This contribution empirically analyses the individual determinants of tax rate preferences. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward progressive, proportional, and regressive taxation. Our...

This paper investigates politically connected firms in Germany. With the introduction of a new transparency law in 2007, information on additional income sources for all members of the German parliament became publicly available. We find that members of the conservative party (CDU/CSU) and the...

Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception of West German television in the former German...

Develops a pragmatist sociology of the State with an analysis of the conflict between urban guerrilla groups and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s.

Der Band enthält vergleichende Studien zur regionalen Entwicklung und zu neuen Planungsansätzen in Mexiko und Deutschland, die aus der wissenschaftlichen Kooperation zwischen dem IRS und dem mexikanischen Instituto de Estudios Económicos y Regionales (INESER) entstanden sind. Die Beiträge...