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Title:How Institutions Evolve: Evolutionary theory and institutional change Author(s):LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, SvenDate:2012Citation:Polity, 2012, 44, 3, 314–339Type:ArticleAbstract:This article argues that questions of gradual institutional change can be understood as an evolutionary process that can be explained through the careful application of “generalized Darwinism.” We argue that humans' advanced ... -
Title:How International Actors Interact: Explaining China's engagement with the EU, 2002-2007 Author(s):GAENSSMANTEL, FrankDate:2009Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis investigates how Chinese decision-makers deal with the complexities of EU foreign-policy making. Which of the many entities within in the EU, among Brussels-based institutions and in member states, do they ...
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Title:How many approaches in the social sciences? An epistemological introduction Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KEATING, MichaelDate:2008Citation:KEATING Michael, DELLA PORTA Donatella (eds), Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: a pluralist perspective, Cambridge UK/New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 19-39Type:Contribution to book
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Title:How much 'second-order' were the European Parliamentary Elections 2009? Author(s):TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2010Citation:Wojciech GAGATEK (ed.), The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament - Country Reports, Florence, European University Institute, 2010, 3-12Type:Contribution to book
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Title:How Nationalism Evolves: Explaining the Establishment of New Varieties of Nationalism within the National Movements of Québec and Catalonia Author(s):LLUCH, JaimeDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2008/11Abstract:The national movements of sub-state national societies are divided into two or three competing currents. Thus, national movements tend to bifurcate into independentists and autonomists, or at times, trifurcate into ...
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Title:How New Enlarged Borders Will Reshape the European Union Author(s):ZIELONKA, JanDate:2001Citation:Journal of Common Market Studies, 2001, 39, 3, 507-536Type: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 ...
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Title:How Not to Implement: Hungarian Pension Reforms in an Institutionalist Perspective Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:TIGER Working Paper Series; 110Abstract: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 ...
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Title:How Organizational Structures in Science Shape Spin-Off Firms: The Biochemistry Departments of Berkeley, Stanford, and Ucsf and the Birth of the Biotech Industry Author(s):JONG, SimchaDate:2006Citation:Industrial and Corporate Change, 2006, 15, 2, 251-283Type:ArticleAbstract:This article examines how the organizational capabilities of academic spin-off firms in new industries are shaped by the organization of the research communities in universities from which these spin-off firms emerge. ...
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Title:How parties govern : an overview of the changing patterns of party legitimacy in Europe Author(s):FROIO, Caterina; LITTLE, ConorDate:2016Citation:Ferdinand MÜLLER-ROMMEL and Fernando CASAL BÉRTOA (eds), Party politics and democracy in Europe : essays in honour of Peter Mair, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2016, West European politics, pp. 242-260Type:Contribution to book
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Title:How parties self-legitimize : an analysis of party laws Author(s):PICCIO, Daniela RomeéDate:2016Citation:Ferdinand MÜLLER-ROMMEL and Fernando CASAL BÉRTOA (eds), Party politics and democracy in Europe : essays in honour of Peter Mair, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2016, West European politics, pp. 213-226Type:Contribution to book
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Title:How size matters : Portugal as an EU member Author(s):ROSE, Richard; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:University of Strathclyde CSPP Working Papers; 2013/500Abstract:The great majority of EU member states are not big states, and they are further divided into not so small, smaller and smallest states. The European Union’s establishment by a treaty between 27 independent states confers ...
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Title:How to create a transnational party system Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo; CALOSSI, Enrico; GAGATEK, Wojciech; MAIR, Peter; PIZZIMENTI, EugenioDate:2010Citation:European Parliament. Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Afairs, 2010Type:Technical ReportSeries/Number:[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 ...
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Title:How to Democratize the European Union... And why bother? Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2000Citation:Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000, Governance in EuropeType: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 federalize the European Union and why bother Author(s):TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2005Citation:Journal of European public policy , 2005, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 401-418Type:Article
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Title:How to Lose A Majority: the Competition in Single-Member Districts Author(s):D'ALIMONTE, Roberto; BARTOLINI, StefanoDate:1998Citation:European Journal of Political Research, 1998, 34, 1, 63-103Type: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 ...
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Title:How voters process information : an inquiry into the formation of electoral preferences Author(s):CAMPUS, DonatellaDate:1997Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 1997Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract: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 ...
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Title:Human Rights and Democracy: Is There a Place for Actual People(s)? Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2011Citation:Ulrich FASTENRATH, Rudolf GEIGER, Daniel-Erasmus KHAN, Andreas PAULUS, Sabine VON SCHORLEMER and Christoph VEDDER (eds), From Bilateralism to Community Interest: Essays in Honour of Bruno Simma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, 488-504Type:Contribution to book
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Title:Human Rights and the City: Anti-discrimination laws and policies in New York and Barcelona Author(s):GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract: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 ...
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Title:Human rights clauses : unraveling the pattern of implementation Author(s):SANTOS MOORE, CarlaDate:2006Citation:Florence, European University Institute, 2006Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social Sciences
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Title:Human Rights in a Global Ecumene Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2011Citation:International Affairs, 2011, 87, 5, 1205–1218Type: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; ...
