Title:Dating Cinderella: On subsidiarity as a political safeguard of federalism in the European Union
Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of the debate on the subsidiarity principle. Subsidiarity is one of the most ambiguous and debated notions in law, and it definitively belongs to all the legal ...
Title:Decentralising the Active Welfare State: The relevance of intergovernmental structures in Italy and Spain
Author(s):LÓPEZ-SANTANA, Mariely; MOYER, RossellaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article contributes to the literatures on the governance of activation and the territorial structure of the welfare state by drawing attention to the institutional designs of active welfare states and the architectures ...
Title:Decision Makers Facing Uncertainty: Theory versus Evidence
Author(s):GIORDANI, Paolo; SCHLAG, Karl H.; ZWART, SanneDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We consider three competing normative theories of how to make choices when facing
uncertainty: subjective expected utility, maximin utility and minimax regret. In simple
decision problems, we compare how decision makers ...
Title:The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: Obama's Libyan Intervention
Author(s):ACKERMAN, BruceDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:The lecture traces a series of political, bureaucratic, and military transformations that have, over the
past forty years, transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for charismatic
extremism and ...
Title:Democracy Promotion through Functional Cooperation? The case of the European neighbourhood policy
Author(s):FREYBURG, Tina; LAVENEX, Sandra; SCHIMMELFENNIG, Frank; SKRIPKA, Tatiana; WETZEL, AnneDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This contribution explores whether and under what conditions functional sectoral cooperation between the EU and the countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) promotes democratic governance. In an analysis of ...
Title:Development with Chinese Characteristics? Convergence and Divergence in Long-run and Comparative Perspective
Author(s):POMERANZ, KennethDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Looked at in comparative perspective, among the most striking features of Qing political economy are the combination of highly commercialized agriculture with the strength of peasant land use rights – both through smallholding ...
Title:DGSE Model Evaluation and Hybrid Models: A Comparison
Author(s):PACCAGNINI, AlessiaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper discusses the estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models using hybrid models. These econometric tools provide the combination of an atheoretical statistical representation and the theoretical ...
Title:Dignity, Rights and Responsibilities
Author(s):WALDRON, JeremyDate:2010-10-28Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Last year (March 23, 2009), the government in the United Kingdom issued a Green Paper entitled “Rights and Responsibilities: Developing our Constitutional Framework.” In it, the authors (Jack Straw, Secretary of State for ...
Title:Distribution-Free Learning
Author(s):SCHLAG, Karl H.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We select among rules for learning which of two actions in a stationary decision problem achieves a higher expected payoffs when payoffs realized by both actions are known
in previous instances. Only a bounded set containing ...
Title:Do all Good Things Go Together? Conflicting objectives in democracy promotion
Author(s):FREYBURG, Tina; GRIMM, Sonja; LEININGER, JuliaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The promotion of democracy in post-conflict or transition countries often does not prove to be successful. Trying to achieve peace, security, prosperity and other desirable goals at the same time often leads to conflicting ...
Title:Do Sunspots Matter under Complete Ignorance?
Author(s):GIORDANI, Paolo; COZZI, GuidoDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In a two-period, sunspot, pure-exchange economy we analyse the case in which agents do not assign subjective probabilistic beliefs to the ‘sunspot activity’. Two generations, each of which is made up of identical agents, ...
Title:Does Europeanisation Weaken the Left? Changing coalitions and veto power in Swiss decision-making processes
Author(s):AFONSO, Alexandre; FONTANA, Marie-Christine; PAPADOPOULOS, YannisDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses how Europeanisation affects the power resources of social democratic forces in Switzerland. Whereas political economy arguments would assume that processes of internationalisation invariably weaken ...