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    Title: Acceptance and Social Rules  Author(s): PERRY, Adam Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: One of HLA Hart’s main contributions to jurisprudence is his theory of social rules. Hart claimed that a social rule has an external, behavioural aspect, and an internal, attitudinal aspect. However, Hart’s description of ...
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    Title: Addressing Liability of Automated Systems in Air Traffic Management  Author(s): CONTISSA, Giuseppe Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the current operational scenario of Air Traffic Management (ATM), liability is mainly allocated to the operators who are responsible for air traffic control and air navigation. However, this scenario will rapidly change: ...
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    Title: After Liberation: the Journey Home of Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-46  Author(s): CICHOPEK, Anna Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, I tell the stories of Jewish survivors who made their way to their hometowns in Poland and Slovakia between the fall of 1944 and summer 1948. I describe liberation by the Soviet Army and attitudes toward ...
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    Title: Age Cohorts and the Funnel of Causality: How Social Characteristics Influence Our Vote  Author(s): KATSANIDOU, Alexia Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Voting behaviour criteria can be categorized according to their level of ideologization and their time depth. In modern politics we expect people to use short-term factors to make their final voting decisions, such as ...
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    Title: Air Traffic Management in the Single European Sky: Standardisation of safety and liability issues  Author(s): SIMONCINI, Marta Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the European system of Air Traffic Management (ATM) as a specific case study of risk regulation in the framework of the European integration process. At the present, the implementation of the ...
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    Title: Algeciras Revisited: European Crisis and Conference Diplomacy,16 January - 7 April 1906  Author(s): JONES, Heather Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In 1905, Europe was faced with a serious diplomatic crisis over Morocco. In fact, the tensions this crisis unleashed were so significant that to this day it is constantly cited as one of the factors that led to the outbreak ...
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    Title: 'All’s well that ends well' : the strategy of electoral (mis)behavior in competitive-authoritarian regimes  Author(s): LEVIN, Ines Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal democratic institutions and periodic elections are sponsored by the authoritarian ruler, but voting outcomes are sometimes manipulated to prevent government turnover. In this ...
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    Title: Appetite for Beef: How much meat did early New Yorkers consume?  Author(s): BAICS, Gergely Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Drawing on new archival data for the period from 1790 to 1818, this paper documents how much red meat per capita was consumed by an average New Yorker in the early Republican era, a period for which no systematic figures ...
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    Title: The Applicability of International Humanitarian Law to “Transnational” Armed Conflicts  Author(s): VASHAKMADZE, Mindia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: States are increasingly involved in violent conflicts with non-state actors. This new situation challenges the classical distinction of international humanitarian law (IHL) between international and non-international ...
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    Title: Are Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality Greater in a more Equal Society?  Author(s): HOFFMANN, Rasmus Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The magnitude of socioeconomic mortality differences changes between countries. This could be attributed to the level of social inequality and explicit policy interventions to address social inequality in health. However, ...
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    Title: Authority, Arbitration and the Claims of the Law  Author(s): VINX, Lars Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper argues that Raz’s ‘normal justification thesis’ fails to explain how the law can meaningfully claim arbitrative authority. Given that the law’s claim to authority is usually understood to amount to (or at least ...
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    Title: Behavioural Effects of Obligations  Author(s): GALBIATI, Roberto; VERTOVA, Pietro Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: How formal rules affect human behaviour is a crucial issue in economics. Formal rules are defined as obligations backed by incentives. The economic literature has largely focused on the role of incentives in shaping ...
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    Title: Borderlines in the Borderlands: Defining difference through history, “race”, and citizenship in Fascist Italy  Author(s): PERGHER, Roberta Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The paper discusses the colony in Libya and the province of South Tyrol under Fascism. It focuses on their status as 'borderlands' and what that meant in terms of defining the difference between the native populations on ...
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    Title: Brain imaging as a diagnostic and as a communicative tool in disorders of consciousness  Author(s): BAGGIO, Giosuè; MORATTI, Sofia Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Recently, a number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted, aimed at detecting signs of consciousness in patients with a diagnosis of vegetative or minimally conscious state. The contributions appeared during an ongoing ...
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    Title: The capabilities approach as a bridge between animals and robots  Author(s): LAUKYTE, Migle Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper I argue that robots, understood as artificially intelligent and autonomous entities, may one day be regarded as subjects of rights. The argument is built by looking at Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, ...
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    Title: Cartography and Production of Space: a Challenge for the Historian  Author(s): PANSINI, Valeria Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Cartographic sources have been used to support the role of “imagination” and “invention” in the production of spaces and locality. Their role as instruments of power and producers of order has been underlined inside the ...
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    Title: The Challenges of EC Consumer Law  Author(s): PONCIBO', Cristina Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Following the structure defined in the Review of the Consumer Acquis of 2004, the Commission adopted a Green Paper on 8 February 2007 and launched a consultation on some key issues on the future developments of EC consumer ...
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    Title: Claiming Social Security Benefits Early to Retire Later  Author(s): FAWAZ, Yarine Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines Social Security benefit claiming behavior in the US using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to implement a duration model. It focuses essentially on the rushing/delaying behavior of the unemployed ...
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    Title: Cleavage Politics in Old and New Democracies: A Review of the Literature and Avenues for Future Research  Author(s): BORNSCHIER, Simon Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Stein Rokkan’s comparative historical account of party system formation in Western Europe has proved enormously influential due to the appeal of tying individual political behaviour to large-scale historical transformations. ...
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    Title: Co-evolutionary Dynamics and Bayesian Interaction Games  Author(s): STAUDIGL, Mathias Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP;2010/35 Abstract: In a Bayesian interaction game players have diverse preferences and are randomly matched according to an inhomogeneous random graph. A co-evolutionary process of networks and play gives a dynamic formalism for the joint ...