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Astorga Junquera, Pablo (2012-11)
This paper studies cooperation in a political system dominated by two opportunistic parties competing in a resource-based economy. Since a binding agreement as an external solution might be difficult to enforce due to the ...
Lemstra, Wolter (2017-11-01)
This contribution provides insights into the dynamics of broadband markets in Europe. While there are many studies capturing the dynamics from an econometric perspective, qualitative studies are much smaller in number and ...
McLauchlin, Theodore (2011-12)
What allows an armed group in a civil war to prevent desertion? This paper addresses this question with a focus on control in the rearguard. Most past studies focus on motivations for desertion. They explain desertion in ...
Chaqués, Laura; Palau, Anna M.; Muñoz, Luz; Wilkerson, John (2008-06)
This paper is the first step in a long term project investigating policy stability and change in Spain from an agenda setting perspective and comparing the Spanish policy agenda to that of other advanced democracies. Here ...
Escribà-Folch, Abel; Wright, Joseph G. (2008-06)
This paper enquires into whether economic sanctions are effective in destabilizing authoritarian rulers. We argue that this effect is mediated by the type of authoritarian regime against which sanctions are imposed. Thus, ...
Jordana, Jacint; Triviño, Juan Carlos (2018-02-01)
The European Union continuously faces crises on a continental scale, such as the 1996 and 2000 “mad cow disease” crises, the 2008 financial crisis, or the 2015 refugee crisis. Within this context, institutions including ...
Triviño, Juan Carlos (2017-11-01)
European Union agencies have been studied explicitly or implicitly from two distinct theoretical backgrounds: an intergovernmental and a supranational logic. The two logics relate to broader dynamics that aim to understand ...
Kyris, George (2013-11)
This paper investigates the example of Cyprus as a case study for the Europeanisation of conflict resolution. The argument advanced is that the European Union (EU) impacts the positions of the parts of the conflict (here, ...
Knill, Christoph; Balint, Tim (2008-02)
In this article we investigate the reforms of human resource management in the European Commission and the OECD by analyzing comparatively to what extent both organizations have adjusted their respective structures towards ...
Castillo, Mario (2017-11-01)
Este artículo analiza las implicancias de la Internet industrial en las estrategias de crecimiento de los países América Latina. La Internet industrial es la próxima gran ola de innovación y se prevé que transformará ...
Jasiewicz, Joanna (2013-05)
The scholarship on migration in Europe heavily focuses on the integration of economically vulnerable migrants. In the age of commercialization of education, however, the European Union attracts a rising number of highly ...
Partzsch, Lena; Vlaskamp, Martijn (2016-10-30)
The European Union, the United States, and a number of other state actors have adopted policies obliging companies to conduct supply chain due diligence regarding the import of natural resources. While several authors have ...
Magar, Eric; Moraes, Juan Andrés (2008-06)
We report preliminary findings from analysis of a database under construction. The paper explores the legislative process in search for some of the alleged consequences of cabinet coalitions in a presidential system. ...
Cavalcanti, Daniel (2017-11-01)
This paper examines the roles that telecommunications regulation and Internet governance have played over the last few decades in coordinating policies that contributed to the development of todays´global communications ...
Bizberge, Ana (2017-11-01)
El presente trabajo plantea un estudio sobre las políticas públicas de comunicación en materia de convergencia digital en América Latina, a partir del análisis de las reformas normativas en Argentina, Brasil y México. Entre ...
Jung, Juan (2015-07-01)
The aim of this paper is to perform an analysis of the impact of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil, intending to find out if the economic impact is uniform across all territories of the country. The possibility ...
Alleman, James (2015-07-01)
In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization and de-regulation of the telecommunications sector was begun. The sector has been privatized in most countries and subjected to regulatory reform. The major reform occurred ...
Marta, Garcia Murillo (2017-11-01)
The purpose of this research is to determine the manner in which employment will evolve as a result of information and communication technologies. Prior research has shown that both communication and automation are displacing ...
Halliday, Fred (2008-12-30)
This paper reflects the contents of the Plenary Lecture addressed to the participants of the 2nd Graduate Conference, European Consortium for Political Science, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, 25 August 2008