Add to ORKGThis essay will show that the Schröder-led government managed to break the political gridlock and introduce the Agenda 2010 because key institutional structures of Germany‟s political economy had lost their obstructive powers. In other words, the formerly semi-sovereign state had reclaimed its sovereignty. To understand how this happened, Peter Katzenstein's concept of the semi-sovereign state is first explored as a framework through which to analyze economic policy continuity and change. Within this framework, the causes for constant reform inertia between 1982 and 2002, in spite of varying political constellations and changes in the country‟s economic structure, are then discussed. This analysis will demonstrate that the Agenda 2010 refor...
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For more than a decade, bemoaning the many roadblocks to reforming important aspect of German politi...
This article aims to shed new light on Germany’s domineering role in the eurocrisis. I argue that th...
We address the electoral consequences of profound welfare state reforms taking the German Agenda 201...
A number of continental states have adopted tripartite concertation in order to reform their welfare...
Germany’s economy has experienced a transition from the ‘sick man of Europe’ after unification in 19...
From the 1960s to the 1980s, observers attributed to Germany the character of a political-economic "...
In this thesis, I examine the importance of ideas in causing institutional change in the political e...
In this article we examine the constraints on Germany’s influence over the reforms of the macroecono...
The article discusses the impact of the financial crisis on the German political economy and the fis...
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in Germany in illuminating historical...
Contrary to popular headlines of reform deadlock in Germany, substantial economic reforms have taken...
Heller understood that Schmitt's ‘authoritarian state’ was in fact the liberal state in its pure for...
The end of the social democratic century has marked the beginning of a new era of political and econ...
This article analyses the dramatic electoral decline of German social democracy since 2003. It argue...
The key to economic reform in Germany is a significant reduction in the high costs of labour.The mai...
For more than a decade, bemoaning the many roadblocks to reforming important aspect of German politi...
This article aims to shed new light on Germany’s domineering role in the eurocrisis. I argue that th...
We address the electoral consequences of profound welfare state reforms taking the German Agenda 201...