This paper argues that differences in the dispersion of corporate ownership can help explain why party positions on corporate governance vary across countries and over time. Expectations that left/right conflicts should pitch capital against labor overlook that "capitalʺ is not a homogenous...

The performance of the Danish economy in the 1990s has been successful to the extent that scholars are talking about a "Danish miracle". The importance of government policies to Denmark's economic success is taken as a point of departure in investigating why Danish governments have been able to...

Europe's 'political space,' its dimensionality and its impact on European policies have received increased academic attention lately. Yet, one very basic element of this political space, the party composition of EU member states' governments, has never been studied in a systematic way in the...

The containment of social expenditure growth has been (and still is) a core issue of public policy in advanced industrial countries since the 1980s and has received much academic attention during that period. Among the most extensively discussed explanatory factors of social expenditure are...

Vor dem Hintergrund der Debatte über die Steuerungsfähigkeit der EU befasst sich dieser Beitrag mit der Frage, welche Faktoren zu einer korrekten und pünktlichen Umsetzung von EU-Richtlinien beitragen. Er setzt sich mit der häufig vertretenen Misfit-These auseinander, der gemäß Qualität...