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:Institutions and Sectoral Logics in Creative Industries: The media cluster in Cologne
Author(s):APITZSCH, Birgit; PIOTTI, GenyDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Institutional actors at the regional or local level increasingly see the development of the creative industry sector as a means of improving local competitiveness. However, research on relations between institutions and ...
Title:Interactive Diffusion: The coevolution of police and protest behavior with an application to transnational contention
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; TARROW, SidneyDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:In this article, the authors focus attention on a poorly understood aspect of contentious politics: the interaction between the transnational diffusion of new forms of protest behavior and police practices in response to ...
Title:Interdisciplinarity and Tax Law: The case of legal autopoiesis
Author(s):VASCONCELOS VILAÇA, GuilhermeDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper critically evaluates interdisciplinary research in tax law. The strategy I follow runs at two levels of abstraction. First, I examine a concrete example of interdisciplinary research in taxation. More precisely, ...
Title:Intergenerational Transfers of Time and Money in European Families: Common Patterns - Different Regimes?
Author(s):ALBERTINI, Marco; KOHLI, Martin; VOGEL, ClaudiaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The 'generational contract' is the most important and also the most contentious dimension of contemporary welfare systems. Much of the debate on how to reform it is still truncated, however, by focusing on its public ...
Title:Intergenerational Transfers of Time and Money in European Families: Common Patterns — Different Regimes?
Author(s):ALBERTINI, Marco; KOHLI, Martin; VOGEL, ClaudiaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The `generational contract' is the most important and also the most contentious dimension of contemporary welfare systems. Much of the debate on how to reform it is still truncated, however, by focusing on its public ...
Title:International Relations Theory and the Rise of European Foreign and Security Policy
Author(s):KROTZ, Ulrich; MAHER, RichardDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The historical rise of European foreign, security, and defense policy marks an important development in European politics and world politics more broadly. Long thought unlikely to amount to much, European integration in ...
Title:International Relations, Irrelevant? Don’t blame theory
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:It is now commonplace to bemoan our field’s lack of practical relevance, and to blame this sorry situation on our penchant for ever-more abstract theorising over the analysis of real-world phenomena. This article challenges ...
Title:Internet Voting in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Estonia
Author(s):ALVAREZ, Michael R.; HALL, Thad E.; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2009-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Several countries have conducted Internet voting trials in binding public elections over the past decade, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. However, Estonia—a former Soviet republic and now ...
Title:Internet Voting in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Estonia
Author(s):ALVAREZ, Michael R.; HALL, Thad E.; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Several countries have conducted Internet voting trials in binding public elections over the past decade, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. However, Estonia—a former Soviet republic and now ...
Title:Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Institutions
Author(s):BLYTH, Mark; HODGSON, Geoffrey M.; LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, SvenDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How can evolutionary ideas be applied to the study of social and political institutions? Charles Darwin identified the mechanisms of variation, selection and retention. He emphasized that evolutionary change depends on the ...