The democratic nation state of the post-war era has undergone major transformations since the 1970s, and political authority has been both internationalized and privatized. The thirteen chapters of this edited collection deal with major transformations of governance arrangements and state responsibilities in the countries of the OECD world. A unified conceptual and explanatory framework is used to describe trajectories of state change, to explain the internationalization or privatization of responsibilities in the resource, law, legitimacy and welfare dimensions of the democratic nation state, and to probe the state's role in the today's post-national constellation of political authority. As the contributions show, an unravelling of state authority has indeed occurred, but the state nevertheless continues to play a key role in emerging governance arrangements. Hence it is not merely a 'victim' of globalization and other driving forces of change.
Author Biography:
Michael Blauberger, University of Salzburg, Austria
Michael Brüggemann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mirella Cacace, University of Bremen, Germany
Gralf-Peter Calliess, University of Bremen, Germany
Lorraine Frisina Doetter, University of Bremen, Germany
Karin Gottschall, University of Bremen, Germany
Ralf Götze, University of Bremen, Germany
Sebastian Haunss, University of Bremen, Germany
Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany
Hermann B. Hoffmann, CMS Hasche Sigle, Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Kittel, University of Vienna, Austria
Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, University of Vienna, Austria
Philipp Knodel, University of Bremen, Germany
Tilman Krüger, University of Bremen, Germany
Swantje Lingenberg, University of Bremen, Germany
Jens Michael Lobschat, University of Bremen, Germany
Kerstin Martens, University of Bremen, Germany
Johanna Möller, University of Bremen, Germany
Aletta Mondré, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Dennis Niemann, University of Bremen, Germany
Herbert Obinger, University of Bremen, Germany
Anke Offerhaus, University of Bremen, Germany
Achim Schmid, University of Bremen, Germany
Susanne K. Schmidt, University of Bremen, Germany
Henning Schmidtke, University of Bremen, Germany
Carina Schmitt, University of Bremen, Germany
Peter Starke, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Markus Tepe, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Jörg R. Werner, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany
Jochen Zimmermann,University of Bremen, Germany