Title:Political Representation and European Union Governance
Author(s):MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, JacquesDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. Political representation is an essentially ...
Title:Political representation and government in the European Union
Author(s):MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, JacquesDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper addresses two particular aspects of the much debated democratic deficit in European Union (EU) governance - the absence of a system of party government at the European level, whereby parties in the Parliament ...
Title:Political Representation and Income Inequality
Author(s):HAKHVERDIAN, ArmenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally known as the median or mean voter, or is government policy more responsive to socio-economic elites? This paper examines ...
Title:The Politics of a Policy: Framing European security and defence policy
Author(s):KUROWSKA, XymenaDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis enquires into the making of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) from the perspective of the actors endorsing and contesting the policy. By identifying the political milieu of the policy, it seeks to ...
Title:The Politics of Civic Combinations
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; VEDRES, BalazsDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Working Papers Series, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia UniversityAbstract:Participation of civic organizations in diverse social and developmental partnership projects is one of the fastest growing and, at the same time, one of the most contested forms of institutional experimentation. Described ...
Title:The Politics of Civic Combinations
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; VEDRES, BalazsDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we explore the ways in which partnerships with the state within state-led developmental programs might effect the autonomy of civic organizations (COs) and their readiness to enter in political action. To ...
Title:The Politics of International Law and Compliance. Serbia, Croatia and The Hague Tribunal
Author(s):RAJKOVIC, Nikolas MilanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Leading the debate on the domestic effect of the growing influence of international adjudication, this invaluable text examines Serbia and Croatia’s erratic record of compliance with the International Criminal Tribunal for ...