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Attaining a positive level of well-being or quality of life is an ancient and primary goal of people in Europe and elsewhere. In the long run, the well-being of Europeans has been greatly affected by the evolution of modernization (since the Middle Ages) including democratization (since the French revolution 1789) and industrialization (since its b...
In this article we analyse the relationship between the institutional set-up of healthcare systems and patterns of public support. Two dimensions are distinguished, namely, state responsibility for healthcare provision and satisfaction with healthcare systems. Using data on 14 European countries from the Eurobarometer survey, we find only small eff...
This article investigates different modes of public policy in health care and their impact on health care financing and health service provision. In order to investigate the relationship between health expenditure and health service provision, we construct an “index of health care providers”. The empirical analysis of expenditure and this index dem...
The welfare state is at the heart of the institutional structure of all European societies. Yet there are major variations
across countries due to different historical developments. The origins of social policy date back more than 120 years, but
the real expansion of the welfare state did not take place until the end of World War II. In the 1950s,...
Nach der Vereinigung wurde das westdeutsche Institutionengefüge auf die neuen Bundesländer übertragen. Den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, (Ost-)Berlin, Thüringen, Sachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt wurde damit eine erhebliche Orientierungsleistung an Institutionen abverlangt, die ihnen zuvor weitgehend unbekannt waren. Aus institutione...
[From the Introduction]. Since the Treaty of Maastricht (1992), later incorporated in the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997), the concept of ‘subsidiarity’ has become a
prominent part of the constitutional order of the European Union. Since 1992, the Commission publishes a report each year on the application of the principle of subsidiarity. Also, in the r...
In recent years, the notion of ‘subsidiarity’ has gained prominence in European discourse on the sharing of competences among different levels in the multi-level political system of the European Union. This article addresses the question whether the ‘Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC)’ is a suitable instrument for implementing the principle of subs...
Apart from the market and the family, welfare state institutions undoubtedly have a major impact on the living conditions of individuals and social groups. As a matter of fact, welfare state institutions can be differently organized and geared towards different goals (e.g. supplementing vs. replacing markets, equality vs. security, minimum standard...
Den gegenwärtig wohl am meisten diskutierten Versuch der Entwicklung einer empirisch fundierten Typologie von Wohlfahrtsstaaten stellt die Studie von Esping-Andersen „The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism“ (1990) dar.2 Er geht aus von den politisch-ideologischen Leitvorstellungen der kollektiven Akteure, die in der Entwicklung der westlichen Wohlf...
The prevention of poverty in old age, or, more positively, the securing of a basic minimum of existence, is certainly a widely shared goal in social policy. It is, for instance, laid down in the second draft of the European Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights (1989, No. 27): ‘Every person in retirement or early retirement shall be able t...
Die Konzeptualisierung der Armutsproblematik ist stets von weitreichender Bedeutung für die empirische Armutsforschung. Ob Armut als objektives oder subjektives Phänomen verstanden wird, ob sie auf materielle Armut (Einkommensarmut) reduziert oder multidimensional verstanden wird, ob sie mit Hilfe von absoluten oder relativen Armutsgrenzen gemessen...
Alterssicherungspolitik kann — wie andere Politiken — in zweierlei Hinsicht zum Gegenstand sozial- und politikwissenschaftlichen Interesses werden: als erklärende und als zu erklärende Variable. Zum einen kann man nach den Ursachen der Entwicklung und der gegenwärtigen Ausprägung von Alterssicherungspolitik fragen, und diese können etwa in politisc...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag entwickelt aus der Kritik des Aufsatzes von Heinze et al. über den Zusammenhang von Armut und Arbeitsmarkt (in ZfS 10 (1981): 219-243) einen Ansatz zur Analyse der sozialstrukturellen Bedingungen von Armut. Die theoretisch-konzeptionelle Kritik richtet sich zum einen auf die mangelnde analytische Unterscheidu...
"In this paper, changing modes of regulation (hierarchy, self-regulation, and market) in health care systems are analyzed as well as how these changes affect health care financing and health care provision. The study shows that modes of regulation in different types of health care systems become more similar, for example with respect to the level o...
'Die Notwendigkeit der Reform der sozialen Sicherungssysteme, darunter auch und vor allem der Alterssicherung, ist unbestritten und steht in nahezu allen westlichen Wohlfahrtsstaaten auf der politischen Tagesordnung. Die Reformdiskussion wird jedoch weitgehend als eine Diskussion unter den Experten und politischen Eliten geführt. Relativ vernachläs...
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The (book-)project brings together two research traditions which have in the past developed rather independently from each other: quality-of-life and human well-being research on one hand, and comparative welfare state and social policy research on the other hand. Quality-of-life research has focused on issues of measurement, but often neglected to investigate the causal factors (drivers) behind the observed changes. Comparative welfare state research has concentrated on developing typologies of welfare states, often without paying much attention to the actual outcomes of welfare state activities. The general approach pursued in the project is to link the institutional analysis of welfare state arrangements to multidimensional welfare outcomes and thus to provide a framework within which more effective policy arrangements can be developed. It is expected that a cross-national analysis of the performance of developed Western welfare states will demonstrate the range of the potential impact of welfare states on well-being and thereby provide policy-relevant clues how to improve the performance of existing welfare state programs.
