In diesem Arbeitspapier sollen die Annahmen über den amerikanischen Staat überprüft werden, die üblicherweise in der Wissenschaft gemacht werden: Die Unterscheidungen zwischen starkem und schwachem sowie zwischen aktivem und inaktivem Staat werden zurückgewiesen, da sie der heutigen...

The concept of global governance has emerged as a key theoretical approach since the 1990s. Applied to the transformation of international security, it has suggested a shift from the state-dominated bipolar system of the Cold War era to a new multipolar and multilateral security architecture in...

This paper discusses the fundamental changes in the American health care system during the past four decades. By applying a multidimensional framework, the changing role of the state in financing, service provision, and in the regulation of the health care system are scrutinized. The results...

In this paper we show that findings of an apparently instable popularity function of U.S. presidents, as reported in the previous literature, are likely the consequence of the common use of linear estimation techniques. Employing Penalized Spline Smoothing in the context of Additive Mixed Models...

The U.S. is often seen as being the paradigmatic case of the shareholder-oriented or market-based model to corporate governance, and described in terms of several inter-related elements: activist institutional investors, an open market for corporate control, independent outside directors on the...