Documentos de trabajo

España es un modelo de transición negociada, donde el cambio pacífico fue priorizado frente a la justicia transicional. Pero en el año 2000, las políticas de memoria se situaron en la agenda política. Esto provoco un reframing del pasado generador de conflicto. ¿Por qué y cómo se dio este proceso? Este artículo plantea que se relaciona con los intereses electorales, ideologías y… Seguir leyendo

Since the 1980’s Spain has developed an ambitious road building programme with the construction of approximately 12,000 kilometres of new motorways. This article analysis the factors related to the placement of these new motorways during two distinct planning periods from 1983 to 1993 and 1994 to 2004.

While welfare research on historical and institutional trajectories has been carried out extensively in recent decades, less attention has been paid to citizens preferences for social policies. On analysing welfare provision the self-interest and neo-institutionalist theories have often placed incentives and resources at the core of their explanations. But values can also play a very important… Seguir leyendo

Europeanization implies that policies are to be shaped by considerations which go beyond the formal sovereignty of EU’s member states. Claims for autonomy within the EU have been put forward not only by ‘stateless’ nations within plural and compound states, but also by regions demanding self-government. More often than not, meso-governments do not need par force the rationalising intervention… Seguir leyendo

Spain is a model of negotiated transition, where peaceful change was prioritized versus transitional justice. However, in 2000 the politics of memory was placed on the political agenda. This reframing of the past has become a conflict. Why and how this process occurred? This article argues that electoral interests, ideologies and the search of impunity for the parties are keys to understand… Seguir leyendo

In this paper we study the spatial pattern of Just-in-Time (JIT) adoption for a sample of medium-sized and large Spanish manufacturing firms. The recent literature has shown that location plays a significant role in the adoption of advanced technologies. We argue that the particular role location characteristics play for technology adoption depends on the type of technology. JIT differs from… Seguir leyendo

Después de la crisis financiera desencadenada en 2008, los Estados del Bienestar europeos encaran el reto de renovar el pacto entre bienestar social y progreso económico, responsable de la satisfacción vital de los europeos y la cohesión de sus sociedades. La resistencia del EB español frente a las presiones a favor del recorte de las políticas sociales, características del paradigma… Seguir leyendo

We set out a general framework to discuss carbon sequestration programs when different alternatives are available and each of them yields sequestration benefits far into the future and at varying rates. We focus on reforestations, since trees grow for a long time, at varying rates, and different types of species yield completely different sequestration rates. We show that the Social Planner (… Seguir leyendo

This paper studies the role of bargaining power in coalition formation when two groups of substantially different agents negotiate over a public good with positive or negative spillovers. Both types of agent are allowed to form coalitions before the negotiations start. The forming of coalitions does or does not increase bargaining power, depending on the type of public good and the impact on… Seguir leyendo