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

Title:Childhood trauma and fear of childbirth : findings from a birth cohort study Author(s):PORTHAN, Elviira; LINDBERG, Matti; HARKONEN, Juho

; SCHEININ, Noora M.; KARLSSON, Linnea; KARLSSON, Hasse; EKHOLM, EevaDate:2023Citation:Archives of women's mental health, 2023, Vol. 26, pp. 523-529Type:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this study is to investigate if experiencing childhood trauma (emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, physical neglect, or sexual abuse) or a greater total burden of childhood trauma increase the ...

Title:Childlessness and intergenerational transfers in later life Author(s):ALBERTINI, Marco; KOHLI, Martin

Date:2017Citation:Michaela KREYENFELD and Dirk KONIETZKA (eds), Childlessness in Europe : contexts, causes and consequences, Cham : Springer Open, 2017, Demographic research monographs, pp. 351-368Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Childlessness in later life has been attracting increased attention from researchers and policy makers. Yet a number of misconceptions about childlessness among the elderly remain, such as the claim that elderly childless ...

Title:Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers: What is at stake? Author(s):KOHLI, Martin

; ALBERTINI, MarcoDate:2009Citation:Ageing & Society, 2009, 29, 8, 1171-1183Type:ArticleAbstract:In this introductory article for the special issue on Childlessness and Intergenerational Transfers, we first discuss the prior research literature and then overview the presented contributions. Up to now, childless older ...

Title:Children of immigrants in the Italian school system : what kind of assimilation? Author(s):MINELLO, Alessandra

; DALLA ZUANNA, GianpieroDate:2014Citation:Statistica applicata : Italian journal of applied statistics, 2014, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 193-213Type:ArticleAbstract:Our paper aims at identifying the kind of assimilation experienced by children of immigrants who arrived in Italy during the first decade of the 21st century, a time of great immigrant expansion. We aim at discerning to ...

Title:Chinese Researchers Returning Home: Impacts of International Mobility on Research Collaboration and Scientific Productivity Author(s):JONKERS, Koen; TIJSSEN, RobertDate:2008Citation:Scientometrics, 2008, 77, 2, 309-333Type:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this study is to contribute to the debate on the relationship between scientific mobility and international collaboration. This case study deals with leading Chinese researchers in the field of plant molecular ...

Title:A chip off the old block : privilege and upper class educational opportunities in the United States, South Korea and Germany Author(s):SÁNCHEZ GUERRERO, Laia

Date:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:As the saying goes: there are some things that money cannot buy. Yet, scholars have tended to analyze the upper class as a homogeneous group, able to overcome any difficulty that life puts in their way to educational ...

Title:Choice and Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools in Seven Countries. A Reanalysis of Three Pisa Dat Sets Author(s):DRONKERS, Jaap; AVRAM, SilviaDate:2009Citation:Zeitschrift Fur Padagogik, 2009, 55, 6, 895-909Type:ArticleAbstract:In international comparative studies on academic achievement, the distinction between private government-dependent schools and private-independent schools has proven to be particularly important for understanding the ...

Title:Choice and Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools. A New Approach Author(s):DRONKERS, Jaap; AVRAM, SilviaDate:2009Citation:Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 2009, 55, 895-909Type:Article

Title:Choice: An essay on pluralism, value conflicts and decision-making Author(s):HERLITZ, Per Anders KristianDate:2012Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis examines decision-making in value conflicts, and argues in favor of a unified approach to decision-making that accepts partial success of a plurality of decision-making methods, and that uses these as alternative ...

Title:Choosing lesser evils : the role of business in the development of the German welfare state from the 1880s to the 1990s Author(s):PASTER, ThomasDate:2009Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis is an empirical study of the role of organized business in the formation of marketcorrecting industrial relations and welfare state institutions, relying on a historical-diachronic case study of welfare state ...

Title:Church, State and Civil Society: The Netherland's System of Schooling Author(s):DRONKERS, JaapDate:2001Citation:Heinz-Dieter MEYER and William L. BOYD (eds), Education between States, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives, London, L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001, 63-80, Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education.Type:Contribution to book

Title:Cities and the structural funds : the domestic impact of EU initiatives for urban development Author(s):KOUTALAKIS, CharalamposDate:2001Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2001Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Cities and the Structural Funds: The domestic impact of EU initiatives for urban development Author(s):KOUTALAKIS, CharalamposDate:2003Citation:Athens, Sakkoula, 2003Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2001Type:Book

Title:Citizens on the Move: Democratic Standards for Migrants’ Membership Author(s):BAUBÖCK, Rainer

Date:2008Citation:Canadian Diversity/Diversité Canadienne, 2008, 6, 4, 7-12Type:Article

Title:Citizens' knowledge of parties' left-right and EU integration conflicts : the role of cognition, affect, and political parties Author(s):SICZEK, TomaszDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In representative democracies citizens are supposed to be well-informed about what parties do and say. Such information helps voters to choose parties and candidates which are likely to promote their interests in political ...

Title:Citizens-minus and citizens-plus : a normative attempt to defend citizenship acquisition as an entitlement based on residence Author(s):STAVILĂ, AndreiDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In this thesis I try to defend the concept of residence-based citizenship. My point of departure is the puzzling observation that, in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, a quite large number of countries ...

Title:Citizenship and collective identities as political sources of solidarity in the European Union Author(s):BAUBÖCK, Rainer

Date:2017Citation:Keith BANTING and Will KYMLICKA (eds), The strains of commitment : the political sources of solidarity in diverse societies, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 80-106Type:Contribution to book

Title:Citizenship and Collective Responsibility : on the Political Philosophy of the Nation-based Welfare State and Beyond Author(s):WAGNER, Peter; ZIMMERMANN, BenedicteDate:2004Citation:Lars MAGNUSSON (ed), Bo STRATH (ed), A European Social Citizenship?: Preconditions for Future Policies from a Historical Perspective, Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2004, 31-53Type:Contribution to book

Title:Citizenship and educational attainment amongst the second generation : an analysis of children of immigrants in Finland Author(s):KILPI-JAKONEN, ElinaDate:2014Citation:Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 7, pp. 1079-1096Type:ArticleAbstract:Citizenship acquisition is often viewed as an indicator of immigrant integration as well as an event that spurs integration further. Relatively little is known about the relationship between citizenship and integration for ...

Title:Citizenship and nationhood Author(s):GANS, Chaim

Date:2017Citation:Ayelet SHACHAR, Rainer BAUBÖCK, Irene BLOEMRAAD and Maarten Peter VINK (eds), The Oxford handbook of citizenship, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017, Oxford handbooks, pp. ...Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Citizenship in this chapter means membership of a state. Nationhood means membership of a “nation”, which is a particular type of cultural and/or ethnic collective. I first set out the reasons that liberals and anti-liberals ...