Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Title

Title:Evidence of hiring discrimination against the second generation : results from a correspondence test in the Swiss labour market Author(s):ZSCHIRNT, Eva

Date:2020Citation:Journal of international migration and integration, 2020, Vol. 21, pp. 563–585Type:ArticleAbstract:While there is ample evidence of discrimination against ethnic minority candidates in hiring, most existing studies have focused on stigmatised immigrant groups. Using a correspondence test to ethnic discrimination in the ...

Title:Evidence-based budgetary policy : speaking truth to power? Author(s):VAN NISPEN, Frans; DE JONG, MaartenDate:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2017/01Abstract:The relationship between policy analysis and public budgeting has spurred quite some debate since the 1960s when Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration, launched his Planning Programming ...

Title:Evolução e desígnio em Hayek Author(s):LESSA KERSTENETZKY, CeliaDate:1999Citation:Dados, 1999, Vol.42, No. 3, pp. 453-470Version:The article is a revised version of the author’s EUI PhD thesis, 1998Type:ArticleAbstract:In an examination of Hayek's social philosophy, the article seeks to distinguish between socio-epistemological arguments, which postulate the radical ignorance of social actors, and the conservative political conclusions ...

Title:Evolution of altruistic punishments among heterogeneous conditional cooperators Author(s):BATTU, Balaraju

Date:2021Citation:Scientific reports, 2021, Vol. 11, Art. 10502, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:It has been known that altruistic punishments solve the free rider problem in public goods games. Considering spatial structure and considering pure strategies significant advances have been made in understanding the ...

Title:Evolution of conditional cooperation in public good games Author(s):BATTU, Balaraju

; SRINIVASAN, NARAYANANDate:2021Citation:The Royal Society open science, 2021, Vol. 7, Art. 191567, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:Cooperation declines in repeated public good games because individuals behave as conditional cooperators. This is because individuals imitate the social behaviour of successful individuals when their payoff information is ...

Title:Evolution of Institutions Editor(s):BLYTH, Mark; HODGSON, Geoffrey M.; LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, Sven

Date:2011Citation:Special issue of Journal of Institutional Economics, 2011, 7, 3Type:Book

Title:The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States Author(s):STEINMO, Sven

Date:2010Citation:Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010Type:BookAbstract:The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: why ...

Title:Evolution of social policy and the institutional definition of family models : the Italian and Spanish cases in historical and comparative perspective Author(s):NALDINI, ManuelaDate:1999Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1999Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:The Evolution of the UK Political System in the First Decade of the New Millennium: Comparative and temporal perspectives Author(s):TATHAM, Michael RobertDate:2010Citation:Karine TOURNIER-SOL (ed.), Le Royaume-Uni dans le monde depuis 2001, Revue Babel, 2010, 21, 217-253Type:ArticleAbstract:This chapter seeks to evaluate the extent to which the UK political system has evolved since the double turning point of 1997 and 2001. Labour, under Blair and Brown, has ruled Britain for longer than any non-Conservative ...

Title:The evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the revolution : from la Maddhabiyya to Salafi-Malikism Author(s):MERONE, Fabio; BLANC, Théo

; SIGILLO, EsterDate:2021Citation:The international journal of Middle East studies, 2021, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 455-470Type:ArticleAbstract:What shape does Salafism take in Tunisia after the ban of the Salafi-Jihadi group Ansar al-Shari‘a and the wave of securitization carried out by national authorities? This article argues that a constraining legal context ...

Title:Evolution rather than revolution : a comparative analysis of the quality of e-democracy Author(s):OSTLING, Alina

Date:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines the democratic advantages and challenges of e-democracy, as well as its impact. The aim is to address some of the theoretical and empirical gaps in the rapidly developing but still emerging field of ...

Title:Evolving Greek Politics Amidst the Crisis: Destination unknown Author(s):PAPPAS, Takis S.; ASLANIDIS, ParisDate:2012Citation:IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook: Med.2012, Barcelona, IEMed, 2012, 153-156Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:We have all come to refer to it simply as the “Greek Crisis,” but it is a long-term, multi-actor national drama with important, even perilous, consequences for the EU and the euro zone. In this concise article, written ...

Title:Excellence through equality of opportunity : increasing the social inclusiveness of education systems benefits disadvantaged students without harming advantaged students Author(s):HOLTMANN, Anne Christine

Date:2016Citation:Hans Peter BLOSSFELD, Sandra BUCHHOLZ, Jan SKOPEK and Moris TRIVENTI (eds), Models of secondary education and social inequality : an international comparison, Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, eduLIFE lifelong learning, pp. 61-78Type:Contribution to book

Title:Exclusive solidarity? : radical right parties and the welfare state Author(s):LEFKOFRIDI, Zoe

; MICHEL, Elie

Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/120Abstract:Radical right parties in Western Europe have traditionally shown little support for redistributive policies and have thus been typically classified as economically right wing. Yet, they are contesting the votes of a ...

Title:Executivos nacionais e assuntos Europeus : uma análise comparada entre Itália e Portugal Author(s):BINDI, Federiga M.Date:2001Citation:Manuel BRAGA DA CRUZ (ed.), A reforma do estado em Portugal : problemas e perspectivas : actas do I Encontro Nacional de Ciência Política, Lisboa : Bizâncio, 2001, Colecção Documentos ; 9, pp. 520-536Type:Contribution to book

Title:Exercise-induced fitness changes correlate with changes in neural specificity in older adults Author(s):KLEEMEYER, Maike M.; POLK, Thad A.; SCHAEFER, Sabine; BODAMMER, Nils C.; BRECHTEL, Lars; LINDENBERGER, Ulman

Date:2017Citation:Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2017, Vol. 11, (123)Type:ArticleAbstract:Neural specificity refers to the degree to which neural representations of different stimuli can be distinguished. Evidence suggests that neural specificity, operationally defined as stimulus-related differences in functional ...

Title:Exit options, boundary building, political structuring sketches of a theory of large-scale territorial and membership 'retrenchment/differentiation? : 'versus 'expansion/integration?' (with reference to the European Union) Author(s):BARTOLINI, Stefano

Date:1998Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1998/01

Title:Expansion and renormalization of human brain structure during skill acquisition Author(s):WENGER, Elisabeth; BROZZOLI, Claudio; LINDENBERGER, Ulman

; LOVDEN, MartinDate:2017Citation:Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017, Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 930-939Type:ArticleAbstract:Research on human brain changes during skill acquisition has revealed brain volume expansion in task-relevant areas. However, the large number of skills that humans acquire during ontogeny militates against plasticity as ...

Title:The expansion of humanitarian NGOs Author(s):WEST, KatarinaDate:2000Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2000Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Expansion of the Tertiary Sector and Social-Inequality - Is There A New Service Proletariat Emerging in the Federal-Republic-Of-Germany Author(s):BLOSSFELD, Hans Peter

; MAYER, Karl Ulrich

Date:1991Citation:Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie, 1991, 43, 4, 671-696Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper demonstrates that unskilled service occupations have not become increasingly important as Germany moved towards a post-industrial society. In Germany, unskilled service jobs are neither stopgap jobs for the ...