State Transformations in OECD Countries

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Explaining State Transformations: A Framework

      • Steffen Schneider, Heinz Rothgang

      Pages 3-16

3. Resource Dimension: The Territorial State

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Rise and Decline of Public Enterprises in Western Democracies

      • Carina Schmitt, Herbert Obinger

      Pages 19-39

   3. The Competing State: Transformations of the Public/Private Sector Earnings Gap in Four Countries

      • Markus Tepe, Bernhard Kittel, Karin Gottschall

      Pages 41-66

   4. The Evolving Post-national Regulation of Financial Reporting

      • Jörg R. Werner, Jochen Zimmermann

      Pages 67-84

4. Legal Dimension: The Rule of Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. The Effects of International Dispute Settlement Procedures

      • Aletta Mondré

      Pages 87-105

   3. Internationalizing Law against the Odds: The Power of Courts and Their Limits

      • Susanne K. Schmidt, Michael Blauberger, Tilman Krüger

      Pages 107-125

   4. Explaining the Transnationalization of Commercial Law

      • Gralf-Peter Calliess, Hermann B. Hoffmann, Jens Michael Lobschat

      Pages 127-142

5. Legitimacy Dimension: Democracy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. 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, Anke Offerhaus

      Pages 145-165

   3. Internationalization and the Discursive Legitimation of the Democratic Nation State

      • Sebastian Haunss, Henning Schmidtke, Steffen Schneider

      Pages 167-185

6. Welfare Dimension: State Intervention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Pioneers of Paradigmatic Change? Welfare State Restructuring in Small Open Economies

      • Peter Starke, Herbert Obinger

      Pages 189-206

   3. Policy Change in Secondary Education: Germany and England Compared

      • Philipp Knodel, Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann

      Pages 207-222

   4. The Hybridization of Healthcare Regulation: An Explanation in Cross-national Perspective

      • Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Ralf Götze, Achim Schmid, Mirella Cacace, Heinz Rothgang

      Pages 223-245

7. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. The Democratic Nation State — Victim or Master of Transformations?

      • Steffen Schneider, Heinz Rothgang

      Pages 249-264

The democratic nation state of the post-war era has undergone major transformations since the 1970s, and political authority has been both internationalized and privatized. The thirteen chapters of this edited collection deal with major transformations of governance arrangements and state responsibilities in the countries of the OECD world. A unified conceptual and explanatory framework is used to describe trajectories of state change, to explain the internationalization or privatization of responsibilities in the resource, law, legitimacy and welfare dimensions of the democratic nation state, and to probe the state's role in the today's post-national constellation of political authority. As the contributions show, an unravelling of state authority has indeed occurred, but the state nevertheless continues to play a key role in emerging governance arrangements. Hence it is not merely a 'victim' of globalization and other driving forces of change.

• OECD
• state
• transformation
• postnational
• democracy
• intervention
• Nation
• Policy
• Transnational
• transnationalization

• Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen, Germany

  Heinz Rothgang, Steffen Schneider

Michael Blauberger, University of Salzburg, Austria Michael Brüggemann, University of Zurich, Switzerland Mirella Cacace, University of Bremen, Germany Gralf-Peter Calliess, University of Bremen, Germany Lorraine Frisina Doetter, University of Bremen, Germany Karin Gottschall, University of Bremen, Germany Ralf Götze, University of Bremen, Germany Sebastian Haunss, University of Bremen, Germany Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany Hermann B. Hoffmann, CMS Hasche Sigle, Berlin, Germany Bernhard Kittel, University of Vienna, Austria Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, University of Vienna, Austria Philipp Knodel, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Krüger, University of Bremen, Germany Swantje Lingenberg, University of Bremen, Germany Jens Michael Lobschat, University of Bremen, Germany Kerstin Martens, University of Bremen, Germany Johanna Möller, University of Bremen, Germany Aletta Mondré, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dennis Niemann, University of Bremen, Germany Herbert Obinger, University of Bremen, Germany Anke Offerhaus, University of Bremen, Germany Achim Schmid, University of Bremen, Germany Susanne K. Schmidt, University of Bremen, Germany Henning Schmidtke, University of Bremen, Germany Carina Schmitt, University of Bremen, Germany Peter Starke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Markus Tepe, University of Oldenburg, Germany Jörg R. Werner, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany Jochen Zimmermann,University of Bremen, Germany

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