On May 1st, 2004, the European Union (EU) carried out the most comprehensive enlargement since its establishment in 1957 with the accession of eight Central- and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) as well as Malta and Cyprus. Within this enlarged EU two major political aims were set up, namely...

"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

Die Arbeitswelt befindet sich in einem fundamentalen Wandel, der sich durch ein Wachstum von prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen und eine fortschreitende Ausdifferenzierung der Erwerbsformen auszeichnet. Ein neues Phänomen sind ›geförderte Existenzgründungen‹ von vormals arbeitslosen...

Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Beitrags steht der durch die Arbeitsmarktreformen in Deutschland eingeleitete qualitative Wandel in der Beziehung zwischen Individuum und Solidargemeinschaft bzw. zwischen Bürger/in und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Dieser Wandel spiegelt sich in veränderten...

Das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahren einen massiven Wandel seiner Regierungs- und Steuerungsfähigkeit erfahren, der im politikwissenschaftlichen Diskurs als neue Form der "Governance" beschrieben wird. Eine Erscheinungsform des konstatierten Wandels ist...

Direct job creation has long been a classic instrument of labour market policy, pursuing a number of potential goals. Recently in Germany, policies of this type have come under growing pressure. This is partly due to the increasingly scarce resources available for job creation measures. Taken...

The question whether and how warfare has influenced the development of advanced Western welfare states is contested. So far, scholarly work either focused on the trade-off between military and social spending or on case studies of individual countries. What is missing, however, is a systematic...

Public policy shapes the lives of individuals, and even more so if they depend on state support. But to what extent can well-being differences between individuals living in different European states be traced back to the specific national public policy designs? This paper tests the intervening...

The paper investigates paid work beyond retirement age in Germany and the UK. This comprises a combination of work, payments from a pension (or several pensions) and old age which is counter to the assumed finality of retirement and the corresponding standardised passage from end of work into...

Politics takes place in public communication and is part of public communication. Today, public communication is substantially determined by the media. This is also the case for the field of global social policy. The following study addresses the question of how global social policy and, in...