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2009 Articles

Vol. 5, No. 1
Health Policy and Marketization

Introduction by ROMAN BÖCKMANN and THOMAS GERLINGER

A Long Farewell to the Bismarck System: Incremental Change in the German Health Insurance System by THOMAS GERLINGER and ROLF SCHMUCKER

Economization and Marketization in the German Healthcare System: How Do Users Respond? by BENJAMIN EWERT

Health Governance in the Aftermath of Traditional Corporatism: One Small Step for the Legislator, One Giant Leap for the Subsystem? by NILS C. BANDELOW

Commercializing German Hospital Care? Effects of New Public Management and Managed Care under Neoliberal Conditions by KAI MOSEBACH

Federalism and the "New Politics" of Hospital Financing by KATHARINA BÖHM

The Private Health Insurance: Demarketization of a Welfare Market? by ROMAN BÖCKMANN

Institutionalized Healthcare Reform in Germany? Error Correction or Political Strategy? by SYLVIA PANNOWITSCH

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Vol. 5, No. 2
Contested Police Systems

Contested Police Systems by ARIE VAN SLUIS and BERNHARD FREVEL

New Public Management Reforms in German Police Services by ROLF RITSERT and MIRJAM PEKAR

Police Organization and Police Reform in Germany - The Case of North Rhine-Westphalia by BERNHARD FREVEL and PHILIPP KUSCHEWSKI

Police Reform in The Netherlands – A Dance between National Steering and Local Performing by LEX CACHET and PETER MARKS

‘National Standards, Local Delivery’ - Police Reform in England and Wales by TREVOR JONES and ARIE VAN SLUIS

Evolving Patterns in the Police Systems of North Rhine- Westphalia, The Netherlands and England and Wales by ARIE VAN SLUIS, ARTHUR RINGELING and BERNHARD FREVEL

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2008 Articles

Vol. 4, No. 1
Re-Shaping Consumer Policy in Europe

Introduction: Re-Shaping Consumer Policy in Europe: Enabling Consumers to Act? by CHRISTOPH STRÜNCK

Current State and Prospects of Consumer Policy: An Introductory Essay by EDDA MÜLLER

Sustainability Policy and the Law by JENS KARSTEN AND LUCIA A. REISCH

Risk Regulation without Political Conflicts? Regime Structures in Food Safety Politics in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands by FRANK JANNING

New Players Enter the Game: Effects of Marketization of Social Policies by FLORIAN BLANK

Consumer Citizen: The Constitution of Consumer Democracy in Sociological Perspective by JÖRN LAMLA

Claiming Consumers’ Rights Patterns and Limits of Adversarial Legalism in European Consumer Protection by CHRISTOPH STRÜNCK

Public Health in the EU: Is Europe subject to Americanization? by PAULETTE KURZER

Legitimising Supranational Risk Regulation: The EU Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Regimes by SEBASTIAN KRAPOHL

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Vol. 4, No. 2
Transforming a Bismarckian Welfare State: Ideas, Interests and Voters in German Welfare State Reforms

Introduction: Moving bulky goods. How New Ideas and Partisan Politics Are Transforming the German Welfare State by WOLFRAM LAMPING AND FRIEDBERT W. RÜB

On the Way to Social Investment? The Normative Recalibration of the German Welfare State by ANTONIO BRETTSCHNEIDER

Reframing Social Policy: From Conservatism to Liberal Communitarianism by MARTIN SEELEIB-KAISER

Between Corporatism and Lobbyism: German Welfare Associations in Transition by KATRIN TOENS

Reforming the Welfare State in Times of Grey Majorities. The Myth of an Opposition between Younger and Older Voters in Germany by ACHIM GOERRES

On the Horns of a Dilemma. The Imperative of a Grand Coalition Is Risky – Especially For the Social Democrats by WOLFGANG MERKEL AND BERNHARD WEßELS

Vol. 4, No. 3
The Politics of Global Finance

Introduction by HUBERT ZIMMERMAN

“Please Better Shut Their Mouths”: German Influence on U.S. Macroeconomic Policy under the Carter Administration by WESLEY W. WIDMAIER

The Search for Autonomy: Governments, Central Banks, and the Formation of Monetary Preferences by HUBERT ZIMMERMAN

States, Markets, and Sovereign Wealth Funds by ERIC HELLEINER and TROY LUNDBLAD

Three Facets of Liquidity Illusion: Financial Innovation and the Credit Crunch by ANASTASIA NESVETAILOVA

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Vol. 4, No. 4
Politics 2.0: The Political Potential of the Internet

Preface by Kathrin Kissau and Uwe Hunger

Political Online-Participation of Migrants in Germany by Kathrin Kissau and Uwe Hunger

Political Potential and Capabilities of Online Communities by Susanne In der Smitten

Political Protest on the Net by Sigrid Baringhorst

Internet and the Integration of Immigrants in Germany and Israel: Characteristics and Potentials by Inna Weiskopf and Kathrin Kissau

Nation Building Online: A Case Study of Kurdish Migrants in Germany by Menderes Candan and Uwe Hunger

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2006 Articles

Vol. 3, No. 1
Urban Safety

Editorial by BERNHARD FREVEL

Security and the Urban Public Sphere by WALTER SIEBEL and JAN WEHRHEIM

Political Culture as a Basis for Local Security and Crime Prevention: A Comparison of the Conditions in Germany and The Netherlands by VERENA SCHULZ and HENNING VAN DEN BRINK

The Police, Changing Security Arrangements and Late Modernity: The Case of The Netherlands by JAN TERPSTRA and KEES VAN DER VIJVER

Networked Policing: Towards a Public Marketing Approach to Urban Safety by KUNO SCHEDLER

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Vol. 3, No. 2
Think Tanks

Introduction: Think Tanks in Austria, Switzerland and Germany--A Recalibration of Corporatist Policy Making? by SVEN JOCHEM and ADRIAN VATTER

Governing by Commission: A Way to More Effective Democratic Governance or a Loss of Democratic Accountability? by JULIA VON BUMENTHAL

The Development and Significance of Think Tanks in Germany by MARTIN THUNERT

U.S. and German Think Tanks in Comparative Perspective by JOSEF BRAML

Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reform--The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden by WERNER EICHHORST and OLE WINTERMANN

Switzerland: Think Tanks and Vested Interests in Swiss Policy Making by ISABELLE STEFFEN and WOLF LINDER

The Long Shadow of Corporatism: Scope and Limits of Think Tank Activities in Austria by FERDINAND KARLHOFER

Vol. 3, No. 3
Pension Reform

Politics of Pension Policies: Editorial by SIMON HEGELICH and KLAUS SCHUBERT

Personal Responsibility and its Contradiction in Terms by FRANK NULLMEIER

Moving the Unmovable: Political Strategies of Pension Reform in Germany by MARIUS R. BUSEMEYER

"Experimental Law-Making" and the Politics of German Pension Reforms by WOLFRAM LAMPING and FRIEDBERT W. RÜB

Riester Pensions in Germany: Do they substitute or supplement public pensions? Positions in the debate on the new public policy on private pensions by FRANK BERNER

Moving from "Defined Benefit" to "Undefined": The interests in the enhancement of supplementary provision for old age in Germany by SIMON HEGELICH

Vol. 3, No. 4
Biotechnology Policy

Biotechnology Policy Convergence in Continental Europe? Political Institutions, Problem Framing and Learning by NILS C. BANDELOW

Explaining ART Policies in Switzerland and Germany: Similar Processes-Similar Results? by CHRISTINE ROTHMAYR

Regulating Biomedicine in Belgium and France: Neighboring Countries, Diverging Policies by NATHALIE SCHIFFINO and FRÉDÉRIC VARONE

Policy Learning in Policy Domains with Value Conflicts: The Austrian Cases of Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies by ERICH GRIEßLER and BERNHARD HADOLT

Advocacy Coalitions, Policy-Oriented Learning and Long-Term Change in Genetic Engineering Policy: An Interpretist View by NILS C. BANDELOW

2002 Articles

Vol. 2, No. 1
The German Welfare State: Dimensions - Innovations - Comparisons

Introduction - Concept of the Issue and Some Characteristics of the German Welfare State by JOSEF SCHMID

Pension Reforms in Six West-European Countries. Which Lessons Can be Drawn for Germany? by JOACHIM HULSMANN, JOSEF SCHMID, and SARAH SCHOLL

Gender Policies in the Welfare State - A Comparison of Germany and Denmark by NORA FUHRMANN

Financial Incentives Within Social Assistance. Comparing Current Strategies in the U.S. and Germany by DORIAN R. WOODS, LAURA CHADWICK, and JURGEN VOLKERT

Local Welfare Regimes and the Restructuring of the Welfare State - an Anglo-German Comparison by BERNARD BLANKE and HENNING SCHRIDDE

The Welfare State and Education: A Comparison of Social and Educational Policy in Advanced Industrial Societies by GUNTHER HEGA and KARL HOKENMAIER

Reforming The German Welfare State: Why Germany Is Slower Than Its Neighbors by ROBERT HENRY COX

Vol. 2, No. 2
The Politics and Policies of Communist/Radical Socialist Parties after Communism

Communist/Radical Socialist Parties After Communism: An Introduction by JONATHAN OLSEN

The Communist Party of Bohemia und Moravia: A Post-Communist Socialist or A Neo-Communist Party? by MAXMILIAN STRMISKA

The Slovak Party of the Democratic Left: A Successful Post-Communist Party? by LUBOMIR KOPEČEK

After the Deluge: The French Communist Party after the End of Communism by FRANK WILSON

Vol. 2, No. 3
German Higher Education Reform From A Comparative Perspective

Introduction by ECE GÖZTEPE-ÇELEBI, FREIA STALLMANN and ANNETTE ZIMMER

Higher Education, Internationalisation, and the Nation-State by JÜRGEN ENDERS

A Comparative View On Policy Trends In Western European Higher Education by JEROEN HUISMAN and FRANS KAISER

Campus Europae by CHRISTA THOBEN

Gender Inequality in German Academia and Strategies for Change by AGNIESZKA MAJCHER

Theses On Status Quo And Future Challenges Of The German System Of Higher Education by HANS-UWE ERICHSON

Reform or Re-labeling? A Student’s Perspective On The Introduction Of The Bachelor’s And Master’s Degree In German Higher Education by FREIA STALLMANN

Vol. 2, No. 4
The Stakes of Transport Policy in Social Science Research

Introduction by FRITZ SAGER and VINCENT KAUFMANN

European Transport Policy – A Historical and Forward Looking Perspective by LIANA GIORGI and MICHAEL SCHMIDT

Harmonisation And Convergence? National Responses To The Common European Transport Policy by DIRK LEHMKUHL

Designing Sustainable Transportation Policy For Acceptance: A Comparison Of Germany, The Netherlands And Switzerland by CHRISTIAN HIRSCHI, WALTER SCHENKEL, And THOMAS WIDMER

Impacts Of Institutional Change On Urban Transport Policy In Rome: An Update by MARIO GUALDI and CARLO SESSA

Innovation Without Change? by BERNARD JOUVE

Transport Policy And Policy Research: Some Concluding Remarks by FRITZ SAGER and VINCENT KAUFMANN

2001 Articles

Vol. 1, No. 1
Changing Patterns of European Governance

Editorial by KLAUS SCHUBERT

Introduction by NILS C. BANDELOW

European Governance by The Emergence of a new Type of Package Deals by NILS C. BANDELOW, DIANA SCHUMANN, and ULRICH WIDMAIER

Regulation and Infrastructure Management: German Regulatory Regimes and the EU Framework by BURKARD EBERLEIN and EDGAR GRANDE

The European Union as a Virtual Learning Forum for National Labour Market Policy? - Comments on a 'Late Vocation' Field of European Governance by PAUL KLEMMER, DORTHEE BECKER-SOEST, and RÜDIGER WINK

Multi-Level Governance in the European Employment and Labour Market Policy: A Conceptual Outline and Some Empirical Evidence by CHRISTIAN ROTH and JOSEF SCHMID

Vol. 1, No. 2
Nonprofit Sector in Turbulent Environments

Editorial by ANNETTE ZIMMER

Italy's Third Sector on Consolidation Course by GIAN PAOLO BARBETTA

Changing Focus or Changing Role? The Swedish Nonprofit Sector in the 1990s by FILIP WIJKSTRÖM

The Third Sector in France by EDITH ARCHAMBAULT

The Third Sector and Labour market Policy in Germany by ANNETTE ZIMMER and ECKHARD PRILLER

Vol. 1, No. 3
Migration and Immigration Policies

Editorial by DIETRICH THRÄNHARDT and PAUL HARRIS

Republicanism and the Politics of Citizenship in Germany and France: Convergence or Divergence? by HEIKE HAGEDORN

Tainted Blood: The Ambivalence of Ethnic Migration in Israel, Japan, Korea, Germany and the United States by DIETRICH THRÄNHARDT

Party Competition and Inclusion of Immigrants in Germany by UWE HUNGER

Imagined Identity: Immigration, Ueberfremdung, and Cultural Chauvinism in German Far-Right Partisan Discourse by PAUL A. HARRIS

Vol. 1, No. 4
Policy of Adaptation: Efforts of East European Countries to Meet European Integration Standards

Eastern Enlargement Of The EU As A Subject Of Research Policy: Introduction To The Symposium by PETR FIALA

The Context, The Actors And The Effects Of The Eastern Enlargement Of The European Union by PETR FIALA

European Union Enlargement - Consequences And Problems by WITCHARD WOYKE

Prioritisation Of Work - Preparing The Poland's Accession To The European Union by FILIP JASINSKI

The EU Accession And ECE Parliaments: A Hungarian Approach by ATTILA ÁGH

Implementation Of The Eu Law In The Czech Republic: A Comparative Perspective by VOJTECH ŠIMÍCEK

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