Im Januar 2005 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht den Bundesländern freigestellt, Studiengebühren zu erheben. Den Landesregierungen wurde somit ein bislang nicht verfügbares bildungspolitisches Instrument an die Hand gegeben. Im Rahmen eines solchen natürlichen Experiments lässt sich die in...

According to the Constitution or laws, individuals today have extensive political rights closely associated with the right to vote. Here is meant the active and passive right of voting. Membership in a party is not only because of the desire, but also for the fact that the party gives...

The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and...

Viewing fiscal policies as the outcome of democratically resolved conflicts of households over public goods and taxes, the “economic model of politics” proposes a public choice approach, which does not rely on social welfare functions. With it, a country’s overall budget can be derived...

В статье рассматриваются проблемы конституционно-правовой ответственности в политических партий в российском законодательстве. Особое внимание уделено...

In this study, we examine the voting behavior in Indonesian parliamentary elections from 1999 to 2014. After summarizing the changes in Indonesian parties' share of the vote from a historical standpoint, we investigate the voting behavior with simple regression models to analyze the effect of...