How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large-scale, systematic evidence that the divide between skilled and unskilled workers worldwide is producing corresponding differences in the response of political preferences to trade shocks....

Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...

[...] Um diesem Fernziel für die Meeres-Governance näher zu kommen stellt der WBGU zusätzlich Handlungsempfehlungen vor, die an laufende Politikprozesse anschließen. Dafür betrachtet er beispielhaft die beiden Schwerpunkte Nahrung – nachhaltige Fischerei und Aquakultur – sowie Energie...