Title:How New Enlarged Borders Will Reshape the European Union
Author(s):ZIELONKA, JanDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Debate about the final destination of European integration is again in vogue and it is largely state-centric. The future EU is usually seen as a new type of Westphalian (federal) state with a central government in charge ...
Title:How Not to Implement: Hungarian Pension Reforms in an Institutionalist Perspective
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:TIGER Working Paper SeriesAbstract:After 1989, Hungary inherited a pension system characterised by an unfair mix of social insurance and social assistance. Widespread public dissatisfaction and the near drift into a financial crisis cleared the path for the ...
Title:How to Create a Transnational Party System
Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo; CALOSSI, Enrico; GAGATEK, Wojciech; MAIR, Peter; PIZZIMENTI, EugenioDate:2010Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Political Parties and Representation Observatory]Abstract:This study has been prepared by the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR), part of the European Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the European University Institute (EUI). It covers four aspects: 1) An ...
Title:How to Democratize the European Union... And why bother?
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one. Moreover, its growing scope of activity and supranational decision making processes ...
Title:How to Lose A Majority: the Competition in Single-Member Districts
Author(s):D'ALIMONTE, Roberto; BARTOLINI, StefanoDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Few observers expected that the 1966 elections in Italy would yield a clear-cut outcome. Even fewer people expected that, after the disastrous results of the previous elections, the centre-left coalition would be able to ...
Title:How voters process information: an inquiry into the formation of electoral preferences
Author(s):CAMPUS, DonatellaDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:L'aumento dell'astensionismo elettorale, fenomeno oggi attuale in Italia così come in molti altri paesi occidentali, e più in generale lo scarso interesse dei cittadini verso la politica generano dubbi e perplessità ...
Title:Human Rights and the City: Anti-discrimination laws and policies in New York and Barcelona
Author(s):GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates the political and legal dimensions of human rights policies enacted by cities in order to respond to one main research question: how are these policies enacted and what is their outcome? Drawing ...
Title:Human Rights in a Global Ecumene
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How should we understand the cultural politics that has surrounded the development of international human rights? Two perspectives frame contemporary debate. For ‘cultural particularists’, human rights are western artefacts; ...