Key factors affecting satisfaction with life in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- Employment, sources of income, and the poor in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union -- Satisfaction with publicly provided health services in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

In der vorliegenden Studie untersucht der Verfasser erkennbare Bestimmungsfaktoren auf ihre kooperationsfördernde bzw. kooperationshemmende Wirkung, erörtert zeitweilig unterbreitete Modellvorschläge, analysiert aktuelle Modelle regionaler Kooperationspraxis und versucht, in diesem Kontext...

Für die Parteien haben sich Spenden, besonders in Wahlkampfjahren, zu einem unverzichtbaren Teil ihrer Finanzierung entwickelt. Das Papier analysiert den umstrittensten Bestandteil dieser Finanzierungsform: Spenden juristischer Personen. Die Datenbasis umfasst alle Parteispenden der 100...

This paper builds on the arguments developed by Carles Boix (1997, 1998) about partisan differences in supply-side oriented strategies. The original Boix model argues that social democrats in government prefer to increase public investment in human capital formation, while conservatives are...

Conventional wisdom holds that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behav-iour and party affiliation in Africa. Because this is usually inferred from aggregate data of national election results, it might prove to be an ecological fallacy. The evidence based on individual data from...

It is generally acknowledge that a higher degree of party and party system institutionalisation is positively correlated with the consolidation of democracy. It is, thus, useful to compare different levels and types of insititutionalisation. In this article the distinction made by Levitsky...

Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic consolidation, this article argues that problems can only be properly addressed on the basis of a differentiated typology of party systems. Contradictory research results do not pose...