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Title:The politics of equal opportunities in education : partisan governments and school choice reform in Sweden, England, and France, 1980-2010 Author(s):HABERSTROH, Charlotte M.Date:2016Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2016
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:In this thesis, I ask about the political determinants of educational inequalities, and posit that as school quality differs, the competition for school places poses a problem to the social right of equal educational ...
Title:European Networking and Training for National Competition Enforcers ENTraNCE for judges 2014 : selected case notes Editor(s):PARCU, Pier Luigi
; MONTI, Giorgio
Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/20; [Florence Competition Programme]; ENTraNCEAbstract:The working paper includes a collection of the case notes written by the national judges who attended the European Networking and Training for National Competition Enforcers (ENTraNCE for Judges 2014). The training programme ...


Title:The idea of self-determination : hierarchy and order after empire Author(s):SPANU, Maja
Date:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:International Relations scholarship suggests that meanings embedded in the idea of selfdetermination have shifted over time. This scholarship also recognises that throughout the twentieth century self-determination has ...

Title:Equal treatment as a principle to guide the regulation of intangibly transferred content : a case study on e-books using the examples of copyright exhaustion, reduced rates of VAT and fixed book pricing Author(s):LINKLATER, Emma
Date:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:Using e-books as a case study, this thesis considers whether the principle of equal treatment could play a role in driving more consistent and rational regulation of markets where content is available in both tangible and ...

Title:The concept of periphery in Pope Francis' discourse : a religious alternative to globalization ? Author(s):FERRARA, Pasquale
Date:2015Citation:
- Religions, 2015, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 42–57
Type:ArticleAbstract:Since the beginning of his mandate, Pope Francis has used the concept of periphery as a metaphor of social marginality. However, the notion of periphery also seems to target the asymmetries generated by the liberal version ...


Title:Clandestine circulation : social reproduction in the shadow of the state Author(s):EGAN, MartynDate:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:How should social science conceptualise the informal exchange of illicit favours in the context of the modern state? And what relation does such exchange have to the reproduction of the social structure? This thesis presents ...
Title:Integration by stealth : how the European Union gained competence over foreign direct investment Author(s):MEUNIER, SophieDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/66; Global Governance Programme-114; Global EconomicsAbstract:How are policy competences allocated between different actors? This paper contributes to the literature on institutional development through an in-depth case-study of the conditions under which the competence over the ...
Title:Trade liberalisation and standardisation : new directions in the 'low politics' of EU foreign policy Editor(s):CREMONA, Marise
; TAKÁCS, TamaraDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI AEL; 2014/01Abstract:The present Working Paper collects the contributions presented at a conference co-organised by the European University Institute (EUI) and the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) in June 2012. The conference ...

Title:UsedSoft and the big bang : is the e-exhaustion meteor about to strike? Author(s):LINKLATER, Emma
Date:2014Citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law (JIPITEC), 2014, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 12-22
Type:ArticleAbstract:Since the UsedSoft ruling of the CJEU in 2012, there has been the distinct feeling that – like the big bang - UsedSoft signals the start of a new beginning. As we enter this brave new world, the Copyright Directive will ...

Title:The EU and IOSCO : an ever closer cooperation? Author(s):MARCACCI, AntonioDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI LAW; 2013/02; European Regulatory Private Law Project (ERPL-04)Abstract:The paper examines the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and it analyzes the role played by the European Union in the landscape of international finance. The aim is to test how far we can conceive ...