Wirtschaft und Arbeitsleben verändern sich rasant: Technologische Umbrüche folgen immer schneller aufeinander, Dienstleistungen werden in globalem Massstab erbracht, prekäre Beschäftigungsformen und psychische Belastungen nehmen zu. Neue Lebensentwürfe stellen den "klassischen Arbeitstag"...

Forms of European multi-level administration show an increased defibration of the state through a shift of functioning onto the European level, onto other transnationally acting member states and onto the level of social self-organisation. At the same time a new complexity is to be observed in...

As a social democratic welfare state, Denmark has offered universal and generous benefits promoting equality and diminishing stigmatisation; provision is almost entirely taxfinanced and public services play an important role. Consequently, welfare state spending has been traditionally high....

Transformations of the Welfare State gives a new twist to the longstanding debate on the impact of economic globalization on the welfare state. The authors focus on several small, advanced OECD economies in order to assess whether (and how) the welfare state will be able to compete under...