The revelations in 2013 of widespread digital surveillance by government security agencies and the resulting increased public awareness led to an intense debate in Europe. Under the umbrella term "digital sovereignty," the opportunities and risks of this development as well as possible...

Nachdem 2013 die umfangreiche digitale Dauerüberwachung durch staatliche Sicherheitsbehörden ins Zentrum der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit geriet, entwickelte sich im europäischen Raum unter dem Schlagwort "digitale Souveränität" eine breite Debatte über Chancen und Risiken sowie...

European integration has come to constrain the capacity for democratic political action in EU member states through the judicial constitutionalization of "economic liberties," whereas the capacity for effective political action at the European level is narrowly constrained by the multiple-veto...

This thesis comprises four empirical research papers in the area of political economics. While the first two chapters deal with questions related to direct democracy, chapters three and four are about topics linked to representative democracy.

We test the theory of expressive voting in relation to political ideology in a laboratory experiment. After deriving our hypotheses from a decision theoretic model, we examine voting decisions in an experiment in which we use the size of the electorate as the treatment variable. Using a Heckman...

Eight years after the onset of the "Great Recession," the eurozone is deeply split between "Northern" EMU economies that seem to be doing reasonably well and "Southern" countries that continue to struggle with socioeconomic catastrophe. This paper argues that the continuing malaise is a...

Eight years after the onset of the "Great Recession," the eurozone is deeply split between "Northern" EMU economies that seem to be doing reasonably well and "Southern" countries that continue to struggle with socioeconomic catastrophe. This paper argues that the continuing malaise is a...

European integration has come to constrain the capacity for democratic political action in EU member states through the judicial constitutionalization of "economic liberties," whereas the capacity for effective political action at the European level is narrowly constrained by the multiple-veto...

The rise of the consolidation state follows the displacement of the classical tax state, or Steuerstaat, by what I have called the debt state, a process that began in the 1980s in all rich capitalist democracies. Consolidation is the contemporary response to the "fiscal crisis of the state"...

The success of Mr Modi's government is much more than a domestic issue; it is a fundamental challenge for democracy. India is not only the biggest democracy in the World; India is the only significant example of a XXth century born nation that never knew any other form of government. Nothing is...

Democracy, domination, and the challenge of economic governance -- Managerialism and the new deal legacy -- The progressive critique of the market -- Economic domination and democratic action -- Structuring democratic agency -- Anti-domination as regulatory strategy -- Democratic agency as...

Introduction / Elizabeth Boris -- Supplementary, complementary or adversarial? nonprofit-government relations / Dennis Young and John Casey -- Meeting social needs / C. Eugene Steuerle, Alan Abramson, Ellen Steele, and Virginia Hodgkinson -- Cross-sector nonprofit-government : financing / Steven...