Against the background of the changing relationships between trade unions and political parties in Western Europe, this paper examines the nature and outcomes of unionparty alliances in East Central Europe. The paper advances two interrelated arguments. First, the nature of unionparty ties in...

Politik verlagert sich immer mehr aus parlamentarischen oder hierarchischen Institutionen in pluralistische, korporatistische oder intergouvernementale Verhandlungssysteme, in denen Vorhaben nur mit der Zustimmung aller Beteiligten verwirklicht werden können. Die Funktionsweise solcher...

How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this...

The question of how agencies can work together has been central to the field of public administration for several decades. Despite significant research, the process of collaboration can still be a fraught endeavour for practitioners. Nevertheless, agencies keep trying to work together because it...