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; ...
Title:Ideals or compromises? The attitude–behaviour relationship in mothers' employment
Author(s):STEIBER, Nadia; HAAS, BarbaraDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article addresses the marked variations in women's employment that exist within and across countries, with a specific focus on mothers of children below school-going age. Using comparative survey data for 26 countries, ...
Title:Ideas, Culture, and History in Transition Studies
Author(s):BLOKKER, PaulDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In recent years it has been possible to observe a historical and cultural turn in the studies of transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Whereas until the late 1990s the field was dominated by 'transitology', which ...