The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in German in illuminating historical and structural contexts.
Showing how economic reform has become the central issue on the German political agenda, raising contentious issues of policy management and posing deeper questions about political beliefs and identities. It also examines the politics of the reform process, outlining competing views about the root causes of Germany's economic problems, the appropriate policy responses, and the distribution of costs. It situates the reform process in the wider context of the decline of the German economic model (Modell Deutschland) and Germany's transition from European pace-setter to economic laggard.
Particular attention is paid to the following key questions:
What continuities and discontinuities can be seen in Germany's political economy?
Are globalization and Europeanization associated with a progressive neo-liberal ascendancy in economic reform?
How does economic reform in Germany compare with that in other states, notably Britain and France?
Are there distinctive patterns in the way domestic policymakers negotiate economic reform?
How do the characteristics of the German labour market and welfare state condition economic reform?
How much variation exists at the Laender levels?
This book was previously published as a special issue of German Politics.
Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. He has written widely on European and comparative political economy and public policy.
Stephen Padgett is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He has written widely on European politics and policy.
The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany
Global, Rhineland or Hybrid Capitalism?
Edited by
Kenneth Dyson and Stephen Padgett
First published 2006 by Routledge
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Contents
| Kenneth Dyson and Stephen Padgett |
| Andreas Busch |
| Susanne Ltz |
| Susanne K. Schmidt |
| Wolfgang Streeck and Christine Trampusch |
| Georg Menz |
| Roland Sturm |
| Kenneth Dyson |
| Stephen Padgett |
Notes on Contributors
Andreas Busch is Reader in European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His recent books include Nationaler Staat und internationale Wirtschaft. Anmerkungen zum Thema Globalisierung (co-edited with Thomas Plmper; Nomos, 1999); Public Policy and Political Ideas (co-edited with Dietmar Braun; Edward Elgar, 1999) and Staat und Globalisierung. Das Politikfeld Bankenregulierung im internationalen Vergleich (Westdeutscher Verlag, 2003). His recent articles have appeared in West European Politics, German Politics and Politische Vierteljahresschrift.
Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. He has written widely on European and comparative political economy and public policy. His recent books include (with Kevin Featherstone) The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 1999); The Politics of the Euro Zone (Oxford University Press, 2000); the edited volume European States and the Euro (Oxford University Press, 2002); and the co-edited volume (with Klaus Goetz) Germany, Europe and the Politics of Constraint (Proceedings of the British Academy, vol.119, published with Oxford University Press, 2004). His next book is the edited volume Enlarging the Euro Area: The Euro and the Transformation of East Central Europe (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is a co-editor of German Politics.
Susanne Ltz is Professor of Political Regulation and Governance at the Open University of Hagen, having previously been Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Her recent books include (with Roland Czada and Stefan Mette) Regulative Politik. Zhmungen von Markt und Technik (Leske & Budrich, 2004); and Der Staat und die Globalisierung von Finazmarkten; Regulative Politik in Deutschland, Grossbritannien und den USA (Campus, 2002). Recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Public Policy, Politische Vierteljahresschrift and Comparative Political Studies.
Georg Menz is Lecturer in Political Economy at Goldsmiths College in London. He has published recent articles in Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Politique europenne. His two books, Contested Borders: National Response Strategies to Europeanization and The Future of European Migration Policy, will be published by Oxford University Press and Lynne Rienner Publishers respectively in 2005.
Stephen Padgett is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde. He has written widely on European politics and policy including the politics of electricity in Europe. His recent publications include Organizing Democracy: Interest Groups in Post-Communist Society (Cambridge University Press, 2000) as well as the co-edited volume Developments in German Politics 3 (Palgrave, 2003). Recent articles have appeared in Parliamentary Affairs, German Politics, Journal of European Public Policy and (forthcoming) British Journal of Political Science. He is a co-editor of German Politics.
Susanne K. Schmidt is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. Her recent books include (with Raymund Werle) Coordinating Technology: Studies in the International Standardization of Telecommunications (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), and Liberalisierung in Europa. Die Rolle der Kommission (Frankfurt: Campus, 1998). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Public Policy, Journal of European Public Policy and the Politische Vierteljahresschrift. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of European Public Policy
