State Transformations in OECD Countries

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; Jorg R. Werner and Jochen Zimmermann PART III: LEGAL DIMENSION: THE RULE OF LAW 5. The Effects of International Dispute Settlement Procedures; Aletta Mondre 6. Internationalizing Law against the Odds: The Power of Courts and Their Limits; Susanne K. Schmidt, Michael Blauberger and Tilman Kruger 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 Konigslow, Swantje Lingenberg, Johanna Moller, Michael Bruggemann 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 Gotze, 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