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    Title: Everyone’s a winner (almost) : bargaining success in the Council of Ministers of the European Union  Author(s): CROSS, James P. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper examines member state bargaining success in legislative negotiations in the European Union. Bargaining success is thought to be determined by factors attributable to intervention behaviour, relative policy ...
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    Title: Striking a pose : transparency and position taking in the Council of the European Union  Author(s): CROSS, James P. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In recent years, transparency (or the lack thereof) has become a central concern of the European Union and its attempts to increase the democratic legitimacy of the legislative decision-making process. The claim regularly ...
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    Title: The capabilities approach as a bridge between animals and robots  Author(s): LAUKYTE, Migle Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper I argue that robots, understood as artificially intelligent and autonomous entities, may one day be regarded as subjects of rights. The argument is built by looking at Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, ...
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    Title: 'All’s well that ends well' : the strategy of electoral (mis)behavior in competitive-authoritarian regimes  Author(s): LEVIN, Ines Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal democratic institutions and periodic elections are sponsored by the authoritarian ruler, but voting outcomes are sometimes manipulated to prevent government turnover. In this ...
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    Title: Diaspora politics and developmental empire : the Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations  Author(s): JACKSON, Simon Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Article
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    Title: The strange non-death of multiculturalism  Author(s): MODOOD, Tariq Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: One of the strange features of the ‘Multiculturalism is dead’ discourses is that they now define ‘multiculturalism’. It is now commonplace for even neutral commentators to define multiculturalism as a view which emphasises ...
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    Title: Brain imaging as a diagnostic and as a communicative tool in disorders of consciousness  Author(s): BAGGIO, Giosuè; MORATTI, Sofia Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Recently, a number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted, aimed at detecting signs of consciousness in patients with a diagnosis of vegetative or minimally conscious state. The contributions appeared during an ongoing ...
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    Title: Private law and the visible hand of EU regulation  Author(s): SVETIEV, Yane Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: A question that is central to current debates about the Europeanisation of private law is that of how to conceptualise the relationship between European law and national private law. And a key aspect of that question is ...
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    Title: Universal crime, particular punishment : trying the atrocities of the Japanese occupation as treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953  Author(s): LAWSON, Konrad M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Trials against both war crimes and treason were held in the Philippines after the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945. In the former, a universalistic category of crimes were punished, while in the latter, the crime was ...
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    Title: Simpler is better : how do simple unconditional central grants boost local own-source revenue in Benin ?  Author(s): CALDEIRA, Emilie; ROTA-GRAZIOSI, Grégoire Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Intergovernmental grants design is an important issue in developing countries, where the decentralization process involves a huge vertical gap, i.e. an imbalance between the costs of local public competences and local ...
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    Title: School-based vocational or workplace-based apprenticeship training ? evidence on the school-to- work transition of Hungarian apprentices  Author(s): HORN, Daniel Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Workplace-based training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school to work transition. Apprentices have been shown to have lower initial unemployment probabilities as compared to other secondary-school ...
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    Title: Embedding "political consumerism" : a conceptual critique  Author(s): BALSIGER, Philip Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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: Viral engagement : fast, cheap, and broad, but good for democracy ?  Author(s): FUNG, Archon; SHKABATUR, Jennifer Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In 2011 and 2012, several high profile campaigns spread with unexpected speed and potency. These “viral engagements” include the mobilization that scuttled the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular protest against the Susan G. ...
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    Title: Lost in transmission : evaluating internet effects on citizens’attitudes towards the European Union in times of crisis  Author(s): BACCINI, Leonardo; SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, Matthew T. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Previous studies suggest that citizens' attitudes towards the European Union (EU) are influenced by media coverage of EU institutions and policies. To date, empirical studies have investigated the effects of TV and newspaper ...
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    Title: The return from the return to narrative  Author(s): DE VRIES, Jan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Social scientific history in its various forms developed rapidly and enjoyed great influence in the 1960s and 70s. Around 1980 it was quickly and, in the United States decisively, eclipsed. An influential article predicting ...
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    Title: Women and religion in nineteenth-century France  Author(s): SCOTT, Joan W. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper explores the connections made between religion and women by French secularizers in the nineteenth century as a way of understanding the effects of what Max Weber called "disenchantment." It asks how differences ...
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    Title: Translating modernity : visions and uses of Europe in Finland  Author(s): NYGÅRD, Stefan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Translating modernity to the periphery is a recurring theme in the discussions on Europe at its geocultural margins. In small and young countries such as Finland, “Europe” has been mobilized for nation-building in terms ...
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    Title: Labor force composition and aggregate fluctuations  Author(s): MENNUNI, Alessandro Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Labor composition by gender, age, and education has undergone dramatic changes over the last forty years in the United States. Furthermore, the volatility of total market hours differs systematically between genders, age ...
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    Title: French in the eyes of others : cultural citizenship, marginalization, and France’s middle-class North African second-generation  Author(s): BEAMAN, Jean Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, based on 45 interviews with adult children of North African immigrants in the Paris metropolitan area, I discuss those individuals who, despite their educational and professional successes, remain excluded ...
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    Title: The globalisation of inequality  Author(s): BOURGUIGNON, François Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: There has been an apparently contradictory trend in the global inequality in living standards over the past quarter-century. On the one hand, global inequality between countries has decreased significantly, while on the ...