Title:The digital challenge : national governments and the control of the Internet
Author(s):GIACOMELLO, GiampieroDate:2001Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last decade, the Internet has transformed how information can be made available-it is now used to transfer information about things as varied as financial transactions and celebrity gossip and to link and coordinate ...
Title:The Digital Divide, framing and mapping the phenomenon
Author(s):CALDERARO, AndreaDate:2009Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter explores the global dimension of the Digital Divide. It frames the concept and maps the status and the causes of the phenomenon today. The first part investigates how the Digital Divide can be measured, framing ...
Title:Digital Inequalities as Class Inequalities? A comparison of youth in advanced societies in-and outside Europe
Author(s):DRABOWICZ, Tomasz PiotrDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation merges two streams of research hitherto rarely mixed together: class analysis and digital inequality studies. It also focuses on the comparative research of adolescents from advanced societies – a social ...
Title:Digital politics divide : the digital divide in building political e-practices
Author(s):CALDERARO, AndreaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study explores the relation between Internet and politics from a cross-national perspective of analysis. In the domain of the political sciences, the Internet has been welcomed for its potential to facilitate political ...
Title:Discourses and counter discourses: The Islamic headscarf in the French and German public spheres
Author(s):AMIR-MOAZAMI, SchirinDate:2004Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Ausgehend von den anhaltenden Debatten um das islamische Kopftuch in staatlichen Bildungseinrichtungen Deutschlands und Frankreichs analysiert Schirin Amir-Moazami die Logiken der Diskursproduktion über den Islam und bringt ...
Title:Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, strategies, and effects
Author(s):BAUER, Michael W.; JORDAN, Andrew; GREEN-PEDERSEN, Christoffer; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Policy dismantling is a distinctive form of policy change, which involves the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of existing policies. The perceived need to dismantle existing policies normally acquires ...
Title:The Divorce Cycle in Cross-National Perspective: Results from the Fertility and Family Surveys
Author(s):HARKONEN, Juho; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2008Series/Report no.:CIQLE Working PapersAbstract:We use data on women’s first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce―the divorce cycle―across 18 countries and seek explanations for the cross-national ...
Title:Divorce Risk Factors and Their Variation Over Time in Spain
Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio; MARTÍNEZ-PASTOR, Juan-IgnacioDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this article is to analyse the determinants of marriage dissolution in Spain and their variation over time for women married between 1949 and 2006. Data are drawn from the Survey of Fertility, Family and Values ...