In light of the strategic and economic importance of steelmaking it is almost inevitable that governments will become involved in the industry's affairs. The task facing the historian of the industry is to explain the nature and consequences of this involvement. Steven Tolliday used the term "institutional impactedness" to describe government-business relations in interwar Britain [17]. After 1...

Dr. Arthur Ding is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University in Taipei. Dr. Ding received a doctoral degree in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 1987. His research covers Chinese military and security policy, US-China relations, and international relations in East Asia. His book, China’s Changing Militar...

The post-socialist industrial relations system has practically collapsed in Hungary as a consequence of the deep and long economic, political and ethical crisis following the credit crunch, which begun in Hungary in summer 2006. One may argue that this collapse was preceded by a protracted weakening and decomposition of the main actors, especially the trade unions. This article, however, argues...

Using a novel dataset of accounting and market information that spans most publicly traded nonfinancial firms over the last century, we show that U.S. federal government debt issuance significantly affects corporate financial policies and balance sheets through its impact on investors’ portfolio allocations and the relative pricing of different assets. Government debt is strongly negatively cor...

Like many other western countries, the Dutch central government has several programs to stimulate E-government development in local governments. The constitutional relations between central and local governments in The Netherlands, however, are such, that the development of online service delivery is part of the autonomy of the local authorities. Central government has little formal authority t...