Title:Bureaucracies, Neoliberal Ideas, and Tax Reform in New Zealand and Ireland
Author(s):CHRISTENSEN, JohanDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Why did New Zealand adopt one of the most neoliberal tax systems in the world, whereas Ireland pursued a heterodox tax policy of low rates, deep deductions, and distortionary tax incentives? The diverging tax policy ...
Title:Campaign Effects and Second-Order Cycles - A Top-Down Approach to European Parliament Elections
Author(s):WEBER, TillDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Second-order elections theory explains cyclical losses by national government parties in elections to the European Parliament (EP) through strategic protest voting owing to performance deficits in policy- making. This paper ...
Title:A campanha eleitoral de 2005 nos media: Padrões e factores de exposição
Author(s):SANTANA PEREIRA, JoséDate:2009Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter focuses on the Portuguese legislative elections of 2005, and starts by identifying the patterns that characterized the voter’s exposition to the media during the campaign, using survey data collected by the ...
Title:Capital City Cultures: Reconstructing contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin
Author(s):DE FRANTZ, MonikaDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna's cultural district Museumsquartier and ...
Title:Capital Mobility and the Origins of Stock Markets
Author(s):VERDIER, DanielDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:I illustrate the accepted, though hardly researched. idea that political institutions play a role in locking in factor specificity across sectors, space, and borders. I use the emergence of modern capital markets in the ...
Title:Capital Unbound? the Transformation of European Corporate Governance
Author(s):RHODES, Martin; VAN APELDOORN, BastiaanDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article represents a first attempt to analyse the forces at work in the transformation of European corporate space, at both the national and supranational levels. In doing so, it consciously combines a comparative ...
Title:Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
Author(s):BOHLE, Dorothee; GRESKOVITS, BélaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single ...