Title:Everyone’s a winner (almost) : bargaining success in the Council of Ministers of the European Union
Author(s):CROSS, James P.Date:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines member state bargaining success in legislative negotiations in the European Union. Bargaining success is thought to be determined by factors attributable to intervention behaviour, relative policy ...
Title:Striking a pose : transparency and position taking in the Council of the European Union
Author(s):CROSS, James P.Date:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In recent years, transparency (or the lack thereof) has become a central concern of the European Union and its attempts to increase the democratic legitimacy of the legislative decision-making process. The claim regularly ...
Title:Institutionalizations compared : implementing the EU’s 2008 wine reform
Author(s):ITÇAINA, Xabier; ROGER, Antoine; SMITH, AndyDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:In 2008 the European Union adopted an apparently radical reform of its wine policy. However, whether this policy change actually reinstitutionalizes the regulation of this industry is dependent on how it is implemented and ...
Title:Silvio Berlusconi’s personal parties : from Forza Italia to the Popolo della Libertà
Author(s):MCDONNELL, DuncanDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the electoral success of Silvio Berlusconi’s two political parties, little theoretical and empirical work has been done on Forza Italia (FI) and the Popolo Della Libertà (PDL – People of Freedom).This article aims ...
Title:Location, internationalization and performance of firms in Italy : a multilevel approach
Author(s):GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; RICCHIUTI, Giorgio; VELUCCHI, MargheritaDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Competition is increasingly global. However, location still matters: often firms cluster in the same geographic areas in order to exploit locational externalities and improve their competitiveness. This article analyses ...
Title:Embedded Bilateralism : Deutsch-französische Beziehungen in der europäischen Politik
Author(s):KROTZ, Ulrich; SCHILD, JoachimDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Die zentrale Rolle Deutschlands und Frankreichs in der Geschichte der europäischen Integration und in der Politik der Europäischen Union (EU) ist längst zur Binsenweisheit geworden. Passend dazu hat der politische, ...
Title:Challenges and opportunities of online collective action for policy change
Author(s):CALDERARO, Andrea; KAVADA, AnastasiaDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Internet has multiplied the platforms available to influence public opinion and policymaking. It has also provided citizens with a greater capacity for coordination and mobilization, which can strengthen their voice ...
Title:What is left for parties? : An overview of party mandate in France (1981-2009)
Author(s):FROIO, CaterinaDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The review draws on the author’s recent book to explore the long-standing question of the influence of partisanship on policy implementation. Partisanship is traditionally expected to exert an influence on policy implementation, ...
Title:The LL game: The curious preference for low quality and its norms
Author(s):GAMBETTA, Diego; ORIGGI, GloriaDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange high-quality goods and services, but then something ...
Title:China's sovereignty in international law : from historical grievance to pragmatic tool
Author(s):MULLER, WimDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The concept of sovereignty is at the heart of Chinese international legal discourse, as well as Chinese foreign policy. Yet there is no agreement among international lawyers, political scientists and theorists what exactly ...
Title:Experience with electricity market test suite : students versus computational agents
Author(s):TRINH, Quynh Chi; SAGUAN, Marcelo; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:This paper applies two experimental economics methods (i.e., agent-based modeling and laboratory experiment) to a market test suite that is based on a fictional European wholesale electricity market. Quantitative results ...
Title:Crossing the border : self selection, earnings and international migration decisions
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA, Jesus; ORTEGA, FrancescoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We analyze an international migration episode for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in the aftermath of the economic ...
Title:From a status to a transaction-based approach? : institutional design in European contract law
Author(s):CAFAGGI, FabrizioDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Common European Sales Law (CESL), currently under examination at the European Parliament, is intended to introduce a regime for cross-border sales that individual Member States can extend to domestic transactions ...
Title:Network analysis to detect common strategies in the Italian foreign direct investment
Author(s):DE MASI, Giulia; GIOVANNETTI, Giorgia; RICCHIUTI, GiorgioDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we reconstruct and discuss the network of Italian firms investing abroad, exploiting information from complex network analysis. This method, detecting the key nodes of the system (both in terms of firms and ...
Title:Associating, mobilizing, politicizing : local developmental agency from without
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; VEDRES, BalazsDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Decades of increase in external aid programs sparked a wide range of criticisms pointing to misaligned interests, lack of accountability, and the reproduction of developmental traps. The success of development from without ...
Title:Protest and policing on October 15th, global day of action : the Italian case
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; ZAMPONI, LorenzoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Fifteenth October 2011, a global day of anti-austerity action called for by the Spanish indignados, saw hundreds of thousands of protestors converging on Rome for a national march. One of the largest, this Rome event was ...
Title:Da Benedetto a Francesco : il Vaticano e la nuova "translatio imperii"
Author(s):FERRARA, PasqualeDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Negli anni di Benedetto XVI, la chiesa ha continuato ad adattarsi ai cam¬biamenti internazionali in modo molto graduale. Si è riconosciuta sem¬pre più “globale” ma ha faticato a modernizzare la sua governance. Si è concentrata ...
