Placebo Reforms

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Politik - Sonstige Themen, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nowadays during election campaigns the word “populist” is very common. The idea of politicians making empty promises is nothing special, but are there “empty reforms”, reforms where nothing is actual reformed? What are crucial assumptions for these? Or starting from a more gen...