Publications des institutions partenaires
Social movements and policy change: Direct, mediated, or joint effect?
In this paper, we discuss the relation between social movements, public opinion, and political alliances with respect to the impact of movements on public policy. We first discuss the existing literature and sketch three broad models of the role of public opinion and political alliances (or the absence of such role) in facilitating the task of social movements in producing policy…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Social networks and individual preferences: Explaining differential participation in social movements
This article seeks to explain differential participation in social movements. People are not brought to collective action at the same level of intensity. Some become core activists, while others invest only little time and effort. We test a number of hypotheses drawn from the social networks and the rationalist perspectives on individual engagement by means of survey data on…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Political coalitions, face-to-face interactions, and the public sphere: An examination of the determinants of repression with protest event data
In this paper we focus on the handling by the police of mass demonstrations in Switzerland during the past three decades. Our aim is to single out the determinants of police intervention during these protest events. We look at three sets of potential causes: (1) the configuration of power (i.e. political alliances and coalitions), (2) face-to-face interactions between protesters and…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Contentious politics in complex societies: New social movements between conflict and cooperation
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
From contention to democracy
From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political and cultural change. Three broad types of movement-change nexus…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Social movements and institutional change: Intended consequence or by-product?
Social movements can have an impact on institutions by aiming explicitly at institutional change or by pursuing policy goals. In the former situation, their chances of success depends on factors internal and external to the movements. In the latter situation, the contribution of policy-oriented movements to institutional reform can be seen as a by-product of their action. A process…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Social movements and change: Incorporation, transformation, and democratization
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
European Economic Area and Switzerland - EU Bilateral Agreements in Comparative Perspective : What Lessons?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Resistant Modelling of Income Distributions and Inequality Measures
We review the use and the interpretation of some robustness concepts and techniques in some economic applications. We focus on estimation techniques in income distribution analysis and we discuss the reliability of inequality measures.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
The cooperation between social movements and the state: Dimensions, conditions, and implications
Social movements can have an impact on institutions by aiming explicitly at institutional change or by pursuing policy goals. In the former situation, their chances of success depends on factors internal and external to the movements. In the latter situation, the contribution of policy-oriented movements to institutional reform can be seen as a by-product of their action. A process…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Vaclav Havel's moral state : a Kohlbergian approach
What does it mean to be moral ? What does it mean to be a moral political man ? This contribution takes Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development as the analytical frame to answer these questions. Based on the writings of Vaclav Havel, political dissident and then first president of the postcommunist Tchecoslovakian Republic, our study displays how emblematic a moral man…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions: The Swedish Employer Offensive in Comparative Perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Social Movements and Institutional Selectivity
Contrary to what is usually implied by work on the relationship between political opportunity structures and social movements, political institutions are not a general setting offering or denying formal access and political opportunities to every challenge, but rather favor certain types of movements and constrain others. This process of institutional selectivity depends on the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Modelling Income Distribution in Spain: A Robust Parametric Approach
This paper presents a robust estimation of two income distribution models using Spanish data for the period 1990-91 under three different concepts of income. The effect on the estimates of the Theil index due to the choice of the definition of income and of the estimation method is also analysed.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
The Theory of Transfers in a Multilateral World: The Customs Union Case with Structural Adjustment
In this paper the transfer problem is analysed in a three country, three commodity (including one non-traded good) trade model where two countries belong to a customs union. The three countries A, B and C each produce three goods and engage in an asymmetric pattern of trade. Countries A and B form a customs union and C remains outside the union. Several results are obtained.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
From Comparative Public Policy to Political Economy: Putting Political Institutions in their Place and Taking Interests Seriously
The historical institutionalist tradition in comparative politics commonly assigns analytical primacy to political institutions. Whereas this polity-centeredness may be quite justifiable for purposes of comparative public policy, students of comparative political economy should pay systematic attention not only to economic institutions but also to a range of economic-structural…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1995
Are Grouped Data Robustly Fitted?
In this paper we compute the IF of a general class of estimators for grouped data, namely the class of MPE. We find that this IF can be large although it is bounded. Therefore, we propose a more general class of estimators, the MGP-estimators, which include the class of estimators based on the power divergence statistic and permits to define robust estimators. By analogy with Hampel…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1995
Choosing between two parametric models robustly
In this paper we propose a robust version of Cox-type test statistics for the choice between two non-nested hypotheses. We first show that the influence of small amounts of contamination in the data on the test decision can be very large. Secondly we build a robust test statistic by using the results on robust parametric tests available in the literature and show that the level of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1995
Income inequality decomposition by income source and the breakdown of inequality differences between two population subgroups
This study analyses first the impact of various income sources on overall income inequality in Switzerland in 1980, on the basis of the Income and Wealth Survey which was conducted during that year. The specific effect of each of these income sources is analyzed separately for male- and female-headed households and an attempt is made to also determine their role in explaining the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1995
Robustness Properties of Poverty Indices
Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an important commonly used subclass of poverty measures will be robust…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1994
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