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Challenged or championed by local political leadership? The democratic anchorage of local governance networks in South - West - Flanders (Belgium)
Three lepton signatures from tZq interactions in the SM and top-FCNC at the CMS experiment at \sqrt{s} = 8 TeV
The search for a top quark in association with a Z boson can be performed in
both top pair production as well as single top production. Targeting the three
lepton final state, the search can be used to identify the standard model (SM)
process of a single top quark associated with a Z boson and to search for
flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions. The presented analysis
uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of
fb recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton collisions at
TeV. The cross section for the SM tZq production is measured to be
fb with a significance
of . Exclusion limits at 95 confidence level on the branching
ratio of a top quark decaying to a Z boson and an up or charm quark are
determined to be and respectively.Comment: Presented at the 9th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics,
Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 19-23, 201
Challenges regarding the operationalization of representation and accountability in governance networks
The Eurodividend: Why the EU should introduce a basic income for all
Philippe Van Parijs argues for a basic income for all legal residents of the European Union to be financed by the Value Added Tax. Unlike the US, the EU lacks automatic inter-state transfers and migration between states is much less common. A universal basic income would serve as a buffering mechanism and enable a stronger recovery from economic downturns. It would also help the Union overcome the pressures of competitiveness that entails a sacrificing of social expenditure and the EU may be seen as more legitimate and less of a heartless bureaucracy in the eyes of its residents
Brussels Capital of Europe: the new linguistic challenges
Introduction Language wars lie at the heart of Belgian history. Through a succession of bitter battles, endless power struggles and laborious compromises, Belgiumâs political leaders gradually managed to elaborate, adjust and readjust a legal framework likely to facilitate a fairly peaceful cohabitation of the populations and a reasonably effective functioning of the institutions. But while squabbles are still going on about the survival of linguistic âfacilitiesâ in a number of Flemish commu..
Review of âThe Language(s) of Politics. Multilingual policy-making in the European Unionâ by Nils Ringe. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press 2022.
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Impasses et promesses de l'Ă©cologie politique
LâĂ©cologie politique, entend-on souvent, ne se rĂ©duit pas Ă la protection de lâenvironnement. Mais en quoi consiste le surplus ? Sâagit-il dâautre chose que de quelques idĂ©es vaguement mystiques ou dâun fatras disparate de propositions ponctuelles
Est-il juste que lâUniversiteÌ soit gratuite ?
Est-il juste que lâUniversiteÌ soit gratuite ? Dâun coÌteÌ, bien suÌr que oui. De lâautre, bien suÌr que non. Jâexplique brieÌvement les consideÌrations qui sous-tendent ces deux reÌponses. Puis je les reÌconcilie au profit â essentiellement â du statu quo, en argumentant que la gratuiteÌ dâun privileÌge ne peut se justifier que si elle sert lâinteÌreÌt de ceux qui nây ont pas acceÌs. Je termine en examinant quatre objections, dont seule la dernieÌre est susceptible de me faire vaciller
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