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Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
Mar 01, 2025
After decades of liberalisation and retreat of the state, current crisis responses show a great role of the expenditure state. At the national level, COVID-19 has been fought with massive market intervention, procurement of medical equipment, and large-scale short-term working schemes. The EU has ...
Freie Univerisät Berlin / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Dr. David Levi-Faur, Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
Jul 01, 2024
OECD countries spend almost 15% of their GDP on public procurement and 28% of government expenditure is used to acquire goods, services and labor (OECD, 2021). Procurement is therefore a powerful policy instruments, and states increasingly use public procurement to reach social, environmental and ...
Free University Berlin
Dr. Robin Huguenot-Noël
Apr 01, 2026 — Apr 01, 2027
Federalism is often portrayed as a barrier to welfare state expansion: When regions compete to attract businesses, they risk triggering a ‘race to the bottom’, reducing tax revenues and undermining social protection. Meanwhile, subnational veto powers may block social policy initiatives at the centre, constraining attempts at welfare activism ‘from above’. Yet recent experiences show a different trend. Across advanced industrial democracies, federal states have increasingly used their purchasing power to promote fair wages, equality, and inclusive labour markets – pursuing social policy by other means than traditional welfare policy. Striking examples include the diffusion of Prevailing Wage Laws across more than half of U.S. states and the spread of social clauses in procurement regulations in most German Länder.
Freie Universität Berlin / Sciences Po Grenoble
Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp, Prof. Dr. Sabine Saurugger
Feb 01, 2019 — Apr 01, 2023
The project “EfSoLaw” aims to advance the understanding of the performance of the EU's multilevel system through a longitudinal analysis of the nature and effects of soft law. EU law affects governments and populations and has direct influence on the lives of citizens. With the governance turn ...
Miriam Hartlapp
Apr 01, 2016 — Mar 01, 2019
SoLaR had the goal to determine whether and how soft law is used by national administrations when implementing EU policies and by national courts when ruling in cases falling within the scope of application of EU law. It is an empirical, comparative law analysis, consisting of documentary case law ...
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)
Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
Feb 01, 2008 — Jun 01, 2014
The Junior Research Group examines the internal dynamics of position formation in the European Commission. Until now the Commission has mostly been regarded as a unitary actor; very little is known about its internal functioning. It remains unclear what happens inside the Commission before it ...
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