Title:Political Transformations: Welfare states in transition. Montenegro: A long drive down a tough road
Author(s):DZANKIC, JelenaDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This paper examines the effect of the context of political of transition in Montenegro on the country’s social policy. Two decades of power struggles between the Montenegrin political elites have overshadowed the consolidation ...
Title:Politicizing Consumption: On the Contested Role of the Consumer in the Weimar Republic
Author(s):TORP, ClaudiusDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the Weimar Republic, consumption served as a vanguard point from which to redefine the relation between politics and economics. This paper traces the way the figure of the consumer was conceptualized in different ...
Title:Politics after Indignation. Possibilities and limits of direct democracy
Author(s):INNERARITY, DanielDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The year 2011 may go down in history as the year of the indignation; this word sums up a movement that has become a widespread disaffection with politics in a new kind of protest. Is this a new version of the popular ...
Title:Politics among Arab Migrants in Australia
Author(s):TABAR, PaulDate:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:The research paper examines the dynamics of Arab diasporan politics and how diaspora communities reconstruct and reinvent their multiple identities and identitarian as well as political allegiances in the origin and sending ...
Title:Politics and Constitutional Courts A Judge’s Personal Perspective
Author(s):SAFJAN, MarekDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper deals with different forms of political impact on the constitutional justice.
The main subject of presentation is the analysis of recent Polish experiences which can
help to identify better the threats to the ...
Title:The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition: The Spanish Model
Author(s):ALONSO, Gregorio; MURO, DiegoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Spain's political transition to democracy is often lauded as the benchmark by which many other countries explicitly declared to have measured their own democratic progress. 2008 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Spanish ...
Title:Politics and the migration-development nexus: the EU and the Arab SEM countries
Author(s):DE BEL-AIR, FrançoiseDate:2011Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:In the hope of regulating migratory flows, the European Council endorsed a “global approach” to migration in December 2005, an approach which is based on the correction of the “deep causes of migration”: poverty, unemployment ...
Title:The Politics of a Policy: Framing European security and defence policy
Author(s):KUROWSKA, XymenaDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis enquires into the making of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) from the perspective of the actors endorsing and contesting the policy. By identifying the political milieu of the policy, it seeks to ...
Title:The Politics of Civic Combinations
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; VEDRES, BalazsDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Working Papers Series, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia UniversityAbstract:Participation of civic organizations in diverse social and developmental partnership projects is one of the fastest growing and, at the same time, one of the most contested forms of institutional experimentation. Described ...