Title:Innovation and Migration
Author(s):VENTURINI, AlessandraDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:Migration Policy Centre Analytic and Synthetic Notes
Title:Innovation and Regional Growth in the European Union
Author(s):CRESCENZI, Riccardo; RODRÍGUEZ-POSE, AndrésDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book investigates the EU’s regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have persistently failed to catch up with the rest of the Union. It shows ...
Title:Innovative Features in Conditional Cash Transfers: The impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children
Author(s):MARTORANO, Bruno; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:UNICEF Innocenti Working PaperAbstract:Social protection represents an important tool to mitigate poverty and to promote adequate living standards and conditions. In Latin America social protection has largely taken the form of large scale implementation of ...
Title:Institution [Un]Building: Decentralising Government and the Case of Rwanda
Author(s):MCCONNELL, JesseDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The challenge of institution building in African countries remains a major threat to the establishment
of peace and justice, and the entrenchment of sustainable social and economic development. This may
be attributed ...
Title:Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe: Governing Change
Author(s):MOURY, Catherine; DE SOUSA, LuísDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book discusses the future of the European Union following the failure of the Constitutional and reform treaties, examining the transformations, dynamics and major issues facing present-day Europe.
Discussing key ...
Title:Institutional Change in Advanced European Democracies: An exploratory assessment
Author(s):BEDOCK, Camille; MAIR, Peter; WILSON, AlexDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Recent decades have seen a wave of institutional changes of the core democratic rules in advanced democracies. These changes include reforms of electoral systems; decentralization of power to subnational governments; the ...
Title:Institutional Change in Contemporary Capitalism: Coordinated Financial Systems since 1990
Author(s):CULPEPPER, Pepper D.Date:2005-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What happens when the unstoppable force of liberalization collides with the immovable object of national financial institutions in the advanced industrial democracies? To answer this question and evaluate alternative ...
Title:Institutional Change in Europe: Co-decision and comitology transformed
Author(s):HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explains how institutional rules change after they have been established in two important areas of European decision-making: co-decision and comitology. It shows how legislation under co-decision was transformed ...
Title:Institutional Changes: Alternative theories and consequences for institutional design
Author(s):BROUSSEAU, Eric; GARROUSTE, Pierre; RAYNAUD, EmmanuelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Chair]Abstract:This paper surveys alternative approaches to the emergence and evolution of institutions. The challenge is to develop frameworks capable of capturing both stability and change. We follow a “descaling” approach to show how ...
Title:Institutional Corruptions
Author(s):LESSIG, LawrenceDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The concept of "institutional corruption" as developed by Professor Dennis Thompson is a critically important way to understand the failings of a modern democratic state. In this paper, Professor Lessig advances one way ...
Title:The Institutional Design of European Competition Policy
Author(s):MANGANELLI, Antonio; NICITA, Antonio; ROSSI, Maria AlessandraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyzes the institutional design of the European competition policy system. Besides the
multi-level public enforcement, the paper describes other two fundamental dimensions of the
European competition policy ...
Title:The Institutional Economics of Reflexive Governance in the Area of Utility Regulation
Author(s):BROUSSEAU, Eric; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Regulation of utilities in the XXI Century is challenged by the fast pace of change notably the
acceleration of innovation, the restructuring of industry as sets of modular chains and the spreading of
new information and ...