Eastern Enlargement of the European Union challenged the design of European Welfare states. Many authors discuss the impact of East European social security systems on their West European counterparts and fear a “race to the bottom”. This paper addresses welfare state developments in the...

Eastern Enlargement of the European Union challenged the design of European Welfare states. Many authors discuss the impact of East European social security systems on their West European counterparts and fear a “race to the bottom”. This paper addresses welfare state developments in the...

Der Formwandel internationaler Politik verändert das institutionelle Design internationaler Beziehungen (IB) von der klassischen intergouvernementalen konsensorientierten Steuerung hin zu supra- und transnationalen Institutionen, die verstärkt auch auf nationale Politiken einwirken. Aber auch...

Application Service Providing (ASP) is a recently emerged software delivery model under which an Application Service Provider hosts, manages and delivers software as a service to customers via the Internet or a private network. The ASP model offers benefits from cost savings, specialized...