Title:Private control instruments in the European consumer, occupational health and safety, and environmental policies
Author(s):PELTONEN, EllinooraDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:European Union’s (EU) legislature allows for EU level private interest governments (PIGs): stakeholders, industry, professional and co-operative bodies; and control entrepreneurs (PriCEs) to complement regulatory strategies. ...
Title:Private Regulation and European Integration: Evidence from the payments, professional services and housing sectors
Author(s):JANCZUK-GORYWODA, AgnieszkaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyzes the role of private regulation in European integration. Taking three selected sectors – payments, professionals and housing – as a testing ground, this thesis portrays the actual functioning of private ...
Title:Promises and limits of web-deliberation
Author(s):KIES, RaphaëlDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this work we will attempt to evaluate which of these scenarios is most likely to become prominent in the future by focusing essentially on three issues: 1) the usage of the online forum by observing how diffuse the ...
Title:Promoting Democracy Abroad: The EU and Latin America, 1995-2005
Author(s):TRISCRITTI, FiorellaDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Since the 1980s an increasing number of international actors have been promoting democracy worldwide using different methods and instruments. However, despite initial successes, many of these newly created democracies ...
Title:Property Restitution and Collective Memories in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
Author(s):TYSZKA, StanisławDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis examines the politics of memory in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 in relation to restitution of nationalized property as a measure of post-communist transitional justice. The dominant historical ...