This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...

The Common European Sales Law (CESL) is the European Commission’s most recent policy initiative for European contract law. It aims to address the problem that differences between the national contract laws of the Member States may constitute an obstacle for the European Internal Market. This...

How to conciliate the territorialisation of institutions and an efficient institutional competition, when there is a problem of territories overlapping? ? The traditionally given answers, such as the institutional unicity and decentralization, may block the competition process, if these answers...

Предметом научного анализа является один из наименее изученных феноменов современной экономики турбулентность, понимаемая как явление самоорганизации, в...

Sonderwirtschaftszonen sind geographische Gebiete innerhalb eines Staates, in denen eine andere Wirtschafts- und Steuergesetzgebung gilt als im Rest desselben. Mit Sonderwirtschaftszonen wird i. d. R. die Steigerung von in- und ausländischen Inves-titionen bezweckt, weshalb ihre Errichtung als...

National economic and social policies of European Union member states are restricted by international and supranational treaties and by effects of globalisation. Furthermore, in the European integration process many economic policy areas have been transferred completely or partly to EU. Under...

В 1918-1928 гг. в России осуществлялся институциональный поиск – поиск такого типа экономической политики, который вывел бы страну из системного кризиса. Победа...

Российская цивилизация в XV-XVII вв. испытывала существенное влияние со стороны как восточных, так и западных стран. Хотя радикальная «вестернизация» России...

The health care systems of the EU-member states are based on the social principle but to a different extent, and there are also differences in funding the health care expenditures. Some systems are financed by taxes, others by insurance premiums. Actually to become a member of a specific EU...

The uncontrolled centralization of competences on the European level is problematic insofar as it does not correspond to the citizens' preferences. Constitutional constraints can prove essential for the freedom and the welfare of EU citizens. Existing constraints like the subsidiarity principle,...