During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state legislatures and on the effects of the proposed constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers...

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

Zwischen 1972 und 2002 sind in der deutschen Sozialpolitik die Verflechtungen der Politiker mit dem Bereich der gesellschaftlichen Interessenträger zurückgegangen. Anhand einer Analyse der Karrieren der Mitglieder des Bundestagsausschusses für Arbeit und Sozialordnung zeigt das Papier, dass...

Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is bound, ultimately, to lose its attraction. Growing inequality and social exclusion, with new...

Die Einrichtung von Weltbetriebsräten - als eigene Gremien oder als erweiterte Europäische Betriebsräte - steht noch am Anfang: Die von Internationalen Berufssekretariaten angestoßenen Weltkonzernausschüsse und Netzwerke existieren - zumindest auf dem Papier - in mehr als 20 Konzernen;...

This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of fund capture. A model is presented where rich voters can block redistribution by buying the votes of some poor voters. In equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and...