Title:Partial Regulation in Vertically Differentiated Industries
Author(s):BERGANTINO, Angela S.; BILLETTE DE VILLEMEUR, Etienne; VINELLA, AnnalisaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IDEI Working PaperAbstract:In this paper we provide theoretical foundations for a price-and-quality cap regulation of recently liberalized utilities. We model a partially regulated oligopoly where vertically differentiated services are provided by ...
Title:Partisan Liberalizations. A New Puzzle from OECD Network Industries?
Author(s):BELLOC, Filippo; NICITA, AntonioDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We investigate the political determinants of liberalization in OECD network industries, performing a
panel estimation over thirty years, through the largest and most updated sample available. Contrary to
traditional ...
Title:Partition of Palestine and Political Stability: Ottoman Legacy and International Influences (1922 – 1948)
Author(s):ROSSI, ChristianDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Political stability in the Middle East seems an illusion, particularly in Palestine. This paper compares
three variables (religious, political and international interests) that, through a four-period partition (the
fall ...
Title:Party and Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections: Towards a reassessment
Author(s):GARZIA, DiegoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Social-psychological models of voting behaviour systematically downsize the relevance of party leader evaluations by conceiving them as mere consequences of causally prior partisan attachments. However, the validity of ...
Title:Party Contestation and Europe on the News Agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary elections
Author(s):SCHUCK, Andreas R.T.; XEZONAKIS, Georgios; ELENBAAS, Matthijs; BANDUCCI, Susan A.; DE VREESE, Claes H.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:In this article we analyse the news coverage of the 2009 EP elections in all 27 EU member states (N = 52,009). We propose that the extent to which these second-order elections are salient to the media depends on political ...
Title:Party Identification, Leader Effects and Vote Choice in Italy, 1990-2008
Author(s):GARZIA, Diego; VIOTTI, FedericoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Previous studies have portrayed the personalization of politics as a consequence of the changes in the electoral market and the resulting transformations at the party level. However, empirical research has not reached a ...
Title:Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices
Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper is based on the concluding chapter of a forthcoming volume reporting the results of a
research project that has investigated the principles and practices of party patronage in contemporary
European democracies ...
Title:Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
Author(s):MCELROY, Gail; BENOIT, KennethDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Systematic empirical research has yet to explain how national parties join political groups in the European Parliament. This article first demonstrates, using original empirical measures from expert surveys of party ...
Title:Party System Dynamics in Post-war Japan: A quantitative content analysis of electoral pledges
Author(s):PROKSCH, Sven-Oliver; SLAPIN, Jonathan B.; THIES, Michael F.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Qualitative accounts of Japanese party politics allude to the standard left–right spectrum, but they invariably devote much more space to discussions of foreign policy differences than to socioeconomic conflict. Quantitative ...