Reimut Zohlnhöfer is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany.Fabian Engler is Researcher and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany.Jan Jathe is Research Associate and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany.

• 1.-Introduction.-Economic intervention in advanced democracies from expansion to liberalization.-2.-The determinants of economic liberalization a literature review.-3.-The development of economic intervention.-4.-Race to the bottom? Globalization and economic intervention.-5.-Liberalization through negative integration? European integration and economic intervention.-6.-Learning from success, economic competition, and emulating peers? The diffusion of economic liberalization.- 7.- Liberalization as problem solving? Socio-economic problems and economic intervention.-8.-Do parties still matter? Government partisanship and economic intervention.-9.-The determinants of individual economic policy instruments.-10.-Conclusion.

Reimut Zohlnhöfer is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany.Fabian Engler is Researcher and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany.Jan Jathe is Research Associate and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany.

• 1.-Introduction.-Economic intervention in advanced democracies from expansion to liberalization.-2.-The determinants of economic liberalization a literature review.-3.-The development of economic intervention.-4.-Race to the bottom? Globalization and economic intervention.-5.-Liberalization through negative integration? European integration and economic intervention.-6.-Learning from success, economic competition, and emulating peers? The diffusion of economic liberalization.- 7.- Liberalization as problem solving? Socio-economic problems and economic intervention.-8.-Do parties still matter? Government partisanship and economic intervention.-9.-The determinants of individual economic policy instruments.-10.-Conclusion.

Reimut Zohlnhöfer is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany.Fabian Engler is Researcher and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany.Jan Jathe is Research Associate and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany.

• 1.-Introduction.-Economic intervention in advanced democracies from expansion to liberalization.-2.-The determinants of economic liberalization a literature review.-3.-The development of economic intervention.-4.-Race to the bottom? Globalization and economic intervention.-5.-Liberalization through negative integration? European integration and economic intervention.-6.-Learning from success, economic competition, and emulating peers? The diffusion of economic liberalization.- 7.- Liberalization as problem solving? Socio-economic problems and economic intervention.-8.-Do parties still matter? Government partisanship and economic intervention.-9.-The determinants of individual economic policy instruments.-10.-Conclusion.