Dieser Bericht bewertet die Leistung des österreichischen Forschungssystems anhand von drei komplementären Politikzielen mit Schwerpunkt auf der Grundlagenforschung: Leistung in Bezug auf die Forschungsqualität, sozioökonomische Auswirkungen der Forschung und Richtung der Forschung mit Blick...

Der Nutzen eines strukturierten Zugangs zu Registern der öffentlichen Verwaltung für Gesellschaft und Politik ist weitreichend, geht jedoch oft in der öffentlichen Diskussion unter. Der Arbeitsauftrag für den vorliegenden Bericht bestand also darin, eine Potentialanalyse durchzuführen, d....

Limited data on regional and preferential trade agreements prevent social scientists from testing some of the international cooperation literature’s most important claims. Expert surveys—a technique that is widely used in the field of comparative politics but thus far underutilized in...

What drove the preferences over institutional choices of EU Constitutional Convention delegates in the area of foreign policy? We examine delegate preferences and find strong evidence that partisan identity rather than government positions drove delegates' preferences for both the role of the...

Parties value unity, yet, members of parliament face competing demands, giving them incentives to deviate from the party line. For members of the European Parliament (MEPs), these competing demands are national party and European party group pressures. Here, we look at how MEPs respond to those...

Parliamentary institutions and partisan norms are complex, and new members of parliament are unlikely to possess an innate awareness of optimal behavior. This paper examines how new legislators adopt the behavioral patterns of incumbent members in the 6th European Parliament. The 6th EP provides...

Under what conditions do states maintain trade cooperation? We explore this question using models of imperfect monitoring. Most formal models of international cooperation rely on signaling games, in which actors' actions are perfectly observable. Here we examine conditions for cooperation when...