In a recent article, Caporaso and Tarrow have argued that the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is increasingly moving in a social policy direction that will ultimately put European politics on a “Polanyian” course. We take issue with their claim and distinguish three...

At first glance, the social purpose and the democratic potential of the EU have made progress in the last 15 years. However, this impression is misleading. We argue instead that the social and democratic potentials of the EU are crucially shaped by the heterogeneity of European varieties of...

Die politische und die wirtschaftliche Integration Europas sind eng verwoben. Betrachtet man das Zusammenwirken beider Bereiche, wird deutlich, dass Europa aus einer Vielzahl historisch gewachsener Wirtschafts- und Sozialmodelle besteht. Welche wirtschaftlichen und politischen Veränderungen die...

In the past, economic integration in Europe was largely compatible with the persistence of different national varieties of capitalism. While product market integration intensified competition, member states could build on and foster their respective comparative advantage. To date, this no longer...

Seit der Europäischen Währungsunion verfügt die Europäische Union über wirtschaftspolitische Kompetenzen, die bisher den Nationalstaaten vorbehalten waren. Der neu gewonnenen geldpolitischen Entscheidungsmacht der EU steht jedoch die nationale Souveränität in Fragen der Wirtschafts- und...

By summarizing and further developing the state of empirical research on supervisory board codetermination, this paper contributes to the recent debate over codetermination’s future. Company level codetermination is widely spread among EU countries. Neither company comparisons nor country data...

This paper addresses the current discussion on links between party politics and production regimes. Why do German Social Democrats opt for more corporate governance liberalization than the CDU although, in terms of the distributional outcomes of such reforms, one would expect the situation to be...