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...

While most comparative studies on welfare systems rely on the Three Worlds of Welfare (TWW) classification by Esping-Andersen as a benchmark, the representativeness of such taxonomy has been questioned due to the profound changes that have characterized welfare systems. A growing body of...

Chapter 1: Introduction - European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After -- Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies -- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited -- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation -- Chapter 4:...

This book is written in honor of Horst Brezinski and explores a wide and diverse range of topics related to comparative economic studies. Containing contributions from a number of former Presidents of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the chapters discuss the hard budget...