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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...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2018

Hypothesis-Testing Demands Trustworthy Data—A Simulation Approach to Inferential Statistics Advocating the Research Program Strategy

In psychology as elsewhere, the main statistical inference strategy to establish empirical effects is null-hypothesis significance testing (NHST). The recent failure to replicate allegedly well-established NHST-results, however, implies that such results lack sufficient statistical power, and thus feature unacceptably high error-rates. Using data-simulation to estimate the error-...

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Université de Genève

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Français / 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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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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 ?

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Université de Genève

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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...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2018

The Effect of FRAND Commitments on Patent Remedies

This chapter addresses a special category of cases in which an asserted patent is, or has been declared to be, essential to the implementation of a collaboratively-developed voluntary consensus standard, and the holder of that patent has agreed to license it to implementers of the standard on terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND). In this chapter, we explore...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2018

Indoor occupancy sensing with ultrasounds

As human beings, we rely on audible sounds as one way to communicate between each other and to infer information about our surrounding environment. Similarly, ultrasounds are used by some species in the animal kingdom to sense objects around them and get relevant information about their environment. In this thesis, we build on the inherent characteristics of ultrasounds and explore...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2018

Fast prototyping and deformation of virtual humans

The creation of virtual representations of real humans is a challenging task that has been investigated for the last three decades. It utilizes a multi-dimensional approach that is used extensively in computer graphics and computer animation applications, and it also involves various fields. This work focuses on facilitating and improving the process of the representation and...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2018

Artificial agents as social companions: design guidelines for emotional interactions

Virtual and robotic agents are becoming increasingly prominent, taking on a variety of everyday life roles (i.e., assistants, tutors, coaches, companions). Displaying social and affective behaviour is a necessary requirement when agents need to interact and collaborate with humans. Nevertheless, current agent prototypes lack important skills, such as recognising human emotions,...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2018

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