Die Hartz-Gesetze führten trotz der Verabschiedung durch eine breite parlamentarische Mehrheit von Anfang an zu heftigen Kontroversen über deren Wirkungen und Nebenwirkungen, die bis heute andauern. Mittels der Dissertation wird beantwortet, welche Veränderungen die jeweiligen...

The transition to neighborhood-scale district heating in the Netherlands frequently stalls due to the challenge of achieving a collective agreement among individual homeowners. To explore the micro-dynamics of this collective action problem, this paper introduces an agent-based model that...

International environmental agreements (IEAs) often condition entry into force on ratification by a minimum number of countries, yet deep environmental commitments frequently face strong domestic political resistance. We study how IEA breadth, through minimum ratification thresholds (MRTs), and...

A growing literature concerns the role of symbolic politics, including how political parties benefit electorally from politicizing the past, a strategy which should be more effective in localities with physical memories of the past. We test this argument by studying the effect of the local...