"Am Internationalen Institut für Management und Verwaltung (IIMV) des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin (WZB) wurde Arbeitsmarktforschung im kleineren Rahmen seit 1974 betrieben; seit 1979 konzentriert sich einer der beiden Institutsteile (IIMV/Arbeitsmarktpolitik) ausschließlich auf international...

At the end of the postwar period, the politically shaped configurations of normatively integrated European political economies differed greatly among "social-market" and "liberal market economies." Such differences persist even though the characteristic achievements of social market economies...

"Am Internationalen Institut für Management und Verwaltung (IIMV) des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin (WZB) wurde Arbeitsmarktforschung im kleineren Rahmen seit 1974 betrieben; seit 1979 konzentriert sich einer der beiden Institutsteile (IIMV/Arbeitsmarktpolitik) ausschließlich auf international...

This paper continues the examination of the validity of game-theoretic explanations in empirical social science and policy research. Assuming that real actors with bounded rationality would be unable to cope with the explosive complexity of n-person games, discussion focuses on the conditions...

There is more coordination in the modern world than is plausibly explained by the classical mechanisms of community, market, hierarchy and their commonly discussed variants. This paper explores modalities of non-market coordination whose application is not constrained by the narrow motivational...

The article emphasizes the importance of theory construction for comparative policy research. Attempts to identify the impact of institutional arrangements on policy choices are complicated by interaction effects between institutionalized boundary and decision rules on the one hand, and...

On the basis of a brief reconstruction of the causes and impacts of the euro crisis, this paper explores, counterfactually and hypothetically, whether the new euro regime, insisting on fiscal austerity and supply-side reforms, could have prevented the rise of the crisis or is able to deal with...

This essay re-examines the dual - republican and liberal - foundations of democratic legitimacy in the Western traditions of normative political theory. Considered in isolation, the European Union conforms to liberal standards but cannot satisfy republican criteria. Given these conflicting...

This paper attempts a normative assessment of the input and output-oriented legitimacy of the present euro-rescuing regime on the basis of policy analyses examining the causes of present crises, the available policy options, and the impact of the policies actually chosen. Concluding that the...