State transformations in OECD countries : dimensions, driving forces, and trajectories /: dimensions, driving forces, and trajectories. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Heinz Rothgang, Steffen Schneider.
• Editors: Rothgang, Heinz; Schneider, Steffen
• Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Explaining State Transformations: A Framework; Steffen Schneider and Heinz Rothgang PART II: RESOURCE DIMENSION: THE TERRITORIAL STATE 2. The Rise and Decline of Public Enterprises in Western Democracies; Carina Schmitt and Herbert Obinger 3. The Competing State: Transformations of the Public/Private Sector Earnings Gap in Four Countries; Markus Tepe, Bernhard Kittel and Karin Gottschall 4. The Evolving Post-national Regulation of Financial Reporting; Jörg R. Werner and Jochen Zimmermann PART III: LEGAL DIMENSION: THE RULE OF LAW 5. The Effects of International Dispute Settlement Procedures; Aletta Mondré 6. Internationalizing Law against the Odds: The Power of Courts and Their Limits; Susanne K. Schmidt, Michael Blauberger and Tilman Krüger 7. Explaining the Transnationalization of Commercial Law; Gralf-Peter Calliess, Hermann B. Hoffmann and Jens Michael Lobschat PART IV: LEGITIMACY DIMENSION: DEMOCRACY 8. Cultures of Political Discourse in Europe: Explaining Multiple Segmentation in the European Public Sphere; Andreas Hepp, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Swantje Lingenberg, Johanna Möller, Michael Brüggemann and Anke Offerhaus 9. Internationalization and the Discursive Legitimation of the Democratic Nation State; Sebastian Haunss, Henning Schmidtke and Steffen Schneider PART V: WELFARE DIMENSION: STATE INTERVENTION 10. Pioneers of Paradigmatic Change? Welfare State Restructuring in Small Open Economies; Peter Starke and Herbert Obinger 11. Policy Change in Secondary Education: Germany and England Compared; Philipp Knodel, Kerstin Martens and Dennis Niemann 12. The Hybridization of Healthcare Regulation: An Explanation in Cross-national Perspective; Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Ralf Götze, Achim Schmid, Mirella Cacace and Heinz Rothgang PART VI: CONCLUSION 13. The Democratic Nation State: Victim or Master of Transformations?; Steffen Schneider and Heinz Rothgang.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, [Engand] : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, charts, maps, tables
• Subjects: 320.917/7; Social sciences; Organizational change -- OECD countries; Nation-state; State, The; Nation-state; Organizational change; Politics and government; State, The; Political Science -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; Political Science -- Globalization; Comparative politics; Sociology; Political science & theory; Globalization; Political sociology; Comparative politics; Political science; Political theory; Globalization; OECD countries -- Politics and government; OECD countries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137012425
• Related ISBNs: 9781137012418; 1137012412
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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