Title:Neuverzauberung im Gestus der Wissenschaftlichkeit
Author(s):LIPPHARDT, Veronika; PATEL, Kiran KlausDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Taking the example of research on biological diversity in the 20th century, this article analyzes the social practices that are entailed in the emergence, stabilization, and circulation of scientific knowledge. It stresses ...
Title:A New EU Gas Security of Supply Architecture?
Author(s):DE JONG, Jacques; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; HAFNER, Manfred; AHNER, Nicole; TAGLIAPIETRA, SimoneDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:Drawing the conclusions of four dedicated workshops Jacques de Jong, Jean-Michel Glachant, Manfred Hafner, Nicole Ahner and Simone Tagliapietra recommend a new approach distinguishing clearly between the short-term vision ...
Title:The New Institutions of Transatlantic Aviation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; KARAGIANNIS, YannisDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses on the institutions of transatlantic aviation since 1945, and aims at extracting from this historical process topical policy implications. Using the methodology of an analytic narrative, we describe ...
Title:New Modes of Governance and Democratic Accountability
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; LEHMKUHL, DirkDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article raises the question of the link between new modes of governance and democratic accountability. Our definition of new modes of governance as modes refers to public policy-making that includes private actors ...
Title:New Modes of Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Self-regulation by Industry in Europe
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In technically complex areas, political actors increasingly rely on private actors to shape public policy, due to the greater expertise of private actors. This article theorises and empirically investigates the conditions ...
Title:A Novel Business Model for Aggregating the Values of Electricity Storage
Author(s):HE, Xian; DELARUE, Erik; D’HAESELEER, William; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Electricity storage is considered as a valuable source of flexibility with applications covering the whole electricity value chain. Most of the existing evaluation methods for electricity storage are conceived for one ...
Title:Numbers in judicial 'government'
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Si le droit forme le langage commun et le terrain d'entente naturel des différents acteurs des politiques publiques de la justice, il partage désormais sa prééminence avec le chiffre qui fait figure de passage obligé des ...
Title:Of 'Good' and 'Bad' Subsidies: European State Aid Control through Soft and Hard Law
Author(s):BLAUBERGER, MichaelDate:2009-11-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:European state aid control, a part of competition policy, typically follows the logic of negative integration. It constrains the potential for member states to distort competition by reducing their ability to subsidise ...
Title:On the Selection of Financing Instruments to Push the Development of New Technologies: Application to clean energy technologies
Author(s):OLMOS, Luis; RUESTER, Sophia; LIONG, Siok-JenDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Achieving climate policy goals requires mobilizing public funds to bring still immature clean technologies to competitiveness and create new technological options. The format of direct public support must be tailored to ...
Title:'One Man Alone'? A Longue Durée Approach to Italy's Foreign Policy under Berlusconi
Author(s):BRIGHI, ElisabettaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By adopting a longue durée approach this paper aims to move the debate on Italy's foreign policy under the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi beyond the presentism and personalization currently dominating it. It argues firstly ...
Title:Openness and the Case for Flexible Exchange Rates
Author(s):CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Models of stabilization in open economy traditionally emphasize the role of exchange rates as a substitute for nominal price flexibility in fostering relative price adjustment. This view has been recently criticized on the ...
Title:Optimists and Skeptics: Why do people believe in the value of their single vote?
Author(s):BLAIS, André; RHEAULT, LudovicDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:We investigate the origins of voters' beliefs about the value of their single vote. We construe such beliefs as a function of psychological predispositions and exposure to information about the competitiveness of the ...