Title:Agency and the Structure of Party Competition: Alignment, Stability and the Role of Political Elites
Author(s):DEEGAN-KRAUSE, Kevin; ENYEDI, ZsoltDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The study of cleavages focuses primarily on constraints imposed by socio-demographic factors. While
scholars have not ignored the agency of political elites, such scholarship remains fragmented among
sub-fields and lacks ...
Title:An American Model for the EU Gas Market?
Author(s):ASCARI, SergioDate:2011-07-07Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:It is generally believed that the American model is not suitable for Europe, yet North America is the
only large and working competitive gas market in the world. The paper shows how its model could be
adapted as a target ...
Title:American-Style Adversarial Legalism and the European Union
Author(s):KELEMEN, R. DanielDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Adversarial legalism – an approach to regulation characterized by strict, legalistic enforcement of detailed legal norms, relying on active judicial intervention and frequent private litigation – has historically been ...
Title:Analysis of the Strategic Use of Forward Contracting in Electricity Markets
Author(s):VAZQUEZ, MiguelDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Absence of arbitrage is one of the fundamental tools to describe financial markets. The no-arbitrage price of any financial contract represents players’ valuation of the uncertain future income stream that will result from ...
Title:Anti-Corruption Agencies: Between Empowerment and Irrelevance
Author(s):DE SOUSA, LuísDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:One distinctive feature of the anti-corruption activity of the 1990s is the rise of new players, such as specialized anti-corruption bodies. Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) are public bodies of a durable nature, with a ...
Title:The Arab Spring and the Crisis of the European Border Regime: Manufacturing Emergency in the Lampedusa Crisis
Author(s):CAMPESI, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The so-called Arab Spring has thrown out of kilter the precarious balance on which the Euro-Mediterranean border-control regime has been built over the years, illustrating the need to set this regime on a new foundation. ...