Generally, Democrats do not increase military spending, and Republicans do not raise welfare payments. Mostly, ruling politicians stick to the manifesto of their party. The current paper provides a theoretical explanation for this phenomenonthat does not assume politicians or voters to be...

Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...

Economics has always had two connected faces in its Western tradition. In Adam Smith's eighteenth century, as in John Stuart Mill's nineteenth, these might be described as the science of political economy and the art of economic governance. The former aimed to describe the workings of the...

The presence of classical architectural features in modernWestern architecture shows that knowledge from ancient timeswas travelling through both space and time. Yet despite surfacesimilarities, the architecture of revival was very different to that ofantiquity. The classicistic architecture of...

So läuft es mit vielen Worten aus der Vitrine der schönen Werte. Da niemand sein Partikularinteressemit diesem selbst begründet, sondern mit dem Allgemeinen, Guten und von allen alslegitim Erachteten, unterliegen die Gutworte samt ihren Schöninhalten einem schnellen moralischenVerschleiß....

This chapter advocates the good scientific practice of systematic research syntheses in Management and Organizational Science (MOS). A research synthesis is the systematic accumulation, analysis and reflective interpretation of the full body of relevant empirical evidence related to a question....

„Die deutsche Hochschule hat sich selbst verloren; sie spricht nicht mehr für sich. Sieläßt sich von "Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung" durch die Manege führen, alsgäbe es sie aus eigenem Recht gar nicht. Die Politik hat sich von der Hochschuleverabschiedet, obwohl sie täglich...

We investigate how the research standing of universities informs academic researchers’ engagement with industry via collaborative research, contract research and consulting. We argue that the establishment of university-industry relationships is informed by three factors: faculty perceived...

Ab dem 7. Januar 2004 beteiligten sich Studenten der Universität Leipzig an den seiteinigen Monaten bundesweit währenden Protestaktionen mit einem „konstruktivenStreik“. Dabei sollten reguläre Lehrveranstaltungen ersetzt werden durch Aktionen,die durch Ort, Zeit und insbesondere Inhalt...