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The workshop discusses the emergence of policy fields from a comparative and theoretical perspective. The aim of the workshop is to continue the systematic analysis of policy fields which was initiated in spring 2014 during the annual symposium of the DVPW section “Policy Analysis and Administrative Sciences”. Some contributions to this symposium were recently published in a special issue of the German journal “der moderne staat”.

Der Vortrag behandelt Big Data als Datenphänomen. Gemeint ist damit, dass im Zuge der Digitalisierung und Vernetzung der Gesellschaft immer größere Datenmengen, in immer höherer Geschwindigkeit produziert werden. Diese Daten zeichnen sich durch eine große Vielfalt und Relationalität aus: Mehr und mehr Phänomene werden als Daten abgebildet und in einen Zusammenhang gebracht. Der Vortrag diskutiert anhand einiger Beispiele die Dilemmata, die sich daraus für die Regulierung von Big Data ergeben.

Big data methods provide several new methodological opportunities to inquire social phenomena. Only very recently have scholars in international relations used such methods to analyze, for instance, bilateral trade networks. So far, however, international institutions, like treaties or International Organizations, have not been a field where big data methods were applied. The current paper seeks to highlight the advantages of big data methods, both from a research design and analytical perspective, for the study of international treaties.

No matter if it's music or books, food or opinions - Big Data knows what you love. Or who you love. It will help bring down crime, empower the weak, eradicate poverty or overcome deadly diseases. This hype laden rhetoric surrounding Big Data oozes missionary zeal. That's partly because the conversation on the issue is dominated by those who stand to gain most from it: the high priests from Silicon Valley, corporate tech evangelists, and their start-up disciples around the globe, as well as their supporting acts in the wider business world, media and government.