Widely adoption of Information Technologies has resulted in the continuous growing of open data available on the Web. However, the lack of suitable mechanisms to understand open data sources hampers its reusability. One way to overcome this limitation is by means of Web...

Abstract Building on critical re-examinations of the ‘Bismarck myth’ and scholarship on the fin de siècle crisis of identity in Europe, this article examines key vignettes in the political career of Otto von Bismarck during Prussia’s era of expansion and consolidation, ...

Abstract Ekphrasis – the representation of a work of art in terms of another art form – was originally the highest rhetorical exercise, requiring the verbal recreation of a picture or sculpture. The definition has broadened to include all kinds of ‘inter-art’ representa...

Abstract This article traces the emergence of private plaintiff antitrust lawyers after World War II and the debates they caused within the legal profession. Private enforcement of antitrust laws increased throughout the 1940s, especially following on government suits t...

Abstract If citizens pay insufficient attention to tax policies or cannot figure out how they are taxed, politicians may raise taxes more than is desired by the public, with few electoral repercussions. This scenario is central to the notion of “fiscal illusion” and is ...