their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts … achievement trait (income). Individuals with lower cognitive ability are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to have …

data on international conflict from the Correlates of War project. Only the diversionary theory of nationalism is supported … argument is that greater economic inequality prompts states to generate more nationalism as a diversion that discourages their … theory against rival explanations based on international conflict and the development of new nations using survey data on …

dieses Beitrags lautet, dass Ludwig von Mises‘ (Neu-)Bestimmung des Liberalismus eine Antwort auf diese Frage gibt, und zwar … deshalb, weil Mises den Argumentationsmodus des Liberalismus systematisch auf Konsens ausrichtet. Zu diesem Zweck bestimmt von … that ultimately constitute the scope of societal policy and practice. This paper argues that Ludwig von Mises' liberalism …

The "Decentralization Theorem" (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of …

The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … the population size of the nation: Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in … the number of regions: The complementary question what happens to the gains of federalism when increasing the number of …