Title:The Nature of Legal Concepts: Inferential Nodes or Ontological Categories?
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall compare two views of legal concepts: as nodes in inferential nets and as categories in an ontology
(a conceptual architecture). Firstly, I shall introduce the inferential approach, consider its implications,
and ...
Title:The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship: The Politburo, 1924-1953
Author(s):REES, Edward ArfonDate:2003Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:Studies in Russian and East European history and societyAbstract:This volume is the last of a series of three on decision-making in the Stalin era.
Title:The Ne Bis in Idem Principle in EU Law
Author(s):VAN BOCKEL, Willem BastiaanDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The legal principle of ne bis in idem restricts the possibility of a defendant being prosecuted repeatedly on the basis of the same offence, act, or facts. Although few would dispute its relevance to the regulation of ...
Title:Need for Cognitive Closure and Coping Strategies
Author(s):KOSIC, AnkicaDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This study investigates the hypothesis that the process of coping may be motivated by an interaction of directional motivational factors represented by job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and by non-directional or epistemological ...
Title:Needs and Risks in the Welfare State
Author(s):ZUTAVERN, Jan; KOHLI, MartinDate:2010Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This article describes what empirical-analytical research can learn from normative scholarship for the explanation of welfare state responses to needs and risks. It illustrates how welfare state theories have treated needs ...
Title:Negative Feedbacks in the Economy and Industrial Location
Author(s):BRAKMAN, S.; GARRETSEN, H.; GIGENGACK, R.; VANMARREWIJK, C.; WAGENVOORT, Rien J.L.M.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Incorporating regional asymmetry and negative feedbacks (congestion) in a model of economic geography and international trade shows that complete specialization of production at one location is unlikely. We identify an ...