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Transformation Towards a new Public Administration of the Network UtilitiesDuring the 1980s and 1990s privatisation and deregulation movements have been shaken up the European network industries-telecommunication, electricity and railways. These reforms did affect also those parts of the public...
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This article analyses the ‘partnership principle’—which is of particular importance for multilevel governance interpretations of European integration—as it evolved in EU regional policy-making. After sketching the crucial analytical lines of the current debate on ‘partnership’ on the...
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Over the past 50 years, an increasing amount of political authority has been delegated to the regional government level in Europe. This paper analyses regional demands for involvement in policy-making by focusing on the preferences of top-level regional civil servants ("regio-crats"). A survey...
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A suitable strategy for achieving sustainable development is to foster environmental innovations. Environmental innovations, however, suffer from so-called double externalities, because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the quality of public environmental goods, which can be...
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During recent crises in Europe, new heterogeneous protest movements have emerged that are difficult to label and classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters is primarily the lack of political trust. Therefore, these new protest movements offer favorable...
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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...
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Die vorliegende Studie enthält eine vergleichende empirische Analyse des institutionellen Wandels in der Telekommunikation in vier westeuropäischen Ländern: Großbritannien, Frank.reich, Italien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In allen diesen Ländern gerieten die institutionellen...
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In Fortsetzung von MPIFG Discussion Paper 89/9 untersucht der Aufsatz zunächst die Bedingungen, unter denen korporative Akteure, Koalitionen - von Akteuren, kollektive Akteure oder sogar bloße Aggregate von Akteuren in spieltheoretischen Erklärungen empirischer Sachverhalte legitimerweise als...
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Ist der Staat in der Lage, Forschung und Entwicklung in der Industrie gezielt zu beeinflussen? Kann er die technologische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Industrie oder die Genese technischer Risiken steuern? In der vorliegenden empirischen Untersuchung wird am Beispiel der Informationstechnik...
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In this paper we analyze the 2019 EP elections from the voters' perspective. It is based on a novel post-electoral survey covering five North West European countries: Austria, Germany, France, Sweden and the UK. In particular we address the following questions: How important were the lead...
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