Title:“Climbing the Hierarchical Ladders of Rules”: A life-cycle theory of institutional evolution
Author(s):BROUSSEAU, Eric; RAYNAUD, EmmanuelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:This paper proposes an analysis of the emergence and evolution of institutional frameworks. It explains the causes, process, and outcome of institutional evolution. We first describe the institutional framework as a ...
Title:Codecision and Institutional Change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the sources and processes of institutional change in one important aspect of EU politics – the legislative procedure of codecision – and shows how interstitial change of institutions that emerges ...
Title:Collective Identity as Shared Ethical Self-Understanding: The Case of the Emerging European Identity
Author(s):KANTNER, CathleenDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Against the common view that a European identity is a functional precondition for legitimate EU governance, this article argues that conceptual weaknesses of the term ‘collective identity’ have led to a confusion of several ...
Title:Competition Effects in a Liberalized Railway Market
Author(s):LANG, Markus; LAPERROUZA, Marc; FINGER, MatthiasDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper presents a game-theoretic model of a liberalized railway market, in which train operation and ownership of infrastructure are vertically separated. We analyze how the regulatory agency will optimally set the ...
Title:Compliance with Rules of Negative Integration. European State Aid Control in the New Member States
Author(s):BLAUBERGER, MichaelDate:2009-11Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Starting from existing accounts on candidate country and member state compliance, the compliance record of the Central and Eastern European countries in the field of state aid policy is puzzling. Despite allegedly low ...