Politics, policies and communication of interest at an early stage of modernization. Reports of the District President of Potsdam 1867-1914

该项目研究政治利益的沟通。它采用了多方法设计：内容分析与文本(历史)批评相结合。其理论框架与一个理性选择模型相联系：布坎南和图洛克的同意演算概念。普鲁士和德国的现代化政策，特别是环境政治和基础设施政治是研究项目的主要历史来源。区主席的报告，总统上下的民政部门的报告，民政部门的通讯是研究项目的主要历史来源。波茨坦地区为我们提供了一些优势：它的中心性，政治、社会和经济的重要性，社会变革的动力，政治交流的多样性。地区主席的报告体现了政治利益网络，为研究人员提供了干预因素的反馈回路，并注明政治记录的术语和方式。项目将分两部分出版：政治沟通的历史和解读(第一部分)，精选资料和报告的版本。

The project researches the communication of political interests. It uses a multi methodological design: conten analysis combined with textual (historical) criticism. Its theoretical frame is linked to a rational choice model: the calculus of consent concept of Buchanan and Tullock. The policies of modernization in Prussia and Germany, especially environmental politics and infrastructure politics, are subject of the research project.Reports of the District Presidents, reports of civil authorities ranked above and below the Presidents, and news correspondencies of the civil authorities serve as the main historical sources of the research project.The Potsdam district provides us with some advantages: its centrality, the political, social and economic importance, the dynamics of social change, the diversity of political communication.The reports of the District Presidents exemplify networks of political interests, provide the researchers with feedback loops of intervening factors, and indicate at terms and modes of political log-rolling.The project shall be published in two parts: history and interpretation of the political communication (Part 1), edition of selected sources and reports.