The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each individual as in a direct democracy. The mechanism is designed such that Pareto optimality is possible, in contrast to earlier models which make various...

Dieser Beitrag diskutiert, mit welchen Methoden die Mobili-tät in der deutschen Planungspraxis operationalisiert werdenkann.Insbesonderedie inderPraxiswenigangewandteIndex-methodik aus der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft eignetsich zur systematischen Operationalisierung komplexer Phä-nomene...

The purpose of the paper is to analyse how labour market and labour market institutions reacted during recent crises. In early 1990s Estonia introduced a set of rather unique policy options like currency board as a ground for monetary policy, low taxes, open foreign trade policy, low public...

This article argues that more emphasis should be paid to the communicative power of trade unionism because it may constitute a starting point or a privileged standpoint which a trade union may use to counter its weakness regarding its other sources of power. Reviewing the trade union...