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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: Financial Intermediation, Markets, and Alternative Financial Sectors  Author(s): ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; QIAN, Jun 'QJ'; VALENZUELA, Patricio Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We provide a comprehensive review of firms’ financing channels (internal and external, domestic and international) around the globe, with the focus on alternative finance—financing from all the nonmarket, non-bank external ...
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    Title: The Architecture of Transnational Private Regulation  Author(s): CAFAGGI, Fabrizio Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: Conflicting interests among private actors constitute an important factor to explain why and how transnational private regulation has grown and the proliferation of standards and standard setting organizations that has ...
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    Title: Contractual Formalization and Governance of Long-Term Relationships  Author(s): GOBBATO, Marco Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper I discuss the relationship between contractual formalization, contractual incompleteness and the governance of long-term relationships. I analyze data on contracts for the production and distribution of goods ...
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    Title: Mobilizing Cities towards a Low Carbon Future: Tambourines, Carrots and Sticks  Author(s): MEEUS, Leonardo; DELARUE, Erik Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In the transition towards a decarbonized energy system, we need city authorities to lead by example as public actors, to govern the actions of the private urban actors as local policy makers, and to conceive and manage ...
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    Title: The Security-Politics-Development Nexus: The Lessons of State-Building in Sub-Saharan Africa  Author(s): TSCHIRGI, Necla Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: How can development policy support weak, dysfunctional or fragile states? What constitutes state fragility and what are the appropriate instruments for state-building? After reviewing two recent quantitative indexes (The ...
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    Title: Institution [Un]Building: Decentralising Government and the Case of Rwanda  Author(s): MCCONNELL, Jesse Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The challenge of institution building in African countries remains a major threat to the establishment of peace and justice, and the entrenchment of sustainable social and economic development. This may be attributed ...
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    Title: Regulatory Governance and the Challenge of Constitutionalism  Author(s): SCOTT, Colin Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: The late twentieth century witnessed significant shifts in the institutions and processes of governance in most members states of the OECD, as direct provision (sometimes characterised as welfare state governance) was, ...
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    Title: The Promise of European Integration. Improving the Quality of Democracy in the European Neighborhood  Author(s): MAZMANYAN, Armen Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: The recent research on EU’s role in democratization in the post-communist world has been primarily concerned with its new member states of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the prospective member states. A great ...
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    Title: Judging Judges: Do Judges Meet their Constitutional Obligation to Settle Disputes in Conformity with ‘Principles of Justice and International Law’?  Author(s): PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This contribution argues that the universal recognition of human rights requires judges to take human rights more seriously in their judicial settlement of disputes “in conformity with the principles of justice and ...
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    Title: Self-Regulation by Associations: Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation  Author(s): HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, Sandra Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and ...
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    Title: Product Safety, Private Standard Setting and Information Networks  Author(s): CAFAGGI, Fabrizio Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This essay deals with product safety and liability, looking in particular at the interaction between regulation, contract and civil liability. Risk definition, assessment and management in product safety has changed in ...
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    Title: Governance, Proceduralisation and Justice: Some Challenges to the Legal Paradigm  Author(s): HENDRY, Jennifer Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In 1989, Rudolf Wiethöltner alleged that we are witnessing a ‘failure of law’ in terms of its obligation to achieve ‘just law’. This paradox at the very heart of law – in essence, the impossibility of the realisation of ...
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    Title: The Visible Hand of European Regulatory Private Law  Author(s): MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: The title “The Visible Hand of European Regulatory Private Law” should make clear what I identify to be the major gap not only in political discourse but also in legal doctrine and in legal theory concerning European ...
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    Title: Democracy and European Integration: A Legacy of Tensions, a Re-conceptualisation and Recent True Conflicts?  Author(s): JOERGES, Christian Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper seeks to synthesise two concerns which are usually discussed separately One concerns the much discussed democracy deficit of the European polity. In this respect, it is considered that the democratic quality of ...
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    Title: Locating the Public Interest in Transnational Policing  Author(s): LOADER, Ian; WALKER, Neil Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper examines the basis on which we might argue that there is a 'transnational' public interest in transnational policing. Is policing beyond the state simply a matter of finding points of overlap between the ...
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    Title: New Modes of Governance in the EU: Common Objectives versus National Preferences  Author(s): CITI, Manuele; RHODES, Martin Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUROGOV (European Governance Papers) Abstract: The emergence in the European Union of new modes of governance (NMG) such as the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has produced an enormous literature that falls into four broad categories: a theoretical approach seeks to ...
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    Title: New Modes of Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Self-Regulation by Industry in Europe  Author(s): HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, Sandra Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In technically complex areas, political actors increasingly rely on private actors to shape public policy. This is due to the greater expertise of the private actors, mostly industry. This article theorizes and empirically ...
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    Title: The Reframing of Law’s Imperial Frame: An Analysis of Jim Tully’s Theory of Post-Colonial Empire  Author(s): WALKER, Neil Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: This paper provides a constructive critique of Jim Tully's innovative body of work on the juridical nature of 'empire' in its contemporary post-colonial phase. Tully's work emphasizes the high degree of continuity between ...
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    Title: Which Governance for European Private Law?  Author(s): CAFAGGI, Fabrizio Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI LAW Abstract: The paper describes the necessity to consider the role of private rule making and the increasing importance of national regulatory agencies, in the process of European legal integration. It then focuses on the legislative ...