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    Title: "Against Accountability"  Author(s): MANSBRIDGE, Jane Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS; Abstract: 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. ...
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    Title: The Lure of Authority  Author(s): FEHR, Ernst Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS; Abstract: Power and authority permeate political, social and economic life but still little is known empirically about the origins and consequences of authority. In this paper we tackle this question experimentally by implementing ...
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    Title: Accountability and European Governance  Author(s): CURTIN, Deirdre; MAIR, Peter; PAPADOPOULOS, Yannis Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other
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    Title: Global Governance: Dialogue Between Courts  Author(s): LORENZETTI, Ricardo Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Judicial diplomacy can be seen as a cooperative action and interaction among domestic courts, usually highest judicial bodies, towards regional legal integration. It has manifested itself in two ways: (1) through dialogue ...
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    Title: The European Union and Multilateral Global Governance  Author(s): BARROSO, José Manuel Durão Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP
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    Title: Political Representation and EU Governance  Author(s): MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, Jacques Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other
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    Title: Natural Law and Personhood: Samuel Pufendorf on Social Explanation  Author(s): HAAKONSSEN, Knud Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Today the idea of natural law is generally considered a subject in ethics, politics and jurisprudence and concerned with the status of basic norms. During the last one and a half centuries natural law has come to be seen ...
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    Title: Energy Efficiency Actions Related to the Rollout of Smart Meters for Small Consumers  Author(s): OLMOS, Luis; RUESTER, Sophia; LIONG, Siok Jen; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The installation of electricity Smart Meters (SM) brings about new opportunities for enhancing the interaction between consumers, generators and energy service providers. SM are needed to exert certain sets of actions upon ...
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    Title: The EU 'Foreign Service': Under Construction  Author(s): MISSIROLI, Antonio Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: With the operational launch of the European External Action Service (EEAS), exactly one year after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, a key piece of the new EU external action puzzle falls into place. From now on, ...
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    Title: Ordering Pluralism  Author(s): DELMAS-MARTY, Mireille Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In the traditional legal culture, the expression of “ordering pluralism” is rather unusual. Pluralism implies differences, dispersion and fragmentation, whereas “legal order” leads us to think in terms of a unified structure. ...
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    Title: Governing America: the Emergence of Behavioral Law and Economics  Author(s): JOLLS, Christine Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Bounded rationality is an important and pervasive characteristic of much human behavior. Legal policy under American President Barack Obama has been strongly influenced by behavioral economics' understanding of boundedly ...
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    Title: Does Trust have a History?  Author(s): FREVERT, Ute Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Authors like Francis Fukuyama or Robert Putnam claim that modern societies suffer from a decline of trust. On the other hand political scientists like Margaret Levi or Susan Stokes and sociologists like Karen Cook contend ...
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    Title: Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary  Author(s): LEVINE, David K. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Behavioral economics is an effort to bring psychological and emotional aspects of human behavior into economic theory. Critics of existing theory, including many psychologists and behavioral economists, poorly understand ...
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    Title: Sexularism  Author(s): SCOTT, Joan W. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS DL Abstract: This paper addresses the sharp oppositions often made these days between secularism and gender equality, on the one side, and religion (especially Islam) and the oppression of women, on the other. It argues that we need ...
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    Title: Between Surprise and Social Science  Author(s): MAIER, Charles S. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern world, the collapse ...
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    Title: The Spirit of Capitalism: the Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis  Author(s): COOLEY, Thomas F. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: When economic disasters occur it is common to look to the managers of the economy and question the decisions they made and the incentives that drove their decisions. In the financial crisis of 2007-2009 compensation was ...
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    Title: The Mediterranean and its Metaphors  Author(s): ROY, Olivier Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS DL Abstract: When referring to the Mediterranean sea, politicians, writers and religious leaders make frequent use of often contradictory metaphors: cradle of civilizations, and more precisely of the monotheist Abrahamic religion, ...
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    Title: The Rise of Global Legalism  Author(s): POSNER, Eric A Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Global legalism is the view that world government is not a practicable approach to global collective action problems but that these problems are nonetheless susceptible to legal solutions. This position is paradoxical: ...
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    Title: Uncool Passion: Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals  Author(s): COMAROFF, Jean Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS
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    Title: “Bourgeois Towns: How Capitalism Became Virtuous, 1600-1776”  Author(s): MCCLOSKEY, Deirdre Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS