We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP was unexpectedly defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5...

New institutionalism has repeatedly shown that education has become a common institution in current world society, but so far parties have not been the subject of inquiry. This is surprising, given the fact that institutionalization processes relevant to politics should be well observable in...

Scholars of American politics have long treated parties as functional (or dysfunctional) for the constitutional system, for the socioeconomic order, or for the actors who use them. Consequently, when the environment around them changes, we typically assume that the parties will change, too. This...

New institutionalism has repeatedly shown that education has become a common institution in current world society, but so far parties have not been the subject of inquiry. This is surprising, given the fact that institutionalization processes relevant to politics should be well observable in...

This research examines the economic impact of partisan politics at a level that has been neglected in prior research: the firm level. Specifically, I investigate the impact of partisan supply-side policies on firm performance and firm heterogeneity in experience of this impact. I claim that...

Der Politiker, Gründungs- und Vorstandsmitglied von "Syriza", fordert eine neue Sicht- und Deutungsweise der "griechischen Frage" und stellt das "griechische Problem" und seine Auswirkungen innerhalb der EU zur Diskussion. Rezension: Chondros, geboren 1958, als "linker Grieche" häufig in...