in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and …In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible … disseminated, and how this process varies between countries. The National Origins of Policy Ideas provides the first comparative …

in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and …In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible … disseminated, and how this process varies between countries. The National Origins of Policy Ideas provides the first comparative …

questions to measure national and European identities which were included in Eurobarometer 57.2 and are used here for this … analysis. Our results provide only partial support for the theories mentioned above. We find that national and European … identities are compatible. This is, in part, because while national identities are largely "cultural", European identities are …

role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership …, the empirical analysis compares cross-national union density data for 13 countries over the first period (1950-75) and for … institutional variables fare better. In a second, qualitative comparative analysis, the authors stress the need to explain cross-national …

We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora … to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200 years further. Our measure correlates positively with existing wellbeing … negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …