According to many democracy theorists, there is an unavoidable trade-off between constitutionalism and the need for political action. This paper criticizes that belief. Rather, it argues that a division of power, while sometimes entailing high political transaction costs, can nevertheless be...

According to many democracy theorists, there is an unavoidable trade-off between constitutionalism and the need for political action. This paper criticizes that belief. Rather, it argues that a division of power, while sometimes entailing high political transaction costs, can nevertheless be...

This paper investigates whether social cohesion makes economic reforms more likely. First, we investigate whether social cohesion is a coherent concept by using a principal-component factor (PCF) analysis covering 16 indicators used to measure social cohesion in the previous literature for 40...

Modern politics in Western democracies is to a large extent characterized by political pragmatism, a position where feasible, incremental, and more or less technocratic improvements of the status quo are advocated. While such a position has some advantages, i.e. safeguarding against false...

Abstract We propose that one of the main causes of shortcomings in European labour markets is the existence of corporative cartels, through which the state has delegated various forms of regulatory power to employers and employees that act as cartels. Analysis indicates that these cartel...

Dagens Europeiska Union (EU) framstår för många betraktare och väljare som motsägelsefullt och otydligt. Vissa inslag är positiva – andra mer negativa . Inte minst finns det en kritik mot EU:s ökade överstatlighet. M en främst uppfattas EU och EU:s roll och uppdrag som oklart....

This paper investigates whether social cohesion makes economic reforms more likely. First, we investigated whether social cohesion is a coherent concept by using a principal-component factor (PCF) analysis covering 16 indicators used to measure social cohesion in the previous literature for 40...

This paper analyses the relationship between competence and virtue. We argue that virtues <p> should be regarded as a kind of competencies, which are essential in an entrepreneurial <p> society, both for individual development and for the sustainability of such a society. Such <p> competencies, or...</p></p></p>

Uppsatsen analyserar ur ett marknadsperspektiv de förändringar av den offentliga sektorns legala monopol som har skett under det senaste decenniet. Särskilt ”privatiseringar” av typen entreprenader och checksystem diskuteras. Slutsatsen är att avsaknaden av fria konsumentval,...

Uppsatsen analyserar äganderättsbegreppet och definierar äganderätt som ett knippe av rättigheter där de viktigaste ingående rättigheterna är följande: användarfrihet – rätt att fritt nyttja och besluta över egendomen efter eget gottfinnande, inklusive rätt till den avkastning...