Essays about: "cartel"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the word cartel.

  1. 1. Is EU policy taken out of competition? – A newspaper analysis of government-opposition conflict in Swedish EU politics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hassan El-Saghir; [2023]
    Keywords : opposition; EU policy; representative democracy; the cartel party thesis; policy alternatives; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the level of conict in the media between the government and the opposition at dierent time periods, and specically regarding EU policies. Opposition towards policy is a crucial ingredient in democratic systems of government that do not only allow the people to send dierent personalities to represent them in government, but rather dierent policy agendas that are, in the end, implemented in their name. READ MORE

  2. 2. Prefigurative politics as applied to the climate crisis : A game theoretical assessment

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Nathan Carlshamre; [2023]
    Keywords : Prefigurative politics; game theory; prefiguration; climate activism; activism; environmental activism; tragedy of the commons; anarchism; left-libertarianism; political theory; Montgomery bus boycott; constructive program; ecotage; non-violence; violence; cartel theory; salience;

    Abstract : In this paper, I make use of the game-theoretical concepts of cartel theory and coordination theory via salience and Schelling points in order to assess the viability of prefigurative politics when used by group actors to address the particular case of the climate crisis. I show that prefigurative politics as a strategy faces significant systematic disadvantages when used by social movements attempting to address climate change as compared to when it is used by social movements focused on other causes. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Shortcomings of Hybrid Settlement Cases : A Balancing Exercise of Irreconcilable Interests

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Josefin Tegnvallius Boklund; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : When the Commission introduced the settlement procedure in 2008, it was not possible to foresee the issues that so-called hybrid cases would give rise to. A hybrid settlement case emerges when some of the parties of a cartel decide to settle with the Commission, while one or several parties decline or opt out of the settlement procedure. READ MORE

  4. 4. The Effect of Natural Resource Shocks on Violence, Crime, and Drug Cartels Presence in Mexico

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Miriam Cavazos Hernandez; Balasurya Sivakumar; [2022]
    Keywords : Natural Resources; Conflict; Mexico; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : We examine the effect of natural resource shocks on violence by drug cartels at the municipality level in rural Mexico from 2003 to 2017. For this, we use an Instrumental Variable setup by instrumenting our main explanatory variable vegetation density with rainfall. READ MORE

  5. 5. European Super League: kicking off the match against FIFA and UEFA. Exploring C-333/21 European Super League Company v FIFA and UEFA in the light of EU competition law, and its effect on the European Model of Sports.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Rebecka Louise Nordblad; [2022]
    Keywords : Competition Law; Sports Law; EU Law; European Model of Sports; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The European Model of Sports includes features that form part of the European identity, such as inclusion, tolerance and respect. It has been developed since the 1990s, and has been a cornerstone in the sports policy documents put forward by EU institutions, and was further strengthened by the introduction of Article 165 TFEU. READ MORE