Für die Sozialwissenschaften existieren im Bereich der informationellen Infrastruktur zahlreiche, qualitativ hochwertige und sich zum Teil ergänzende Angebote. Allerdings sind an verschiedenen Stellen Defizite erkennbar. So gibt es für den Bereich der Printmedien mit dem System der verteilten...

More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...

Research on social science graduates' employment prospects reaches contradictor conclusions intensifying the scepticism on the value of these disciplines in the labour market. The paper examines two important labour market outcomes of these graduates, employment status and job-studies relevance...

We explore the scientific potential of virtual worlds for experimental economists. In particular, we report the results of a series of virtual world experiments designed to examine the suitability of (a) users as subjects and (b) the computer interface as an experimental platform. Formal results...