Title:Affirmative Action without Quotas in Northern Ireland
Author(s):MCCRUDDEN, Christopher; MUTTARAK, Raya; HEATH, AnthonyDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:New research has shown that Northern Ireland’s innovative affirmative action programme has resulted in improvements in fair employment, both for Catholics and Protestants. In this article, we provide a non-technical account ...
Title:Age At Marriage, Sex-Ratios, and Ethnic Heterogamy
Author(s):STIER, Haya; SHAVIT, YossiDate:1994Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper focuses on the effects of age at marriage and the sex-ratio on patterns of ethnic homogamy among Israeli women. We hypothesize that later marriages are more likely than early marriages to be heterogamous as the ...
Title:Agencies in the European Community - A Step Towards Administrative Integration in Europe
Author(s):KREHER, AlexanderDate:1997Type of Publication: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:Albania in Transition : Manipulation or Appropriation of International Norms
Author(s):ELBASANI, AroldaDate:2004Type of Publication: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 countrys socialization to the norms institutionalised ...
Title:The Albanian renaissance in political thought: between the Enlightenment and Romanticism
Author(s):YPI, Lea LemanDate:2007Type of Publication: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:Analyzing Educational Careers: A Multinomial Transition Model
Author(s):BREEN, Richard; JONSSON, Jan O.Date:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The logit model of educational transitions has become standard in research in educational stratification. One limitation of the model, however is the assumption that individuals progress through the educational system in ...
Title:An Anglophone Invention? The difficult emergence of a French Security sector reform practice
Author(s):BESANCENOT, SophieDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The concept of security sector reform (SSR) was first formulated by UK development actors. Since 2008, France has officially adopted an SSR strategy and promoted the concept at the European level during the country's 2008 ...
Title:Another Nakba: Weapons Availability and the Transformation of the Palestinian National Struggle, 1987-2007
Author(s):STRAZZARI, Francesco; THOLENS, SimoneDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Violent clashes of June 2007 saw Hamas ousting Fatah from the Gaza Strip, thereby making patent the existence of a deep politico-military split within the Palestinian national movement. This article sheds light on the ...
Title:Associating, mobilizing, politicizing : local developmental agency from without
Author(s):BRUSZT, Laszlo; VEDRES, BalazsDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Decades of increase in external aid programs sparked a wide range of criticisms pointing to misaligned interests, lack of accountability, and the reproduction of developmental traps. The success of development from without ...
Title:At the Margins of Internet Governance: grassroots tech groups and communication policy
Author(s):HINTZ, Arne; MILAN, StefaniaDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines grassroots tech groups as civil society media (CSM) actors marginalised in the communications policy debate. We aim to insert these key providers of information communication technology (ICT) ...