The institutions of the European Union are gaining more and more power at the expense of national and local governments, as well as individuals and private businesses. There would appear to be no reverse gear in this process, while objections from the general public, as expressed in periodic...

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...

Die soziale Selbstverwaltung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) ist immer wieder Gegenstand von Diskussionen und Reformvorschlägen. Ein Vorschlag ist dabei die Ergänzung der bisher in der Selbstverwaltung vertretenen Organisationen durch Patientenorganisationen. Dieser Vorschlag...