Transformation of Social Market Economy in Germany ---Perspectives from Globalization and Comparative Political Economy

1.本研究最初旨在研究德国社会市场经济转型的两个任务：从政治经济学的角度分析德国社会市场经济转型的历史发展，以及研究20世纪90年代以来在全球化影响下的转型过程。然而，自研究开始以来，德国经历了许多变化。正如施罗德政府的2010年议程所示，“结构性改革”的规模已经变得更大了。另一方面，由于第二次世界大战以来最严重的失业记录（超过500万），通过法人税制变化的就业政策的影响非常不确定。为了应对这些持续的变化，我们从三个方面战略性地调整了研究计划。首先，我们让无法参与这项研究的年轻研究人员对《2010年议程》进行了仔细审查。在分析了每个政策领域的改革目标和内容之后，分析了综合所有有关领域的更广阔的视野。其次，为了建立理解这些变化的具体基础，我们研究了德国的外部因素（如与欧盟的关系）和内部因素（如领导力问题）对德国的影响。最后，对于德国在当前的改革中是转型还是放弃了社会市场经济这一研究的核心问题，我们通过对其发展的跟踪来追求。Yuka MOTODA，我们的一名调查员，在她的全职讲师任期届满后，失去了我们研究团队的成员资格。然而，她立即获得了科学研究资助研究员的资格，通过21世纪21世纪COE项目“先进国家政策体系的发明”的特别任命讲师。因此，我们保留了她作为我们团队调查员的名字，并将她的文章列在下面。

1.This research originally aimed to tackle two tasks to investigate transformation of social market economy in Germany : to analyze its historical development from the political economy perspective, and to study its process under the impact of globalization since the 1990s.2.However, Germany has been through many changes since the inception of the research. As Agenda 2010 of Schroeder Government suggests, the scale of 'structural reform' has become much larger. On the other hand, the impact of employment policy through the change of corporate tax system is quite uncertain due to the worst unemployment record (more than 5 million) since the World War II.3.To cope with these on-going changes, we strategically adjusted the research plan in three ways. Firstly, we brought young researchers who could not join this research into the close examination of Agenda 2010. The analysis of the aims and contents of reform in each policy area was followed by the analysis of wider vision which integrated all the related areas. Secondly, to establish the concrete base for understanding of these changes, we studied the impact on Germany of its external factors (eg.) its relationship with EU) and internal factors (eg.) the issue of leadership). Finally, as to the core research question of whether Germany has transformed or abandoned its social market economy through the current reform, we pursue it by following up its development.4.Yuka MOTODA, one of our investigators, lost the membership of our research team when her term as a full-time lecturer expired. However, she was immediately qualified as an investigator for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research through her specially appointed lectureship under the 21^<st> century COE program entitled 'Invention of Policy System in Advanced Countries'. We thus remain her name as an investigator of our team and list her articles below.