Title:Towards a Welfare Research Framework in the Countries of Eastern Partnership Initiative
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative is a EU project aiming to advance socioeconomic development in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. To date, virtually no research has been done on comparative ...
Title:Towards an Institutionalized Language Policy for the French Basque Country? Actors, processes and outcomes
Author(s):HARGUINDEGUY, Jean-Baptiste; ITÇAINA, XabierDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper focuses on the progressive institutionalization of the Basque language policy (also called Euskera) in the French Basque Country (Iparralde) since the Second World War. In view of this, it questions how such a ...
Title:Towards Convergence in Europe? Institutional Adaptation to Europeanization in Germany and Spain
Author(s):BORZEL, Tanja A.Date:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A number of studies suggest that European integration impacts upon the domestic institutions of the Member States by changing the distribution of resources among domestic actors. I argue in this article that resource ...
Title:Trade Union Activists, East and West: Comparisons in multinational companies
Author(s):MEARDI, GuglielmoDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is a clearly constructed, well-documented and creatively researched contribution to a new subject of considerable interest. It examines the different perspectives of trade-union activists in western and eastern European ...
Title:Trade Union Consciousness, East and West: A Comparison of Fiat Factories in Poland and Italy
Author(s):MEARDI, GuglielmoDate:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article presents the first results of a qualitative research project examining trade union activists at Fiat factories in Italy and Poland. It discusses two issues: first, whether it is possible to find any common ...
Title:Trade-Offs and Veto Players: Reforming Pensions in France and Italy
Author(s):RHODES, Martin; NATALI, DavidDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:France, like other European countries, has faced growing challenges to its welfare state. Pensions in particular have been at the core of the public debate on recasting its "social model". This article analyses reform ...
Title:Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction
Author(s):GOETZ, Klaus H.; MAIR, Peter; SMITH, GordonDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article introduces a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It highlights profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, ...