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Politik ist auf wissenschaftliche Beratung angewiesen - nicht nur um gute Entscheidungen zu treffen, sondern auch um ihre Entscheidungen gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit zu legitimieren. Gerade in Bezug auf die Legislative stellt das Legitimationsproblem die zentrale Herausforderung für die Integration wissenschaftlicher Beratung in die demokratische Gestaltung von Politik dar. In der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik hat das Parlament gegenüber der Regierung jedoch erst mit einiger zeitlicher Verzögerung eine eigenständige und regierungsunabhängige Beratungsstruktur aufgebaut und institutionell etabliert. Gegenstand dieses Buches ist eine politiktheoretische Einordnung der verschiedenen Formen von Politikberatung des Parlaments in Deutschland und wie sie sich in das Netzwerk bestehender politischer Institutionen fügen ...

Abstract
Many people today are concerned about the implications of climate change for their personal reproductive decisions. Some have transformed such concerns into activism by engaging in a "birth strike" and publicly announcing their decision not to procreate because of climate change. This article draws on Hannah Arendt to examine the political meaning and significance of birth strikes. It makes three basic points. First, by highlighting the human condition of being born, what Arendt called natality, birth strikes have illuminated a distinctive set of threats and possibilities for climate politics. Second, due to modern consumerism and instrumentalism, which Arendt saw as the dominance of labor and work over action, birth strikes have been misperceived as advocating a reduction in personal carbon footprints and global population growth. Third, birth strikes have clarified some of the challenges for efforts to link the individual and collective dimensions of climate responsibility.

This essay first examines a few key aspects of the erosion of public university funding in the United States, showing how the ideal of value-free science has undermined efforts to defend a conception of universities as public goods. Then it considers how advocates of California's Proposition 30, a ballot initiative that restored some public university funding, frequently adopted the same logic of privatization they sought to counteract.