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MPIfG Lecture: Germany’s Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
Why did Germany become one of the world’s most important export economies, after it started as an import surplus country in the 19th century? How did this transformation change the institutional structure of the political system to an extent that alternative policies are difficult to implement? Based on careful archival research, Jan-Otmar Hesse (Bayreuth University) will give an overview of Germany’s transformation to a “world export champion” (Exportweltmeister).
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In his new book Taking Back Control?, Wolfgang Streeck analyses the ongoing tug-of-war between the forces of globalism and democracy. Exploring the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, the book is an attempt at a renewed theory of the state in political economy. Inspired by the work of Karl Polanyi and John Maynard Keynes, it discusses the potential outlines of a state system allowing for democratic governance within and peaceful cooperation between sovereign nation-states.
MPIfG Discussion Paper | Firm Size and Society
Despite very different labor markets and political institutions in the US and Germany, firm size appears to impact workers’ job outcomes in a remarkably similar way. In their paper “Firm Size and Society: The Link Between Firm Size, Job Outcomes, and Political Attitudes,” Sinisa Hadziabdic and Sebastian Kohl examine the impact of working in firms of different sizes on occupational and political outcomes, using micro-level data for the two countries.

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Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality
How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change
Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism
Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning
Verkaufte Zukunft: Warum der Kampf gegen den Klimawandel zu scheitern droht
Wege aus dem Kapitalismus? Autorengespräche mit Colin Crouch, Nancy Fraser, Claus Offe, Wolfgang Streeck und Joseph Vogl
Austerity from the Left: Social Democratic Parties in the Shadow of the Great Recession
Dealing in Uncertainty: Insurance in the Age of Finance
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism
Behördenconsulting: Unternehmensberater in der öffentlichen Verwaltung der Bundesrepublik, 1970er- bis 2000er-Jahre
Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance
Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice
Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil’s Public Housing
Der erschöpfte Staat: Eine andere Geschichte des Neoliberalismus
Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation
MPIfG Discussion Papers
MPIfG Discussion Papers present results from ongoing research and contribute to current scholarly and public debate. They are subject to internal peer review and published open access.
MPIfG Journal Articles
Articles by MPIfG researchers that have previously been published in peer-reviewed journals are published online in the MPIfG Journal Articles series.
Oude Nijhuis, Dennie, Maximilian Kiecker
Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-Time Work in Germany and the Netherlands. In: German Politics, 2024.
Growth Models and Voter Preferences: The Moderating Impact of Export-Led Growth on Centre-Left Voters. In: Journal of European Public Policy, 2024.
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