Title:Network Structure Matters: Applications to R&D collaboration, collusion, and online communication networks
Author(s):KORKMAZ, GizemDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis studies the interplay between network structure and strategic decision making given the backdrop of economic and social networks. The first two chapters study how firms’ incentives to invest in costly R&D are ...
Title:The new discursive formation of literature under communist rule: From the silver age to socialist realism
Author(s):VIRBAN, FloareaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The primary aim of this thesis is to question how, and the extent to which, the implementation of Communist rule in Russia influenced the new discursive formation of literature. The latter refers to the complex process of ...
Title:New Governance and the Proceduralisation of European law: The Case of the Open Method of Coordination
Author(s):DAWSON, MarkDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is devoted to analysing the emerging relationship in the European Union between 'new governance' - epitomised by the development of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) - and law. While some scholars have seen ...
Title:The new spirit of technocracy? Ordering practice in United Nations Peacebuilding
Author(s):BÜGER, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Whether global order is drifting towards democratic or technocratic modes of governing is a contested issue. This thesis takes up the challenge of investigating how trends towards global democratization or technocratization ...
Title:NGOs in the UN System : a study of institutionalised relations between societal actors and the United Nations
Author(s):MARTENS, KerstinDate:2003Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features ...