This paper uses an original dataset from a survey conducted in Switzerland in 2007 to explore the dynamics of education policy preferences. This issue has largely been neglected so far as most studies on welfare state attitudes do not look at preferences for education. We argue that education...

This paper examines the determinants of the timing of public pension policy retrenchments in 14 affluent democracies. Available research does not satisfactorily capture the multidimensionality of these legislative events, because it relies on indicators of pension policy provisions for current...

In a recent article, Caporaso and Tarrow have argued that the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is increasingly moving in a social policy direction that will ultimately put European politics on a “Polanyian” course. We take issue with their claim and distinguish three...

How have neoliberal reform policies changed Turkey's political economy? The aim of this paper is to counter claims of convergence towards a liberal capitalist order. Given the historical dynamics of the political embeddedness of Turkey's economy, after 1980, transformations in the state and the...

Dieses Papier beschreibt die Ergebnisse der telefonischen Befragung eines repräsentativen Samples westdeutscher Professoren an wissenschaftlichen Hochschulen hinsichtlich einiger Bedingungen ihrer Forschungstätigkeit. Dabei werden insbesondere Veränderungen seit Mitte der siebziger Jahre und...

The literature notes an increasing trend towards labor market stratification and dualization in coordinated market economies such as Germany. Labor market insiders and insider-oriented cross-class coalitions are usually identified as the driving forces behind these developments. This paper adds...

Wie entstehen Erfolgskonzentrationen? Während das Winner-take-all-Phänomen bisher als Konzentrationsprozess auf der Nachfrageseite durch massenhaft gleichförmige Kaufentscheidungen der Konsumenten begriffen wurde, sind Bedingungen und Konstellationen auf der Anbieterseite wenig...

That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. How different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement is less clear, however. Qualitative research suggests that women face disadvantages in project-based labor markets where recruitment...