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Tanja A. Börzel
Jan 01, 2006 — Dec 31, 2017
The B2 research project inquires into the circumstances under which external actors contribute to effective and legitimate governance in areas of limited statehood. The project assumes that the empirical legitimacy of external actors, the degree of institutionalization of governance ...
Gunnar Folke Schuppert
Research Project B7 inquires as to the role of the law in areas of limited statehood. The points of departure are two central characteristics of these areas: the plurality of authorities, which claim their right to govern based on various sources of legitimacy, and the related plurality of ...
Bernd Ladwig
The research project inquires the possibility of legitimate governance under conditions of limited statehood. In the first funding period we worked on clarifying the concept of legitimacy. During the second funding period we dealt with two meta-problems of legitimacy. Firstly, in the horizontal ...
Stefan Esders
Jan 01, 2010 — Dec 31, 2017
The research project looks at the role played by the early medieval Christian church as a governance actor in ensuring legal certainty and public order. It asks as to what extent the close intertwining of ecclesiastic and secular institutions and sanctions can be understood as a means to safeguard ...
Klaus Mühlhahn
Nov 30, 2011 — Dec 31, 2017
This project investigates the process through which the Communist Party of China (CCP) managed to consolidate its control, minimize the challenges of limited state capacity, and effectively govern at the local level between 1949 and 1957. By means of empirical case studies we aim to uncover the ...
