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Who Is Who in Impeding Climate Protection
Who is Who in Impeding Climate Protection Links between politics and the energy industry The short route to climate collapse The UK meteorological offi ce forecast at the very beginning of the year that 2007 would be the warmest year since weather records began being made. The scientists there estimated that the global average temperature would be 0.54 degrees above the 14 degree average experienced over many years. The record so far, an average of 14.52 degrees, is held by 1998. 2005, which was similarly warm, went into the meteorologists’ record books on reaching an average of 14.65 degrees in the northern hemisphere. Findings made by the German meteorological service also confi rm the atmosphere to be warming. Shortly before the beginning of 2007 the service reported that the year 2006 had been one of the warmest years since weather records began being made in 1901, and the month of July had been the hottest ever since then. An average of 9.5 degrees was 1.3 degrees Celsius above the long-term average of 8.2 degrees. International climate experts are agreed that the global rise in temperature must stay below two degrees Celsius if the effects of climate change are to remain controllable. But the time corridor for the effective reduction of greenhouse gases damaging to the climate is getting narrower and narrower. In the last century already the Earth’s average temperature rose by 0.8 degrees. The experts in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change anticipate a further rise of up to 6.4 degrees by 2100. -
Die August-Ausgabe 2005 Des Niedersachsen Vorwärts
SPDN_Vorwaerts_0805_3a_RZ 08.08.2005 20:09 Uhr Seite 3 √NIEDERSACHSEN AUGUST: 2005 einwärts: Warum es sich zu kämpfen lohnt Mit Recht hat die CDU so ihre Probleme. Dass der für VON WOLFGANG JÜTTNER VORSIT- Oder darum, ob neue Kern- den Schutz der Niedersäch- ZENDER DER NIEDERSACHSEN-SPD kraftwerke gebaut werden sischen Verfassung zustän- und Niedersachsen zum dige Minister Uwe Schüne- Bis zum 18. September ist es Atomklo für ganz Deutsch- mann vom Bundesverfas- nicht mehr lang, die heiße land wird. Und um die Fra- sungsgericht zur Wahrung Wahlkampfphase hat ge, ob Arbeitnehmerinnen von Recht und Ordnung längst begonnen. Wir Sozi- undArbeitnehmer dem glo- verpflichtet werden muss- aldemokratinnen und Sozi- balen Kapitalismus schutz- te, markiert den einst- aldemokraten haben noch los ausgeliefert sein sollen. weiligen Tiefstand nieder- eine Menge aufzuholen. Wir Sozialdemokratin- sächsischer Regierungsge- Aber in den vergangenen nen und Sozialdemokraten schichte. Tagen hat sich gezeigt: Die haben allen Grund stolz zu Niedersachsens Minis- CDU wird nervös–zu Recht. sein auf das, was die Bundes- terpräsident Christian Erst versuchte Angela Mer- regierung in den vergange- Wulff glänzt einmal mehr kel beim TV-Duell zu knei- nen sieben Jahren erreicht durch Sprachlosigkeit. Das fen, dann verwechselte sie hat. Wir haben Deutsch- ist bezeichnend für diesen brutto und netto und ließ land aus der bleiernen Kohl- Messias des Mittelmaßes. sich immer neue Entschul- Zeit herausgeführt und an- Wulff handelt nach der digungen für ihre zahlrei- gepackt, was Schwarz-Gelb Devise: Eiskalt lächeln, nur chen Patzer einfallen. Es 16 Jahre lang ausgesessen nicht anecken und die Drek- wird immer deutlicher: hat. Wir haben die Sozial- ksarbeit anderen überlas- Frau Merkel kann es nicht. -
EUSA Boyleschuenemann April 15
The Malleable Politics of Activation Reform: the‘Hartz’ Reforms in Comparative Perspective Nigel Boyle[[email protected]] and Wolf Schünemann [[email protected]] Paper for 2009 EUSA Biennial Conference, April 25, Los Angeles. Abstract In this paper we compare the Hartz reforms in Germany with three other major labor market activation reforms carried out by center-left governments. Two of the cases, Britain and Germany, involved radically neoliberal “mandatory” activation policies, whereas in the Netherlands and Ireland radical activation change took a very different “enabling” form. Two of the cases, Ireland and Germany, were path deviant, Britain and the Netherlands were path dependent. We explain why Germany underwent “mandatory” and path deviant activation by focusing on two features of the policy discourse. First, the coordinative (or elite level) discourse was “ensilaged” sealing policy formation off from dissenting actors and, until belatedly unwrapped for enactment, from the wider communicative (legitimating) discourse. This is what the British and German cases had in common and the result was reform that viewed long term unemployment as personal failure rather than market failure. Second, although the German policy-making system lacked the “authoritative” features that facilitated reform in the British case, and the Irish policy- making system lacked the “reflexive” mechanisms that facilitated reform in the Dutch case, in both Germany and Ireland the communicative discourses were reshaped by novel institutional vehicles (the Hartz Commission in the German case, FÁS in the Irish case) that served to fundamentally alter system- constitutive perceptions about policy. In the Irish and German cases “government by commission” created a realignment of advocacy coalitions with one coalition acquiring a new, ideologically-dominant and path deviating narrative. -
Political Scandals, Newspapers, and the Election Cycle
Political Scandals, Newspapers, and the Election Cycle Marcel Garz Jil Sörensen Jönköping University Hamburg Media School April 2019 We thank participants at the 2015 Economics of Media Bias Workshop, members of the eponymous research network, and seminar participants at the University of Hamburg for helpful comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Spiegel Publishing for access to its news archive. Daniel Czwalinna, Jana Kitzinger, Henning Meyfahrt, Fabian Mrongowius, Ulrike Otto, and Nadine Weiss provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of Hamburg Media School. Corresponding author: Jil Sörensen, Hamburg Media School, Finkenau 35, 22081 Hamburg, Germany. Phone: + 49 40 413468 72, fax: +49 40 413468 10, email: [email protected] Abstract Election outcomes are often influenced by political scandal. While a scandal usually has negative consequences for the ones being accused of a transgression, political opponents and even media outlets may benefit. Anecdotal evidence suggests that certain scandals could be orchestrated, especially if they are reported right before an election. This study examines the timing of news coverage of political scandals relative to the national election cycle in Germany. Using data from electronic newspaper archives, we document a positive and highly significant relationship between coverage of government scandals and the election cycle. On average, one additional month closer to an election increases the amount of scandal coverage by 1.3%, which is equivalent to an 62% difference in coverage between the first and the last month of a four- year cycle. We provide suggestive evidence that this pattern can be explained by political motives of the actors involved in the production of scandal, rather than business motives by the newspapers. -