How much power to tax do really enjoy the seventeen new regional governments created in democratic Spain? What other sources of income do they dispose of? Which rules have been implemented for regulating their tax and non-tax sources of income and how are these rules influencing the behaviour of...

The political activism of American business as a class has surged and ebbed at various historical moments. Variations in both business and countervailing political mobilization should be approached as problems of collective interpretation and action. To explain the historical patterns of...

This study investigates the topical structure of the Russian-language blog-publishing service LiveJournal and the change in it that occurred in the course of the public activity after the State Duma elections in December 2011 as compared to a previous “control” period (November 27 –...

Der Aufsatz behandelt das Phänomen der Online-3D-Welt "Second life", die binnen kürzester Zeit Anfang 2007 rund 3,1 Millionen Benutzer bzw. "Bewohner" an sich binden konnte und versucht einen Ausblick auf die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen dieser und ähnlicher "virtueller" Welten auf die...