Title:The Security-Politics-Development Nexus: The Lessons of State-Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author(s):TSCHIRGI, NeclaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:How can development policy support weak, dysfunctional or fragile states? What constitutes state
fragility and what are the appropriate instruments for state-building? After reviewing two recent
quantitative indexes (The ...
Title:Seizing Layers within a Multi-layered Structure: How the EU Deals with Security and Where the GCC Could Fit In
Author(s):GORENFLO, René DanielDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article starts with a qualitative analysis of the security functions of the European Union (EU) and how they are distributed within its institutional set-up. The analysis then takes recourse to structuralist and ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations: Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and ...
Title:A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the first half of the 19th century, the wheat trade policy in Western European countries followed a major political cycle, featuring a massive increase in protection in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and a slow process ...
Title:Short-term Political Attitudes and PTVs: Preliminary evidence from the Italian case
Author(s):DE ANGELIS, Andrea; GARZIA, DiegoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:ITANES Working PaperAbstract:PTV measures are ever more commonly used in electoral research as a measure of electoral utilities. Yet a growing literature employs them as dependent variable in the voting equation in place of the lower information granted ...
Title:Should EU Citizens Living in other Member States Vote there in National Elections?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; CAYALA, Philippe; SETH, CatrionaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The core right of EU citizenship is freedom of movement within the territory of the Union. But EU citizens who live in a member state other than their homeland cannot vote in the national elections of that country unless ...
Title:Should the Union be ‘politicised’ ? Prospects and Risks
Author(s):BARTOLINI, StefanoDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Notre Europe Policy PaperAbstract:[http://www.unizar.es/euroconstitucion/library/working%20papers/Hix,%20Bartolini%202006.pdf]
Title:Smart Cities Initiative: how to foster a quick transition towards local sustainable energy systems
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; DELARUE, Erik; AZEVEDO, Isabel; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; LEAL, Vitor; DE OLIVEIRA FERNANDES, EduardoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The European Commission has recently launched the Smart Cities Initiative to demonstrate and
disseminate how to foster a quick transition towards local sustainable energy systems. Within this
initiative, the three main ...
Title:“Smart Regulation for Smart Grids”
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; SAGUAN, Marcelo; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; BELMANS, RonnieDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Climate change and security of supply policies are driving us towards a decarbonization of the
electricity system. It is in this context that smart grids are being discussed. Electricity grids, and hence
their regulatory ...