Studies in the Comparative Political Economy of Education and Training (Cumulative Habilitation)

1. Introduction: The Comparative Political Economy of Education and Training Institutions, preferences, and structural change 2. From Myth to Reality: Globalization and Public Spending in OECD Countries Revisited 3. Demands for re-distributive policies in an era of demographic ageing: The rival pressures from age and class in 15 OECD countries (with Achim Goerres, Simon Weschle) Institutions, parties and the comparative political economy of education spending 4. Social democrats and the new partisan politics of public investment in education 5. Bildung und die ‗neue‘ Sozialdemokratie: Eine Analyse aus der Sicht der vergleichenden Staatsausgabenforschung 6. The impact of fiscal decentralization on education and other types of spending Institutional change in the German vocational training system in international comparison 7. Asset specificity, institutional complementarities and the variety of skill regimes in coordinated market economies 8. Die Sozialpartner und der Wandel der Politik der beruflichen Bildung seit 1970 9. From Collectivism towards Segmentalism: Institutional Change in German Vocational Training (with Kathleen Thelen