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 ...
Title:Self-Rated Health and Sickness-Related Absence: The Modifying Role of Civic Participation
Author(s):LANCEE, Bram; TER HOEVEN, Claartje L.Date:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this study, we examined civic participation as an effect modifier between self-rated health and absence from work. Building on the theoretical framework of social exchange, we use German data to test a conceptual model ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations. Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do associations engage in self-regulation and how do they tackle the specific ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations: Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and ...
Title:Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences: A guide to qualitative comparative analysis
Author(s):SCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social ...
Title:Sexualities and the ECHR: Introducing the Universal Sexual Legal Subject
Author(s):GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Shifting from an essentialist to a constructionist perspective on sexual identities, I move from a consideration of the homosexual legal subject, as presently treated under the European Convention on Human Rights, to the ...
Title:Shaping labour immigration : the role of labour market institutions in advanced democracies
Author(s):DEVITT, CamillaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of this thesis is to investigate the understudied nexus between immigration and labour market institutions. Bridging migration theory and comparative political economy, it is argued that variation in labour market ...
Title:Shifting Power between European Institutions: The EU-US open skies agreement
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; KARAGIANNIS, YannisDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This briefing paper examines the conduct and interplay between the European institutions on an important international agreement, the Open Skies Agreement (OSA) with the US of 2007/2010. The paper examines the OSA as its ...