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

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.

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