Title:Imagining European Identity: French Elites and the American Challenge in the Pompidou-Nixon Era
Author(s):GFELLER, Aurélie ElisaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Charles de Gaulle has cast a long shadow over French political history and history writing. In exploring the French response to the United States' 1973 'Year of Europe' initiative, this article challenges the dominant ...
Title:Immigration and the Transnational European Centre-Right: A Common Programmatic Response?
Author(s):DUNCAN, Fraser; VAN HECKE, StevenDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:As aspects of immigration policy are brought into the competence of the EU, the role of transnational parties in co-ordinating policy choices across national boundaries grows in importance. Yet immigration is often seen ...
Title:Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA, Jesus; ORTEGA, FrancescoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ecuador recently experienced an unprecedented wave of emigration following the severe economic crisis of the late 1990s. Individual-level data for Ecuador and its two main migration destinations, Spain and the United States, ...
Title:Immigration Without Inclusion: Non-nationals in nation-building in the Gulf States
Author(s):FARGUES, PhilippeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Migrants represent between one-third and four-fifths of the population in the Gulf States. Despite their sizable numbers, migrants can only have temporary residency, they have no access to citizenship, and they have limited ...
Title:The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment toward Temporary Migrants
Author(s):EPSTEIN, Gil S.; VENTURINI, AlessandraDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In ...
Title:Implicit Auctioning on the Kontek Cable: Third Time Lucky?
Author(s):MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Implicit auctioning in Europe is about eliminating cross-border trade inefficiencies by internalizing cross-border trade into the day-ahead auction procedures of the Power Exchanges that are already organizing trade ...
Title:¿Importa Europa en las Elecciones Europeas? Un modelo explicativo de las elecciones del 2009 al Parlamento Europeo
Author(s):BELLUCCI, Paolo; GARZIA, Diego; RUBAL MASEDA, MartiñoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Este trabajo evalúa la validez de diferentes modelos interpretativos del comportamiento electoral en las elecciones europeas partiendo del resultado de junio de 2009. Nos centramos, en primer lugar, en modelos que conectan ...
Title:Individual and Contextual Variation in EU issue Voting: the Role of Political Information
Author(s):DE VRIES, Catherine E.; VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; VAN EGMOND, Marcel H.; VAN DER EIJK, CeesDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Increasing politicization in EU member states about European issues can be expected to strengthen the impact of attitudes towards Europe on vote choice in European Parliament (EP) elections. At the same time this impact ...
Title:Inequality of Origin and Earnings Prospect in France, 1977-1993
Author(s):LEFRANC, Arnaud; PISTOLESI, Nicolas; TRANNOY, AlainDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:To analyze equality of opportunity we examine the influence of family characteristics on the distribution of outcome for a given generation. Here, we study changes in equality of opportunity for income acquisition between ...
Title:The Informal Politics of Legislation: Explaining secluded decision making in the European Union
Author(s):REH, Christine; HERITIER, Adrienne; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo; KOOP, ChristelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article investigates a widespread yet understudied trend in EU politics: the shift of legislative decision making from public inclusive to informal secluded arenas and the subsequent adoption of legislation as “early ...
Title:The Informational Structure of Migration Decision and Migrants’ Self-selection
Author(s):BERTOLI, SimoneDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We analyze the pattern of migrants' self-selection in unobservables when there is uncertainty about foreign wages. Negative selection becomes more likely, and a greater dispersion of wages at destination no longer suffices ...