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

Title:Conflitti in Europa : lotte di classe, sindacati e stato dopo il '68 Editor(s):CROUCH, Colin; PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1977Citation:Milano : Etas Libri, 1977, Biblioteca politica e sociale ; 9Type:BookAbstract:Il libro contiene una selezione dei testi (la cui pubblicazione completa in inglese è in preparazione da Macmillan) di una ricerca condotta in sei paesi europei sui problemi delle nuove lotte operaie, dei mutamenti nei ...

Title:Confrontation still? Examining parties’ policy positions in Greece Author(s):GEMENIS, Kostas; DINAS, Elias

Date:2010Citation:Comparative European Politics, 2010, 8, 179-201Type:ArticleAbstract:Recent research has shown that, in several countries, the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) estimates of party positions do not seem to perform well in terms of face validity and reliability. A fairly typical example ...

Title:Confronting morality with evolutionary methodologies Author(s):OAKEY, DanielDate:1997Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1997Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Connecting ASEM to the Global Information Society Author(s):DE PRADO YEPES, CesarDate:1999Citation:Wim STOKHOF and Paul VAN DER VELDE (eds), ASEM : a Window of Opportunity, London : Kegan Paul International in association with International Institute for Asian Studies, 1999, pp. 58-70Type:Contribution to book

Title:The connection between parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition in the EU : from ACTA to the financial crisis Author(s):CRESPY, Amandine; PARKS, LouisaDate:2017Citation:Journal of European integration, 2017, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 453-467Type:ArticleAbstract:With no formal division between majority and opposition in the parliamentary arena, the European Union (EU) calls for an approach to political opposition which considers the role of civil society. This article explores the ...

Title:Consensual politics and multiparty systems Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean

Date:1995Citation:Australian Journal of Political Science, 1995, 30, pp. 7-26Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper explores the occurrence of consensual policy making and its association with multi-party arrangements in postwar western Europe. It reviews and categorises the experience of 19 countries. The paper first ...

Title:Consensus and conflict : value collectives and social conflicts in contemporary German society Author(s):ROSSTEUTSCHER, SigridDate:1997Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1997Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Why art we interested in societal value orientations? Squeezed between utilitarianists, structuralists and constructionists the preoccupation with values and guiding ideals seems to be awkward, old-fashioned, even conservative, ...

Title:Consensus democracy and support for populist parties in Western Europe Author(s):HAKHVERDIAN, Armen; KOOP, ChristelDate:2007Citation:Acta Politica, 2007, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 401-420Type:ArticleAbstract:Inspired by a previous debate in Acta Politica between Rudy Andeweg and Arend Lijphart on the pros and cons of consensus democracy, this article explores whether support for populist parties is traceable to the institutional ...

Title:Consensus to Contestation: Reconfiguring Democratic Representation in the EU in the Light of Nineteenth-Century US Democratization Author(s):GLENCROSS, AndrewDate:2008Citation:Democratization, 2008, 15, 1, 123-141Type:ArticleAbstract:This article explores how proposals for democratizing the European Union (EU) according to a supranational, contestational model are likely to disrupt its existing political system. The current EU is characterized by a ...

Title:Consensus to Contestation: Reconfiguring Democratic Representation in the European Union in the Light of 19th Century United States Democratization Author(s):GLENCROSS, AndrewDate:2008Citation:Democratization, 2008, 15, 1, 123-141Type:ArticleAbstract:This article explores how proposals for democratizing the European Union (EU) according to a supranational, contestational model are likely to disrupt its existing political system. The current EU is characterized by a ...

Title:Consequences of measurement error for inference in cross-lagged panel design : the example of the reciprocal causal relationship between subjective health and socio-economic status Author(s):KRÖGER, Hannes

; HOFFMANN, Rasmus

; PAKPAHAN, Eduwin

Date:2016Citation:Journal of the royal statistical society. Series A (Statistics in society), 2016, Vol. 179, No. 2, pp. 607–628Type:ArticleAbstract:We discuss the problem of random measurement error in two variables when using a cross-lagged panel design. We apply the problem to the question of the causal direction between socio-economic status and subjective health, ...

Title:Consequences of measurement error for inference in cross-lagged panel design : the example of the reciprocal causal relationship between subjective health and socio-economic status Author(s):KRÖGER, Hannes

; HOFFMANN, Rasmus

; PAKPAHAN, Eduwin

Date:2016Citation:Journal of the royal statistical society series a-statistics in society, 2016, Vol. 179, No. 2, pp. 607-628Type:ArticleAbstract:We discuss the problem of random measurement error in two variables when using a cross-lagged panel design. We apply the problem to the question of the causal direction between socio-economic status and subjective health, ...

Title:The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for fertility and birth outcomes : evidence from Spanish birth registers Author(s):COZZANI, Marco

; FALLESEN, Peter

; PASSARETTA, Giampiero

; HARKONEN, Juho

; BERNARDI, Fabrizio

Date:2023Citation:Population and development review, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:We examine the joint consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for fertility and birth outcomes by drawing on full population administrative data from Spain. We find a surprising improvement in birth outcomes in November and ...

Title:Considerations on English as a global lingua Franca Author(s):LACEY, JosephDate:2015Citation:Political studies review, 2015, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 363- 372Type:ArticleAbstract:Central to Philippe Van Parijs' recent text, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World, are claims that the emergence of English as a global lingua franca is (1) inevitable, (2) necessary for transnational justice ...

Title:Consociationalism and Intergovernmental Relations - Linking Internal and External Power-Sharing in the Swiss Federal Polity Author(s):BOLLEYER, Nicole

Date:2006Citation:Swiss Political Science Review, 12, 3, 2006, 1-34Type:ArticleAbstract:For several decades, comparative politics has treated the Swiss political system as the prime example of a power-sharing polity in which consociationalism and cooperative intergovernmental relations co-exist in a mutually ...

Title:Consolidating democracies : the theory and practice of democratization in post-communist Eastern Europe (1989-2000) Author(s):ANDREEV, Svetlozar A.Date:2003Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2003Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis generally deals with the process of démocratisation in post-communist Eastern Europe. Specifically, it explores the latter stages of this process: the consolidation and persistence of democracy, following the ...

Title:The Consolidation of Democracy: Comparing Europe and Latin America Author(s):SCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.Date:2009Citation:Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2009, Democratization StudiesVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2004Type:BookAbstract:This book investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last quarter of the 20th century. The theoretical approach developed combines the ...

Title:Constellations and Transitions: Combining macro and micro perspectives on migration and citizenship Author(s):BAUBÖCK, Rainer

Date:2012Citation:Michi MESSER, Renée SCHRÖDER and Ruth WODAK (eds), Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Vienna/New York, Springer, 2012, 3-14Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:International migration not only involves a crossing of territorial borders but also creates populations of foreign residents inside and expatriate citizens outside state territories. Post-migration settlement raises ...

Title:The Constitution and Mobilisation of Political Power through Utopian Narratives in the Arctic Author(s):DAHL, Justiina

Date:2012Citation:The Polar Journal, 2012, 2, 2, 256-273Type:ArticleAbstract:Since the fifteenth century, a series of similar utopian discourses, understood as the expressions of social, technical and material desires for the unknown, have surrounded the European, Russian, and later the North ...

Title:Une constitution courte et obscure ou claire et détaillée ? Perspectives pour la simplification des traités et la rationalisation de l’ordre juridique de l’union européenne Author(s):ZILLER, JacquesDate:2006Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI LAW; 2006/31Abstract:The paper examines deals with the possibility to keep the 'acquis' of the Constitutional Treaty in terms of simplification of the EC-EU treaties and of rationalisation of the EU legal system if the Treaty establishing a ...