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Trois modèles comparés de gestion urbaine de l’eau en Europe: régulation des services, gestion des réseaux et participation à la decision
La gestion des services d’eau urbains en Europe dépend d’une règle commune, la Directive Cadre sur l’Eau. Promulguée en 2000, cette directive européenne vise à moderniser et accroitre la soutenabilité de la gestion de l’eau en instituant des principes communs. Dans le cas des services d’eau, elle s’accompagne de directives sur les marchés publiques, la concurrence et la délégation.…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2018
Intergenerational mobility in the 19th century: micro-level evidence from the city of Zurich
We analyze social mobility of decennial citizenry cohorts of Zurich born between 1780 and 1870. We categorize individuals according to their occupations and use different measures to show the level, change, and components of intergenerational mobility. Mobility was imperfect and weakly decreasing over time. Both level and change are driven by intergenerational persistence of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex updates chosen value according to choice set size
Having chosen an item typically increases the subjective value of the chosen item, and people generally enjoy making choices from larger choice sets. However, having too many items to choose from can reduce the value of chosen items—for example, because of conflict or choice difficulty. In this study, we investigated the effects of choice set size on behavioral and neural value…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Multigrading and child achievement
We exploit Italian law DPR 81/2009, which determines class composition, as an instrument to identify the causal effect of grouping students of different grades into a single class (multigrading) on children cognitive achievement. This article focuses on 7-year-old students—those at the beginning of their formal education. Results suggest that attendance in multigrade classes versus…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Policy evaluation in parliament: interest groups as catalysts
Members of Parliament (MPs) request policy evaluations and use the resultant findings to inform law-making and hold the government to account. Since most elected representatives have developed strong ties to interest groups, one might wonder whether these privileged relationships influence MPs' parliamentary behavior. This study investigates how MPs' affiliations to groups…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Work opportunities and organizational commitment in international organizations
This article applies social exchange theory to investigate the relationships between work opportunities and organizational commitment in four United Nations agencies. It demonstrates that international civil servants who are satisfied with altruistic, social, and extrinsic work opportunities are more likely to declare high levels of organizational commitment. Furthermore, the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Interest groups as multi-venue players
Whereas some recent studies underline interest groups’ strategy to specialize in certain venues when lobbying, we investigate under which conditions groups develop a multi-venue strategy. This study examines and compares groups' advocacy activities during three issues that were each debated in California and Switzerland. Empirical evidence shows that the policy issue at stake…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Economic context and attitudes towards the welfare state: the relationship between (perceived) unemployment risk and demand for social policy
Welfare states provide individuals with an insurance against a variety of risks. Therefore, how much an individual is exposed to these risks is expected to influence their support for social spending. In this chapter, we focus on the evolution of perceived unemployment risk and its relationship with attitudes towards social policy in Switzerland over the 1999–2014 period. Aggregate…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Europe’s Existential Crisis. Facing the Threats and Challenges
The European Union is in a state of emergency. The crisis it is facing today is a global one, rather than merely sector-specific as in the past. It therefore requires a global response, in other words at a political level. This is the central message conveyed by this selection of texts. Having presented some of the main challenges, both internal and external, with which the Union is…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
The radical right, the labour movement and the competition for the workers’ vote
This article analyses the capacity of radical right parties to attract support from un-ion members in recent elections in Western Europe. It is argued that unionized vot-ers resist the appeals of the radical right better than non-union members. Using data from the European Social Survey 2010–2016, the article shows that union members are overall less likely to vote for the radical…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Les évolutions conceptuelles du projet urbain dans les années 1960-1970
Il s'agit de s'interroger sur la vision aménagiste du Président Georges Pompidou afin de percevoir les conditions élémentaires à réunir pour faire de l'urbanisme le territoire du bonheur des français. Comment le bonheur pompidolien pourrait-il être appréhendé dans une triple logique des modalités de contestation bonheur des années cinquante, des nouvelles aspirations…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2018
L'Assemblea federale: un parlamento di milizia in fase di professionalizzazione
Come già accennato nell’introduzione di questo libro, è possibile distinguere almeno tre dimensioni della professionalizzazione politica, in particolare quella individuale, quella che tiene conto delle funzioni politiche e, infine, quella che concerne le istituzioni politiche. Questo capitolo intende illustrare più precisamente se e come le due ultime dimensioni hanno potuto…
Institution partenaire
Italiano / 01/01/2018
The most reluctant country with regard to european integration
Switzerland is unique in its reluctance to join the EU. Indeed, all governments and parliaments in Europe have at least once in their history sought to become a member. This is not the case for Switzerland, which has never started accession negotiations and does not intend to do so soon. Currently the debate is between supporters of maintaining bilateral agreements with the EU and…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Brexit, swiss "model", pros and cons in comparative perspective
Contents 1- A summary of the main argument. 2- Two comparative tables of different (integration) regimes for third States. 3- A list of 12 common misconceptions on the Swiss-EU agreement. 1- Summary Main argument : Swiss-EU bilateral agreements are the worst form of EU agreement with (close) third countries, except for all the others.- This assertion is based on the assumption…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
More equal than others: Assessing economic and citizen groups' access across policymaking venues
This study assesses whether economic interest groups (business associations and trade unions) enjoy better access to the policymaking process than citizen groups. It compares the interest group population in Switzerland with those sets of groups present in the administrative and legislative venues. The study devises an aggregate measure of access to policymaking as a whole, which…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Composition et élection et Présidence du Conseil fédéral
La révision de l'alinéa 2 de l'article 175 proposée modifie le mode d'élection du Conseil fédérale. Les sept membres du collège gouvernemental sont toujours élus par l'Assemblée fédérale, mais plus de manière individuelle. En effet, la solution préconisée ici consiste à procéder à 1'élection d'une équipe, présentée sur une liste fermée de sept candidats…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2018
Le voucher comme outil de politique publique : une option à évaluer pour repenser le financement de l’enseignement artistique à Genève ?
Le voucher comme outil de politique publique : une option à évaluer pour repenser le financement de l’enseignement artistique à Genève ?
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2018
Classification accuracy as a substantive quantity of interest: Measuring polarization in westminster systems
Measuring the polarization of legislators and parties is a key step in understanding how politics develops over time. But in parliamentary systems—where ideological positions estimated from roll calls may not be informative—producing valid estimates is extremely challenging. We suggest a new measurement strategy that makes innovative use of the "accuracy" of machine…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Parametric inference for index functionals
In this paper, we study the finite sample accuracy of confidence intervals for index functional built via parametric bootstrap, in the case of inequality indices. To estimate the parameters of the assumed parametric data generating distribution, we propose a Generalized Method of Moment estimator that targets the quantity of interest, namely the considered inequality index. Its…
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2018
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