Die Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung in den Selbstverwaltungsorganisationen des Handwerks ist eine einzigartige Form überbetrieblicher Mitbestimmung, allerdings wird sie wissenschaftlich wie medial kaum beachtet. Die Studie zeichnet nach, wie die Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung 1953 unter den besonderen...

Governments at one level increasingly develop measures of the activities of policymakers at another. That policymaking behavior as well as the measures can have electoral consequences. A large literature has developed in public administration and policy that assesses the determinants and...

Objective: This study investigates whether asking people to make a pledge causes them to donate to a charitable cause and whether the promise of public recognition increases the effectiveness of the request.Methods: A randomized controlled trial in Manchester, UK where households were sent...

The toolbox of governments increasingly resembles a set of information cues and prompts whereby public actors use their authority to define messages to be received by various publics and organisational actors. Citizens and other targets of government policy, such as organisations and interest...

Since the publication of Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein (2008) behavioural public policies and nudge units have been widely adopted right across the world, which has resulted in many improvements to the delivery of public policies, such as better tax collection, increased access of young people to...

Political scientists have renewed their interest in British politics, using advanced methods, leveraging new data sources, and publishing papers in the leading journals the field. Such studies take British political institutions as their starting point, performing new tests of relationships...

In this paper, the development of field of public policy is represented as three distinct ages of theory building and testing. The first was the classic period of studies of decision-making and rationality; the second was an age of synthesis when theories of decision-making were blended into...

In contrast to non-partisan GOTV campaigns, political parties do not aim to increase turnout across the board. Instead, their principal goal is to affect the outcome of an election in their favour. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to test the effects of Conservative Party...

Field experiments allow researchers on political behaviour to test causal relationships between mobilisation and a range of outcomes, in particular voter turnout. These studies have rapidly increased in number since 2000, many assessing the impact of nonpartisan Get Out the Vote (GOTV)...