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    Title: Rethinking Equality in an Age of Inequality  Author(s): ROSANVALLON, Pierre Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: We live in a time of counter-revolution. Since the 1980s, reversing a century-old trend towards fewer inequalities, the richest among us have kept accumulating revenues and possessions. The economic and social roots of ...
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    Title: The return from the return to narrative  Author(s): DE VRIES, Jan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Social scientific history in its various forms developed rapidly and enjoyed great influence in the 1960s and 70s. Around 1980 it was quickly and, in the United States decisively, eclipsed. An influential article predicting ...
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    Title: Rights of Non-humans? Electronic Agents and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law  Author(s): TEUBNER, Gunther Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Lecture Delivered January 17th 2007. Personification of non-humans is best understood as a strategy of dealing with the uncertainty about the identity of the other, which moves the attribution scheme from causation ...
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    Title: The Rise of Global Legalism  Author(s): POSNER, Eric A Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Global legalism is the view that world government is not a practicable approach to global collective action problems but that these problems are nonetheless susceptible to legal solutions. This position is paradoxical: ...
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    Title: Self-Government in Our Times  Author(s): PRZEWORSKI, Adam Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: The eighteenth century ideal of self-government of the people was based on an assumption that renders it incoherent and unrealistic, namely, that interests and values are sufficiently harmonious that each individual needs ...
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    Title: Simulacrum and Re-enactments: the experience of Pompeii in the nineteeth century  Author(s): BEARD, Mary Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This lecture traces the changing experience of visiting Pompeii through the nineteenth century. It argues against the standard idea that there was a shift over the century from a Romantic view of the site to a more ...
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    Title: Social Science and the Causes of Happiness and Misery  Author(s): LAYARD, Richard Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS
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    Title: Social Science as a Vocation - Are Max Weber’s Warnings Still Valid?  Author(s): SCHARPF, Fritz W. Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Inaugural Lecture Delivered October 4th 2006
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    Title: The Spectre of Islamism: A Historian’s Reading  Author(s): VALENSI, Lucette Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: The Spirit of Capitalism: the Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis  Author(s): COOLEY, Thomas F. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: When economic disasters occur it is common to look to the managers of the economy and question the decisions they made and the incentives that drove their decisions. In the financial crisis of 2007-2009 compensation was ...
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    Title: The strange non-death of multiculturalism  Author(s): MODOOD, Tariq Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: One of the strange features of the ‘Multiculturalism is dead’ discourses is that they now define ‘multiculturalism’. It is now commonplace for even neutral commentators to define multiculturalism as a view which emphasises ...
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    Title: Theories of European Integration: a Geoculture  Author(s): ANDERSON, Perry Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: Three Stages in the Use of Cost-benefit Analysis as a Tool for Evaluating U.S. Regulatory Policy  Author(s): LIVERMORE, Michael A.; REVESZ, Richard L. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Over the last thirty years a three-stage evolution has taken place in American politics with regard to the use of cost-benefit analysis as a tool for evaluating regulation. During that time, the appeal of costbenefit ...
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    Title: Trade and Labor Market Outcomes  Author(s): HELPMAN, Elhanan; ITSKHOKI, Oleg; REDDING, Stephen Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: 2011/03 Abstract: This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching ...
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    Title: Uncool Passion: Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals  Author(s): COMAROFF, Jean Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS
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    Title: Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of liberalization and the new politics of solidarity  Author(s): THELEN, Kathleen Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This essay reviews recent literature on varieties of capitalism, drawing on insights from existing studies to propose a new, more differentiated way of thinking about contemporary changes in the political economies of the ...
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    Title: Viral engagement : fast, cheap, and broad, but good for democracy ?  Author(s): FUNG, Archon; SHKABATUR, Jennifer Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In 2011 and 2012, several high profile campaigns spread with unexpected speed and potency. These “viral engagements” include the mobilization that scuttled the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular protest against the Susan G. ...
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    Title: Why are Developing Countries so Resistant to the Rule of Law?  Author(s): WEINGAST, Barry R. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper draws on my new book (North, Wallis, and Weingast 2009) to provide a new explanation for why it is so difficult to transplant institutions, such as markets and democracy, from developed societies into developing ...
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    Title: Women and religion in nineteenth-century France  Author(s): SCOTT, Joan W. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper explores the connections made between religion and women by French secularizers in the nineteenth century as a way of understanding the effects of what Max Weber called "disenchantment." It asks how differences ...