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The German core sustainability indicators are applied to determine the status of sustainable development (SD) of Germany’s federal states. As such processes depend on political measures, the chapter analyses the connection of the SD performance of federal states with the governing political parties using the Partial Order methodology. Based on the resulting Hasse diagrams and on the average heights (based on the set of linear extensions of the partial orders) the federal states Bavaria, Schleswig-Holstein, Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, Hesse, and Rhineland-Palatinate are compared. The comparison shows no unambiguous relation between the governing political parties and the development in a federal state. Other aspects explaining the respective SD performance could not be identified. To further analyze which aspects influence the sustainable development of federal states, the potential dependence on Germany’s federal government should be assessed.
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Hilckmann, A., Bach, V., Bruggemann, R., Ackermann, R., Finkbeiner, M. (2017). Partial Order Analysis of the Government Dependence of the Sustainable Development Performance in Germany’s Federal States. In: Fattore, M., Bruggemann, R. (eds) Partial Order Concepts in Applied Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45421-4_15
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