infonet-economy

Les données de panel sont aujourd'hui d'une importance capitale dans l'analyse du comportement des micro-unités. Or dans beaucoup de pays, ces données n'existent pas encore. A la place, les chercheurs peuvent utiliser des enquêtes répétées. Dans un pareil cas, vu l'impossibilité de suivre la même unité dans le temps, on passe au niveau cohorte tout en...

To what extent does the inclusion of marginalized groups in policymaking institutions influence policy outcomes? This article examines whether and under which conditions female legislators are more likely to represent women’s interests compared to male legislators. Building on the literature on women’s substantive representation, it is argued that the advocacy of women’s interests by...

One of the most important factors which prevent developing countries from reaching a sustainable development is their vulnerability to international price shocks and to natural shocks. Opening trade with developed countries, which are far geographically and different in terms of production patterns could increase developing countries' vulnerability. On the one hand, this leads...

James Rule is puzzled by the ‘idiosyncratic’ approach that I take to the philosophical study of privacy. As evidence for this idiosyncracy, he cites my relative indifference to the distinction between consequentialist and deontological perspectives on privacy although these differences are proof of ‘intricate, yet enormously consequential intellectual tensions’. My choice of...

This article operationalizes the mediatization of politics by comparing the expressed preferences toward the mass media between different groups of members of parliament (MPs) in three conflicted legislative decision-making processes in Switzerland. Different from elections, MPs face a more pronounced tension between audience-oriented and policy-oriented activities in legislative...

Since the 2000s, local communities responsible for the management of common-pool resources, such as water or forest, have started to organize themselves regionally in order to promote their mode of community-based governance. Such a change in the scale of governance and in the agency of local communities reflects the on-going globalization of common-pool resources. Furthermore, it...

The Water-Energy-Land Use-Ecosystems Nexus Methodology for Transboundary Basins has been developed specifically for shared water bodies, to assess intersectoral linkages, trade-offs and benefits. It has been developed under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water...

This article deals with the evolution of class voting in Switzerland from 1971 to 2011. It shows that class cleavage (working class versus owners/employers) has weakened in Switzerland. The existence of a large right-wing party with strong support among the working class contributes to blurring the traditional class divisions in voting. However, the analysis indicates that class...