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 ...
Title:Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
Author(s):BEININ, Joel; VAIREL, FrédéricDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Middle East and North Africa have become places that almost everyone "knows" something about. Too frequently written off as culturally defined by Islam, strongly anti-Western, and uniquely susceptible to irrational ...
Title:Social Movements, Trade Unions and Advocacy Networks
Author(s):ROSSI, Federico Matías; DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2009Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter looks at the relationship between social movements, cycles of protest, waves of strikes and transnational advocacy networks of resistance to non-democratic regimes in the third wave of democratization. The ...
Title:Social Networks and the Process of “Globalization”
Author(s):DUERNECKER, Georg; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We propose a stylised dynamic model to understand the role of social networks in the phenomenon we call “globalization.” This term refers to the process by which even agents who are geographically far apart come to interact, ...
Title:Social Networks e Responsabilità del Provider
Author(s):ROSATI, Eleonora; SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Nelle pagine seguenti, dopo aver brevemente descritto le reti sociali e i diversi soggetti e interessi in gioco, si adotterà una prospettiva normativa, indicando quale disciplina potrebbe meglio regolare tali interessi, ...
Title:Social Origins and Inequality in Educational Returns in the Labour Market in Spain
Author(s):BERNARDI, FabrizioDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This paper addresses four descriptive research questions. First, is there a direct effect of social background on labour market success over and above the effect of own education? Second, has this effect declined over time? ...