Title:Science and the Media: Alternative routes in scientific communication
Author(s):BUCCHI, MassimianoDate:1998Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. The author develops ...
Title:Scienza Politica
Author(s):COTTA, Maurizio; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MORLINO, LeonardoDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il volume, qui presentato in una nuova edizione aggiornata, offre una panoramica completa delle tematiche costitutive della scienza politica. I primi capitoli propongono una definizione della disciplina, delineandone ...
Title:Scottish Independence
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:Article
Title:Scottish Social Democracy
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Scotland is a country of strong progressive traditions and could be a model
for a renewed social democracy. Devolution has given it a chance to show
what a small self-governing nation, within a wide British and ...
Title:Searching for the Right Organization - Ideology and Party Structure in East-Central Europe
Author(s):ENYEDI, Zsolt; LINEK, LukasDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article examines four centre-right parties in East-Central Europe in order to assess the impact of ideology on party organization and revisit the thesis of organizational weakness in the region. The data collected ...
Title:Searching the net: Websites’ qualities in the Global Justice Movement
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MOSCA, LorenzoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Notwithstanding a growing interest in online politics, the analysis of web sites’ qualities by social movement organizations (SMOs) has received little attention in social research. In creating their sites, SMOs often ...
Title:Second of the two special issues: empirical approaches to deliberative democracy
Author(s):CONOVER, Pamela Johnston; SEARING, Donald D.; FISHKIN, James S.; LUSKIN, Robert C.; KRIESI, Hanspeter; JANSSEN, Davy; KIES, Raphaël; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; ULBERT, Cornelia; RISSE, Thomas; NANZ, Patrizia; STEFFEK, Jens; HABERMAS, JürgenDate:2005Type of Publication:Article
Title:Secondary Vocational-Education and the Transition From School to Work
Author(s):ARUM, Richard; SHAVIT, YossiDate:1995Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article reevaluates the effects of high school vocational education on students' odds of being unemployed and students' occupational attainment in the transition from school to work. The question posed is whether ...
Title:Security Expertise in the European Union: The Challenges of Comprehensiveness and Accountability
Author(s):SCHROEDER, Ursula C.Date:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Abstract
This article examines the role of expert knowledge for security political decision-making in the European Union. It observes that due to the pressures of an increasingly complex and uncertain security environment, ...
Title:Seeking the Political Role of the Third Government Branch: A comparative approach to high courts in Central America
Author(s):MARTINEZ BARAHONA, ElenaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Until recently, Courts were not an important component of political science research on Latin America. The quantity of research on the judiciary does not compare even remotely to the vast literature on others institutions. ...
Title:Selection, appointment and redeployment of senior Commission officials
Author(s):FUSACCHIA, AlessandroDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:After the fall of the Santer Commission in 1999, the new college undertook an in-depth internal administrative reform under the political leadership of Romano Prodi and Neil Kinnock. One big chapter of this reform dealt ...
Title:Selective Flexibilization and Deregulation of the Labor Market: The answer of Continental and Southern Europe
Author(s):BLOSSFELD, Hans Peter; BUCHHOLZ, Sandra; HOFÄCKER, Dirk; BERTOLINI, SoniaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we reconstruct the institutional responses of different European welfare states and their implications for individual life course and employment trajectories and the related nation-specific patterns of ...