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...

The European Union is regarded as a union of diverse territories, but this definition applies to most European Union member states, too. How best should member states manage diversity to maintain the Union? What are the main triggers for autonomy demands in a Union? This article contends that...

240 Schulleiter wurden nach ihren Erwartungen und Ansprüchen gegenüber ihren Lehrpersonen befragt. Eine Clusteranalyse ergab zwei Gruppen von Schulleitern: An Schuladministration und Schulordnung orientierte (Gruppe I) und eher pädagogisch geleitete Schulleiter (Gruppe II). Die Schulleiter...