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This project is the successor to an earlier cooperative research project funded by the Tamaki Foundation (United States), which compared environmental policy in Japan, the USA, and Germany, spotlighting environmental justice and equity.
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Over the last 30 years or so, capital mobility resulting from technological advances and the end of exchange controls has led to tax competition. By lowering tax rates on individual savings as well as on corporate income, governments hope to attract portfolio and direct investment. Empirical research has shown that individual countries do not always benefit from tax competition, but that they might gain from cooperation. In determining what form this cooperation should take, two questions are of central importance:
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This project was planned as a long-term, cross-national, in-depth study. The project concentrates in particular on the performance and limitations of civil society groups (NGOs) in negotiations/deliberations and implementation processes, in efforts to achieve sustainable development. To attain a deeper understanding of the opportunities as well as the constraints, the project devotes particular attention to highly complex problem constellations characterized by
Citizenship rights have been the object of political struggles and legal codification in all European countries throughout 20th century. This project compares 6 European countries according to the development of citizenship rights and nationality law in 20th century history. It is the first historical study to compare citizenship regimes in countries both from Western und Eastern Europe. The project will challenge the widespread view of an essential difference between a ‘Western’ and an ‘Eastern’ European path in the development of citizenship. It will also argue against the assumption of a direct link between ideas of nationhood and specific constructions of exclusion in citizenship regimes.
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