Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sectoral change. The concept is based on two interrelated influencing factors. The first is the...

This paper is about the relative impact of retirement and social class on individual attitudes towards welfare state policies in advanced industrial democracies. Which factor is more important in explaining individuals' social policy preferences: socio-economic background or retirement? How can...

This paper argues that the German system of vocational training is undergoing subtle but significant changes from a mainly collectivist system to a more segmentalist one. To make the argument, the paper first discusses the two logics of collectivism and segmentalism, and how the German system is...

Seit Anfang der 1970er-Jahre lässt sich eine graduelle Verschärfung der fiskalischen Situation moderner Staaten beobachten. Chronisch gewordene Defizite und eine dramatisch gestiegene Staatsverschuldung sind zu einer beherrschenden Rahmenbedingung wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Politik geworden. Das...

While the consequences of becoming an EU member state for national policies are usually the core concern of pre-membership debates and of post-accession assessments, studies on the effects of European integration on the political systems of the now fifteen member states have so far been less...

Die vorherrschenden Auffassungen darüber, was Gegenstand staatlicher Gestaltungsmacht sein soll, haben sich im Zuge der neuzeitlichen Staatsentwicklung mehrfach geändert. Sie werden hier zu vier Diskursen - Polizeistaat, Rechtsstaat, Sozialstaat, Steuerungsstaat - verdichtet, welche im Sinne...

Die Finanzierung der deutschen Einheit und die marktwirtschaftliche Transformation der sozialistischen Planökonomie der DDR belastete in besonderem Maß die öffentlichen Haushalte der Bundesrepublik. Konflikte gab es um den Finanzierungsbeitrag der Sozialversicherungen, um die...

This paper shows that a more accurate depiction of the development of China's private sector is gained by considering the complex interaction between bottom-up and topdown processes. First, the paper analyzes the general characteristics of Chinese capitalism to help understand and classify the...