Argues that democratic politics is improper in enacting equality against property and propriety This book systematically introduces the idea of an improper politics, and characterises democratic politics as improper in a challenge to the proper bounds of reason, accepted behaviours and the...

Cover -- Einleitung -- 1.1 Stand der Forschung -- 1.2 Forschungsdefizite und Problemstellung -- 1.3 Aufbau der Arbeit und methodische Herangehensweise -- 2 Exploration des Untersuchungsgegenstands: Das Phänomen Big Data -- 2.1 Begriffliche Grundlagen: Ursprung und Charakteristika von Big Data...

When a survey response mechanism depends on the variable of interest measured within the same survey and observed for only part of the sample, the situation is one of nonignorable nonresponse. Ignoring the nonresponse is likely to generate significant bias in the estimates. To solve this, one...

This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...

We consider a hierarchical organization with two fully rational agents. The goal of the organization is that of selecting the best alternative out of several available, and agents are heterogenous in the accuracy with which they screen the alternatives. We show that, if internal communications...