State Transformations in OECD Countries: Dimensions, Driving Forces and Trajectories

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Explaining State Transformations: A Framework....Pages 3-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Rise and Decline of Public Enterprises in Western Democracies....Pages 19-39
The Competing State: Transformations of the Public/Private Sector Earnings Gap in Four Countries....Pages 41-66
The Evolving Post-national Regulation of Financial Reporting....Pages 67-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
The Effects of International Dispute Settlement Procedures....Pages 87-105
Internationalizing Law against the Odds: The Power of Courts and Their Limits....Pages 107-125
Explaining the Transnationalization of Commercial Law....Pages 127-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Cultures of Political Discourse in Europe: Explaining Multiple Segmentation in the European Public Sphere....Pages 145-165
Internationalization and the Discursive Legitimation of the Democratic Nation State....Pages 167-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Pioneers of Paradigmatic Change? Welfare State Restructuring in Small Open Economies....Pages 189-206
Policy Change in Secondary Education: Germany and England Compared....Pages 207-222
The Hybridization of Healthcare Regulation: An Explanation in Cross-national Perspective....Pages 223-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
The Democratic Nation State — Victim or Master of Transformations?....Pages 249-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-317