Behandelt werden u.a. die individuelle Risikominderung bei Parlamentariern, deren berufliche und politische Unsicherheit, die "Verbeamtung" der Parlamente,die Bezüge der Abgeordneten, die Kostenpauschalen und die Bezüge von ehemaligen Abgeordneten. Als Fazit wird die Übernahme des...

Based on contribution patterns to parties in Germany and elsewhere, we suggest that democracies should use a mixed system where private funding can play a larger role than public funding. In Germany the high level of public funding for parties can be reduced without expecting undesirable effects...

We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...

We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...