FIDUCIA (New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy) seeks to shed light on a number of distinctively ‘new European' criminal behaviours which have emerged in the last decade as a consequence of both technology developments and the increased mobility of populations across Europe. A key...

This paper identifies specific membership criteria and shows the effect they will have on the G20's composition. Setting clear criteria will be controversial — in part because it will require the replacement of several current members. Such change may be painful, but with another recession...

In der wissenschaftlichen Literatur werden für die Umgestaltung formaler Strukturen in Organisationen traditionell die Motive Leistungsverbesserung und Effizienzsteigerung angeführt. Die vorliegende Studie weicht von dieser Sichtweise ab und untersucht die Umgestaltung formaler Strukturen als...

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

The idea of justice in the EU legal setting has become a new lens for viewing the European enterprise and is as such largely inspired by the greater debate in political theory on how to imagine a just society. This paper explores the meaning and function of justice-oriented reasoning in the EU...

Die hier vorgelegte Auseinandersetzung mit Webers Essay "Politik als Beruf" soll einen Beitrag leisten zu der Frage, ob eine umfassende verantwortliche Nachhaltigkeitspolitik, realistisch betrachtet, überhaupt möglich ist. Weber eröffnet einen Zugang zu grundsätzlichen Problemen politischen...