This paper is about the relative impact of retirement and social class on individual attitudes towards welfare state policies in advanced industrial democracies. Which factor is more important in explaining individuals' social policy preferences: socio-economic background or retirement? How can...

This paper examines the formation of India's energy-policy strategy as an act of doubleedged diplomacy. After developing an analytical framework based on the two-level game approach to international relations (IR), it focuses on the domestic context of policy preference formation. India's energy...

Die vorherrschenden Auffassungen darüber, was Gegenstand staatlicher Gestaltungsmacht sein soll, haben sich im Zuge der neuzeitlichen Staatsentwicklung mehrfach geändert. Sie werden hier zu vier Diskursen - Polizeistaat, Rechtsstaat, Sozialstaat, Steuerungsstaat - verdichtet, welche im Sinne...