Prof. Dr. Nina Kolleck (Universität Potsdam)
Prof. Dr. Helge Jörgens (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
Dr. Keith Goldstein
Bruna Rodriguez, M.A.
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36 months, 2023-2026
German Research Foundation (DFG)
GZ: KO 4997/10-1
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The aim of the project is to examine the emergence of Global Administrative Spaces in transnational climate policymaking. It builds systematically on research on international bureaucracies (Knill and Bauer 2016; Bauer et al. 2017; Ege et al. 2020), transnational administration (Ladi and Stone 2015; Moloney and Stone 2020; Stone and Moloney 2019), and Global Administrative Spaces (Kingsbury et al. 2005; Chiti and Wessel 2011), but also incorporates the broader literature on global climate governance architecture (Aldy and Stavins 2007; Biermann et al. 2009; Keohane and Victor 2011). The focus is primarily on the bureaucratic side of these governance arrangements, seeking answers to the following research questions: 1. How can we empirically observe, define, and analyze administrative structures beyond the territory of the nation-state? 2. How do global administrative spaces emerge? 3. How and to what extent do international public administrations (IPAs) exert power over transnational climate policymaking? 4. What influence do IPAs have on topic-specific political discourses within the global administrative space? Empirically, we rely on quantitative data collected through the social networks of International Public Administrations (IPAs). Additionally, we will gather further longitudinal data and analyze them using inferential social network analysis and natural language processing. Thus, we pursue a methodological triangulation to analyze the role of secretariats of international organizations in discourse coalitions on transnational climate policymaking. The proposed project builds systematically on my previous research. While in earlier projects, I examined social networks of international treaty secretariats in climate policy, this project aims to expand this research by applying new methods. We aim to analyze the emergence of administrative structures beyond nation-states (Kingsbury, Krisch, and Stewart 2005) and contribute to further theory-building.
Publications
Jörgens, H., Kolleck, N., & Well, M. (2024). International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance. The Role of Autonomy, Agency, and the Quest for Attention. Cambridge University Press.
Tindall, D., Kolleck, N., & McLevey, J. (2023). Social Network Analysis and Anthropogenetic Climate Change. Social Networks, Special Issue. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378873323000230
Jörgens, H., Kolleck, N. & Well, M. (2024). Introduction: Studying the Role and Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies. In H. Jörgens, N. Kolleck & M. Well (Eds.). International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance. The Role of Autonomy, Agency, and the Quest for Attention (pp. 1-26), Cambridge University Press.
Saerbeck, B., Jörgens, H., Goritz, A., Schuster, J. Well, M. & Kolleck, N. (2024). The Administrative Embeddedness of International Environmental Secretariats: Toward a Global Administrative Space? In H. Jörgens, N. Kolleck & M. Well (Eds.). International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance. The Role of Autonomy, Agency, and the Quest for Attention (pp. 201-227), Cambridge University Press.
Well, M., Jörgens, H., Saerbeck, B. & Kolleck, N. (2024). Environmental Treaty Secretariats as Attention-Seeking Bureaucracies: The Climate and Biodiversity Secretariats‘ Role in International Public Policymaking. In H. Jörgens, N. Kolleck & M. Well (Eds.). International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance. The Role of Autonomy, Agency, and the Quest for Attention (pp. 73-106), Cambridge University Press.
Eisenhauer, N. (…) Kolleck, N. et al. (2024): A belowground perspective on the nexus between biodiversity change, climate change, and human well-being, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 3 (2), https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.12108
Mahecha, M. D., Bastos, A., Bohn, F. J., Eisenhauer, N., Feilhauer, H., Hickler, T., Kolleck, N. et al. (2024). Biodiversity and climate extremes: Known interactions and research gaps. Earth’s Future, 12, e2023EF003963. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003963
Creutzig, F., Becker, S., Berrill, P. (…) Kolleck, N. et al. (2024). Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century. Nature. npj Urban Sustainability. 4, 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00168-7
Goritz, A., Jörgens, H., & Kolleck, N. (2023). A matter of information – The influence of international bureaucracies in global climate governance networks. Social Networks, 75, pp.4-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2022.02.009.
Tindall, D., Kolleck, N., & McLevey, J. (2023). Social networks and anthropogenic climate change. Social Networks. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378873323000230.
Goritz, A., Jörgens, H., & Kolleck, N. (2022). International Public Administrations on Twitter: A Comparison of Digital Authority in Global Climate Policy. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice (JCPA), 24(3), 271-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2020.1824548.
Goritz, A., Jörgens, H., & Kolleck, N. (2022). A matter of information – The influence of international bureaucracies in global climate governance networks. Social Networks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2022.02.009.
Jörgens, H., Kolleck, N., Goritz, A., Well, M., Schuster, J. & Saerbeck, B. (2023). International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance. In H. Jörgens, C. Knill & Y. Steinbach (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Policy (pp. 201-219). London, New York: Routledge.
Kolleck, N., Jörgens, H., Well, M., Saerbeck, B., Goritz, A., & Schuster, J. (2023). Behind the Scenes: How International Treaty Secretariats Use Social Networks to Exert Influence in the Global Climate Policy Regime. In C. Knill & Y. Steinbach (Eds.), International Public Administrations in Global Public Policy: Sources and Effects of Bureaucratic Influence (pp. 201-219). London, New York: Routledge.
