Title:Conclusion: Evaluating the Forces of Interstitial Institutional Change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide variety of legislative and policy-making procedures. Far ...
Title:Conditions of Modern Return Migrants - Editorial Introduction
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:There exists a basic, and too often overlooked, condition in current migration management policies, which intimately connects any person who returns home from abroad, regardless of the place of origin, social background, ...
Title:Consensual Politics and Multiparty Systems
Author(s):BLONDEL, JeanDate:1995Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper explores the occurrence of consensual policy making and its association with multi-party arrangements in postwar western Europe. It reviews and categorises the experience of 19 countries. The paper first ...
Title:Considering Islam for the West
Author(s):AMIRAUX, ValerieDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:But there is a difference between knowledge of other peoples and other times that is the result of understanding, compassion, careful study and analysis for their own sakes, and knowledge that is part of an overall campaign ...
Title:Constitution et primauté: un bilan jusqu'à l'arrêt Melki et Abdeli
Author(s):IANNIELLO SALICETI, AlessandroDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This essays aims at shaping the historical struggle for supremacy between the "New legal and autonomous order" of the EC-EU and the "State constitution" of EU Member States through the milestone judgements of the EU Court ...
Title:Contested competences in the European Union
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast to dominant theories which assume that the Treaties, the governing ...
Title:Contested Delegation: The Impact of Co-decision on Comitology
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MOURY, CatherineDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article shows that, for the area of environmental policy, the Commission and the Council have been more willing to rely on extensive delegation after the introduction of co-decision. It also shows that the tendency ...
Title:The Continued Salience of Religious Voting in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain
Author(s):RAYMOND, ChristopherDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Conventional wisdom on party systems in advanced industrial democracies holds that modern electorates are dealigned and that social cleavages no longer structure party politics. Recent work on class cleavages has challenged ...
Title:Convention and Intersubjectivity: New Developments in French Economics
Author(s):LATSIS, JohnDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The recently formed French School of the "économie des conventions" have claimed that they are developing a revolutionary new approach to the social sciences. This group of researchers in economics, philosophy, sociology, ...
Title:Costs or Gross Benefits? What mainly drives cross-sectional variance in internet adoption
Author(s):DROUARD, JoeffreyDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we propose an empirical model of Internet adoption which takes into account
the household’s desire to adopt the Internet. Our research supports three central findings.
First, we determine the main factors ...
Title:The Council: An Institutional Chameleon?
Author(s):WALLACE, HelenDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Council reform is a topic that has become a key issue in the wider discussion about reshaping the institutions of the European Union. This article explores five different images of the Council: as a partner of the Commission; ...
Title:Coûts de la regulation des industries de réseaux : enseignements du secteur postal
Author(s):MÄGLI, Martin; JAAG, Christian; FINGER, MatthiasDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:La régulation joue un rôle important dans la mise en œuvre de la libéralisation des industries de réseau. Si elle vise à favoriser une certaine prospérité de l’économie et de la société, cette intervention de l’État présente ...
Title:Crises and Opportunities – Have financial crises led to the reshaping of the financial landscape?
Author(s):CASSIS, YoussefDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:As the world’s political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the debacle of 2008, this article asks the question: have financial crises presented an opportunity to rebuild the financial system? The answer ...