Most efforts to detect the consequences of divided government in German federalism by analyzing legislative statistics have been unsuccessful. Therefore, there is still much debate in Germany about the gridlock potential of divided government, as there is in the United States. Using a...

Efforts to verify legislative gridlock in German federalism by analyzing legislative statistics have been largely unsuccessful. For instance, contrary to popular opinion, the complete failure of a government initiative due to the veto of an opposition-dominated Bundesrat is actually quite a rare...

Die Rekonstruktion der institutionellen Entwicklung des DDR-Sozialversicherungssystems von 1945 bis 1990 und der Vergleich mit der seines bundesdeutschen Gegenparts zeigt ein überraschend divergentes und nicht intendiertes Entwicklungsmuster: Die ursprüngliche Absicht in der DDR, die...

Esping-Andersen's "Three World of Welfare Capitalism" has been the most influential contribution of recent years to the comparative welfare state research literature. According to Esping-Andersen, the welfare state basically comes in three variants: as a social-democratic, a conservative, or as...