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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, ... -
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: Translating modernity : visions and uses of Europe in Finland Author(s): NYGÅRD, Stefan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Translating modernity to the periphery is a recurring theme in the discussions on Europe at its geocultural margins. In small and young countries such as Finland, “Europe” has been mobilized for nation-building in terms ...
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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: 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: Lost in transmission : evaluating internet effects on citizens’attitudes towards the European Union in times of crisis Author(s): BACCINI, Leonardo; SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, Matthew T. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Previous studies suggest that citizens' attitudes towards the European Union (EU) are influenced by media coverage of EU institutions and policies. To date, empirical studies have investigated the effects of TV and newspaper ...
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Title: Private law and the visible hand of EU regulation Author(s): SVETIEV, Yane Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: A question that is central to current debates about the Europeanisation of private law is that of how to conceptualise the relationship between European law and national private law. And a key aspect of that question is ...
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Title: An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy Author(s): BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, Dalibor Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
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Title: Raiffeisenism Abroad: Why did German microfinance fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands? Author(s): COLVIN, Christopher L.; MCLAUGHLIN, Eoin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: What was the recipe for the success of Raiffeisen’s banking model? What made it possible for imitations of this German rural cooperative microfinance institution to work well in some European countries, but fail in others? ...
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Title: Egypt in 2011: A regime that no longer knows how to adapt? Fluid conjunctures and regime transformations in perspective Author(s): COLLOMBIER, Virginie Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: The popular uprising that took place in Egypt in January and February 2011 may eventually lead to regime change. Whatever the end result of the ongoing process, however, the theories of authoritarian consolidation – which ...
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Title: The European Dilemma of Social-Democratic Parties. A Study of Debates at National Party Conferences of the PS, SPD and Labour Party Author(s): GUINAUDEAU, Isabelle Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: While the extant literature of EU politicization has revolved around parties anchored at the margins of the political spectrum, this working paper considers the political and electoral implications of European integration ...
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Title: The Post-national Constellation of Industrial Relations Systems in the European Legal Order Author(s): COMANDÈ, Daniela Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper develops a new interpretation of the norms of the Treaty of Lisbon to find the juridical basis for an autonomous system of European industrial relations. In particular, the study explores the question of whether ...
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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: The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state Author(s): MORATTI, Sofia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
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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: Dynamics of Radicalisation in the Relationship between Militant Islamist Groups and their Constituencies: The case of al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya in Egypt, 1986-1998 Author(s): MALTHANER, Stefan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Research on political violence has increasingly adopted relational approaches to analysing processes of radicalisation and escalation, focusing mainly on interactions between protest movements and the police, and the effects ...
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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: The Handling of Insolvency within Trans-European Contractual Networks: Legal issues and possible solutions Author(s): GIANI, Leonardo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper tries to identify some tools which, in case of insolvency, might prove to be effective in order to take care of the specificities which characterise inter-firm contractual networks. To summarise, this paper is ...
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Title: Financial Crisis Resolution Author(s): SCHROTH, Josef Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper studies a dynamic version of the Holmstrom-Tirole model of intermediated finance. I show that competitive equilibria are not constrained efficient when the economy experiences a financial crises. A pecuniary ...
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Title: Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation Author(s): SIMON, Jenny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing ...
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