The reform of German company law by the Control and Transparency Law (“KonTraGâ€) of 1998 reveals politics of corporate governance liberalization. The reforms strengthened the supervisory board, shareholder rights, and shareholder equality, but left intra-corporate power relations...

This unique Handbook offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews of the politics of regulation. It presents and discusses the core theories and concepts of regulation in response to the rise of the regulatory state and regulatory capitalism, and in the context of the...

The rapid rise, expansion, and growing asymmetric power of online platform firms towards other businesses, labor and even the state itself occurred in a context of minimal regulatory oversight. In many respects, because the existing legal system was handicapped in understanding and regulating...

A year after the collapse of the global financial system we can begin to see the consequences of what should constitute a critical juncture leading to substantial political economic change. The results: despite world-wide public fury and much official debate, economic governance and financial...