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

Title:Age, class, and attitudes toward government responsibilities Author(s):SVALLFORS, Stefan; KULIN, Joakin; SCHNABEL AnnetteDate:2012Citation:Stefan SVALLFORS (ed.), Contested welfare states : welfare attitudes in Europe and beyond, Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2012, Studies in social inequality, pp. 158-192Type:Contribution to book

Title:Ageing and political institutions : comparative political economy of long-term care for frail older people Author(s):HIEDA, TakeshiDate:2010Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2010Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Despite common socio-demographic pressures such as longer longevity, lower fertility rate, and feminization of labor market, public elderly care policy is remarkably diverse across advanced industrialized countries. This ...

Title:Agencies in the European Community - A Step Towards Administrative Integration in Europe Author(s):KREHER, AlexanderDate:1997Citation:Journal of European Public Policy, 1997, 4, 2, 225-245Type:ArticleAbstract:Agencies in the European Community (EC) are a functional and politically important institutional phenomenon, yet almost completely ignored within the academic literature. In addition there is some evidence that EC agencies ...

Title:Agenda Control in Presidential Systems Measurements Alternatives to Capture Latent Variables Author(s):AJENJO FRESNO, NataliaDate:2006Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2006/05Abstract:This paper presents alternative modeling strategies to capture latent variables such as agenda control. The methodological approach offers competing models for theory testing among institutional, partisan and procedural ...

Title:Aging and Justice Author(s):KOHLI, Martin

Date:2006Citation:Robert BINSTOCK (ed), Linda GEORGE (ed), Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences (6th edition), San Diego, Elsevier, 2006, 456-478Type:Contribution to book

Title:The AIDS Crisis and the modern self : biographical self-construction in the awareness of finitude Author(s):RINKEN, SebastianDate:2000Citation:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1997Type:BookAbstract:In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent ...

Title:The Al Qaeda-Islamic state rivalry : competition yes, but no competitive escalation Author(s):HAMMING, Tore Refslund

Date:2020Citation:Terrorism and political violence, 2020, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 20-37Type:ArticleAbstract:On June 29, 2014, the Islamic State emerged and declared the establishment of its caliphate. The declaration was a direct challenge to other Sunni Jihadi groups including Al Qaeda and an attempt to become the leading Jihadi ...

Title:Albania Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean

; CHIODI, LuisaDate:2001Citation:Jean BLONDEL and Ferdinand MÜLLER-ROMMEL, Cabinets in Eastern Europe, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave, 2001, pp. 142-151Type:Contribution to book

Title:Albania in Transition : Manipulation or Appropriation of International Norms Author(s):ELBASANI, Arolda

Date:2004Citation:Southeast European Politics, 2004, 5, 1, 24-44Type:ArticleAbstract:This article seeks to uncover the impact of the EU in the Albanian political transformations. Approaching the EU impact on Albanian political reforms as a process of country’s socialization to the norms institutionalised ...

Title:Albanian Journal of Politics, 2005, Vol. 1 Editor(s):ILIRJANI, Altin; ELBASANI, Arolda

; PESHKOPIA, RidvanDate:2005Citation:Albanian Journal of Politics, Vol. I, Issue 1 (2005)Type:Book

Title:Albanian Journal of Politics, 2006, Vol. 2 Editor(s):ILIRJANI, Altin; ELBASANI, Arolda

; PESHKOPIA, RidvanDate:2006Type:Book

Title:Albanian Journal of Politics, 2007, Vol. 3 Editor(s):ILIRJANI, Altin; ELBASANI, Arolda

; PESHKOPIA, RidvanDate:2008Type:Book

Title:Albanian Migrants in Italy and the Struggle for Recognition in the Transnational Public Sphere Author(s):CHIODI, Luisa; DEVOLE, RandoDate:2005Citation:Luisa CHIODI (ed), The Borders of the Polity: Migrations and security across the EU and the Balkans, Ravenna, Longo, 2005, 24, Europe and the Balkans International NetworkType:Contribution to book

Title:The Albanian renaissance in political thought: between the Enlightenment and Romanticism Author(s):YPI, Lea LemanDate:2007Citation:East European Politics and Societies, 2007, 21, 4, 661-680Type:ArticleAbstract:The conceptual genealogy of the Albanian so-called Renaissance is often linked to the influence of Western Romantic ideas on the nationalist movements of the Balkans. This paper analyzes the specificities of the Albanian ...

Title:Albert Camus as political thinker : Nihilisms and the politics of contempt Author(s):NOVELLO, SamanthaDate:2010Citation:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Version:Partially based on EUI PhD thesis, 2005Type:BookAbstract:An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside ...

Title:Alexis de Tocqueville : the psychologisty of equality Author(s):LOM, PetrDate:1999Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 1999/01

Title:All-In or All-Out : Why Insularity Pushes and Pulls American Grand Strategy to Extremes Author(s):VAN HOOFT, Paul AlexanderDate:2020Citation:Security studies, 2020, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 701-729Type:ArticleAbstract:Critics of the expansive US grand strategy of deep engagement argue that the United States should pursue strategies of retrenchment to avoid provoking conflicts with major powers and allied freeriding. Retrenchers believe ...

Title:Alla disperata ricerca di una soluzione: democrazia sociale, tatcherismo e "terza via" nel sistema di welfare britannico Author(s):RHODES, MartinDate:2001Citation:Maurizio FERRERA (ed.), Nuova Europa e nuovo welfare, Bari, Cacucci, 2001, 57-97.Type:Contribution to book

Title:Alla ricerca del consenso : il mercato elettorale visto dai parlamentari italiani Author(s):LEGNANTE, GuidoDate:2002Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2002Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Questa tesi, che si colloca all'interno del filone di studi sul voto, costituisce il primo lavoro sistematico che cerca di rispondere all'interrogativo "che idea hanno i politici degli elettori e del mercato elettorale?". ...

Title:Alla ricerca del consenso : il "mercato elettorale" visto dai parlamentari italiani Author(s):LEGNANTE, GuidoDate:2004Citation:Milano : FrancoAngeli, 2004Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2002Type:BookAbstract:Drawing on international relations theory, law and historical analysis, this book compares European integration with the antebellum USA to assess what makes the EU viable despite contestation over the rules of the game of ...