englischThrough event history analysis and seemingly unrelated estimations, this study investigates the way in which diffusion of state-level legislation in the USA changes according to the varying degrees of morality policy characteristics it displays. The author finds that the magnitude of [...]

englischHow do political orders emerge, and how are they stabilised and made permanent? In this book, these questions are examined using the emergence of the new federal states in Germany as an example. After German reunification, the establishment of political institutions was relatively quick due [...]

englischThis study analyses the foreign and security policies of the Republic of Armenia and, in an empirically based manner, explains how this post-Soviet transformation state behaves in the systemic competition between East (the Eurasian Union and the CSTO) and West (the EU and NATO).

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englischWho votes strategically and in which context? This book is the first to systematise the entire range of international comparative research on the determinants of strategic voting in legislative elections. The author’s own analyses of the CSES close the research gaps he identifies in the [...]

englischIn Uganda, corruption, bribery, low-quality services, the exclusion of citizens from managing public expenditure and the mobilisation of revenues triggered tax evasion, tax avoidance and protests for a long time. As a result, the government recently digitalised its systems of revenue [...]

englischMembers’ offices in the German Bundestag, like high-performance teams, have to cope with hyper-complex requirements due to the increased speed of political operations. Smooth interaction between members of parliament and their staff is critical for successful results. This practice-oriented [...]

englischThis book is aimed at academics whose research relates to the European Convention on Human Rights and those who are interested in the philosophy of law. It is also aimed at judges and lawyers who deal with the ECHR, and with European Court of Human Rights health-related case law in [...]

englischIn this study, Felix Francke examines the controversial topic of net neutrality from its technical basics to the measurement of interventions and thereby develops a modular system for the precisely targeted protection of the open Internet. His use of concrete measures avoids the normative [...]

englischDemocracy implies that nothing is set in stone. However, decisions with irreversible consequences can occur within the political sphere. This study examines the implications of this in terms of democracy theory from the perspective of classical pragmatism. Its analysis is centred around the [...]

englischJagoda Rošul-Gajic examines the implementation of international women’s human rights norms by focusing on the role of women’s NGOs as the strongest advocates of norms in post-war Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She addresses the question of what role international mechanisms such as the [...]