infonet-economy

Since the 2000s, facing the increasing globalization and commodification of common-pool resources, community-based organizations managing water and forests at the local scale started to create transnational networks. Their main goal is to get a direct representation in international decision-making arenas, as to promote their model of community-based governance and transform existing...

Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were...

Traditional corporatist groups such as business groups and unions still play an important role in many countries, and the rumors exaggerates the decline of corporatist structures. Nevertheless citizen groups have grown in number and political importance. We show that Danish and Swiss citizen groups have gained better access to the administrative and the parliamentary venues in the...

Dieses Kapitel beschreibt die Entwicklung der Evaluationskultur in sechs kantonalen Verwaltungseinheiten im Zeitraum von 2000 bis 2013 und geht der Frage nach, ob sich die Evaluationskultur der jeweiligen Verwaltungseinheiten eher politikfeld- oder eher kantonsspezifisch entwickelt hat. Zur Untersuchung der Entwicklung der Evaluationskultur wurde ein Analyserahmen verwendet, der sich...

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...

Along the ever increasing data size and model complexity, an important challenge frequently encountered in constructing new estimators or in implementing a classical one such as the maximum likelihood estimator, is the computational aspect of the estimation procedure. To carry out estimation, approximate methods such as pseudo-likelihood functions or approximated estimating equations...