With the adoption of new constitutions in Eastern and Central Europe containing numerous provisions allowing for referendums, cross-national comparative work on the policy effects of referendums across the European continent have become possible. This allows us to close an important gap in the...

The article investigates why a specific European issue is debated in one country but disregarded in another, and why issues are debated differently in different European countries. To understand this national filtering, expectations are formulated as to how specific policy traditions and...

The main aim of this paper is to compare and analyse the performance of total factor productivity (TFP) in the European Union (EU) countries and Turkey over the period 1975-1997. This study also investigates the possible impact of membership on productivity in Turkey by evaluating the...

Der Übergang zur Europäischen Währungsunion (EWU) bedeutet für die beteiligten Staaten die Aufgabe ihrer geldpolitischen Souveränität. Konnten die nationalen geldpolitischen Entscheidungsträger bislang auf die jeweiligen monetären Erfordernisse und Zielpräferenzen ihrer...