Internet Governance is a very broad concept. It is widely used (and abused) to deal with at least two matters. First of all, Internet Governance is a term that reflects institutional issues (“Who controls the Internet?”); second, the notion of Internet Governance is strongly linked to...

It is often stated that globalization makes a "smaller" world by institutional conver-gence. Economic orders become alike across the world. This article addresses institutional change triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 and challenges this general conviction of worldwide...

We investigate aspects of institutional change in an evolutionary game-theoretic framework, in principle focusing on problems of coordination in groups when new solutions to a problem become available. In an evolutionary game with an underlying dilemma structure, we let a number of new...