The "Rabassa Morta" in Catalan viticulture : the rise and decline of a long-term sharecropping contract, 1670s-1920s [PDF]
For long periods, and in line with recent theoretical literature, the rabassa morta sharecropping contract successfully reduced problems of moral hazard and opportunistic behavior, and provided incentives for sharecroppers to respond to market ...
Carmona, Juan, Simpson, James
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Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order [PDF]
This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international
Laqua, Daniel
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Catalysts of university social responsability into strategic planning by thematic analysis and deductive coding [PDF]
The relevance of higher education institutions (HEI) for social development is unquestionable because of their potential for contributing intellectual solutions for the social, economic, and environmental welfare of society. The current study aims to:
Barrena Martínez, Jesús +2 more
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Chronicle of the congress on "Ferdinand II and the Crown of Aragon" [PDF]
At the May 2015 meeting of the History-Archaeology Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the decision was taken to hold a congress on Ferdinand II in 2016 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the Catholic King, the nickname ...
Belenguer i Cebrià, Ernest
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The Strategic Adaptation of Party Organizations to New Information and Communication Technologies : A Study of Catalan and Spanish Parties [PDF]
Aquest document se centra en els casos dels dos principals partits espanyols (PP i PSOE) i catalans (PSC i CDC) en el període immediatament després de les eleccions generals espanyoles de maig de 2008, quan aquests celebraren els seus congressos.
Padró-Solanet Grau, Albert
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Are parties domocratizing themselves? the evolution of leardership selection in Spain (1977-2008) [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to verify, for the Spanish case, whether between 1977 and 2008 has increased the internal democracy of the major political parties (PSOE, AP / PP, PCE / IU, PNV and CDC).
Baras i Gómez, Montserrat +4 more
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Research on WASH sector, environment and water resources in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia [PDF]
Peer ReviewedPostprint (published ...
Fantaye, D. +3 more
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Choral singing in the 19th and 20th Centuries [PDF]
Since Josep Anselm Clavé created choral singing in Catalonia in 1850, it has become one element of identification of Catalan culture. When the Orfeó Català was set up in 1891 it generated an associative movement that was fundamental to the cultural life ...
Xosé Aviñoa Pérez
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"Remaining for the moment without an audience" : the Literary and Civil Commitment of Carles Riba [PDF]
Carles Riba (1893-1959) wrote several articles in which he showed his commitment to literature and reflected on the role of literature in society, as "Socrates in front of the judges" (1926), "Politicians and Intellectuals" (1927), "Literature and ...
Malé i Pegueroles, Jordi
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New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro [PDF]
From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different attempts for ordering cities ...
Remesar, Antoni
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