In the age of globalization, many economic sectors are addressed not only by the policies of national, but also of international institutions. Using three cases of highly internationalized sectors of the German economy - international tourism, telecommunications, and the pharmaceutical industry...

In the face of a vast, but highly heterogeneous literature, this paper examines the factors that shape different scientific perspectives on the loosely bounded set of phenomena addressed by the terms "globalizationʺ and "global governance.ʺ Based on the secondary analysis of research funded by...

Power, rule, and legitimacy have always been core concerns of political science. In the 1970s, when governability appeared to be problematic, legitimacy was discussed both in the context of policy research and by critics of the capitalist state. More recently interest turned to governance beyond...

In diesem Papier geht es nicht um die voraussichtliche künftige Ordnung der globalen Finanzmärkte nach der Krise, sondern um die Frage, warum der Reformprozess zeitlich, sachlich und sozial hinter dem zurückbleibt, was 2009 von Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit einhellig für...