Global warming is not only a serious threat for humanity but increasingly structures political competition in Western Europe. The rise of green (niche) parties and public awareness the issue pressure mainstream to emphasise climate protection. Yet, while scholars reflect on factors influencing parties’ environmental agendas, we know little about what triggers standpoints role opinion plays this...

– Consider a labor market where the parties are able to write contracts contingent on the state of demand and productivity. If it is realistically assumed that the workers differ wrt. their reservation wages, then it becomes a natural presumption that firms on the market will offer several alternative contracts instead of just one and let workers choose between them. This may give a gain from w...

Do international labor standards impede or facilitate industrial upgrading? The Dominican Republic (DR) offers a quasi-experimental answer. While the island nation’s policymakers responded to foreign pressure by adopting a new labor code in the 1990s, and thereby brought their laws and edicts into compliance with internationally recognized norms and standards, they allocated their enforcement r...

deep economic and social developments in two recent centuries beside other important alterations, created important changes in contracting aria among them placing weak and strong parties against each other in contracts. freedom of contract, that before enjoided from some kind of sancity,could not provid contractual justice in this new conditions. therefore adjustment of this tool(contract) in a...

Recent scholarship demonstrated that Facebook is a convenient space for populist political communication as its unmediated and viral nature make appeals highly efficient in voters’ mobilization (Engesser et al., 2017). However, less attention has been paid to the way these messages appear on actors’ communication, what post- page-level factors they are associated with. We investigate questions ...

Collective bargaining has been under great pressure in Finland and Europe, including demands for increased wage competitiveness reductions public sector spending. This article showcases how relatively gender-equal states with strong corporatist traditions, such as Finland, may align neoliberal austerity policies that have gendered implications, even when gender equality becomes a prominent issu...