Das New Public Management wurde angesichts staatlicher Budgetprobleme auch in Deutschland eingeführt, um im Bereich der öffentlichen Verwaltung Effizienz und Effektivität durch ökonomische Ansätze zu steigern. Insbesondere im sozialen Sektor fallen dem Staat Aufgaben zu, die durch...

This paper studies the determinants of partnership dissolution and focuses on the role of child support. We exploit the variation in child support liabilities driven by an important UK policy reform to separately identify the effects of children from the effect of child support liability. We...

This paper analyzes the contemporary emergence of neo-formalist and neo-functionalist approaches to law-making at a time when the state is seeking to reassert, reformulate and reconceptualize its regulatory competence, both domestically and transnationally. While the earlier turn to alternative...