Publications - MPIfG

Fritz W. Scharpf
Was man von einer europäischen Verfassung erwarten und
nicht erwarten sollte. In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale
Politik, Januar 2003, 49–59
Fritz W. Scharpf
Legitimate Diversity: The New Challenge of European Integration.
In: Staats- und Europawissenschaften, Vol. 1, Heft 1,
32–60 (2003)
Fritz W. Scharpf
Regieren im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Ansätze zu
einer Theorie. In: Leviathan, Vol. 30, No. 1, 65–92 (2002)
Fritz W. Scharpf
The European Social Model: Coping with the Challenges of
Diversity. In: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 40, No.
4, 645–670 (2002)
Fritz W. Scharpf
Globalization and the Welfare State: Constraints, Challenges,
and Vulnerabilities. In: Roland Sigg, Christina Behrendt
(eds.), Social Security in the Global Village. New Brunswick:
Transaction, 2002, 85–116
Fritz W. Scharpf
Democratic Legitimacy under Conditions of Regulatory
Competition: Why Europe Differs from the United States. In:
Kalypso Nicolaidis, Robert Howse (eds.), The Federal Vision:
Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the United States and
the European Union. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001,
355–374
Fritz W. Scharpf
Notes Toward a Theory of Multilevel Governing in Europe.
In: Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1–26 (2001)
Pension Reform Politics in International
Comparison
Martin Schludi
National pension schemes are facing substantial pressure to
adapt to international competition and demographic change,
especially in countries where the public/private pension mix
is dominated by a publicly financed, pay-as-you-go system
(so-called Bismarck systems). This study analyzes the conditions
under which pension systems in such countries can
become more fiscally stable and efficient, especially by
expanding the role of private and fully-funded pension plans.
Thus far, there has been little systematic, comparative empirical
research on the scope and effectiveness of such reform.
This doctoral project aims to close this gap and to examine
the economic, institutional and political factors which have
favored, hampered or even prevented the development of
effective pension policies. It departs from a hypothesis that
the political feasibility of such reforms heavily depends on the
government’s ability to orchestrate a reform consensus either
Project Areas and Research Projects
Martin Schludi Jürgen Feick
with the parliamentary opposition or with the trade unions.
Project duration: January 2000 to December 2002.
Martin Schludi
The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems: A Comparison of
Pension Politics in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
Doctoral thesis. Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Faculty of Arts
III. December 2002
Martin Schludi
The Politics of Pensions in European Social Insurance Countries.
MPIfG Discussion Paper 01/11. Cologne: Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies, 2001, 49 pp.
The Regulation of Pharmaceutical Products
in Europe
Jürgen Feick
In the early sixties the European Commission started discussions
about market entry regulation for pharmaceuticals parallel
to and in interdependence with similar national efforts.
The Commission tried to avoid divergent national policies
which would hinder the establishment of the Single Market.
In a first phase legal harmonization was supposed to, but in
fact did not assure mutual recognition of the Member State
authorities’ regulatory decisions. In a second phase, more
detailed harmonization directives have been introduced
alongside procedural cooperation measures. These further
attempts proved inadequate, too, resulting eventually in the
institutionalization of a European Evaluation Agency and the
introduction of a centralized European procedure – albeit
limited to innovative pharmaceuticals. Today, three distinctive
procedures exist within the EC: the centralized procedure
dominated by European regulators; the decentralized procedure,
which is nationally dominated but potentially subject to
strong EC influence; and purely national market entries. This
project analyzes the transnationalization of pharmaceutical
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