Title:Patterns of Circular Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Area: Implications for Policy-Making
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:2008Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:This study lays emphasis on the existence of various patterns of circular migration in South Mediterranean countries, which are shaped by changing circumstances and structural factors fostering and sometimes disrupting ...
Title:Patterns of consolidated democracies : Europe and Latin America compared
Author(s):SCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.Date:2004Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last quarter of the 20th century. The theoretical approach developed ...
Title:Patterns of policy evolution in the EU: The case of research and technology development policy
Author(s):CITI, ManueleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The literature on the policy-making of the European Union (EU) has trouble understanding the long-term evolution of EU policies. While numerous accounts exist that analyze EU policies from a historical, analytical-descriptive ...
Title:Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; HAUPT, Heinz-GerhardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Research on political violence occurs in waves, generally corresponding to the successive swells of violence that in many ways define modern society. Critically, this violence is characterized as much by diversity as by ...
Title:Peer Effects and Peer Avoidance: Epidemic Diffusion in Coevolving Networks
Author(s):FOSCO, Constanza; MARSILI, Matteo; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We study the long-run-emergency of behavioral patterns in dynamic complex networks. Individuals display two kinds of behavior: G("good") or B ("bad"). We assume that agents have an innate tendency towards G, but can also ...
Title:Peer Effects and Peer Avoidance: The Diffusion of Behavior in Coevolving Networks
Author(s):FOSCO, Constanza; MARSILI, Matteo; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study the long-run emergence of behavioral patterns in dynamic complex networks. Individuals can display two kinds of behavior: G(good) or B (bad). We assume that the exposure of a G agent to bad behavior on the part ...