[PDF] Top 20 Beyond retrenchment. CES Working Paper no. 77, 2001

... state retrenchment must start from a recognition that social policy remains the most resilient component of the post-war order’ (Pierson, 1994: ...of retrenchment into dif- ferent processes that are linked ... See full document

... in 2001 launched reforms that implied “free choice” of unemployment funds and (price) competition among the funds, including growing numbers of independent funds, which have weakened the links between the unem- ... See full document

... (Szalai 2001:31) The shifting of power from central to local and regional administrations led to an unclear division of responsibilities and duties within the new democratic system of ... See full document

... identification beyond the generalities of being communist/anti-communist or nationalist versus populist, the isolation of civil society from the state, and the instability, if not vulner- ability of the democratic ... See full document

... Other papers applying multi-variate statistical analysis to socioeconomic problems and, particu- larly, to the classification of different types of administrative divisions (municipalities, counties or regions) can be ... See full document

... In “simple” polities, where a restricted, governmental elite tends to “coordinate” the con- struction of the ideas and then to “communicate” them to the public for discussion and delibera- tion, political leaders are ... See full document

... Scheepers, 2001) are contexts which favor these ...travels beyond the case study of Italy, there is reason to worry about the level of public support for European ... See full document

... (Habermas 2001) or even herald the end of the nationstate (Guéhenno 1995, Ohmae ...Vries 2001, Genschel 2004, Guillén 2001, O’Riain 2000, Schulze and Ur- sprung ... See full document

... Liberal market economies will also have to develop organizational interlocutors for states if they want to succeed in securing decentralized cooperation. Other things equal, the organizational weakness of these economies ... See full document

... romanticize domestic labor. Esping-Andersen (1999) has argued that liberal economies have high inequality and large low-wage service markets that encourage activities such as laundry, food preparation, or care for ... See full document

... Lastly, we would like to suggest a second factor that plays on the side of the motivation of governments to promote a single regulatory authority (rather than the ability of central banks to oppose such a move), namely, ... See full document

... In some cases, conjunctural determinants prove decisive. Following Capoccia and Kelemen’s (2007) recent theoretical innovation, in cases where the range of choices available to decision-makers expands significantly and ... See full document

... Actually, the impact of the process of European integration on Portuguese society goes well beyond 1986, the actual year of adhesion. The idea of Europe was at the core of the political dispute during the period ... See full document

... The rationale for maintaining autonomy in budget decisions is, of course, derived from the fact that the allocation function of fiscal policy can usually be assigned rather clearly to jurisdictional responsibilities. ... See full document

... 1975 to present: Second Restoration in the person of Juan Carlos I of Bourbon.2 • Transition to democracy November 1975-July 1977.3 • Parliamentary monarchy July 1977-date.4 Regime chang[r] ... See full document

... This paper analyzes German domestic support for multilateralist policies, defined in terms of the principles of indivisibility, generalized principles of conduct, and diffuse reciprocity, in the context of ... See full document

... Consequences of the Anti-Globalization Discourse The current preeminence of the globalization theme in French society can potentially affect not only French domestic politics, but also t[r] ... See full document

... state retrenchment do not pro- vide much help toward answering the ...welfare retrenchment among voters and the influence of new interest groups such as pensioners, created by the welfare state itself ... See full document

... Given the complexity of the relationship between the innovation system and productivity growth, no close statistical correlation between any single indicator and growth performance should be expected. When information on ... See full document

... A number of facts deserve mentioning in this regard. First, the pace of positive changes appears to be extremely dynamic. In fact, by mid-2001, the NATO-Russia dialogue has practically resumed in full, and both ... See full document