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Is the Border Effect an Artefact of Geographical Aggregation?

2011

The existence of a large border effect is considered as one of the main puzzles of international macroeconomics. We show that the border effect is, to a large extent, an artefact of geographic concentration. In order to do so we combine international flows with intra-national flows data characterised by a high geographic grid. At this fine grid, intra-national flows are highly localised and dropping sharply with distance. The use of a small geographical unit of reference to measure intra-national bilateral trade flows allows to estimating correctly the negative impact of distance on shipments. When we use sector disaggregated export flows of 50 Spanish provinces in years 2000 and 2005 split…

Sportsponsoring als Geschenksimulation und Status-Spiel

2003

Sportsponsoring wird in der Fachliteratur als wirtschaftlich-rational begrundetes Leistungs-Gegenleistungs-Verhaltnis definiert. In der Offentlichkeitsarbeit von Sponsoren ist aber vielfach zu beobachten, dass dieses Austauschverhaltnis als Geschenk dargestellt wird. Im folgenden Beitrag wird an Beispielen belegt, dass dieser Maskierung eines Geschafts als selbstlose Gabe ein anthropologisches Muster zugrunde liegt, das auf einem Prestigedefizit rein wirtschaftlichen Handelns beruht. Daraus resultiert die Notwendigkeit der Akkumulation symbolischen Kapitals in Form eines Firmen- und Markenbilds, das Analogien zur Produktion von Glaubenssystemen und kulturellen Gutern aufweist. Der Wettbewer…

La desinformación en las redes de mensajería instantánea. Estudio de las fake news en los canales relacionados con la ultraderecha española en Telegr…

2021

espanolOne of the most uncontrolled and wides-pread sources of misinformation are the instant messaging platforms, mainly due to the privacy of the communication spaces created in them. The dissemination of false news on these networks makes it difficult to detect them and thus complicates the task of fact-checking. Both WhatsApp and Tele-gram were used and integrated in the elec-toral campaign of the previous elections in the United States (Journell, 2017; Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017), in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the Brexit (Kucharski 2016), in Brazil (Novomisky, 2018), and recently in the autonomous elections of Andalusia (Spain) (Viejo, 2018). This research takes as a case stud…

A Differentiated European Union

2020

Differentiation in the EU has substantially increased. It does not only refer to instances of (differentiation in) integration, but also (potential) disintegration. Differentiation can often be causally traced back to crises, yet it should not be equated with ‘crisis’. However, the literature has only scarcely discussed the putative link between crisis and differentiated integration. Fundamentally, demands for differentiation need to be treated as both a cause and an effect of integration. Thus, differentiation should be acknowledged as a persistent feature of European integration. The chapter discusses the development of differentiation in European integration and reflects upon the scholar…

Conclusion

2019

The need for internships and school practices as a method of bridging the gap between education and industry in Romania

2017

Abstract This paper presents the current situation of school practice and internships as ways of reducing the gap between the labor market and education. In the first part, there is highlighted the current situation of Romania comparing with other European countries when it comes about graduates finding a job in their field of studies. Among the biggest issues encountered by a young graduate we see that "Lack of experience” play a big role in not finding a proper job in our country after graduation. So the need to reduce this problem is vital in order to ease finding a job in the studies areas for graduates. A list of advantages is presented to encourage internships/school practice among th…

Measuring the ‘Bridging’ versus ‘Bonding’ Nature of Social Networks: A Proposal for Integrating Existing Measures

2010

Recent research illustrates that two distinct interpretations and operationalizations of ‘bridging’ and ‘bonding’ social networks co-exist in the literature (based on links between diverse networks or between socio-economic groups within a given network, respectively), and that these do not coincide in empirical applications. The present contribution first confirms this conclusion using data from the United Kingdom. Then, we suggest a simple way to integrate both existing approaches into a more general measure of bridging and bonding. Applying this more general index to UK and Flemish data, a) provides stronger empirical support for the idea that memberships in bridging groups are more str…

Die parlamentarische Vertretung der Heimatvertriebenen

2014

Dieser Artikel setzt sich mit den vielfältigen Versuchen der Heimatvertriebenen auseinander, sich in den westdeutschen Institutionen Gehör zu verschaffen. Von Forderungen nach Sitzen im Bundesrat über die Schaffung mächtiger Interessenvertretungen, um die Außenpolitik der Bundesregierung zu beeinflussen, bis zur Gründung einer den Anliegen der Vertriebenen verpflichteten Partei haben sich die Heimatvertriebenen unaufhörlich engagiert, um das Rad der Geschichte zurückzudrehen.

Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demo…

2019

In German politics, concepts of parliamentarism and the relationship between parliamentarism and democracy have evolved since the nineteenth century. Politicians, citizens and scholars have regularly redefined and challenged conceptions of parliament’s task of representation, public debate and legitimate decision-making in different historical circumstances. One such crucial phase in re-evaluating and redefining conceptions of democracy in Germany was the second half of the 1990s, when a vigorous anti-nuclear movement arose. In the German federal parliament, members had to explain their understandings of German democracy. The tradition of liberal, representative democracy was in a conflict …

Les Républicains au Congrès

2015

En 1994, les Républicains élus à la Chambre des représentants promettaient une révolution conservatrice qui devait réduire laplace de l’État fédéral dans la société américaine. Vingt ans plus tard, ce livre dresse le bilan législatif de la longue période de domination républicaine sur la colline du Capitole pour s’interroger sur la portée de la révolution annoncée. En étudiant notamment l’impact des élus du GOP sur la politique budgétaire et les réformes, adoptées ou avortées, de l’État-Provi- dence américain, on observe un écart spectaculaire entre les paroles et les actes. Comment expliquer cet échec relatif de la révolution conservatrice? Quels obstacles éle…