Modern democracies practice different systems of state-private sector interaction in policymaking. Relevant systems include the neopluralist, also known as pressure group or advocacy pluralism and the neocorporatist, also referred to as liberal or societal corporatism, as well as mixed corporatist-pluralist systems. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers introduced by IMF and the World Bank in t...

In contribution to current debates on the changing roles and responsibilities of civil society in welfare state arrangements, I examined the participation of various types of civil society organizations in national welfare policymaking in Sweden between 1958 and 2012. Drawing upon an extensive dataset of over 1400 civil society, state, and for-profit organizations, I tested three claims related...

Context: International scholarship and policy tend to depict national structures governing Vocational Education Training (VET) as uniform devoid of internal differences. This macro perspective neglects the numerous processes at meso micro level that shape structure content VET. article focusses on professional associations (meso level) in Switzerland examine heterogeneity governance individual ...

How do we characterize and explain the behavioral patterns of the Chinese bureaucracy amid China’s great transformation over the past three decades? The prevailing “tournament competition” model presented in the literature emphasizes the role of incentive design to explain bureaucratic behaviors. We develop an alternative model of “muddling through”—characterized by a reactive response to multi...