The EU has been a leader in international climate policy. However, due to activities of interest groups, domestic action, an area which the EU has strongly defended, is proving difficult to carry out, particularly for cohesion member states. Although their behaviour resembles free-riding, at...

Dieser Einführungsbeitrag verfolgt drei Ziele: Zunächst werden die Grenzräume Bayerns kurz skizziert. Sodann werden aus institutionell-politischer Perspektive drei Ansätze eingeführt, um die Governance-Strukturen in den Grenzräumen zu reflektieren, namentlich die institutionelle...

[Einleitung ...] In meinem Beitrag möchte ich die Frage nach den Gründen, die für oder gegen eine stärker subsidiär-polyzentrische und wettbewerbliche Organisation föderaler Systeme sprechen mögen, unter zwei Gesichtspunkten erörtern. Zunächst wird es mir darum gehen, zu klären,...

This study explores the determinants of the low level of civic engagement in Ukraine. Applying the methodological framework of analytical sociology we consider different social mechanisms that explain the weakness of Ukrainian civil society. First, we discuss how the political system and...

Die dem ungebremsten Wachstum verschriebene Wirtschaftspolitik in den USA führt zu erheblichem emotionalen Stress. Den Wirtschaftsmotor auf Hochtouren laufen zu lassen, bedeutet, dass die Maximierung der Produktion im Vordergrund steht, ohne Berücksichtigung der negativen Externalitäten,...

In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small minority of voters favour more open migration policies. Next...

In this paper we examine possible network formations among immigrants and natives with endogenous investment. We consider a model of a network formation where the initiator of the link bears its cost while both agents benefit from it. We present the model by considering possible interactions...

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...