Distinctiveness in the study of public management in Europe : an introduction / Walter Kickert -- The study of public management in France : la spécificité du modèle français d'administration / Annie Bartoli -- The study of public management in Germany : poorly institutionalised and...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of severe misconducts in contests based on data from European football championships. We differentiate between two types of severe misconducts both resulting in a yellow card, namely dissents with the referee and other misconducts, and between...