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Research indicates that evidence-based policy making is most successful when public administrators refer to diversified information portfolios. With the rising prominence of social media in the last decade, this paper argues that governments can benefit from integrating this publically available, user-generated data through the technique of social media analytics (SMA). There are already several initiatives set up to predict future policy issues, e.g. for the policy fields of crisis mitigation or migrant integration insights. The authors analyse these endeavours and their potential for providing more efficient and effective public policies. Furthermore, they scrutinise the challenges to governmental SMA usage in particular with regards to legal and ethical aspects. Reflecting the latter, this paper provides forward-looking recommendations on how these technologies can best be used for future policy making in a legally and ethically sound manner.

"Social-Media-Analyse (SMA)-Techniken ermöglichen es zehn Jahre nach der Einführung von Facebook, das Web-2.0-Publikationsverhalten von BürgerInnen auch in gesellschaftlich relevanten Politikfeldern wie der Integration von MigrantInnen für wissenschaftliche Institutionen und öffentliche Verwaltungen zu erforschen. Am Fallbeispiel des von der EU-Kommission geförderten Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekts 'UniteEurope' untersucht der vorliegende Artikel die ethischen Bedingungen, unter denen solche Analysen stattfinden können. Dabei stehen zwei Aspekte im Vordergrund: Zum einen geht es um den Schutz der Privatsphäre von AutorInnen der erforschten Inhalte. Zum anderen beleuchtet der Artikel Möglichkeiten von Social-Media-Analyse-Technologien, die fehlende gesellschaftliche Repräsentativität im Internet zu berücksichtigen, ohne die Ergebnisse quantitativ zu gewichten." (Autorenreferat)

This study examines three theses on local integration policies by a qualitative comparative case study of integration policies in three cities in three different countries (Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam). We found little evidence of a congruent local dimension of integration policies. Local policies resemble their national policy frameworks fairly well in terms of policy approaches and domains. Our multi-level perspective shows that this is not the result of top-down hierarchical governance, but rather of a multilevel dynamic of two-way interaction. Local policy legacies and local politics matter and national policies are also influenced by local approaches of integration.

This study examines three theses on local integration policies by a qualitative comparative case study of integration policies in three cities in three different countries (Berlin, Malmö, and Rotterdam). We found little evidence of a congruent local dimension of integration policies. Local policies resemble their national policy frameworks fairly well in terms of policy approaches and domains. Our multi-level perspective shows that this is not the result of top-down hierarchical governance, but rather of a multilevel dynamic of two-way interaction. Local policy legacies and local politics matter and national policies are also influenced by local approaches of integration.