Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Title
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Title:How and Why Financial Systems Differ: A Survey of the Literature Author(s):VERDIER, DanielDate:2002Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2002/02
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Title:How can inequalities in mortality be reduced? : a quantitative analysis of 6 risk factors in 21 European populations Author(s):EIKEMO, Terje A.; HOFFMANN, Rasmus; KULIK, Margarete C.; KULHÁNOVÁ, Ivana; TOCH-MARQUARDT, Marlen; MENVIELLE, Gwenn; LOOMAN, Caspar; JASILIONIS, Domantas; MARTIKAINEN, Pekka; LUNDBERG, Olle; MACKENBACH, Johan P.Date:2014Citation:PLoS One, 2014, Vol. 9, No. 11, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality are one of the greatest challenges for health policy in all European countries, but the potential for reducing these inequalities is unclear. We therefore quantified the impact of ...
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Title:How Caste Works: Forging new identities in a Punjabi ex-untouchable community in Catalonia, Spain Author(s):LUM, KathrynDate:2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis is an ethnographic study of an ex-untouchable group from the Punjab region of India known as the Ravidassias. Its aim is twofold: on the one hand to elucidate the mechanisms of caste in social life and in ...
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Title:How do established voters react to new parties? : the case of Italy, 1985-2008 Author(s):FRANKLIN, Mark N.; VAN SPANJE, JoostDate:2012Citation:Electoral studies, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 297-305Type:ArticleAbstract:The Italian party system largely collapsed in the early 1990s, providing us with a natural experimental situation in which voters were confronted with new parties - indeed, with an entirely new party system. How did they ...
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Title:How Europeans view and evaluate democracy Editor(s):FERRÍN, Mónica; KRIESI, HanspeterDate:2016Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016, Comparative politicsType:BookAbstract:Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how, Europeans view and evaluate democracy: what are their conceptions of democracy, how do they assess the quality of democracy in ... -
Title:How Historic are Historic Rights? Competing Historiographies and the Search for Political Legitimacy Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2001Citation:Xosé Manuel GONZALEZ REBOREDO (ed.), Etnicidade e nacionalismo: simposio internacional de antropoloxia, Santiago de Compostela, Consello da Cultura Galega, 2001.Type:Contribution to book
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Title:How Immigration is Changing Citizenship: A Comparative View Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:1999Citation:Ethnic And Racial Studies, 1999, 22, 4, 629-652Type:ArticleAbstract:This article compares the impact of post-war immigration on citizenship in three Western states: the United States, Germany and Great Britain. While focusing on national variations in the immigration-citizenship relationship, ...
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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 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
