infonet-economy

Bien que neutre, la Suisse s’est retrouvée dans la nécessité de s’armer pour faire face aux menaces de la seconde guerre mondiale. La paix revenue, elle a disposé d’un important stock d’armement. Deux catastrophes – mai 1946 et décembre 1947 – entourant le stockage terrestre de munitions enclenchent le processus public de décision relatif à la gestion de cet excédent. Pour faire face...

Using data from the European Social Survey (2002-14), this paper explores the effect of union membership on support for redistribution. We hypothesize that the wage-bargaining practices of unions promote egalitarian distributive norms, which lead union members to support redistribution, and that this effect is strongest among high-wage workers. Consistent with our expectations, the...

Sur demande de la Délégation administrative de l'Assemblée fédérale, les Services du Parlement ont mandaté des chercheurs de l'Université de Genève (Département de science politique et relations internationales et Institut de recherche appliquée en économie et gestion) pour réaliser une étude scientifique devant répondre à trois questions: • Quel est le montant du revenu...

This research note presents an innovative dataset of Swiss MPs' interest ties between 2000-2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties per MP has more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid-2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties between MPs and interest groups, showing the...

The Institutional Resource Regime framework appears successful in comparing natural resource governance systems but unable to provide a common and persuasive explanation of the evolution of these systems. To fill this gap, the concepts of institutional complexity trap and transversal transaction costs (TTC) have been recently put forward. IRRs tend to fall into an institutional...

In this paper, my primary goal is to test if vote conversion is in line with voters' perceptions of parties' competence, i.e. if the competence change in favor of a party during the political campaign triggers vote conversion in favor of this same party. Then, I assess the moderating role of saliency and political knowledge and the difference between ‘valence' and...

The destabilization of Eastern Europe and of the Southern Mediterranean has exposed the limits of the European peace project. Obviously, the European Neighbourhood Policy has not succeeded in boosting peace and prosperity. This article attributes this failure to a combination of functionalist hubris and political myopia that emanates from the European Union's peculiar...

Labour standards are one of the most contested issues in economic relations between developed countries and emerging markets. As attempts to codify such standards in the WTO have failed, the EU and the US have intensified their efforts to promote them in bilateral and regional Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Whereas this practice has been quite consistent across the globe, the...