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    Title: The European Dilemma of Social-Democratic Parties. A Study of Debates at National Party Conferences of the PS, SPD and Labour Party  Author(s): GUINAUDEAU, Isabelle Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: While the extant literature of EU politicization has revolved around parties anchored at the margins of the political spectrum, this working paper considers the political and electoral implications of European integration ...
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    Title: The Janus Face of EU Migration Governance: Impairing democratic governance at home – improving it abroad?  Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In the field of European Union (EU) migration policies, a large number of legal, administrative, and institutional tightening measures have been established in the name of domestic security since the early 1990s. These ...
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    Title: Thinking Through Things  Author(s): EASTERBY-SMITH, Sarah Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: 'Materials and expertise in early modern Europe: Between market and laboratory' edited by Ursula Klein and E. C. Spary; Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2010; explores the relationship between practical and theory-based ...
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    Title: Richelieu  Author(s): D'ALBIS, Cécile Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Il est très difficile de connaître un homme dont ses flatteurs ont dit tant de bien, et ses ennemis tant de mal », écrivait Voltaire. Cardinal et ministre de Louis XIII pendant près de vingt ans, Richelieu a dirigé la ...
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    Title: On Pain and the Privation Theory of Evil  Author(s): SAMET, Irit Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The paper argues that pain is not a good counter-example to the privation theory of evil. Objectors to the privation thesis see pain as too real to be accounted for in privative terms. However, the properties for which ...
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    Title: Our Man in Rome: Henry VII and his Italian Ambassador  Author(s): FLETCHER, Catherine Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: What Conscience Can Do for Equity  Author(s): SAMET, Irit Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The paper argues that there are good reasons to frame the categories of equitable liability around the concept of conscience. A quick look at recent case law reveals an increasing use of conscience categories to discourage ...
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    Title: The Threat of Selective Democracy: Popular dissatisfaction and exclusionary strategy of elites in East Central and Southeastern Europe  Author(s): VARGA, Mihai; FREYBERG-INAN, Annette Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The large dissatisfaction of citizens with post-communist democracy in Central and Eastern Europe favors populist and antisystemic parties and movements. These accuse their rivals of various forms of corruption and prescribe ...
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    Title: Punishment, (Neo)Liberalism and Social Democracy  Author(s): LACEY, Nicola Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In this lecture, I address recent attempts to understand the relevance of political forces and institutions in shaping the practice and the social meaning of punishment. I focus on one argument about the relevance of the ...
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    Title: WIPO and the Public-Private Web of Global Intellectual Property Governance  Author(s): WECHSLER, Andrea Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has always been recognized as an important international economic institution for the global governance of intellectual property (IP) law. Moreover, its role in promoting, ...
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    Title: The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions  Author(s): GIANI, Leonardo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
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    Title: Financial Crisis Resolution  Author(s): SCHROTH, Josef Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper studies a dynamic version of the Holmstrom-Tirole model of intermediated finance. I show that competitive equilibria are not constrained efficient when the economy experiences a financial crises. A pecuniary ...
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    Title: Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation  Author(s): SIMON, Jenny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Financial Markets as a Commitment Device for the Government  Author(s): SIMON, Jenny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: How does the presence of financial markets shape the government's ability to implement social redistribution? Individuals do not typically constrain consumption to equal their net-of-tax income every period. Instead, access ...
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    Title: Strategic Campaigning with Vote and Turnout Buying: Theory and evidence  Author(s): CASAS, Agustin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, I model the relationship between potential voters and a politician, who can pay citizens to vote for him – vote buying – or to show up to vote – turnout buying. This model is used to explore the optimal ...
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    Title: Planting the Seeds of Change Inside? Functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes and socialization into democratic governance  Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Is functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes a blessing or a curse for democratization? Scholars predominantly view cooperation with authoritarian regimes as counterproductive in terms of democratization because ...
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    Title: Information Disclosure and the Equivalence of Prospective Payment and Cost Reimbursement  Author(s): MA, Ching-to Albert; MAK, Henry Y. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: A health care provider chooses medical service quality and cost-reduction effort. Both choices are non-contractible. An insurer observes both quality and cost effort, and may credibly disclose them to consumers. In prospective ...
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    Title: Regulação do Mercado de Capitais e Desenvolvimento  Author(s): NEDER CEREZETTI, Sheila Christina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
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    Title: Acceptance and Social Rules  Author(s): PERRY, Adam Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: One of HLA Hart’s main contributions to jurisprudence is his theory of social rules. Hart claimed that a social rule has an external, behavioural aspect, and an internal, attitudinal aspect. However, Hart’s description of ...
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    Title: Dynamics of Radicalisation in the Relationship between Militant Islamist Groups and their Constituencies: The case of al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya in Egypt, 1986-1998  Author(s): MALTHANER, Stefan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Research on political violence has increasingly adopted relational approaches to analysing processes of radicalisation and escalation, focusing mainly on interactions between protest movements and the police, and the effects ...