Politicians often implement popular changes in public policies prior to elections, with the aim of improving their Election Day outcome. This research note evaluates whether such electioneering carries over also into politicians' extra-parliamentary activities. Evidence from the UK House of...

Most work studying micro-processes of integration - i.e. how agents develop identities and decision-making behaviours within a particular institution - offers explanations based on either instrumental rationality or socialisation. This article proposes a twodimensional framework that allows...

Seit Jahren hat das dezentrale System der Hochschulzulassung in Deutschland aufgrund von Mehrfachzulassungen bis lange nach Semesterbeginn mit dem Problem unbesetzter Studienplätze zu kämpfen eines der typischen Probleme dezentraler Zuordnungsverfahren. Langwierige Nachrückverfahren...

We present a legislative bargaining model of the provision of a durable public good over an infinite horizion. In each period, there is a societal endowment which can either be invested in the public good or consumed. We characterize the optimal public policy, defined by the time path of...

Particularly among the highly educated, a persistent upward trend in female employment rates has characterized western industrialized countries in the last decades. Yet, strong gender inequalities persist in the career chances of equally highly qualified men and women. Women are still...

This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic mediator in a discrete Crawford and Sobel (1982) setting. We show that a strategic mediator may improve communication even when he is biased into the same direction as the expert. The...

This discussion paper deals with the social selectivity of internationally mobile German students prior to and after the Bologna Process thereby linking two mobility dimensions that a very rarely brought together - social and spatial mobility. Tackling this issue on multiple levels, I ask how...

Participatory Health Research (PHR) builds on a long and diverse history drawn from a range of disciplines, each of which have informed and developed their own understanding of what participatory research practice is. However, just as with qualitative methods ten to fifteen years ago, there is...

Die Studie konzentriert sich auf die vermutete Wirkung einer einzigen musikalischen Besonderheit, nämlich die des Refrain des Songs She Loves You, produziert von den Beatles im Jahr 1963. Mit musikanalytischen Mitteln wird die spezifische Materialität einer Sekundreibung in dieser Klangform...

Im 21. Jahrhundert wird sich weltweit eine neue industrielle Revolution vollziehen. Kern dieser Revolution ist ein energietechnologischer Paradigmenwechsel, weg von fossilen hin zu regenerativen Energietechnologien. Dieser Paradigmenwechsel stellt die Politik nicht nur vor eine Vielzahl neuer...