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European and National Identities in EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components

Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Jósef; … - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being … based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a long-term (historical) process; second, an "instrumental" theory, which … identities are compatible. This is, in part, because while national identities are largely "cultural", European identities are …

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Does Environmental Economics Produce Aeroplanes Without Engines? On the Need for an Environmental Social Science

Folmer, Henk; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 48 (2011) 3, pp. 337-361

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Religions, secularity and democracy in Europe: for a new Kelsenian pact

Ferrari, Alessandro - Jean Monnet Chair - 2005

Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...

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Citizenship Under Regime Competition: The Case of the ,,European Works Councils"

Streeck, Wolfgang - Jean Monnet Chair - 1997

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On the emergence of parliamentary government: the role of private information

Green, Edward J. - In: Quarterly Review (1993) Win, pp. 2-16

The way many dictators have been deposed in the 20th century resembles the way a parliamentary form of government emerged in 13th-century England. This medieval example is worth examining because the features that led to its political reform are particularly clear. Despite what many think, that...

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Partisan impacts on the economy: evidence from prediction markets and close elections

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2006

Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...

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Putting stock in political races

Wells, Chris; Rogers, Casey M. - In: Cross Sections (1994) Fall, pp. 13-14

Virginia's 1994 U.S. Senate race has commanded national attention as high-profile candidates contend for a single seat.

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Politics, economics and investment: explaining plant and equipment spending by U.S. direct investors in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Stevens, Guy V.G. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1994

Few economists or laymen would deny that political events can have an important, sometimes even overwhelming, impact on economic decisions in general, and investment decisions in particular. The first goal of this paper was to integrate a number of political and non-traditional economic...

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Issue Salience and the Domestic Legitimacy Demands of European Integration. The Cases of Britain and Germany

Oppermann, Kai; Viehrig, Henrike - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that governments face when they devise their European policies. The higher the salience of these issues, the more restrictive will be the legitimacy demands that governments have to...

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Das öffentlichen Diensrecht aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Verwaltungswissenschaft

Ziller, Jacques - European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law - 2006

International comparisons of Civil Services usually overlook the difficulties due to differing definitions of the civil service in national legal systems. Comparative statistics are therefore extremely misleading, as they are at best based on formal-legal criteria instead of being based on...

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