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Title: Collaborators and Parvenus? Fate and Fortune of Loyal Noblemen during the Dutch Revolt Author(s): SOEN, Violet Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This working paper addresses the limits of Habsburg patronage during the Dutch Revolt, which became clear not only through the rebellion of Prince William of Orange, but also through the opposition of noblemen remaining ...

Title: Collective Religious Autonomy under the European Convention on Human Rights: the UK Jewish Free School Case in International Perspective Author(s): KIVIORG, Merilin Date: 2010-12-22 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: What should the response be if a religious community (or an affiliated institution) violates the individual rights of either its own members or of others in society? This working paper analyses the UK Jewish Free School ...

Title: Colonial Mapping and Local Knowledge in the Venetian Empire, 1684-1715 Author(s): STOURAITI, Anastasia Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper seeks to illuminate the dialogic nature of early modern mapmaking in the context of the larger historiography on colonial cartography and the sociology of geographical knowledge. Taking as a case study the ...

Title: COMECON integration and the automobile industry: the Czechoslovak case Author(s): FAVA, Valentina Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article

Title: COMECON Integration and the Automobile Industry: the Czechoslovak Case Author(s): FAVA, Valentina Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines the effects of the actions of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) negotiation on the development of automobile production in Czechoslovakia between 1949 and 1965. It investigates the ...

Title: Commission V. Austria; Commission V. Sweden Author(s): LAVRANOS, Nikolaos Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Competing Jurisdictions between MERCOSUR and WTO Author(s): LAVRANOS, Nikolaos; VIELLIARD, Nicolas Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The wider issues raised by the Brazilian Tyres case are discussed in this contribution. Regarding the institutional aspects, this case examines the difficulties between regional dispute settlement systems and the global ...

Title: Competition, Human Capital and Income Inequality with Limited Commitment Author(s): MARIMON, Ramon; QUADRINI, Vincenzo Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with two-sided limited commitment to study how barriers to competition, such as restrictions to business start-up, affect the incentive to accumulate human capital. We show ...

Title: Competition, Human Capital and Income Inequality with Limited Commitment Author(s): MARIMON, Ramon; QUADRINI, Vincenzo Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with two-sided limited commitment to study how barriers to competition, such as restrictions to business start-up, affect the incentive to accumulate human capital. We show ...

Title: Complexity as the 'Efficient Secret' of the European Constitution: an Alternative (Explanatory) Proposal Author(s): MARTINICO, Giuseppe Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In order to explain the specificity of the European Constitution this work aims to analyse the latest constitutional trends of the European integration process in light of the idea of constitutional complexity. It is divided ...

Title: Compradors to Cosmopolitans? The Historiographical Fortunes of Merchants in Eastern Mediterranean Ports Author(s): GEKAS, Athanasios Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines a complex and occasionally much debated issue: whether class analysis is a suitable analytical tool when studying the history of the merchant groups that developed in Eastern Mediterranean ports in ...

Title: Compulsory language educational policies and identity formation Author(s): ASPACHS-BRACONS, Oriol; CLOTS-FIGUERAS, Irma; COSTA-FONT, Joan; MASELLA, Paolo Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Education can be at the root of the process of identity formation. Using survey data from Catalonia and the Basque Country, where in 1983 the education system became bilingual, we study how parental choices and schooling ...

Title: Comunità dei legislatori e circolazione dei modelli: il caso del Canada Author(s): MARTINICO, Giuseppe Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: This paper explores the phenomenon of dialogue among legislatures in the Canadian context. The work is divided into three parts. In the first part I develop the relation between the concept of “dialogue” and that of “legal ...

Title: Concentration of Working-Age Male Mortality among Manual Workers in Urban Latvia and Russia, 1970-1989 Author(s): ANDREEV, Evgueni M.; HOFFMANN, Rasmus; CARLSON, Elwood D.; SHKOLNIKOV, Vladimir M.; KHARKOVA Tatiana L. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article

Title: The Concept of the Citizen in the Early-Modern Netherlands, 1400 – 1700 Author(s): TILMANS, Karin Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Impressed and inspired by the results of German, but increasingly also of international research in the field of conceptual history, a group of Dutch scholars in the 1990s decided to initiate a research project in Dutch ...

Title: Conceptual Modalities of Social Classifications in Eighteenth-century France: Reasoning on a Natural Order or Observing Individuals Author(s): COHEN, Deborah Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This article aims to measure the transition from a theological way of classifying to the initiation of political thinking in an aristocratic and well-read bourgeois milieu. The shift is from an essentialist conceptualization ...

Title: Conflict of laws in a globalized world Author(s): ECKART, Gottschalk; RALF, Michaels; RÜHL, Giesela; VON HEIN, Jan Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: This book is a contribution to the evolving transatlantic dialogue on the conflict of laws as well as a tribute to Professor Arthur von Mehren from the Harvard Law School. It contains ten contributions that discuss the ...

Title: Consensus Democracy and Support for Populist Parties in Western Europe Author(s): HAKHVERDIAN, Armen; KOOP, Christel Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Inspired by a previous debate in Acta Politica between Rudy Andeweg and Arend Lijphart on the pros and cons of consensus democracy, this article explores whether support for populist parties is traceable to the institutional ...

Title: Consensus Procedures in International Organizations Author(s): LOCKWOOD PAYTON, Autumn Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Why do states occasionally select two di_erent mechanisms to govern decision-making in international organizations (IOs), one that provides for formal voting and another in which decisions are taken through consensus? ...

Title: Constitutional Failure or Constitutional Odyssey? What can we learn from Canada and Switzerland Author(s): MARTINICO, Giuseppe Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: According to many scholars, the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty and the disappointment caused by the contents of the Lisbon Treaty –- defined by Somek (2007) as a mere post-Constitutional Treaty – mark the failure ...

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