Die anhaltende Debatte über Einkommensteuerreformen in Deutschland scheint paradox. Alle Parteien berufen sich scheinbar auf dieselben Prinzipien, trotzdem können sie keine umfassende Einigung erzielen. Steffen Ganghof analysiert die Reformpolitik im Schnittfeld von internationalem Wettbewerb,...

Esping-Andersen's "Three World of Welfare Capitalism" has been the most influential contribution of recent years to the comparative welfare state research literature. According to Esping-Andersen, the welfare state basically comes in three variants: as a social-democratic, a conservative, or as...

Das Gesundheitsstrukturgesetz von 1992 hat gleich mehrfach langjährige gesundheitspolitische Reformblockaden durchbrochen. In diesem Aufsatz wird nach den Gründen für diesen überraschenden Reformerfolg gefragt in einem Politiksektor, der sich bislang aufgrund seiner institutionellen Gestalt...

In diesem Buch wird den im gesundheitspolitischen Einigungsprozeß aufbrechenden Konflikten und ihrer zumeist weit zurückreichenden Vorgeschichte nachgegangen. Anhand dieser Darstellungen werden die Faktoren analysiert, die zu der gesundheitspolitischen Trans- formationsentscheidung geführt...

Studies of the welfare state usually try to find out which factors have contributed to its ascendancy since the end of the nineteenth century and which factors explain the various approaches different countries took in providing a new social insurance to cover new social risks in industrialized...

In parliamentary systems, parties compete for votes and offices in the electoral arena but in many systems they also cooperate in the legislative arena. This paper examines the question of whether the government status of parties affects their legislative behaviour and, hence, policy outcomes....

Most efforts to detect the consequences of divided government in German federalism by analyzing legislative statistics have been unsuccessful. Therefore, there is still much debate in Germany about the gridlock potential of divided government, as there is in the United States. Using a...

This paper analyzes 'globalization' as the interplay between domestic and 'foreign' economic agents that seek to break up nationally contained and/or institutionally constrained markets with the aim of altering distributive outcomes in their favor. I take as my exemplary cases the recent opening...