Manfred G Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 244777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manfred G Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manfred G |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7100-0468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Naltrexona em baixa dose (LDN): Tendência de consumo nas capitais brasileiras e Distrito Federal, 2014-2020
Estudo ecológico com objetivo de determinar o consumo de naltrexona em baixa dose (LDN) nas 26 capitais brasileiras e Distrito Federal e acompanhar a tendência entre os anos de 2014 e 2020. A coleta de dados da dispensação de naltrexona manipulada, se deu por meio do Sistema Nacional de Gerenciamento de Produtos Controlados, publicizado em 2020, considerando-se baixa dose prescrições de até 5 mg. O cálculo dos coeficientes de dispensação utilizou…
Öffentlichkeit - Monument - Text: XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae. 27.-31. Augusti MMXII. Akten
The 14 th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy focused on the importance of inscriptions as a form of public communication. Topics discussed include the ways that the communicative nature of inscriptions is expressed in the texts themselves and sometimes even more saliently by the monument that bears the inscription. The Acts includes the full text of all the main lectures and summaries of the section contributions.
Handbuch Sozialpolitik
Demokratietheorien: Eine Einführung
Das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
In diesem Buch werden die Grundzüge des politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik Deutschland dargelegt. Manfred G. Schmidt untersucht dabei sowohl das Regelwerk, welches die Verfassung der Politik vorgibt, als auch die Verfassungswirklichkeit. Dabei werden die wichtigsten politischen Institutionen, ihre Funktionsweise sowie die Grundzüge der Innen- und Außenpolitik beschrieben.
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Conclusion: Policy Diversity in Germany's Federalism
This article will examine the extent to which the narrative of policy diversity is characteristic of German federalism, using findings from comparisons of policies in the individual Länder and with a special focus on the period since the German reunification. The first part of the article presents findings supporting the view that there is a significant degree of policy diversity in the states (Länder) of the Federal Republic of Germany (section …
Modernization
The Policy of Strategic Demobilisation: The Social Policy of the Christian Democratic–Liberal Coalition, 2009–13
This article addresses two research questions: which course did the CDU, CSU–FDP coalition government choose to follow in social policy from 2009 to 2013? And what relationships exist between social policy in this period and the Bundestag election in 2013? The analysis of primary and secondary data reveals both continuity and discontinuity in social policy in the 17th legislative period of the Bundestag. The decisions and non-decisions on social …
Zum politischen Leistungsprofil der Schweiz: Thesen zur Erklärung einer Erfolgsgeschichte aus dem Blickwinkel des internationalen Vergleichs
Im OECD‐Länder‐Vergleich erreicht die Schweiz bei zentralen Indikatoren des politischen Leistungsprofils Spitzenwerte, beispielsweise bei der Arbeitslosenquote, der Inflationsrate und dem Schuldendienst für die Staatsschulden. Wie diese Erfolgsgeschichte zu erklären ist, wird in diesem Essay anhand der Jahre von 1990 bis 2012 erörtert, und zwar unter Heranziehung von Hypothesen und Daten zu schweizspezifischen Erklärungen und von Erklärungsansätz…
Sozialpolitik in Deutschland: Historische Entwicklung und Internationaler Vergleich
Erwerbsbeteiligung Von Frauen und Männern Im Industrieländervergleich
Regieren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State: The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994)
Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic
Politik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und Männern im Industrieländervergleich
Legitimation durch Performanz? Zur Output-Legitimität in Autokratien
This article explores the role of the output legitimacy in autocracies. A review of recent contributions to the study of autocracies and the analysis of data on outputs and outcomes do not support the view that autocracies are capable of generating a high level of output legitimacy through high levels of political performance. A wider range of barriers such as performance dilemmas, resource constraints, deficient processing of information, and tr…
Der deutsche Sozialstaat: Geschichte und Gegenwart
Spätestens seit den Hartz-Reformen und der Agenda 2010 steht der deutsche Sozialstaat im Mittelpunkt hitziger Debatten. Seine ökonomische und politische Bedeutung ist kaum zu überschätzen. Knapp ein Drittel des deutschen Bruttoinlandsprodukts wird in ihm umgesetzt. Rund 40 Prozent aller Wahlberechtigten bestreiten ihren Lebensunterhalt hauptsächlich aus Sozialleistungen. Manfred G. Schmidt beschreibt und erklärt die Geschichte des deutschen Sozia…
A Gadibus Romam Myth and Reality of an Ancient Route
The four goblets from Vicarello, which show copies of a Roman itinerary from Gades to Rome engraved on their outside (CIL XI 3281–3284), are usually interpreted as souvenirs brought to Vicarello by Spaniards as votive offerings after a long journey. In this article it is argued that these itineraries (just like the one in Metrodorus’ poem, Anth. Pal. XIV 121) are representing the legendary Via Herculis; they are to be understood as a Roman attemp…
Die Sozialpolitik der zweiten Großen Koalition (2005 bis 2009)
In Deutschland tritt nicht nur eine Sozialstaatspartei für umfängliche öffentliche Daseinsvorsorge ein. Vielmehr werben dort gleich zwei große Sozialstaatsparteien um Wählerstimmen und streben nach politischer Gestaltung: die SPD und die Unionsparteien. Gehen beide Parteien ein Regierungsbündnis ein, wie in der Großen Koalition der 16. Legislaturperiode des Deutschen Bundestages (2005-2009), der zweiten dieser Art auf Bundesebene, stehen die Zeic…
Demokratietheorien
Wenn zwei Sozialstaatsparteien konkurrieren: Sozialpolitik in Deutschland
Für Sozialpolitik wird in Deutschland mehr Geld ausgegeben als für jedes andere Politikfeld. Allein im Jahre 2004 waren es 691 Milliarden Euro. Das entspricht rund zwei Dritteln aller öffentlichen Ausgaben und 31,2 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsproduktes. Noch höher ist die Sozialleistungsquote, der Anteil der Sozialausgaben am Bruttoinlandsprodukt, in den neuen Bundesländern: mit 46,6 Prozent übertrifft sie die der alten Bundesländer (29,0 Prozent) u…
Die Sozialpolitik der zweiten rot-grünen Koalition (2002–2005)
Die Berliner Koalition aus SPD und Grünen brachte viel Erwartungstreues und manche handfeste Überraschungen zustande. Davon legt bereits die Sozialpolitik der ersten rot-grünen Bundesregierung von 1998 bis 2002 Zeugnis ab (Schmidt 2003). Erwartungsgetreu war, dass Rot-Grün die sozialpolitischen Reformen der Regierung Kohl, wie im Wahlkampf versprochen, alsbald zurücknahm. Ferner folgte Rot-Grün bis zum Ende der 14. Legislaturperiode im Jahre 2002…
Testing the Retrenchment Hypothesis: Educational Spending, 1960–2002
Edited by Francis G. Castles, a leading authority in the field, and bringing together an outstanding group of British, German and American scholars, it examines trends in non-social or ‘core’ spending on public administration, defence, public order, education, economic affairs and debt financing and in the regulatory ordering of the economic sphere. The book not only opens up new areas of comparative public policy research, but also demonstrates …
The Welfare State and the Economy in Periods of Economic Crisis: A Comparative Study of Twenty‐three OECD Nations
While all industrial nations have been plagued by the setback to economic growth since the mid‐1970s, a wide range of variation marks the economic performance, policy outputs and policy outcomes of Western nations. The basic question addressed in this paper is the extent to which economic, socioeconomic and political variables account for the differences in economic performance, unemployment, public debt and the growth of social security expendit…
Political performance and types of democracy: Findings from comparative studies
This essay explores the relationships between political performance profiles and major types of democracy from a comparative perspective. The article focuses attention mainly on the political performance of majoritarian and non‐majoritarian government, democracies with small and large numbers of veto players, hybrid regimes, presidentialism and parliamentary government, referendum democracy and representative government, and established as appose…
West Germany: The Policy of the Middle Way
This article focuses attention on the distinctive characteristics of economic and social policy in West Germany during the last four decades. It will be argued, that the distinctiveness of state intervention in West Germany resides in a combination of policies of conversative-reformist, liberal and social democratic complexion. The policy of the middle way which results from this combination differs from the extreme poles that are marked by the m…
The parties‐do‐matter hypothesis and the case of the federal republic of Germany
According to the parties‐do‐matter hypothesis, differences in policy outputs and outcomes are associated with ‐ and, by inference, are dependent upon ‐ differences in the partisan composition of government. It is to a critical evaluation of the parties‐do‐matter view and its applicability to non‐majoritarian and 'semi‐sovereign' states, such as the Federal Republic of Germany, that attention is given in this article. It is argued that the parties…
Social policy in rich and poor countries: Socio‐economic Trends and Political‐institutional Determinants
To what extent can the dramatic differences in social policy efforts in rich and poor countries be accounted for by genuinely political explanations? The hypothesis that is advanced in this article rests upon the combination of two schools of thought in comparative social policy analysis: socioeconomic models which focus attention on levels of economic wealth, need and demand for social security, and models of a comparative‐historiographic and po…
The politics of unemployment: Rates of unemployment and labour market policy
Rates of unemployment among the developed industrial democracies vary considerably. How are these differences to be explained? In addressing this fundamental question, attention is focused on Western Europe and some other OECD countries in the period 1973/74 until the early 1980s. The suggestion is that a fairly large proportion of variance in the rates of unemployment can be ascribed to sociological and political variables. The most important ar…
Still on the Middle Way? Germany’s Political Economy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
2001). Still on the Middle Way? Germany’s Political Economy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century. German Politics: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 1-12
Dimensions of democracies
The conventional wisdom concerning the choice between majoritarian electoral systems and proportional representation (PR) ‐ and, more broadly, between majoritarian and consensus forms of democracy ‐ is that there is a trade‐off: PR and consensus democracy provide more accurate representation and better minority representation, but majoritarianism provides more effective government. A comparative analysis of 18 older and well‐established democraci…
Political consequences of German unification
The ‘big bang’ approach to German unification poses several problems for the Federal Republic affecting the governance structure and the nature of public policy. Four questions require particular attention: How will the basic fabric of the German state be affected? Can the political institutions cope with the drastic economic effects of unification? How far will the costs necessitate basic changes in economic and social policy? Will unification b…
The Politics of Domestic Reform in the Federal Republic of Germany
Conclusion: Policy Diversity in Germany's Federalism
This article will examine the extent to which the narrative of policy diversity is characteristic of German federalism, using findings from comparisons of policies in the individual Länder and with a special focus on the period since the German reunification. The first part of the article presents findings supporting the view that there is a significant degree of policy diversity in the states (Länder) of the Federal Republic of Germany (section …
Social policy in rich and poor countries
Nomination: Does politics matter? A perennial question! by Hans Keman, p.159 Reflections: Politics does indeed matter! by Manfred G. Schmidt, p.164
A Gadibus Romam Myth and Reality of an Ancient Route
The four goblets from Vicarello, which show copies of a Roman itinerary from Gades to Rome engraved on their outside (CIL XI 3281–3284), are usually interpreted as souvenirs brought to Vicarello by Spaniards as votive offerings after a long journey. In this article it is argued that these itineraries (just like the one in Metrodorus’ poem, Anth. Pal. XIV 121) are representing the legendary Via Herculis; they are to be understood as a Roman attemp…
On the Political Productivity of Democracies
The Politics of Full Employment in Western Democracies
While the majority of the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have been plagued by mass unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s, rates of unemployment have remained low in Austria, Japan, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The basic question addressed in this article is the extent to which structural-economic and political variables account for the full-employment record of these nations. It will be argued that these …
The Policy of Strategic Demobilisation: The Social Policy of the Christian Democratic–Liberal Coalition, 2009–13
This article addresses two research questions: which course did the CDU, CSU–FDP coalition government choose to follow in social policy from 2009 to 2013? And what relationships exist between social policy in this period and the Bundestag election in 2013? The analysis of primary and secondary data reveals both continuity and discontinuity in social policy in the 17th legislative period of the Bundestag. The decisions and non-decisions on social …
The Politics of Domestic Reform in the Federal Republic of Germany
Award of the Stein Rokkan Prize 1981 to Manfred G. Schmidt
The Stein Rokkan Prize was set up by the International Social Science Council and the Conjunto Universitario Candido Mendes to honour a seminal work by a young social scientist in comparative social science. The Prize, in the sum of two thousand dollars, was awarded for the first time on 17 November 1981 at a session of the General Assembly of the ISSC to Manfred G. Schmidt, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Konstanz, for his manuscript e…
The Welfare State and the Economy in Periods of Economic Crisis: A Comparative Study of Twenty‐three OECD Nations
While all industrial nations have been plagued by the setback to economic growth since the mid‐1970s, a wide range of variation marks the economic performance, policy outputs and policy outcomes of Western nations. The basic question addressed in this paper is the extent to which economic, socioeconomic and political variables account for the differences in economic performance, unemployment, public debt and the growth of social security expendit…
The politics of unemployment: Rates of unemployment and labour market policy
Rates of unemployment among the developed industrial democracies vary considerably. How are these differences to be explained? In addressing this fundamental question, attention is focused on Western Europe and some other OECD countries in the period 1973/74 until the early 1980s. The suggestion is that a fairly large proportion of variance in the rates of unemployment can be ascribed to sociological and political variables. The most important ar…
Comment on ‘Social expenditure and the Political Right’ (by F.G. Castles)
Le Determinanti Politiche Della Disoccupazione
IntroduzioneFra gli anni settanta e ottanta, i governi dell'occidente si sono trovati di fronte a una sfida senza precedenti. Il declino della crescita economica, un forte aumento delle aspettative inflazionistiche, bilance dei pagamenti in deficit, pressioni da costi e tendenze deflazionistiche hanno reso difficile la coesistenza fra il bisogno di flessibilità delle economie miste, il mantenimento della stabilità monetaria, la salvaguardia dell'…
The Politics of Full Employment in Western Democracies
While the majority of the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have been plagued by mass unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s, rates of unemployment have remained low in Austria, Japan, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The basic question addressed in this article is the extent to which structural-economic and political variables account for the full-employment record of these nations. It will be argued that these …
West Germany: The Policy of the Middle Way
This article focuses attention on the distinctive characteristics of economic and social policy in West Germany during the last four decades. It will be argued, that the distinctiveness of state intervention in West Germany resides in a combination of policies of conversative-reformist, liberal and social democratic complexion. The policy of the middle way which results from this combination differs from the extreme poles that are marked by the m…
Staatstätigkeit: International und Historisch Vergleichende Analysen
Social policy in rich and poor countries: Socio‐economic Trends and Political‐institutional Determinants
To what extent can the dramatic differences in social policy efforts in rich and poor countries be accounted for by genuinely political explanations? The hypothesis that is advanced in this article rests upon the combination of two schools of thought in comparative social policy analysis: socioeconomic models which focus attention on levels of economic wealth, need and demand for social security, and models of a comparative‐historiographic and po…
Staatsfinanzen
Die Staatsfinanzen sind einer der besten Angriffspunkte der Untersuchung des politischen „Getriebes“. Mit dieser These begründete vor rund 70 Jahren Joseph Schumpeter den soziologisch-politischen Ansatz zur Analyse öffentlicher Finanzen (Schumpeter 1976: 332). Schumpeter hatte insbesondere die Kriegswirtschaft der europäischen Länder im I. Weltkrieg und den „besitzlosen“, auf Steuereinnahmen angewiesenen „Steuerstaat“, der nach dem Ende dieses Kr…
Politik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Spaltungen der Gesellschaft und die Zukunft des Sozialstaates: Beiträge Eines Symposiums Aus Anlaß des 60. Geburtstages Von Hans-Hermann Hartwich
Regieren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Political consequences of German unification
The ‘big bang’ approach to German unification poses several problems for the Federal Republic affecting the governance structure and the nature of public policy. Four questions require particular attention: How will the basic fabric of the German state be affected? Can the political institutions cope with the drastic economic effects of unification? How far will the costs necessitate basic changes in economic and social policy? Will unification b…
Demokratietheorien: Eine Einführung
The parties‐do‐matter hypothesis and the case of the federal republic of Germany
According to the parties‐do‐matter hypothesis, differences in policy outputs and outcomes are associated with ‐ and, by inference, are dependent upon ‐ differences in the partisan composition of government. It is to a critical evaluation of the parties‐do‐matter view and its applicability to non‐majoritarian and 'semi‐sovereign' states, such as the Federal Republic of Germany, that attention is given in this article. It is argued that the parties…
Der Januskopf der Transformationsperiode. Kontinuität und Wandel der Demokratietheorien
Die "Ära der Transformation" seit 1989/90 umfaßt Vorgänge, die aus demokratietheoretischer Perspektive größte Aufmerksamkeit erwecken. In ihr löste sich in den sozialistischen Ländern in Mittel- und Osteuropa eine Staatsform auf, die dem Anspruch nach als "Volksdemokratie" das Gegenmodell zur konstitutionellen liberalen Demokratie und letztlich die bessere Staatsverfassung sein sollte.1 Die Demokratie hat hierdurch einen Gegner verloren — aber ni…
When parties matter: A review of the possibilities and limits of partisan influence on public policy
This essay explores the possibilities and limits of partisan influence on public policy in democratic nations. It will be pointed out, that differences in party composition of government, in general, matter in public policy in constitutional democracy. However, the extent to which parties influence public policy is to a significant extent contingent upon the type of democracy and countermajoritarian institutional constraints of central state gove…
Vergleichende Policy-Forschung
Der Begriff "Policy" stammt aus dem Englischen. Im anglo-amerikanischen Sprachgebrauch wird zwischen "policy", "politics" und "polity" unterschieden — anders als im Deutschen, in dem die verschiedenen Dimensionen von Politik semantisch nicht klar voneinander getrennt sind. "Policy" ist der Inhalt politischer Entscheidungen, als "politics" werden die Konflikts- und Konsensbildungsprozesse bezeichnet, die sich um Herstellung und Auswirkungen politi…
Die 'zeitgeschichtlichen' Bücher im Werke des Cassius Dio – von Commodus zu Severus Alexander
Die 'zeitgeschichtlichen' Bücher im Werke des Cassius Dio – von Commodus zu Severus Alexander was published in Band 34/3. Teilband Sprache und Literatur. Einzelne Autoren seit der hadrianischen Zeit und Allgemeines zur Literatur des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts (Forts.) on page 2591
Social policy in rich and poor countries
Nomination: Does politics matter? A perennial question! by Hans Keman, p.159 Reflections: Politics does indeed matter! by Manfred G. Schmidt, p.164
Dimensions of democracies
The conventional wisdom concerning the choice between majoritarian electoral systems and proportional representation (PR) ‐ and, more broadly, between majoritarian and consensus forms of democracy ‐ is that there is a trade‐off: PR and consensus democracy provide more accurate representation and better minority representation, but majoritarianism provides more effective government. A comparative analysis of 18 older and well‐established democraci…
Sozialpolitik in Deutschland
Vier Ziele werden mit diesem Buch angestrebt. Es soll die Leser mit den Grund zügen der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland - vom Deutschen Reich von 1871 bis zur wiedervereinigten Bundesrepublik am Ende des
Sozialpolitik in Deutschland: Historische Entwicklung und internationaler Vergleich
Political science (53 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (35 works) · Economics (22 works) · Politics (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Humanities (19 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Democracy (11 works)