Nach welchen Mechanismen funktioniert Politik in Deutschland? Die Autoren beleuchten das Zusammenspiel zwischen Regierung, Bundestag und Bundesrat, die Sicherung von Koalitions- und Abstimmungsdisziplin, die Politik des Bundesverfassungsgerichts sowie die politische Kontrolle der Bürokratie....

Die anhaltende Debatte über Einkommensteuerreformen in Deutschland scheint paradox. Alle Parteien berufen sich scheinbar auf dieselben Prinzipien, trotzdem können sie keine umfassende Einigung erzielen. Steffen Ganghof analysiert die Reformpolitik im Schnittfeld von internationalem Wettbewerb,...

The project of public-reason liberalism faces a basic problem: publicly justified principles are typically too abstract and vague to be directly applied to practical political disputes, whereas applicable specifications of these principles are not uniquely publicly justified. One solution could...

Vor dem Hintergrund der Simmel'schen Wertbildungstheorie wird die Frage nach der Bedeutung und den Folgen des Konsums von Modefälschungen gestellt. Erklärungen für die Wertentstehung von Kopien und deren Verhältnis zu Originalen werden mit qualitativen Daten aus Konsumentenbefragungen...

Prior studies that try to explain who gets tenure and why remain inconclusive, especially on whether non-meritocratic factors influence who becomes a professor. On the basis of career and publication data of virtually all sociologists working in German sociology departments, we test how...

The rise of the consolidation state follows the displacement of the classical tax state, or Steuerstaat, by what I have called the debt state, a process that began in the 1980s in all rich capitalist democracies. Consolidation is the contemporary response to the "fiscal crisis of the state"...

As Hacker and Pierson (2010) have observed, politics is primarily organization: "organized combat." To understand the outcomes of politics, we have to look at how it is organized over time: by whom and with what resources? I take Sweden as an example of how politics as organized combat has...

Recent literature on the European debt crisis emphasizes that rising external trade and lending imbalances between the European Monetary Union's (EMU) Northern and Southern member states served as a crucial determinant behind speculative divergence between these two regions. However, these...

Do employers in coordinated market economies (CME's) actively defend the non-liberal, market- constraining institutions upon which their strategic coordination and competitive success depends? This paper revisits the debate over firms' employer preferences with an in-depth examination of...