Title:Quality and Environmental Regulation: Verifying Compliance along the Supply Chain
Author(s):TZAVARA, Dionisia; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2010-03-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Among the factors providing incentives to monitor the behaviour of input suppliers are the regulatory requirements to which downstream firms are subject. We develop a formal economic model to examine the relationship between ...
Title:Reflections on Theory and Practice
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS
Title:Reforming Italy: Institutional Change and the Federal Option
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; WILSON, AlexDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Edinburgh Europa Paper SeriesAbstract:The reform of regional government has been a key element in efforts to reform the Italian state. The aims are administrative modernization; national integration; coherent regional development; fiscal responsibility and ...
Title:Regional Sustainable Development in the European Alps
Author(s):BALSIGER, JörgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Whereas transboundary regionalism has become a dominant trend in European and international economic and political integration, contemporary earth system governance continues to be characterized by functionally separated ...
Title:Reluctant Rulers and the Negotiated Transition: Mobilizing for democracy in Hungary
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Among the Eastern European democratization processes of the 1989 period, Hungary stands out as the least dramatic transition in the region. Whereas other countries experienced massive demonstrations in favor of democratic ...
Title:Representative versus Responsible Government
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, CologneAbstract:The changing circumstances in which parties compete in contemporary democracies, coupled with the changing circumstances in which governments now govern, have led to a widening of the traditional gap between representative ...
Title:The Role of Institutions in Cosmopolitan Justice
Author(s):MIKLOS, AndrasDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper focuses on a distinction between two kinds of theories about the role of institutions in cosmopolitan justice. Some philosophers claim that principles of egalitarian justice apply to institutional schemes only, ...
Title:Rule Application in EU and US Conciliation Committees
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Important rules regulating conciliation committees in the EU and the U.S. look similar but are applied very differently in practice. This article examines why rule application is different in the two systems. In accordance ...