Title:Evaluating Competing Criteria for Allocating Parliamentary Seats
Author(s):ROSE, Richard; BERNHAGEN, Patrick; BORZ, GabrielaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In an established parliament any proposal for the allocation of seats will affect sitting members and their parties and is therefore likely to be evaluated by incumbents in terms of its effects on the seats that they hold. ...
Title:Evaluating Policies to Attain the Optimal Exposure to Nuclear Risk
Author(s):EBERL, Jakob; JUS, DarkoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper describes how limited liability leads to risk-loving behaviour in nuclear power companies and unsafe nuclear power plants. By reviewing current regulatory regimes, we show that this issue is not being sufficiently ...
Title:Evaluating the forces of interstitial institutional change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide variety of legislative and policy-making procedures. Far ...
Title:An ever closer union : a critical analysis of the Draft Treaty establishing the European Union
Author(s):BIEBER, Roland; JACQUÉ, Jean-Paul; WEILER, Joseph H. H.Date:1985Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[European Policy Unit]Abstract:The Draft Treaty establishing the European Union is the most ambitious effort so far to achieve sweeping institutional reform in the European Communities, and the clearest proof of the new independence of the directly ...
Title:The Evolution of Public Attitudes toward Immigration in Europe and the United States, 2000-2010
Author(s):FETZER, Joel S.Date:2011-06-01Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EU-US Immigration SystemsAbstract:This paper documents and analyzes trends in immigration-related public opinion over the past decade in the major North Atlantic countries of the EU-15 and US. Opening with a summary of the international social-scientific ...
Title:Evolving Dynamics in the Asia-Pacific
Author(s):CASARINI, NicolaDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The emergence of the region is a modern phenomenon and still in the process of evolution. The economic growth which began with Japan’s postwar economic miracle and then spread to the Asian Tigers of South Korea, Taiwan, ...
Title:Ex Ante Regulation and Co-Investment in the Transition to Next Generation Access
Author(s):BOURREAU, Marc; CAMBINI, Carlo; HOERNIG, SteffenDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Investments in Next Generation Access Networks (NGANs) ask for a new set of regulatory remedies. This paper contributes to this debate by focusing on three issues: the migration from the legacy copper network to the NGA ...
Title:Exchange Market Pressure: Some Caveats in Empirical Applications
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; GALLO, Giampiero M.; RICCHIUTI, GiorgioDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Exchange Market Pressure (EMP) index, developed by Eichengreen et al. (1994), is widely used as a tool to signal whether pressure on a currency is softened or warded off through monetary authorities' interventions or, ...