Many students of public policy acknowledge the clash of values that defines the conflict between environmentalists and their opponents. However, less work has been done to examine ways in which the clash of values - represented in disparate discourses of nature - among environmentalists...

We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried, via strategic positioning and rent-seeking activities, to influence economic policy outcomes during the postwar decades. We split the postwar decades in three periods: the...

Die Theorie des Rent-Seeking stellt einen Erklärungsansatz für das Zustandekommen staatlicher Aktivitäten in demokratischen Gesellschaftssystemen dar. Im Rahmen einer politisch-ökonomischen Analyse werden die allokativen und distributiven Konsequenzen des Wettbewerbs von Interessengruppen um...