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Proceduralization of EU Agencies: theory and practice
No full textThe chapter presents the overall research and focuses on the agencification of the EU executive power, with specific regard to discretion, to delegation and to procedures. Then, the theoretical issues emerging from the analysis of procedures are discussed. Thirdly, proceduralisation of EU Agencies is examined in Practice, with specific regard to its extension and goals
Oral history interview with Betty Bellis
No full textBetty Douglas Bellis, a 1954 graduate of Oklahoma A&M College which is now Oklahoma State University (OSU), recalls her spending her youth in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where her father owned Douglas Food Mart, a grocery store. She describes her family life, the town, and the campus. Bellis explains the mural on the outside wall of the family store which depicts the previous owners, the Cookseys. She makes mention of a GI Jane crash, the Crystal Plunge, Doel and Martha Reed, Gallagher Hall, and Richard Willham. She also talks about her life following a divorce, developing a career as a technical typist, her adopted town of Norman, Oklahoma, and a longtime friendship with another OSU graduate. Bellis represents Cleveland County in the Cowboys in Every County project.The O-STATE Stories Oral History collection is comprised of interviews which chronicle the rich history, heritage, and traditions of Oklahoma State University
Applications of a micro-structured brittle damage model to laboratory tests on rocks
No full textA multiscale microstructured brittle damage model is used to describe the behavior of confined rock materials. Plane strain and triaxial tests conducted
at the laboratory scale are simulated in terms of boundary value problems. Simulations reveal good predictive qualities of the model to describe the macroscopic features of specimens at failure. The microstructures, oriented in different directions, allow the localization of the macroscopic strain along straight lines, emerging at the macroscale in the form of shear bands. The microstructured material model, characterized by recursive equidistant parallel cohesive-frictional faults, is fully defined by six elastic and inelastic material constants. The model was originally developed in a finite kinematics framework to simulate the dynamic behavior of confined brittle materials (Pandolfi et al. in J
Mech Phys Solids 54:1972–2003, 2006). In linearized form, it has been extended and used for the simulation of in-field excavations (De Bellis et al. in: Eng
Geol 215:10–24, 2016). The performance of the model in predicting the behavior of small scale rock tests in the laboratory, the object of the present study, has
never been investigated. Numerical simulations show that the model is able to capture several important features observed in rocks, in particular the reduction
of the overall stiffness for increasing deterioration of the material, fragile to ductile transition, strain localization, shear band formation, and more general size effect
The Legitimacy of Banking and Financial Standards: Representation, Due Process and the Risk of Regulatory Capture
No full textReinforcing EU financial bodies’ participation in global networks: addressing legitimacy gaps?
No full textAs global financial standards have a remarkable impact on EU law, strengthening the EU’s role in
global standard setters would increase the legitimacy of the reception of such norms. The European
financial agencies (ESAs) should be the obvious candidate to represent the EU in global networks,
both because of their composition and because of the powers they are entrusted with. Yet, the
limitations to their powers and the very unclear division of competences between agencies and other
bodies in the EU financial architecture risk impairing the activity of the agencies in global networks.
Moreover, the financial agencies’ external activity could affect the institutional balance of powers
within the EU, raising questions of the legitimacy of such external activity. The chapter finds that the
body representing EU views in global networks should be subject to reporting obligations and
transparency requirements, so that proper accountability instruments are in place
Italy
No full textThe (limited) constitutional provisions concerning the Government are the result of a debate within the Constitutional Assembly, that found its roots and tried to provide answers to the specific role that the executive played from the unification (1861) to World Word II, and in particular during the fascist regime. The extremely cautious approach in shaping the Constitutional attributions of the Government, coupled with the fragmentation and instability of the Italian political system, led to the perception, at the end of the 70s, that Italy was lacking a Government.
Similarly to the general tendency that characterizes the executives in modern democracies, however, also in Italy the growth of the Executive has been outstanding, both from the point of view of the size and the type of powers. By contrast, the instruments of political accountability have not changed remarkably, despite several attempts of reforming them. On the contrary, the discipline of criminal responsibility has been changed, in order to subject criminal responsibility to ordinary justice. Lastly, what appears to have been increasing over time is the use of legal instruments of accountability aimed at measuring the effective implementation of the program of the executive, in order to ensure accountability towards the European institutions
Recensione di A. CORSANO, Tommaso Campanella, a cura di D. M. Fazio, Congedo, Galatina 2000
No full textSi tratta della recensione della riedizione, a cura di Domenico M. Fazio, dell'importante monografia di Antonio Corsano su Tommaso Campanella, Bari, Laterza, 1961
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