Title:Social Justice and Access Justice in Private Law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:During the C20th, the Member States of the European Union developed their own models of social justice in private law. Each model is inherently linked to national culture and tradition. However, all models have a common ...
Title:Social justice and development
Author(s):MORVARIDI, BehroozDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This edited volume is the product of workshop 5, 'Displacement and Resettlement in the Middle East: Access to Rights as a Regional Policy Issue' in the Middle East and North Africa', of the 5th Mediterranean Research ...
Title:Social Movements
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; DIANI, MarioDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter explores the interactions between the social science literature ion social movements and civil society, and considers both differences and similarities in their conceptualization as well as in the actual ...
Title:Social Movements
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2009Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The chapter reviews some main trends in European approaches to social movements, selectively developing some main dimensions of cross-national comparison and, finally, addressing the issue of the Europeanization of social ...
Title:Social Movements and Civil Society: How emerging social conflicts challenge social science approaches
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2009Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter is based upon the opening speech at the general conference of the European Sociological Association in Edinburgh in 2007. It discusses conceptions of civil society and social movements, pleading for a more ...
Title:Social Movements and Europeanization
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Are social movement organizations euroskeptical? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU? This book ...
Title:Social movements and political parties: A zero-sum game?
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Social movements and political parties are perceived as more and more distant from each other. While in the past the emerging social movements tended to ally with existing parties (especially the «Old Left») and/or to ...
Title:Social Movements in a Globalizing world (second expanded edition)
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KRIESI, Hanspeter; RUCHT, DieterDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The growing interdependence on a global scale constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. This volume, now available in paperback, attempts to adjust the perspective ...