Rising public debt has been widespread in democratic-capitalist political economies since the 1970s, generally accompanied among other things by weak economic growth, rising unemployment, increasing inequality, growing tax resistance, and declining political participation. Following an initial...

How do neoliberal political economies threatened with declining competitiveness and social cohesion manage to remain neoliberal over time? This paper explores mechanisms of neoliberal continuity in Chile and Estonia by extending gradualist approaches to institutional change with the notion of...

Das vorliegende Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Territorialgrenzen, Personenkontrollen und Staatlichkeit. Im Zentrum der Betrachtung stehen der Wandel des Nationalstaates alter Prägung sowie die Veränderung der staatlichen Grenz- und Personenkontrolle unter Bedingungen...

This article develops a theoretical framework to analyze the rise and spread of global public policy. After an introduction to the background of sociological institutionalism, it first elaborates on the role and functions of international organizations, identifying instruments by which these can...