national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …

legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end, we design a laboratory experiment in which we exogenously manipulate the … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of … incentive effects and that the observed changes are significantly associated with changes in perceived legitimacy. …

exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district … competitiveness which rest on explicit calculations about how votes translate into seats, but also implicit assumptions about how … the units in which competitiveness is best measured, arguing in favor of vote-share denominated measures and against vote …

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …