There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutions are fundamental for a country’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 has helped insulate Italy’s financial...

In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...

In Aristoteles' bestem Staat ist die Wirtschaft an politischen Vorgaben ausgerichtet, die ihrerseits ethisch determiniert sind. Aristoteles bemüht sich um empirische Absicherung, soweit diese mit seinen ethischen Axiomen konform geht. Bei der Zurückweisung der platonischen Weiber- und...

The accuracy of a tax return is usually interpreted as an outcome of the tax evasion decision by an individual. However, in non-democratic regimes with predatory blackmail tax systems it is possible that large sums voluntarily reported by influential politicians or businessmen may be used as...