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Title:Wage Bargaining Tensions in Italian and Greek Banking: The role of employer associability and labour-state coalitions Author(s):KORNELAKIS, AndreasDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2010/02Abstract:How do we explain divergent trajectories of change in wage bargaining institutions? Existing studies maintained that European economic integration and liberalisation, decline in trade union power, changing work organization ...
Title:Warfare accountability : impact of transnational politics Author(s):VENNESSON, Pascal; RAJKOVIC, Nikolas Milan Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:RSIS Commentaries; 2012/229
Title:Welfare Policies under European Pressure? The Domestic Impact of Cross Border Social Security in the European Union Author(s):SINDBJERG MARTINSEN, DorteDate:2004Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2004/11
Title:Western Marxism or Marxism in the "periphery"? : the cases of Gramsci and Tosaka Author(s):CHINO, TakahiroDate:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2015/12Abstract:This paper aims to show that two eminent Italian and Japanese Marxists in the 1930s, Antonio Gramsci and Tosaka Jun, shared four important characteristics of so-called Western Marxism. These are: 1) a rejection of crude ...
Title:What is there to legitimize in the European Union … and how might this be accomplished? Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2001Citation:Wien, Institut für Höhere Studien, 2001, Political science series, 75Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:IHS Working Papers; 2001Abstract:This paper focuses on the 'problematique' of building the legitimacy (one of the most used and misused concepts in Political Science) of governance (one of the most fashionable concepts in contemporary political discourse) ...
Title:What Makes for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy? The Case of the Childless Elderly in Germany and the U.S. Author(s):ADLOFF, FrankDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2007/20Abstract:It has been suggested that the growing number of childless elderly may develop into charitable donors and pioneers in the field of a post-familial civic engagement. They may do so by giving to existing charities or by ...
Title:What Makes Social Mortality Differences Decline in Old Age? Author(s):HOFFMANN, Rasmus Date:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2009/17Abstract:In many empirical studies mortality differences between socioeconomic groups (SES) decrease in the higher age groups. However, the mechanism behind this convergence is unknown. This study presents empirical evidence and ...
Title:What the Bombing of Hanoi Tells Us About Compellence Theory Author(s):DEKKER, Willem MartijnDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2011/28Abstract:This paper analyses the dynamics of coercion and counter-coercion and argues that, for compellence to be successful, the opponent’s counter-coercive strategy must be undermined. Existing theories rely on a cost-benefit ...
Title:What's Left to Trade: the Changing Logic of Corporatist Policymaking in Europe Author(s):AFONSO, AlexandreDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2011/14Abstract:This paper outlines evolutions in the underlying logic of corporatist policymaking in Western Europe. Starting from the discrepancy between the observable decline in the power of organised labour on the one hand, and the ...
Title:What's the civil in civil society? : Robert Putnam's Italian republicanism Author(s):MOURITSEN, PerDate:2001Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2001/04
Title:What’s fair – and why? : an empirical analysis of distributive fairness in the climate negotiations Author(s):TØRSTAD, Vegard Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:CICERO Report; 2016/04Abstract:In the climate negotiations, conceptions of fairness plays an important role. For a climate agreement to be effective and durable, it must be conceived as fair by as many of its parties as possible. Unfortunately, there ...
Title:When does policy deliberation matter? Author(s):MAJONE, GiandomenicoDate:1993Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1993/12
Title:When Parties (also) Position Themselves: An Introduction to the EU Profiler Author(s):TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; MAIR, PeterDate:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2009/65; EUDO - European Union Democracy ObservatoryAbstract:This paper is intended to frame and describe a novel method of political party positioning within the European Union and beyond. Ever since the groundbreaking work by Downs in the 1950s, political scientists have derived ...
Title:When should the ICC prosecutor defer investigations or prosecutions in situations of active armed conflict in favor of peace negotiations? Author(s):DE SOUZA DIAS, Talita; AKANDE, DapoDate:2019Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:IOW; Policy Briefs; [2019]Abstract:A key reform that has the potential to make the international criminal justice project stronger,more efficient and more effective is the consideration of peace negotiations as an additional factor in the Prosecutor’s ...
Title:Where nations meet : national identities in an international organisation Author(s):WILTERDINK, NicoDate:1990Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1990/03
Title:Which Indicators are Most Useful for Comparing Citizenship Policies? Editor(s):HELBLING, Marc ; BAUBÖCK, Rainer ; HELBLING, Marc ; REICHEL, David; VINK, Maarten Peter ; DUYVENDAK, Jan Willem; VAN REEKUM, Rogier; SCHOLTEN, Peter; BERTOSSI, Christophe; JANOSKI, Thomas; HUDDLESTON, Thomas ; MANATSCHAL, AnitaDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2011/54; [GLOBALCIT]; EUDO Citizenship ObservatoryAbstract:The comparative study of citizenship regimes has reached a new stage. Several authors and research teams have constructed indicators and compound indices that allow comparing larger numbers of countries in more systematic ...
Title:Who is (not) a refugee? Author(s):HADDAD, EmmaDate:2004Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2004/06
Title:Who is a civilian? : perceptions of 'civilianness' in the Central African Republic Author(s):SUTTON, Rebecca Date:2019Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:IOW; Research Briefs; [2019]Abstract:This brief focuses on contemporary operational dilemmas faced by international actors in CAR, centering on the perspectives of humanitarian actors as well as civilian staff, police, and peacekeeping forces of the integrated ...
Title:Who were and who are the poorest and the richest people in Italy Author(s):ALBERTINI, MarcoDate:2004Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Quaderni del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale (Università degli Studi di Trento); 2004/31
Title:Whose Democratization? Periods of transition and voices from below in Turkey Author(s):ATAK, KivancDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/08Abstract:Turkey's experience with democracy, at least in its procedural terms, is one which has been discontinuous thanks to repeated military interruptions to civilian rule. Since 1946, Turkey has experienced coups on an almost ...