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. ...
Title:Policy Concertation, Europeanization and New Political Cleavages: the Case of Switzerland
Author(s):AFONSO, AlexandreDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article investigates the impact of Europeanization on corporatist policy concertation by emphasizing the mediation of political cleavages.The analysis shows that in Switzerland, Europeanization has tended to strengthen ...
Title:The Political Effects of Becoming a Citizen: Solution or selection?
Author(s):STREET, AlexDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The status of citizenship confers the right to participate as a full member of the political community. One might therefore expect foreign residents who acquire citizenship to become more engaged with politics. However, ...
Title:Political Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies
Author(s):HABER, StephenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:There is a consensus among economists that the development of banking systems plays a causal role in economic growth. What remains unresolved is why some countries have large banking systems that allocate credit broadly, ...
Title:Political Representation and Income Inequality
Author(s):HAKHVERDIAN, ArmenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally known as the median or mean voter, or is government policy more responsive to socio-economic elites? This paper examines ...
Title:Politicizing Consumption: On the Contested Role of the Consumer in the Weimar Republic
Author(s):TORP, ClaudiusDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the Weimar Republic, consumption served as a vanguard point from which to redefine the relation between politics and economics. This paper traces the way the figure of the consumer was conceptualized in different ...
Title:The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition: The Spanish Model
Author(s):ALONSO, Gregorio; MURO, DiegoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Spain's political transition to democracy is often lauded as the benchmark by which many other countries explicitly declared to have measured their own democratic progress. 2008 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Spanish ...
Title:The Post-national Constellation of Industrial Relations Systems in the European Legal Order
Author(s):COMANDÈ, DanielaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper develops a new interpretation of the norms of the Treaty of Lisbon to find the juridical basis for an autonomous system of European industrial relations. In particular, the study explores the question of whether ...
Title:Pragmatic Conversions: Mixed marriage and flexibility of Shari'a in interwar Yugoslavia
Author(s):BURIC, FedjaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper discusses the cases of pragmatic conversions to, and out of, Islam in interwar Yugoslavia. It analyzes these cases in the context of Sharia law, which, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Kingdom of ...
Title:Pre-announcement and Timing - The Effects of a Government Expenditure Shock
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, AlexanderDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper investigates the effect of a government expenditure shock on consumption and real wages. I identify the shock by exploiting its pre-announced nature, i.e. different signs of the responses in investment, hours ...