To explain the importance of scientific research and technological innovation for industrial countries and in …Explains the importance of scientific research and technological innovation for industrial countries and in particular …

Europe. This book evaluates the future potential of this new type of enterprise. The contributors look for European … convergence at all levels of the economy: firm, branch, state, and EU. They stress various points of view, using diverse methods …What is Europe's impact on enterprises? 150 years ago, the emergence of nation-states created the national enterprise …

individuals' party identification. Consistent with the deprivation theory, we find strong and robust evidence that subjective job …

between the demand for redistribution and individuals' party identification …

individuals' support for government intervention and their party identification. This result provides indirect evidence on the …

on China have examined the relationship between Communist Party membership and earnings and found a positive correlation … estimate the causal effect of Chinese Communist Party membership on monthly earnings in China. We find that, on average …, membership in the Communist Party of China increases monthly earnings and the wage premium has grown in recent years. We explore …

parties. We focus on immigrant location decisions in Northern Italy which has seen the rise of the anti-immigration party Lega …

mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political … elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat.We estimate that a one seat increase for the far …-right, anti-immigration party decreases negative attitudes towards immigration by 4.1 percentage points, in opposition to the …

In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate …

voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions … the preferences of specific partisan groups with their preferred party's position on the policy under consideration …