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Title:How populist are parties? : measuring degrees of populism in party manifestos using supervised machine learning Author(s):DI COCCO, Jessica

; MONECHI, BernardoDate:2022Citation:Political analysis, 2022, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 311-327Type:ArticleAbstract:One of the main challenges in comparative studies on populism concerns its temporal and spatial measurements within and between a large number of parties and countries. Textual analysis has proved useful for these purposes, ...

Title:How private is private information? : the ability to spot deception in an economic game Author(s):BELOT, Michele

Date:2017Citation:Experimental economics, 2017, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 19–43Type:ArticleAbstract:We provide experimental evidence on the ability to detect deceit in a buyer–seller game with asymmetric information. Sellers have private information about the value of a good and sometimes have incentives to mislead buyers. ...

Title:How Problematic are Internal Euro Area Differences? Author(s):BJORKSTEN, Nils; SYRJANEN, MiikaDate:2000Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2000Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSC; 2000/14

Title:How protest voters choose Author(s):BIRCH, Sarah; DENNISON, James

Date:2019Citation:Party politics, 2019, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 110-125Type:ArticleAbstract:Political scientists have identified protest voting – voting for an anti-establishment party as a protest against mainstream politics – as a consequence of dissatisfaction with traditional political options. Yet we know ...

Title:How ranking performance can hurt women Author(s):GËRXHANI, Klarita

Date:2020Citation:Harvard business review, 2021, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:When it comes to gender equity in the workplace, many organizations focus largely on hiring more women. But to achieve more equitable representation, it’s also critical to examine disparities in how employees are evaluated ...

Title:How real will the metaverse be? : exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds Author(s):PARCU, Pier Luigi

; ROSSI, Maria Alessandra

; INNOCENTI, Niccolò

; CARROZZA, Chiara

Date:2023Citation:European planning studies, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we perform a preliminary analysis of the technologies, firms and industries that may be affected by the possible futures of the metaverse, attempting to derive some hypotheses on the spatial effects of this ...

Title:How referendums challenge European democracy : Brexit and beyond Editor(s):ROSE, Richard

Date:2020Citation:London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Palgrave Studies in European Union PoliticsType:BookAbstract:This book explains how citizens are using referendums to challenge decisions taken by the European Union. The opening chapters compare the two chief institutions of electoral democracy: parliamentary elections to decide ...

Title:How referendums differ from each other Author(s):ROSE, Richard

Date:2020Citation:Richard ROSE (ed.), How referendums challenge European democracy : Brexit and beyond, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 19-36Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The frequency with which countries hold referendums differs greatly. Within Europe, Switzerland holds hundreds of referendums at the federal, cantonal and local levels. Even though a referendum has never been held at the ...

Title:How regimes shape preferences : a study of political actors' labour market policy preferences in flexicurity and dualizing countries Author(s):FOSSATI, Flavia

Date:2018Citation:Socio-economic review, 2018, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 523-544Type:ArticleAbstract:Political actors do not operate in a vacuum; rather, it is safe to assume that their preferences are influenced by the institutional context in which they operate. By means of novel interview data, which was collected in ...

Title:How regulations became the crux of trade politics Author(s):WINSLETT, Gary

Date:2016Citation:Journal of world trade, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 1. pp. 47-70Type:ArticleAbstract:Whereas tariffs were once the main barrier to international trade, cross-national differences in regulation now constitute the most significant impediment to trade and are therefore the centrepiece issues in contemporary ...

Title:How Regulatory Risks May Affect Security of Electricity Supply Author(s):RANCI, Pippo

Date:2007Citation:European Review of Energy Markets, 2007, 2, 2, 131-146Type:Article

Title:How relevant is the public private distinction in the case of voluntary sustainability standards? Author(s):MARX, AxelDate:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/30; Global Governance Programme-168; Global EconomicsAbstract:This paper argues that the distinction between public and private standards only make sense if one looks at the legal status of specific standard-setting organisations. If one switches the unit of analysis the distinction ...

Title:How rich is too rich? : measuring the riches line Author(s):ROBEYNS, Ingrid; BUSKENS, Vincent; VAN DE RIJT, Arnout

; VERGELDT, Nina; VAN DER LIPPE, TanjaDate:2020Citation:Social indicators research, 2020, Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 115-143Type:ArticleAbstract:Is it possible to identify a 'riches line', distinguishing the 'rich' from the 'super-rich'? : Recent work in political philosophy suggests that this is theoretically possible. This study examines for the first time the ...

Title:How Russia ‘colonized itself' : internal colonization in classical Russian historiography Author(s):ETKIND, Alexander

Date:2015Citation:International journal for history, culture and modernity, 2015, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 159-172Type:ArticleAbstract:In the late imperial period, Russian historiography was dominated by the self-colonization school. Russian historians wrote detailed accounts of Russia’s takeover of the Crimea, Finland, Ukraine, Poland, and other lands, ...

Title:How should Bitcoin be regulated ? Author(s):SHCHERBAK, SergiiDate:2014Citation:European Journal of Legal Studies, 2014, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 45-91Type:ArticleAbstract:The lack of clarity about Bitcoin’s legal framework has meant that none of the regulators across the EU have yet achieved sufficient clarity in the legal treatment of Bitcoin and its stakeholders. This uncertainty poses a ...

Title:How should the EU and other WTO members react to their WTO governance and WTO appellate body crises? Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich

Date:2018Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2018/71; Global Governance Programme-331; [European, Transnational and Global Governance]; [Europe in the World]Abstract:Since 2017, the United States (US) and other World Trade Organization (WTO) members violate their legal duties and democratic mandates given by national parliaments to maintain the WTO Appellate Body (AB) as legally ...

Title:How should the WTO launch and negotiate a future round? Author(s):ODELL, John S.Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/110; Global Governance Programme-141; Global EconomicsAbstract:To reduce the serious information problems they face and prepare the way, advocates should commission an independent research team to produce a comprehensive negotiation analysis before they decide to move further. Reaching ...

Title:How should we think about the winners and losers from globalization? Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M.

; NELSON, Douglas

Date:2020Citation:European journal of international law, 2020, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1399-1408Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[Global Governance Programme]; [Global Economics]Abstract:How should we think about the winners and losers from globalization? What role can narrative analysis play in doing so? We argue that to be useful, identifying politically relevant narratives on the distributional effects ...

Title:How should WTO Members react to their WTO governance crises? Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich

Date:2019Citation:World trade review, 2019, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 503-525Type:ArticleAbstract:Since 2017, the United States (US) and other World Trade Organization (WTO) members have been violating their legal duties and democratic mandates given by national parliaments to maintain the WTO Appellate Body (AB) as ...

Title:How sick is British democracy? : a clinical analysis Author(s):ROSE, Richard

Date:2021Citation:Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021, Challenges to Democracy in the 21st CenturyType:BookAbstract:Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by carefully examining the health of the British body politic from Tony Blair’s ...