Title:Sweden: The Fall of the Strong State
Author(s):LINDVALL, Johannes; ROTHSTEIN, BoDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:From the 1930s to the 1980s, Swedish politics was based on the assumption that social change could be accomplished through a specific political and administrative process. National politicians decided the aims of policy, ...
Title:Symbolic orders of childbirth
Author(s):HAENSCH, AnjaDate:2000Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:The Symbolic Value of Descriptive Representation: The case of female representation
Author(s):ESPÍRITO-SANTO, AnaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Most of the studies on political underrepresentation have tried to explain the factors that account for the underrepresentation of some groups in political power. The present research project focuses on the link between ...
Title:Taking Evolution Seriously in Political Science
Author(s):LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, SvenDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this essay, we explore the epistemological and ontological assumptions that have been made to make political science scientific. We show how political science has generally adopted an ontologically reductionist philosophy ...
Title:Taking People As They Could Be: A defence of ideal political theory
Author(s):EFTHYMIOU, DimitrisDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The object of this thesis is to defend ideal political theory from a series of objections that question its theoretical and practical soundness. My preliminary thesis is that ideal political theory is theoretically as well ...
Title:Taking rights territorially. On territorial rights and the right to exclude
Author(s):ANGELI, OlivieroDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:What does it mean that rights are territorial? Do states have territorial rights? Do these rights justify the exclusion of would-be immigrants? This paper will address these questions and explore the problems associated. ...
Title:Talking Europe in the Italian Public Sphere
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Italy has been considered an Euro-enthusiastic country. On the basis of claims analysis as well as semi-structured interviews with key political actors, this article presents a more nuanced image. Permissive consensus has ...
Title:Targeting Peace: Understanding UN and EU Targeted Sanctions
Author(s):ERIKSSON, MikaelDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In recent years, the international community has increasingly come to abandon the use of comprehensive sanctions in favour of targeted sanctions. Unlike adopting a coercive strategy on entire states, actors like the United ...
Title:Temporary Migrants, Partial Citizenship and Hypermigration
Author(s):BAUBOCK, RainerDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Temporary migration raises two different challenges. The first is whether territorial democracies can integrate temporary migrants as equal citizens; the second is whether transnationally mobile societies can be organized ...