Recognised and shaped by regulatory strategies pulling in different directions, the European consumer may be portrayed as a fractured subject. By drawing from the Pasta and Hormones litigation, the article investigates its multiple and heterogeneous identities as resulting from the interaction...

Choice and competition policies in public services are popular reform strategies in the member states of the European Union (EU). The European choice agenda is based on the view in the EU of, "social policy as a productive factor," and the need for, "modernisation," of the EU welfare states....

This paper conducts an ontological inquiry into the identity of the European Union, and seeks to establish whether its core identity is of a cultural or political nature through looking at the debate generated by Turkey’s application for EU membership. The concepts of ‘the other’, the...

“Unity in Diversity” was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it into the Treaty of Lisbon. It deserves to be kept alive in a new constitutional perspective, namely the re-conceptualisation of European law as new type of...

This paper empirically examines the regional effects of sharing a single currency on bilateral trade with other European Union partners. It takes advantage of a gravity specification of bilateral trade between 17 Spanish regions and 13 European countries over the period 1997-2004, which in turn...

The impact of unions on productivity has been an important area of debate in industrial relations and economics. The theoretical and empirical literature has produced conflicting results. In this paper, meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis is used to quantify the association between unions...

Pour le chercheur, la these est un ecrit essentiel. Elle represente une somme de travail considerable qui l'occupe en moyenne un peu plus de quatre ans. L'accumulation de connaissances dont elle est l'objet et la problematique choisie conditionnent en general fortement les travaux qui s'en...

L'etape preliminaire a toute recherche consiste a examiner la litterature portant sur son objet d'etude. Une des formes que ce processus peut prendre consiste a generaliser les resultats d'etudes singulieres, c'est-a-dire realiser une revue integrative de la litterature. Cette demarche de...