Title:Search and Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean: Factor of Cooperation or Conflict?
Author(s):TREVISANUT, SelineDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses the practice of Mediterranean States with regard to search and rescue (SAR) operations that has repeatedly given rise to much dispute. Its particular focus is on the existing disagreements concerning ...
Title:Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European political Swings: an Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time
Author(s):HIX, Simon; MARSH, MichaelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the second-order model. We pool all the elections in a single evaluation ...
Title:The Second-Order Election Model Revisited: An experimental test of vote choices in European Parliament elections
Author(s):HOBOLT, Sara Binzer; WITTROCK, JillDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:This paper examines the micro-foundations of the second-order elections model of European Parliament (EP) elections. We extend the existing literature in several ways. First, we propose an individual-level model of voting ...
Title:Security and Democracy: A Reprise
Author(s):DEL SARTO, RaffaellaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Special issue on ‘Security and Democracy in the European Union’, edited by Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Cathleen Kantner, and Angela Liberatore.
Title:Selective immigration policies, migrants' education and welfare at origin
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; BRÜCKER, HerbertDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Destination countries are increasingly adopting selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants’ average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at ...
Title:Self-monitoring: A moderating role between acculturation strategies and adaptation of immigrants
Author(s):KOSIC, Ankica; MANNETTI, Lucia; SAM, David LacklandDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The study examines the relationship between immigrants’ adaptation, acculturation strategies and self-monitoring. One-hundred-and-sixty-two Polish immigrants (mean age=31.3 years, SD=7.28) living in Rome participated in ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations. Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do associations engage in self-regulation and how do they tackle the specific ...
Title:Sharecropping in history
Author(s):SCHOFIELD, Phillipp; CâMARA, Benedita; CâMARA, Benedita; CARMONA, Juan; FEDERICO, Giovanni; SANTOS, RuiDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:Short-term CO2 Abatement in the European Power Sector: 2005-2006
Author(s):DELARUE, Erik D.; ELLERMAN, A. Denny; D’HAESELEER, WilliamDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper provides an estimate of short-term abatement of CO2 emissions through fuel switching in the European power sector in response to the CO2 price imposed by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in 2005 and 2006. ...
Title:Should Irish Emigrants Have Votes? External voting in Ireland
Author(s):HONOHAN, IseultDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Citizenship Observatory]Abstract:Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe not to offer some form of suffrage to its citizens who live abroad permanently. By contrast, it has been a front-runner in the trend towards providing more liberal voting regimes ...
Title:Single eComms Market? No such thing...
Author(s):PELKMANS, Jacques; RENDA, AndreaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Notwithstanding the undeniable success of telecoms liberalisation in terms of price reduction, new services and technologies as well as consumer satisfaction, EU telecoms policy is at least a half failure. This might seem ...
Title:Small Changes, Big Results: Legislative voting behavior in the presence of new voters
Author(s):BERTELLI, Anthony M.; CARSON, Jamie L.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Changes in district boundaries in small magnitude electoral systems can have substantive consequences for representation. In the U.S., each decennial redistricting cycle infuses House districts with a large number of new ...
Title:The Social Cognition of Immigrants' Acculturation: Effects of the Need for Closure and the Reference Group at Entry
Author(s):KOSIC, Ankica; KRUGLANSKI, Arie; PIERRO, Antonio; MANNETTI, LuciaDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Three studies found support for the notion that the quality of immigrants’ acculturation to the host culture is interactively determined by these individuals’ need for cognitive closure (Kruglanski [amp] Webster, 1996) and ...