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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
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their insurance record and the amount of co...
... 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,...
... 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 tradeoffs
involved will, among others, be of a public choice nature and include the importance of
the particular financial institutio...
... 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 o...
... 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 th...
... 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...
... 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 po...
... links,” which permit
direct shipping and passenger travel between the Taiwanese-held
offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu and the mainland cities of
Xiamen and Fuzhou, and some Taiwanese analysts expect ... third-largest
producer of IT hardware items has touched off a debate in
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Taiwan about the supposed “hollowing out” of the island’s
economy.
On the dema...
...
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 share...