Civil Law (Books and Journals)
1711 results for Civil Law (Books and Journals)
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Civil society monitoring report on implementation of the national Roma integration strategy in Cyprus. Identifying blind spots in Roma inclusion polic
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European Union Publications Office, 2021
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La responsabilidad civil derivada de los daños causados por sistemas inteligentes y su aseguramiento. Análisis del tratamiento ofrecido por la EU
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Dykinson, 2021
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La Unión Europea en América Latina y el Caribe. Lógicas y políticas de un actor global
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Universidad Sergio Arboleda, 2015
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Revista do Programa de Direito da União Europeia - Vol.4
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FGV - Direito Rio, 2015
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El régimen de participación en las ganancias desde una perspectiva europea
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Dykinson, 2014
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La EUropeización del territorio
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Dykinson, 2014
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Revista do Programa de Direito da União Europeia - Vol.3
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FGV - Direito Rio, 2014
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Derecho de la competencia europeo y español. Volumen XI
Dykinson, 2013
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La cláusula penal ante la armonización del derecho contractual europeo
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Dykinson, 2009
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Data Protection in e-Government in European Regions and Cities
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Dykinson, 2006
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Matrimonio y convivencia en pareja en el ambito de la Union Europea. Hacia un nuevo modelo de matrimonio
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Dykinson, 2006
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Civil Law
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European Union Publications Office, 2005
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Party‐interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited
We examine the existence and strength of organizational ties between parties and interest groups by innovating on classic resource exchange theory. First, we propose that the nature of interest groups’ policy orientation and their general organizational capacity primarily explain the presence of ties, that is, ties are less likely to materialize when groups lack ideological policy goals and have...
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Economic sanctions and labour rights abuses in target countries
Though much research has focused on major political and humanitarian consequences of economic sanctions, little is known about how economic sanctions affect economic rights and freedoms in target countries. Often, sanctions work is divided into two main theoretical camps: direct economic effects and indirect human rights effects. These two bodies of work have significantly expanded our cumulative
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Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness
Are personal stories more effective in shaping opinion than experts’ endorsements? This study investigates the persuasiveness of personal stories and expert endorsements in shaping public opinion on education spending and pollution reduction policies. Using a survey experiment in Spain, we found that personal stories consistently increased support for both policies, with a particularly strong...
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Determining decidability: How issue salience divergence structures party systems and affects citizens
This paper argues that issue salience divergence – the extent to which parties in a party system diverge in their allocation of salience across issues – is a key characteristic of party system decidability. Elections do not only matter in that politicians and parties with different policy positions may come to power. They can also matter if competing elites emphasize different issues. Using data...
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The implications of cohabitation between working age children and parents for political opinions
A large number of young adults still live with their parents because they have difficulties entering the job market, because of low wages, or the cost of housing. Despite much research in social science on the consequences of this salient social trend, we lack an understanding of its implications for public opinion. This research note fills this gap by investigating whether such living...
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Mainstream parties and global warming: What determines parties’ engagement in climate protection?
Global warming is not only a serious threat for humanity but increasingly structures political competition in Western Europe. The rise of green (niche) parties and public awareness of the issue pressure mainstream parties to emphasise climate protection. Yet, while scholars reflect on the factors influencing mainstream parties’ environmental agendas, we know little about what triggers climate...
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Subjective losers of globalization
Recent political changes in established democracies have led to a new cleavage, often described as a juxtaposition of ‘winners’ and ‘losers of globalization’. Despite a growing interest in subjective group membership and identity, previous research has not studied whether individuals actually categorize themselves as globalization winners or losers and what effect this has. Based on survey data...
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The electoral risks of austerity
Does austerity influence incumbent support? Existing studies struggle with conceptualizing the evolution of austerity's impact over time, estimating a causal effect, and analysing the reactions of different voters. This study theorizes that the effect of austerity on electoral preferences is not immediate, but gradual, as voters find out about the measures' consequences via the media. It...
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The political space in the European parliament: Measuring MEPs' preferences amid the rise of Euroscepticism
The 2014–2019 European Parliament (EP) contained an unprecedented number of Eurosceptic Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). These changes reflected a growing politicisation of European integration in which conflicts between those opposing the process and those favouring it became more pronounced. Using a unique time series of surveys of the European parliamentarians, we examine how far the
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Social action as a route to the ballot box: Can youth volunteering reduce inequalities in turnout?
A serious challenge facing Western democracies is the falling propensity of successive cohorts of citizens to vote. Over the last 50 years, newly eligible voters – particularly from poorer backgrounds – have become less likely to vote in their first elections, and more likely to develop habits of non‐voting. This trend has prompted greater interest in policies with the potential to increase first‐
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International oversight of fiscal discipline
Fiscal discipline, the sustainable balancing of government outlays with revenues, is one of the most extensively theorized and empirically investigated objects of inquiry in political economy. Yet, studies covering European Union (EU) countries have mostly ignored the oversight of national budgets via the EU excessive deficit procedure. I explain why this surveillance engenders lower deficits and
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Populism in the eye of the beholder? A conjoint experiment on citizens’ identification of populists
Despite decades of research on the nature and characteristics of populism, and on how political actors interpret populist attitudes, the study of how the public identify populist politicians remains a largely unexplored topic. Is populism in the eye of the beholder? What causes voters to perceive a political actor as populist? Is there any systematic heterogeneity in the evaluation of candidates...
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The place of political experience in lobbyist careers: Decisive, divergent or diverse?
There is broad consensus that lobbyists with government experience are valuable to those who employ them, principally because they possess contacts in government and unique insights into the policy process. Yet the near exclusive focus on government experience as the defining feature of lobbyist careers, means the literature has neglected analysis of the mix of different (and important)...
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Explaining the ‘democratic malaise’ in unequal societies: Inequality, external efficacy and political trust
Previous scholarship suggests that rising inequality in democracies suppresses trust in institutions. However, the mechanism behind this has not clearly been identified. This paper investigates the proposition that income inequality leads to increased democratic distrust by depressing perceptions of external efficacy. Based on time‐series cross‐sectional survey data from the European Social...
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The legislative cost of ruling: Voter punishment of governing parties fuels legislator party dissent
Political parties in office generally incur a cost of ruling among the electorate. This article considers the broader implications of this phenomenon for democratic governance. We argue that the electoral cost a party incurs in office entails that its individual legislators become more inclined to vote against the party line as a way to distance themselves from the deteriorating party brand. We...
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Political ambition and opposition legislative review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device
Recent research on executive–legislative relations in parliamentary democracies has shown that members of majority parties submit amendments to government bills to police the coalition compromise and to distinguish themselves from their coalition partners. It is poorly understood, however, what motivates members of the opposition to engage in the resource‐intensive work of proposing changes to...
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The links between basic human values and political secularism: Evidence from Germany
Scholarly interest in political secularism is currently growing. Political secularism is not the absence of religious belief, membership or practice, but the conviction that politics and religion should be kept separate and that religious arguments should have no standing in political debates. Little is known about the roots of this attitude, particularly outside the United States. This is...
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Those were the what? Contents of nostalgia, relative deprivation and radical right support
Recent research suggests that emotions are a central motivation for radical right voting. One emotion that has gained particular interest is nostalgia: Radical right politicians use nostalgic rhetoric, and feeling nostalgic is associated with radical right support. However, while nostalgia is widely and frequently experienced, previous work differentiates personal contents of nostalgia (e.g.,...
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The people versus the money: What drives interest group influence in the European Union?
This paper evaluates whether lobbying influence is open to the highest bidder or boosted by congruence with popular opinion. Common wisdom holds that well‐endowed organizations prevail in lobbying battles. This perception contrasts with recent observations, which point to the decisive role of public opinion. This paper unites these seemingly contrasting stances by arguing that both economic...
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Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective
A large and growing body of research draws attention to the rising salience of socio‐cultural and identitarian issues and, potentially, the emergence of a new political cleavage that divides voters on those issues. However, the micro‐foundations of this transformation are less well understood. Here we take a voter‐perspective to evaluate how party competition has been restructured in the eyes of...
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EU Cohesion Policy and Inter‐regional Risk‐sharing: First Evidence and Lessons Learned
We provide the first evidence of the role played by the Cohesion Policy in terms of insurance against income shocks affecting the European Union (EU) regions. By following state‐of‐the‐art modelling, we measured income risk‐sharing amongst 270 NUTS‐2 regions over two concluded programming periods (2000–2006 and 2007–2013), distinguishing across several sub‐groups of regions characterized by...
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The Changing Discourses of EU Enlargement: A Longitudinal Analysis of National Parliamentary Debates
Domestic support for EU enlargement across existing member states is understood to have shifted significantly since 2004. But, how? Here, we explore how enlargement has been framed discursively in the national parliaments of eight member states. Our dataset comprises over 18,000 statements from 1989 to 2019. We link our exploration to alternative explanations for change: IR‐based shifts in how...
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Only if You Play by the Norms! Insider Norms and Outsider Involvement in Eurogroup and Eurogroup Working Group Interaction During the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Reflections on the sovereign debt crisis often portray the Eurogroup and the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) as inaccessible for euro area outsiders. Yet, common wisdom suggests that Council representatives can circumvent exclusion due to differentiated integration (DI) by complying with insider norms. This article studies whether and how compliance with procedural norms socialised amongst...
- The Failure of Remain: Anti‐Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom, by A. Fagan and S. Van Kessel (Montreal & Kingston; London; Chicago: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2023, ISBN 9780228014133); vii+193 pp., $49.95 USD paperback.
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Indicative Planning and France's Backstage Contribution to Eurozone Governance
This article examines the history of indicative planning in France to challenge conceptions of Eurozone governance. French planning is seen as a road not taken in Europe. Instead, the Eurozone is conceptualised through planning's antagonist – German ordoliberalism. Key features of this are rules‐based austerity and price stability pursued by an independent central bank. Scholars have, however,...
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Seniority and Ideological Proximity? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Appointment of Party Group Coordinators in the European Parliament
Group coordinators have a key role in shaping coherent policy agendas in European Parliament (EP) committees and in building consensus about the party line among the group's specialists. They also yield considerable discretion and influence legislative outcomes through their selection of rapporteurs. This article builds and expands on previous research to analyse longitudinally the determinants...
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The Role of EEAS Chairs in Council Negotiations on Foreign and Security Policy Post‐Lisbon
This article examines the impact of the introduction of a permanent chair in the area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The Lisbon Treaty transferred the functions of the rotating Presidency to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, represented at lower levels by officials from the European External Action Service (EEAS). Whilst the permanent chair was...
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Working with the EU: How Discourses Shape the Application of EU State Aid Rules
State aid rules are an important part of the European Union's (EU) competition policy that aims to ensure a fair competition in the common market. These rules directly affect national and sub‐national governments of member states, which are sometimes confronted with different and opposing claims about what to do. The question is how implementing civil servants interpret and resolve these claims...
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Awakening the Europhile Giant: EU Issue Voting in Western and Central‐Eastern Europe
Many works have analysed EU issue voting, showing that European integration affects electoral preferences. This article posits that EU issues have increasingly influenced party preferences, boosting their effects and, in particular, on Europhile parties. Several punctuation points – authority transfer towards the EU, party politicisation efforts and a multiple set of crises – have occurred, with...