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Title:Behind the veil : the strategic use of religious garb Author(s):AKSOY, Ozan; GAMBETTA, Diego Date:2016Citation:European sociological review, 2016, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 792-806Type:ArticleAbstract:There is anecdotal evidence that since the late 20th century young, educated, and urban Muslim women veil more frequently and strictly. Does this imply that the classical sociological theories of religion, which predict ...
Title:Being Intolerant of the Intolerant. The exclusion of Western European anti-immigration parties and its consequences for party choice Author(s):VAN SPANJE, Joost; VAN DER BRUG, WouterDate:2009Citation:Acta Politica, 2009, 44, 4, 353-384Type:ArticleAbstract:In various European countries established parties have responded quite differently to the recent rise of anti-immigration parties. In Italy and Austria these parties entered governing coalitions. In France and Belgium the ...
Title:Being moral : moral competence and the limits of reasonable doubt Author(s):HERMANN, JuliaDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In this thesis, I argue that we should conceive of morality as a set of overlapping practices and of moral knowledge first and foremost as the competence to participate in these practices. On the basis of a Wittgensteinian ...
Title:Being to the world : an inquiry into philosophical implications of Hannah Arendt's political thought Author(s):NEDIMOVIC, SvjetlanaDate:2007Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2007Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The project inquires into Hannah Arendt's thinking of the political in order to develop from it a possible new thread towards a different philosophy beyond metaphysical legacy. Arendt's notion of human existence as always ...
Title:The Belgian legislator Author(s):DE WINTER, LievenDate:1992Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1992Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Belgium’s successful ride on the elephant? : the diverging effects of high homeownership rates on inequalities Author(s):DE ROBIANO, Balthazar Date:2023Citation:Housing, theory and society, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:This paper studies the contradictory effects of pro-homeownership policies on inequalities through the case of Belgium. While the literature describes high homeownership rates as levellers of wealth inequalities, this paper ...
Title:Belief in school meritocracy and the legitimization of social and income inequality Author(s):BATRUCH, Anatolia; JETTEN, Jolanda; VAN DE WERFHORST, Herman G. ; DARNON, Céline; BUTERA, FabrizioDate:2023Citation:Social psychological and personality science, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 621-635Type:ArticleAbstract:Educational institutions are imbued with an institutional meritocratic discourse: only merit counts for academic success. In this article, we study whether this institutional belief has an impact beyond its primary function ...
Title:Beliefs, rational choice and Bayesian learning Author(s):BREEN, RichardDate:1999Citation:Rationality and society, 1999, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 463-479Type:ArticleAbstract:People act in the light of their beliefs, yet sociological theories of action have been weak in explaining why people hold the beliefs they do. I propose a means of integrating beliefs into rational choice theory using a ...
Title:Believe it or not : the new face of religion in international affairs : a case study of Sant'Egidio Author(s):HOLMSEN, Jenny Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In this dissertation I seek to contribute to our understanding of the recasting of religion in the global order. I approach this by conducting a case study of a prominent practitioner of religious diplomacy: the Italian ...
Title:Believing and sharing information by fake sources : an experiment Author(s):BAUER, Paul C.; CLEMM VON HOHENBERG, Bernhard Date:2021Citation:Political communication, 2021, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 647-671Type:ArticleAbstract:The increasing spread of false stories ("fake news") represents one of the great challenges societies face in the 21st century. A little-understood aspect of this phenomenon and of the processing of online news in general ...
Title:Believing the news : how individual ideology and source credibility affect judgements of informational truth Author(s):CLEMM VON HOHENBERG, Bernhard Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis explores what makes people believe (and share) news about politics. Two independent variables play a particular role throughout the four papers: The congruence of information with people's attitudes or ideology, ...
Title:Below and Beyond Power Sharing: Relational Structures Across Institutions and Civil Society Author(s):CINALLI, ManlioDate:2005Citation:Ian O'FLYNN (ed), David RUSSEL (ed), Power Sharing: New Challenges for Divided Societies , London, Pluto, 2005Type:Contribution to book
Title:Bentham and the oppressed Author(s):CAMPOS BORALEVI, LeaDate:1984Citation:Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1984, European University Institute, C, Political and social sciences, 1Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1980Type:BookAbstract:One of the most controversial and stimulating subjects of the debate, which has characterized Bentham studies in the last thirty years, has been that of defining clearly the boundaries between his utilitarian philosophy ...
Title:Bentham and the Oppressed Author(s):CAMPOS BORALEVI, LeaDate:1980Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1980Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Bertrand Badie : cultural diversity changing international relations? Author(s):LEANDER, AnnaDate:1994Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1994/06
Title:Better safe than sorry : European fiscal governance Author(s):VAN NISPEN, FransDate:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2017/02Abstract:The sovereign debt crisis induced a wide array of new institutions to reinforce European economic governance. The budget of the European member states is now subject of the European semester, which is part of the preventive ...
Title:Betting for and against EMU : who wins and who loses in Italy and in the UK from the process of European monetary integration Author(s):TALANI, Leila SimonaDate:2000Citation:Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1998Type:BookAbstract:An analysis of the extent to which the outcomes of the process of European monetary integration and, particularly, of the development of the debate over the establishment of EMU, have been influenced by domestic politics ...
Title:Between Ambitions and Financial Constraints: The Reform of the German Armed Forces Author(s):BREUER, FabianDate:2006Citation:German Politics, 2006, 15, 2, 206-220Type:ArticleAbstract:After the end of the Cold War and unification, Germany's role in the international system underwent a fundamental change. The so-called Berlin Republic developed a new strategic culture, relaxed its stance on the use of ...
Title:Between Carnival and Mourning: The Muharram rituals and the emergence of the early modern Iranian public sphere in the Safavi period, 1590-1641 C.E. Author(s):RAHIMI, BabakDate:2004Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2004Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Between democracy, business power and international organisations : explaining three distributive conflicts in taxation in Central and Eastern Europe Author(s):EIHMANIS, Edgars Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:What drives redistributive tax reforms? Why do some countries develop redistributive politics in hard times, while others do not? There are few places that are better equipped to answer this question than Central and Eastern ...