Title:The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands
Author(s):LANCEE, BramDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper aims at explaining to what extent social capital can help immigrants in the Netherlands make headway on the labor market. Two forms of social capital are identified. Bonding refers to a dense network with thick ...
Title:The Elite Coup: The transition to democracy in Bulgaria
Author(s):ROSSI, Federico M.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The transition to democracy in Bulgaria is commonly defined as a coup d'état carried out by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) elites against the long-standing dictator Todor Zhivkov. The Bulgarian transition to democracy ...
Title:The End and the Means
Author(s):CRANSTON, MauriceDate:1981Type of Publication:Article
Title:The End of Three Decades of Nationalist Rule: The 2009 Regional Elections in the Basque Country
Author(s):DE LA CALLE, Luis; SANCHEZ-CUENCA, IgnacioDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Regional elections in the Basque Country on 1 March 2009 put an end to three decades of nationalist rule by the PNV. Although the PNV won the elections, the nationalist forces did not get a majority of seats in the Basque ...
Title:The EU Conciliation Committee - One Or Several Principals?
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Since the introduction of the co-decision legislative procedure, the EU has had the possibility to resort to a Conciliation Committee made up of representatives from the European Parliament and the Council to reconcile ...
Title:The EU-Tunisian Association Agreement and Tunisia's Structural Reform Program
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the impact of Tunisia's programme de mise a niveau globale (structural reform program) on the relationships between the state and entrepreneurs. Its purpose lies in outlining a contextual approach to ...
Title:The experience of European integration and potential for Northeast Asian integration
Author(s):KIM, Sunhyuk; SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article reflects on the experience of European integration in light of the ongoing process of regional integration in the Northeast Asian region. Based on the existing theories, the article summarizes twelve lessons ...
Title:The Favourable Factors For Consociational Democracy: A Review
Author(s):BOGAARDS, MatthijsDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The favourable factors for the establishment and maintenance of consociational democracy are among the most contested elements of consociationalism. The debate concerns both the favourable factors themselves and their ...
Title:The impact of inheritance on the distribution of wealth
Author(s):KOHLI, Martin; KÜNEMUND, Harald; SCHÄFER, Andrea; SCHUPP, Jurgen; VOGEL, ClaudiaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Der Beitrag stellt ausgewählte aktuelle Befunde zum Erbschafts- und Schenkungsgeschehen dar und analysiert den Einfluss von Erbschaften auf das Vermögen. Aus der Längschnittperspektive auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen ...
Title:The Impact of the Type of Education and of Educational Enrolment on First Births
Author(s):MARTIN GARCIA, Teresa; BAIZAN, PauDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we re-examine two established findings concerning the effect of education on women's family formation. In addition to considering educational choices as a way of accumulating human capital, we also see them ...
Title:The international dimension of democratization: testing the parsimonious approach
Author(s):OBYDENKOVA, AnastassiaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the importance of the international context on regime change. It provides evidence that geographic proximity to the European Union (EU) does not result in the spread of democracy. In contrast, ...
Title:The Legal-Domestic Sources of Immigrant Rights - the United States, Germany, and the European Union
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the evolution of two types of immigrant rights-alien rights and the right to citizenship-across three polities (the United States, Germany, and the European Union). It argues that the sources of rights ...
Title:The liberal wing of the national assembly (1969-73) a sociological profile
Author(s):FERNANDES, Tiago LuisDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The liberal wing was a group of deputies constituting a reformist, pro-democracy sector of the internal semi-opposition to the authoritarian New State regime during its final years. I have used a prosopographic study of ...