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Wendt, Claus; Dingeldey, Irene; Martens, Kerstin; … - 2007

In dem Beitrag wird der Wandel der Staatlichkeit in fünf Politikfeldern analysiert: in der Rechnungslegung, der Bildungspolitik, der Gesundheitspolitik, der Arbeitsmarktpolitik und innerhalb des Gesamtrahmens wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Maßnahmen. Die vergleichende Analyse unterschiedlicher...

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The welfare state and new challenge from the back door

Mattei, Paola (contributor) - 2007

1980s in Germany, Britain, France and Italy suggests a convergent and consistent process of homogenisation driven chiefly by institutional mimetic isomorphism. This new 'organisational settlement' is increasingly shaped by the structural autonomisation of individual service delivery units. This...

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Accounting and the welfare-state : the missing link

Oehr, Tim-Frederik; Zimmermann, Jochen - 2010

In recent years, accounting regulation has been internationalized with the extensive use and adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by nation-states, which points at least to a formal convergence between accounting regulatory systems. However, major differences between...

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Convergence and divergence in welfare state development : an assessment of education policy in OECD countries

Jakobi, Anja P.; Teltemann, Janna - 2009

In diesem Papier untersuchen wir den Wandel von Bildungspolitik in OECD Ländern, im besonderen Tendenzen zur Konvergenz. Vergleichbare Analysen in anderen Teilgebieten der Sozialpolitik sind zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass nur bedingt Konvergenzeffekte festzustellen sind, für den Bereich...

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Explaining the variety of social policy responses to economic crisis : how parties and welfare state structures interact

Starke, Peter; Kaasch, Alexandra; Hooren, Franca van - 2011

This paper maps and explains the reactions of four welfare states - Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden - to three global crisis situations - the oil shocks of the 1970s, the worldwide recession of the early 1990s, and the financial crisis from 2008 onwards. Two main conclusions...

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Labor market risks in times of welfare state transformation

Schwander, Hanna - 2015

implications of welfare state reforms on labor market risks in Continental Europe, focusing on the risk for unemployment and … temporary employment because these two forms of labor market risks have particularly strong effects on economic and social …-2011) I examine patterns of labor market risks and their distribution between groups with different skill and age levels and …

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Welfare state transformation : convergence and the rise of the supply side model

Obinger, Herbert; Starke, Peter - 2014

This paper describes welfare state transformation in OECD countries since the 1970s against the background of the post-war settlement. Relying on quantitative macro-data and qualitative information from the literature, we show that welfare states have converged, especially regarding various...

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The changing role of the state in the Dutch healthcare system

Götze, Ralf - 2010

This paper deals with the changing role of the state in the Dutch healthcare system. At the eve of the first oil crisis the Netherlands had a relatively compound healthcare system combining several characteristics of the three Western healthcare system types: National Health Service, social...

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Expanding the welfare state after the Golden Age : the case of Switzerland

Moser, Julia - 2005

This paper analyses whether Switzerland has still expanded its social programmes after the end of the so-called golden age. Quantitative evidence points to this trend and ana-lysing reforms in pensions, health insurance, unemployment insurance and family pol-icy reinforces this conclusion, with...

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Globalisation and the welfare state : a retrospective

Genschel, Philipp - 2004

There are basically three stories about the globalisation-welfare state nexus. The first story argues that globalisation is the cause of the chronic crisis of the welfare state. As national economies open to the international market, governments are forced to adapt to the imperatives of global...

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