Europeanization and the inclusive strategies of executive actors

In Europeanized policy domains, executive actors are considered especially powerful because they are directly responsible for international negotiations. However, in order to avoid failing in the ratification process, they are also highly dependent on the support of domestic, non-state actors. We argue that in Europeanized decision-making processes, state actors are not passively lobbied, but actively seek collaboration with - and support from - domestic actors. We apply stochastic actor-based modelling for network dynamics to collaboration data on two successive bilateral agreements on the free movement of persons between Switzerland and the European Union (EU). Results confirm our hypotheses that state actors are not passively lobbied, but actively look for collaboration with other actors, and especially with potential veto players and euro-sceptical actors from both the conservative Right and the Left.

Unpacking reputational power: Intended and unintended determinants of the assessment of actors' power

The idea behind the reputational measure for assessing power of political actors is that actors involved in a decision-making process have the best view of their fellows' power. There has been, however, no systematic examination of why actors consider other actors as powerful. Consequently, it is unclear whether reputational power measures what it ought to. The paper analyzes the determinants of power attribution and distinguishes intended from unintended determinants in a data-set of power assessment covering 10 political decision-making processes in Switzerland. Results are overall reassuring, but nevertheless point toward self-promotion or misperception biases, as informants systematically attribute more power to actors with whom they collaborate.

The story of the diamond necklace, told in detail for the first time, by the aid of contemporary memoires, original letters, and official and other documents; and comprising a sketch of the life of the Countess de la Motte, pretended confidant of Marie-Antoinette, with particulars of the careers of the other actors in the remarkable drama.

"Authorities referred to in this work": p.ix-xii.

A highly important collection of original holograph manuscripts and original holograph correspondences by the world's most eminent actors ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Our recent actors: being recollections critical, and, in many instances, personal, of late distinguished performers of both sexes.

Mode of access: Internet.

A complete history of the great American rebellion, embracing its causes, events and consequences, with biographical sketches and portraits of its principal actors ...

Vol. 2 by E.G. Storke and L.P. Brockett.

Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller : consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of authors, artists, actors, books, booksellers, and of the periodical press for the last half century, with appropriate selections, and an unlimited retrospect, including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their author .

Mode of access: Internet.

The Actors' remonstrance, or complaint, for the silencing of their profession, and banishment from their severall playhouses. In which is fully set downe their grievances for their restraint ... As it was presented, in the names and behalfes of all our London comedians ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Hamlet from the actors' standpoint. Its representatives, and a comparison of their performances.

"Authorities consulted": p. 169-170.

Famous actors & actresses and their homes,

Maude Adams.--Ethel Barrymore.--John Drew.--William Gillette.--Richard Mansfield.--Julia Marlowe.--Annie Russell.--E.H. Sothern and his wife, Virginia Harned.--Francis Wilson.--"The Lambs."--"The Players."

Fifty years of an actors̓ life.

Paged continuously.

Our old actors /

Partly reprinted from "Temple bar".

Histrionic topography: or, The birth-places, residences, and funeral monuments of the most distinguished actors.

Added t.-p., engraved