Title:Private interest government : beyond market and state
Author(s):STREECK, Wolfgang; SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:1985Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Market liberalism and state interventionism are both challenged as modes of democratic government by this book. It suggests that the development of private interest governments might be a more viable policy alternative for ...
Title:The Problem-Centred Interview: Principles and practice
Author(s):WITZEL, Andreas; REITER, HerwigDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Interviewing is among the most commonly used methods in qualitative research. It is a pragmatic and reliable tool for collecting information and can be adapted to diverse situations and purposes. The discursive-dialogic ...
Title:Le processus des ratifications du traité établissant une Constitution pour l’Europe et la période de réflexion
Author(s):ZILLER, JacquesDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper examines the process of ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the member states of the European Union, from the date of its signature in Rome on 29 October 2004 to the European ...
Title:Promises and Limits of Web-deliberation
Author(s):KIES, RaphaëlDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Does the increasing usage of online political forums lead to a more deliberative democracy? This book answers to this question by presenting the evolution of the public spaces in a historical perspective, by defining and ...
Title:Promises and limits of web-deliberation
Author(s):KIES, RaphaëlDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this work we will attempt to evaluate which of these scenarios is most likely to become prominent in the future by focusing essentially on three issues: 1) the usage of the online forum by observing how diffuse the ...
Title:Promoting Democracy Abroad: The EU and Latin America, 1995-2005
Author(s):TRISCRITTI, FiorellaDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Since the 1980s an increasing number of international actors have been promoting democracy worldwide using different methods and instruments. However, despite initial successes, many of these newly created democracies ...
Title:Prospettive per una democrazia post-sovranista
Author(s):FERRARA, PasqualeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Neither in its exercise nor in theoretical debate is the state’s sovereignty absolute any more. Indeed, a certain “fragility” can be observed in the traditional concept of sovereignty based on the definition of an impermeable ...
Title:Protecting Exporters: discrimination and liberalization in transatlantic trade relations, 1932-2003
Author(s):DÜR, AndreasDate:2004Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developments in the global political economy of the last hundred years. This period has seen the negotiated reduction of both ...
Title:Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930–2010
Author(s):DÜR, AndreasDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developments in the global political economy of the last hundred years. This period has seen the negotiated reduction of both ...