Title:The Uneasy Relationship Between Empirical and Normative Types in Consociational Theory
Author(s):BOGAARDS, MatthijsDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Consociationalism has enriched comparative politics with a whole lineage of non-majoritarian types of democracy: from consociational democracy to consensus democracy and power-sharing. This article unravels the development, ...
Title:The Unemployment Problem
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.Date:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper reviews the unemployment problem in Europe. It shows that while there is a good deal of heterogeneity in European unemployment experience, a 'European model' of high and persistent unemployment characterizes many ...
Title:The Unintended Consequence of the Struggle for Independence: The transition to democracy in the Baltic Countries
Author(s):ROSSI, Federico M.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The Baltic countries' struggle was for independence more than any other thing. The achievement of democracy was a by-product of the secessionist project of increasing autonomy from Moscow. A possible explanation for this ...
Title:The Urban Estate of Santa-Maria-Nuova Hospital (Florence, 16th and 17th Centuries)
Author(s):BENFANTE, FilippoDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The largest in the Florence of the Grand Dukes, this hospital owned a not negligible urban estate, composed by almost one hundred and fifty real properties among houses, shops and other commercial buildings, all concentrated ...
Title:The US and the European Monetary System (EMS): A Stylised Asymmetrical Two-Country Model
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; GAZIOGLU, S.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Numerical simulation methods were used to explore the consequences of asymmetrical behaviour in a two-country model. The asymmetries are located in the asset and goods demand functions and in the parameters governing foreign ...
Title:The US trade deficit, the decline of the WTO and the rise of regionalism
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper argues that the growing US trade deficit has caused the decline of the WTO and the rise of regional trade agreements. Growing imbalances make countries more selective about who to cooperate with. This is formally ...
Title:The Variable Frame Theory of Focal Points: An Experimental Study
Author(s):BACHARACH, M.; BERNASCONI, MicheleDate:1997Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In variable frame theory a game is played rationally, but which game gets played is determined by nonrational (e.g., perceptual) player characteristics. These determine their ''frames''-the sets of attributes of the objects ...