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Kommunalpolitik in Deutschland (Seminar)

Inhalt: Kommunen bilden die kleinste Untersuchungseinheit im Staatsaufbau der BRD. Zugleich sind sie die Keimzellen unserer Demokratie. Gemeinden und Städte können als Selbstverwaltungskörperschaften auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken. Aber auch diese Ebene ist einem steten Wandel im Rahmen der Verwaltungsmodernisierung unterworfen.

Policy and Politics in Multilevel Systems: Climate Change and Democracy (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Thomas Saretzki

Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 30.03.2009 - 03.07.2009 | C 7.320 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Climate Change will not only have serious ecological, economic, and social impacts for generations to come. Climate change is also widely held to challenge the existing political institutions and ways of deliberation and decision-making in international politics and within nation states. Considering the possibilities to deal with global warming successfully, some critics even claim that democracy itself is on trial. In their view, the institutions of modern democracy appear not as enabling conditions but as constraints that restrict efficient problem solving with respect to climate change. Others argue, quite to the contrary, that a further democratization of policy-making is required to produce fair and effective climate change policies. In this perspective, democratization is the best, if not the only way to overcome the unreadiness of people to support the tough policies necessary to solve the problems of global warming. This course starts with some conceptual clarifications (democracy, multilevel systems) and introduces students to empirical studies on the ecological problem solving capacity and performance of different political systems. In a second part, the course focuses on the challenges that climate change poses for democratic deliberation and decision-making in multilevel systems. Finally, students will discuss the opportunities and constraints of democratic policy-making from the perspectives of different models of democracy.