Title:Stability and Change in the Educational Gradient of Divorce. A Comparison of Seventeen Countries
Author(s):HARKONEN, Juho; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the class composition of divorce is inverse. Starting from his hypothesis, we examine the relationship between female education ...
Title:State of the Art: Advances in explaining women's employment patterns
Author(s):STEIBER, Nadia; HAAS, BarbaraDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper provides a multidisciplinary review of research aimed at explaining the substantial differences in women's employment trajectories that still exist within and across countries. It covers research that emphasizes ...
Title:Stateless Diaspora Groups and their Repertoires of Nationalist Activism in Host Countries
Author(s):BASER, Bahar; SWAIN, AshokDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines the trends of long-distance nationalism of the stateless diaspora groups in their homeland politics. The focus is on activism, protest and propaganda repertoires of two stateless diaspora groups: Kurds ...
Title:States, Firms and Diplomacy
Author(s):STRANGE, SusanDate:1992Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Susan Strange reports on her recent work on relations between states and firms, and proposes a new research agenda in international relations: the study of firms as actors in world politics and of state-firm and firm-firm ...
Title:Statist Cosmopolitanism
Author(s):YPI, Lea LemanDate:2008Type of Publication:Article
Title:Striking a pose : transparency and position taking in the Council of the European Union
Author(s):CROSS, James P.Date:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In recent years, transparency (or the lack thereof) has become a central concern of the European Union and its attempts to increase the democratic legitimacy of the legislative decision-making process. The claim regularly ...
Title:Structural Power: The limits of neorealist power analysis
Author(s):GUZZINI, StefanoDate:1993Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Realism explains the ruling of the international system through the underlying distribution of power among states. Increasingly, analysts have found this power analysis inadequate, and they have developed new concepts, ...
Title:Struggles for Individual Rights and the Expansion of the International System
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We live today in the world’s first universal, multicultural, and multiregional system of sovereign states. Five centuries ago, emergent sovereign states were confined to Europe and contained within the bounds of Latin ...
Title:The Study of the Consequences of Armed Groups: Lessons from the social movement literature
Author(s):BOSI, Lorenzo; GIUGNI, MarcoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the development of the political violence and terrorism literature, which has taken a strong forward movement in the past decade, scientific works on the consequences of armed groups are still rare. This article ...
Title:Studying Citizenship Constellations
Author(s):BAUBOCK, RainerDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The papers in this special issue of JEMS illustrate how the field of citizenship studies is moving towards a much more systematic comparative approach. They also indicate that the gap between political and legal branches ...
Title:Sulla sociologia italiana. Un dibattito
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This short article comments upon a broad debate on the status of sociology in Italy, locating it in cross-national and cross-disciplinary perspective.
Title:The Sustainability of Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The World Bank has supported the fundamental reform of unfair and wasteful Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) systems around the world since 1994. It sponsors a systemic overhaul that involves the dual paradigmatic shift from collective ...
Title:Sweden: The Fall of the Strong State
Author(s):LINDVALL, Johannes; ROTHSTEIN, BoDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:From the 1930s to the 1980s, Swedish politics was based on the assumption that social change could be accomplished through a specific political and administrative process. National politicians decided the aims of policy, ...
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: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 ...