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The dilemma between bilateral agreements and immigration control: how would swiss voters decide?
This chapter analyzes the dilemma that Swiss citizens face between the reintroduction of some form of immigration control and the continuation of the bilateral agreements with the European Union (EU). More specifically, the purpose of the chapter is to shed light on the sociodemographic and political characteristics of the pivotal group of voters who supported the initiative against...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2020
Economic outcomes of social movements
Economic outcomes have long been neglected by students of social movements. However, recently a number of studies have emerged addressing this topic. This chapter reviews works on economic outcomes of social movements. Economic impacts of social movements are defined here as pertaining to the economic sphere either in terms of government actions to regulate the economy/impose...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Common market, normative power or super-state? Conflicting political identities in EU asylum and immigration policy
Drawing an analogy to the role of immigration policy in processes of state formation, this article argues that the development of common asylum/immigration policies is indicative of the normative tensions implied in the EU's transition from a regulatory polity towards a political Union. Based on an analysis of key legislative texts from the emergence of common immigration...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Regional migration governance – building block of global initiatives?
migration control have proliferated all over the world and occupy an important space in recent UN initiatives to boost global cooperation on migration and refugees. Unlike Europe, where these different aspects of migration policy have come under the ambit of one institution, the European Union, regional initiatives in other parts of the world tend to emerge in different fora, with...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Territory: political theory and indigenous claims. An essay on the coloniality of territory
Territory: political theory and indigenous claims. An essay on the coloniality of territory
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Environmental protection and political ideology in Germany : An analysis of party manifestos (1949-2013)
Environmental protection and political ideology in Germany : An analysis of party manifestos (1949-2013
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Political theory and the metaphysics of the self : Outline of a model-based approach
Political theory and the metaphysics of the self : Outline of a model-based approach
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
China and DAC donors: The role of corruption and natural resources in the foreign aid allocation
China and DAC donors: The role of corruption and natural resources in the foreign aid allocation
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Filling in the Resource Gap of Urban Regime Analysis to Make It Travel in Time and Space
Responding to recent studies that have argued that urban regime analysis (URA) is inappropriate for studying urban politics in Europe or in the 21st century, this article argues that URA is a powerful analytical tool to understand the dynamics of contemporary urban governance. It does so by drawing on evidence from the Swiss cities of Zurich and Bern since the turn of the millennium...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
Political theory and the metaphysics of the self: Outline of a model-based approach
Political theory and the metaphysics of the self: Outline of a model-based approach
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
The role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in subgame perfect implementation - an empirical investigation
In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo’s subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling, both in a setting with perfect information and in a setting where buyers and sellers face a small amount of uncertainty regarding the good’s value. We find that Moore–Repullo mechanisms fail to implement truth-telling in a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
The dynamics of norm formation and norm decay
Social norms are a ubiquitous feature of social life and pervade almost every aspect of human social interaction. However, despite their importance we still have relatively little empirical knowledge about the forces that drive the formation, the maintenance and the decay of social norms. In particular, our knowledge about how norms affect behavior and how norm obedience and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Efficient weighting: a more powerful test for cross-sectional anomalies
Many researchers seek factors that predict the cross-section of stock returns. The standard methodology sorts stocks according to their factor scores into quantiles and forms a corresponding long-short portfolio. Such a course of action ignores any information on the covariance matrix of stock returns. Historically, it has been difficult to estimate the covariance matrix for a large...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Voluntary disclosure in unfair contests
This paper studies incentives for the interim voluntary disclosure of verifiable information in probabilistic all-pay contests. Considered are unfair contests, i.e., contests in which, subject to activity conditions, one player (the favorite) is interim always more likely to win than the other player (the underdog). A condition is identified that ensures that a given contest is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Ventral striatal dysfunction and symptom expression in individuals with schizotypal personality traits and early psychosis
Striatal abnormalities play a crucial role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Growing evidence suggests an association between aberrant striatal activity during reward anticipation and symptom dimensions in schizophrenia. However, it is not clear whether this holds across the psychosis continuum. The aim of the present study was to investigate alterations of ventral striatal...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/01/2018
Balanced bootstrap joint confidence bands for structural impulse response functions
Constructing joint confidence bands for structural impulse response functions based on a VAR model is a difficult task because of the non-linear nature of such functions. We propose new joint confidence bands that cover the entire true structural impulse response function up to a chosen maximum horizon with a prespecified probability (1 − α), at least asymptotically. Such bands are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
In the Shadow of Sunshine Regulation: Considering Disclosure Biases
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Democratic epistemology and democratic morality: the appeal and challenges of peircean pragmatism
Does the wide distribution of political power in democracies, relative to other modes of government, result in better decisions? Specifically, do we have any reason to believe that they are better qualitatively – more reasoned, better supported by the available evidence, more deserving of support – than those which have been made by other means? In order to answer this question we...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
A computationally efficient framework for automatic inertial sensor calibration
The calibration of (low-cost) inertial sensors has become increasingly important over the past years since their use has grown exponentially in many applications going from unmanned aerial vehicle navigation to 3D-animation. However, this calibration procedure is often quite problematic since the signals issued from these sensors have a complex spectral structure and the methods...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Money vs. time: family income, maternal labor supply, and child development
We study the effect of family income and maternal hours worked on child development. Our instrumental variable analysis suggests different results for cognitive and behavioral development. An additional 1,000 USD in family income improves cognitive development by 4.4 percent of a standard deviation but has no effect on behavioral development. A yearly increase of 100 work hours...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
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