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Title:Dignity, Rights and Responsibilities Author(s):WALDRON, JeremyDate:2010-10-28Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2010/05Abstract:Last year (March 23, 2009), the government in the United Kingdom issued a Green Paper entitled “Rights and Responsibilities: Developing our Constitutional Framework.” In it, the authors (Jack Straw, Secretary of State for ... -
Title:Discretionary fiscal policy and recessions Author(s):CORICELLI, Fabrizio; FIORITO, Riccardo; MOLTENI, FrancescoDate:2017Citation:Ľudovít ÓDOR (ed.), Rethinking fiscal policy after the crisis, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 516-539Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:In this chapter we propose a new measure of discretionary public expenditures. We distinguish discretionary from non-discretionary spending by evaluating the persistence and volatility of expenditure components. Clearly, ...
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Title:Distribution-Free Learning Author(s):SCHLAG, Karl H.Date:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2007/01Abstract:We select among rules for learning which of two actions in a stationary decision problem achieves a higher expected payoffs when payoffs realized by both actions are known in previous instances. Only a bounded set containing ...
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Title:Diverging performances : the detrimental effects of early educational selection on equality of opportunity in Hungary Author(s):HORN, DanielDate:2013Citation:Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2013, Vol. 32, June, pp. 25-43Type:ArticleAbstract:The Hungarian system is ideal to test the effect of early-selection on inequality of opportunity, since students are selected at three different ages. The early-selective academic tracks skim off the best students first ...
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Title:Do all Good Things Go Together? Conflicting objectives in democracy promotion Editor(s):FREYBURG, Tina; GRIMM, Sonja; LEININGER, JuliaDate:2012Citation:Special Issue of Democratization, 2012, 19, 3Type:BookAbstract:The promotion of democracy in post-conflict or transition countries often does not prove to be successful. Trying to achieve peace, security, prosperity and other desirable goals at the same time often leads to conflicting ...
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Title:Do Sunspots Matter under Complete Ignorance? Author(s):GIORDANI, Paolo; COZZI, GuidoDate:2006Citation:Research in Economics, 2006, 60, 3, 148-154Type:ArticleAbstract:In a two-period, sunspot, pure-exchange economy we analyse the case in which agents do not assign subjective probabilistic beliefs to the ‘sunspot activity’. Two generations, each of which is made up of identical agents, ...
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Title:Does child care availability play a role in maternal employment and children's development? Evidence from Italy Author(s):BRILLI, Ylenia; DEL BOCA, Daniela; PRONZATO, Chiara D.Date:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:CHILD Working Papers; 2013/13Abstract:This paper investigates the effects of public child care availability in Italy in mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test ...
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Title:Does child care availability play a role in maternal employment and children’s development? : evidence from Italy Author(s):BRILLI, Ylenia; DEL BOCA, Daniela; PRONZATO, Chiara D.Date:2016Citation:Review of economics of the household, 2016, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 27-51Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper investigates the effects of public child care availability in Italy in mothers’ working status and children’s scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test ...
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Title:Does Europeanisation Weaken the Left? Changing coalitions and veto power in Swiss decision-making processes Author(s):AFONSO, Alexandre; FONTANA, Marie-Christine; PAPADOPOULOS, YannisDate:2010Citation:Policy and Politics, 2010, 38, 4, 565-582Type:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses how Europeanisation affects the power resources of social democratic forces in Switzerland. Whereas political economy arguments would assume that processes of internationalisation invariably weaken ...
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Title:Does One Currency Mean One Price? Author(s):WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ, JoannaDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2008/21Abstract:European Monetary Union was expected to have many consequences for the economies of participant countries. Theory suggested that through a higher volume of trade and stronger competition in the Eurozone, a single currency ...
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Title:Does Political Culture Matter? Deciphering the Whys of Ukrainian Tax Compliance Author(s):BERENSON, Marc P.Date:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2008/38Abstract:In gauging how well residents in the new post-communist states such as Ukraine become true citizens, who are capable of fulfilling their obligations to their governments, it is necessary to measure how compliant the populace ...
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Title:Does Trade Foster Institutions? An Empirical Assessment Author(s):NICOLINI, Marcella; PACCAGNINI, AlessiaDate:2011Citation:Review of Economics and Institutions, 2011, 2, 2, Article 4, 1-20Type:ArticleAbstract:The relationship between trade and institutions has been extensively debated by trade economists and political scientists. The aim of the present paper is to provide some empirical evidence on the causal relationship between ...
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Title:Does Trust have a History? Author(s):FREVERT, UteDate:2009Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2009/01Abstract:Authors like Francis Fukuyama or Robert Putnam claim that modern societies suffer from a decline of trust. On the other hand political scientists like Margaret Levi or Susan Stokes and sociologists like Karen Cook contend ...
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Title:Domesticating the democratic deficit? : the role of national parliaments and parties in the EU’s system of governance Author(s):BELLAMY, Richard (Richard Paul); KRÖGER, SandraDate:2014Citation:Parliamentary affairs, 2014, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 437-457Type:ArticleAbstract:The Lisbon Treaty grounds the European Union (EU) in the principles of political equality and representative democracy. It also acknowledges the role national parliaments play in realising these norms within the EU’s system ...
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Title:Domination, Social Status, and Distributive Inequality Author(s):SCHEMMEL, Christian J.Date:2010-01-01Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP;2010/28Abstract:Is the political value of equality a distributive ideal, governing the allocation of goods, or an idealdemanding egalitarian social and political relationships? Theories of social justice that argue for thelatter understanding ...
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Title:Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani. Social Movements and Europeanization. Book Review Author(s):ZAHN, RebeccaDate:2011Citation:European Journal of International Law, 2011, 22, 2, 611-614Type:Article
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Title:A Double-Faced Medium? The challenges and opportunities of the Internet for social movements Author(s):MOSCA, LorenzoDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2007/23Abstract:While most of the literature focusing on the Internet and politics tends to assess the positive contribution of Computer-Mediated Communication to political processes, this paper stresses both positive and negative ...
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Title:Družbena odgovornost podjetij v tranzicijskih demokracijah (Corporate social responsibility in transitional democracies) Author(s):LETNAR CERNIC, JernejDate:2009Citation:Mateja JANČAR (ed.), Kapital, tranzicija, demokracija, Ljubljana, Inštitut dr. Jože Pučnik, 2009, 103-129.Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Družbena odgovornost podjetij pomeni, da podjetja ne stremijo samo k pridobivanju čim višjih prihodkov in dobičkov, temveč da v poslovanje vključujejo tudi spoštovanje in spodbujanje človekovih pravic ter skrb za okolje. ...
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Title:Du Golfe aux banlieues : le salafisme mondialisé Author(s):ADRAOUI, Mohamed-AliDate:2013Citation:Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2013, Proche-OrientType:BookAbstract:Le salafisme n'en finit pas d'interpeller. Des bouleversements politiques dans le monde arabe à "l'affaire Mohamed Merah", en passant par le débat sur le voile intégral, ce courant de l'islam intrigue d'autant plus qu'il ... -
Title:A duty free Europe? : what’s wrong with Kochenov's account of EU citizenship rights Author(s):BELLAMY, Richard (Richard Paul)Date:2015Citation:European law review, 2015, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 558-565Type:ArticleAbstract:This article disputes the recent argument of Dimitry Kochenov advocating an ‘EU Citizenship without Duties’. His thesis rests on an untenable form of philosophical anarchism that overlooks the role played by our political ...
