GPS Article Archives
2012 Articles
Vol. 8, No. 1
Introduction by NILS C. BANDELOW, FRITZ SAGER, KLAUS SCHUBERT
An Explorative Study on Purchasing Legal Advice in the German Law-Drafting Process by SEBASTIAN STREB and MARKUS TEPE
Political Deadlock in German Financial Market Policy by STEFAN HANDKE
Political Institutions “Doing Gender”: The Limits of the Knowledge Approach by HELGA OSTENDORF
The Status of Ideas in Controversies on Public Policy. Analyzing Beliefs as Dependent Variables: A Case study on Harm Reduction Policies in Switzerland by CÉLINE MAVROT
2011 Articles
Vol. 7, No. 1
European Labour Market Policies after the Lisbon Process – Results and Consequence
Introduction: European Labour Market Policies after the Lisbon Process – Results and Consequences by FLORIAN BLANK and KARIN SCHULZE BUSCHOFF
The European Employment Strategy: Assessing the Status Quo by J. TIMO WEISHAUPT and KATJA LACK
What Difference Does it Make? The Outcome Effects of the European Employment Strategy on the Transition from Education to Work by CHRISTIAN BRZINSKY-FAY
Incoherent Strategies – Fragmented Outcomes: Raising Women’s Employment Rate in Germany by SIGRID BETZELT and SILKE BOTHFELD
The Transition from Work to Retirement by WERNER EICHHORST
Transition from Unemployment to Work and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies during the Lisbon Strategy Period and the Economic Crisis by JANINE LESCHKE
Non-Standard Employment in Europe: Its Development and Consequences for the European Employment Strategy by GÜNTHER SCHMID
Labour Market Politics through Jurisprudence: The Influence of the Judgements of the European Court of Justice (Viking, Laval, Rüffert, Luxembourg) on Labour Market Policies by REINGARD ZIMMER
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Vol. 7, No. 2
Governance of Transport Policy
Governance of Transport Policy: Introduction to the Special Issue by NILS C. BANDELOW and STEFAN KUNDOLF
The Field of Transport Policy: An Initial Approach by OLIVER SCHWEDES
Governance Failures in Integrated Transport Policy – On the Mismatch of ‘Co-opetition’ in Multi-Level Systems by DETLEF SACK
The Logic of Access to European Commission Expert Groups: Assessing the Delay of the eCall Project by CHRISTIANE MIETHE
Belief Systems and the Emergence of Advocacy Coalitions in Nascent Subsystems: A Case Study of the European GNSS Program Galileo by NILS C. BANDELOW and STEFAN KUNDOLF
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Vol. 7, No. 3
Frontiers of Methodological Progress in Qualitative Research
Introduction by JOACHIM BLATTER and FRITZ SAGER
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Public Policy Analysis: an Extensive Review by BENOÎT RIHOUX, ILONA REZSÖHAZY and DAMIEN BOL
Method Parallelization and Method Triangulation: Method Combinations in the Analysis of Humanitarian Interventions by JULIAN JUNK
Political valuation analysis and the legitimacy of international organizations by HENNING SCHMIDTKE and FRANK NULLMEIER
Micro-politics: An Underestimated Field of Qualitative Research in Political Science by ROLAND WILLNER
Critical Friend Approach: Policy Evaluation Between Methodological Soundness, Practical Relevance, and Transparency of the Evaluation Process by ANDREAS BALTHASAR
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2010 Articles
Vol. 6, No. 1
Symposium on Transforming Bismarckian Welfare State: Turning Away from a Defined-Benefit System?
Editorial by NILS C. BANDELOW, FRITZ SAGER and KLAUS SCHUBERT
Single Article: Towards Institutional Gridlock? The Limitations of Germany’s Consensus Democracy by CHRISTIAN SCHWEIGER
Symposium on Transforming Bismarckian Welfare State: Turning Away from a Defined-Benefit System? by Wolfram Lamping and Friedbert W. Rüb, editors
Introduction: Farewell to Bismarck, or Moving Forward Back to Bismarck? by WOLFRAM LAMPING and FRIEDBERT W. RÜB
Activating Labor Market and Social Policies in Germany: From Status Protection to Basic Income Support by WERNER EICHHORST, MARIA GRIENBERGER-ZINGERL and REGINA KONLE-SEIDL
Health Care Reform in Germany by THOMAS GERLINGER
German Pension Policies: The Transformation of a Defined-Benefit System into…What? by FRIEDBERT W. RÜB and WOLFRAM LAMPING
Implications of the Activation Paradigm on Poverty and Social Exclusion in Germany: Facts, Hypotheses, Uncertainties by PETRA BÖHNKE
Farewell to the Family as We Know it: Family Policy Change in Germany by ILONA OSTNER
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Vol. 6, No. 2
Evidence-Based Policy: A Concept in Geographical and Substantive Expansion
Introduction by KATHRIN FREY and SIMONE LEDERMANN
Adversarial Policies and Evidence Utilization: Modeling the Changing Evidence and Policy Connection by MARK MONAGHAN
Evidence, Learning and Intelligent Government: Reflections on Developments in Scotland by IAN SANDERSON
The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy-Making: The Case of Denmark by HANNE FOSS HANSEN and OLAF RIEPER
Pilot Projects for Evidence-Based Policy-Making: Three Pilot Projects in the Rhine Basin by HELEEN VREUGDENHIL and PHILIPPE KER RAULT
Re-Framing of Childcare in Germany and England: From a Private Responsibility to an Economic Necessity by ANNELI RÜLING
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Vol. 6, No. 3
Family Policies in the German-Speaking Countries: Reforms and Explanations
Introduction by REGINA AHRENS, SONJA BLUM, and IRENE GERLACH
Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in Switzerland by OLIVIA THOENEN
The Development of All-Day Schooling in Germany: How was it possible in this Conservative Welfare State? by SANDRA AUGUSTIN-DITTMANN
Between Instrument Tinkering and Policy Re-newal: Reforms of Parental Leave in Germany and Austria by SONJA BLUM
The Role of Old Ideas in the New German Family Policy Agenda by MARGITTA MÄTZKE and ILONA OSTNER
Policy Frames and Coalition Dynamics in the Recent Reforms of Swiss Family Policy by SILJA HÄUSERMANN and DANIEL KÜBLER
Sustainability in German Family Policy and Politics by REGINA AHRENS
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2009 Articles
Vol. 5, No. 1
Health Policy and Marketization
Introduction by ROMAN BÖCKMANN and THOMAS GERLINGER
A Long Farewell to the Bismarck System: Incremental Change in the German Health Insurance System by THOMAS GERLINGER and ROLF SCHMUCKER
Economization and Marketization in the German Healthcare System: How Do Users Respond? by BENJAMIN EWERT
Health Governance in the Aftermath of Traditional Corporatism: One Small Step for the Legislator, One Giant Leap for the Subsystem? by NILS C. BANDELOW
Commercializing German Hospital Care? Effects of New Public Management and Managed Care under Neoliberal Conditions by KAI MOSEBACH
Federalism and the "New Politics" of Hospital Financing by KATHARINA BÖHM
The Private Health Insurance: Demarketization of a Welfare Market? by ROMAN BÖCKMANN
Institutionalized Healthcare Reform in Germany? Error Correction or Political Strategy? by SYLVIA PANNOWITSCH
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Vol. 5, No. 2
Contested Police Systems
Contested Police Systems by ARIE VAN SLUIS and BERNHARD FREVEL
New Public Management Reforms in German Police Services by ROLF RITSERT and MIRJAM PEKAR
Police Organization and Police Reform in Germany - The Case of North Rhine-Westphalia by BERNHARD FREVEL and PHILIPP KUSCHEWSKI
Police Reform in The Netherlands – A Dance between National Steering and Local Performing by LEX CACHET and PETER MARKS
‘National Standards, Local Delivery’ - Police Reform in England and Wales by TREVOR JONES and ARIE VAN SLUIS
Evolving Patterns in the Police Systems of North Rhine- Westphalia, The Netherlands and England and Wales by ARIE VAN SLUIS, ARTHUR RINGELING and BERNHARD FREVEL
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2008 Articles
Vol. 4, No. 1
Re-Shaping Consumer Policy in Europe
Introduction: Re-Shaping Consumer Policy in Europe: Enabling Consumers to Act? by CHRISTOPH STRÜNCK
Current State and Prospects of Consumer Policy: An Introductory Essay by EDDA MÜLLER
Sustainability Policy and the Law by JENS KARSTEN AND LUCIA A. REISCH
Risk Regulation without Political Conflicts? Regime Structures in Food Safety Politics in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands by FRANK JANNING
New Players Enter the Game: Effects of Marketization of Social Policies by FLORIAN BLANK
Consumer Citizen: The Constitution of Consumer Democracy in Sociological Perspective by JÖRN LAMLA
Claiming Consumers’ Rights Patterns and Limits of Adversarial Legalism in European Consumer Protection by CHRISTOPH STRÜNCK
Public Health in the EU: Is Europe subject to Americanization? by PAULETTE KURZER
Legitimising Supranational Risk Regulation: The EU Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Regimes by SEBASTIAN KRAPOHL
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Vol. 4, No. 2
Transforming a Bismarckian Welfare State: Ideas, Interests and Voters in German Welfare State Reforms
Introduction: Moving bulky goods. How New Ideas and Partisan Politics Are Transforming the German Welfare State by WOLFRAM LAMPING AND FRIEDBERT W. RÜB
On the Way to Social Investment? The Normative Recalibration of the German Welfare State by ANTONIO BRETTSCHNEIDER
Reframing Social Policy: From Conservatism to Liberal Communitarianism by MARTIN SEELEIB-KAISER
Between Corporatism and Lobbyism: German Welfare Associations in Transition by KATRIN TOENS
Reforming the Welfare State in Times of Grey Majorities. The Myth of an Opposition between Younger and Older Voters in Germany by ACHIM GOERRES
On the Horns of a Dilemma. The Imperative of a Grand Coalition Is Risky – Especially For the Social Democrats by WOLFGANG MERKEL AND BERNHARD WEßELS
Vol. 4, No. 3
The Politics of Global Finance
Introduction by HUBERT ZIMMERMAN
“Please Better Shut Their Mouths”: German Influence on U.S. Macroeconomic Policy under the Carter Administration by WESLEY W. WIDMAIER
The Search for Autonomy: Governments, Central Banks, and the Formation of Monetary Preferences by HUBERT ZIMMERMAN
States, Markets, and Sovereign Wealth Funds by ERIC HELLEINER and TROY LUNDBLAD
Three Facets of Liquidity Illusion: Financial Innovation and the Credit Crunch by ANASTASIA NESVETAILOVA
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Vol. 4, No. 4
Politics 2.0: The Political Potential of the Internet
Preface by Kathrin Kissau and Uwe Hunger
Political Online-Participation of Migrants in Germany by Kathrin Kissau and Uwe Hunger
Political Potential and Capabilities of Online Communities by Susanne In der Smitten
Political Protest on the Net by Sigrid Baringhorst
Internet and the Integration of Immigrants in Germany and Israel: Characteristics and Potentials by Inna Weiskopf and Kathrin Kissau
Nation Building Online: A Case Study of Kurdish Migrants in Germany by Menderes Candan and Uwe Hunger
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2006 Articles
Vol. 3, No. 1
Urban Safety
Editorial by BERNHARD FREVEL
Security and the Urban Public Sphere by WALTER SIEBEL and JAN WEHRHEIM
Political Culture as a Basis for Local Security and Crime Prevention: A Comparison of the Conditions in Germany and The Netherlands by VERENA SCHULZ and HENNING VAN DEN BRINK
The Police, Changing Security Arrangements and Late Modernity: The Case of The Netherlands by JAN TERPSTRA and KEES VAN DER VIJVER
Networked Policing: Towards a Public Marketing Approach to Urban Safety by KUNO SCHEDLER
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Vol. 3, No. 2
Think Tanks
Introduction: Think Tanks in Austria, Switzerland and Germany--A Recalibration of Corporatist Policy Making? by SVEN JOCHEM and ADRIAN VATTER
Governing by Commission: A Way to More Effective Democratic Governance or a Loss of Democratic Accountability? by JULIA VON BUMENTHAL
The Development and Significance of Think Tanks in Germany by MARTIN THUNERT
U.S. and German Think Tanks in Comparative Perspective by JOSEF BRAML
Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reform--The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden by WERNER EICHHORST and OLE WINTERMANN
Switzerland: Think Tanks and Vested Interests in Swiss Policy Making by ISABELLE STEFFEN and WOLF LINDER
The Long Shadow of Corporatism: Scope and Limits of Think Tank Activities in Austria by FERDINAND KARLHOFER
Vol. 3, No. 3
Pension Reform
Politics of Pension Policies: Editorial by SIMON HEGELICH and KLAUS SCHUBERT
Personal Responsibility and its Contradiction in Terms by FRANK NULLMEIER
Moving the Unmovable: Political Strategies of Pension Reform in Germany by MARIUS R. BUSEMEYER
"Experimental Law-Making" and the Politics of German Pension Reforms by WOLFRAM LAMPING and FRIEDBERT W. RÜB
Riester Pensions in Germany: Do they substitute or supplement public pensions? Positions in the debate on the new public policy on private pensions by FRANK BERNER
Moving from "Defined Benefit" to "Undefined": The interests in the enhancement of supplementary provision for old age in Germany by SIMON HEGELICH
Vol. 3, No. 4
Biotechnology Policy
Biotechnology Policy Convergence in Continental Europe? Political Institutions, Problem Framing and Learning by NILS C. BANDELOW
Explaining ART Policies in Switzerland and Germany: Similar Processes-Similar Results? by CHRISTINE ROTHMAYR
Regulating Biomedicine in Belgium and France: Neighboring Countries, Diverging Policies by NATHALIE SCHIFFINO and FRÉDÉRIC VARONE
Policy Learning in Policy Domains with Value Conflicts: The Austrian Cases of Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies by ERICH GRIEßLER and BERNHARD HADOLT
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy-Oriented Learning and Long-Term Change in Genetic Engineering Policy: An Interpretist View by NILS C. BANDELOW
2002 Articles
Vol. 2, No. 1
The German Welfare State: Dimensions - Innovations - Comparisons
Introduction - Concept of the Issue and Some Characteristics of the German Welfare State by JOSEF SCHMID
Pension Reforms in Six West-European Countries. Which Lessons Can be Drawn for Germany? by JOACHIM HULSMANN, JOSEF SCHMID, and SARAH SCHOLL
Gender Policies in the Welfare State - A Comparison of Germany and Denmark by NORA FUHRMANN
Financial Incentives Within Social Assistance. Comparing Current Strategies in the U.S. and Germany by DORIAN R. WOODS, LAURA CHADWICK, and JURGEN VOLKERT
Local Welfare Regimes and the Restructuring of the Welfare State - an Anglo-German Comparison by BERNARD BLANKE and HENNING SCHRIDDE
The Welfare State and Education: A Comparison of Social and Educational Policy in Advanced Industrial Societies by GUNTHER HEGA and KARL HOKENMAIER
Reforming The German Welfare State: Why Germany Is Slower Than Its Neighbors by ROBERT HENRY COX
Vol. 2, No. 2
The Politics and Policies of Communist/Radical Socialist Parties after Communism
Communist/Radical Socialist Parties After Communism: An Introduction by JONATHAN OLSEN
The Communist Party of Bohemia und Moravia: A Post-Communist Socialist or A Neo-Communist Party? by MAXMILIAN STRMISKA
The Slovak Party of the Democratic Left: A Successful Post-Communist Party? by LUBOMIR KOPEČEK
After the Deluge: The French Communist Party after the End of Communism by FRANK WILSON
Vol. 2, No. 3
German Higher Education Reform From A Comparative Perspective
Introduction by ECE GÖZTEPE-ÇELEBI, FREIA STALLMANN and ANNETTE ZIMMER
Higher Education, Internationalisation, and the Nation-State by JÜRGEN ENDERS
A Comparative View On Policy Trends In Western European Higher Education by JEROEN HUISMAN and FRANS KAISER
Campus Europae by CHRISTA THOBEN
Gender Inequality in German Academia and Strategies for Change by AGNIESZKA MAJCHER
Theses On Status Quo And Future Challenges Of The German System Of Higher Education by HANS-UWE ERICHSON
Reform or Re-labeling? A Student’s Perspective On The Introduction Of The Bachelor’s And Master’s Degree In German Higher Education by FREIA STALLMANN
Vol. 2, No. 4
The Stakes of Transport Policy in Social Science Research
Introduction by FRITZ SAGER and VINCENT KAUFMANN
European Transport Policy – A Historical and Forward Looking Perspective by LIANA GIORGI and MICHAEL SCHMIDT
Harmonisation And Convergence? National Responses To The Common European Transport Policy by DIRK LEHMKUHL
Designing Sustainable Transportation Policy For Acceptance: A Comparison Of Germany, The Netherlands And Switzerland by CHRISTIAN HIRSCHI, WALTER SCHENKEL, And THOMAS WIDMER
Impacts Of Institutional Change On Urban Transport Policy In Rome: An Update by MARIO GUALDI and CARLO SESSA
Innovation Without Change? by BERNARD JOUVE
Transport Policy And Policy Research: Some Concluding Remarks by FRITZ SAGER and VINCENT KAUFMANN
2001 Articles
Vol. 1, No. 1
Changing Patterns of European Governance
Editorial by KLAUS SCHUBERT
Introduction by NILS C. BANDELOW
European Governance by The Emergence of a new Type of Package Deals by NILS C. BANDELOW, DIANA SCHUMANN, and ULRICH WIDMAIER
Regulation and Infrastructure Management: German Regulatory Regimes and the EU Framework by BURKARD EBERLEIN and EDGAR GRANDE
The European Union as a Virtual Learning Forum for National Labour Market Policy? - Comments on a 'Late Vocation' Field of European Governance by PAUL KLEMMER, DORTHEE BECKER-SOEST, and RÜDIGER WINK
Multi-Level Governance in the European Employment and Labour Market Policy: A Conceptual Outline and Some Empirical Evidence by CHRISTIAN ROTH and JOSEF SCHMID
Vol. 1, No. 2
Nonprofit Sector in Turbulent Environments
Editorial by ANNETTE ZIMMER
Italy's Third Sector on Consolidation Course by GIAN PAOLO BARBETTA
Changing Focus or Changing Role? The Swedish Nonprofit Sector in the 1990s by FILIP WIJKSTRÖM
The Third Sector in France by EDITH ARCHAMBAULT
The Third Sector and Labour market Policy in Germany by ANNETTE ZIMMER and ECKHARD PRILLER
Vol. 1, No. 3
Migration and Immigration Policies
Editorial by DIETRICH THRÄNHARDT and PAUL HARRIS
Republicanism and the Politics of Citizenship in Germany and France: Convergence or Divergence? by HEIKE HAGEDORN
Tainted Blood: The Ambivalence of Ethnic Migration in Israel, Japan, Korea, Germany and the United States by DIETRICH THRÄNHARDT
Party Competition and Inclusion of Immigrants in Germany by UWE HUNGER
Imagined Identity: Immigration, Ueberfremdung, and Cultural Chauvinism in German Far-Right Partisan Discourse by PAUL A. HARRIS
Vol. 1, No. 4
Policy of Adaptation: Efforts of East European Countries to Meet European Integration Standards
Eastern Enlargement Of The EU As A Subject Of Research Policy: Introduction To The Symposium by PETR FIALA
The Context, The Actors And The Effects Of The Eastern Enlargement Of The European Union by PETR FIALA
European Union Enlargement - Consequences And Problems by WITCHARD WOYKE
Prioritisation Of Work - Preparing The Poland's Accession To The European Union by FILIP JASINSKI
The EU Accession And ECE Parliaments: A Hungarian Approach by ATTILA ÁGH
Implementation Of The Eu Law In The Czech Republic: A Comparative Perspective by VOJTECH ŠIMÍCEK
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