Die bisherigen Theorieansätze zur Erklärung der öffentlichen Finanzkontrolle, ihrer Institutionen und ihrer Wirkungsweise weisen erhebliche Defizite auf. Die institutionenökonomische Analyse ermöglicht eine neue Herangehensweise an einen Forschungsgegenstand, der von konstitutiver Bedeutung...

With twelve new members the decision making in the European Union via intergovernmental cooperation will become ineffective. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common institutional frame or the member states agree in ceding...

The present difficulties of democratic welfare states in Europe are often ascribed to economic "globalization", that is to the world-wide integration of markets for capital, goods and services which has eliminated national control over boundary-crossing economic transactions, and which therefore...

With twelve new members the decision making in the European Union via intergovernmental cooperation will become ineffective. The EU is at the Cross Roads. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common institutional framework and...

The EEC, now the EU, has passed its half-century. The sixty plus years have witnessed development, change and evolution that will be charted in the chapters of this book. This chapter seeks to lay the groundwork for later discussion by considering two related issues. The first half of the...

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...

With twelve new members the decision making in the European Union via intergovernmental cooperation will become ineffective. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common institutional frame or the member states agree in ceding...