The progress of markets erodes traditional relations of social solidarity that are essential for the stability and performance of societies. As markets advance, pressures build on the state to replace informal social obligations with formal ones. Regulation may fail, however, which tends to give...

Diese Arbeit nähert sich dem Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeit und Ökologie aus der Einstellungsperspektive. Auf Basis der Daten der Weltwertestudien 1981, 1990 und 1995 wird zunächst untersucht, inwieweit sich die Arbeitseinstellungen der Menschen in West- und Ostdeutschland, den USA, Japan und...

In this paper, we discuss the role of a diverse set of policies aimed at regulating the number and age structure of elections on the size and age structure of five European Academies of Sciences, namely the Austrian, Berlin-Brandenburg, Russian and Norwegian academies and the Royal Society. We...

Having a child out of wedlock used to be associated with shame and scorn. This is mostly not the case any more in the western world. Therefore, freed from social sanctions, single motherhood has become an additional family-choice alternative for women, along with marriage and childlessness. Yet,...