Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung werden die Trennlinien zwischen Recht und Nicht-Recht, zwischen legitim/ illegitim, öffentlich und privat zunehmend porös. Während sich auf der einen Seite die Regelungslücken im formalen staatlichen Recht mehren, emergieren gleichzeitig zahlreiche private...

Free Trade has always been highly contested, but both the arguments about it and the treaties that regulate it have changed dramatically since the Second World War. Under the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) regime, objections to free trade were essentially economic, and...

If there is no such thing as a European Public Sphere (EPS), why don't we construct one? The answer seems to be obvious: There is no way one could construct a public sphere top-down since it depends on the active participation of speakers, the media and audience. In a democratic society they are...

The 1990s have witnessed unprecedented attempts at privatizing state owned enterprises in virtually all OECD democracies. This contribution analyzes the differences in the privatization proceeds raised by EU- and OECD-countries between 1990 and 2000. It turns out that privatizations are part of...

Social justice in health care insurance relates to both, the utilisation of services and the financing of the system. With respect to the latter, in its World Health Report 2000 the WHO promoted a concept of fair financing that asks for contributions to health care financing that are...

This paper uses the findings of a very recent major international research collaboration on the impact of federal arrangements on the development of the welfare state to explore the possibilities of progress beyond Europe's present diversity of nation-state welfare standards. These findings -...

Der Artikel befasst sich mit dem Phänomen räumlich flexibilisierter Grenzkontrollinstrumente. Diese verlagern die Kontrolle von Personenmobilität an vielfältige Orte und lösen sie damit von der territorialen Grenzlinie. Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist die Annahme, dass sich die liberalen...

The aim of this article is to develop an analytical framework which contributes to the understanding of mobility regulation. While most literature focuses on international efforts to control migration the perspective is widened by looking at mobility, encompassing short-term cross border...

Im vorliegenden Arbeitspapier werden die öffentlichen Beschäftigungssysteme der Länder Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Schweden im Vergleich dargestellt. Untersucht wird inwiefern - ausgehend von im Ländervergleich ähnlichen öffentlichen Beschäftigungssystemen - seit Anfang...

It is often claimed that the participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) can mitigate the ‘democratic deficit’ of international organisations and the European Union. The underlying assumption is that transnational CSOs are, through their advocacy work, voicing citizens’ interests,...