Im Prozeß der europäischen Einigung wächst der Bedarf an Informationen über die institutionelle Gestaltung von gesellschaftlichen Teilsystemen. Dieser Band stellt die Gesundheitssysteme von fünf westeuropäischen Ländern nach einheitlichen Kategorien dar und arbeitet strukturelle...

This paper examines to what extent the classification of the American welfare state as "residual" squares with the empirical facts. Section I describes key features of American social policy developments. The U.S. system is clearly dominated by public provisions for welfare among which social...

Electoral turnout is shown to be higher and less socially skewed in member states of the enlarged European Union than in the United States. The differences in the levels of turnout can partly be related to differences in election procedures, but since the procedural rules provide similar...

Turkeys position relative to Europe is analyzed from three different perspectives, i.e (i) the semi-official perspective of the Copenhagen criteria, the Maastricht criteria and the Lisbon strategy, (ii) the perspective of comparative surveys, and (iii) the perspective of key European worries...