Title:Accountability and European Governance
Author(s):CURTIN, Deirdre; MAIR, Peter; PAPADOPOULOS, YannisDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In recent years there has been a considerable effort in some transnational organizations and institutions to confront a crisis of legitimacy by promising more accountability and openness. This volume takes as its central ...
Title:Accounting for nationalist violence in affluent countries
Author(s):DE LA CALLE ROBLES, LuisDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis seeks to explain the determinants of resilient nationalist violence in Western Europe since World War II. Despite being one of the most affluent regions in the world, several episodes of nationalist violence ...
Title:Acting locally: local environmental mobilisations and campaigns
Author(s):ROOTES, Christopher; SAUNDERS, Clare; DIANI, Mario; RAMBALDO, Elisa; KOUSIS, Maria; DOHERTY, Brian; PLOWS, Alexandra; WALL, Derek; FRANQUEMAGNE, Gaël; GARAVAN, Mark; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; PIAZZA, GianniDate:2007Type of Publication:Article
Title:Action publique et partis politiques
: l’analyse de l’agenda législatif français entre 1981 et 2009
Author(s):PERSICO, Simon; FROIO, Caterina; GUINAUDEAU, IsabelleDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Competition among partisan projects is often cited as a constitutive element of all representative democracies. While the Francophone and English-medium research literature have viewed the link between partisan competition ...
Title:Action research: mapping the nexus of research and political action
Author(s):FUSTER MORELL, MayoDate:2009-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper aims to capture the richness and diversity of action research on the global justice
movement. It starts by proposing a typology of five tendencies (participative-collective
method; producing alternative content; ...
Title:Actors and Venues in Immigration Control: Closing the Gap between Political Demands and Policy Outcomes
Author(s):GUIRAUDON, Virginie; LAHAV, GallyaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This account reviews the state of the literature on migration since the West European Politics special issue on migration was published in 1994. Particular attention is dedicated to the theme of immigration control and the ...
Title:Adapting the welfare state : privatisation in health care in Denmark, England and Sweden
Author(s):OLESEN, Jeppe DørupDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation deals with the following question: In the past decades some of the countries most dedicated to the universal public welfare state have privatised many of their welfare service provisions. Why is this so? ...
Title:Affirmative Action without Quotas in Northern Ireland
Author(s):MCCRUDDEN, Christopher; MUTTARAK, Raya; HEATH, AnthonyDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:New research has shown that Northern Ireland’s innovative affirmative action programme has resulted in improvements in fair employment, both for Catholics and Protestants. In this article, we provide a non-technical account ...
Title:After the Eastward Enlargement: The institutionalization of the Europarties and the EU party system
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the long debate about the EU constitutional and institutional reform which accompanied the Central and Eastern enlargement of the Union, political parties at the European level – in brief: Europarties – have rarely ...
Title:Age At Marriage, Sex-Ratios, and Ethnic Heterogamy
Author(s):STIER, Haya; SHAVIT, YossiDate:1994Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper focuses on the effects of age at marriage and the sex-ratio on patterns of ethnic homogamy among Israeli women. We hypothesize that later marriages are more likely than early marriages to be heterogamous as the ...
Title:Age Cohorts and the Funnel of Causality: How Social Characteristics Influence Our Vote
Author(s):KATSANIDOU, AlexiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Voting behaviour criteria can be categorized according to their level of ideologization and their time depth. In modern politics we expect people to use short-term factors to make their final voting decisions, such as ...