Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Subject "transition"
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Title:Fertility and social interaction at the workplace : does childbearing spread among colleagues? Author(s):PINK, Sebastian; LEOPOLD, Thomas; ENGELHARDT, HenrietteDate:2014Citation:Advances in life course research, 2014, Vol. 21, No. SI, pp. 113-122Type:ArticleAbstract:This research investigates whether colleagues' fertility influences women's transitions to parenthood. We draw on Linked-Employer-Employee data (1993-2007) from the German Institute for Employment Research comprising 33,119 ...
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Title:Social class and school performance as predictors of educational paths in Spain Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio; CEBOLLA, HectorDate:2014Citation:Revista Española de investigaciones sociologicas, 2014, No. 146, pp. 3-21Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper explores the impact of school performance (primary effects) and the structure of costs and benefits that individuals of different social class face (secondary effects) on the transition from compulsory to ...
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Title:Independence or interdependence norms of leaving home in Italy and Germany Author(s):LUETZELBERGER, ThereseDate:2014Citation:European societies, 2014, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 28-47Type:ArticleAbstract:This article contributes to understanding the relatively early residential independence of young Northern Europeans, by comparison to their Southern European peers. It explores the norms and underlying meanings that influence ...
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Title:Civil Society and the Paralyzed State: Mobilizing for democracy in East Germany Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/06Abstract:Among cases of transition to democracy from below, the East German one constitutes a particularly challenging puzzle. Whereas social movements taking advantage of an oppositional space within a repressive context have ... -
Title:Grassroots Groups and Civil Society Actors in Pro-Democratic Transitions in Poland Author(s):PIOTROWSKI, GrzegorzDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/07Abstract:The transition to democracy in 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe is said to be the achievement of the dissident sector. In Poland the biggest power in the democratization process was the Solidarność trade union. At the ...
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Title:Reluctant Rulers and the Negotiated Transition: Mobilizing for democracy in Hungary Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/09Abstract:Among the Eastern European democratization processes of the 1989 period, Hungary stands out as the least dramatic transition in the region. Whereas other countries experienced massive demonstrations in favor of democratic ...
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Title:Nationalism and Transitions: Mobilizing for democracy in Yugoslavia Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/03Abstract:The Yugoslav transition(s) to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all the Eastern European cases. It can be argued that Yugoslavia enjoyed the most favorable initial conditions of any country in the region: the regime ...
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Title:Civil Society and the Velvet Revolution: Mobilizing for democracy in Czechoslovakia Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/04Abstract:In the late 1980s Czechoslovakia was considered one of the most repressive countries in Eastern Europe and a staunch Soviet ally. In the aftermath of the 'Prague Spring' of 1968, repressed with Soviet help, the regime ...
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Title:Political Economy of Old-age Pension Reforms in Georgia Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2009Citation:Caucasian Review of International Affairs, 2009, 3, 4, 371-386Type:ArticleAbstract:The paper examines the factors that played a major role in development of the old-age pension system in Georgia. Based on data collected from 1991-2009, this analysis centers on the system’s patterns of development and ...
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Title:Who Cares ? Changing Patterns of Childcare in Central and Eastern Europe Author(s):SZELEWA, Dorota; POLAKOWSKI, Michal P.Date:2008Citation:Journal of European Social Policy, 2008, 18, 2, 115-131Type:ArticleAbstract:This article compares childcare provisions in the new member countries of the EU. It takes into account two pillars of childcare policy: publicly provided childcare services and parental leave provisions. In the analysis, ...
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Title:The Missing Link The Transition from Education to Labour in the Soviet Union Revisited Author(s):REITER, HerwigDate:2006Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2006/07Abstract:The post-communist assessment of communist youth transitions to work is at risk of exaggerating the assumption of previously existing predefined and predictable channels into work. In order to allow a somewhat refined ...