This article reviews the social science literature on tax competition in three steps. The first
step is to look at the baseline model of tax competition on which most of the literature …

From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a
conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but …

In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in
turn shapes what is possible in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little …

THIS BOOK IS about some of the most important problems confronting social scientists who
study institutions and institutional change. It is also about globalization, particularly the …

This article examines public policy in the European Union (EU) by drawing upon the
framework of policy transfer, which has been recently refined by comparativists, and the …

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern …

This paper proposes and tests a new formal model of the competition for capital, using the
analogy of a “tournament” as a substitute for the” race-to-the-bottom” model. Our key insight …

What is the scope for autonomous action of the European Commission? Its independence is
much more contentious than that of the European Court of Justice, which is generally …

This contribution develops a theory of the impact of differentiation on integration and unity
among EU member states and discusses empirical evidence from four policy areas …

The complexity of the multilevel European polity is not adequately represented by the single‐
level theoretical concepts of competing 'intergovernmentalist'and 'supranationalist' …