In the economic literature various political institutions designed to control the government have been analyzed. However, an important institution has been neglected so far: independent auditing institutions with an extended mandate to analyze the budget draft and individual policy proposals. We...

This paper analyzes a framework where policymakers decide how to spend public resources on physical capital and labor in order to produce two public goods. Candidate policymakers disagree about which goods to produce, and may alternate in office due to elections. When capital and labor are...

We identify exogenous variation in incumbent policymakers' re-election probabilities and explore empirically how this variation affects the incumbents' investment in physical capital. Our results indicate that a higher re-election probability leads to higher investments, particularly in the...

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutionalregulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a singledataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country anda variety of...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der außenpolitischen Performanz der EU und stützt sich dabei auf drei verschiedene Betrachtungsweisen: den Realismus und die Theorien der EU als imperiale bzw. der EU als normative Macht. Mit Hilfe eines auf Basis dieser drei Theorien entwickelten...

Hegemony is a central feature of contemporary international politicsbut it remains seriously under-theorized. We draw on cooperative game theoryto represent and analyze different aspects of hegemony. After developing ageneral conception of hegemony, we analyze the circumstances under which...

What are the reasons behind the different human resource management strategies –human resource management strategies understood as patterns of action for “dealingwith” the human resources or the work force of an organization? Why do we on onehand have human resource management strategies,...

Der Artikel behandelt den Zusammenhang zwischen politökonomischenEntwicklungen, Staatsfinanzen und öffentlichen Leistungen. In Bezug auf öffentlicheDienstleistungen werden insbesondere Veränderungen der lokalen governancediskutiert. Dabei wird der generelle Zusammenhang zwischen...