Title:On Trade-Offs Between Values
Author(s):LUKES, StevenDate:1992Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS
Title:One electorate or many? Differences in party preference formation between new and established European democracies
Author(s):VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; FRANKLIN, Mark N.; TÓKA, GáborDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We investigate differences in the factors influencing citizens’ votes between elections conducted in established and new democracies using data collected at the 2004 European Parliament elections, comparing 7 former communist ...
Title:Online Forums and Deliberative Democracy
Author(s):JANSSEN, Davy; KIES, RaphaëlDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Internet is rapidly becoming a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in the Western world. People perform various activities on the Internet and one of them is discussing politics and society in so-called ...
Title:Online networks of the Italian and German extreme right
Author(s):CAIANI, Manuela; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article applies instruments of social network analysis to a study of communication networks within the Italian and German extremist right. Web links between organizational websites are used as a proxy. Indeed, extremist ...
Title:Opening Up Hungary to the World Market : External constraints and opportunities
Author(s):LORENTZEN, JochenDate:1995Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This work describes the opening of the Hungarian economy from the early 1980s to the current transitional position. It analyzes the management of external debt and international competitiveness, and shows that the dismal ...
Title:The Organization of Business Interests: Studying the associative action of business in advanced industrial societies
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; STREECK, WolfgangDate:1999Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:MPIfG discussion paperAbstract:The paper presents a theoretical outline for a cross-national comparative study of business associations. It identifies two clusters of independent variables that are assumed to affect the structure of intermediary ...
Title:The Organization of European Security Governance: Internal and External Security in Transition
Author(s):SCHROEDER, Ursula C.Date:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Organization of European Security Governance investigates what impact the changing nature of security challenges has had on the organization of security governance in Europe. As the most pervasive security challenges ...
Title:The Organization of the EU Parliamentary Parties: the Impact of Eastern Enlargement
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Studies in Public Policy, University of Aberdeen SPP 483Abstract:This paper elaborates on the work of Bailer and colleagues (2009) and it seeks to apply two sociological theories on the effects of group size - oligarchization and formalization - to political Groups in the European ...
Title:Organizing Babylon - On the Different Conceptions of Policy Networks
Author(s):BORZEL, Tanja A.Date:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A 'Babylonian' variety of policy network concepts and applications can be found in the literature. Neither is there a common understanding of what policy networks actually are, nor has it been agreed whether policy networks ...
Title:Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe
Author(s):VEDRES, Balazs; BRUSZT, Laszlo; STARK, DavidDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, ...