Title:Self-Government in Our Times
Author(s):PRZEWORSKI, AdamDate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract: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 ...
Title:Simulacrum and Re-enactments: the experience of Pompeii in the nineteeth century
Author(s):BEARD, MaryDate:2010Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract: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 ...
Title:The Spirit of Capitalism: the Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis
Author(s):COOLEY, Thomas F.Date:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract: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 ...
Title:The strange non-death of multiculturalism
Author(s):MODOOD, TariqDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract: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 ...
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:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract: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 ...
Title:Trade and Labor Market Outcomes
Author(s):HELPMAN, Elhanan; ITSKHOKI, Oleg; REDDING, StephenDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:2011/03Abstract: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 ...
Title:Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of liberalization and the new politics of solidarity
Author(s):THELEN, KathleenDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract: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 ...
Title:Viral engagement : fast, cheap, and broad, but good for democracy ?
Author(s):FUNG, Archon; SHKABATUR, JenniferDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract: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. ...
Title:Why are Developing Countries so Resistant to the Rule of Law?
Author(s):WEINGAST, Barry R.Date:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract: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 ...