Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc

... Press,192 GERMAN POLITICS Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State WOLFGANG STREECK and CHRISTINE TRAMPUSCH The central problem of the German economy is the high costs of ... on the basis of the length of ECONOMIC REFORM AND THE GERMAN WELFARE STATE 179their insurance record and the amount of contributions paid (calculated as a percentage of income, up to a cut-off ... analyses the reforms of the last decade, showing how the multiplicity of veto pointsin the German political economy has weakened reform initiatives and reduced the prospect for effective reform in the...

The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State

... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political economy (research on the social and political regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state ... historical variants of the Keynesian welfare state. The paper compares three cases of governance of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA and the UK, and Australia. The aim is to integrate ... (research on the social and political regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state forms in relation to advanced, knowledge-based and open sectors of the economy, ...

The Political Economy of Distress in East Asian Financial Institutions

... 80% and 100%; and in terms of number of banks between 36% and 100%. In terms of assets of nonbank financial institutions, the coverage of our sample is between 47% and 90%.Almost 42% of these ... is economically insolvent. The tradeoffsinvolved will, among others, be of a public choice nature and include the importance of the particular financial institution to the local economy and ... credit away fromother segments of the economy like the small and medium-sized enterprisesat the time of the systemic crisis. This, coupled with the fact that significant forbearance of already weak...

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CENTRAL-BANK INDEPENDENCE pptx

... Appointment of bank officials. In New Zealand, both the minister of finance and the board of the central bank must ratify the appointment of the governor (double veto). Board appointments are made by the finance ... then again consulted. In the Netherlands, the president and the director-secretary of the Neder-landsche Bank are appointed by the minister of finance, on the basis of a recommendation list ... banks, the Deutsche Bundesbank,15 the Nederlandsche Bank, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand,exemplify the variations in approach. Five aspects of the division of responsibilities between the...

The Political Economy of Taxation pptx

... design. They may interact with the main macroeco-nomic variables, such as the level of GDP per worker, the openness of the economy, the level of debt and the share of agriculture, and with other ... minimal. The third tenet of the formal voting theory emphasizes the importance of the form of the voting game’. On the contrary, there are positive theories of public policy such as The political ... the power of the elites (landlord class) and raises the political importance and the organizational ability of the working and middle classes (Therborn, 1977; Rueschemeyer et al., 1992).The...

The Games Are Not the Same The Political Economy of Football in Australia pot

... parts of Australia, while other codes captured the hearts and minds of people in other areas of the country. Rob and Matthew also examine the ways in which soccer spread itself across the nation ... and watched all over the nation. Bob and Geoff also examine the transformation of the Victorian Football League into the Australian Football League, and the associated costs and benefits of ... the game’s development in other parts of the world. Non-elite Australian football leagues exist in many parts of the world, including New Zealand, the United States, South Africa and England.Exhibition...

Tài liệu Preparing the Western Cape for the Knowledge Economy of the 21st Century ppt

... between the regional dynamics in the case of Asia and the US on the one hand, and Europe on the other hand. In the case of the Asian and US examples discussed in this Chapter, successful economic ... prepare the people of the province for the knowledge economy of the 21st century; • To contain the spread of HIV/AIDS and TB; • To empower the poor people of our province through the provision of ... provincial and local government officials. These will be designed to increase their awareness and understanding of the impact of globalisation and the knowledge economy on their work and, in particular,...

Shanghaied - The Economic and Political Implications of the Flow of Information Technology and Investment Across the Taiwan Strait ppt

... links,” which permitdirect shipping and passenger travel between the Taiwanese-heldoffshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu and the mainland cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou, and some Taiwanese analysts expect ... third-largestproducer of IT hardware items has touched off a debate in- xiv -Taiwan about the supposed “hollowing out” of the island’s economy. On the demand side, China now accounts for 13 percent of the world’s ... investmentto the mainland. Instead, government budget deficits, state dominance of the banking sector and an excess of non-performing loans, and the effects of the global economic downturn especially...

The Economic and Geo-Political Implications of China-Centric Globalization ppt

... other by China. If one competes and the other does not, the pay-off is plus 10 for the competitor and minus 10 for the other. If both compete, they each get minus 5. If neither competes, they ... (1) the emergence of China as the global center of manufacturing, with China playing the role of factory for the world; (2) the creation of a new dollar zone shared by the U.S. and China and ... conflict and problems. At the other end is the view, associated with the likes of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Brookings Institution, that globalization is good and...

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