Title:Everyone’s a winner (almost) : bargaining success in the Council of Ministers of the European Union
Author(s):CROSS, James P.Date:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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 ...
Title:Striking a pose : transparency and position taking in the Council of the European Union
Author(s):CROSS, James P.Date:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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 ...
Title:Action publique et partis politiques
: l’analyse de l’agenda législatif français entre 1981 et 2009
Author(s):PERSICO, Simon; FROIO, Caterina; GUINAUDEAU, IsabelleDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Competition among partisan projects is often cited as a constitutive element of all representative democracies. While the Francophone and English-medium research literature have viewed the link between partisan competition ...
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: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:Insecure Alliances: Risk, inequality, and support for the Welfare State
Author(s):REHM, Philipp; HACKER, Jacob S.; SCHLESINGER, MarkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Popular support for the welfare state varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We argue that these variations—vital to understanding the politics of the welfare state—reflect in part the degree to which economic ...
Title:On Pain and the Privation Theory of Evil
Author(s):SAMET, IritDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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 ...
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: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:Perpetual What? Injury, sovereignty, and a cosmopolitan view of immigration
Author(s):VALDEZ, InésDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries ...
Title:Institutions and Sectoral Logics in Creative Industries: The media cluster in Cologne
Author(s):APITZSCH, Birgit; PIOTTI, GenyDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Institutional actors at the regional or local level increasingly see the development of the creative industry sector as a means of improving local competitiveness. However, research on relations between institutions and ...
Title:O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta
Author(s):DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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 ...
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 ...