In a recent article, Caporaso and Tarrow have argued that the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is increasingly moving in a social policy direction that will ultimately put European politics on a “Polanyian” course. We take issue with their claim and distinguish three...

For many years women tended to vote more conservative than men (the 'old' gender vote gap), but since the 1980s this gap in many countries has shifted direction: now women in many countries are more likely to support left parties than men of the same age, in the same income bracket, and at the...

Die Frage der Staateninsolvenz ist durch die gegenwärtige Finanzkrise besonders aktuell. Gleichwohl handelt es sich dabei keineswegs um ein neues Phänomen. Die bisherige Praxis war meist durch Ad-hoc-Lösungen im Rahmen des sogenannten Pariser oder Londonder Klubs gekennzeichnet. Der...