This paper addresses the current discussion on links between party politics and production regimes. Why do German Social Democrats opt for more corporate governance liberalization than the CDU although, in terms of the distributional outcomes of such reforms, one would expect the situation to be...

AbstractIt is a central claim of the national competitiveness literature that firms exploit the comparative advantages of their environment by choosing to pursue the product market strategy that is facilitated by national financial- and labour-market institutions. Other­wise, so goes the...

Abstract Treaty changes at the Amsterdam summit (1997) established employment policy as an official part of EU policy. European institutions not only gained influence in a policy area that formerly had been a national prerogative but, furthermore, the "open method of coordination" was introduced...