Until the appearance of the first wave of studies focusing on the hypothesis of the clarity of responsibility, the theory of economic voting implicitly assumed that the government is held responsible for the economic conditions of the country. Departing from previous studies based upon the...

This paper examines some of the consequences for economic theory of the replacement of binary personal preferences by non-binary personal preferences in an Arrow-Debreu society as in Debreu (1959), and reaches the conclusion that there is both much damage to existing theory and greater...

"Während zur Analyse quantitativer, metrisch skalierter Merkmale vergleichsweise viele und weitentwickelte statistische Instrumente zur Verfügung stehen, ist man bei der Untersuchung qualitativer, nominal skalierter Merkmale auf wenige Analysenmethoden beschränkt. Untersuchungen dieser Art...

"The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

"Während zur Analyse quantitativer, metrisch skalierter Merkmale vergleichsweise viele und weitentwickelte statistische Instrumente zur Verfügung stehen, ist man bei der Untersuchung qualitativer, nominal skalierter Merkmale auf wenige Analysenmethoden beschränkt. Untersuchungen dieser Art...

"This paper shows that a fusion of qualitative and quantitative methods in social research must not only consist of counting words in qualitative documents, exemplifying statistics by case studies, generating hypotheses by qualitative exploration studies or the like. Beyond that, typological...

"This paper shows that a fusion of qualitative and quantitative methods in social research must not only consist of counting words in qualitative documents, exemplifying statistics by case studies, generating hypotheses by qualitative exploration studies or the like. Beyond that, typological...

"The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

Wird die Arbeitswelt aus mikropolitischer Perspektive betrachtet, geraet das Ringen um Ressourcen und Spielraeume auf der Handlungsebene in den Blick. Wie werden organisationale Change-Prozesse – ob innerbetriebliches Delayering oder die fortschreitende Digitalisierung – strategisch genutzt?...