Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper studies the role of open and closed committee decision making in presence of external influence. We show that restricting the information of interest groups may reduce the bias...

This paper presents a positive theory of centralization of political decisions in an international union. My central claim is that lobbies play a role in determining the assignment of competencies to the union because their power of influence can increase or decrease under centralization. I show...

Die Studie befasst sich kurz mit den Folgen der Anschläge für die Wirtschaft von Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern, wo hauptsächlich das Tourismus- und Transportgewerbe betroffen sind. Die Anschläge haben die dortige strukturell schwache Wirtschaft in einer Zeit nachlassender Konjunktur...

Anti-islamic reactions in the EU after the terrorist acts against the USA observed in Belgium

Anti-islamic reactions in the EU after the terrorist acts against the USA observed in Denmark.

Anti-islamic reactions in the EU after the terrorist acts against the USA observed in Finnland.

Anti-islamic reactions in the EU after the terrorist acts against the USA observed in France.