The Democratizing Effects of Multilateral Organizations: A Cautionary Note on the WTO

The field of international relations has been obsessed with democracy and democratization and its effects on international cooperation for a long time. More recently, research has turned its focus on how international organizations enhance democracy. This article contributes to this debate and applies a prominent liberal framework to study the ‘outside-in’ effects of the World Trade Organization. The article offers a critical reading of democratization through IO membership. It provides for an assessment of the dominant framework put forward by Keohane et al. (2009). In doing so, it develops a set of empirical strategies to test conjectured causal mechanisms with respect to the WTO, and illustrates the potential application by drawing on selected empirical evidence from trade politics. Finally, it proposes a number of analytical revisions to the liberal framework and outlines avenues for future research.

Key note lecture: Einführung in die Musikedition

Digitale Methoden stellen die Musikedition vor besondere Herausforderungen, die nicht nur die Form sondern auch den Inhalt und die Rezeption der Editionen betrifft. Der generelle Optimismus über die unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten, die digitale Medien bieten, stehte die ernüchternde Erkenntnis gegenüber, dass das Kosten-Nutzen Verhältnis bei Musik viel schlechter ausfällt als bei Texten sowie die Ungewissheit über die nachhaltige Lesbarkeit gegenüber.

Discorsi Ebraici di tolleranza e felicità ; con le note del traduttore

diretti da Naftali Herz Weisel agli Ebrei diomanti ne' dominij dell' ... imperatore Guiseppe II. Trad. di Elia Morpurgo

Sonetti giudaico-romaneschi con note esplicative e un discorso preliminare sul dialetto giudaico-romanesco e sulle sue origini

[von] Crescenzo Del Monte

A note on the theory SID<ω of stratified induction

We introduce and analyse a theory of finitely stratified general inductive definitions over the natural numbers, inline image, and establish its proof theoretic ordinal, inline image. The definition of inline image bears some similarities with Leivant's ramified theories for finitary inductive definitions.

Il Tempio Maggiore Israelitico di Reggio nell'Emilia : note storice edite per cura dell'Università Israelitica di Reggio nel cinquantesimo anniversario dell'inaugurazione del Tempio

[von] Andrea Balletti.

Iscrizioni inedita o mal note, grache, latine, ebraiche, di antichi sepolcri giudaioi del Napolitano

ed. ed ill. da G. I. Ascoli.

Vita e opere di Elia Benamozegh : cenni, considerazioni, note

Guglielmo Lattes. Con ritratto dell'illustre rabbino

Comment: Earnings Returns to Education in Urban China: A Note on Testing Differences among Groups

Comment on Wu and Xie, ASR, June 2003