Using data on essentially every U.S. Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We estimate the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify the peer effects, we use two instruments that generate plausibly...

Purpose The CoViD-19 pandemic has brought about a panoply of institutional challenges both domestically and in the international arena. Classical constitutional theory thereby underwent a reinvention by the executive for the sake of speedy policy action and to the detriment of institutional...

Most constitutional systems count with the eventualities of unexpected circumstances threatening the constitutional order. These constitutions allow a constitutional regime’s partial or complete transformation into a constitutional emergency. Before 2020, Slovakia had almost no experience with...

In dieser Arbeit werden die Implikationen der Maastrichter Budgetkriterien für die Verschuldungsautonomie der deutschen Gebietskörperschaften untersucht. Es werden zunächst die qualitativen und quantitativen Unterschiede zwischen den europarechtlichen und den geltenden bundesdeutschen...