Title:The Organization of Regulated Production: Complementarities, Correlation and Collusion
Author(s):JANSEN, Jos; JEON, Doh-Shin; MENICUCCI, DomenicoDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We analyze the choice between vertical separation (VS) and vertical integration (VI) when two regulated firms produce complementary inputs with correlated costs and are protected by ex post break-even constraints. First, ...
Title:Outsider Parties in Government in Western Europe
Author(s):MCDONNELL, Duncan; NEWELL, JamesDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In recent decades, a growing number of ‘outsider parties’ have entered governing centre-left and centre-right coalitions across Western Europe. Here the authors define outsider parties as those which – even when their ...
Title:Outward FDI from Developing Country MNEs as a Channel for Technological Catch-Up
Author(s):AMIGHINI, Alessia; RABELLOTTI, Roberta; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:One of the more recent aspects of the globalization process is the rise and the increasing outward expansion of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from developing countries. Among the more promising effects of this phenomenon ...
Title:An Overview of the Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What caused the crisis? Initially many thought that it was due to incentive problems in the U.S. mortgage industry. However, after the large economic meltdown following Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy in September 2008, it ...
Title:Party and Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections: Towards a reassessment
Author(s):GARZIA, DiegoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Social-psychological models of voting behaviour systematically downsize the relevance of party leader evaluations by conceiving them as mere consequences of causally prior partisan attachments. However, the validity of ...
Title:Party Contestation and Europe on the News Agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary elections
Author(s):SCHUCK, Andreas R.T.; XEZONAKIS, Georgios; ELENBAAS, Matthijs; BANDUCCI, Susan A.; DE VREESE, Claes H.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:In this article we analyse the news coverage of the 2009 EP elections in all 27 EU member states (N = 52,009). We propose that the extent to which these second-order elections are salient to the media depends on political ...
Title:Party Identification, Leader Effects and Vote Choice in Italy, 1990-2008
Author(s):GARZIA, Diego; VIOTTI, FedericoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Previous studies have portrayed the personalization of politics as a consequence of the changes in the electoral market and the resulting transformations at the party level. However, empirical research has not reached a ...
Title:Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
Author(s):MCELROY, Gail; BENOIT, KennethDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Systematic empirical research has yet to explain how national parties join political groups in the European Parliament. This article first demonstrates, using original empirical measures from expert surveys of party ...
Title:Party System Dynamics in Post-war Japan: A quantitative content analysis of electoral pledges
Author(s):PROKSCH, Sven-Oliver; SLAPIN, Jonathan B.; THIES, Michael F.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Qualitative accounts of Japanese party politics allude to the standard left–right spectrum, but they invariably devote much more space to discussions of foreign policy differences than to socioeconomic conflict. Quantitative ...