Title:Laws and Norms
Author(s):BENABOU, Roland; TIROLE, JeanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first ...
Title:Le choix rationnel en science politique. Débats critiques
Author(s):DELORI, Mathias; DESCHAUX-BEAUME, Delphine; SAURUGGER, SabineDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Les sciences politiques françaises et, plus largement, continentales sont restées largement imperméables à une dynamique théorique majeure de ces dernières années : la montée en puissance du paradigme du choix rationnel ...
Title:Learning about the Match Quality: Information Flows and Labor Market Outcomes of Skill Groups
Author(s):SENGUL, GonulDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Workers with higher skills (more education) have lower unemployment rates, lower probabilities of separating from their jobs, and lower probabilities of losing their jobs conditional on tenure. This paper analyzes to what ...
Title:Learning from the Germans? History and Memory in German and European Projects of Integration
Author(s):BEATTIE, AndrewDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:History and memory appear to be increasingly important to discussions of European values and identity, as exemplified by references to ‘bitter experiences’ and ‘divided pasts’ in the draft EU constitution. The article takes ...
Title:Legal Basis and Scope of the New EU-Ukraine Enhanced Agreement. Is there any room for further speculation?
Author(s):PETROV, RomanDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper conducts a critical analysis of the potential legal basis and scope of the future European Union (EU)-Ukraine enhanced agreement. Accepting that the most probable and most beneficial possibility for Ukraine is ...
Title:Legal Conflicts and Subnational Constitutionalism
Author(s):DELLEDONNE, Giacomo; MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper analyses the increasing use of the concept of subnational identity, understood as a peculiar (to some extent) category that is opposed to the State or federal identity. References to it are included in the ...
Title:Legal Europeanization as Legal Transformation: Some Insights from Swiss “Outer Europe”
Author(s):MAIANI, FrancescoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The “Europeanization” of non-EU countries’ laws is predominantly seen as an “export”
of the EU acquis, especially in the case of so-called “quasi-member” states such as
Switzerland. Based on an examination of the Swiss ...
Title:Legal Issues in Medical Computer Software and Expert Systems in United States. Legislation and Practice
Author(s):FIORIGLIO, GianluigiDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Today, hospitals are heavily computerized, but this process is still far from its ultimate goals and suffers from many deficiencies. Good quality software, correctly used, can improve health care under many different ...
Title:Les politiques du genre
Author(s):ENGELI, Isabelle; BALLMER-CAO, Thanh-Huyen; MULLER, PierreDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Les relations entre hommes et femmes ont toujours fait l'objet de régulations politiques. Même dans les réglementations apparemment les plus neutres, les effets de l'action publique diffèrent selon le genre des individus. ...
Title:Lexicographic Voting
Author(s):KLINGELHÖFER, JanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper reconsiders the division of the literature on electoral competition into models with forwardlooking
voters and those with backward-looking voters by combining ideas from both strands of the
literature. As long ...
Title:Liberalism in International Relations
Author(s):DOYLE, Michael; RECCHIA, StefanoDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This essay reviews recent developments in liberal international relations theory, both empirical and normative. Furthermore, we seek to highlight parallels between contemporary liberal scholarship on international relations ...
Title:A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Author(s):WINGENS, Matthias; WINDZIO, Michael; DE VALK, Helga; AYBEK, CanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. ...