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

Title:Comparing institutional change : a study of partnership in the implementation of European Union structural funds in Brittany and the Mid-West of Ireland Author(s):MCCARTHY, Rosarie E.Date:2000Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2000Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Comparing legislatures : institutional constraints and legislative efficiency in EU national parliaments Author(s):ZENNARO, SaraDate:2005Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Comparing methods and approaches. Some concluding remarks Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella

; KEATING, MichaelDate:2008Citation:KEATING Michael, DELLA PORTA Donatella (eds), Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: a pluralist perspective, Cambridge UK/New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 316-322Type:Contribution to book

Title:Comparing observed and unobserved components of childhood : evidence from Finnish register data on midlife mortality from siblings and their parents Author(s):KRÖGER, Hannes

; HOFFMANN, Rasmus

; TARKIAINEN, Lasse; MARTIKAINEN, PekkaDate:2018Citation:Demography, 2018, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 295-318Type:ArticleAbstract:In this study, we argue that the long arm of childhood that determines adult mortality should be thought of as comprising an observed part and its unobserved counterpart, reflecting the observed socioeconomic position of ...

Title:Comparing super-diversity Editor(s):MEISSNER, Fran; VERTOVEC, StevenDate:2015Citation:London : Routledge, 2015, Ethnic and racial studiesType:BookAbstract:The concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2007, reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social ...

Title:Comparing super-diversity Editor(s):MEISSNER, Fran; VERTOVEC, StevenDate:2015Citation:Special issue of Ethnic and racial studies, 2015, Vol. 38, No. 4Type:BookAbstract:Reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity, the concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in this journal in 2007. Many ...

Title:Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social policy and political economy in Europe, Japan, and the USA Editor(s):EBBINGHAUS, Bernhard; MANOW, PhilipDate:2001Citation:London/New York, Routledge, 2001, Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare, 3Type:BookAbstract:This book challenges the popular thesis of a downward trend in the viability of welfare states in competitive market economies. With approaches ranging from historical case studies to cross-national analyses, the contributors ...

Title:Compensating disadvantageous life events : social origin differences in the effects of family and sibling characteristics on educational outcomes Author(s):GRÄTZ, MichaelDate:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis is a collection of four empirical studies which analyze the effects of family and sibling characteristics on educational outcomes. The analysis in all empirical studies is guided by the compensatory effect of ...

Title:Compensation and compliance : sources of public acceptance of the U.K. Supreme Court's Brexit decision Author(s):DINAS, Elias

; GONZALEZ-OCANTOS, EzequielDate:2019Citation:Law and society review, 2019, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 889-919Type:ArticleAbstract:The perception that a high court's decision is binding and final is a crucial prerequisite for its ability to settle political conflicts. Under what conditions are citizens more likely to accept controversial judicial ...

Title:Compensation or social investment? : revisiting the link between globalisation and popular demand for the welfare state Author(s):BUSEMEYER, Marius R.; GARRITZMANN, Julian Leonce

Date:2019Citation:Journal of social policy, 2019, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 427-448Type:ArticleAbstract:The debate on effects of globalisation on welfare states is extensive. Often couched in terms of a battle between the compensation and the efficiency theses, the scholarly literature has provided contradictory arguments ...

Title:Compensatory advantage as a mechanism of educational inequality : a regression discontinuity based on month of birth Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio

Date:2014Citation:Sociology of education, 2014, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 74-88Type:ArticleAbstract:Compensatory advantage is a mechanism of social stratification that complements cumulative advantage and path dependence. In this article, I first discuss the theoretical foundations of the compensatory advantage and path ...

Title:Compensatory advantage in educational transitions trivial or substantial? : a simulated scenario analysis Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio

; TRIVENTI, Moris

Date:2020Citation:Acta sociologica, 2020, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 40-62Type:ArticleAbstract:In this article, first, we present new evidence on a specific type of compensatory advantage (CA) mechanism in educational transitions and attainment, whereby students from socio-economically advantaged families compensate ...

Title:Competence versus control : the governor’s dilemma Author(s):ABBOTT, Kenneth W.; GENSCHEL, Philipp

; SNIDAL, Duncan; ZANGL, Bernhard

Date:2020Citation:Regulation & governance, 2020, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 619-636Type:ArticleAbstract:Most governance is indirect, carried out through intermediaries. Principal–agent theory views indirect governance primarily as a problem of information: the agent has an informational advantage over the principal, which ...

Title:Competing for economic power : South America, Southeast Asia, and commercial realism in European Union foreign policy Author(s):MEISSNER, Katharina L.

Date:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Since 2006, the European Union (EU) has increasingly made use of bilateral trade relations, and thus departed from its earlier commitment to interregionalism and multilateralism. Two examples for this are the EU's shift ...

Title:Competing ideas : the religious foundations of the German and Italian welfare states Author(s):HIEN, JosefDate:2012Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis investigates the influence of political Catholicism and Catholic social doctrine on the evolution of the continental European welfare regimes. Paradoxically it finds that the doctrine had less influence on the ...

Title:Competing Visions for the European Union Grand Strategy Author(s):VENNESSON, PascalDate:2010Citation:European Foreign Affairs Review, 2010,15, 57-75.Type:Article

Title:Competition and solidarity : Union members and immigration in Europe Author(s):DONNELLY, Michael J.Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2014/08Abstract:In this paper, I address an under-studied question in the comparative political economy of migration. How have trade unions shaped the attitudes of their members toward immigration? Unions are at the core of left wing ...

Title:Competition policy enforcement in EU member states : what is independence for? Author(s):GUIDI, Mattia

Date:2016Citation:London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, European administrative governanceVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2012Type:BookAbstract:This book investigates the crucial EU policy of competition, which is enforced by the Commission and by national agencies that enjoy various degrees of autonomy from their governments. More and more policy-making activities ...

Title:The competition state : the modern state in a global economy Author(s):GENSCHEL, Philipp

; SEELKOPF, Laura

Date:2015Citation:Stephan LEIBFRIED, Evelyne HUBER, Matthew LANGE, Jonah D. LEVY, Frank NULLMEIER and John D. STEPHENS (eds), The Oxford handbook of transformations of the state, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015, Oxford handbooks, pp. 237-252Type:Contribution to book

Title:Competition states on Europe's periphery : race to the bottom and to the top Author(s):VUKOV, VišnjaDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The thesis deals with the transformations of capitalist states in Europe in the context of increased economic transnationalisation and explores the different strategies that states develop to increase their competitiveness ...