Title:Government Without Trust
Author(s):HARDIN, RussellDate:2007Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LS
Title:The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction
Author(s):BEAN, CharlesDate:2010Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This lecture examines the causes of the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession. On the macroeconomic side, the Great Moderation encouraged an overly optimistic assessment of risk. Combined with low interest rates, ...
Title:Habermas’s Notion of a Post-Secular Society. A Perspective from International Relations
Author(s):BARBATO, Mariano; KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:How can secular Western IR theory deal with religion? Bringing in the debates on religion in the public sphere, the paper’s goal is to foster a deeper understanding of the nexus between religion and international relations. ...
Title:The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions
Author(s):GIANI, LeonardoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
Title:Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. Legality and Legitimacy
Author(s):VINX, LarsDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Sheds new light on the relationship between positivist theories of law and political philosophy, by rooting Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law in the context of his understanding of political legitimacy
Offers an original ...
Title:Havana’s Botanical Garden in the Construction of Cuban National Identity
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this article is to deepen the knowledge of the two projects of liberal identity that were forming on the island of Cuba during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This struggle can be seen in various fields, ...
Title:History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives
Author(s):HAMPSHER-MONK, Iain; TILMANS, Karin; VAN VREE, FrankDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of ...
Title:Horizontal Equity
Author(s):GALBIATI, Roberto; VERTOVA, PietroDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The principle of horizontal equity (HE) is considered as a basic principle to follow in order to design and evaluate a redistributive policy. However, the theoretical debate has not yet clarified what exactly horizontal ...
Title:The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia
Author(s):LE NORMAND, BrigitteDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Scholars have argued that Eastern European socialist regimes found themselves forced to compete with the capitalist consumerist model showcased in West Germany in order to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the ...
Title:How to Attain Minimax Risk with Applications to Distribution-Free Nonparametric Estimation and Testing
Author(s):SCHLAG, Karl H.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We show how to a derive exact distribution-free nonparametric results for minimax risk when underlying random variables have known finite bounds and means are the only parameters of interest. Transform the data with a ...
Title:Ideals or compromises? The attitude–behaviour relationship in mothers' employment
Author(s):STEIBER, Nadia; HAAS, BarbaraDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article addresses the marked variations in women's employment that exist within and across countries, with a specific focus on mothers of children below school-going age. Using comparative survey data for 26 countries, ...