This paper reflects on the literature on courts and politics in Europe and the United States. US-American Political Science has dealt for over fifty years with the role of courts and judges as political actors, whereas this perspective has only recently emerged in Europe. The debates differ not...

In den neunziger Jahren hat sich in deutschen Unternehmen ein neuer Vereinbarungstyp etabliert: das betriebliche Bündnis für Arbeit. Mit ihm treffen Betriebsparteien Maßnahmen zur Sicherung von Beschäftigung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Im Zentrum stehen die Senkung der Arbeitskosten und die...

This paper reflects on the literature on courts and politics in Europe and the United States. US-American Political Science has dealt for over fifty years with the role of courts and judges as political actors, whereas this perspective has only recently emerged in Europe. The debates differ not...

The debate about measuring the degree of internationalization of firms has not solved the question about the usefulness of having one index on the internationalization of firms. This article argues in favour of constructing indices, if the components of those are theoretically and empirically...