the Purpose of this Study S. 38-44

„… 38 It is the goal of this study to tackle the shortcomings in research for the field of …” „… observations follow two sets of research questions as explicated in the introduction, one conceptual, the other …” „… empirical: Conceptually, I ask how the added value of an investigation of “law in public discourse”28 can be …”

Defining and Sampling the Data S. 84-94

„… Two condenses some background information of my empirical examination. To analyse the emergence of law …” „… research project to which this study is affiliated with (see). This sampling procedure allows the selection …” „… matters at the outset of the empirical examination and thus limited the variance on the dependent variable …”

Contribution of my Findings to the International Relations Literature S. 207-209

„… methodological. One starting point of this study was the insight that very little research on political mass …” „… do tend to be case studies. This insight inspired the particular research design of this study …” „… the two major crises events on which the empirical literature usually focuses – the intervention in …”

The Assumptions of Global Sociological Institutionalism S. 50-54

„… setting of news debate? To tackle the second conceptual research question guiding this study, this chapter …” „… provide empirical evidence of a striking similarity of social action that is puzzling to traditional …” „… ” (Meyer et al 1997a: 153). 38 An institutionalist framework would 38 For further empirical studies also …”

Do Borders Matter for an Overall Law Framing? S. 143-172

„… empirical evidence that International Law is a very visible frame for discussing these issues in US and …” „… are interesting and promising, as they lend some empirical support to the institutionalist assumption …” „… . 9.1.2 Empirical Findings for the Overall Law Discourse This section presents the findings of the …”

Coding the Newspaper Articles and Testing Reliability S. 94-101

„… articles is in order. In total, 21 researchers were responsible for coding the newspaper articles. This …” „… researchers with the navigation of the codebook and the meaning of the categories. Numerous practical tests …” „… that all researchers coded with a sufficient level of reliability, the actual coding practice began …”

Defining the Law Norms Analysed – What are the Legal Rules to Govern the Use of Force? S. 29-36

„… Discourses 3.1 Law and Discourse – Empirical State of the Art and Research Questions To date, studies which …” „… speaking, research is strong in analysing international legal norms in the formal institutional context …” „… subfield of research, where scholars address such questions as how international human rights norms shape …”

Literature S. 213-226

„… Research, 42, 83-99. Barnett, M. (2005) Humanitarianism Transformed. Perspectives on Politics, 3, 723-40 …” „… Problem of Abuse in the Case of Iraq. Journal of Peace Research, 41, 131-47. Berger, H. and T. Harjes …” „… Polity Promotion of Gender Parity: Women´s Share of Higher Education, 1965-85. Research in Sociology of …”

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