This paper* deals with attitudes towards inequality in cross-national perspective using survey data of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) of 1992. Factor analysis shows that perceptions and evaluations of inequality and stratification refer to four attitudinal dimensions:...

With EU membership, politicians as well as citizens in the accession countries hope to achieve improvements in living conditions and – at least in the long run – to catch up with the West European societies. Catch-up modernization of the less advanced member states is also an ”official”...

In diesem Beitrag* werden Verbreitung, Bedingungen und Folgen von Korruption in Bewerberstaaten für einen Beitritt zur Europäischen Union in doppelter Vergleichsperspektive untersucht. Die Beitrittskandidaten werden einerseits westeuropäischen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten gegenübergestellt,...