The prevailing socio-economic disparities within numerous European nations are becoming increasingly pro-nounced. However, our understanding of their social and political implications, particularly with respect to the rise of populism and the sentiment of being 'left behind', remains limited....

The prevailing socio-economic disparities within numerous European nations are becoming increasingly pro-nounced. However, our understanding of their social and political implications, particularly with respect to the rise of populism and the sentiment of being ‘left behind’, remains...

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.

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...

Mitarbeiter im Dienstleistungsbereich sind immer wieder verbalen oder sogar physischen Angriffen seitens der Kunden ausgesetzt. Auf der Basis einer Studie bei Mitarbeitern eines Bürgeramtes zeigt Silke Surma auf, dass kritische Kunden-Mitarbeiter-Interaktionen kein individuelles Problem...