Publications

The Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) address one of the central social-policy questions facing the highly developed states of the OECD and the European Union at the outset of the 21st century: How can we achieve sustainable policy outcomes and ensure that political...

The emergent powers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are drawing attention as they change the political and economic map of the 21st century.

The emergent powers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are drawing attention as they change the political and economic map of the 21st century.

The Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) 2011 make up the second and latest edition of this major study, and they build upon the work of the successful and widely acknowledged first edition, from 2009. The study examines 31 OECD countries and their performance during the...

The Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) 2011 make up the second and latest edition of this major study, and they build upon the work of the successful and widely acknowledged first edition, from 2009. The study examines 31 OECD countries and their performance during the...

Soziale Marktwirtschaft hat ihre bisher größte Krise zu bewältigen – sie ist nicht nur Teil der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise, sondern auch selbst in eine tiefe (Vertrauens-)Krise gerutscht. Für die einen stellt sich die 'soziale Frage' neu – für andere die Frage...

The social market economy is coping with its most threatening crisis to date. Not only has it been caught in the global financial and economic crisis, but it has also slipped internally into its own deep crisis (of confidence). Some are posing the "social question" anew,...

Despite the limiting effects of growing interdependencies in a globalized world, national governments still have a considerably broad scope of action when it comes to ensuring sustainable policy outcomes. The key question is, however, to what extent governments can identify,...

Despite the limiting effects of growing interdependencies in a globalized world, national governments still have a considerably broad scope of action when it comes to ensuring sustainable policy outcomes. The key question is, however, to what extent governments can identify,...

A cross-national comparison of social justice in the OECD shows considerable variation in the

extent to which this principle is developed in these market-based democracies. According to the

methodology applied in this study, Iceland and Norway are the most socially just...