With the end of China's 11th Five-Year Plan approaching, this paper analyzes sub-national governments' implementation strategies to meet national energy efficiency targets. Previous research focuses on the way governance practices and decision-making structures shape implementation outcomes, yet...

This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and development support with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucratic reforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipal governments have...

China's national leaders see restructuring and diversification away from resourcebased, energy intensive industries as central goals in the coming years. This paper argues that the high turnover of leading cadres at the local level may hinder state-led greening growth initiatives. Frequent cadre...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools to promote a variety of public goals and policies. In the past years much attention has been given to the expected social benefits from deploying ICT in different fields (transportation, education, public participation...

Nach einer kurzen Thematisierung der Stadt als Ort der Integration, anknüpfend an Konzepte von Georg Simmel und Robert Park, befasst sich der Beitrag mit den inhaltlichen Ausrichtungen der policy, der Integrationspolitik von Städten. Empirische Grundlage ist eine Analyse von...

Mit der politique de la ville und der Sozialen Stadt wurden in Frankreich seit den 1970er Jahren und in Deutschland seit den 1990er Jahren quartiersbezogene Förderprogramme etabliert, die soziale Problemlagen durch Interventionen in spezifische Viertel beheben wollen. Begründung und...

Die Förderung der sogenannten "Migrantenökonomie" oder "ethnischen Ökonomie" hat sich im Zuge der Integrationsdebatten der vergangenen Jahre zu einem stadtpolitischen Interventionsfeld entwickelt. Kommunale Leitbilder und Integrationskonzepte bauen dabei auf dem Potenzialansatz auf, der in...

In the last decades many scholars have studied urban competition and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how urban competition is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known...

In the last decades many scholars have studied urban competition and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how urban competition is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known...