Title:Revisiting the Debate on Inequality: A longitudinal study using the British Cohort Study 1970
Author(s):PENSIERO, NicolaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation aims at reassessing of impact of family background, education and abilities on the educational and occupational outcomes of a British cohort sample (British Cohort Study 1970). This is pursued in three ...
Title:The Unexplored Giant: Use histories of Italian oratorio around 1700
Author(s):VAN DER LINDEN, HuubDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The musical genre of Italian oratorio—unacted, sung drama in two parts on a hagiographic, biblical, or moral plot—witnessed a great boom of interest in the priod around years around 1900 and the decades around 1700. During ...
Title:Principles and Perspectives of European Criminal Procedure
Author(s):HÜTTEMANN, Suzan DeniseDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis shall contribute to European Criminal Procedure, a rapidly evolving area of EU policy that has attracted much attention, but has also been subject to criticism. The research will first identify and analyse the ...
Title:Bridging the Baltic Sea: Networks of resistance and opposition during the Cold War era
Author(s):STÖCKER, Lars FredrikDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Located at the point of intersection of Northern, Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic Sea Region has historically been a setting of an, at times, vivid exchange between the shores of the small inland sea. Challenging ...
Title:The Jews of Modern Egypt: Schools, family, and the making of an imagined bourgeoise, 1880s-1950s
Author(s):MICCOLI, DarioDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation will investigate the emergence of an Egyptian Jewish bourgeoisie and its multi-layered imaginary in the period that goes from the 1880s up to the 1950s. More precisely, the research will aim to clarify ...
Title:Digital Inequalities as Class Inequalities? A comparison of youth in advanced societies in-and outside Europe
Author(s):DRABOWICZ, Tomasz PiotrDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation merges two streams of research hitherto rarely mixed together: class analysis and digital inequality studies. It also focuses on the comparative research of adolescents from advanced societies – a social ...
Title:Econometric Models for Mixed-Frequency Data
Author(s):FORONI, ClaudiaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis addresses different issues related to the use of mixed-frequency data. In the first chapter, I review, discuss and compare the main approaches proposed so far in the literature to deal with mixed-frequency data, ...
Title:A Green Way Out? or The Effects of Environmental Protection on the Public Enforcement Mechanism
Author(s):BORZSÁK, LeventeDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis argues that the present provisions on public enforcement are inadequate for the effective promotion of compliance with Community law and seeks to provide solutions in order to improve them. Article 226 and 228 ...
Title:Abuse of Union Law and Regulation of the Internal Market
Author(s):SAYDÉ, AlexandreDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Abuses of Union law can be defined as undesirable choices of law made by Union citizens. The treatment of choices of law by Union citizens has proved inconsistent under Union law, being alternatively endorsed (Centros) or ...
Title:An Affront to the Conscience of Humanity: Enforced disappearance in international human rights law
Author(s):KYRIAKOU, NikolasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD thesis takes issue with the practice of enforced disappearance as a multiple and complex human rights violation and covers various topics related to enforced disappearance. The point of departure is the historical ...
Title:Fundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and transformations of a multilevel system in comparative perspective
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This PhD thesis deals with the protection of fundamental rights in Europe. Today, in Europe, fundamental rights are simultaneously protected at the levels of the states, of the European Union and of the European Convention ...
Title:EU Cartel Enforcement: Reconciling effective public enforcement with fundamental rights
Author(s):SCORDAMAGLIA-TOUSIS, AndreasDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In light of the growing importance fundamental rights have acquired in competition enforcement and of the ramifications of the Lisbon Treaty (EU accession to the ECHR, binding Charter), this thesis assesses two paramount ...
Title:Nuclear Export Controls and the Fight Against Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Author(s):VISKI, AndreaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Combating nuclear weapons proliferation involves diplomacy, nuclear safety and security, disarmament measures, intelligence, effective safeguards, and many other strategies. One of the most important non-proliferation ...
Title:Landscape as Public Space: The role of international and EU law in the protection of landscape in Europe
Author(s):STRECKER, AmyDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis deals with the protection of landscape in international law. It focuses mainly on Europe. Landscape has gained increasing importance on the international stage since the inclusion of ‘cultural landscapes’ within ...
Title:Beyond Electoralism? Electoral fraud in third wave regimes, 1974-2009
Author(s):VAN HAM, CarolienDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:As the “third wave” of democratization spread across the globe after 1974, more and more citizens got a chance –often for the first time in their lives- to cast their vote in multi-party elections. Since then, the number ...
Title:Private Regulation and European Integration: Evidence from the payments, professional services and housing sectors
Author(s):JANCZUK-GORYWODA, AgnieszkaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyzes the role of private regulation in European integration. Taking three selected sectors – payments, professionals and housing – as a testing ground, this thesis portrays the actual functioning of private ...