Georg Wenzelburger - Böcker

Whereas some Western democracies have turned toward substantially tougher law and order policies, others have not. How can we account for this discrepancy? In The Partisan Politics of Law and Order, Georg Wenzelburger argues that partisan politics have shaped the development of law and order policies in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Wenzelburger establishes an integrated framework based on issue competition, institutional context, and policy feedback as the driving factors shaping penal policy. Using a large-scale quantitative analysis of twenty Western industrialized countries covering the period from 1995 to 2012, supplemented by case studies in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Sweden, Wenzelburger presents robust empirical evidence for the central role of political parties in law-and-order policy-making. By demonstrating how the configuration of party systems and institutional context affect law and order policies, this book addresses an understudied but key dynamic in penal legislation. The argument and evidence presented here will be of interest to political scientists, sociologists, criminologists, and criminal justice scholars.

This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s. These include the extent of path dependency in mature welfare states, the usage of so-called "invisible" policy instruments for hiding cutbacks, and the role of partisanship – on whether the ideological color of the incumbent affects policy – which have been analysed in depth by examining the new dataset presented in this book.This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners studying, and working in, welfare and the welfare state, and more broadly to political science, sociology and social policy.

We live in an age of insecurity. The Global Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the climate crisis are just the most evident examples of shocks that have increased the level of insecurity among elites and citizens in recent years. And yet there is ample evidence that insecurity is not equally distributed across populations.Bringing together disciplines such as political science, criminology, sociology, and anthropology and combining quantitative and qualitative studies from a wide range of rich and middle-income countries, this collection presents a new framework for exploring the two key social challenges of our times – insecurity and inequality – together. The volume analyses the nature, causes and distribution of subjective insecurities and how various actors use or respond to unequal security. The essays cover a host of themes including the unequal spatial distribution of (in)security, unequal access to security provision in relation to crime and welfare, the impact of insecurity on political attitudes as well as policy responses and the political exploitation of insecurity.An important contribution to debates across several social scientific disciplines as well as current public debate on insecurity and politics, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of criminology, social policy, peace and conflict studies, politics and international relations, sociology, development studies and economics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and government think tanks.

We live in an age of insecurity. The Global Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the climate crisis are just the most evident examples of shocks that have increased the level of insecurity among elites and citizens in recent years. And yet there is ample evidence that insecurity is not equally distributed across populations.Bringing together disciplines such as political science, criminology, sociology, and anthropology and combining quantitative and qualitative studies from a wide range of rich and middle-income countries, this collection presents a new framework for exploring the two key social challenges of our times – insecurity and inequality – together. The volume analyses the nature, causes and distribution of subjective insecurities and how various actors use or respond to unequal security. The essays cover a host of themes including the unequal spatial distribution of (in)security, unequal access to security provision in relation to crime and welfare, the impact of insecurity on political attitudes as well as policy responses and the political exploitation of insecurity.An important contribution to debates across several social scientific disciplines as well as current public debate on insecurity and politics, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of criminology, social policy, peace and conflict studies, politics and international relations, sociology, development studies and economics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and government think tanks.

This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s. These include the extent of path dependency in mature welfare states, the usage of so-called "invisible" policy instruments for hiding cutbacks, and the role of partisanship – on whether the ideological color of the incumbent affects policy – which have been analysed in depth by examining the new dataset presented in this book.This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners studying, and working in, welfare and the welfare state, and more broadly to political science, sociology and social policy.

Das Buch gibt eine praxisnahe Einführung in weiterführende regressionsanalytische Verfahren für Politikwissenschaftler. Aufbauend auf einer eingehenden Diskussion der Grundlagen der Regressionsanalyse werden Interaktionseffekte, die logistische Regression, die Mehrebenenanalyse, gepoolte Zeitreihenmodelle sowie Survival-Verfahren dargestellt. Ziel des Buches ist es ist es, ein Verständnis für die grundlegende Funktionsweise der weiterführenden Methoden, ihre Vorzüge und Probleme zu schaffen und insbesondere fortgeschrittenen Studierenden den praktischen Einstieg in die Verwendung dieser Methoden zu erleichtern.

Nach einem guten oder sehr guten Abschluss eines Diplom-, Magister-, Master- oder Staatsexamensstudiums stellt sich für viele Absolventen die Frage, ob sie ihre akademische Karriere fortsetzen sollen. Der Promotionsratgeber Politikwissenschaft hilft bei der Orientierung in dieser oftmals schwierigen Phase. Er gibt einen Überblick über die Möglichkeiten zur Promotion in der Politikwissenschaft und ist ein Leitfaden für die Bewältigung von Problemen, die bei der Vorbereitung und Durchführung eines solchen Projekts auftreten können. Mithilfe von Erfahrungsberichten zeigt der Ratgeber plastisch, dass es nicht den einen, sondern ganz verschiedene Wege zum Doktortitel gibt. Das Buch richtet sich an aktuelle und potenzielle Doktoranden und ist speziell auf die Politikwissenschaft zugeschnitten.

Nach einem guten oder sehr guten Abschluss eines Diplom-, Magister-, Master- oder Staatsexamensstudiums stellt sich für viele Absolventen die Frage, ob sie ihre akademische Karriere fortsetzen sollen. Der Promotionsratgeber Soziologie hilft bei der Orientierung in dieser oftmals schwierigen Phase. Er gibt einen Überblick über die Möglichkeiten zur Promotion in der Soziologie und ist ein Leitfaden für die Bewältigung von Problemen, die bei der Vorbereitung und Durchführung eines solchen Projekts auftreten können. Mithilfe von Erfahrungsberichten zeigt der Ratgeber plastisch, dass es nicht den einen, sondern ganz verschiedene Wege zum Doktortitel gibt. Das Buch richtet sich an aktuelle und potenzielle Doktoranden und ist speziell auf die Soziologie zugeschnitten.