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2. Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle: Explaining German Labor Market Reforms with a Modified Multiple-Streams Approach.
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Zohlnhöfer, Reimut
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LABOR market , *DECISION making in political science , *LABOR supply , *CABINET system , *WELFARE state , *EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
This article applies a modified Multiple-Streams Approach (MSA) to the German Hartz IV labor market reform, probably the most far-reaching policy project since unification, which many theoretical approaches have substantial difficulties explaining. Empirically, the article provides the first encompassing explanation of the Hartz IV reform by putting together the empirical pieces of the overall puzzle. Theoretically, the article demonstrates that the extension of the MSA by Herweg, Huß, and Zohlnhöfer (HHZ) is fruitful regarding the adaptation of the MSA for decision making and regarding their hypotheses and operational definitions which allow a rigorous empirical analysis and provide the possibility to prove the MSA wrong. In contrast, HHZ's adaptation to parliamentary systems turn out to be less suitable for the case. Moreover, the point at which the political stream is considered to be ready for coupling needs reconsideration. It is argued that it suffices that some key political actors become interested in a proposal; in contrast, the necessary majorities for an adoption of the proposal need not be forthcoming already because these can still be organized during decision-coupling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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3. The Politics of Public and Private Pension Generosity in Advanced Democracies.
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Wolf, Frieder, Zohlnhöfer, Reimut, and Wenzelburger, Georg
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PENSIONS , *OLD age assistance , *OLD age pensions , *SOCIAL policy , *CROSS-cultural studies , *POLITICAL parties , *PUBLIC welfare policy , *WELFARE state , *AUSTERITY , *BUDGET cuts - Abstract
The quantitative strand of social policy research suffers from a triple deficit: analyses of aggregate expenditure dominate, most of the few studies of replacement rates focus on unemployment or sickness benefits while pensions are excluded, and the interdependence between public and private pension plans is often ignored. This article addresses the said deficits, first, by discussing the pension sectors' theoretical peculiarities and by proposing two hypotheses: one on the role played by political parties in implementing public pension retrenchment, and the second on their role in extending private pension plans. Second, the article presents regression results of public pension replacement rate changes in 18 developed democracies. The findings show considerably smaller cuts to pensions than to unemployment or sickness benefits, and striking differences regarding partisan effects between the sectors. Lastly, the article assesses partisan effects on private pension plans, detecting some rather surprising effects. Most noteworthy is the fact that those parties which reduced public pension generosity during the 1990s (i.e. Social Democrats) cannot claim responsibility for compensating these cuts by eliciting higher private engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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4. Implications of dataset choice in comparative welfare state research.
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Wenzelburger, Georg, Zohlnhöfer, Reimut, and Wolf, Frieder
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WELFARE state , *COMPARATIVE studies , *SOCIAL security , *DATA analysis , *POLITICAL science & economics , *POLICY science research , *SOCIAL policy - Abstract
In the debate on welfare politics replacement rates have been hailed as a measure far more appropriate to identify retrenchment than expenditure. However, this contribution demonstrates that there is a considerable dependent variable problem on the entitlement side as well. By means of a comparison between replacement rates for three major programmes from the two most prominent datasets, Scruggs's CWED and Korpi and Palme's SCIP, we show that not only diagnoses on the occurrence and intensity of welfare cutbacks vary considerably, but also the results on the determinants of welfare state change. After tracing some causes of the divergences, we conclude that future research needs to be more programme-specific, more data-conscious and more humble in its claims. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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5. Political Parties and Pension Generosity in Times of Permanent Austerity.
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Zohlnhöfer, Reimut, Wolf, Frieder, and Wenzelburger, Georg
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POLITICAL parties ,PENSIONS ,AUSTERITY ,COST control ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,SOCIAL policy ,DEMOCRACY - Abstract
The quantitative strand of social policy research suffers from a double deficit: on the one hand, analyses of aggregate expenditure dominate, and on the other hand, most studies of replacement rates focus on unemployment or sickness benefits, while pensions are excluded. This paper addresses the said deficit firstly by discussing the pension sectors' theoretical peculiarities and by proposing two hypotheses: one on the retrenchment of pension replacement rates and one on the role played by political parties in implementing it. Secondly, after a brief literature review and an outline of our methodological approach, we present regression results of replacement rate changes in 18 developed democracies. Our findings show considerably smaller cuts of pensions than of unemployment or sickness benefits, and striking differences regarding partisan effects between the sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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6. Parteien und die Generosität der Altersrenten in Zeiten permanenter Austerität.
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Zohlnhöfer, Reimut, Wolf, Frieder, and Wenzelburger, Georg
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SOCIAL policy ,PENSIONS ,HEALTH insurance ,UNEMPLOYMENT insurance statistics ,BUDGET cuts ,POLITICAL parties ,OECD countries politics & government - Abstract
Copyright of Swiss Political Science Review is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2012
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7. Das 'Bündnis für Arbeit' — Innovativer Konsens oder institutionelle Erstarrung?
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Rolf G. Heinze, Egle, Christoph, Ostheim, Tobias, and Zohlnhöfer, Reimut
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unemployment ,democracy ,descriptive study ,Economics ,politische Steuerung ,national state ,political governance ,wage scale policy ,deskriptive Studie ,Tarifpolitik ,cooperation ,Labor Market Policy ,Arbeitslosigkeit ,Federal Republic of Germany ,government policy ,representative democracy ,functional change ,Kooperation ,Wohlfahrtsstaat ,activating labor market policy ,Regierungspolitik ,ddc:330 ,repräsentative Demokratie ,employment policy ,politisches Programm ,Reformpolitik ,Korporatismus ,aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik ,reform policy ,political program ,politischer Wandel ,Wirtschaft ,Republik ,political change ,Beschäftigungspolitik ,Arbeitsmarktpolitik ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Bündnis für Arbeit ,republic ,alliance for jobs ,Demokratie ,welfare state ,Funktionswandel ,Staat ,corporatism - Abstract
Der Wandel zu einem "kooperativen Staat" in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der auf die aktive Mitwirkung der Adressaten angewiesen ist, wird nach Meinung des Autors nicht nur durch die fiskalische Krise vorangetrieben, sondern auch durch die aktuellen Funktionsschwächen der etablierten politischen Institutionen. Erkennbar wird ein grundlegendes Dilemma der politischen Steuerung durch Parteien und Parlamente, die den Steuerungs- und Integrationsbedarf funktional differenzierter Gesellschaften allein nicht mehr bewältigen können und deshalb Zusatzeinrichtungen für die Konsensbildung und Systemintegration benötigen. Der Autor zeichnet in seinem Beitrag die Architektur und den Verlauf vom "Bündnis für Arbeit" nach und fragt danach, inwiefern dieses ein Lehrstück für die Reformunfähigkeit in Deutschland ist. Es markiert seiner kritischen Analyse zufolge keinen Bruch mit der traditionellen Tarif- und Beschäftigungspolitik in Deutschland, sondern vielmehr bestätigt sich die Kontinuitätsthese. Ein markanter Wandel in der Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik ist demnach nicht zu verzeichnen. Der bisherige Verlauf des Bündnisses und vor allem die von den Arbeitsgruppen und der Benchmarkinggruppe vorgelegten Ergebnisse markieren zwar in einzelnen Themenbereichen eine tendenzielle Abkehr von den klassischen Organisationsprämissen und Leitlinien in Richtung einer aktivierenden Arbeitsmarktpolitik, aber es gibt bislang keine grundlegende institutionelle Reform, die auf das "Bündnis für Arbeit" zurückgeführt werden könnte. Das große Ziel - der Abbau von Arbeitslosigkeit und der Aufbau neuer Beschäftigung - wurde bislang nicht erreicht. (ICI2)
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- 2003
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