Publications

In Malawi, informal off-farm labour (ganyu) has often been described as a survival strategy which eventually drives poor rural households into even further destitution. Based on data from the Second I...chevron_right

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) aims to enhance the efficiency of the Kyoto Protocol by providing greenhouse gas emission credits from projects in developing countries. Its unequal distribution ...chevron_right

The World Bank is increasingly active in the area of climate change mitigation. While it justifies this engagement with its poverty reduction objective and its capacity to pave the way for new busines...chevron_right

Since the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio 1992, bi- and multilateral donors stress that development assistance has increasingly been oriented towards climate friendly interventions...chevron_right

This paper compares the high politicization of ethnicity in Kenya to the low politicization in Tanzania by tracing the impact of ethnic structures, colonial administration, land distribution and natio...chevron_right

This paper proposes a formal model explaining the benefits that political parties derive from apparentments – or coalitions of several electoral lists – based on their alliance strategies and relative...chevron_right

This article examines whether the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) can promote low-carbon cities. It asks whether the CDM can motivate cities to take climate action or help them to o...chevron_right

This paper suggests that the left–right scale corresponds to a curve in a two-dimensional political space rather than to a straight line. Dimensionality is thus ambiguous, which is a situation analogo...chevron_right

This paper examines the democratic legitimacy of decision-making in urban planning processes since the 1990s. The study consists of qualitative comparisons of two recent conversions of former industri...chevron_right

This paper investigates the consequences of such associations for the voting decision process. The results also show that this variation is related to issue ownership. Issue salience, by contrast, doe...chevron_right

Diese Publikation befasst sich mit dem Abstimmungsverhalten der Bürger des schweizerischen Kantons Schaffhausen, der als einziger Kanton eine sanktionierte Stimm- und Wahlpflicht kennt. Die Autorin hi...chevron_right

This paper explores the impact of expanded opportunities for software patenting on the innovation-model in the free/open source software (FOSS) domain. It discusses the issue of patenting in tradition...chevron_right

Diese Publikation untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der politischen Repräsentation der islamistisch gesinnten Bevölkerung in den Organen der Legislative und dem Ausmass an islamistisch-extremistisc...chevron_right

This thesis analyzes the correlation between negative freshwater availability and the outbreak of local violent conflict in Yemen. It qualitatively traces the underlying mechanisms between the allocat...chevron_right

This paper examines the effects of ethnic diversity on a country's education outcomes. Drawing on theories on social sanctioning, clientelism and politicized ethnicity, the author statistically tests ...chevron_right