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Title:Covert integration of core state powers : renegotiating incomplete contracts Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne Date:2017Citation:Peter BURSENS, Christ'l DE LANDTSHEER, Luc BRAECKMANS and Barbara SEGAERT (eds), Complex political decision-making : leadership, legitimacy and communication, London ; New York : Routledge, 2017, pp. 15-30Type:Contribution to book
Title:The Covert War against Iran’s Nuclear Program: An effective counterproliferation strategy? Author(s):MAHER, Richard Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2012/17Abstract:For nearly a decade the United States and some of its key allies have sought to disrupt, delay, and potentially reverse Iran’s nuclear program through diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions, and veiled threats of military ...
Title:COVID-19 and inequalities in educational achievement in Italy Author(s):BORGONOVI, Francesca; FERRARA, Alessandro Date:2023Citation:Research in social stratification and mobility, 2023, Vol. 83, Art. 100760, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:We use longitudinal data from over 1.5 million Italian students to examine differences in the mathematics and reading achievement of students who completed primary and lower secondary school in 2020–21 (COVID cohort) and ...
Title:The Covid-19 pandemic : inequalities and the life course Author(s):SETTERSTEN, Richard A. Jr.; BERNARDI, Laura; HARKONEN, Juho ; ANTONUCCI, Toni C.; DYKSTRA, Pearl A.; HECKHAUSEN, Jutta; KUH, Diane; MAYER, Karl Ulrich ; MOEN, Phyllis; MORTIMER, Jeylan T.; MULDER, Clara H.; SMEEDING, Tim M.; VAN DER LIPPE, Tanya; HAGESTAD, Gunhild O.; KOHLI, Martin ; LEVY, René; SCHOON, Ingrid; THOMSON, ElizabethDate:2021Citation:Magda NICO and Gary POLLOCK (eds), The Routledge handbook of contemporary inequalities and the life course, Oxon : Routledge, 2021, pp. 152-171Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The Covid-19 pandemic is shaking fundamental assumptions about the human life course and exposing social inequalities in societies around the world. We draw on our collective expertise to illustrate how a life course ...
Title:COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust : a pre-post study Author(s):LO IACONO, Sergio ; PRZEPIORKA, Wojtek; BUSKENS, Vincent; CORTEN, Rense; VAN DE RIJT, Arnout Date:2021Citation:Social science & medicine, 2021, Vol. 291, Art. 114513, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:While pandemic containment measures benefit public health, they may jeopardize the social structure of society. We hypothesize that lockdowns and prolonged social distancing measures hinder social support and invite norm ...
Title:Cracking meritocracy from the starting gate : social inequality in skill formation and school choice Author(s):GIL-HERNÁNDEZ, Carlos J.Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In post-industrial societies, a college education is the main channel for upper classes to prevent their children falling down the social ladder, while, for working classes, it is the best bet for upward mobility. Despite ...
Title:Crafting competitive party systems : electoral laws and the opposition in Africa Author(s):BOGAARDS, MatthijsDate:2000Citation:Democratization, 2000, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 163-190Version:Based on parts of the author’s EUI PhD thesis, 2000Type:ArticleAbstract:After the resurgence of democracy in the 1990s, as was the case after independence, dominant party systems are predominant in Africa. This has occurred irrespective of the particular electoral system used. Both scholars ...
Title:Creating 'the Self' by Outlawing 'the Other'? EU foreign policy sanctions and the quest for credibility Author(s):HELLQUIST, ElinDate:2012Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The European Union (EU) turns increasingly to negative sanctions - a classical tool of international relations and the sharpest expression of the EU’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP) - in response to a variety ...
Title:Creating and comparing dictionary, word embedding, and transformer-based models to measure discrete emotions in German political text Author(s):WIDMANN, Tobias ; WICH, MaximilianDate:2023Citation:Political analysis, 2023, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 626-641Type:ArticleAbstract:Previous research on emotional language relied heavily on off-the-shelf sentiment dictionaries that focus on negative and positive tone. These dictionaries are often tailored to nonpolitical domains and use bag-of-words ...
Title:Creating capitalist institutions : labour market governance in Hungary in the 1990s Author(s):KEUNE, MaartenDate:2002Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2002/06
Title:Creating capitalist labour markets : a comparative-institutionalist analysis of labour market reform in the Czech Republic and Hungary, 1989-2002 Author(s):KEUNE, MaartenDate:2006Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2006Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The present study presents a comparative neo-institutionalist analysis of labour market institutions in the Czech Republic and Hungary in the period 1989-2002. It aims to contribute to the contemporary debates on institutional ...
Title:A Creeping Transformation?: The European Commission and the management of EU structural funds in Germany Author(s):BAUER, Michael W. Date:2001Citation:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, Library of public policy and public administration, 6Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2000Type:BookAbstract:How can we approach the Commission's role as co-manager of policy implementation? Why should we expect the Commission to be pulled into domestic policy execution and to accumulate something like an implementation management ...
Title:The crime of aggression before the International Criminal Court : introduction to the symposium Author(s):AKANDE, Dapo; TZANAKOPOULOS, AntoniosDate:2018Citation:European journal of international law, 2018, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 829–833Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[IOW]Abstract:On 17 July 2018, on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of its Statute, the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the crime of aggression became operational.1 This was the first time in 70 years – ...
Title:The crime of aggression in the ICC and state responsibility Author(s):AKANDE, Dapo; TZANAKOPOULOS, AntoniosDate:2017Citation:Harvard international law journal, 2017, Vol. 58, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleSeries/Number:[IOW]
Title:Crises and the transformation of the national political space in Europe Author(s):KRIESI, Hanspeter ; HUTTER, Swen Date:2019Citation:Swen HUTTER and Hanspeter KRIESI (eds), European party politics in times of crisis, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 3-32Type:Contribution to bookSeries/Number:[POLCON]
Title:Crises, investments, and political institutions Author(s):ANDERSSON, Per F. ; LINDVALL, JohannesDate:2018Citation:Journal of theoretical politics, 2018, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 410-430Type:ArticleAbstract:On the basis of a game-theoretic model, this paper argues that governments typically manage crises more effectively in systems where political power is concentrated in a single party, but they are more likely to make ...
Title:Crisis and critique of social sciences Wolfgang Streeck in conversation with Riccardo Emilio Chesta Author(s):CHESTA, Riccardo Emilio ; STREECK, WolfgangDate:2016Citation:Sociologica : italian journal of sociology on line, No. 3, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:Retracing Wolfgang Streeck's scientific path, the following interview illustrates some key nodes in critical political economy to finally focus on the general state of contemporary sociology. As a specific stream of a ...
Title:Crisis and mutation in the institutions of representation in 'real-existing' democracies Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2019Citation:Journal of Chinese governance, 2019, Vol. 4, No. 4, (SI), pp. 323-338Type:ArticleAbstract:'Real-existing Democracies' (REDs) seem to be in real trouble. Academics and practitioners tend to agree on this and both can produce long lists of negative trends to illustrate it. The one thread that connects all of these ...
Title:Crisis and Mutation in the Institutions of Representation in ‘Real-Existing’ European Democracies: National and supra-national Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2012Citation:Tatjana EVAS, Ulrike LIEBERT and Christopher LORD (eds), Multilayered Representation in the European Union: Parliaments, courts and the public sphere, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2012, Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Europäische Rechtspolitik der Universität Bremen (ZERP), 64, 25-40Type:Contribution to book
Title:Crisis and transition, but not decline Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2015Citation:Journal of democracy, 2015, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 32-44Type:ArticleAbstract:There seems to be an overwhelming consensus among scholars and politicians that democracy as a practice is in decline. An 18 August 2014 Google search for decline of democracy yielded more than 55.5 million results; Google ...