Title:On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: The Case of Iran, 1977-1979
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Are revolutions made or do they come? This question is at the heart of revolution theory and has received plentiful attention from scholars. In this paper I suggest that adherence to this traditional dichotomy may not be ...
Title:On the Signaling and Feedback Effects of Umbrella Branding
Author(s):THAL, JeanineDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:I consider an adverse selection model of product quality to analyze a firm's incentives to sell different products under an umbrella brand. My main result is that umbrella branding can signal positive quality correlation ...
Title:On the Strategic Use of the Preliminary Reference System: Plausible Assumptions v. Empirical Reality
Author(s):SLEPCEVIC, ReinhardDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, I examine a central assumption of the neo-functionalist theory of European integration empirically: that interest groups use the preliminary reference system strategically in order to pursue their policy ...
Title:Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation
Author(s):SIMON, JennyDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing ...
Title:Optimal Public Rationing: Price response and cost effectiveness
Author(s):GRASSI, Simona; MA, Ching-to AlbertDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We study optimal public rationing of an indivisible good and private sector price response. Consumers
differ in their wealth and cost of provisions. Due to a limited budget, some consumers must be
rationed. Public rationing ...
Title:Ordering Pluralism
Author(s):DELMAS-MARTY, MireilleDate:2010Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:In the traditional legal culture, the expression of “ordering pluralism” is rather unusual. Pluralism implies differences, dispersion and fragmentation, whereas “legal order” leads us to think in terms of a unified structure. ...
Title:Our Man in Rome: Henry VII and his Italian Ambassador
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he was twenty. But now he faces an almighty challenge. Henry wants a divorce ...
Title:Pan-European Pension Funds: Current Situation and Future Prospects
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to situate domestic social security schemes amid ...
Title:Party Competition, Corruption and Electoral Behaviour in the new EU Member States
Author(s):ZAPRYANOVA, GalinaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:What accounts for the electoral successes of Eurosceptic and populist political parties in Central and
East Europe? Citizens in the region have expressed their support for these types of parties in recent
elections while, ...
Title:Party Funding in Ukraine
Author(s):WALECKI, Marcin; PROTSYK, OlehDate:2007Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Peer Effects in Free School Meals: Information or stigma?
Author(s):JAMES, JonathanDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper investigates peer effects in the take up of a welfare programme, free school meals, using the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) which collects data on every child attending school in England. To explore ...
Title:Performing the Past. Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe
Author(s):TILMANS, Karin; VAN VREE, Frank; WINTER, JayDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera ...
Title:Perpetual What? Injury, sovereignty, and a cosmopolitan view of immigration
Author(s):VALDEZ, InésDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries ...
Title:Perspectives on Power. An Inter-Disciplinary Approach
Author(s):MORGAN, Heather M.; LETNAR CERNIC, Jernej; MILLIGAN, LindsayDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Although ‘power’ can appear a vague term, the dichotomy between haves and have-nots, the desire to gain autonomy, and the dire consequences of subjugation, are three issues that resound across the arts and social sciences. ...