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    Title: The globalisation of inequality  Author(s): BOURGUIGNON, François Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: There has been an apparently contradictory trend in the global inequality in living standards over the past quarter-century. On the one hand, global inequality between countries has decreased significantly, while on the ...
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    Title: The strange non-death of multiculturalism  Author(s): MODOOD, Tariq Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: One of the strange features of the ‘Multiculturalism is dead’ discourses is that they now define ‘multiculturalism’. It is now commonplace for even neutral commentators to define multiculturalism as a view which emphasises ...
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    Title: European Union competencies in respect of media pluralism and media freedom  Author(s): CMPF Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This report presents the phenomena of media freedom and pluralism and the major academic and policy debates about their social, political, economic role and implications. It highlights the importance of media freedom and ...
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    Title: The role of economic theory in WTO arbitrations  Author(s): RUTA, Michele Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: How can economic theory be useful in WTO arbitrations? Motivated by this question, this paper reviews the approach that is often used to determine the level of permissible retaliation in international trade disputes (the, ...
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    Title: The return from the return to narrative  Author(s): DE VRIES, Jan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Social scientific history in its various forms developed rapidly and enjoyed great influence in the 1960s and 70s. Around 1980 it was quickly and, in the United States decisively, eclipsed. An influential article predicting ...
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    Title: Governance, Development, and Foreign Direct Investment  Author(s): DIXIT, Avinash Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Less-developed countries and transition economies wish to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), but are often handicapped by their weak governance structures, i.e. by insecurity of property rights and contracts. Potential ...
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    Title: Mercosur as a Regional and Global Protagonist  Author(s): PEÑA, Félix Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Developing a climate of mutual trust and promoting a renewed regional integration, especially one that enables to connect the economic systems and encourage the proliferation of transnational production chains, are two ...
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    Title: Is There a Legal Duty to Address World Poverty?  Author(s): SALOMON, Margot E. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: States are reticent to support the idea that they have human rights obligations to people other than their own. However decades of United Nations consideration and human rights standard-setting in the area of international ...
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    Title: Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of liberalization and the new politics of solidarity  Author(s): THELEN, Kathleen Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This essay reviews recent literature on varieties of capitalism, drawing on insights from existing studies to propose a new, more differentiated way of thinking about contemporary changes in the political economies of the ...
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    Title: Global Administrative Law: An Italian perspective  Author(s): CASSESE, Sabino; BATTINI, Stefano; D’ALTERIO, Elisa; NAPOLITANO, Giulio; DE BELLIS, Maurizia; CAROLI CASAVOLA, Hilde; MORLINO, Elisabetta; CASINI, Lorenzo; CHITI, Edoardo; SAVINO, Mario Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This Policy Paper collects a set of contributions given and discussed at the Conference on “Global Administrative Law: an Italian Perspective”, European University Institute, Global Governance Programme, 24 February 2012. ...
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    Title: The Future of Democractic Sovereignty and Transnational Law  Author(s): BENHABIB, Seyla Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This essay examines the rise of legal cosmopolitanism in the period since the UDHR of 1948 as it gives rise to two very distinct sets of literature and preoccupations. I contrast the mainly negative conclusions drawn by ...
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    Title: The Democratic Governance of the Euro  Author(s): BIEBER, Roland; CLOSA MONTERO, Carlos; JAMES, Harold; JOERGES, Christian; NAPOLITANO, Giulio; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; DE WITTE, Bruno; KUMM, Mattias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This policy paper includes some of the contributions for a group set up at the EUI to address the crisis of the Euro area with a focus on its democratic dimensions. The perspectives included in here are diverse and not ...
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    Title: European Defence: Challenges after the Treaty of Lisbon  Author(s): TEIXEIRA, Nuno Severiano Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This paper argues on European Defence issues, namely, the challenges after the Treaty of Lisbon. The first part analyses, in an historical perspective, the evolution of European defence, from its origins to the implementation ...
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    Title: A New Governance for the European Union and the Euro: Democracy and justice  Author(s): POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The report provides a democratic explanation for the crisis and the EU’s failure in successfully addressing it so far. It argues that the solution to the crisis and the future of EU governance must depart from a renewed ...
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    Title: A Public Choice View of IP(rizes)  Author(s): LEVMORE, Saul Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Interest groups have played an important if unappreciated role in shaping intellectual property rights. As economies are driven by ideas, rather than manufactured goods, there is likely to be a reconfiguration of the ...
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    Title: Punishment, (Neo)Liberalism and Social Democracy  Author(s): LACEY, Nicola Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In this lecture, I address recent attempts to understand the relevance of political forces and institutions in shaping the practice and the social meaning of punishment. I focus on one argument about the relevance of the ...
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    Title: Three Stages in the Use of Cost-benefit Analysis as a Tool for Evaluating U.S. Regulatory Policy  Author(s): LIVERMORE, Michael A.; REVESZ, Richard L. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Over the last thirty years a three-stage evolution has taken place in American politics with regard to the use of cost-benefit analysis as a tool for evaluating regulation. During that time, the appeal of costbenefit ...
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    Title: The Governance Gap: Globalization and the crisis of democracy in the west  Author(s): KUPCHAN, Charles A. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: A crisis of governability has engulfed the world’s industrialized democracies. It is not coincidental that the United States, Europe, and Japan are simultaneously experiencing political breakdown. Rather, globalization is ...
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    Title: Courts, Social Change and Judicial Independence  Author(s): DREYZIN DE KLOR, Adriana Silvia; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; MEGRET, Frédéric; KELEMEN, R. Daniel; ORTIZ AHLF, Loretta; RASK MADSEN, Mikael; STONE SWEET, Alec; LANE SCHEPPELE, Kim; KUMM, Mattias; POLLACK, Mark A.; SOLANKE, Iyiola Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The diversity and quality of the nine papers presented give an idea of both the broadness and richness of the seminar. Its great originality lies in the wide range of disciplinary and geographical views from which the topic ...
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    Title: Trade Roundtable  Author(s): MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; ABBOTT, Roderick; CRAMÉR, Per; HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MOREIRA, Vital Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The Doha round has been stalling for over 10 years now. It might not be ‘dead and loving it’ but definitely in moribund condition. Worse, there is no sign of reviving it, in the near future at least. The most optimistic ...