Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...

Am 28. Januar 2010 stellte das Foreign Policy Research Institute das »Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program« für das Jahr 2009 vor, das eine Vielzahl von Rankings der Think Tanks umfasst und auch in Deutschland Beachtung fand. Dieser Beitrag unterwirft die Studie einer kritischen Analyse....

We analyse the results of experiments on aspects of the design of questionnaire and interview mode in the 2009 wave of the new UK Understanding Society panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job- and life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, the mode of...

Am 28. Januar 2010 stellte das Foreign Policy Research Institute das »Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program« für das Jahr 2009 vor, das eine Vielzahl von Rankings der Think Tanks umfasst und auch in Deutschland Beachtung fand. Dieser Beitrag unterwirft die Studie einer kritischen Analyse....

This paper investigates the standard economic paradigm as to the possibility for the agents to become revolutionaries, i.e., to develop the desire and effective action to overturn the prevailing social order. We take our cue from Amartya Sen’s remark that the Second Fundamental Theorem of...