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Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: Six european countries compared

Kriesi, Hanspeter; Grande, Edgar; Lachat, Romain; … - 2005

In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...

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Prospects for a European welfare state: Lessons from welfare state development in six OECD-Federations

Obinger, Herbert; Leibfried, Stephan; Castles, Francis G. - 2005

This paper uses the findings of a very recent major international research collaboration on the impact of federal arrangements on the development of the welfare state to explore the possibilities of progress beyond Europe's present diversity of nation-state welfare standards. These findings -...

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Mapping legitimacy discourses in democratic nation states: Great Britain, Switzerland, and the Unites States compared

Hurrelmann, Achim; Krell-Laluhová, Zuzana; Schneider, … - 2005

ausgewählten Printmedien aus Großbritannien, der Schweiz und den USA veröffentlicht wurde. Es zeigen sich deutliche Unterschiede …

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Expanding the welfare state after the Golden Age: The case of Switzerland

Moser, Julia - 2005

.h. nach dem Ende des so genannten Goldenen Zeitalters. Die leitende Frage ist, ob die Schweiz ihre Sozialprogramme in dieser … Veränderungen dürfen aber nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass auch in der Schweiz ein gewisser Rückbau des Wohlfahrtsstaates … systematischen race to the bottom in der Schweiz. Bezüglich der Ausgabendaten muss allerdings berücksichtigt werden, dass diese nicht …

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Education policy networks in a comparative perspective: Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain and New Zealand

Nagel, Alexander-Kenneth; Knodel, Philipp - 2009

- Deutschland, Schweiz, Großbritannien und Neuseeland - vergleichend analysiert. Anhand der Befunde lässt sich eine …

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Assessing the effects of a road surfacing cartel in Switzerland

Hüschelrath, Kai; Leheyda, Nina; Beschorner, Patrick … - 2009

The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...

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Veränderung der leistungsabhängigen Schwerverkehrsabgabe in Abhängigkeit der Streckenbelastung

Müller, Sven; Kless, Sascha - 2007

Die bisherige Diskussion bezüglich Straßennutzungsgebühren konzentrierte sich überwiegend auf mögliche Verlagerungseffekte auf andere Verkehrsträger. Eine ver-kehrssteuernde Wirkung im Straßennetz ist durch die kilometer- und typabhängige Entrichtung der Maut vernachlässigt worden. In...

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Innovation, competition and incentives for R&D

Wörter, Martin; Rammer, Christian; Arvanitis, Spyros - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on...

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Do the age profiles of health care expenditure really steepen over time? New evidence from Swiss cantons

Felder, Stefan; Werblow, Andreas - 2008

The red herring hypothesis contends that the high health care expenditure in old age is caused by proximity to death rather than calendar age. Dissenters point to longitudinal data and claim that health care expenditure age profiles tend to steepen over time. The present paper tests the...

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Geographic concentration and spatial inequality: Two decades of EPO patenting at the level of European micro regions

Christ, Julian P. - 2010

This paper contributes with empirical findings to the research on structural inequality and geographic concentration of European inventorship activity at the level of European micro regions. We analyze the spatial structure and dynamics of 43 technology fields (ISI-SPRU-OST concordance) and 6...

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