Wie gelingt eine gesellschaftliche Transformation zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit aufregionaler Ebene? Durch einen intensiven Dialog aller wichtigen Akteure in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft. Dann werden tragfähige Alternativen zum gegenwärtigen nicht nachhaltigen Gesellschaftssystem...

For over 100 years, the German company network was a major feature of organized corporate governance in Germany. This paper uses network visualization techniques and qualitative-historical analysis to discuss the structure, origins and development of this network and to analyze the reasons for...

Studies of the welfare state usually try to find out which factors have contributed to its ascendancy since the end of the nineteenth century and which factors explain the various approaches different countries took in providing a new social insurance to cover new social risks in industrialized...

Germany's 'Agenda 2010' labour and welfare reforms contradict conventional wisdom that its political economy with many veto players disallows paradigmatic structural change. To address this puzzle, this paper presents an augmented version of the Veto Player Model. Introducing veto clusters to...