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Governmental Positions on European Treaty Reforms: Towards a Dynamic Approach.
Governmental positions are a powerful predictor of European treaty reforms. Yet, few empirical studies analyze the conditionalies between positions over different issues or conflict dimensions. If governmental positions are conditional upon the real or expected outcome on other issues, the sequence of decisions becomes increasingly important for our understanding of European treaty reforms. So far, not many studies analyze the sequence of intergovernmental decisions.
In the present paper, I argue that governmental preferences over the reform of the EU decision rule dependent on the delegation of competences to the EU and vice versa. Moreover, I present a statistical model which allows for estimating this conditionality. Subsequently, I apply this model to an extensive data set of reform positions revealed by national governments at the Intergovernmental Conferences (IGC) 2003/4. Next, I analyze the sequence of decision taken by this particular IGC in chronological order. For this purpose, I predict the change of governmental position in response to the decisions over subsets of issues and I compare these predictions to public statements issued by governmental leaders at the time. Finally, I discuss the implications for our understanding of the intergovernmental bargaining outcome
Peter Finke
Em ECO-REBEL v. 5, n. 2, 2019, p. 6-7, já se encontra um “A short autobiographical background” (breve pano de fundo autobiográfico). Para acessá-lo, clique em:
https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/27657/23795
In ECO-REBEL v. 5, n. 2, 2019, p. 6-7, there is “A short autobiographical background”, available here:
https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/27657/2379
Updating groundwater table class maps 1:50,000 by statistical methods: an analysis of quality versus cost
Ecocriticism, Cultural Ecology, and Literary Studies
Key words: German ecocriticism, cultural ecology, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, cultural ecosystem, cultural self-renewal, Turkish ecocriticism, discursive representation Ecocriticism is gaining increasing international recognition as a field of research that opens up new perspectives reaffirming the relevance and responsibility of the humanities, in an age of pressing social and political problems seemingly incapable of purely technological and economic solutions. Many of its most significant practitioners in Germany subscribe to the theory of Cultural Ecology. Drawing on the ideas of Gregory Bateson, Peter Finke and others, Cultural Ecology presents a new framework for understanding the particular contribution of literature and art to our general social knowledge, including knowledge about our relationship with the natural environment. Palabras clave: ecocrítica alemana, ecología cultural, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, ecosistema cultural, renacimiento cultural, ecocrítica turca, representación discursiva La ecocrítica está obteniendo cada vez más reconocimiento internacional como un campo de investigación que establece nuevas perspectivas que reafirman la relevancia y la responsabilidad de las humanidades en una era de problemas políticos y sociales urgentes que, aparentemente, no encuentran solución puramente tecnológica ni económica. Muchos de sus profesionales más importantes en Alemania se adhieren a la teoría de la Ecología Cultural. Valiéndose de las ideas de Gregory Bateson, Peter Finke y otros, se ha desarrollado un nuevo marco para entender la contribución particular de la literatura y del arte a nuestro conocimiento social general, incluyendo el conocimiento sobre nuestra relación con el entorno natural
Finke explores religious freedom in Birkett Williams Lecture
Emphasizing that almost every country has some sort of assurance of religious freedoms, Dr. Roger Finke recently delivered Ouachita Baptist University\u27s spring 2014 Birkett Williams Lecture
High-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae objects as spectral candles to measure the Extragalactic Background Light in the Fermi and air Cherenkov telescopes era
The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) is the integrated light from all the
stars that have ever formed, and spans the IR-UV range. The interaction of
very-high-energy (VHE: E>100 GeV) gamma-rays, emitted by sources located at
cosmological distances, with the intervening EBL results in electron-positron
pair production that leads to energy-dependent attenuation of the observed VHE
flux. This introduces a fundamental ambiguity in the interpretation of measured
VHE gamma-ray spectra: neither the intrinsic spectrum, nor the EBL, are
separately known -- only their combination is. In this paper we propose a
method to measure the EBL photon number density. It relies on using
simultaneous observations of BL Lac objects in the optical, X-ray, high-energy
(HE: E>100 MeV) gamma-ray (from the Fermi telescope), and VHE gamma-ray (from
Cherenkov telescopes) bands. For each source, the method involves best-fitting
the spectral energy distribution (SED) from optical through HE gamma-rays (the
latter being largely unaffected by EBL attenuation as long as z<1) with a
Synchrotron Self-Compton (SSC) model. We extrapolate such best-fitting models
into the VHE regime, and assume they represent the BL Lacs' intrinsic emission.
Contrasting measured versus intrinsic emission leads to a determination of the
photon-photon opacity to VHE photons. Using, for each given source, different
states of emission will only improve the accuracy of the proposed method. We
demonstrate this method using recent simultaneous multi-frequency observations
of the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 and discuss how similar
observations can more accurately probe the EBL.Comment: ApJ Letters, in press. 18 pages (ApJ referee style), 2 figures
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