Politics

The series of publications ‘Policy Analysis and Public Administration’ provides a forum for current research findings and contributions to the debate that relate to the ‘working state’, which address issues of state and administrative organization, policy formulation, and implementation in a broader sense.The series is published in cooperation with the ‘Policy Analysis and Public Administration’ section of the German Political Science Association. The series aims to reflect the thematic breadth and current state of knowledge in policy and public administration research in Germany; to provide in-depth analyses and contributions to the discussion on the current challenges facing the state and public administration in Germany, as well as in European and global comparative perspective; and to make these works accessible to both academic and practical audiences.

Civil society has gained importance in the social sciences. Civil society organisations are active in numerous policy fields. They engage in advocacy as well as service delivery. Members, volunteers, philanthropists and sponsors are important stakeholders of civil society organisations. The series provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the theory and practice of civil society. The editors invite contributions from the various disciplines of the social sciences, especially business and economics, history, political science, sociology and law. The series is comparative in nature and covers a wide range of topics from civic engagement, volunteering, protest movements and corporate citizenship to public-private partnerships between state, market and civil society.

This series deals with intercultural and international aspects of the media and communication, particularly focusing on transcultural phenomena which arise from globalisation, cultural homogenisation and cultural synchronisation. It contains works from a variety of fields written in either German or English.

The series of publications entitled “Rekonstruktive Weltpolitikforschung” publishes studies which address the pulsating developments in world politics and share an interest in adopting approaches to a subject that are exploratory and allow for theories to be devised as well as in the continued development of the research methods they employ. These studies all have a mutual formal theoretical basis which neutralises and integrates the typical clashes between talking and taking action, theory and practice, or understanding and explaining. Moreover, the authors of these studies all agree that events in global politics are determined by a universe of interpretations and convictions, intersubjective rules and norms and systemically induced effects whose substance can be reconstructed in detail.

The European Union Liaison Committee of Historians series offers new insights in the history of the European Communities and the European Union as a major part of contemporary history. Based on research in the archives of the EU and its member states and discussed on a European level the collective volumes and monograph studies published here provide milestones in the understanding of the different periods and fields of European integration and promote a coherent European perspective on its history.