Effciency and Effectiveness of Social Spending

AufsätzePeter Herrmann, Almas Heshmati, Arno Tausch, Chemen S.J. Bajalan^**The authors would like to thank Franz Broswimmer from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA, for a careful reading of an earlier draft of this paper and his many comments. Peter Herrmann wants to express his gratitude to Stephanie Knoche, head of ESOSC-Germany and Sabine Herrenbrueck for their support. Furthermore, he would like to thank Laurent van der Maesen, European Foundation on Social Quality, with whom he worked on related issues in the context of recently published documents from the European Commission.WUG 2009, 13 Heft 1 v. 1.3.2009