Title:Obligation through Practice
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the many calls for bridge building between the fields of International Law and International Relations, genuinely integrative studies are few and far between. Lawyers leaven their writings with a dash of real politic ...
Title:Of communities, gangs, historicity and the problem of Santa Claus
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In responding to the critics of my Tartu lecture, I firstly examine a little further the 'community' aspect of science as a practice, because I do not quite share Lebows's optimism that 'ethics' applied to the scientific ...
Title:Of false promises and good bets: a plea for a pragmatic approach to theory building
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this lecture I review some of the issues that meta-theorizing was supposed to address in international relations and show how this project of securing knowledge through hierarchization and finding absolute foundations ...
Title:Of false promises and good bets: a plea for a pragmatic approach to theory building (the Tartu lecture)
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this lecture I review some of the issues that meta-theorizing was supposed to address in international relations and show how this project of securing knowledge through hierarchization and finding absolute foundations ...
Title:On Acting and Knowing: How Pragmatism Can Advance International Relations Research and Methodology
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in research methodology. It proposes pragmatism as a way to escape from epistemological deadlock. We first show that social scientists are mistaken in their hope to ...
Title:On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The case of the World Tribunal on Iraq
Author(s):CUBUKCU, AycaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 ...
Title:On Legitimacy
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article provides a conceptual analysis of different uses of the term ‘legitimacy’. Rather than attempting to provide a simple ‘definition’ I argue that the meaning of the concept cannot be understood in terms of a ...
Title:On the state of democracy
Author(s):FAUNDEZ, Julio; CRICK, Bernard; WEBB, Paul; WHITE, Aidan; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; LEFTWICH, Adrian; KHAN, Mushtaq H.; FORBATH, William E.; FAUNDEZ, Julio; MCELDOWNEY, John; CORNWALL, Andrea; GOETZ, Anne Marie; BRANDTSTäDTER, Susanne; SCHUBERT, Gunter; COTT, Donna Lee VanDate:2005Type of Publication:Article
Title:One electorate or many? Differences in party preference formation between new and established European democracies
Author(s):VAN DER BRUG, Wouter; FRANKLIN, Mark N.; TÓKA, GáborDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We investigate differences in the factors influencing citizens’ votes between elections conducted in established and new democracies using data collected at the 2004 European Parliament elections, comparing 7 former communist ...
Title:Online Forums and Deliberative Democracy
Author(s):JANSSEN, Davy; KIES, RaphaëlDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Internet is rapidly becoming a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in the Western world. People perform various activities on the Internet and one of them is discussing politics and society in so-called ...
Title:Online networks of the Italian and German extreme right
Author(s):CAIANI, Manuela; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article applies instruments of social network analysis to a study of communication networks within the Italian and German extremist right. Web links between organizational websites are used as a proxy. Indeed, extremist ...
Title:Opposition in Italy
Author(s):PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1997Type of Publication:Article
Title:Organizing Babylon - On the Different Conceptions of Policy Networks
Author(s):BORZEL, Tanja A.Date:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A 'Babylonian' variety of policy network concepts and applications can be found in the literature. Neither is there a common understanding of what policy networks actually are, nor has it been agreed whether policy networks ...
Title:Organizing Technologies: Genre Forms of Online Civic Association in Eastern Europe
Author(s):VEDRES, Balazs; BRUSZT, Laszlo; STARK, DavidDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, ...