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Sub-state Autonomy Scale (SAS)
No full textThis dataset comprises the data collected for the Sub-state Autonomy Scale (SAS). The SAS is an indicator measuring the autonomy demands and statutes of sub-state communities in kind (whether competences are administrative or legislative), in degree (how much each dimension is present) and by competences (as a function of the extent of comprised policy domains).
Definitions:
-By 'sub-state community', I refer to sub-state entities within countries for which autonomous institutions have been demanded by a significant regionalist or traditional (centrist, liberal or socialist main-stream) political party (>5%) or to which autonomous institutions have been conferred.
-By 'autonomy statutes', I refer to the legal autonomy prerogatives obtained by sub-state communities.
-For 'autonomy demands', I distinguish between the legal autonomy prerogatives demanded by the regionalist party with the highest vote share and those demanded by the traditional party with the largest autonomy demand.
Detailed conceptual presentation: see the Regional Studies article cited below (the open access author version can be found in the files section).
Specifications:
-Unit of analysis: sub-state communities by yearly intervals.
-Country coverage: Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom (31 sub-state communities).
-Time coverage: 1707-2020 (starting dates vary across sub-state communities).
*For the full list of sub-state communities and their respective time coverage, see the codebook.
Citation and acknowledgement: when using the data, please cite the Regional Studies article listed below.
Latest version: 1.0 [01.02.2022]
Historical Regional GDP and Population in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom
No full textThis dataset comprises historical GDP and population data for regional entities in Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Entities included:
-For Belgium: Brussels, Flanders, Wallonia.
-For Spain: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile-la Mancha, Castile-Leon, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, Valencia.
-For the United Kingdom: England, London, Northern Ireland [since 1801], (Southern) Ireland [1801-1921], Scotland, Wales.
Periods covered for GDP data:
-For Belgium: 1846-2005.
-For Spain: 1860-2015.
-For the United Kingdom: 1707-2017.
Periods covered for population data:
-For Belgium: 1841-2017.
-For Spain: 1860-2015.
-For the United Kingdom: 1801-2017.
Sources, acknowledgement and citation:
The data have been compiled and/or calculated by the author based on different sources listed in the 'About'-section of the data sheet. When using the data, please cite the appropriate sources related to the part of the data you use, as well as the present dataset as referenced above.
Latest version: 1.0 [24.05.2022]
The Democratic Innovations and Scale Database
No full textThe objective of the present database is to provide an exhaustive as possible list of direct and deliberative democratic innovations worldwide, of their core contextual and institutional features and, most importantly, of the population size of the political entity in which they have been implemented. Studying the impact of political entities’ population size on the functioning of democratic innovations is the main interest of the ‘Democratic Innovations and Scale’ research project that this database is part of. To establish the database, I drew on the most exhaustive existing databases on direct as well as on deliberative democratic innovations to date (as cited in the method, acknowledgements and citation section of the sheet). After merging databases and eliminating duplicates, I filtered the cases that were in line with the selection criteria of my own research (see criteria specified in the method, acknowledgements and citation section of the sheet). Excluded cases are documented in a separate sheet. For the final list of retained cases, the population size of the political entity in which they were conducted was collected based on World Bank, Database Earth or national census data. Latest version: 1.0 [06.11.2024]
Ein Gymnasium macht sich auf den Weg. Bausteine inklusiver Schulentwicklung
No full textDas Geschwister-School-Gymnasium in Pulheim (Rhein-Erft-Kreis) hat im Schuljahr 2013/14 erstmals Schüler mit Bedarf an sonderpädagogischer Unterstützung in eine fünfte Klasse aufgenommen. Andreas Niessen, der Schulleiter, und Christoph Errens berichten im Gespräch mit Dr. Ursula Böing und Dr. Andreas Köpfer über die vorbereitenden Massnahmen, über die Bausteine und die ersten Schritte auf dem Weg zu einer inklusiven Schule. (DIPF/Autor
La Belgique, un laboratoire pour la démocratie délibérative ? Ce qui se passe, dans quelles conditions, avec quels apports et quelles limites ?
No full textPanel - La Belgique comme laboratoire démocratique Ce qui se passe, dans quelles conditions, avec quels apports et quelles limites ? Panel animé par Juliette Agez, directrice de la participation citoyenne, Conseil économique social et environnemental et par Min Reuchamps, professeur de science politique à l’Université catholique de Louvain Avec la participation de : Jehan Bottin, Université catholique de Louvain, Anne-Emmanuelle Bourgaux, Université de Mons, Christoph Niessen, Universiteit Antwerpen, Ann-Mireille Sautter, Université catholique de Louvain et Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
On the cost of delayed currency fixing announcements
No full textIn Foreign Exchange Markets vanilla and barrier options are traded frequently. The market standard is a cutoff time of 10:00 a.m. in New York for the strike of vanillas and a knock-out event based on a continuously observed barrier in the inter bank market. However, many clients, particularly from Italy, prefer the cutoff and knock-out event to be based on the fixing published by the European Central Bank on the Reuters Page ECB37. These barrier options are called discretely monitored barrier options. While these options can be priced in several models by various techniques, the ECB source of the fixing causes two problems. First of all, it is not tradable, and secondly it is published with a delay of about 10 - 20 minutes. We examine here the effect of these problems on the hedge of those options and consequently suggest a cost based on the additional uncertainty encountered. --exotic options,currency fixings
Der permanente Bürgerdialog in der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft
No full textIm Februar 2019 hat die Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft einen Prozess zur permanenten deliberativen Bürgerbeteiligung eingeführt. Es handelt sich um einen permanenten Bürgerrat, dessen Mitglieder per Zufall ausgewählt werden. Er kann Bürgerversammlungen zu bestimmten Themen einberufen, deren Mitglieder ebenfalls per Zufall ausgewählt werden. Ihre Aufgabe ist es, das vom Bürgerrat bestimmte Thema zu diskutieren und dazu politische Empfehlungen auszuarbeiten. Am Ende dieser Beratungen werden die Empfehlungen in einer gemeinsamen Sitzung zwischen den Mitgliedern der Bürgerversammlung und den betroffenen politischen Verantwortlichen der Gemeinschaft diskutiert. Im Prinzip werden diese Empfehlungen durch Maßnahmen des Parlaments oder der Regierung der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft umgesetzt. Die Gesamtheit dieses Prozesses wurde „Permanenter Bürgerdialog“ getauft und ist international unter dem Namen „Ostbelgien Modell“ bekannt. Es handelt sich um eine von vielen partizipativen und deliberativen Initiativen, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten in Belgien ergriffen worden sind und deren Anzahl zunimmt. Das in der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft eingeführte Modell zeichnet sich jedoch durch drei Besonderheiten aus: durch seine enge (beinahe institutionelle) Verbindung zu einer gesetzgebenden Versammlung, durch seinen permanenten Charakter und durch seine Konzeption, die zwei Arten von Instanzen miteinander verbindet. C. Niessen und M. Reuchamps zeichnen die Ursprünge des Modells und seinen Ausarbeitungsprozess auf, präsentieren die Funktionsweise und Strukturen des Modells und erklären, wie seine Umsetzung konkret angelaufen ist
Aura Satz in conversation with Christoph Cox, April/May 2017
No full textA conversation between Aura Satz and Christoph Cox, exploring sirens and emergency signals, acoustic ecology, and economies of attention. Aura Satz is a film-maker and sound artist who has performed, exhibited and screened her work nationally and internationally, including at Tate Modern; Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Oberhausen); the Rotterdam Film Festival (Rotterdam); the New York Film Festival (NY); Gallery 44 (Toronto); InterCommunication Centre (Tokyo) and the Sydney Biennale. In 2012, she was shortlisted for the Samsung Art+ Award and the Jarman Award. She teaches at the Royal College of Art, London. She was in conversation with Christoph Cox, a philosopher, critic, and curator who teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the author of Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) and Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (University of California Press, 1999), and co-editor of Realism Materialism Art (Sternberg, 2015) and Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum, 2004/Bloomsbury, 2017). Cox is editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in numerous journals including October, Artforum, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Visual Culture, The Review of Metaphysics. He has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Kitchen, CONTEXT Art Miami and other venues
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