Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Title

Title:On the Way to a Post-Functionalist Theory of European Integration Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.

Date:2009Citation:British Journal of Political Science, 2009, 39, 211-215Type:Article

Title:On trade justice : a philosophical plea for a new global deal, Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner. Oxford University Press, 2019, viii + 278 pages. Author(s):KNIESS, Johannes Eduardo

Date:2020Citation:Economics and philosophy, 2020, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 471-476Type:Article

Title:On trade-offs between values Author(s):LUKES, StevenDate:1992Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1992/24

Title:Once bitten, twice shy : financial crises, policy learning and mortgage markets in advanced capitalist economies Author(s):BAYRAM, Ismail EmreDate:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Do nations learn from their financial crises? In addressing this question, this dissertation explores whether politicians, supervisors and bankers change their preferences towards financial markets when they recognize they ...

Title:One electorate or many? Differences in party preference formation between new and established European democracies Author(s):VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; FRANKLIN, Mark N.; TÓKA, GáborDate:2008Citation:Electoral Studies, 2008, 27, 4, 589-600Type:ArticleAbstract:We investigate differences in the factors influencing citizens’ votes between elections conducted in established and new democracies using data collected at the 2004 European Parliament elections, comparing 7 former communist ...

Title:One political economy, one competitive strategy? : comparing pharmaceutical firms in Germany, Italy, and the UK Author(s):HERRMANN, AndreaDate:2008Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2006Type:BookAbstract:This book examines how firms adapt to the pressures of increasing international competition by testing both the arguments on ‘strategy specialization’ proposed in the competitiveness literature in general, and those offered ...

Title:The one, the two and the many : autonomous, self-interested and interacting individuals in images of social order within contemporary social thought Author(s):LESSA KERSTENETZKY, CeliaDate:1998Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1998Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Online communication spheres in social movements campaigns : the Italian referendum on water Author(s):CERNISON, Matteo

Date:2014Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2014Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In 2011, a vast coalition of social movement actors coordinated one of the largest and most successful political campaign that characterized recent Italian history, organizing and winning a referendum that blocked a serious ...

Title:Online discontent : comparing Western European far-right groups on Facebook Author(s):KLEIN, Ofra

; MUIS, JasperDate:2019Citation:European societies, 2019, Vol. 21, No. 4 (SI), pp. 540-562Type:ArticleAbstract:Far-right groups increasingly use social media to interact with other groups and reach their followers. Social media also enable ‘ordinary’ people to participate in online discussions and shape political discourse. This ...

Title:Online Forums and Deliberative Democracy Author(s):JANSSEN, Davy; KIES, RaphaëlDate:2005Citation:Acta Politica, 2005, 40, 3, 317-335Type:ArticleAbstract:The Internet is rapidly becoming a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in the Western world. People perform various activities on the Internet and one of them is discussing politics and society in so-called ...

Title:Online networks of the Italian and German extreme right Author(s):CAIANI, Manuela; WAGEMANN, Claudius

Date:2009Citation:Information, 2009, 12, 1, 66-109Type:ArticleAbstract:This article applies instruments of social network analysis to a study of communication networks within the Italian and German extremist right. Web links between organizational websites are used as a proxy. Indeed, extremist ...

Title:Onwards or upwards? : pathways and persistent inequality in the United Kingdom's comprehensive education system Author(s):MCMULLIN, PatriciaDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The UK's comparatively open and flexible education system provides more options for individuals from less advantaged backgrounds to participate, and has a high uptake of tertiary and adult education. However, individuals ...

Title:Onwards or upwards? : the role of subject choice and schools in there reproduction of educational inequality in England Author(s):MCMULLIN, Patricia; KULIC, Nevena

Date:2016Citation:Hans Peter BLOSSFELD, Sandra BUCHHOLZ, Jan SKOPEK and Moris TRIVENTI (eds), Models of secondary education and social inequality : an international comparison, Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, eduLIFE lifelong learning, pp. 213-232Version:Partly based on Patricia MCMULLIN's EUI PhD thesis, 2016Type:Contribution to book

Title:Open parliaments : technological enactment in state legislatures Author(s):PEIXOTO, Tiago CarneiroDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis starts with a simple research question, asking why parliaments that share the same level of functions and competencies produce different results in terms of the level of development of their websites. The ...

Title:Opening the urban 'black box' : the role of the local context in the mobilisation of urban movements Author(s):SUBIRATS, Anna

Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis analyses urban protest actions in the context of austerity urbanism in Southern Europe, attempting to better understand the conditions that lead to the mobilisation of urban protestors. To date, the literature ...

Title:Opening Up Hungary to the World Market : External constraints and opportunities Author(s):LORENTZEN, JochenDate:1995Citation:London, Macmillan/New York, St. Martin's, 1995Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1993Type:BookAbstract:This work describes the opening of the Hungarian economy from the early 1980s to the current transitional position. It analyzes the management of external debt and international competitiveness, and shows that the dismal ...

Title:Opening up Hungary to the world market : external constraints and opportunities 1982-1992 Author(s):LORENTZEN, JochenDate:1993Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1993Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Opportunity, ideology, and Salafi pathways of political activism in Tunisia Author(s):BLANC, Théo

Date:2020Citation:Third World thematics : a TWQ journal, 2020, Vol. 5, No. 3-6, pp. 276-295Type:ArticleAbstract:The Arab Revolutions have multiplied the pathways of activism available to Salafi groups notably in the newly democratised Tunisia. Based on an opportunity-inclusion approach, the literature has not successfully explained ...

Title:Opposition in Italy Author(s):PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1997Citation:Government and Opposition, 1997, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 647-656Type:Article

Title:Opposition politics from afar : the case of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora Author(s):GUYOT, Lola

Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Version:Chapter 3 ‘The LTTE and the subordination of the diaspora' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Les pratiques répressives des LTTE : dispositifs spatialisés de purification de la nation tamoule' (2020) in the journal ‘Pôle Sud’Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis theorises and analyses the ways in which diasporas oppose authoritarian regimes from afar. Transcending the traditional debate about diasporas as radical or pacifying actors, and understanding diaspora politics ...