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The State and Healthcare
Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country …
State Transformations in OECD Countries
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 …
The Communicative Construction of Europe
Based on a 12-year long project, this book demonstrates the contested character of the communicative construction of Europe. It does so by combining an investigation of …
The EU and Immigration Policies
This book explores how and why the EU and its member states define immigration policies. A comparison of EU negotiations on five EU immigration directives reveals interests of …
Civil Society Participation in European and Global Governance
It is often argued that the enhanced consultation of civil society contributes to the democratization of European and global governance. This collection investigates whether this …
States, Markets and Education
Education policy is a core element of the state's sovereignty and autonomy. This book analyzes the rise of the western education state and its limits in times of transition from …
Transforming the Golden-Age Nation State
This collection examines the transformation of the modern Western state in an age of accelerated globalization. Arguing that the state experienced a 'golden age' in the 1960s and …
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement
State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe. This book looks at how global mobility is defined by …
The New Regulatory State
Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in …
Radical Welfare State Retrenchment
This book confronts one of the most fiercely contested issues in current political debates: how is welfare state retrenchment possible in modern democracies despite the welfare …
Transnationalization of Public Spheres
This book takes a fresh look at a widely debated question in international relations and political communication research: How can public discourses contribute to democratic …
Regulating Capitalism?
By exploring how financial, legal and wider socio-economic systems can accelerate or decelerate the harmonization in financial markets, this book connects issues both of …