We test the closeness of the correspondence between the preferences of EU citizens and their delegations to the European Parliament using data on roll-call votes. Differences in EU citizens' preferences are captured using a variety of country characteristics including bilateral country dummy variables,...
policy issues through informal groupings, bypassing the EU framework, affects the High Representative's room for maneuver. Drawing on the principal-agent model, the emergence of informal groupings is conceptualized as a manifestation of pathological delegation, which undermines High Representative's ...
Bias for impact. If you can just pick up the work, do so. We want a culture of individual contributionnotof delegation. It is fine (and encouraged) to pick-up side quests, or to deviate from your goals if you think you should. Especially if something is a quick fix, do it yourself...
Now, there’s many kinds and levels of AI, and people confuse these and conflate them. The first kind of AI is just computers doing stuff that we try to do in our minds, like calculate what a parabola is, how fast a car is going to go, or how much money a b...
Many analysts and commentators have argued that the world has entered apost-human rightsphase, with sustained undermining of human rights and the rule of law around the world. Unfortunately, this is not new — although the focus on this topic has tended to wax and w...
In Ireland, “we are ready to live in a camp,” he said. “We want to protect our children.” Even before the outbreak of war in Lebanon, conditions were very precarious for Syrian refugees. Months before the Syrians selected were interviewed by the ...
Board members of the civil society delegations wrote to the main players in ACT-A in June 2020, calling for civil society representatives to be meaningfully engaged in the consortium’s decision making process. “Too often civil society and communities are asked their opinion too late, and as...
and many people had moved there because of the good jobs and the region's good facilities. The state government, led by the Social Democrats for 30 years, supported the coal industry. The prime minister was also the chairman of the lignite committee and a de facto coal lobbyist. This link...
But there remain many areas of contention over the respective powers of the Commission and national governments. This was most patently observed in the crossover of responsibilities at the Rio Earth summit, where national delegations and the Commission representatives did not see eye-to-eye over ...