Empirical studies have shown that US politics is heavily tilted in favor of the better off, as political decisions tend to reflect the preferences of the rich while largely ignoring those of the poor and middle classes. These findings have prompted a lively debate about potential mechanisms that...

The debate about measuring the degree of internationalization of firms has not solved the question about the usefulness of having one index on the internationalization of firms. This article argues in favour of constructing indices, if the components of those are theoretically and empirically...

Anhand eines Samples der 100 größten deutschen Unternehmen wird die Frage diskutiert, wie sich der Internationalisierungsgrad von Unternehmen messen läßt. Es wird vorgeschlagen, zwischen zwei Internationalisierungsdimensionen zu unterscheiden: Einer realwirtschaftlichen und einer...