Esping-Andersen's "Three World of Welfare Capitalism" has been the most influential contribution of recent years to the comparative welfare state research literature. According to Esping-Andersen, the welfare state basically comes in three variants: as a social-democratic, a conservative, or as...

Das Gesundheitsstrukturgesetz von 1992 hat gleich mehrfach langjährige gesundheitspolitische Reformblockaden durchbrochen. In diesem Aufsatz wird nach den Gründen für diesen überraschenden Reformerfolg gefragt in einem Politiksektor, der sich bislang aufgrund seiner institutionellen Gestalt...

In parliamentary systems, parties compete for votes and offices in the electoral arena but in many systems they also cooperate in the legislative arena. This paper examines the question of whether the government status of parties affects their legislative behaviour and, hence, policy outcomes....

This paper analyzes 'globalization' as the interplay between domestic and 'foreign' economic agents that seek to break up nationally contained and/or institutionally constrained markets with the aim of altering distributive outcomes in their favor. I take as my exemplary cases the recent opening...