Title:Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th revised edition
Author(s):GALLAGHER, Michael; LAVER, Michael; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:With a total population of some 500 million, the unified countries of modern Europe constitute the world's largest collection of successful capitalist democracies. Yet within it, there are distinct clusters of states, each ...
Title:Representative versus Responsible Government
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, CologneAbstract:The changing circumstances in which parties compete in contemporary democracies, coupled with the changing circumstances in which governments now govern, have led to a widening of the traditional gap between representative ...
Title:Rescaling Europe
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The European nation-state as an ideal-type was a polity bounded by fixed borders, which enclosed an economy, a society, a system of representation and a demos. Normatively, it was supported as essential to democracy and ...
Title:Research on Social Movements and Political Violence
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Attention to extreme forms of political violence in the social sciences has been episodic, and studies of different forms of political violence have followed different approaches, with breakdown theories mostly used for ...
Title:The Reshaping of Gender Relations in Wartorn Societies: Women's movements in Guatemala and Nicaragua 1980-2010
Author(s):DESTROOPER, TinekeDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis revolves around the question of how the history of the Guatemalan and Nicaraguan women’s movements influences their approach of women’s empowerment, and evaluates alternative approaches to women’s empowerment. ...
Title:Responsibility, equality, and unemployment insurance
Author(s):CAPPELEN, CorneliusDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:It is a central political goal to secure involuntarily unemployed individuals the same opportunities as others to pursue their conception of a good life. This goal reflects an ambition to combine an egalitarian and a liberal ...
Title:Rethinking political myth: the clash of civilizations as a self-fulfilling prophecy
Author(s):BOTTICI, Chiara; CHALLAND, BenoîtDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article argues for the need to recover the concept of political myth in order to understand the crucial phenomena of our epoch. By drawing on Blumenberg's philosophical reflections on myth, it proposes to understand ...
Title:Rethinking targeted sanctions
Author(s):ERIKSSON, MikaelDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Despite having been in the political and scientific limelight for nearly two decades, the question of the effectiveness of targeted sanctions continues to puzzle and engage practitioners and scholars. Having been previously ...