Growing interdependence between jurisdictions means that states are increasingly using private actors as proxies in order to achieve desired regulatory outcomes. International relations theory has ...

Cooperation between small firms in “industrial districts,” where the production process may be radically dis-integrated, poses an important challenge to current political science theories of ...

The authors argue that closer attention should be paid to the interorganizational rules of decision making and their implications for intraorganizational processes. They claim that ...

The concept of path dependence is being used in highly deterministic ways in neo-institutionalist analysis, so that studies using this framework have dif.culty in accounting ...

Much current work in the social sciences seeks to understand the effects of trust and social capital on economic and political outcomes. However, the sources ...

Current approaches examining the effect of institutions on policy processes have difficulty in explaining the results of the legislative process of codecision between the European ...

Much recent international relations scholarship has argued that states are unable to control e-commerce, so that private actors are coming to play a dominant role. ...

Much discussion of law and e-commerce focuses on the extent to which e-commerce and the Internet weaken sovereign states’ effective control. Recently, in e-commerce, there ...

The end of the Cold War has profoundly transformed Europe’s security situation. Although traditional security issues remain important, the most immediate threats to security since ...