As Hacker and Pierson (2010) have observed, politics is primarily organization: "organized combat." To understand the outcomes of politics, we have to look at how it is organized over time: by whom and with what resources? I take Sweden as an example of how politics as organized combat has...

Die Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit den Veränderungen in den Strukturen der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege. Dazu geht sie im Rahmen der Verbändeforschung einen neuen Weg. Die Veränderungen werden mit Hilfe des kybernetischen Ansatzes von Stafford Beer analysiert. Zur Klärung der Dynamik...

This paper explores the effects of deregulation and globalization on the dominant mode of corporate governance in Swedish public firms. The effects are multidimensional - the direction of change in corporate governance cannot be determined by simply examining whether a convergence towards the...

The blow-out on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 and the ensuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico drew strong public attention to the environment and safety standards in the offshore petroleum industry and their enforcement. While it quickly became clear that there were significant...

This paper explores the effects of deregulation and globalization on the dominant mode of corporate governance in Swedish public firms. The effects are multidimensional—the direction of change in corporate governance cannot be determined by simply examining whether a convergence towards the...

The blow-out on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 and the ensuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico drew strong public attention to the environment and safety standards in the offshore petroleum industry and their enforcement. While it quickly became clear that there were significant...

Das Gesundheitsstrukturgesetz (GSG) von 1992 markiert den Beginn wettbewerbsorientierter Reformen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV): Kassenwahlfreiheit und Risikostrukturausgleich waren bahnbrechende Weichenstellungen für den Kassenwettbewerb auf dem Versicherungsmarkt, und auch der...

Research on capitalism has yielded many tools that are useful for analyzing the Chinese economy. They enable us to develop a well-founded characterization of China as a specific variant of capitalism a market-liberal, competition-driven state capitalism. It is possible to differentiate some of...

Für ein Verständnis der chinesischen Wirtschaft ist es hilfreich, das theoretische Instrumentarium der Kapitalismusforschung nutzbar zu machen. Es ermöglicht eine fundierte Charakterisierung des chinesischen Systems als einer eigentümlichen Spielart des Kapitalismus eines marktliberalen,...

"The modern Chinese state has traditionally affected every major aspect of domestic society. With the growing liberalization of the economy, coupled with increasingly complex social issues, there is a belief that the state is retreating from an array of social problems from health to the...

Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast...

The economic profession has widely examined the effects of the pension system on economic efficiency, intergenerational fairness and the sustainability of public finances, while less attention has been paid to the political decision making process. Yet, the essence of the problem is arguably a...

Die außerordentlichen Ausmaße der Subprimekrise haben die Suche nach einer Ursache ausgelöst.Es wurden vielfältige Mechanismen gefunden, die Einflüsse haben. Robert Shillermacht im Kern eher allgemeine Faktoren verantwortlich: „Ich glaube, letztlich war die Ursacheeine Seuche in der...

The economic profession has widely examined the effects of the pension system on economic efficiency, intergenerational fairness and the sustainability of public finances, while less attention has been paid to the political decision making process. Yet, the essence of the problem is arguably a...

Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast...