Dieser Band handelt von der Angst. Nur wenn man über sie spricht, kann sie auf den Begriff gebracht werden; nur so kann man sie in den Griff kriegen; nur so auch besteht die Aussicht, dass sie nicht zur destruktiven Sprengkraft, sondern zur konstruktiv nutzbaren Ressource im Privatleben des...

Shared mental models: ideologies and institutions / Arthur T. Denzau and Douglass C. North -- The institutional foundations of political competence: how citizens learn what they need to know / Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins -- Taking sides: a fixed choice theory of political reasoning /...

"Debates over redistribution, social welfare, and market regulation are central to American politics. Why do some of us prefer a large role for government in the economic life of the nation while others prefer a smaller role? In Open Versus Closed, the authors argue that these preferences are...

This paper seeks to investigate the following issues: What is the resulting out-come, when regulation is determined by interest groups that compete for influ-ence over the regulatory process? Given this, can we predict how climate change related changes in the underlying biological factors will...

The German Basic Law is open for an interpretation that would allow the Constitutional Court to test the normative adequacy of most statutes. If the court does, it could be modelled as the supervisor of the legislator, i.e., of the agent of the people. The model predicts collusion between the...