englischDo insured individuals under statutory health insurance (SHI) behave according to the ideal type of homo economicus? Or are those with SHI accused of a form of rationality and calculation that does not exist? Do deductibles perpetuate or exacerbate social inequalities? Are co-payments [...]

englischDo misaligned incentives arise between municipal enterprises, municipal politics and citizens? This study applies approaches from public choice theory to information problems and incentive inefficiencies in municipal enterprises. Using multivariate regression analyses, the author empirically [...]

englischThe importance of cluster policy is still very high in Germany. Especially today, when the coronavirus pandemic is putting cities and regions under economic pressure, places are having to compete with others more than ever to achieve new growth. Using an ex-post perspective of the case [...]

englischSocieties are constantly changing—and with them people’s needs. Politics has the task of accompanying and steering change. This volume brings together contributions from research on innovation and the welfare state, political parties and associations as well as policy advice, thus providing [...]

englischWill digitalisation make the concept of ‘a vocation’ obsolete, as specialised qualifications typical of German labour relations may lose ground against general IT qualifications? Or will it preserve its guiding function as an institution in the neo-institutionalist sense, because [...]

englischInterest groups within the context of changing welfare states have gained widespread attention within the social sciences. Welfare states and interest groups are being faced with new challenges (e.g. in the context of several changes, such as new social risks). Schwache Interessen (weak [...]

englischThere has hardly been any other development that has changed our everyday lives as significantly as digitalisation, and there is hardly anything as commonplace as neighbourship. Despite the links between these two concepts growing, they have been neglected in social science research in [...]

englischIndustry 4.0 and digitalisation are current developments that are having a strong impact on the world of work and our society. However, their consequences are still relatively unclear. A look at four economically strong European countries (Germany, Italy, Sweden and Spain) shows that [...]

englischLately, welfare organisations have been confronted with changes to their environment because, for approximately two decades, governance structures have changed dramatically. Gradually, quasi-market organised practices have been introduced in the organisations’ different fields of activity, [...]