This study examines how a government's majority status affects coalition governance and performance. Two steps are investigated: the inclusion of government parties' electoral pledges into the coalition agreement, and the ability to translate pledges into legislative outputs. The main results of...

Der Bundesrat hat im März 2024 dem Gesetzentwurf zum schrittweisen Abbau der Agrardieselsubventionen zugestimmt. Angesichts der asymmetrischen Bedeutung der Landwirtschaft für Wirtschaft und Klima aufgrund einer relativ geringen Bruttowertschöpfung bei gleichzeitig hohen...

Wilhelm Röpke is best known for his decisive intellectual contributions to the economic reforms that took post-war West Germany from ruin to riches within a decade. In this informative book, Samuel Gregg presents Röpke as a sophisticated économiste-philosophe in the tradition of Adam Smith,...

With regulation seeking to foster competition at the same time as also having to protect essential services, the authors investigate regulatory styles, costs of new regulatory functions and how firms in the new regulatory landscape access and influence regulatory authorities. The authors...