Title:Taking Evolution Seriously in Political Science
Author(s):LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, SvenDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this essay, we explore the epistemological and ontological assumptions that have been made to make political science scientific. We show how political science has generally adopted an ontologically reductionist philosophy ...
Title:Taking People As They Could Be: A defence of ideal political theory
Author(s):EFTHYMIOU, DimitrisDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The object of this thesis is to defend ideal political theory from a series of objections that question its theoretical and practical soundness. My preliminary thesis is that ideal political theory is theoretically as well ...
Title:Taking rights territorially. On territorial rights and the right to exclude
Author(s):ANGELI, OlivieroDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:What does it mean that rights are territorial? Do states have territorial rights? Do these rights justify the exclusion of would-be immigrants? This paper will address these questions and explore the problems associated. ...
Title:Talking Europe in the Italian Public Sphere
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Italy has been considered an Euro-enthusiastic country. On the basis of claims analysis as well as semi-structured interviews with key political actors, this article presents a more nuanced image. Permissive consensus has ...
Title:Targeting Peace: Understanding UN and EU Targeted Sanctions
Author(s):ERIKSSON, MikaelDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In recent years, the international community has increasingly come to abandon the use of comprehensive sanctions in favour of targeted sanctions. Unlike adopting a coercive strategy on entire states, actors like the United ...
Title:Temporary Migrants, Partial Citizenship and Hypermigration
Author(s):BAUBOCK, RainerDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Temporary migration raises two different challenges. The first is whether territorial democracies can integrate temporary migrants as equal citizens; the second is whether transnationally mobile societies can be organized ...
Title:Territorial policy communities and devolution in the UK
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; CAIRNEY, Paul; HEPBURN, EveDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Devolution in the UK forms part of a wider process of spatial rescaling across Europe. Little
work has been done on its effect on interest articulation. The literature on policy communities
treats them as sectoral in ...