Das Politikfeld als analytische Kategorie

Döhler, Marian

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“…The following section addresses three rail policy issues in which the principal, due to high costs, could be expected to act unilaterally: the cancelled IPO, the funding of rail infrastructure, and the continuing efforts to strengthen competition in the rail net. The analysis, first, aims at reconstructing the preferences of involved actors, which cannot be expected to remain static across policy issues (Bornemann, ; Döhler, ). Second, whenever a lack of unilateral action is observed, which presumably take the shape of cooperation, confluence, and inversion as coping strategies, the policy context is checked for changing conditions.…”

Section: Governing German Railmentioning

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Wag the Dog: Governing German Rail from a Principal–Agent Perspective

Döhler¹

2018

European Policy Analysis

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Ever since German Rail, the largest state-owned enterprise in Germany, was converted into a stock company in 1994, the federal government has been criticized for a lack of policy ambitions. From a principal-agent perspective, the federal government gives the impression of being a reluctant principal. The first objective is therefore to explain the strategic interaction between the federal government and German Rail since the 1990s. The second aim is to increase the explanatory power of the principal-agent concept by adopting a strand of literature in which the principal's unilateralism and diverging preferences-standard assumptions in the principal-agent literature-are complemented by strategic cooperation, confluence, and inverted principal-agent interactions. This conceptual redirection, which considers the impact of a broader range of actors involved, not only explains key events in German rail policy but also highlights the advances of an elaborated principal-agent concept.Desde que Ferrocarriles Alemanes, la mayor empresa estatal de Alemania, se convirti o en una sociedad an onima cotizada en la bolsa en 1994, el gobierno federal ha sido criticado por falta de ambiciones pol ıticas. Desde la perspectiva del principal-agente, el gobierno federal da la impresi on de ser un principal renuente. El primer objetivo es entonces explicar la interacci on estrat egica entre el 210

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Section: Governing German Railmentioning

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Wag the Dog: Governing German Rail from a Principal–Agent Perspective

Döhler¹

2018

European Policy Analysis

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“…Moreover, the field concept comes with of being well established in policy analysis while remaining open to different interpretations. In fact, the notion of policy field has played a role in policy analysis for some time, but debates on its meaning continue to evolve (Blätte 2015; Blum and Schubert 2011; Döhler 2015; Loer, Reiter, and Töller 2015; Massey and Huitema 2013).…”

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“…Generally, policy fields can be regarded as relevant spheres for organizing and analyzing public policymaking (Döhler 2015). Policy fields are assumed to make a difference: political problem solving is not only the result of political, institutional, social, or cultural conditions, but it is also subject to a specific policy‐field effect (Heinelt 2009; Rehder, Winter, and Willems 2009).…”

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“…Policy fields are assumed to make a difference: political problem solving is not only the result of political, institutional, social, or cultural conditions, but it is also subject to a specific policy‐field effect (Heinelt 2009; Rehder, Winter, and Willems 2009). Conceiving the policy system of a certain political community (such as a nation state, a region, or a local municipality) as representing the entirety of its public problem‐solving activities, a policy field denotes a specific structured partition of this comprehensive policy system that has developed around a certain issue area and is endowed with relative autonomy in functioning vis‐à‐vis neighboring policy fields (Döhler 2015). A policy field is different from a mere political program (a policy in the strict sense).…”

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“…Loer, Reiter, and Töller (2015), for example, define policy fields in terms of specific enduring constellations of problems, actors, institutions, and instruments. Other authors refer to similar sets of elements (Döhler 2015; Howlett, Ramesh, and Perl 2009). Drawing on general field theory, some authors highlight the socially constructed nature of policy fields (Stecker 2015).…”

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Integrative Political Strategies—Conceptualizing and Analyzing a New Type of Policy Field

Bornemann¹

2016

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Traditionally, policymaking has been described as taking place within the boundaries of differentiated and institutionalized policy fields. Regarding some newer issue areas, such as sustainability or climate change, this “sectoralized” pattern of policy development does not seem to be an adequate description anymore. Here, a different type of policymaking that practitioners regularly qualify as “integrative” and “strategic” can be observed: policymaking transgresses the boundaries of established policy fields and integrates differentiated policy areas by means of overall political strategies. How can scholars make sense of these supposedly new forms of policymaking in contemporary policy systems? On what conceptual grounds and with what kinds of tools can they analyze the respective policy practices? In this paper, I critically review the current literature on “integrative political strategies” (IPS) and argue that existing conceptualizations and studies of IPS are flawed since they rest on problematic functional presumptions and do not consider the analytical implications of “integration” and “strategy” as practical cornerstones of IPS. Aiming at more conceptual and analytical clarity, I propose interpreting IPS in terms of a new, “reflexive” type of policy field that emerges from countermovements to two dominant trends that have shaped contemporary policy systems—integration as a countermovement to the continuing differentiation of policies, on one hand, and strategy as a flexible form of boundary work that contrasts with the pattern of institutionalization, on the other hand. I outline an analytical repertoire for systematically on the basis of this, taking account of policy integration and political strategy in contemporary policymaking. I conclude with some implications of my propositions for future policy research.

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Auf den Spuren eines Politikfeldes: Die Institutionalisierung von Internetpolitik in der Ministerialverwaltung

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2019

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Zusammenfassung Neue Politikfelder entstehen auch in alten Institutionen. Der Beitrag zeichnet am Beispiel der Internetpolitik in Deutschland die Institutionalisierung eines Politikfeldes nach. Auf der Grundlage einer Kombination von soziologischer Feldtheorie und diskursivem Institutionalismus und gestützt auf Organigramm-Historien, Interviews mit Ministerialbeamten und Behördenpublikationen nimmt er die Entstehung von internetpolitischen Abteilungen in zwei Ministerien in den Blick: dem Wirtschaftsministerium und dem Innenministerium. Der Aufbau von Abteilungen für Internetpolitik ist zugleich eine Form von Diskursinstitutionalisierung und eine Positionierung der Ministerien im Politikfeld, die sich um die Etablierung und Auslegung neuer gemeinwohlrelevanter Schutzgüter dreht. Neben der Wirtschaft und der nationalen Sicherheit tritt nun auch das Internet als Schutzgut hervor, das von den Ministerien im Kontext der bereits bestehenden Schutzgüter semantisch unterschiedlich, jedoch aufbauorganisatorisch ähnlich ausgelegt und als partiell autonomes Politikfeld institutionalisiert wird.

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Das Politikfeld als analytische Kategorie

Cited by 9 publications

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Wag the Dog: Governing German Rail from a Principal–Agent Perspective

Wag the Dog: Governing German Rail from a Principal–Agent Perspective

Integrative Political Strategies—Conceptualizing and Analyzing a New Type of Policy Field

Auf den Spuren eines Politikfeldes: Die Institutionalisierung von Internetpolitik in der Ministerialverwaltung

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