Die Studie bereichert die Politikanalyse mit neuen institutionellen und evolutionstheoretischen Ansätzen. In einer Untersuchung langfristiger organisationsstruktureller Entwicklungspfade im Telekommunikationssektor werden Konvergenzprozesse zu institutionellen Gleichgewichten herausgearbeitet....

Das deutsche Bildschirmtextsystem hat die Hoffnungen seiner Protagonisten nicht erfüllt. Vor Jahren als Wegbereiter der Informationsgesellschaft gepriesen, wird es heute nur von einem beschränkten Nutzerkreis eingesetzt. Warum diese stockende Entwicklung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland -...

Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity, influence reputation, social trust and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political opportunity structures and transaction costs play another crucial role and estimate a rich statistical network model...

Die vorliegende Studie enthält eine vergleichende empirische Analyse des institutionellen Wandels in der Telekommunikation in vier westeuropäischen Ländern: Großbritannien, Frank.reich, Italien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In allen diesen Ländern gerieten die institutionellen...

Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity, influence reputation, social trust and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political opportunity structures and transaction costs play another crucial role and estimate a rich statistical network model...

The past and arguably the future of the European Union (EU) are characterized by Differentiated Integration (DI). Whereas a number of studies examine country variance in the realization of DI due to state-level characteristics, scholars have rarely addressed sector-specific differentiation. We...

Since the Treaty of Lisbon, national parliamentary chambers in the European Union can issue reasoned opinions on legislative proposals by the European Commission. These individual reasoned opinions lead to a review if at least one third of all chambers raise such concerns. Hence, coordination...

The internationalization of markets and the Europeanization of politics both have a number of implications for business and their associations in most of the EU Member States. While the size of firms has always been a dividing line within specific associations, this division is now becoming...