Title:The complexity of compellence: revisiting the causal logic of denial
Author(s):DEKKER, Willem MartijnDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Robert A. Pape's denial theory forms the best corroborated theory to guide coercive strategy. Denial theory, however, provides a fundamentally flawed causal model because it neglects the complexity of the causal dynamics ...
Title:The EU Conciliation Committee - One Or Several Principals?
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Since the introduction of the co-decision legislative procedure, the EU has had the possibility to resort to a Conciliation Committee made up of representatives from the European Parliament and the Council to reconcile ...
Title:The German Spring Reprisals of 1917: Prisoners of War and the Violence of the Western Front
Author(s):JONES, HeatherDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The First World War was marked by a series of violent reprisals against prisoners of war which have long been overlooked by historians. This article explores one such sequence of collective reprisals, instigated by the ...
Title:The Refoundation of the Symmetric Equilibrium in Schumpeterian Growth Models
Author(s):COZZI, Guido; GIORDANI, Paolo; ZAMPARELLI, LucaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We provide a refoundation of the symmetric growth equilibrium characterizing the research sector of vertical R&D-driven growth models. We argue that the usual assumptions made in this class of models leave the agents ...
Title:Thinking Through Things
Author(s):EASTERBY-SMITH, SarahDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:'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 ...
Title:The Tortuous Path to the European System of Financial Supervision
Author(s):GIANI, LeonardoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The regulatory response to the financial crisis has necessitated (and it still is necessitating) the adoption of a vast array of legal reforms. However, some of the elements of these reforms have departed from their ...
Title:Trade Unions and New Member State Workers in Germany and the UK
Author(s):ZAHN, RebeccaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article compares German and British trade union responses in a European context following the European enlargements in 2004 and 2007 that are unprecedented in the history of the European Union (EU). In particular, ...
Title:The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The political-economy literature has so far almost unanimously regarded Slovenia as the social-democratic exception in Central and Eastern Europe, due to a combination of highly consensual democratic institutions, low party ...
Title:War, Diplomacy and Social Mobility: The Casali family in the service of Henry VIII
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By employing Gregorio Casali as his permanent representative at the curia from 1525, King Henry VIII of England acquired a diplomatic structure not uncommon in sixteenthcentury Europe: the family consortium. This article ...
Title:Wenn die Wüste blüht: Eine Replik auf Thomas Bräuninger
Author(s):FREYBURG, TinaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In meinem ZIB-Aufsatz »Demokratisierung durch Zusammenarbeit?« präsentierte ich Ergebnisse meiner Studie zum demokratisierenden Potenzial transgouvernementaler Politiknetzwerke, die Staatsbeamte aus etablierten Demokratien ...
Title:What Conscience Can Do for Equity
Author(s):SAMET, IritDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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 ...
Title:What Makes a Basic Structure Just?
Author(s):RONZONI, MiriamDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In his multi-faceted attack on Rawls’s account of justice, G.A. Cohen has argued that the notion of basic structure is necessarily insensitive to the importance of informal social norms to social justice. The paper argues ...