Die Gesellschaft wandelt sich zu einer dienstleistenden Informationsgesellschaft. Die Ökonomie sprengt mit Hilfe der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung und digitalisierten Kommunikation die Grenzen des Nationalstaates. Angesichts dessen muß sich der Staat modernisieren. Der Sozialstaat, die...

Introduction -- Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes -- Beneficial involvement -- Rising demands and ungovernability -- Legitimation crisis: value for meaning -- The welfare backlash and a rational opposition -- Entrenched interests and 'varieties of capitalism' -- Policy reforms: designing...

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

The effect of identity, as socially constructed by race and gender, on social policies has been widely examined in policy analysis. Policy analysis would be improved by a wider discussion that includes the influence of social-psychological constructs on social provision. We fill this gap by...