RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to investigate major premisses American individualist anarchist movement as the critique toward constitutional democratic state.
 THE PROBLEM AND METHODS: Paper analyses premises that led anarchists formulate their thesis about supreme character individual rights and sovereignty. Consequently, brought them conclusion such defined sovereignty irr...

Studying the equity holdings of 31 U.S. state pension funds, we find evidence that the political leaning of their members and political pressures by state politicians impact funds’ investment decisions. State pension funds from states with Democratic leaning members tend to tilt their portfolios more strongly towards companies that perform well on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issu...

This paper develops an institutional theory of educational performance that extends Chubb and Moe's (1988; 1990) logic from local schools to the state level. Our analysis flows from one observation and one assumption. The observation is that the state institutions governing public education are subject to varying degrees of democratic control. The assumption, which serves as our primary researc...

Labor unions play a central role in the Democratic party coalition, providing candidates with voters, volunteers, and contributions. Has the recent decline of organized labor hurt Democrats? We use the enactment of right-to-work laws—which weaken unions by removing closed shop protections—to estimate the effect of unions on politics from 1980 to 2016. Comparing counties on either side of a stat...

The overall aim of the democratic constitutional state is to protect a social order in which the individual liberty of the citizen is a major concern. As a consequence the democratic constitutional state should guarantee simultaneously and paradoxically a high level of individual freedom and an order in which such freedom is made possible and guaranteed. Biometrics provide a strong and expressi...