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...

This book contributes to the empirical literature on economic and human development from five different perspectives: the first chapter provides a new statistical test for bimodality of densities with an application to income data. The second chapter analyzes the worlds cross-country...

This thesis comprises four empirical research papers in the area of political economics. While the first two chapters deal with questions related to direct democracy, chapters three and four are about topics linked to representative democracy.