Title:Cooperation hidden frontiers : the behavioral foundations of the Italian north-south divide
Author(s):BIGONI, Maria; BORTOLOTTI, Stefania; CASARI, Marco; GAMBETTA, Diego; PANCOTTO, FrancescaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that ...
Title:Worldly ambitions : foreign policy objectives in European constitutional law
Author(s):LARIK, JorisDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Constitutions of today do not merely address the salus populi anymore, the welfare of the people, but increasingly exhibit international ambitions. This is true in particular for the EU Treaties. To make sense of these ...
Title:The place of religion in public education : theoretical considerations
Author(s):IBADOV, RashadDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD thesis, entitled ‘The Place of Religion in Public Education: Theoretical Considerations’, aims at answering the following question: ‘what should be the permissible room for religion in modern public education under ...
Title:The constructions of global administrative law
Author(s):CARMOUCHE, NuhailaDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is devoted to exploring the emerging area of research known as global administrative law as a particular lens from within which to analyse key transformations in the domain of regulatory governance, including ...
Title:Regulatory functions of European contract law : theoretical foundations and practical applications
Author(s):GORYWODA, ŁukaszDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Contract law is increasingly becoming an important part of the European regulatory landscape. The increasing recourse to contract law as a regulatory technique triggers fundamental questions about the aims and the effects ...
Title:Families in migration through the gender lens : a study of Polish transmigrants in Ireland
Author(s):MUSZEL, MagdalenaDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis tries to determine the impact of transnational family migration on the gendered division of labour and power dynamics between the couples either entrenching inequalities and traditional roles, or challenging ...
Title:Negotiating the Ottoman Constitution : 1856-1876
Author(s):KOÇUNYAN, AylinDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The dissertation is about the genesis of the Ottoman Constitution, which was promulgated on December 23, 1876. The main objective is to reconstruct the nineteenth-century Ottoman constitutional movement in relation to ...
Title:The ambivalent empire : Soviet rule in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, 1945-1964
Author(s):BECH HANSEN, ClausDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyses the functioning of Soviet rule in the Uzbek Soviet republic from 1945 to 1964. Thereby, it focuses on the effects of two fundamental forces that characterised Soviet rule in Uzbekistan: On the one hand, ...
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:Introduction : an emerging field
Author(s):LANGFORD, Malcolm; VANDENHOLE, Wouter; SCHEININ, Martin; VAN GENUGTEN, WillemDate:2013Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Changing rules of delegation : a contest for power in comitology
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MOURY, Catherine; BISCHOFF, Carina S.; BERGSTRÖM, Carl-FredrikDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out ...
Title:A survey of econometric methods for mixed-frequency data
Author(s):FORONI, Claudia; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The development of models for variables sampled at different frequencies has attracted substantial interest in the recent econometric literature. In this paper we provide an overview of the most common techniques, including ...
Title:A concept of the global to conceive global governance : four metaphorical proposals
Author(s):INNERARITY, DanielDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper suggests four metaphors to correct our habitual way of thinking about globalization. It begins with the idea that the world can be understood more effectively based on the properties of gases, rather than liquids; ...
Title:European networking and training for national competition enforcers (ENTRANCE 2011) : selected case notes
Author(s):MONTI, Giorgio; PARCU, Pier LuigiDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The working paper includes a collection of the case notes written by the national judges who attended the European Networking and Training for National Competition Enforcers (ENTRANCE 2011). The training program was organized ...