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    Title: O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta  Author(s): DELMAS, Adrien Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Ne serait-ce que du point de vue de sa réception, La invención de América est la partie la plus marquante de l’œuvre d’O’Gorman. Cet ouvrage synthétique, bref, marque l’aboutissement d’un long et patient travail d’analyse ...
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    Title: Objective Knowledge in Social Sciences and Humanities: Karl Popper and Beyond  Author(s): VALENTINI, Chiara; MARIMON, Ramon; VALENTINI, Chiara; BLACKBURN, Simon; CLELAND, Carol; POSTEMA, Gerald; COLLINS, Harry; CRUIKSHANK, Justin; VANDENBERGHE, Frédéric Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This collection of papers addresses the issue of ‘objective vs. subjective’ knowledge in the social sciences and humanities: how we may get ‘objective’ knowledge out of ‘subjective’ perceptions; how ‘induction’ and ‘deduction’ ...
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    Title: “Often we are deceived, and we suffer glaucoma”. Rethinking Legal Humanism in the History of the Western Rights Tradition  Author(s): LONGFIELD KARR, Susan Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This working paper argues for renewed attention by scholars of early modern political and legal thought as to how and why humanist jurists invoked the authority of rights—natural and customary—to legitimize or to critique ...
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    Title: Oil Workers, Trade Unions and the Emergence of Oil Nationalism in Libya, 1956-1969  Author(s): BINI, Elisabetta Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes the ways in which U.S. oil companies transformed Libya’s economy and society between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the rise of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in 1969, as the country became one of the main oil ...
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    Title: On Acting and Knowing  Author(s): FRIEDRICHS, Jörg; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in epistemology and research methodology. To begin with, we show why many social scientists are mistaken in their hope to obtain warranted knowledge in practical ...
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    Title: On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The case of the World Tribunal on Iraq  Author(s): CUBUKCU, Ayca Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 ...
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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: On the Attribution to an International Organization of the Activity of Private Companies that Operate on its Account  Author(s): MAGI, Laura Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The increasing outsourcing of the activities of international organizations to private companies, especially in security and military fields, raises the question whether the conduct of private companies can be attributed ...
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    Title: On the Meta-ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G. A. Cohen’s ‘Facts and Principles’  Author(s): RONZONI, Miriam; VALENTINI, Laura Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In his article `Facts and Principles', G.A. Cohen attempts to refute constructivist approaches to justification by showing that, contrary to what their proponents claim, fundamental normative principles are fact-insensitive. ...
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    Title: On the Meta-Ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G.A. Cohen's 'Facts and Principles'  Author(s): RONZONI, Miriam; VALENTINI, Laura Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In his article 'Facts and Principles', G.A. Cohen attempts to refute constructivist approaches to justification by showing that, contrary to what their proponents claim, fundamental normative principles are fact-insensitive. ...
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    Title: On the Need to Regulate Competing Jurisdictions between International Courts and Tribunals  Author(s): LAVRANOS, Nikolaos Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Competing jurisdiction is a relatively new but increasingly important phenomenon in international law. The ongoing proliferation of international courts and tribunals results in a multiplication of judgments and arbitral ...
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    Title: On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: The Case of Iran, 1977-1979  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Are revolutions made or do they come? This question is at the heart of revolution theory and has received plentiful attention from scholars. In this paper I suggest that adherence to this traditional dichotomy may not be ...
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    Title: On the Signaling and Feedback Effects of Umbrella Branding  Author(s): THAL, Jeanine Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: I consider an adverse selection model of product quality to analyze a firm's incentives to sell different products under an umbrella brand. My main result is that umbrella branding can signal positive quality correlation ...
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    Title: On the Strategic Use of the Preliminary Reference System: Plausible Assumptions v. Empirical Reality  Author(s): SLEPCEVIC, Reinhard Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, I examine a central assumption of the neo-functionalist theory of European integration empirically: that interest groups use the preliminary reference system strategically in order to pursue their policy ...
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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: Optimal Public Rationing: Price response and cost effectiveness  Author(s): GRASSI, Simona; MA, Ching-to Albert Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We study optimal public rationing of an indivisible good and private sector price response. Consumers differ in their wealth and cost of provisions. Due to a limited budget, some consumers must be rationed. Public rationing ...
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    Title: Ordering Pluralism  Author(s): DELMAS-MARTY, Mireille Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In the traditional legal culture, the expression of “ordering pluralism” is rather unusual. Pluralism implies differences, dispersion and fragmentation, whereas “legal order” leads us to think in terms of a unified structure. ...
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    Title: Orte des Terrors oder der “stalinistischen Entnazifizierung”?  Author(s): BEATTIE, Andrew Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
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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: Pan-European Pension Funds: Current Situation and Future Prospects  Author(s): GUARDIANCICH, Igor Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to situate domestic social security schemes amid ...