Title:Teleology, deontology, and the priority of the right: on some unappreciated distinctions
Author(s):RONZONI, MiriamDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper analyses Rawls's teleology/deontology distinction, and his concept of priority of the right. The first part of the paper aims both 1) to clarify what is distinctive about Rawls's deontology/teleology distinction ...
Title:The Challenges of Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Policies in Europe
Author(s):ENGELI, IsabelleDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Most European countries face regulatory challenges in the reproduction field that were triggered by feminist claims for reproductive rights and by the technological development of assisted reproductive technologies ( ART). ...
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 ...