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Digitale Souveränität : Technikutopien und Gestaltungsansprüche demokratischer Politik

Misterek, Fokko - 2017

public awareness led to an intense debate in Europe. Under the umbrella term "digital sovereignty," the opportunities and … demonstrate the need for digital sovereignty. After describing this concept as promoted by the German coalition government formed … in 2013, I will argue that an expanded concept of digital sovereignty could contribute to the realization of the …

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Taking capitalism seriously : toward an institutionalist approach to contemporary political economy

Streeck, Wolfgang - 2010

This paper outlines an institutionalist political economy approach to capitalism as a specific type of social order. Social science institutionalism considers social systems to be structured by sanctioned rules of obligatory behavior. Its perspective is one of collective ordering, or governance,...

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E pluribus unum? : Varieties and commonalities of capitalism

Streeck, Wolfgang - 2010

The paper reviews the origins of the comparative study of capitalism and of the diverse approaches applied to it in contemporary political economy. It distinguishes four models accounting for differences in the institutional make-up of national capitalist economies, which it refers to as the...

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The politics of public debt : neoliberalism, capitalist development, and the restructuring of the state

Streeck, Wolfgang - 2013

Rising public debt has been widespread in democratic-capitalist political economies since the 1970s, generally accompanied among other things by weak economic growth, rising unemployment, increasing inequality, growing tax resistance, and declining political participation. Following an initial...

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Capitalism as a system of contingent expectations : toward a sociological microfoundation of political economy

Beckert, Jens - 2012

Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of social interaction in the economy. The paper argues that economic sociology can provide a...

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Framing moral markets : the cultural legacy of social movements in an emerging market category

Schiller-Merkens, Simone - 2013

One challenge facing research on categories is to explain their content and the extent to which they gain meaning from cultural material that originates from moral arenas. This article suggests that categories are an outcome of strategic framing activities by which market members draw on...

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Competing tactics : how the interplay of tactical approaches shapes movement outcomes on the market for ethical fashion

Balsiger, Philip - 2012

Social movements use a variety of tactical approaches to change markets. Through a case study of ethical fashion in Switzerland, this paper looks at how the interplay between different tactical approaches pursued by movement actors shapes the growth of the ethical clothing market. Most studies...

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Judicial politics in the European Union : its impact on national opportunity structures for gender equality

Tesoka, Sabrina - 1999

The paper investigates the proposition that the impact of European judicial politics on national modes of governance in the field of gender equality is influenced by domestic mobilisation. Domestic mobilisation refers to activities in EU member-states aimed at ensuring that public and private...

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Wem wird gegeben? : Matthäus-Effekte und geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt für Filmschauspieler

Lutter, Mark - 2012

Reputation und Erfolgsanhäufungen spielen insbesondere in der postfordistischen Arbeitswelt eine bedeutsame Rolle. Das multiplikative Zusammenwirken zwischen derartigen „Matthäus-Effekten“ und geschlechtsspezifischen Ungleichheiten ist allerdings bislang kaum Gegenstand soziologischer...

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Is there a closure penalty? : cohesive network structures, diversity, and gender inequalities in career advancement

Lutter, Mark - 2013

That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. How different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement is less clear, however. Qualitative research suggests that women face disadvantages in project-based labor markets where recruitment...

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