Title:The Italian Role in the Construction of the Concept Pole-Catholic
Author(s):JUREK, LidiaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In considering the concept of Pole-Catholic, it might well be asked not if it had real grounds but in what circumstances it was constructed. Although the Polish national identity in its current shape was Catholicized mostly ...
Title:The Legal-Domestic Sources of Immigrant Rights - the United States, Germany, and the European Union
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the evolution of two types of immigrant rights-alien rights and the right to citizenship-across three polities (the United States, Germany, and the European Union). It argues that the sources of rights ...
Title:The legitimacy of supranational decision-making
Author(s):JOERGES, ChristianDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The 'comitology mode' of decision-making can be interpreted as a response to the non-unitary and non-hierarchical ('heterarchical') nature of the EU. It is of exemplary importance since it represents an institutionalized ...
Title:The liberal wing of the national assembly (1969-73) a sociological profile
Author(s):FERNANDES, Tiago LuisDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The liberal wing was a group of deputies constituting a reformist, pro-democracy sector of the internal semi-opposition to the authoritarian New State regime during its final years. I have used a prosopographic study of ...
Title:The Linkage of Interest Rates Within the Ems
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; ZHANG, WendaDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper explores the linkage between interest rates in Germany and the United States with those on other currencies within the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System. Monthly data on money market ...
Title:The Lira and the Pound in the 1992 Currency Crisis: Fundamentals Or Speculation?
Author(s):FRATIANNI, Michele; ARTIS, Michael J.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The prevalent explanation of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) currency crisis of September, 1992 is that myopic speculation prevailed over the ''fundamentals.'' Our paper explores the reasons why the Italian lira and the ...
Title:The Measurement of Pure Negative Freedom
Author(s):CARTER, IanDate:1992Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Examining the question of whether or how far freedom is measurable contributes to the analysis of the concept of freedom in two ways. First, it involves attempting to establish criteria for answering questions about 'how ...
Title:The Migrant Worker Factor in Labour Market Policy Reform
Author(s):DEVITT, CamillaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Research on labour market policy reform in Western Europe has given insufficient attention to the 'migrant worker factor'. Concerns about reduced availability of migrant workers, as well as more traditional concerns regarding ...
Title:The Modernity of Social Life
Author(s):WAGNER, PeterDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Over the past two decades, the term 'modernity' has ever more replaced the term 'modern society' in sociological analyses of contemporary societies. This signals the attempt by sociologists to advance beyond the theorem ...
Title:The Natural Real Interest Rate and Monetary Policy: A Review
Author(s):GIAMMARIOLI, Nicola; VALLA, NatachaDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The level of real interest rates actually observed does not necessarily coincide with its natural level. This paper contrasts a number of approaches that have served to elaborate alternative concepts referred to as the ...