Title:Preference heterogeneity and equilibrium institutions: The case of European competition policy
Author(s):KARAGIANNIS, YannisDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:One characteristic of European competition policy is its complex governance structure. On the one hand, the European competition regulator has always enjoyed a high degree of formal autonomy from national governments. On ...
Title:Principles, Interests and Beliefs: Public opinion on international aid
Author(s):BØLSTAD, JørgenDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why do some individuals show more support for international aid than others? And are people in donor countries less supportive of the idea of aid than those in recipient countries? These are the primary questions motivating ...
Title:Promises and limits of web-deliberation
Author(s):KIES, RaphaëlDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this work we will attempt to evaluate which of these scenarios is most likely to become prominent in the future by focusing essentially on three issues: 1) the usage of the online forum by observing how diffuse the ...
Title:Promoting Democracy Abroad: The EU and Latin America, 1995-2005
Author(s):TRISCRITTI, FiorellaDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Since the 1980s an increasing number of international actors have been promoting democracy worldwide using different methods and instruments. However, despite initial successes, many of these newly created democracies ...
Title:Protecting Exporters: discrimination and liberalization in transatlantic trade relations, 1932-2003
Author(s):DÜR, AndreasDate:2004Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developments in the global political economy of the last hundred years. This period has seen the negotiated reduction of both ...
Title:Public Spaces: Searching out the social underpinnings of democracy in everyday life
Author(s):VICHERAT MATTAR, DanielaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This work is about the everyday relationship between public spaces and democracy. Based on the comparison of historical and qualitative data, it aim is to discuss the existence of an underpinning social experience of ...
Title:Re-thinking the political : political theory and the pursuit of stability (a liberal republican perspective)
Author(s):BALCELLS, JoanDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyzes the role of 'stability' in political theory, from the perspective of liberal-republican debates. The thesis is structured in three different parts. Part I is a systematic reconstruction of historical ...