Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals: Enviaments recents
Ara mostrant els elements 21-40 de 50
The New Institutions of Transatlantic Aviation
This article focuses on the institutions of transatlantic aviation since 1945, and aims at extracting from this historical process topical policy implications. Using the methodology of an analytic narrative, we describe ...
The ‘Dragon’ and the ‘Elephant’ and Global Imbalances
Global financial imbalances receive a great deal of attention in relation to the emerging economies China and India. This chapter analyzes this relation, but argues first that they are actually re-balancing the existing ...
The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Agencies: Channels of Transfer and Stages of Diffusion
The autonomous regulatory agency has recently become the ‘appropriate model’ of governance across countries and sectors. The dynamics of this process is captured in our data set, which covers the creation of agencies in ...
Cognition, Resources, and Institutions in the Explanation of Attitudes to Free Trade
This article proposes a framework for the analysis of attitudes to foreign trade policies that challenges the traditional skill-endowment approach. The traditional approach assumes informed individuals who calculate the ...
Development and Democratization
Current studies, mainly focused on the postwar period, are split on the impact of development on democracy. Examining panel data that runs from early nineteenth century (a time where hardly any democracy was in place) to ...
International Institutions as Solutions to Underlying Games of Cooperation
This Working Paper was presented at the international workshop "Game Theory in International Relations at 50", organized and coordinated by Professor Jacint Jordana and Dr. Yannis Karagiannis at the Institut Barcelona ...
Are Dictators Immune to Human Rights Shaming?
This paper examines whether human rights naming and shaming destabilizes the rule of authoritarian leaders. We argue that human rights shaming can destabilize autocratic leaders by signaling international disapproval to ...
Still in the Era of Area Studies? Political-Scientific Perspectives on European Competition Policy in the 2000s
This note reviews the political-scientific literature on European competition policy (ECP) in the 2000s. Based on a data set extracted from four well-known journals, and using an upfront methodology and explicit criteria, ...
Private Governance of Financial Markets: the US Regulatory Regime on Hedge Funds
The article investigates the private governance of financial markets by looking at the evolution of the regulatory debate on hedge funds in the US market. It starts from the premise that the privatization of regulation is ...
The Electoral Determinants of Collective Remittances: The Mexican 3x1 Program for Migrants
The 3x1 Program for Migrants is a matching grant scheme that seeks to direct the money sent by migrant organizations abroad to the provision of public and social infrastructure, and to productive projects in migrants’ ...
Authoritarian Responses to Foreign Pressure: Spending, Repression, and Sanctions
This paper explores how international sanctions affect authoritarian rulers’ decisions concerning repression and public spending composition, and how different authoritarian rulers respond to foreign pressure. If sanctions ...
The Political Economy of Resource Rent Distribution
I model the link between political regime and level of diversification following a windfall of natural resource revenues. The explanatory variables I make use of are the political support functions embedded within each ...
Why the EU does not Have an Independent Competition Agency: French Interests and Transaction Costs in Early European Integration
A major achievement of new institutionalism in economics and political science is the formalisation of the idea that certain policies are more efficient when administered by a politically independent organisation. Based ...
The Mediterranean in an Age of Globalisation
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
Of Coalition and Speed: Passage and Duration of Statutes in Uruguay's Parliament, 1985-2000
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. ...
Dealing with Tyranny: International Sanctions and Autocrats’ Duration
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, ...
Comparing Governmental Agendas: Evolution of the Prioritization of Issues in the USA and Spain
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 ...
Explaining Variation in Organizational Change: The Reform of Human Resource Management in the European Commission and the OECD
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 ...
The Ideas Debate in International and European Studies: Towards a Cartography and Critical Assessment
The appeal to ideas as causal variables and/or constitutive features of political processes increasingly characterises political analysis. Yet, perhaps because of the pace of this ideational intrusion, too often ideas have ...
Europeanization and the Emergence of a European Society
This article examines the European integration process from a sociological perspective, where the main focus is the examination of the social consequences of the integration process. The European Union has advanced ...
