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Title:The electoral tango : the evolution of electoral integrity in competitive authoritarian regimes Author(s):BIRCH, SarahDate:2016Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2016/02Abstract:In recent decades, the politics of electoral reform has revolved mainly around the implementation of democratic electoral principles rather than around the principles themselves. This means that electoral authoritarian ... -
Title:Eliciting survival expectations of the elderly in low-income countries : evidence from India Author(s):DELAVANDE, Adeline; LEE, Jinkook; MENON, SeethaDate:2017Citation:Demography, 2017, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:We examine several methodological considerations when eliciting probabilistic expectations in a developing country context using the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI). We conclude that although, on average, individuals ...
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Title:The Elusive Impact of Investing Abroad for Japanese Parent Firms: Can an Analysis of the Motives for FDI help? Author(s):HERING, Laura; INNUI, Tomohiko; PONCET, SandraDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2010/12Abstract:We investigate whether previous findings of only limited effects of investing abroad on the performance of firms can be explained by the aggregation of heterogeneous effects depending on the motive for foreign direct ...
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Title:Embedding "political consumerism" : a conceptual critique Author(s):BALSIGER, PhilipDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/08Abstract:This paper develops a theoretically and empirically founded critique of the concept of political consumerism. In the course of the last decade, political consumerism was “discovered” as a new form of political participation, ...
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Title:Emigration agents and the agency of the urban press : approaches to Transatlantic migration in Hungary, 1880s–1914 Author(s):STRANER, KatalinDate:2016Citation:Journal of migration history, 2016, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 352–374Type:ArticleAbstract:This article argues the importance of the urban press in shaping public opinion about transatlantic migration using the representation of emigration agents and agencies in the Hungarian press in the late nineteenth and ...
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Title:Empathy, Situations, and an Enlarged Mentality: Iterations between Jaspers and Arendt Author(s):GATTA, GiuniaDate:2011-01-01Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2011/18Abstract:This paper has the broad goal of inquiring into the role of empathy in contemporary interpretations of judgment as enlarged mentality. Specifically, it puts Hannah Arendt in dialogue with Karl Jaspers, her mentor and friend, ...
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Title:Emperor’s new clothes? : using medieval history to reflect on the globalization paradigm Author(s):MCCLURE, JuliaDate:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2017/01Abstract:This paper aims to give a face to the ‘globalization paradigm’ at work in some global histories and to recognize similarities between this meta-narrative coordination of space and time, and older meta-narratives of the ...
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Title:An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy Author(s):BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, DaliborDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2012/02Abstract:In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
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Title:Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576-1634 Author(s):KIRWAN, RichardDate:2009Citation:Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2009, Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung, 46Type:BookAbstract:General Introduction: Towards a History of Representation at the Early Modern University 1. University Inauguration and Representation 2. Reputations, Representation, and the Public Life of the Scholar 3. Marriage and ... -
Title:The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state Author(s):MORATTI, SofiaDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2012/04Abstract:In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
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Title:Entstehungsgründe sozialer Ungleichheiten in Gesundheit und Altersmortalität Author(s):HOFFMANN, RasmusDate:2008Citation:BAUER Ullrich, BITTLINGMAYER, Uwe H. RICHTER Matthias (eds), Health Inequalities : Determinanten und Mechanismen gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit, Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss, 2008, 403-429Type:Contribution to book
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Title:The Epilogue in the MOX Plant Dispute: An end without findings Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2009Citation:European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 2009, 4, 180-184Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyses the end of the MOX plant dispute, which was recently terminated by the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal. It is demonstrated that neither the ECJ nor the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal discussed the substance of the ...
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Title:Epsilon-equilibria of perturbed games Author(s):JACKSON, Matthew O.; RODRIGUEZ-BARRAQUER, Tomas; TAN, XuDate:2012Citation:Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 198-216Type:ArticleAbstract:We prove that for any equilibrium of a (Bayesian) game, and any sequence of perturbations of that game, there exists a corresponding sequence of ex-ante e-equilibria converging to the given equilibrium of the original game. ...
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Title:Erwachsen werden in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Der Auszug aus dem Elternhaus bei jungen Erwachsenen türkischer und deutscher Herkunft Author(s):WINDZIO, Michael; AYBEK, CanDate:2012Citation:Würzburg, Ergon, 2012Type:BookAbstract:In this volume the results of a comparative analysis are presented that deal with processes of leaving the parental home among young adults who grew up in Germany. Using the first wave data of the German Generations and ... -
Title:Escaping Low-Wage Jobs: Wealth, Low Wages, and the Black-White Entrapment Gap Author(s):MORILLAS, Juan RafaelDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2007/37Abstract:The aim of this paper is to analyze individuals’ opportunities to escape low-wage jobs. More specifically, relying on an assets or wealth (as a distinct variable from income) theoretical framework, I provide an explanation ...
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Title:Estimating Dynamic Contracts: Risk Sharing in Village Economies Author(s):LACZÓ, SaroltaDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2010/17Abstract:This paper studies the role of preference and income risk heterogeneity when risk sharing is partial due to limited commitment. I estimate the dynamic contract determining self-enforcing insurance transfers in a structural ...
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Title:Ethical and legal acceptability of the use of neuromuscular blockers (NMBs) in connection with abstention decisions in Dutch NICUs : interviews with neonatologists Author(s):MORATTI, SofiaDate:2011Citation:Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 29-33Type:ArticleAbstract:In the Netherlands, using drugs to deliberately end the life of a severely defective newborn baby who is in extreme suffering can be permissible under very precise circumstances. This does not mean that all Dutch neonatologists ...
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Title:EU Law in Ireland Author(s):FAHEY, ElaineDate:2010Citation:Dublin, Clarus Press, 2010Type:BookAbstract:There is a rapid increase in the amount of case law on EU law in the Irish legal order. EU Law in Ireland attempts to analyse key case law, text and commentaries in a diversity of EU law-related subject areas and will ... -
Title:EU reception conditions : a dignified standard of living for asylum seekers? Author(s):TSOURDI, Evangelia (Lilian)Date:2016Citation:Vincent CHETAIL, Philippe DE BRUYCKER and Francesco MAIANI (eds), Reforming the common European asylum system : the New European refugee law, Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2016, Immigration and asylum law and policy in Europe ; 39, pp. 269-316Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter, firstly, retraces the legislative history and comments on the turbulent negotiations that led to the adoption of the recast EU Directive in June 2013. It then critically analyses selected aspects of the recast ...
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Title:EU regional development policy in the accession countries : opportunistic decentralization, fiscal risks, and the premature death of multi-level governance Author(s):SCEPANOVIC, VeraDate:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2016/08Abstract:The EU's view of decentralization in regional development policy has made a sharp U-turn since the 1990s. The earlier emphasis on the strengthening of local developmental agency in the accession countries has been replaced ...
