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

Title:Catching Up with the West? An insider's perspective from Lithuania Author(s):REITER, HerwigDate:2012Citation:Aili AARELAID-TART and Li BENNICH-BJÖRKMAN(eds), Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads, London, Routledge, 2012, 146-162Type:Contribution to book

Title:Catholicism, social economy and local welfare in times of crisis : comparing Spanish and Italian territories Author(s):ITÇAINA, XabierDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2014/02Abstract:Interactions between politics and religion are frequently reduced to mediatized and politicized ethical and civilizational issues. Focusing instead on the role of religious - here Catholic - actors in the local experience ...

Title:Catholicisme et identité nationale en Pays Basque : entre sécularisation du politique et politisation du religieux Author(s):ITÇAINA, XabierDate:2013Citation:Yvon TRANVOUEZ (ed.), La décomposition des chrétientés occidentales, 1950-2010, Brest : Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC), Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 2013, pp. 287-304Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:L’article revient sur les rapports entre catholicisme et identité nationale en Pays basque français et espagnol, de 1950 à 2010. Une première partie revient, au terme d’une brève revue de la littérature, sur la façon dont ...

Title:The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women Author(s):COMOLLI, Chiara Ludovica

; BERNARDI, Fabrizio

Date:2015Citation:IZA Journal of labor economics, 2015, Vol. 4, No. 21, pp. 1-24, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed ...

Title:Causal Explanation Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne

Date:2008Citation:Donatella DELLA PORTA and Michael KEATING (eds), Approaches and methodologies in the Social Sciences: a pluralist perspective, Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 61-72Type:Contribution to book

Title:Causal inference in environmental epidemiology : the role of implicit values Author(s):BOTTI, Caterina; COMBA, Pietro; FORASTIERE, Francesco; SETTIMI, LauraDate:1996Citation:Science of the total environment, 1996, Vol. 184, No. 1-2, pp. 97-101Type:ArticleAbstract:The current epistemologic debate in epidemiology has underlined the relevance of subjective judgment in the production and evaluation of epidemiologic evidence. The definition of criteria aimed at evaluating causal links ...

Title:Causation and liability to defensive harm Author(s):CHRISTIE, LarsDate:2020Citation:Journal of applied philosophy, 2020, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 341-510Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[IOW]Abstract:An influential view in the ethics of self‐defence is that causal responsibility for an unjust threat is a necessary requirement for liability to defensive harm. In this article, I argue against this view by providing ...

Title:Causes and Consequences of Divorce: Cross-national and Cohort Differences, an Introduction to this Special Issue Author(s):DRONKERS, Jaap; KALMIJN, Matthijs; WAGNER, MichaelDate:2006Citation:European Sociological Review, 2006, 22, 5, 479-481Type:Article

Title:Causes, National Costs, and Timing of Reforms Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo

; LIEW, L.H.; HE, L.Date:2005Citation:Jose Maria FANELLI and Gary McMAHON (eds), Understanding Reform, Volume 1: Philosophy, Politics and Stakeholders, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 113-152Type:Contribution to book

Title:Central bank independence and fiscal policy : can the central bank restrain deficit spending? Author(s):BODEA, Cristina; HIGASHIJIMA, MasaakiDate:2017Citation:British journal of political science, 2017, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 47-70Type:ArticleAbstract:Independent central banks prefer balanced budgets due to the long-run connection between deficits and inflation, and can enforce their preference through interest rate increases and denial of credit to the government. This ...

Title:Central bank reform and the politics of blame avoidance in the UK Author(s):HUNGIN, Harpal

; JAMES, ScottDate:2019Citation:New political economy, 2019, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 334-349Type:ArticleAbstract:Following the financial crisis, the UK central bank gained important new prudential powers for upholding financial stability. Yet the reforms diverged significantly from the government's original plans and arguably produced ...

Title:Central banking in Rawls's property-owning democracy Author(s):VAN 'T KLOOSTER, Jens

Date:2019Citation:Political theory, 2019, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 674-698Type:ArticleAbstract:The dramatic events of the crisis have reignited debates on the independence of central banks and the scope of their mandates. In this article, I contribute to the normative understanding of these developments by discussing ...

Title:The centrality of materiality : economic theorizing from Xenophon to home economics and beyond Author(s):SWEDBERG, RichardDate:2008Citation:Trevor PINCH and Richard SWEDBERG (eds), Living in a material world : economic sociology meets science and technology studies, Cambridge ; London : MIT Press, 2008, Inside Technology, pp. 57–87Type:Contribution to book

Title:Centripetal democracy : democratic legitimacy and political identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union Author(s):LACEY, JosephDate:2017Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2015Type:BookAbstract:Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes ...

Title:Centripetal democracy : democratic legitimacy and regional integration in Belgium, Switzerland and the European Union Author(s):LACEY, JosephDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation aims to arrive at a model of democratic legitimacy for the European Union. There is, however, a strain of thought pre-dominant in political theory since the nineteenth century that doubts the capacity of ...

Title:The challenge of integrating East and West in the EU Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean

Date:2007Citation:Attila ÁGH and Alexandra FERENCZ (eds), Overcoming the EU crisis : EU perspectives after the Eastern enlargement, Budapest,’Together for Europe’ Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2007, Together for Europe series ; 8Type:Contribution to book

Title:The Challenge to Party Government Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2008Citation:West European Politics, 2008, 31, 1-2, 211-234Type:ArticleAbstract:At a time when the literature on political parties is brimming with health and vitality, the parties themselves seem to be experiencing potentially severe legitimacy problems and to be suffering from a quite massive ...

Title:The Challenge to Party Government Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2007/09Abstract:At a time when the literature on political parties is brimming with health and vitality, the parties themselves seem to be experiencing potentially severe legitimacy problems and to be suffering from a quite massive ...

Title:Challenge, prevention and response : game-theoretical perspectives on breakdown and survival of democracy Author(s):CAPOCCIA, GiovanniDate:1999Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1999/11

Title:Challenges and opportunities of social media research : using Twitter and Facebook to investigate far right discourses Author(s):MUIS, Jasper; KLEIN, Ofra

; DIJKSTRA, GuidoDate:2020Citation:Stephen D. ASHE, Joel BUSHER, Graham MACKLIN and Aaron WINTER (eds), Researching the Far Right : theory, method and practice, London : Routledge, 2020, pp. 147-163Type:Contribution to book