Title:Die späte Erwerbskarriere und der Übergang in den Ruhestand im Zeichen von Globalisierung und demographischer Alterung
Author(s):KURZ, Karin; BUCHHOLZ, Sandra; RINKLAGE, Annika; BLOSSFELD, Hans PeterDate:2013Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:Frühverrentung gehörte ab den 1970er Jahren zum Standardinstrumentarium vieler moderner Gesellschaften, die auf diese Weise versuchten, den Umbruch der Beschäftigungsstruktur zu bewältigen (Blossfeld et al. 2006; Börsch-Supan ...
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:Under the volcano : empire and revolution in a Sicilian town
Author(s):RIALL, LucyDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Nelson was created Duke of Bronte and received the vast estate in 1799 as a gift from Ferdinand IV, King of the Two Sicilies. It was a standard, if especially ostentatious, form of military reward and reflected both the ...
Title:Prince or pariah? : the place of freedom of religion in a system of international human rights
Author(s):ZUCCA, LorenzoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The human right to freedom of religion (HRFR) at the international level is a deeply contested concept and is interpreted in radically different ways in the respective historical constitutional instruments of the US and ...
Title:The Euro crisis and the state of European democracy
Author(s):DE WITTE, Bruno; HERITIER, Adrienne; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The book is divided in five sections. The first two sections explore the diverse ways in which the institutional system of the European Union has been affected by the unfolding Euro crisis and the efforts to contain that ...
Title:Freedom and the Construction of Europe
Author(s):SKINNER, Quentin; VAN GELDEREN, MartinDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity ...
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 ...