Diese Studie analysiert die aktuellen Entwicklungen von Verschwörungsmythen während der Corona-Pandemie. Die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Bedrohung liegt in einer weitergehenden Spaltung der Gesellschaft mit negativen Folgen auch für den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland. Wie sollte...

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

This paper provides novel evidence that similarity in employees' political attitudes plays a role in mergers and acquisitions. Using detailed data on individual campaign contributions to Democrats and Republicans, our estimates show that firms are considerably more likely to announce a merger,...

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an...

"For the better part of a century, the Left has been waging a slow, methodical battle for control of the institutions of Western Civilization. During most of that time, "business" - and American Big Business, in particular - remained the last redoubt for those who believed in free people, free...

The elusive consensus of a society in crisis / Dimitris Katsikas -- 'It's not the austerity, stupid'. Interpreting the frames of the far-right wing radicalization / Vasiliki Georgiadou and Anastasia Kafe -- Greek elites' attitudes about the crisis / Dimitris Katsikas -- Framing the sacred :...

"Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phenomenon justice...

The vast majority of case studies in the management literature looks at the failings of leadership and at what is wrong with various elements of organizational design and practice. This article takes a different perspective, the perspective that there is great value in studying and learning from...

„No blood in my cell phone“ – mit eindrücklichen Slogans veranschaulichten NGOs Anfang der 2000er-Jahre Zusammenhänge zwischen Konsumprodukten und der Finanzierung von Kriegen. Das gestiegene öffentliche Bewusstsein mündete in der Verabschiedung verschiedener Regulierungen zum Thema...

Unionists and labour activists often speak about workers' education, but what does the concept really imply and does it actually play a role for political consciousness? This paper is the synthesis of empirical studies from a Global Labour University (GLU) alumni research group on Workers'...

Fachübergreifende Darstellung der Entwicklung nachhaltiger Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsstrukturen in einem globalen Weltökosystem. Umfassend, mit aussagekräftigen Grafiken und Seitenmarginalien übersichtlich gestaltet, bemüht sich der Titel auch um eine allgemein verständliche Sprache....

"Après une première édition fort bien accueillie, la deuxième mouture de La politique québécoise et canadienne entend élargir la perspective de la fédération canadienne en mettant l'accent sur les acteurs, les institutions et les sociétés qui lui donnent toute sa vitalité. Le...

Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Tagungsbandes liefern aus Sicht des Marketing, der Kommunikationstheorie sowie der Medienwissenschaften Erklärungsansätze für das Entstehen und Wirken von Erlebnissen im Eventkontext. Der Band fasst die auf der achten Wissenschaftlichen Konferenz zur...

Acknowledgments -- The discourses of capitalism -- Ideology, common sense, and hegemony -- Discourse itineraries of economic representations -- Common-sense beliefs : "The only system that ever does work" -- Hegemonic discourses of capitalism : "Nothing is perfect" -- Counter-hegemonic...

в статье изложены некоторые теоретические аспекты профессионального (юридического) правосознания и его деформации. Сформулировано определение и выделены...

Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if there is consistent evidence suggesting that voters...

This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the Swiss context stems from two stylized facts...

"First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism."--