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Accountability in the EU's para‐regulatory state: The case of the Economic and Monetary Union
Abstract This article revisits Majone's famous argument about accountability in the regulatory state in reference to the European Union's (EU) Economic and Monetary Union. We show that the EU has entered the stage of a “para‐regulatory state” marked by increasing EU regulation in areas linked to core state powers.
Mark Dawson, Adina Maricut‐Akbik
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Summary Agroecological transitions have the potential to deliver multiple environmental and social benefits. However socio‐economic barriers have prevented those transitions in many European contexts. This article aims to inform policymakers about policy instruments that can foster agroecological transitions in Europe, especially by removing key socio ...
Oriana Gava +9 more
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Summary Food systems require reorientation to take greater account of interactions with the environment, economy, health and society. Transitions to agroecological farming practices and systems can connect policy areas and realise environmental, economic and social aims.
David Miller +20 more
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Summary Successful transitions to agroecology require shared understanding of the sustainability implications of transitions for food systems. To gain such understanding, a transdisciplinary approach is increasingly called for by funders, end users of research and scientists.
Gerald Schwarz +19 more
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Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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A critical appraisal of individual social capital in crisis response
Abstract While there is still a vast body of scholarly research in crisis and disaster management that considers social capital an asset for lessening negative impacts from crises, this paper investigates an underexplored aspect of social capital—its microlevel positive and negative instances in the crisis response—a quite neglected phase of the crisis
Claudia Morsut +5 more
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Profils d’un lectorat: Enquête sur les signatures d’énigmes du Mercure de France (1724‐1778)
Abstract Little is known about the distribution of ancien régime French periodicals and there are few sources on readers’ geographical origins and social positions. Most studies rely on subscriber lists, but subscription is not the only possible mode of acquisition.
Timothée Léchot
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Abstract This research examines the multiple and contradictory racialization of white identities in China's booming ESL (English as a second language) industry. China represents a new geography of whiteness studies beyond Euro‐America due to the transformation of corporeal whiteness into a minority identity as a result of international migration.
Shanshan Lan
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Abstract In the EU, territorial inequalities in terms of income and poverty have been broadly analysed at the national and regional levels. However, mainly due to the lack of reliable data, very little attention has been paid to territorial inequalities within European regions, namely, at a more local level, such as in metropolitan areas, cities or ...
Alberto Díaz Dapena +3 more
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This paper has two objectives. First, to define a concept of the « imaginary production of space » which combines Berque’s theory of landscape to the main developments of the « sciences de l’imaginaire » in order to give a theoretical basis to the idea ...
Vincent Calay
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