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    Title: Ties and Ruptures: Welfare States and Migration in Central and Eastern Europe  Author(s): LENDVAI, Noemi Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the last 20 years, Central Eastern Europe has witnessed a number of momentous events that have marked landmark changes in its countries’ political, social, and economic systems. Throughout the momentous changes of the ...
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    Title: To Strike or not to Strike : Assessing the Legality of a Potential Strike against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities  Author(s): HOFMEISTER, Hannes Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This working paper deals with a highly topical issue in public international law: the legality of a preemptive military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. It analyses whether such a strike would violate the ...
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    Title: Toward a Military History for the Cold War: a Bibliographic Essay  Author(s): TRAUSCHWEIZER, Ingo Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This essay discusses the historiography of the Cold War from the perspective of American policy and strategy, civil-military relations, and politico-military culture. It presents the history and historical literature of ...
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    Title: Trade Liberalization, Offshoring and Firm Heterogeneity  Author(s): REBEYROL, Vincent Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization in a model where heterogeneous firms can freely offshore their production. Firms choose whether to produce, and if so whether to sell on the domestic market only or ...
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    Title: Transforming Memories: Workers’ Recollection of the Socialist Regimes in East Germany and Hungary  Author(s): BARTHA, Eszter Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyzes and compares workers’ memories of the late socialist regimes in East Germany and Hungary. It presents the results of an oral history project conducted in two factories, Rába MVG in Győr (Hungary) and ...
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    Title: Transnational Employer Lobbying when one Size does not fit all: Anglo-German Wrangles under the UNICE Umbrella, 1970-2003  Author(s): CALLAGHAN, Helen Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Transnational interest groups can lobby forcefully if and only if national member associations agree on a policy stance. This paper explores the conditions for transnational cohesion by examining German and British employer ...
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    Title: Trends in Income Inequality, Intertemporal Variability, and Mobility Risk in Thirty Countries  Author(s): NICHOLS, Austin; REHM, Philipp Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We apply a novel decomposition of panel data on individual incomes in 30 countries and find the US is exceptional in its increases of income risk over the last decades. Income risk is decomposed into long-run inequality, ...
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    Title: Turnout and Policy: The role of candidates  Author(s): VALASEK, Justin Mattias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Turnout is an important determinant of which candidate wins an election. Since candidates know this, it follows that they will consider turnout when choosing their policy platforms. In this paper I formally examine the ...
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    Title: Understanding ‘Chance and Uncertainty’ in Clausewitz’s On War: Reflections on the Balkan Wars (1991-1995)  Author(s): FLEMING, Colin M. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the opening chapter of Carl Von Clausewitz’s On War (1831), he explains to readers that ‘only one more element is needed to make war a gamble 'chance'. No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up ...
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    Title: Unemployment Insurance and Home Production  Author(s): TASKIN, Temel Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by ...
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    Title: Universal crime, particular punishment : trying the atrocities of the Japanese occupation as treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953  Author(s): LAWSON, Konrad M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Trials against both war crimes and treason were held in the Philippines after the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945. In the former, a universalistic category of crimes were punished, while in the latter, the crime was ...
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    Title: Varieties of Legacies: A Critical Review of Public Administration Reform in East Central Europe  Author(s): MEYER-SAHLING, Jan-Hinrik Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines the status of historical legacies in debates on the reform of public administration in East Central Europe. It identifies limitations of existing accounts and derives three dimensions for the further ...
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    Title: Westphalia, Dualism and Contextual Interpretation: How to Better Engage International Law in Domestic Judicial Decisions  Author(s): BEAULAC, Stephane Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The matrix within which the states operate and international affairs are conducted continues to be based on the Westphalian model, with its external-internal dichotomy. Consequently, the constitutional mandate of domestic ...
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    Title: What Makes for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy? The Case of the Childless Elderly in Germany and the U.S.  Author(s): ADLOFF, Frank Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: It has been suggested that the growing number of childless elderly may develop into charitable donors and pioneers in the field of a post-familial civic engagement. They may do so by giving to existing charities or by ...
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    Title: What Makes Social Mortality Differences Decline in Old Age?  Author(s): HOFFMANN, Rasmus Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In many empirical studies mortality differences between socioeconomic groups (SES) decrease in the higher age groups. However, the mechanism behind this convergence is unknown. This study presents empirical evidence and ...
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    Title: What the Bombing of Hanoi Tells Us About Compellence Theory  Author(s): DEKKER, Willem Martijn Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyses the dynamics of coercion and counter-coercion and argues that, for compellence to be successful, the opponent’s counter-coercive strategy must be undermined. Existing theories rely on a cost-benefit ...
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    Title: What's Left to Trade: the Changing Logic of Corporatist Policymaking in Europe  Author(s): AFONSO, Alexandre Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper outlines evolutions in the underlying logic of corporatist policymaking in Western Europe. Starting from the discrepancy between the observable decline in the power of organised labour on the one hand, and the ...
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    Title: Why do People Choose to be Silent? Simulating Electoral Behaviour  Author(s): BARTHA, Eszter; WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ, Joanna Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour, using an extension of Granovetter’s (1978) and Krassa’s (1988) threshold models. The theoretical background is the spiral of silence concept developed ...
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    Title: WIPO and the Public-Private Web of Global Intellectual Property Governance  Author(s): WECHSLER, Andrea Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has always been recognized as an important international economic institution for the global governance of intellectual property (IP) law. Moreover, its role in promoting, ...
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    Title: With Strings Attached: Grandparent-provided child care, fertility, and female labour market outcomes  Author(s): GARCIA-MORAN, Eva; KUEHN, Zoe Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to any other form of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor market decisions of women positively. We find that ...