The job guarantee (JG) is a public option for jobs. It is a permanent, federally funded, and locally administered program that supplies voluntary employment opportunities on demand for all who are ready and willing to work at a living wage. While it is first and foremost a jobs program, it has...

What characterizes regions where right-wing populist parties are relatively successful? A prominent hypothesis proposed in recent literature claims that places that are "left behind" or "do not matter" are a breeding ground for the rise of populism. We re-examine this hypothesis by analyzing the...

Slovakia has undergone such a notable economic progress in recent decades, that it made the country envied all over the world. Meanwhile, the intensifying core-periphery imbalances have been unquestionably apparent: the development is concentrated primarily on the capital city region and its...