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Title:"Against Accountability" Author(s):MANSBRIDGE, JaneDate:2010Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2010/07Abstract:Although relatively corrupt regimes require citizen monitoring and accountability enforced by the threat of sanction, this kind of relationship between citizens and their agents is inefficient and normatively unsatisfying. ...

Title:Against taxonomy : the fairy families of Cornwall Author(s):YOUNG, SimonDate:2013Citation:Cornish Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 223-237Type:ArticleAbstract:In this article Simon Young discusses the return of folklorists attention towards Cornish folklore in the latter half of nineteenth century. Young shows how Robert Hunt, William Bottrell and others began their assiduous ...

Title:Against the failures of risk regulation : liability and safety in air traffic management (ATM) Author(s):SIMONCINI, Marta; CONTISSA, Giuseppe

Date:2013Citation:European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2013, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 175-189Type:ArticleAbstract:This article aims to analyse liability issues as a further means to regulate risks, in case the precautionary measures of the delivered safety system fail. Through liability, the risk that cannot be prevented can be ...

Title:Against the Great : Joseph Roth (1894-1939) and the dilemma of Jewish anchorage Author(s):LAZAROMS, Ilse JosephaDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; HEC; PhD ThesisAbstract:Joseph Roth possessed a sharply observant eye which allowed him to clearly read the signs of his times – those divided years of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe – a quality that has earned him the dubious epitaph “prophet”; ...

Title:Against the law : sumptuary prosecutions in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Padova Author(s):MOLÀ, Luca; RIELLO, Giorgio

Date:2019Citation:Giorgio RIELLO and Ulinka RUBLACK (eds), The right to dress : sumptuary laws in a global perspective, c.1200–1800, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 210-240Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:For the Censori sopra le Pompe, the magistrates in charge of upholding the sumptuary laws of the City of Padova in the Republic of Venice, 16 April 1564 was a busy day. Two of the Censori stood at San Lorenzo Bridge, just ...

Title:Against the odds : (considerable) convergence and (limited) cooperation in EU-China security relations Author(s):CHRISTIANSEN, Thomas

; KIRCHNER, Emil J.; DORUSSEN, HanDate:2016Citation:Emil J. KIRCHNER, Thomas CHRISTIANSEN and Han DORUSSEN (eds), Security relations between China and the European Union : from convergence to cooperation?, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 229-247Type:Contribution to book

Title:Age At Marriage, Sex-Ratios, and Ethnic Heterogamy Author(s):STIER, Haya; SHAVIT, YossiDate:1994Citation:European Sociological Review, 1994, 10, 1, 79-87Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper focuses on the effects of age at marriage and the sex-ratio on patterns of ethnic homogamy among Israeli women. We hypothesize that later marriages are more likely than early marriages to be heterogamous as the ...

Title:Age Cohorts and the Funnel of Causality: How Social Characteristics Influence Our Vote Author(s):KATSANIDOU, AlexiaDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2010/32Abstract:Voting behaviour criteria can be categorized according to their level of ideologization and their time depth. In modern politics we expect people to use short-term factors to make their final voting decisions, such as ...

Title:Age differences in brain signal variability are robust to multiple vascular controls Author(s):GARRETT, Douglas D.; LINDENBERGER, Ulman

; HOGE, Richard D.; GAUTHIER, Claudine J.Date:2017Citation:Scientific reports, 2017, Vol. 7, (10149)Type:ArticleAbstract:A host of studies support that younger, better performing adults express greater moment-to-moment blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal variability (SDBOLD) in various cortical regions, supporting an emerging view ...

Title:Age discrimination law in a country with a communist history: the example of Poland Author(s):ZYSK, MalgorzataDate:2006Citation:European law journal, 2006, 12, 3, 371-402Type:ArticleAbstract:This article offers an overview of the legal responses to age discrimination in Poland. It explores the system of legal protection before the accession of Poland to the European Union, and looks too at the situation after ...

Title:Age Groups and Generations: Lines of conflict and potentials for integration Author(s):KOHLI, Martin

Date:2009Citation:Journal für Generationengerechtigkeit / Intergenerational Justice Review, 2009, 9, 4, 66-71Type:Article

Title:Age groups and generations: Lines of conflict and potentials for integration. (Extended version) Author(s):KOHLI, Martin

Date:2010Citation:Joerg Chet TREMMEL (ed.), A Young Generation under Pressure? The Financial Situation and the "Rush Hour" of the Cohorts 1970 - 1985 in a Generational ComparisonBerlin/Heidelberg, Springer, 2010, 169-185Type:Contribution to book

Title:'An age of aluminium' : the political economy of the aluminium industry in the twentieth century Author(s):FRØLAND, Hans Otto; INGULSTAD, MatsDate:2012Citation:Hans Otto FRØLAND and Mats INGULSTAD (eds), From warfare to welfare : business-government relations in the aluminium industry, Trondheim : Akademika Forlag, 2012, Rostra books ; Trondheim studies in history, pp. 15-32Type:Contribution to book

Title:The age of innocence : the evolution of the case-law of the WTO dispute settlement: subsidies as a case-study Author(s):RUBINI, Luca

Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/33; Global Governance Programme-222; [Global Economics]Abstract:Through the analysis of the topical and salient jurisprudence on subsidies and countervailing duties, this paper attempts to trace the development of the role of dispute settlement in the WTO in its first twenty years. ...

Title:The age of the bailout : contention, party-system collapse and reconstruction in Greece, 2009-2015 Author(s):ALTIPARMAKIS, Argyrios

Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The Greek epicenter of the Eurozone crisis was violently shaken by one of the deepest economic depressions of the past century. The call for financial assistance by the 2010 Greek government resulted in a series of bailouts ...

Title:Age Structure, Income Distribution and Economic Growth Author(s):GOMEZ, Rafael; FOOT, David K.Date:2002Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSC; 2002/36

Title:Age, class, and attitudes toward government responsibilities Author(s):SVALLFORS, Stefan; KULIN, Joakin; SCHNABEL AnnetteDate:2012Citation:Stefan SVALLFORS (ed.), Contested welfare states : welfare attitudes in Europe and beyond, Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2012, Studies in social inequality, pp. 158-192Type:Contribution to book

Title:Ageing and political institutions : comparative political economy of long-term care for frail older people Author(s):HIEDA, TakeshiDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Despite common socio-demographic pressures such as longer longevity, lower fertility rate, and feminization of labor market, public elderly care policy is remarkably diverse across advanced industrialized countries. This ...

Title:Ageing of skills and complementary immigration in the EU, 2010-2025 Author(s):FARGUES, Philippe

; MCCORMICK, AshleyDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2013/81; Migration Policy CentreAbstract:This paper measures both population ageing and shrinking within the working age populations of all 27 European Union countries between 2010 and 2025, in the absence of any further migration. In this ‘no migration scenario’ ...

Title:Agencies in the European Community - A Step Towards Administrative Integration in Europe Author(s):KREHER, AlexanderDate:1997Citation:Journal of European Public Policy, 1997, 4, 2, 225-245Type:ArticleAbstract:Agencies in the European Community (EC) are a functional and politically important institutional phenomenon, yet almost completely ignored within the academic literature. In addition there is some evidence that EC agencies ...