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

Title:Controversies, public engagement and scientific expertise in technical-scientific decision-making processes : the setting up of household waste incinerators in France Author(s):VOINEAU, ChristopheDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis presents analyses of the public involvement in decision making processes in local government, and of the mobilisation of scientific expertise by the public engaged in these processes. The theoretical perspective ...

Title:Convenient cultures : nationalism as political action in Ireland (1890-1920) and Northern Italy (1980-1994) Author(s):TAMBINI, Damian AngeloDate:1996Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1996Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Converging Divergence: How Competitive Advantages Condition Institutional Change Under EMU Author(s):HERRMANN, AndreaDate:2005Citation:Journal of Common Market Studies , 2005, 43, 2, 287-310Type:Article

Title:Cooperating with evil? : accountability in peace operations and the evolution of the United Nations human rights due diligence policy Author(s):HIRSCHMANN, Gisela Katharina

Date:2020Citation:Cooperation and conflict, 2020, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 22-40Type:ArticleAbstract:International organizations (IOs) usually cooperate with national actors in order to implement global decisions and policies. This cooperation has become problematic as implementing partners have increasingly been accused ...

Title:Cooperation under threat : the mobilizing force of ethnic competition Author(s):SCHAUB, MaxDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation sheds new light on the old question of whether outside threat induces ingroup cohesion. In three independent but interrelated empirical chapters, I explore the link between threat, conflict and cooperation ...

Title:Cooperative transnationalism in contemporary Europe : europeanization and political opportunities for LGBT mobilization in the European Union Author(s):AYOUB, Phillip M.Date:2013Citation:European Political Science Review, 2013, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 279-310Type:ArticleAbstract:This article builds on previous research on Europeanization and political opportunity structures (POS) for mobilization, to explore the processes of transnational LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) mobilization ...

Title:Coping with Complexity. An Organizational Perspective on European Security Governance Author(s):SCHROEDER, Ursula C.Date:2006Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2006/09Abstract:How does the European Union respond to a rapidly changing security environment that is increasingly characterised by challenges cutting across the traditional divide between internal and external security? This paper traces ...

Title:Coping with Insecurity in Fragile Situations Author(s):VENNESSON, Pascal; BÜGER, ChristianDate:2009Citation:European Report on Development, 2009Type:Working Paper

Title:Coping with Insecurity in Fragile Situations Author(s):VENNESSON, Pascal; BÜGER, ChristianDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2010/37; European Report on DevelopmentAbstract:In this paper, we explore the security dimension of development in fragile situations, and address how the EU can better focus on the security dimension of its policies to-wards countries facing fragility. We stress ...

Title:The cordon sanitaire : a social norm-based model Author(s):AXELSEN, Jørgen Eikvar

Date:2023Citation:Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:This paper is on cordons sanitaires – coordinated refusals to collaborate with a given political party on principle – and the behaviours associated with it. I argue that, once established, the cordon is properly classified ...

Title:Corporate Control and Managerial Power Author(s):CULPEPPER, Pepper D.Date:2010Citation:David COEN, Wyn GRANT and Graham WILSON (eds), Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, Oxford University Press, 2010, 497-511Type:Contribution to book

Title:Corporate lobbying in the European Union : towards a theory of access Author(s):BOUWEN, PieterDate:2001Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2001/05

Title:Corporate reconstructions of federal macroeconomic government institutions compared : USA then, Europe now Author(s):GEORGIOU, Christakis

Date:2021Citation:Comparative European politics, 2021, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 401–432Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper is a contribution to the comparative historical literature on the development of American and European federal macroeconomic government institutions, spawned by the 2010–12 Eurozone crisis. The literature has ...

Title:Corporate Social Responsibility in the Regulatory Void - Does the promise hold? : self-regulation by business in South Africa and China Author(s):THAUER, Christian R.Date:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Under which conditions do firms engage in corporate social responsibility (csr) in the context of a regulatory void? Tackling this question the thesis suggests a set of theoretical propositions that explain the engagement ...

Title:Corporatism and public policy in authoritarian Portugal Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.

Date:1975Citation:London : SAGE Publications, 1975, Professional papers in contemporary political sociology ; 06-011Type:Book

Title:The corporatist Sisyphus : past, present and future Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.

; GROTE, Jurgen R.Date:1997Citation:Milano, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, 1997Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Nota di lavoro Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; 1997/55

Title:The corporatist Sisyphus : past, present and future Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.

; GROTE, Jurgen R.Date:1997Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1997/04Abstract:We now know that the (re)discovery of corporatism in the mid-1970s was ironic. At the very moment that academics started using the concept to analyze trends in advanced capitalist societies, the practice had already peaked ...

Title:Correlates of capacitating solidarity Author(s):HEMERIJCK, Anton

Date:2020Citation:Housing, theory and society, 2020, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 278-288Type:ArticleAbstract:The expansion of social investment welfare provision, in areas of early childhood education, long-term care, work-life balance reconciliation across the OECD world, since the turn of century, has opened up a space for ...

Title:Correspondence between the objective and subjective economies: the role of personal economic circumstances Author(s):FRAILE, Marta

; PARDOS-PRADO, SergiDate:2014Citation:Political studies, 2014, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 895-912Type:ArticleAbstract:The impact of sociotropic economic satisfaction on the vote has been thoroughly analysed. However, knowledge about how citizens acquire information about the economy and the degree of correspondence between objective ...

Title:The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians : evidence from a natural experiment Author(s):ARES, Macarena; HERNÁNDEZ, EnriqueDate:2017Citation:Research and politics, 2017, Vol. 4, No. 2, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:Empirical studies do not provide a univocal answer about the effects of corruption on political attitudes and behaviour. Focusing on the relationship between corruption and political trust, in this article we explore whether ...