Title:The Migrant Worker Factor in Labour Market Policy Reform
Author(s):DEVITT, CamillaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Research on labour market policy reform in Western Europe has given insufficient attention to the 'migrant worker factor'. Concerns about reduced availability of migrant workers, as well as more traditional concerns regarding ...
Title:The Modernity of Social Life
Author(s):WAGNER, PeterDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Over the past two decades, the term 'modernity' has ever more replaced the term 'modern society' in sociological analyses of contemporary societies. This signals the attempt by sociologists to advance beyond the theorem ...
Title:The Omc - A Deliberative-Democratic Mode of Governance? the Cases of Employment and Pensions
Author(s):DE LA PORTE, Caroline; NANZ, PatriziaDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The open method of co-ordination's (OMCs) emphasis on transparency, democratic participation and learning has led to a particular interest in this governance mechanism from the perspective of deliberative democracy. This ...
Title:The Origins of European Citizenship in the First Two Decades of European Integration
Author(s):OLSEN, Espen D. H.Date:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By tracing conceptions of citizenship in the early period of European integration until 1971, this article argues that the Maastricht Treaty was not year zero in the EU citizenship discourse. In contrast to previous research, ...
Title:The Snakes and Ladders of Twenty-First-Century Trade Unionism
Author(s):CROUCH, ColinDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Trade unions in the advanced countries face a difficult future Their core membership bases in manufacturing industry and public services have become declining sectors of employment. Keynesian demand management on which ...
Title:The Soft Law Approach: Commission Rule-Making in the EU's State Aid Regime
Author(s):CINI, MichelleDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article draws attention to the Commission's use of soft law within the EU state aid regime and discusses how the application of informal policy instruments by the Commission has evolved since the early 1990s. It argues ...
Title:The Uneasy Relationship Between Empirical and Normative Types in Consociational Theory
Author(s):BOGAARDS, MatthijsDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Consociationalism has enriched comparative politics with a whole lineage of non-majoritarian types of democracy: from consociational democracy to consensus democracy and power-sharing. This article unravels the development, ...
Title:The Unintended Consequence of the Struggle for Independence: The transition to democracy in the Baltic Countries
Author(s):ROSSI, Federico M.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:The Baltic countries' struggle was for independence more than any other thing. The achievement of democracy was a by-product of the secessionist project of increasing autonomy from Moscow. A possible explanation for this ...
Title:The World Social Forum process
Author(s):SMITH, Jackie; JURIS, Jeffrey S.; DÖRR, Nicole; KWON, Roy; REESE, Ellen; ANANTRAM, Kadambari; CHASE-DUNN, Christopher; COYNE, Gary; KANESHIRO, Matheu; KODA, Ashkey N.; SAXENA, PreetaDate:2008Type of Publication:Article